Music Has The Right To Children
by Boards Of Canada
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Music Has The Right To Children is ranked as the best album by Boards Of Canada.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Music Has The Right To Children rankings summary
Overall rank: 342nd | 1990s rank: 66th | 1998 rank: 6th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 23 Music Albums of 1998 | 7/23 | 4 |
| 2026 |  craola | Top 20 Music Albums of 1998 | 2/20 | 5 |
| 2026 |  timtooky | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 63/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | sweetness | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 42/100 | 12 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 85 Music Albums of 1998 | 19/85 | 4 |
| 2026 | zonrod | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 26/99 | 15 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 60 Music Albums of 1998 | 15/60 | 4 |
| 2026 | rlang36 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 90/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 30/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 81/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 649 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4,882 | |||
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| ! | 10/07/2026 21:44 | pharoahstune | 251 | 80/100 |
| ! | 09/27/2026 23:55 |  AvalancheGrips | 784 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2026 20:20 | Foxforce5 | 485 | 75/100 |
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SingingPeasant96 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/29/2013 12:17 | #77550 | TOP COMMENT
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First listen : WTF?
Second : WTF?
Third : Why am I listening to this again? though I don't like... Oh, wait..
Forth :Oh.....I love it yeah....
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Sometype 02/12/2017 14:36 | #185465 | TOP COMMENT
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The moment when Sixtyten's main synth comes in is one of the most chilling but exciting moments in music in my opinion. The more i listen to this album, the more i fall in love. It has this really odd way of combining a creepy coldness with a really blissful warmness.
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lostshadow 04/12/2017 18:37 | #189163 | TOP COMMENT
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It's a shame "Happy Cycling" isn't actually part of the original album; it would have worked best if placed before "One Very Important Thought". It is one of the best Boards of Canada songs, so don't miss out on it if you have a version of "Music Has the Right to Children" that doesn't include it. Look it up and listen!
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weedygonsalez 11/13/2011 08:51 | #30503 | TOP COMMENT
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"Frightening" is really a misnomer, though I could see how someone could be frightened coming into a BoC album expecting "political and/or inspiring lyrics." I say "haunting" is much more like it. Though Music Has the Right... certainly is a strange, otherworldly experience, for me it's always been a joyful one.
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TheMajestic88 11/10/2014 18:35 | #126654 | TOP COMMENT
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I'm commenting on this album after having listened to it for the first time.
I have just had one of the best musical expériences of my life.
This album almost immediately sucks you into its wonderful oddness, and what follows can best be describes as swimming in a lukewarm rift between worlds. Like endlessly walking in between tightly packed hedges. Like hearing a soft beckon from an unknown lover wandering the streets at 4:25 in the morning. Beauty.
I feel like the strongest thing about this album is its ability to seamlessly phase in and out of conscience, from playing like it were from behind a dream to immediately taking the center stage without really changing sound. This is a quality that i saw lacking in some of its ambient contemporaries. The truth is, I dont feel like classifying this as simply "ambient" does it any justice
maybe I'm just smitten, but i do know that is immediately going on my chart
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