Five Days In July
by Blue Rodeo
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Five Days In July is ranked as the best album by Blue Rodeo.
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Five Days In July track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Five Days In July 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 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  jhuik | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 53/100 | 45 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1993 | 2/20 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 5/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 2/100 | - |
| 2025 | Moondance | My top 100 artists/albums: Canada | 39/98 | - |
| 2025 |  buzzdainer | Top 47 Music Albums of 1993 | 4/47 | 5 |
| 2025 | Stevo796 | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 35/99 | 13 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 68/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 51 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 244 | |||
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Five Days In July ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/01/2026 05:41 |  CharlieBarley | 3,271 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2024 07:36 | cicadelic | 14,071 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/18/2024 00:37 | mattmaster | 447 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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Five Days In July forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/22/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5381): By jhuik
jackup 01/05/2022 08:03 in What album are you listening to right now?Five Days In July comments
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/06/2012 13:45 | #39552 | TOP COMMENT
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Best album for relaxing up at the lake... No question. Put it on an old ghetto blaster, haul it down to the dock, and watch the bugs fly over the water and some canoeist paddle by. So much emotion, but so attached to their roots. Brilliant. Blue Rodeo`s best - and that`s saying alot. They have 5 or 6 other quality albums.
jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/29/2012 20:13 | #59330 | TOP COMMENT
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Blue Rodeo at their peak: this is truly a great album. Bad Timing, Head Over Heels, Photograph, Till I Can Gain Control, Hasn't Hit Me Yet, Five Days in May... all standout examples of songwriting. Cuddy and Keelor duel magnificently from one track to the next. One of the best Canadian albums ever without doubt.
buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/20/2016 14:12 | #169247 | TOP COMMENT
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A really fine under-the-radar alt-country record from the nineties, and one of my favorites from that genre. These are songs of love and loss, often quietly understated, with great melodies and subtle instrumentation. The opening track, "5 Days in May," does have one of the sloppiest guitar solos I've ever heard, but it also has some of the finest romantic country lyrics you'll ever hear: "Looking back it's hard to tell / Why they stood while others fell / Spend your life working it out / All I know is one cloudy day / They both just ran away / Rain on the windshield heading South / Oh, she loved the lines around his mouth." Damn, y'all. I'm tearing up.
jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/17/2016 16:25 | #180367 | TOP COMMENT
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Just so god-damned gorgeous, pretty much from start to finish, with nary the smallest letup in trying to achieve eye-watering beauty. Jim Cuddy... what a lovely, lovely man.
GoJetsGo 09/18/2012 20:56 | #50725 | TOP COMMENT
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