The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
by Explosions In The Sky
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The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is ranked as the best album by Explosions In The Sky.
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The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 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 | Drbassexpert24 | Top 22 Music Albums of 2003 | 18/22 | 1 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 90 Music Albums of 2003 | 23/90 | 4 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 31 Music Albums of 2003 | 30/31 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Antonio-Pedro | Top 99 Music Albums of the 2000s | 32/99 | 14 |
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 19 Music Albums of 2003 | 12/19 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 59 Music Albums of 2003 | 16/59 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 59 Music Albums of 2003 | 34/59 | 2 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 56 Music Albums of 2003 | 8/56 | 4 |
| 2026 | Purplepash | Ya joking? Should've been higher! 2000s edition | 59/100 | - |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 3/100 | 20 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 385 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,561 | |||
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The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/25/2026 19:33 | radio-head | 538 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/28/2026 19:44 |  DommeDamian | 7,745 | 48/100 |
| ! | 06/29/2026 21:15 | Liks_on_music | 656 | 81/100 |
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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 79.3/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/24/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5414): By Graeme2 BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsThe Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place comments
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Classic. (Edited)
teague 03/18/2022 16:02 | #282998
This is just the music they put in the background for those horrible motivational videos. (Edited)
Brad1770 02/13/2019 10:17 | #231874
What?: A fully instrumental album that is 5 tracks and 45 minutes long . It's a great example of Post-Rock with soundscapes and textures created with only electric guitars (3 I think) and drums , the songs start slowly then gradually build to a crescendo
Who?: Explosions in the Sky (Texas) have been around since 1999 and are considered Post-Rock pioneers. This is their 3rd album . The band gained mainstream attention by sound-tracking much of the Friday Night Lights movie and TV series
Do I Need To Hear This Album ?: If your looking to discover Post-Rock absolutely , just make sure you check out Sigur Ros as well . To the casual listener the tracks can sound very similar how ever album closer "You Hand In Mine" is rather beautiful and clear album standout. This album is NOT on the major streaming services so apart from buying the CD YouTube is your best bet to hear it
Antonio-Pedro 04/04/2017 20:33 | #188730
Silent poetry, Instrumental colored record (Edited)
Graeme2 03/24/2017 20:07 | #188023 | TOP COMMENT
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They certainly did/said everything they possibly could with this record, leaving them nowhere to go after. Diminishing returns with every release since. People can take shots at it because of any reason they want but I just want music I can feel. Job done for me, sorry. It's an album that I've always thought is kind of perfect in the way nothing seems overdone or even underplayed, just the exact amount every time and they seem to manage to pull that off the whole record. Certainly a high point of the genre along with the obvious suspects. (Edited)
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