Living In Extraordinary Times
by James
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Living In Extraordinary Times is ranked 13th best out of 30 albums by James on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by James is Laid which is ranked number 2095 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 796.
(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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Living In Extraordinary Times track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Living In Extraordinary Times rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 36 Music Albums of 2018 | 30/36 | 1 |
| 2026 | djirons | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 90/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | Vasco | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 76/100 | 5 |
| 2025 |  nitomano | Top 39 Music Albums of 2018 | 35/39 | 1 |
| 2025 | Vasco | Top 15 Music Albums of 2018 | 9/15 | 2 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | XS Noize Best Albums of 2018 | 18/50 | - |
| 2024 | henriknaess | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 27/100 | 4 |
| 2023 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - James (UK) - Ranked | 17/27 | - |
| 2023 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - James (UK) - Ranked | 17/27 | - |
| 2023 | cicadelic | Soyuz.ru 25 лучших альбомов 2018 года | 1/28 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 23 | |||
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Living In Extraordinary Times ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/16/2024 01:34 | Jonboy | 133 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/19/2023 18:31 | nitomano | 2,281 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/10/2023 16:59 | Vasco | 751 | 77/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 70.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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pedro1976 08/01/2024 10:12 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 10/08/2022 14:50 in What album are you listening to right now?Living In Extraordinary Times comments
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Some of the songs on this album are up there with the very best that James have ever made... This group gets better and better... Criminally underrated... (Edited)
This is the worst James album ... I say that as a James fan who thinks all their (previous) albums are filled with catchy melodies and wonderful ideas. This is just a clanger. Couldn’t resonate with it... do I need to be a middle-aged dad? This one came with a Father’s Day card (criiinge). I loved La Petite Mort and GATEOTW and Hey Ma gets regular plays from me.
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