The Forest (studio album)
by David Byrne

The Forest by David Byrne
Year: 1991
Overall rank: 62,169th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 10 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1991 (822nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (9,404th)
Award Best albums of all time (62,169th)

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David Byrne bestography

The Forest is ranked 14th best out of 17 albums by David Byrne on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by David Byrne is American Utopia which is ranked number 6962 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 182.

David Byrne album bestography « Higher ranked (58,210th)
The Visible Man
This album (62,169th)
The Forest
Lower ranked (64,764th) »
Lead Us Not Into Temptation

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The Forest track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (1 out of 10 tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 10 votes)
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09/06/2025 09:21 Tamthebam  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 22,77769/100
 
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09/06/2025 03:06 Moondance  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 19,74672/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.4/100, a mean average of 60.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 60.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.

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From 01/31/2022 17:54
Not necessarily a soundtrack - this collection by David Byrne follows a collaboration with Robert Wilson (with whom he previously worked on "The Knee Plays") and provides an almost classical style music set for Byrne to experiment over. Not always successful, the music swoops through several different genres/styles of music and can either be loved or ignored. I wouldn't rate this as a highlight of Byrne's solo career.
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