The Monitor
by Titus Andronicus
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The Monitor is ranked as the best album by Titus Andronicus.
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The Monitor track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Monitor rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 75 Music Albums of 2010 | 18/75 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 21/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 72 Music Albums of 2010 | 30/72 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 59 Music Albums of 2010 | 32/59 | 2 |
| 2026 | zags7000 | Best of 2010's 101-200 | 5/12 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #2501-2600* | 58/81 | - |
| 2026 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | Top 68 Music Albums of 2010 | 43/68 | 2 |
| 2026 | JeffN999 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 62/100 | 8 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 231 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,096 | |||
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The Monitor ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/10/2026 00:18 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/03/2026 20:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,085 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2026 17:45 | Map | 525 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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The Monitor forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026 BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements - August 2026 BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements - July 2026The Monitor comments
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NubbinBased 04/19/2013 16:59 | #73872 | TOP COMMENT
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Patrick Stickles merges reality with fantasy in this album. The Civil War serves as a backdrop for something larger. The Monitor is constantly referencing "the enemy" as the Confederates of the Civil War, as well as the conformists of modern society. Listen to this album hard. Move all distractions out of the way. This album is instantly relatable and it is very intense.
Cymro2011 02/11/2013 11:35 | #64758 | TOP COMMENT
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Didn't really like this at first but it's kinda growing on me. Small thing that annoys me about this albums is that the vocals don't really match up with the music that well, the music itself is pretty light Alt-Rock but the vocals are very harsh and punk rockish. If the music was a bit more aggressive I would probably like this album a lot more.
EDIT: I've changed my mind this albums is actually very good.
you know it's a real punk band when they've got a hundred songs with "no future" in the title. think they like the sex pistols a little bit?
fun fact: I got their enormous "the most lamentable tragedy" to fit in a standard Vinyl Styl brand protective record sleeve! half an inch is hanging out the poor stretched thing but w/e.
Ironic Karma 04/23/2010 07:44 | #10904 | TOP COMMENT
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Absolutely astounding. Didn't like it at first, but once you weave your way through the chaos and found a brilliant album. The loose concept of the Civil War was just spot on. I've listened to it over twenty times and I'm finding new things every time as well as not getting tired of it.
paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/13/2012 18:17 | #36844 | TOP COMMENT
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That lead singer still sounds like Conor Oberst so much that this album sounds like "lifted" would if Conor ROCKED OUT. It's uncanny and in a lighter year, this would've been top 10 material. It's a fine blue collar bar band delivering a rockin' civil war concept album.
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