Blue Earth
by The Jayhawks
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The Jayhawks bestography
Blue Earth is ranked 9th best out of 18 albums by The Jayhawks on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Jayhawks is Tomorrow The Green Grass which is ranked number 1737 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 982.
(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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Blue Earth track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Blue Earth 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 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 69/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 16/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 101-200 | 41/100 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 19/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 22/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | paladisiac | top albums, #1101-1200* | 24/78 | - |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 80 Music Albums of 1989 | 5/80 | 5 |
| 2025 | paladisiac | 1980s, #101-200 | 65/100 | - |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of the '80's (101 - 200) | 10/100 | - |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 38/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 29 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 54 | |||
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Blue Earth ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/18/2024 09:07 | cicadelic | 14,107 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/18/2024 19:42 | TonySayers61 | 25,789 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/21/2023 17:56 |  TheDude85 | 9,536 | 83/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 67.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
Blue Earth forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/23/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5444): By Romanelli Romanelli 06/03/2025 22:04 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Romanelli 05/05/2024 21:24 in What album are you listening to right now?Blue Earth comments
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All real good tunes /demos save for Commonplace Streets, & Red Firecracker (those 2 don't quite make the grade). Also Martins song is much better polished on Hollywood Town. I do love the demo here of Two Angels. Overall great collection of songs here. MEZ
paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/22/2012 16:05 | #37297
Understated and undervalued, this was a fine alt-country album. It's their second album, but still feels like a debut in that Louris, Olson and company are still fleshing out their alt-americana sound from the demo,up. "two angels" is the highlight.
Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/19/2012 14:03 | #35460
Mark Olson and Gary Louris make for some of the most beautiful harmonies in music. Blue Earth is not thier best, but this band did not make a bad album.
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