Honi Soit (studio album) by John Cale

Honi Soit by John Cale
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 24,041st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 21 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (341st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (3,126th)
Award Best albums of all time (24,041st)

John Cale bestography

Honi Soit is ranked 20th best out of 42 albums by John Cale on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Cale is Paris 1919 which is ranked number 726 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,442.

John Cale album bestography « Higher ranked (24,041st) This album (24,041st) Lower ranked (25,846th) »
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Honi Soit track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 21 votes)
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01/19/2025 10:41 platus  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,60874/100
 
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01/08/2025 12:43 JamesMowbray  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,78170/100
 
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11/27/2024 13:05 slatsheit  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,99182/100
 
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05/22/2024 07:47 TonySayers61  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 19,92864/100
 
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05/23/2023 12:00 Tamthebam  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 22,28469/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.8/100, a mean average of 70.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.

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85/100
From 11/21/2020 01:12
I usually take John Cale track by track; there's not an album of his I love from start to finish...except this one. The sputtering rage and fear is cathartic, this is an album to play LOUD. One of the very few times either Cale or Lou came anywhere near the level of the banana peel album, to my ears. It's not a masterpiece like that album--I rate the banana album a 100--but this does have a similar intensity. I've loved this one for decades.

Edit: Watch out for track 4, there's a repeated, definitely questionable at best, use of the n-word that could really offend if it comes out of the blue, if you didn't sort of grow up with this album.
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75/100
From 02/12/2014 16:04
Splendid first two tracks, after which it's a bit hit or miss. Title track is good in an outrageous way. Check this album out by all means, probably not the place to start a Cale voyage though.
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Time by Electric Light Orchestra
7. Faith by The Cure
8. Dare by The Human League
9. Damaged by Black Flag
10. Deceit by This Heat
11. Youth Of America by Wipers
12. Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones
13. Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
14. Ghost In The Machine by The Police
15. The Ascension by Glenn Branca
16. Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen
17. Face Value by Phil Collins
18. Killers by Iron Maiden
19. Architecture & Morality by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
20. Movement by New Order
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