All Hail West Texas
by The Mountain Goats
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All Hail West Texas is ranked 2nd best out of 39 albums by The Mountain Goats on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Mountain Goats is The Sunset Tree which is ranked number 1484 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,155.
(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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All Hail West Texas track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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All Hail West Texas rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 32 Music Albums of 2002 | 3/32 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 25 Music Albums of 2002 | 8/25 | 4 |
| 2026 | JeffN999 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 87/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 93 Music Albums of 2002 | 49/93 | 2 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 55 Music Albums of 2002 | 14/55 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 2002 | 13/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 34 Music Albums of 2002 | 5/34 | 4 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 27/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 168 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 999 | |||
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All Hail West Texas ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/01/2026 22:15 | juanr1096 | 6,345 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 20:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,577 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/11/2026 15:31 |  Milhaud | 2,167 | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.1/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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All Hail West Texas forum mentions
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All Hail West Texas comments
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rayword45 07/31/2013 15:49 | #82817 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is proof of Darnielle's lyrical talent. With extremely poor sound quality, simple song structures, a voice that won't appeal to all and a mess of a concept, the album still stands up as completely amazing due almost entirely in part to the lyrics.
Personal thought only, but with the increase in fidelity and complexity of song structure (probably also including an improvement in vocal perfomance) in later albums, a great deal of intimacy was lost.
Lo-Fi, folk comfort food. Mm...Food. (Edited)
Komorebi-D 03/19/2017 11:03 | #187647 | TOP COMMENT
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Considering that this a strictly lo-fi piece you can't help but admire its enormity. So much confessed, so many stories told. (Edited)
Onater 01/11/2018 16:39 | #205271 | TOP COMMENT
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One of those albums that you will feel nostalgic about even if you've never heard it before. (Edited)
Each song is a perfect little story with such great details that you feel like you witnessed it or lived it yourself. The world that these stories create linked together is such an amazing portrait of a time and place. (Edited)
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