It's Never Been Like That (studio album)
by Phoenix

It's Never Been Like That by Phoenix
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-05-15
Overall rank: 3,751st   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 177 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2006 (65th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (644th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,751st)

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Phoenix bestography

It's Never Been Like That is ranked 3rd best out of 9 albums by Phoenix on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Phoenix is Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix which is ranked number 453 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,773.

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It's Never Been Like That track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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It's Never Been Like That rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,751st | 2000s rank: 644th | 2006 rank: 65th

It's Never Been Like That collection

It's Never Been Like That ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 177 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.

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From 02/01/2015 21:11 | #133643
Very consistent, and pretty much no filler as far as I can tell. I'd say this is on par with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
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I'm in love.
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He was such a ball of energy that any time he entered a room he lit it up as bright as the sun, no matter what the situation.
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One of the best pop records of the early 21st century.
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