One For The Road (live album)
by The Kinks

One For The Road by The Kinks
(Live album)
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 8,734th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 82 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (145th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,267th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,734th)

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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 9,432.

The Kinks album bestography « Higher ranked (8,496th)
Preservation Act 1
This album (8,734th)
One For The Road
Lower ranked (9,005th) »
Misfits

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One For The Road track list

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 82 votes)
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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.

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75/100
From 12/07/2020 22:03
Just okay
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From 10/27/2016 03:17
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.
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From 05/02/2012 12:47
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.
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