Funeral
by Arcade Fire
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Arcade Fire bestography
Funeral is ranked as the best album by Arcade Fire.
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Funeral track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 89 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Funeral rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 98 Music Albums of 2004 | 2/98 | 5 |
| 2026 |  xo66 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 4/100 | 91 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 3/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 4/100 | 19 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 3/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Monitor Best Albums 2004 | 14/35 | - |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 2004 | 5/63 | - |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 90/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2004 | 1/20 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 98 Music Albums of the 2000s | 10/98 | 18 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 2,938 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 31,634 | |||
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Funeral ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/27/2026 22:48 | Melway94 | 118 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2026 17:08 | kino | 26 | 41/100 |
| ! | 08/21/2026 14:09 | frollant | 36 | 92/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 87.9/100, a mean average of 86.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Funeral forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 3 days ago in Chart of the day (#5441): By UnliveableWilts BestEverAlbums 09/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5437): By UntitledFuneral comments
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ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/20/2026 13:40 | #315757
This is one of the worst albums that I have ever heard, second only to any Modest Mouse album, the absolute worst music, if you can call it that (Edited)
phenomenal masterpiece (Edited)
Not a bad song at all, just ones that happen to be "weaker" than the rest. (Edited)
A glance through a list of the albums in my collection, and those that I enjoy most, there has been a singular lack of quantity of material since Pink Floyd issued "The Wall" back in 1979. There has, of course, been much good music, during those forty-five odd years, and I have greatly enjoyed the odd album or two and have even been known to purchase a few.
There have also been many moments when I thought that I had discovered a great group or a truly magnificent album, but then later found it hard to remember the artist or release amongst the earlier, more memorable stuff. As one format has replaced another, I have often failed to replace a vinyl disc, or a cassette that ends up in a much cherished, but ultimately redundant, box in the attic.
In that context, it will be very hard to forget "Arcade Fire" or their album "Funeral". In particular, "Crown of Love" and "Haiti" are very special, and beautiful, songs. "Wake up" remains one of my favourite tracks, possibly of all time. The rest of the album, however, is also of such a high musical standard, that I can only offer it my own very personal top rating. You may not love it, you will almost certainly not hate it. I love it and recommend it to you.
"Funeral" is not, of course, at least for me, up there with "Abbey Road", "Abraxas", "Songs in the Key of Life", Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", "Led Zepp 2" or "Dark Side of the Moon", for example, but I think it might squeeze into a list of my favourite 100 albums of all time, if not the Top 50. It is clearly my favourite album of the 21st Century, and one that I will buy as soon as I get round to purchasing music again.
(Edited)
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