The Listening
by Lights

The Listening by Lights
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-09-22
Overall rank: 84,916th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 8 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2009 (1,775th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (15,969th)
Award Best albums of all time (84,916th)

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Lights bestography

The Listening is ranked 4th best out of 6 albums by Lights on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lights is Skin&Earth which is ranked number 20910 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 49.

Lights album bestography « Higher ranked (63,691st)
Siberia
This album (84,916th)
The Listening
Lower ranked (88,771st) »
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The Listening track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (12 out of 13 tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 84,916th | 2000s rank: 15,969th | 2009 rank: 1,775th

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75/100 (from 8 votes)
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12/28/2020 22:46 Aeon89  Ratings distribution  23779/100
 
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07/17/2020 23:13 introvertia  Ratings distribution  488/100
 
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10/23/2019 03:29 Alexanderful  Ratings distribution  385/100
 
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Light's best album and highly underrated. Should easily be in the Top 10 of 2009 but this album (and artist) is virtually unknown. So many great songs with no duds. Listened to this album for 10 years and not tired of it yet...that earns a 100/100 in my book.
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