The Black Keys 
The best album credited to The Black Keys is Brothers which is ranked number 382 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 4,356.
The Black Keys is ranked number 163 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 13,664.
The Black Keys official website: http://www.theblackkeys.com
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- Dan Auerbach
- See also:
- The Arcs
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The Black Keys best albums
The following albums by The Black Keys are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
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The Black Keys best tracks
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| 06/13/2025 11:29 | Invader666 | 337 | 71/100 | |
| 08/09/2024 23:50 | jrbaker | 17 | 88/100 | |
| 12/22/2023 16:38 | Pluto11 | 317 | 78/100 | |
| 11/06/2023 13:11 | ItNrok | 3 | 85/100 | |
| 09/22/2023 17:02 | Stevo796 | 980 | 74/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 3% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 80.3/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 15.0.
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Consistently good.
TheDude85 04/17/2019 20:31 | #235139
I enjoy their combination of garage rock and soul.
Space-Dementia 10/27/2015 04:58 | #152115
El Camino and Brothers both have really good songs on them, but I feel like they have yet to put out their best album. Great straightforward rock out of the midwest USA.
Great band, can be repetitive, but with this style it doesn't bother me, you can usually expect at least a few great songs on their albums.
zags7000 07/01/2015 08:31 | #144918
Brothers got me hooked and interested in their previous albums. Rubber Factory in particular was a great find. Since then, they have continued to put out great music. Nothing matches Brothers & Rubber Factory but nothing embarrassing either.
El Camino can just go away. Brothers is their master work. I saw these guys in concert back in 2003-ish, their ThickFreakness/Rubber Factory days. 10 people watched these guys perform in a dingy theater in Lawrence, Kansas and 7 of them were my friends. They rocked then with no one knowing who they were and they rock now with full stadiums.
With that said, Thickfreakness and Rubber Factory are much better than El Camino, barf.
balintov 07/28/2014 12:23 | #117965
In my opinion they are not as outstanding as white stripes, franz ferdinand or the hives, but they can write some catchy song to every albums that sounds good and also they have a good music style, you can recognise them, but they can be boring after 5-6 songs.
A pretty good band, but unbelievably arrogant.
sulmagnificent 04/15/2013 16:27 | #73243
Great band that somehow managed to work up the the distasteful mainstream. Contrary to what their history would suggest, their earlier albums are not less accessible, they may have less hits however. I recommend starting with Rubber Factory from their earlier albums, then Big Come Up which easily fiercer than El Camino (which I love)
MCOTho 03/27/2013 02:59 | #70112
I agree with Cornbeef17. One of the few good musicians in today's age.
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