Cruising With Ruben And The Jets
by The Mothers Of Invention
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Cruising With Ruben And The Jets is ranked 33rd best out of 124 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 237 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,622.
(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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Cruising With Ruben And The Jets track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Cruising With Ruben And The Jets rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 41 Music Albums of 1968 | 27/41 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1968 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Frank Zappa: So Far.. | 18/32 | - |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 87 Music Albums of 1968 | 19/87 | 4 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 88 Music Albums of 1968 | 48/88 | 2 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 32 Music Albums of 1968 | 22/32 | 2 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 76/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | arnellarsen | Top 99 Music Albums of 1968 | 41/99 | 3 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Frank Zappa Chronological Order | 5/60 | - |
| 2025 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 35 Music Albums of 1968 | 18/35 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 32 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 73 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/14/2026 05:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,630 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/26/2025 08:33 |  Tamthebam | 23,324 | 69/100 |
| ! | 02/13/2025 18:14 | FrancK | 535 | 83/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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neilgee 04/23/2023 12:57 in What album are you listening to right now?
teague 02/07/2021 18:58 in What album are you listening to right now?Cruising With Ruben And The Jets comments
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Doo Wop style music, one of his more listenable albums. Opener is best track in my view. Nothing special though. (Edited)
Incredibly skilled musicians making a seemingly simplistic collection of pop/doo-woop love songs. Of course, there is a lot of humor involved.
Sad to see this albums so low on Zappa's best albums. Great record.
teague 02/07/2021 19:15 | #265983
This album seems to essentially just be a way for Zappa to indulge in his long standing love of doo-wop music. It's well written enough to be just as enjoyable as any other Mothers album from the 60s, but its songs are less spontaneous as a result of being structured more traditionally. Still, give it a spin or two. (Edited)
Three or four songs from Freak Out are fixed in these versions, if you ask me, and it's refreshing after the first few albums to have one that isn't a collage but just songs. Also, I don't miss the improv sections of talk..."ponies and pigs" and all that. The production is very cool, there are interesting sounds nicely recorded throughout...some beautiful bass sounds, layers and layers of vocals, horns, sweet clean guitar tones, all sorts of treats. It's pretty great. (Edited)
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