Oceans Apart
by The Go-Betweens
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The Go-Betweens bestography
Oceans Apart is ranked 8th best out of 16 albums by The Go-Betweens on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Go-Betweens is 16 Lovers Lane which is ranked number 1109 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,578.
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Oceans Apart track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Oceans Apart rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 48 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2005 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 86 Music Albums of 2005 | 23/86 | 4 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 93 Music Albums of 2005 | 20/93 | 4 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2005 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2005 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | mikepen | Top 45 Music Albums of 2005 | 26/45 | 2 |
| 2025 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2005 | 95/100 | 0 |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 2000s 03 | 1/100 | - |
| 2024 |  drstuey | Top 10 Music Albums of 2005 | 8/10 | 2 |
| 2024 | drstuey | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 20/100 | 16 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 41 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 100 | |||
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Oceans Apart ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/16/2026 16:44 | EyeKanFly | 9,059 | 65/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 06:20 | PapaShiz86 | 11,831 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2024 13:55 | Robmc70 | 1,492 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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dihansse 05/22/2021 20:58 in My discoveries per year
neilgee 09/15/2020 04:37 in What album are you listening to right now?Oceans Apart comments
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After two worthy, but unspectacular, additions to their canon, The Go-Betweens reunion suddenly clicked to wonderful effect third time around. This is easily Forster and McLennan’s best set of songs from their reunion. Sonically the album returns to the lusher sound of Tallulah and 16 Lovers Lane, and it’s a welcome reversion. While the group weren’t aware of it while making Oceans Apart, it proved to be their last album, as McLennan died of a heart attack in 2006, especially sad as prior to McLennan’s death, Forster had stated in interviews that McLennan had been writing some of his best ever songs. Still, it seems unlikely they would have topped this record, which is an extremely satisfying final album and a fitting elegy to one of pop music’s most overlooked bands.
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