Big Wheel And Others (studio album) by Cass McCombs
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Big Wheel And Others is ranked 6th best out of 12 albums by Cass McCombs on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Cass McCombs is Mangy Love which is ranked number 9799 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 120.
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Big Wheel And Others track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Big Wheel And Others rankings
All 15 charts that this album appears in:
Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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2024 | Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 94/100 | 0 |
2023 | cmoshier | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 1/100 | 5 |
2023 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2013 | 44/50 | 1 |
2022 | buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 46/100 | 3 |
2021 | meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 75/100 | 5 |
2020 | PatrickD | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 17/100 | 17 |
2020 | PatrickD | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 16/100 | 4 |
2020 | panapsal | Top 98 Music Albums of 2013 | 60/98 | 2 |
2020 | meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 10/100 | 5 |
2019 | PatrickD | Greatest Cass McCombs Albums | 1/11 | - |
2019 | bertrandu | 2010s Singer/Songwriter part 1/3 : 2010-2013 | 99/100 | - |
2017 | cestuneblague | 2013 special jury prize | 53/62 | - |
2013 | Les Inrocks | Les Inrocks Albums of the Year 2013 | 91/100 | 1 |
2013 | Q | Q Albums of the Year 2013 | 7/50 | 4 |
2013 | meccalecca | Hidden Treasures of the 2010s | 14/100 | - |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 15 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 46 |
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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01/15/2024 22:27 | cicadelic | 5,425 | 73/100 | |
10/04/2019 04:28 | HelsinkiSnorkel | 1,988 | 79/100 | |
02/13/2019 17:51 | panapsal | 7,343 | 78/100 | |
06/07/2017 18:07 | buzzdainer | 3,213 | 79/100 | |
10/13/2016 21:28 | mmonterof | 343 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.5.
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In his review of Big Wheel and Others for Pitchfork, Eric Harvey writes, "McCombs mixes light and dark in a similar way. His songs are often cast with an eerie serenity, emanating both from his soft vocals and fondness for guitar-led arrangements that glide between sections. His songs are often very pretty, though always invested with a palpable, if not quite visible, sense of foreboding. This befits the characters of Wheel, most of whom are alone—some desperately so—and seeking redemption, if not simply trying to prove something to themselves." That's an apt summary of McCombs's depiction of the American West, the place I now call home, on this album. It's an ambitious effort, one that succeeds far more often than it fails.
Cass has always seemed to be more interested in the details, capturing all the dust and the grime rather than just looking for a perfect spit and polish. His albums can often feel like one giant newsfeed kept on a continious loop, which obviously has it's more unusual strengths but also some major drawbacks. Often you can get a lot of subtle sounds and unusually alluring songs that you may not find on other works; other times it seems to resemble a giant dumpster fire that's become impossible to contain. While there are many things to admire here, you almost wish he would take his best ideas and run with them, rather than giving near equal weight to his less-intriguing, more tenonous compositions. Predictably this is a frustrating hit and miss record but with some great hooks (Brighter!) and more universal things to say (Joe Murder, Name Written in Water)
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