The Complete Live At Raji's
by The Dream Syndicate
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The Complete Live At Raji's is ranked 4th best out of 20 albums by The Dream Syndicate on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Dream Syndicate is The Days Of Wine And Roses which is ranked number 2005 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 844.
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The Complete Live At Raji's track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Complete Live At Raji's rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Most listened to live albums in 2020 | 27/70 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 8/100 | 93 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | live albums 2021 (2 B deleted) | 11/85 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | January 2022 (2 B deleted) | 32/93 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | 1 album per artist - greatest albums of all time | 9/100 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 1/100 | 20 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Jul - Sept 2022 (2 B deleted) | 90/97 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | 100 / 100 songs | 30/72 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Most listened to artists jan - March 2022 | 8/98 | - |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 67 Music Albums of 2004 | 10/67 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 43 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 130 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/14/2026 08:09 | Purplepash | 5,015 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/20/2025 13:16 | TonySayers61 | 26,030 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2023 20:47 | Moondance | 20,868 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.
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I've done some comments previously about this album but I felt that it deserved a little more so......
Not to be confused with the 1989 truncated release, which is a stellar album in its own right, this, as the title suggests, is the Complete gig, unabridged. If you come across either version, and you love raw, live rock n roll (in the broadest sense) albums, buy it.
This album captures one of the greatest live bands. Raw, powerful, energetic and simply enjoying what they do best. Playing together and entertaining their fans.
I guess I love this album so much because I've seen the syndicate play live for over 40 years and it's one of my greatest musical experiences of my life, every time.
It is the last album released before the band broke up, they reunited in around 2010, and came out initially as a double album on the heels of their last studio album, Ghost Stories. A great studio album by the way
The album was incorrectly reported to have been recorded after Ghost Stories; in fact, the recordings were made on 31 January 1988, before Ghost Stories was recorded. The show took place at Raji's, a Los Angeles club, "in front of a delirious hometown audience". Oh, to have been there that night!
Post release and hearing that the Syndicate were disbanding this felt like a fitting career ending release. It encapsulated what fans loved about their Velvet Underground meets Television sound. Dream Syndicate are the quintessential Paisley Underground band.
If you love albums like Neil Youngs Live Rust, you’ll dig this a lot
Corrected my previous assessment of this album.
It’s not one of the greatest live albums of all time. It IS THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUM OF ALL TIME! (Edited)
This album has a track score of 91.67 and is placed at 11th in my top albums chart. It has a rating of 100
One of the greatest live albums of all time
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