Brickbat
by Piroshka
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Brickbat is ranked as the best album by Piroshka.
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Brickbat track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Brickbat rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 81 Music Albums of 2019 | 3/81 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 78/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | telegram | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 57/100 | 44 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  johnner | Top 69 Music Albums of the 2010s | 36/69 | 10 |
| 2025 | johnner | Top 27 Music Albums of 2019 | 2/27 | 5 |
| 2023 | KindofBlue | Top 21 Music Albums of 2019 | 15/21 | 2 |
| 2023 | marleykeys | Top 43 Music Albums of 2019 | 32/43 | 1 |
| 2023 | MadhattanJack | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 29/100 | 14 |
| 2022 | mrfloosak | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 96/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 89 | |||
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Brickbat ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/22/2024 19:37 |  craola | 4,441 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2024 01:41 |  imacgill | 2,828 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2024 04:39 | MadhattanJack | 6,010 | 66/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.5.
Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/23/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5413): By telegram MadhattanJack 11/22/2022 08:49 in What album are you listening to right now? MadhattanJack 03/17/2022 01:43 in What album are you listening to right now?Brickbat comments
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johnner 02/20/2019 12:31 | #232252
Meltchett, Lush & Moose created the shoegaze generic sound that you bandied about. Childless? I presume you mean Childlike. Miki Berenyi is an old school punk in the mould of The Slits, The Raincoats etc etc. “Lots of girls’ history of music is playground songs; chants, folk songs and nursery rhymes, passed down through mothers, aunts, older sisters and friends. I want to incorporate these rhymes into our songs, they are all I have in terms of a musical background and I intend to use them, however small and insignificant they are to other people. This is one of the ways we can build an identity for ourselves –we’re starting from zero, no rules, no role models.” Viv Albertine, The Slits.
Really generic sound. Indie blah! Childless lyrics. Didn't enjoy it at all.
johnner 02/15/2019 01:14 | #231952
1994, of all the times to conjure up, when UK indie looked like it was going to kick seven bells out of the mainstream, when it felt like anything was possible, Piroshka have 1994 written through them like a stick of Brighton Rock.
That’s not to say this Shoegaze/Brit-pop supergroup is some lazy retread of the past because it’s anything but (2019 life has a way of infiltrating these songs), it’s more of a case of being middle-aged but still feeling like a twenty-something. And then there’s the songs which in any sane world should be blasted from any self-respecting indie-kid’s stereo. And I haven’t even mentioned it features Miki from Lush. Seriously.
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