Beat The Champ (studio album)
by The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats bestography
Beat The Champ is ranked 5th best out of 37 albums by The Mountain Goats on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Mountain Goats is The Sunset Tree which is ranked number 1416 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,196.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Beat The Champ track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Beat The Champ rankings
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Beat The Champ ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/02/2025 13:44 |  ExTeaSea | 5,079 | 82/100 |
| ! | 11/04/2025 23:14 | Moondance | 19,852 | 72/100 |
| ! | 01/29/2025 17:14 | daCritic | 4,381 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2024 04:32 |  zags7000 | 20,410 | 64/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2024 23:23 |  EyeKanFly | 8,093 | 65/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.5.
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This album is such a fun concept! Taking wrestling and making it more human than entertainment is a wild ride, and results in some of the most memorable Mountain Goats material to date.
pearljammer13 06/12/2015 23:32 | #143736
I really hope this climbs the 2015 rankings, it deserves to be much higher than 39th. This is actually my first exposure to The Mountain Goats, and I'm now working through their back catalogue. Seems to be full of gems I wish I'd found a lot sooner.
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