The Getaway
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Listen & Collect
Complete your collection or upgrade your listening experience.
Red Hot Chili Peppers bestography
The Getaway is ranked 7th best out of 24 albums by Red Hot Chili Peppers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Red Hot Chili Peppers is Blood Sugar Sex Magik which is ranked number 182 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,904.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
Listen to The Getaway on YouTube
The Getaway track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Getaway rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 30 Music Albums of 2016 | 28/30 | 1 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 30 Music Albums of 2016 | 24/30 | 1 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 83 Music Albums of 2016 | 9/83 | 5 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 33 Music Albums of 2016 | 31/33 | 0 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 60 Music Albums of 2016 | 35/60 | 2 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  SomethingSpecial | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 40/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | byuzak | Top 58 Music Albums of 2016 | 28/58 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Mauce | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 91/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | timosbuecherei | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 19/100 | 82 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 134 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 510 | |||
The Getaway collection
Showing latest 20 members who have this album in their collection | Show all 75 members
The Getaway ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
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 3 ratings for this album. | Show all 332 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 07/16/2026 11:46 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/08/2026 11:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,784 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 14:22 |  Brandon8 | 1,054 | 88/100 |
Rating metrics:
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 has a Bayesian average rating of 68.2/100, a mean average of 67.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.
The Getaway favourites
Showing latest 10 members who have added this album as a favourite | Show all 20 members
The Getaway forum mentions
dihansse 06/04/2026 20:25 in My discoveries per year
pedro1976 01/02/2025 08:42 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 03/03/2024 06:58 in What album are you listening to right now?The Getaway comments
Top Comments First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First | Longest Comments First
(Showing comments with any number of votes. Manage Profile)
I absolutely love this album
It's early days yet but at the moment this is my favourite album by the rhcp
Time will tell whether it's a laster but this has not been off my iPod since it was released about a month ago
It has the same laid back feel like "by the way" - which up to about a week ago had been my favourite rhcp album since its release back in my long distant youth
I did not like some of the production instantly , it didn't feel in my face enough for a rhcp album - but after a few listens I was hooked and couldn't remember what I'd disliked about it ??
Great tunes - great album
jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/24/2016 00:32 | #169583 | TOP COMMENT
Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Up there in their top five best albums. Keidis and everyone else sound like they are excited about being in a great rock band, and this takes them in some interesting new directions. And yes, this is Josh Klinghoffer's breakthrough. I stop comparing him to JF -- Josh might be an equal in some respects and stands on his own in others. Very good Peppers collaboration.
Much improvement on their last album. There are many highs and lows I feel on this album. The highs including The Longest Waves, Sick Love and The Getaway being the highs, and Detroit, Hunter and Death of a Samurai being the lows. The key difference between this and I'm With You is Josh. Josh is on this album playing with absolute confidence in what he is doing, his guitar is now at the front of the mix and he is starting to give a more Frusciante/Hendrix type sound, which is a vast improvement on his reductionist approach of the previous album. Overall a very good album and I feel that there is still life in the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
souplipton 06/19/2016 04:09 | #169107 | TOP COMMENT
Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A much more varied sound than on previous albums, the sound is also much less in your face. The switch of producers from Rubin to Burton seems to inspired a new creativity and openness to explore new territory. This leads to a pretty inconsistent album in terms of style and quality. There's some good content here, but most of it only sounds tnagentially like the Peppers. The band does seem to work better together even when the songs don't work as well themselves, which suggests that this lineup does have a future. I don't think this is a very good album, but I do think the band is more of a unit than on the last album, even if the sound is all over the place.
DanielNunes93 07/16/2016 16:51 | #171407 | TOP COMMENT
Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album give me mixed feelings!
Red Hot put completely aside the rock but what does that matter when we are in the presence of one of the best albums of this historic band?
Great POP album!
The top-voted comments get featured on our charts, Album of the Day, and the site newsletter.
