The Week Never Starts Round Here
by Arab Strap

The Week Never Starts Round Here by Arab Strap
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 8,241st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 26 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (158th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,328th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,241st)

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Arab Strap bestography

The Week Never Starts Round Here is ranked 3rd best out of 11 albums by Arab Strap on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Arab Strap is As Days Get Dark which is ranked number 4303 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 330.

Arab Strap album bestography « Higher ranked (7,144th)
Philophobia
This album (8,241st)
The Week Never Starts Round Here
Lower ranked (10,508th) »
Monday At The Hug & Pint

(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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The Week Never Starts Round Here track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Week Never Starts Round Here rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,241st | 1990s rank: 1,328th | 1996 rank: 158th
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2026LittleM1971Greatest Music Albums: 601-70058/100 -
2026 TamthebamTop 91 Music Albums of 199664/912
2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 199694/1000
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of 199685/1001
2026LittleM1971Top 90 Music Albums of 199611/904
2025 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of 199625/1004
2025 bojolpif71Top 100 Music Albums of 199642/1003
2024 Graeme2Top 70 Music Albums of 199650/702
2024 SingingPeasant96Top 49 Music Albums of 199638/491
2024RikuffTop 100 Greatest Music Albums27/10064
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 199662/1002
2024Stevo796Top 17 Music Albums of 199613/171
2024 meccaleccaTop 63 Music Albums of 199647/631
2020panapsalTop 100 Music Albums of 199653/1002
2019Dayved00Top 29 Music Albums of 199623/291
2017 fractaljazzTop 100 Greatest Music Albums79/1003
2017 fractaljazzTop 45 Music Albums of 19965/455
2017 Robert Anton WilsonTop of the Prog II: 1989 and Beyond ...25/72 -
2017 fractaljazzTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s25/10015
2013 Robert Anton WilsonTop 17 Music Albums of 199610/172
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 24
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 151
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 26 votes)
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12/26/2025 17:30 Devilwoac  Ratings distribution  1,01897/100
 
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02/10/2025 10:21 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  23,99764/100
 
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06/26/2024 11:46 LosWochos  Ratings distribution  46,88575/100
 
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09/03/2023 10:32 Stevo796  Ratings distribution  1,13873/100
 
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11/15/2022 04:14 Arthurknight  Ratings distribution  9,59372/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.1/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.

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From 10/22/2021 08:00 | #275260
TBC…

Album Rating:
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1. "Coming Down" - 75
2. "The Clearing" - 76
3. "Driving" - 72
4. "Gourmet" - 70
5. "I Work in a Saloon"
6. "Wasting"
7. "General Plea to a Girlfriend"
8. "The First Big Weekend"
9. "Kate Moss"
10. "Little Girls"
11. "Phone Me Tonight"
12. "Blood"
13. "Deeper"
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45/100
From 09/17/2021 03:05 | #273842
Scottish accent everyday slice of life narratives over low-key post-rock guitar noodlings.
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