August By Cake (studio album) by Guided By Voices

August By Cake by Guided By Voices
Year: 2017
Release date: 2017-04-07
Overall rank: 36,131st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 22 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2017 (912th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (8,945th)
Award Best albums of all time (36,131st)

Guided By Voices bestography

August By Cake is ranked 20th best out of 63 albums by Guided By Voices on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Guided By Voices is Bee Thousand which is ranked number 534 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,289.

Guided By Voices album bestography « Higher ranked (28,824th) This album (36,131st) Lower ranked (37,443rd) »
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August By Cake track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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71/100 (from 22 votes)
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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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From 04/07/2017 19:18
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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