Black Out
by The Good Life
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Black Out is ranked as the best album by The Good Life.
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Black Out track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Black Out rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2020 |  adnielsen | Top 73 Music Albums of the 2000s | 18/73 | 15 |
| 2018 | Imaybeparanoid | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 42/100 | 3 |
| 2018 | adnielsen | Top 10 Music Albums of 2002 | 5/10 | 3 |
| 2017 | vitaltendency | Top 38 Greatest Music Albums | 17/38 | 3 |
| 2011 | stelfair | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 15/50 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 6 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 25 | |||
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Black Out ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/02/2023 03:04 | dhbarrett | 8,613 | 65/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2021 17:29 |  craola | 4,436 | 78/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2018 05:22 | adnielsen | 1,155 | 76/100 |
| ! | 03/11/2018 18:19 |  bojolpif71 | 14,865 | 58/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2018 17:51 | Imaybeparanoid | 7,396 | 71/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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adnielsen 05/07/2018 02:40 | #214357
I can honestly say that this album changed my life. I picked it up on a whim around 2003-2004 at a Homer’s in downtown Omaha, as I had enjoyed Tim Kasher’s work with Cursive. This album turned out to be even better than anything I heard with Cursive. This album listens like a depressed drunk constantly harkening back to past loves and mistakes. “The Beaten Path” is among my all time favorite songs with its upbeat pouncing melody blended with depressing lyrics. Many of the songs ooze melancholy such as “Some Bullshit Escape” and “Don’t Make Love So Hard”. Black Out is so deeply personal that when you listen to it, you feel the same heartache and regret Tim Kasher must have felt when he wrote these sad, sad songs and his own “Unknown Pleasures”. Highly recommended,
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