The Greatest (studio album)
by Cat Power

The Greatest by Cat Power
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-01-24
Overall rank: 2,229th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 194 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2006 (39th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (370th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,229th)

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Cat Power bestography

The Greatest is ranked 3rd best out of 13 albums by Cat Power on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Cat Power is You Are Free which is ranked number 1433 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,186.

Cat Power album bestography « Higher ranked (1,560th)
Moon Pix
This album (2,229th)
The Greatest
Lower ranked (3,680th) »
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(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 Greatest track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Greatest rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,229th | 2000s rank: 370th | 2006 rank: 39th

The Greatest collection

The Greatest ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 194 votes)
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08/27/2025 17:28 SomethingSpecial   1,73182/100
 
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06/22/2025 09:13 Invader666   2,62365/100
 
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11/17/2024 07:22 thepurplemartin   55476/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.

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The Greatest comments

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70/100
From 04/06/2021 02:52 | #268251
Very MOR country. Very inoffensive. Good enough, but not my cup of tea.
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From 06/16/2019 12:58 | #237594
marking the dramatic decline of CaPo
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From 01/21/2015 12:18 | #132109
It's got a terrific opener, but otherwise this is lighter, more studied and ultimately lesser Cat Power, but it's still pretty listenable all the way through.
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75/100
From 03/10/2013 21:23 | #67782
been listening to this all these years. maybe 100 times. always liked the sound. but the songs are all empty shells, really. with one obvious exception, of course.
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From 08/11/2011 13:34 | #26097
Didn't blow me away as I thought it would. She sounds a lot like Florence Welch, but, I guess Cat Power came first.
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