Fading Parade
by Papercuts
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Papercuts bestography
Fading Parade is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Papercuts on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Papercuts is You Can Have What You Want which is ranked number 13470 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 87.
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Fading Parade track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Fading Parade 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 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2011 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 70 Music Albums of 2011 | 61/70 | 1 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 79 Music Albums of 2011 | 51/79 | 2 |
| 2026 |  johnner | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 91/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | johnner | Top 69 Music Albums of the 2010s | 7/69 | 18 |
| 2025 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | Top 68 Music Albums of 2011 | 63/68 | 0 |
| 2025 | johnner | Best of 2000 - 24 | 24/50 | - |
| 2025 | johnner | Top 14 Music Albums of 2011 | 1/14 | 5 |
| 2025 | johnner | Best Shoegaze & Dreampop Albums | 19/100 | - |
| 2024 |  meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of 2011 | 35/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 57 | |||
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Fading Parade ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/03/2025 22:07 | jnmayles | 2,411 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2024 02:08 |  imacgill | 2,883 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2022 20:37 | dihansse | 6,411 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.7/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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dihansse 07/06/2022 19:46 in My discoveries per yearFading Parade comments
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johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/02/2012 20:46 | #34233
Albums this special only come along once in a while, how it's managed to remain relatively ignored since it's release is criminal. Being Papercut's first for Sub Pop, Fading Parade's seamless dream-pop updates classic West Coast psychedelia for the 2010's. What does it sound like? Imagine the Mama's & the Papa's or the Loving Spoonfull jamming with Slowdive and your nearly there, and yes it does sound better than that. The best album of the decade so far...by a country mile. (Edited)
Not a huge fan of bands that have barely audible vocals, but Papercuts get away with it on a couple occasions with songs like "I'll See You Later I Guess" and "Do You Really Want To Know". Might go back and re-listen to this one again some day.
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