High Land, Hard Rain
by Aztec Camera

Album
High Land, Hard Rain by Aztec Camera
Year: 1983
Release date: 1983-04-19
Overall rank: 1,856th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 181 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (29th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (283rd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,856th)

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High Land, Hard Rain track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Oblivious
Average Rating: 86 (51 votes)Comments: View 0
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The Boy Wonders
Average Rating: 82 (34 votes)Comments: View 0
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Walk Out To Winter
Average Rating: 83 (42 votes)Comments: View 0
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The Bugle Sounds Again
Average Rating: 79 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
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We Could Send Letters
Average Rating: 85 (40 votes)Comments: View 0
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Pillar To Post
Average Rating: 84 (38 votes)Comments: View 0
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Release
Average Rating: 82 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
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Lost Outside The Tunnel
Average Rating: 81 (28 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Back On Board
Average Rating: 82 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Down The Dip
Average Rating: 80 (27 votes)Comments: View 0

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High Land, Hard Rain rankings

High Land, Hard Rain rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,856th | 1980s rank: 283rd | 1983 rank: 29th  Overall chart history
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 !		05/06/2026 07:59 Steve_Emmett  Ratings distribution  12267/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.


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High Land, Hard Rain forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 09/14/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5435): By flamingyesdept
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From 05/18/2012 19:17 | #42654 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
What a beautiful time to be 15 and still wonderful to hear this album again. Maybe we all still underrate it. Yes, The Smtihs captured the feelings of more teenagers, but they never reached this beauty, clear like a scottish stream. "We could send letters" may contain the most beautiful words from a teenager since Francoise Sagans "Bonjour tristesse", if not since Rimbauds poetry.
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From 11/21/2013 10:34 | #93882 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
really great album...quite amazing that Roddy Frame could write an album this mature and well crafted at such a young age. Beautiful songs with Beautiful lyrics A+
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From 05/10/2020 20:09 | #251237 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
An all time classic. Remember, Roddy Frame was only 19 when this was released, only 16 when he wrote the beautiful We Should Send Letters. This is packed, start to finish with beautifully crafted, melodic classics: The Boy Wonders, Walk Out to Winter, Pillar to Post, Lost in the Tunnel. If you've never heard it, listen to it now.
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From 09/02/2012 19:43 | #49842 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A brilliant album, one of Scotlands finest.
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From 02/05/2016 20:30 | #158777 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Tea-and-algae-stained British indie-pop from the 80s at its finest. (Edited)
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