Earthquake Glue
by Guided By Voices

Earthquake Glue by Guided By Voices
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 15,640th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 36 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (295th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (2,800th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,640th)

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Guided By Voices bestography

Earthquake Glue is ranked 9th best out of 65 albums by Guided By Voices on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Guided By Voices is Bee Thousand which is ranked number 562 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,040.

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Earthquake Glue track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Earthquake Glue rankings summary
Overall rank: 15,640th | 2000s rank: 2,800th | 2003 rank: 295th  Overall chart history
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Earthquake Glue ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 36 votes)
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06/08/2026 19:43 PapaShiz86  Ratings distribution  11,68579/100
 
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01/01/2026 19:19 Jantje  Ratings distribution  69275/100

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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.


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From dihansse 08/22/2019 21:02 in My discoveries per year
Here is my second post on Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices and the likes now covering his classic album period from 1994 to 2004 when he disbanded GBV but only for a short period. This is to me the classic period because all GBV period are really good and nearly every single one of them contains at…
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From 06/06/2016 14:13 | #168019
Standout tracks: My kind of Soldier, Useless Inventions, The Best of Jill Hives, Dead Cloud, The Main Street Wizard
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