Permission To Land
by The Darkness
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Permission To Land is ranked as the best album by The Darkness.
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Permission To Land track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Permission To Land rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 99/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 50/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 93/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 26 Music Albums of 2003 | 5/26 | 4 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century | 80/100 | - |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 43 Music Albums of 2003 | 18/43 | 3 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 83 Music Albums of 2003 | 49/83 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Sydney Morning Herald Best Albums 2003 | 4/50 | - |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 26 Music Albums of 2003 | 6/26 | 4 |
| 2026 | TastyandTemptin | Top 28 Music Albums of 2003 | 25/28 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 163 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 583 | |||
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Permission To Land ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/06/2026 21:58 | PapaShiz86 | 11,695 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/01/2026 07:47 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,613 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/27/2026 16:28 | gmessian | 385 | 60/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 70.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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neilgee 01/12/2026 14:37 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) neilgee 06/12/2025 06:49 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Permission To Land comments
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Possiblement à la fois le meilleur album Glam et le meilleur album de hard rock du XXI ème siècle (Edited)
The singles off the album are iconic - Growing On Me, I Believe In A Thing Called Love and Love Is A Feeling. Some of the best rock songs written since 2000. Other highlights among the album tracks are Friday Night and Get Your Hands Off My Woman.
Band and album with a great classic rock feel about it. Decent tracks right through. I thought it was massively over-hyped when released and it took me a while to warm to it. Has grown on me though. Not a masterpiece but well above average
TheDude85 08/07/2020 18:23 | #256781
I wasn't quite sure how to take this disc. Was it supposed to be a parody of hard rocking albums of the 70s, a jibe at glam bands, an attempt to update heavy metal and bring it into the 21st century? I couldn't tell if the band were sincere or not or had all their tongues firmly in their cheeks. I listened repeatedly to the disc and still haven't made up my mind. The lead singer, Justin Hawkins, lapses into an ear-splitting falsetto on nearly every song - it was if he thought he was in Garth's car head-banging to "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World. His brother, Dan Hawkins, does have some guitar skill which he shows off occasionally, but far too infrequently. When I finish listening to this I usually have a migraine - yet there is something catchy about it.
Medelsvensson 02/22/2020 11:29 | #248140
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