Barbed Wire Kisses
by The Jesus And Mary Chain
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The Jesus And Mary Chain bestography
Barbed Wire Kisses is ranked 9th best out of 16 albums by The Jesus And Mary Chain on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Jesus And Mary Chain is Psychocandy which is ranked number 301 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,452.
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Barbed Wire Kisses track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Barbed Wire Kisses rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 70/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 201-300 | 26/100 | - |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 85 Music Albums of 1988 | 6/85 | 5 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 64 Music Albums of 1988 | 51/64 | 1 |
| 2026 | Purplepash | Top 48 Music Albums of 1988 | 16/48 | 3 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 95/100 | 0 |
| 2024 | TastyandTemptin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 29/100 | 14 |
| 2024 | TastyandTemptin | Top 21 Music Albums of 1988 | 3/21 | 5 |
| 2023 | TonyF12345 | Top 46 Music Albums of 1988 | 17/46 | 3 |
| 2023 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 16/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 15 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 50 | |||
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Barbed Wire Kisses ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/31/2025 02:34 | MadhattanJack | 6,028 | 66/100 |
| ! | 12/01/2024 23:12 | TastyandTemptin | 3,182 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/19/2024 06:49 | cicadelic | 14,059 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 81.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.4.
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Barbed Wire Kisses forum mentions
neilgee 12/14/2025 08:58 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Purplepash 05/15/2022 08:57 in What album are you listening to right now?Barbed Wire Kisses comments
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Sorry Brad, I have to disagree. Throw on Happy Place and you've hooked in anyone. A bit of a rough start (the compilation could have been sequenced better), but so much wealth in here.
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/02/2018 23:13 | #204451
A B sides and other compilation, not too much to get excited here other than Upsidedown and Taste Of Cindy . One for the fans only .
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