Sea Shanties
by High Tide
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Sea Shanties is ranked as the best album by High Tide.
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Sea Shanties track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Sea Shanties rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 45 Music Albums of 1969 | 15/45 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 29/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 31/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1969 | 68/91 | - |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Favorite Obscure Classic Rock | 19/59 | - |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 44 Music Albums of 1969 | 35/44 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 84 Music Albums of 1969 | 44/84 | 2 |
| 2026 | Repo | Repo Music: An Alt Hx of Cosmic Music | 22/32 | - |
| 2025 | dhbarrett | Top 29 Music Albums of 1969 | 21/29 | 2 |
| 2025 | albumceleste | Top 55 Music Albums of 1969 | 38/55 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 43 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 107 | |||
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Sea Shanties ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 09/17/2026 03:03 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 07:50 |  Liedzeit | 2,528 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/25/2026 00:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,287 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.1.
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Sea Shanties forum mentions
Liedzeit 08/31/2026 07:50 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Jboy56 03/09/2023 16:17 in What album are you listening to right now? dihansse 06/07/2020 16:58 in My discoveries per yearSea Shanties comments
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From what I can judge this is the heaviest album of the sixties. Also "Pushed, but not forgotten" sounds like something from a Red-era King Crimson album.
Nevermind the previous comment. I think I was just in a bad mood the day I first listened to it. Some of this jamming is actually quite impressive and cool. I'm bumping it up to 4 stars. The singing and vocal melodies are pretty weak, though. (Edited)
Listening to snippets of this album made me think "Oh wow, what a powerful, psychedelic sound". Unfortunately buying the album and listening all the way through made me think, "What a waste of time... these songs go nowhere interesting." Still, the sound is impressive, just nothing memorable to grab on to.
Jboy56 03/09/2023 16:20 | #294855
The heaviest album up to 1969 and even further, this sounds kinda modern in places, kinda proto shoegazing,,, Not bad at all. But towards the end, the numbness starts to take my mind..
A great album to annoy the neighbours, and one of the heaviest albums in history. An incredible maelstrom of dense sledgehammer music. A wall of sound Phil Spectre would be proud of.
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