Rickie Lee Jones
by Rickie Lee Jones
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Rickie Lee Jones is ranked 2nd best out of 21 albums by Rickie Lee Jones on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rickie Lee Jones is Pirates which is ranked number 2481 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 634.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 01/20/2026 16:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,406 | 70/100 | |
| 12/26/2025 09:54 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 | |
| 12/07/2025 20:09 | matterhornrider | 4,978 | 81/100 | |
| 06/21/2025 13:57 | Elauqsapid | 2,716 | 64/100 | |
| 06/05/2025 02:51 | BurndenAce | 1,173 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Great debut album with that flare of jazz. Chuck E.'s in Love nominated the song of the year. My favorite song is Coolsville which is where I hear that jazz influence. This is a good listen.
" It's not because I'm dirty/It's not because I'm clean/It's not because I kiss the boys behind the magazines..."
Spectacular debut.
One of the greatest debut albums, albums of the '70's, hell, all time. Adore it.
A totally underrated album. Rickie Lee Jones' debut record is a wonderfully inventive and original LP. There are wonderful songs here in, easy money, last chance Texaco, and, Coolsville. Hints of her then boyfriend Tom Waits here, especially lyrically, and mutual friend Chuck E Weiss is celebrated in, Chuck E's in love, which was a massive hit in the states. Rickie Lee Jones is vastly underrated, if you don't know this album, check it out.
Tamthebam 04/07/2016 13:16 | #163442
I love this album one of the best debut albums of all time. Apart from Chuck E's In Love the album is full of great observations of love & life including Young Blood, Last Chance Texaco, Danny's All Star Joint and Company. Her voice has a jazzy rock appeal, She reminds me of Tom Waits, emotional yet sometimes funny. This is still one of my favourite albums of all time it has never aged.
ffudnebbuh 08/23/2011 13:10 | #26566
love RLJ, this was her first album and even in 1979, "Chuck E's..." was a top 10 hit on top 40 radio...I like most of her albums, fav songs are "We belong together", 'last chance Texaco", "Jukebox fury", "Living it up", "Chuck E's in love"
'Rickie Lee Jones' is a bold dissection of the moral landscape of the US fluctuating between physical and spiritual sobriety and intoxication. Jones is both visionary and romantic while singing about the alienated and neurotic life in the city. Meanwhile, the backing band tinged her ballads with nocturnal rhythm'n'blues and jazz, coining an intellectual variant of late-hours lounge-music.
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