Music Has The Right To Children (studio album) by Boards Of Canada

Music Has The Right To Children by Boards Of Canada
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 341st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 740 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1998 (6th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1990s (67th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (341st)
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Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 740 votes)
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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 81.7/100, a mean average of 80.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.

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From 07/12/2024 21:21
So good
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From 02/06/2023 12:11
Perfect album. Such an unique masterpiece from beginning to end.
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85/100
From 08/24/2021 22:10
A great album with so much to explore. Every track perfectly fits the tone and style of the record and adds to the environment that the artist is creating. It truly is an experience from start to finish. It can feel a little slow at times and some song do seem to drag a little. Overall, an intriguing and brilliant album to listen too.
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75/100
From 05/27/2021 16:13
Imersão pura!
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95/100
From 08/06/2020 01:07
Fav. Tracks:

- Wildlife Analysis
- An Eagle In Your Mind
- The Color Of The Fire
- Turquoise Hexagon Sun
- Bocuma
- Roygbiv
- Rue The Whirl
- Aquarius
- Smokes Quantity
- One Very Important Thought
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90/100
From 06/17/2020 07:32
Another transcendental and timeless masterwork from BOC
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From 10/28/2018 07:09
Like Aphex Twin, unsettling and even scary at times. They are truly the equivalent of the punk movement in electronic music (musically, not culturally).
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From 10/21/2018 00:03
I've recently become a huge IDM fan, in the past year or so I took it on myself to consume every LP by IDM legends aphex twin, autechre & boards of canada, unearthing so many great records from these sonic geniuses, and I have to say this is the finest record out of them all. This is because BoC use dreamy, sometimes trippy, textures to create a sense of otherworldliness **and yet** "Music has the Right to Children" is very much rooted in the real world. With short snatches of child-like wonder and laughter seamlessly blending in with the excellent production, one feels an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Boards of Canada have captured not our childhood, but the scattershot memories of our childhood, all the bits and pieces we can remember stitched together in a glorious fashion. A wondrous, evocative piece of art.
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From 11/13/2017 16:54
evocative, elaborate, eternal.
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