I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
by Yo La Tengo
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I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One is ranked as the best album by Yo La Tengo.
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I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1997 | 10/50 | 4 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 47 Music Albums of 1997 | 31/47 | 2 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 69/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 99 Music Albums of 1997 | 57/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 26/100 | 15 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  JoaoMoreira | Top 71 Music Albums of the 1990s | 52/71 | 6 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 60 Music Albums of 1997 | 12/60 | 4 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 35 Music Albums of 1997 | 28/35 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 521 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,516 | |||
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I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/04/2026 14:00 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2026 21:38 | Scrabbler | 294 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2026 21:26 | araidernomore | 502 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.5/100, a mean average of 80.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One comments
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/19/2016 19:23 | #175372 | TOP COMMENT
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I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One proved that Yo La Tengo could master any pop style, from bossanova swoon to pedal steel alt-country twang to a droning guitar swirl that verges on shoegaze. Funny that most of the arguments about this album center on whether or not it's shoegaze, since clearly there's a bit of My Bloody Valentine's influence here, but there's also much more to this album than that. Here Yo La Tengo aspire to be the greatest indie rock, noise-collage, electronica collective ever, but it's also true that more than anything, they're just being themselves. And they were making albums that sounded a little like this dating way back to the mid-eighties.
A band that's done everything, and done everything well, throws all its strenghts into a mixing bowl and churns out this quintessentially American stew. To call out highlights would be a disservice to the album's consistency.
CellarDoor TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/24/2010 07:19 | #8583 | TOP COMMENT
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I love the Faustian 10 minutes of "Spec Bebop", and the overall VU feel to the album.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/14/2016 02:44 | #165921 | TOP COMMENT
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If this is shoe gaze... then I like it better than loveless, to be honest.
Enjoyed the album a lot. Didn't care too much about the Beach Boys cover, and unfortunately, the 10 minute track still holds zero appeal to me.
Other than that... Autumn Sweater, Green Arrow, Sugarcube, Damage, ... All very lovely songs.
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