About The Light
by Steve Mason
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Steve Mason bestography
About The Light is ranked 6th best out of 7 albums by Steve Mason on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Steve Mason is Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time which is ranked number 13163 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 89.
(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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About The Light track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
About The Light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Steve Mason (UK - ex Beta Band) - Ranked | 5/5 | - |
| 2022 | Jorbaa | Top 30 Music Albums of 2019 | 4/30 | 5 |
| 2020 | Johnnyo | LongLiveVinyl Top 100 albums of 2019 | 76/100 | - |
| 2019 | Long Live Vinyl | The Top 100 Albums Of 2019 | 76/100 | 1 |
| 2019 | Piccadilly Records | Top 100 Albums of 2019 | 43/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 9 | |||
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About The Light ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/17/2023 15:55 | LosWochos | 47,686 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2020 12:24 | Richeyre | 252 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2020 20:19 |  LedZep | 5,154 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.3/100, a mean average of 66.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.7.
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pedro1976 06/30/2025 07:23 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Repo 02/05/2019 23:16 in What album are you listening to right now?About The Light comments
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Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/08/2019 08:56 | #231558
Remember The Beta Band ? I do and their 1998 'The Three E.P's' is rather excellent , Steve Mason featured here was the founding member and Beta Band lead singer
This album doesn't come close to his previous bands material but is okay in parts
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