What We Did On Our Holidays
by Fairport Convention
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Fairport Convention bestography
What We Did On Our Holidays is ranked 3rd best out of 44 albums by Fairport Convention on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Fairport Convention is Liege & Lief which is ranked number 989 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,766.
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What We Did On Our Holidays track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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What We Did On Our Holidays rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 69 Music Albums of 1969 | 23/69 | 3 |
| 2026 | trajis | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 4/100 | 95 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 49 Music Albums of 1969 | 12/49 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | My Rarest Vinyl Albums pt 4 | 20/97 | - |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 15/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 66/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (65), #0201-0300* | 30/78 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 84 Music Albums of 1969 | 63/84 | 1 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 31/100 | 68 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 96 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 426 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/25/2026 01:55 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,241 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/05/2026 11:06 |  Tamthebam | 23,329 | 69/100 |
| ! | 04/28/2026 12:03 | classicjoe | 507 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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What We Did On Our Holidays forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/06/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5365): By amirmishaliView latest topic →
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Another classic album from Fairport Convention. This is beautiful folk/rock music with both Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson on top form. Fotheringay, I'll keep it with mine, she moves through the fair, and, meet on the ledge, are the picks for me. Great. (Edited)
The album has a wonderful take of Dylan's 'I'll Keep It With Mine'. I've added that cover to my top 100 Dylan covers chart. The line up for this album also includes 2 of my favourite singers/musicians/songwriters - Iain Matthews & Richard Thompson. (Edited)
My favourite Fairport album with highlights Sandy's breathtaking performance of "I'll keep It With Mine" and the exquisite "Book Song". (Edited)
We always called this "The Second First Fairport album." It was originally marketed in the US as "Fairport Convention," and was how we initially heard them, and it is so naive in its sound that it was easy to see as a debut. Then import copies of the actual first album began to show up, and we realized their first experience of the studio was just as awful as everyone else's.
But enough-- if all the Fairport albums in the world were falling into a volcano, this is one of the three I'd most want to save; naive, yes, but the instincts for grace and beauty are full grown. (The others? "Full House" and "Moveable Feast.")
Jboy56 01/06/2023 16:12 | #292546 | TOP COMMENT
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Very fine, beautiful and down to Earth (Edited)
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