One For The Road
by The Kinks

One For The Road by The Kinks
(Live album)
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-00-00
Overall rank: 8,923rd   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 82 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (145th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,281st)
Award Best albums of all time (8,923rd)

Listen on Spotify Spotify
Product Details
Availability

eBay
eBay
One for the Road by The Kinks (2 CD, 1999)
Condition: Very Good


eBay
eBay
The Kinks - One For The Road -1980 Arista A2L 8401 2X Vinyl LP POSTER MASTERDISK
Condition: Used


eBay
eBay
The Kinks One For The Road 2X Vinyl LP 1980 Arista A2L 8609 DLP GATEFOLD
Condition: Used


  My favourite store:  

The Kinks bestography

One For The Road is ranked 14th best out of 62 albums by The Kinks on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Kinks is The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society which is ranked number 149 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,374.

The Kinks album bestography « Higher ranked (8,638th)
Preservation Act 1
This album (8,923rd)
One For The Road
Lower ranked (9,114th) »
Misfits

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

Upcoming concerts

Mar
07
Sat
Dancing With The Stars: Live! - 2026 Tour
Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, United States. United States
Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets
 
Mar
29
Sun
The Ergs!
The Wonder Bar, Asbury Park, United States. United States
Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets
 
Apr
03
Fri
LANY: Soft World Tour.
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, United States. United States
Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets
 
Discover more upcoming concerts

Listen to One For The Road on YouTube

Loading content from YouTube...

One For The Road track list

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

Sort by
#
Track
Rating/Comments
1.
Average Rating: 76 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
2.
Average Rating: 79 (9 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
3.
Average Rating: 80 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
5.
Average Rating: 75 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
6.
Average Rating: 82 (10 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
7.
Average Rating: 77 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
9.
Average Rating: 79 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
10.
Average Rating: 81 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
11.
Average Rating: 79 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
12.
Average Rating: 80 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
13.
Average Rating: 77 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
14.
Average Rating: 79 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
16.
Average Rating: 78 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
17.
Average Rating: 82 (9 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
18.
Average Rating: 82 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
19.
Average Rating: 84 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
20.
Average Rating: 80 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
21.
Average Rating: 78 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify

One For The Road rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,923rd | 1980s rank: 1,281st | 1980 rank: 145th

One For The Road collection

One For The Road ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 82 votes)
   Help Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV
where:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.

Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 82 ratings for this album.

Sort by
RatingDate updatedMemberAlbum ratingsAvg. album rating
 
10/100
 !
11/12/2025 20:38 NYAndreas   1,43344/100
 
65/100
 !
08/17/2024 07:00 Tamthebam   22,91369/100
 
100/100
 !
07/25/2024 23:57 Brandon8   1,03489/100
 
85/100
 !
08/12/2023 19:43 brent13   1,85869/100
 
85/100
 !
07/03/2023 05:43 Sumbody   1,78476/100

Rating metrics: Help Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)

This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

Please log in or register if you want to be able to leave a rating

One For The Road favourites

Showing all 8 members who have added this album as a favourite

One For The Road comments

Showing all 3 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First | Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)

Rating:  
75/100
From 12/07/2020 22:03 | #262238
Just okay
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
Rating:  
95/100
From 10/27/2016 03:17 | #177523
This is quite possibly the greatest live album of all time. Every cut is worthwhile and actually adds something to the original studio cut. Once in a while, a live version becomes the definitive version over the studio version and that is the case for most of the cuts on this album.
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
Rating:  
85/100
From 05/02/2012 12:47 | #41386
This was their biggest album (achieving 1 million sales)and quite the surprised for Arista records. At this point in their career, there wasn't a reason to think that this album would be as big as it turned out to be...usually live albums don't fare as well as their studio counterpart especially since they were not a very big group in the US.
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
Please log in or register if you want to be able to add a comment

Your feedback for One For The Road

Anonymous
Let us know what you think of this album by adding a comment or assigning a rating below!
Log in or register to assign a rating or leave a comment for this album.
Best Albums of 1980
1. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
2. Closer by Joy Division
3. Back In Black by AC/DC
4. Scary Monsters by David Bowie
5. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
6. Peter Gabriel (1980) by Peter Gabriel
7. The River by Bruce Springsteen
8. Permanent Waves by Rush
9. Pretenders by Pretenders
10. Making Movies by Dire Straits
11. Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
12. Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
13. Sandinista! by The Clash
14. Ace Of Spades by Motörhead
15. Boy by U2
16. Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath
17. Dirty Mind by Prince
18. Gaucho by Steely Dan
19. Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
20. Sound Affects by The Jam
Back to Top