New Traditionalists
by Devo
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New Traditionalists is ranked 4th best out of 37 albums by Devo on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Devo is Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! which is ranked number 856 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,026.
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New Traditionalists 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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New Traditionalists rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 93/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 73 Music Albums of 1981 | 12/73 | 4 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (66), #0001-0100* | 57/78 | - |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 14/100 | 17 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 61/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 57 Music Albums of 1981 | 41/57 | 1 |
| 2026 | BorderFreeAndrew | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 59/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 41 Music Albums of 1981 | 30/41 | 1 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 57 Music Albums of 1981 | 39/57 | 2 |
| 2026 | mikepen | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 3/100 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 51 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 205 | |||
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New Traditionalists ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/28/2026 18:49 | culwin | 1,622 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2026 21:36 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,486 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2026 20:10 | davidleewrong | 2,357 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.0/100, a mean average of 71.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.
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paladisiac 09/07/2018 19:42 in What album are you listening to right now?New Traditionalists comments
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This album rocks, and that's what there is to say about that. There are two or three dud tracks: Pity You and Love Without Anger in particular don't have the same energy as the rest of the album, but they've still got a little something to them. Race of Doom comes on a little hard to start side 2, maybe, but hard is good. The rest is brilliant. Great songwriting throughout, a record made to dance to--we played it at parties back in the day and danced like art-school teenagers which is what we were. Just great power pop, which is what Devo was.
My all time favorite Devo album. Working in the Coalmine is the big hits, but there are so many songs on this album that I find superior such as Through Being Cool, Race of Doom and Beautiful World
Fantastic album, my favourite by Devo. Got to see them on the tour for this album, they opened with Going Under. Highly recommend as a first listen.
Kingturtle 06/30/2017 05:02 | #193457 | TOP COMMENT
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