The Parable Of Arable Land
by The Red Crayola With The Familiar Ugly
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The Red Crayola With The Familiar Ugly bestography
The best album by The Red Crayola is The Parable Of Arable Land which is ranked number 1350 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,278.
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The Parable Of Arable Land track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Parable Of Arable Land rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,350th | 1960s rank: 139th | 1967 rank: 25th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  arthurbittencourt | Top 65 Music Albums of the 1960s | 19/65 | 14 |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Top 35 Music Albums of 1967 | 35/35 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 72 Music Albums of 1967 | 71/72 | 0 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 60 Music Albums of 1967 | 58/60 | 0 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AfterHours | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 11/100 | 88 |
| 2026 |  EyeKanFly | Top 38 Music Albums of 1967 | 24/38 | 2 |
| 2026 | arthurbittencourt | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 98/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 32 Music Albums of 1967 | 3/32 | 5 |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1967 | 3/46 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 184 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,278 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/02/2026 02:50 |  Repo | 2,234 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2026 21:08 | Hyggevinyl | 4,480 | 72/100 |
| ! | 03/29/2026 14:51 | evo | 285 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.2.
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Repo 08/02/2026 02:47 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)“What album are you listening to? (cont.)”
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From BestEverAlbums 07/11/2023 20:00 in Album of the day (#4587): The Parable Of Arable Land
BestEverAlbums 07/11/2023 20:00 in Album of the day (#4587): The Parable Of Arable Land“Today's album of the day The Parable Of Arable Land by The Red Crayola With The Familiar Ugly ( | ) Year: 1967. Country: Overall rank: 1,222 Average rating: 75/100 (from 216 votes). Tracks: 1. Free Form Freak-Out No. 1 2. Hurricane Fighter Plane (When The Ride Is Over You Can Go To Sleep) 3. Free…”
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hairymarx1 TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/19/2011 21:41 | #19315 | TOP COMMENT
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The Red Crayola are probably THE most single influential and pioneering pyschedelic bands of the 1960's and probably of all-time. Theinfluence of the band's deconstructed sound and industrial dissonance stretches all the way to the expressionistic rock of 'Faust' through to the post-punk of 'Pop Group' and 'Pere Ubu' and beyond. The British band 'Spacemen 3' even named one of their albums after one of the band's songs in recognition of their influence.
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an_outlaw 07/25/2011 12:19 | #24840 | TOP COMMENT
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I have listened to bits and pieces. I'll listen to this when I get the copy for my cd player, seems like something I would have to pay a lot of attention to. Are those 'Free Form Freak Outs' part of the album? They sound like a novel idea.
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clockworkfiction3 06/02/2010 02:35 | #12407 | TOP COMMENT
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This is definitely a noisy album.
If you love free form psychedelic freak out music then you'll love this, otherwise, your opinions might be a little mixed.
For me, this is a good enough album, but at times too annoying to be great.
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Alex Lindhardt said it best: "It's a band that has no idea how to play its instruments. In fact, they don't even know what instruments are, or if the guitarist has the ability to remain conscious long enough to play whatever it is a 'note' might be."
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One of the harder albums to get a rating on because it doesn't do it justice. Chaotic and unpredictable but fascinating. There are sounds on this record that are beyond imagination at the time and still confound me even given the half a century of context that I have. The actual songs are really interesting and somewhat accessible at times. The stereo effects are mind-bending. The Free Form Freak-Outs are so dense and disheveled that it's hard for me to come up with anything to say about them other than they are intensely gripping. This album is unlike anything that I've ever heard. It pushes every boundary. (Edited)
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