Ascension
by The Aints
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Ascension is ranked as the best album by The Aints.
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Ascension track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Ascension rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 2/100 | 98 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1991 | 38/80 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Favourite albums by Australian artists | 46/89 | - |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 30/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 99 Music Albums of 1991 | 7/99 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 87/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 1/100 | 20 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | They came from the land down under | 39/69 | - |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 99 Music Albums of 1991 | 62/99 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 27 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 163 | |||
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Ascension ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/08/2021 21:46 | Moondance | 20,827 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/24/2021 02:53 |  NickVolos | 9,131 | 77/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2021 15:56 | TonySayers61 | 25,558 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
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Purplepash 04/25/2019 04:20 in What album are you listening to right now? dihansse 04/19/2019 10:05 in Get To Know A Top 10: April 2019 Thread - dihansseAscension comments
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dihansse 05/30/2019 19:10 | #236925 | TOP COMMENT
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I suppose many people know that fantastic Australian band The Saints. Some people say they invented punk before America and England.
But there there was the Aints. When the Saints broke up, one of the members, Ed Kuepper started his own band aptly named The Aints (I quote Allmusic: "Supposedly taking the name from an old Saints bass drum head that had lost its S". This is their second album.
If you like envigorating guitar music than this album should be your thing; in any case it's very much my thing because it's one of my favorite albums ever.
You want examples:
What's It Like Out There: starting around 3:15 there's this fantastic guitar solo slowing down round 3:40 and picking up speed in the greatest way possible around 4:38
The title track offers great free jazz improvisations on sax and guitar.
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