Pre-Millennium Tension
by Tricky

Pre-Millennium Tension by Tricky
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 5,944th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 85 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (104th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (963rd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,944th)

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Tricky bestography

Pre-Millennium Tension is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Tricky on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tricky is Maxinquaye which is ranked number 913 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,900.

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Pre-Millennium Tension
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Pre-Millennium Tension
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Pre-Millennium Tension rankings

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Overall rank: 5,944th | 1990s rank: 963rd | 1996 rank: 104th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 85 votes)
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06/16/2025 02:51 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,63879/100
 
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02/06/2025 13:17 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  23,80164/100
 
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07/16/2024 00:00 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  4,92681/100
 
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05/09/2024 22:05 TastyandTemptin  Ratings distribution  3,01472/100

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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 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.

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Rating:  
75/100
From 12/13/2021 15:04 | #277447
Album Rating: 73.27
(806/11)


1. "Vent" 3:04 - 72
2. "Christiansands" 3:52 - 78
3. "Tricky Kid" 4:11 - 69
4. "Bad Dream" 4:12 - 80
5. "Makes Me Wanna Die" 4:02 - 81
6. "Ghetto Youth" 5:37 - 66
7. "Sex Drive" 3:51 - 69
8. "Bad Things" 5:12 - 68
9. "Lyrics of Fury" 3:21 - 68
10. "My Evil Is Strong" 3:59 - 69
11. "Piano" 4:14 - 86
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From 03/03/2020 12:14 | #248444
Just overall a bad time. Can't believe this is the same artist as the one that made Maxinquaye.
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From 07/15/2012 21:04 | #46494
Dark, trippy, genre-defining.
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