The Boy With No Name
by Travis
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The Boy With No Name is ranked 3rd best out of 15 albums by Travis on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Travis is The Man Who which is ranked number 1010 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,725.
(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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The Boy With No Name track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Boy With No Name rankings
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The Boy With No Name ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2026 05:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,179 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/25/2026 04:25 |  MadhattanJack | 5,980 | 66/100 |
| ! | 09/15/2025 11:38 | TonySayers61 | 25,046 | 64/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2025 13:57 |  Milhaud | 2,105 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/13/2024 09:10 | DrTchock97 | 736 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.2/100, a mean average of 70.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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Un álbum sólido. Hay algunas buenas canciones como "Closer" (por mucho la mejor del álbum), " Selfish Jean", "My Eyes" y "Under The Moonlight" el resto no está mal, pero es el mismo tipo de canciones que lleva haciendo Travis durante años.
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A solid album. There are some good songs like "Closer" (by far the best on the album), "Selfish Jean", "My Eyes" and "Under The Moonlight" the rest is not bad, but it's the same kind of songs that Travis has been doing for years.
Brad1770 05/27/2021 10:51 | #270084 | TOP COMMENT
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As a life long music fan my all time favourite bands are some of the classics: Pixies, R.E.M, The Beatles, The Doors, Midnight Oil (I’m Aussie) and a bunch of down to earth lads from Glasgow Travis. Something about their albums and music that keeps drawing me back and back and back.
Here we have one of those terrible situations whereby a well known music publication who shall remain nameless (N.M.E) unfairly slaughters an artist and album effectively killing it dead in the water by giving ‘The Boy With No Name’ a pitiful 2/10 score. Completely brutal and unwarranted. Lets list out the tracks here that are really good
- “ 3 Times And You Lose”
- “Selfish Jean”
- “Closer”
- “Battleships”
- “Eyes Wide Open”
- “My Eyes”
- “One Night”
Fan boy or not this is simply an awesome album
Had the album for a few years without listening too closely to it - more tuned into The Man Who. But you know what this is an excellent little album of great if somewhat poppy songs throughout. So much to enjoy here.
nitomano 01/03/2017 04:14 | #181574
Favoritas: Closer, Selfish Jean, 3 Times You Lose
Good album, listenable and some great songs.
I remember an extremely harsh review for this in NME! A lot better than listening to a supermarket till though. In fact the first song on here is incredible and breaks a Travis tradition of having the singles far outweigh the album tracks. Closer was a nice song though but nothing exciting. They did slip a little with this release.
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