Happy Songs For Happy People
by Mogwai

Album
Happy Songs For Happy People by Mogwai
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-06-17
Overall rank: 2,989th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 160 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (57th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (497th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,989th)

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Mogwai bestography

Happy Songs For Happy People is ranked 4th best out of 31 albums by Mogwai on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mogwai is Mogwai Young Team which is ranked number 924 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,879.

Mogwai album bestography « Higher ranked (2,806th)
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Happy Songs For Happy People Lower ranked (3,091st) »
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Happy Songs For Happy People rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,989th | 2000s rank: 497th | 2003 rank: 57th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 160 votes)
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 !		07/16/2026 23:58 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,29933/100
 
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 !		04/16/2026 03:37 dhbarrett  Ratings distribution  8,76565/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.


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From BestEverAlbums 08/24/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5414): By Graeme2
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From 12/30/2019 06:37 | #246073 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Essential post-rock.
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This IS their best album. Massively underrated on here. Sweeps you away on a sonic journey.
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Whenever I listen to this I can't help but think this might just be their best album.
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