Isolation Drills
by Guided By Voices
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Guided By Voices bestography
Isolation Drills is ranked 5th 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 567 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,006.
(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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Isolation Drills track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Isolation Drills rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 70 Music Albums of 2001 | 47/70 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 91 Music Albums of 2001 | 63/91 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 75 Music Albums of 2001 | 50/75 | 2 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 59 Music Albums of 2001 | 4/59 | 5 |
| 2025 | dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 17/100 | 17 |
| 2025 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 75/100 | 1 |
| 2024 | cicadelic | Magnet Magazine Best Albums 2001 | 6/20 | - |
| 2024 | sonicdiscourse | 2001 To-Do List | 74/75 | - |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 2000s 02 | 7/100 | - |
| 2024 |  NoisyBeast | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 12/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 34 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 104 | |||
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Isolation Drills ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 10/24/2026 18:10 | Jantje | 735 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/12/2026 01:29 | PapaShiz86 | 11,837 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 18:24 | replacementlevel | 7,852 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.
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Isolation Drills forum mentions
NoisyBeast 04/06/2023 21:40 in What album are you listening to right now? dihansse 08/22/2019 21:02 in My discoveries per yearIsolation Drills comments
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If you are a fan of power pop, this is GBV at their powerpoppiest... "Fair Touching", "Chasing Heather Crazy", "Glad Girls", "Twilight Campfighter", "Brides Have Hit Glass", "Sister I Need Wine" are all stone-cold classics.
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