Soundtracks For The Blind
by Swans
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Swans bestography
Soundtracks For The Blind is ranked 2nd best out of 40 albums by Swans on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Swans is To Be Kind which is ranked number 261 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,098.
(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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Soundtracks For The Blind track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Soundtracks For The Blind 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 25 Music Albums of 1996 | 13/25 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 94 Music Albums of 1996 | 45/94 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | zonrod | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 8/99 | 19 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 36 Music Albums of 1996 | 21/36 | 2 |
| 2026 | Elauqsapid | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 7/100 | 90 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 67 Music Albums of 1996 | 2/67 | 5 |
| 2026 |  arthurbittencourt | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 86/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Elauqsapid | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 4/99 | 19 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 12/100 | 18 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 390 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,526 | |||
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Soundtracks For The Blind ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12 hours ago | Siromynian | 1,758 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2026 14:53 |  Milhaud | 2,164 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/19/2026 11:47 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,819 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.8/100, a mean average of 81.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.
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Soundtracks For The Blind forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 3 days ago in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026 BestEverAlbums 09/13/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5434): By Taric BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements - August 2026Soundtracks For The Blind comments
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SquishypuffDave TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/15/2012 06:12 | #55051 | TOP COMMENT
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Some albums are like being hit in the chest with a sledgehammer. This album is like being crushed by a mountain. Post-rock albums often give a sense of vast empty space and natural beauty. This album smothers you in scalding, acrid feculence until your sinuses congest and your lungs fill with blistering putrescence.
Cymro2011 05/24/2013 00:27 | #76984 | TOP COMMENT
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Fucked with my head. Not an album to throw on in the background. This one demands your full attention. Very creative, very sinister and very very memorable.
I'm still running through their whole expanded discography, but this album is beyond sonically pleasing, original, and dark.
If you have listened to this album you are officially the best person ever.
Sinking into a giant grey ocean of melancholy drones and unforgiving anger, and into the pains and pasts of people you've never met. I've never listened to an album as long or longer than this that's as good.
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