Hot Cakes (studio album)
by The Darkness
The Darkness bestography
Hot Cakes is ranked 3rd best out of 11 albums by The Darkness on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Darkness is Permission To Land which is ranked number 2730 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 567.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Hot Cakes track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Hot Cakes rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | cicadelic | Amazon Best Albums 2012 | 81/100 | - |
| 2024 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2024 | Gallowtree | Top 34 Music Albums of 2012 | 15/34 | 3 |
| 2022 | conallmalone | Top 58 Music Albums of 2012 | 53/58 | 1 |
| 2016 | Coconut | Top 79 Music Albums of the 2010s | 27/79 | 13 |
| 2016 | 247joelnetwork | Top 80 Music Albums of 2012 | 19/80 | 4 |
| 2016 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2013 |  WrathchildIX | Top 50 Music Albums of 2012 | 30/50 | 2 |
| 2012 |  Mike43 | Top 12 Music Albums of 2012 | 11/12 | 1 |
| 2012 | Classic Rock | Top 50 albums 2012 | 8/50 | 4 |
| 2012 | Kerrang! | Kerrang!'s Albums Of 2012 | 41/50 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 36 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/11/2025 12:25 |  an-outlaw | 525 | 74/100 |
| ! | 03/24/2025 21:17 | Fabien67 | 393 | 77/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2025 19:27 | PapaShiz86 | 10,832 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2023 14:12 | Nikola | 169 | 86/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2022 10:04 | Ojn17041991 | 941 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.3/100, a mean average of 65.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.4.
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bojolpif71 01/31/2015 12:08 | #133272
Pas le meilleur des glam rockeurs.. Cà s'écoute et cà s'oublie..
I wish that I'd have bumped into this record last year when it was new. I heard this for the first time, today. It must not have gotten much exposure over here in the U.S. :/ In the event that you TRULY loved "Permission To Land" you should definitely give this a spin. It's in the same vein. There aren't as many surefire hits, but songs like "With A Woman" & "Love Is Not The Answer" still fire on all cylinders. The Darkness is still the king of the cheesy classic rock revival bands, BUT if they don't keep producing bands like Steel Panther & Fire Tiger will take that crown.
RockyRaccoon 07/10/2013 03:37 | #80880
First off, let me say that this album was so disappointing to me. I absolutely love The Darkness, or at the very least, I loved “Permission To Land" and it makes me genuinely sad to write a review about this album that isn’t the highest of praise, but unfortunately that is what this is. “Hot Cakes" has it’s moments, but generally this album sounds like Steel Panther taking themselves seriously. Justin Hawkins’ voice is still high and awesome as it usually is and the guitar-work is pretty decent, but many of the songs just sound boring for the most part. It’s a bunch of songs about the generally the same things (sex and partying) with little variety in the music. Now I wasn’t exactly expecting beautiful poetry from The Darkness, but I was expecting something a bit better than this. At the very least though, the album is amusing.
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