Thaw
by Foetus Interruptus
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Foetus Interruptus bestography
Thaw is ranked 8th best out of 36 albums by J. G. Thirlwell on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by J. G. Thirlwell is Nail which is ranked number 2475 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 648.
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Thaw track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Thaw rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 23 Music Albums of 1988 | 19/23 | 1 |
| 2024 | DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1988 | 20/100 | - |
| 2024 |  Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2023 |  Kalos | Top 17 Music Albums of 1988 | 17/17 | 0 |
| 2022 |  NoisyBeast | Vinyl Collection ~ Part One | 94/100 | - |
| 2017 | NoisyBeast | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 19/100 | 4 |
| 2017 | NoisyBeast | Top 2000 Albums of the 1980s... # 101-200 | 94/100 | - |
| 2016 | sonicdiscourse | 1988 To-Do List | 38/90 | - |
| 2016 |  briggs54 | Top 61 Music Albums of 1988 | 32/61 | 2 |
| 2015 | sonicdiscourse | The 80s Vol. 1 | 23/57 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 14 | |||
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Thaw ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/10/2026 18:43 | DommeDamian | 7,768 | 48/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2024 10:33 |  videoheadcleaner | 12,359 | 85/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2023 22:37 | LosWochos | 47,530 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 81.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.5.
Thaw forum mentions
NoisyBeast 02/06/2017 23:47 in What album are you listening to right now?Thaw comments
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Kalos 01/03/2016 16:59 | #155664
most of the songs are just ensembles of sound tricks without music, I have the impression of Foetus swimming in the sea of his cliches..English Faggot? Foetus typical sounds/atmosphere without a content, so is hauss-on-fah, so is Chingada...the "chamber music" episodes are nothing more that copies of Mossolov's "Iron Foundry". I can see a real content only in the first and the last song: both of them are good incursions into alternative rock. I like the producton, but the album is a let down, compared to his precedent masterpieces
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