The Future Of What
by Unwound

The Future Of What by Unwound
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 21,160th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 33 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (342nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (3,272nd)
Award Best albums of all time (21,160th)

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Unwound bestography

The Future Of What is ranked 7th best out of 19 albums by Unwound on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Unwound is Leaves Turn Inside You which is ranked number 832 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,083.

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The Future Of What rankings summary
Overall rank: 21,160th | 1990s rank: 3,272nd | 1995 rank: 342nd  Overall chart history
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77/100 (from 33 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 78.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.4.


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From dihansse 05/11/2021 19:50 in My discoveries per year
“These are two albums of 1995 I listened to: An album I already own: Another reincarnation of Steve Wynn, one of my favorite artists of course mainly known as the bandleader of the Dream Syndicate. To me this album is very underrated generally and it can compete with the best albums of The Dream…”
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From Anonymous 05/27/2014 00:28 in Recommendations Thread
“Thanks, you four! I have them all on my list! Keep em coming if there's anyone else wants to learn me. ; ) McClusky Do Dallas is badass! But, I believe these are the Unwound albums you are looking for...”
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From 02/28/2019 22:56 | #232794
Very solid. Unwound is becoming one of my favorite bands. Highlights on this include Natural Disasters, Equally Stupid, Pardon My French, Petals Like Bricks, Descension, New Energy... Not sure why they ended on the three instrumentals that all seem to be slight variants of one another. I liked the Pardon My French interlude so these don't bother me too much. This might've been better off as a 30 min release but oh well. Interesting enough.

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