Our Shadows Will Remain
by Joseph Arthur
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Joseph Arthur bestography
Our Shadows Will Remain is ranked 6th best out of 15 albums by Joseph Arthur on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Joseph Arthur is Come To Where I'm From which is ranked number 20838 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 50.
(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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Our Shadows Will Remain track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Our Shadows Will Remain rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | Fav concert artists, supporting albums | 63/78 | - |
| 2025 | paladisiac | top 60r albums (61), #0101-0200* | 39/95 | - |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 60 Music Albums of 2004 | 33/60 | 2 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2024 | buzzdainer | Top 76 Music Albums of 2004 | 10/76 | 4 |
| 2023 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 72/100 | 1 |
| 2022 | paladisiac | 2000s 60rating (61), #0001-0100* | 28/46 | - |
| 2019 |  skelter54 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2004 | 35/50 | 2 |
| 2018 | Jaymantheman | Top 20 Music Albums of 2004 | 18/20 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 14 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/16/2023 03:19 | dhbarrett | 8,684 | 65/100 |
| ! | 02/08/2023 02:06 | Moondance | 20,798 | 72/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2023 16:02 | DJStuart79 | 5,983 | 59/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.9/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
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buzzdainer 11/21/2016 22:00 | #178861
One of the things I appreciate most about Joseph Arthur is his refusal to be pulled into the detached cynicism of hipsterdom, despite living among a community of artists (Arthur himself is a painter in addition to being a musician) during a time in history that encourages nihilism and retreating inward. Following the outbreak of the Iraq War, Arthur made an album that looks decidedly outward, and while it's not explicitly a political statement, Our Shadows Will Remain reminds us that traces of our choices today will reverberate far into the future. Which is both encouraging and utterly depressing. This theme is explored in an especially interesting way in "I Am," a song that points out the illusion of our importance while at the same time asks us to be present in this moment as if it were a matter of life and death: "To find out what you really are / You must wake up from this long night / Repeat the words 'I am.'"
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