August By Cake (studio album)
by Guided By Voices
Guided By Voices bestography
August By Cake is ranked 20th best out of 64 albums by Guided By Voices on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Guided By Voices is Bee Thousand which is ranked number 532 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,255.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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August By Cake track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
August By Cake rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  Purplepash | Scrobbles Don't Lie | 93/100 | - |
| 2025 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 12/100 | 4 |
| 2025 | dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 68/100 | 7 |
| 2025 | Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2017 201-271 | 1/71 | - |
| 2024 | dihansse | My Overall Top 1000: 401-500 | 72/100 | - |
| 2023 | cmoshier | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 73/100 | 1 |
| 2020 | cronadigallina | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2020 |  CellarDoor | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2018 | scoob73 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 82/100 | 1 |
| 2017 | Imaybeparanoid | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2017 | ewhittenburg | Top 50 Music Albums of 2017 | 50/50 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 22 | |||
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August By Cake ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/06/2024 06:34 | PapaShiz86 | 10,803 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2023 16:59 | zomg101 | 2,228 | 69/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2023 10:23 |  Tamthebam | 22,824 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2022 13:09 |  Arthurknight | 9,595 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2021 18:32 |  Maxence | 12,622 | 61/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.2/100, a mean average of 70.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.
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dihansse 04/07/2017 19:18 | #188867
I could be very mad at Robert Pollard because he takes up so much space in my playlists with his many albums with GBV and many other bands. With this album that again contains 32 (thirty two) tracks that impact will get even higher.
But there is a good reason to include nearly every single track of his on my playlist. They are just great songs. Next to some songs you could call fillers (but in fact add up to the overall quality weirdly enough and this in the tradition of his best albums like Alien Lanes and Bee Thousand) there are again some really great songs on this one like Sudden Fiction, Overloaded and Goodbye Note.
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