Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
by PJ Harvey

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey
Year: 2000
Release date: 2000-10-23
Overall rank: 344th

Average Rating:

81/100 (from 859 votes)

Accolades:

Top 10 albums of 2000 (8th)

Top 100 albums of of the 2000s (55th)

Top 500 albums of all time (344th)

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PJ Harvey bestography

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea is ranked 2nd best out of 22 albums by PJ Harvey on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by PJ Harvey is Let England Shake which is ranked number 269 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,036.

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea track list

The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Big Exit

Average Rating: 85 (168 votes)Comments: 0

Good Fortune

Average Rating: 86 (179 votes)Comments: 1

A Place Called Home

Average Rating: 86 (159 votes)Comments: 0

One Line

Average Rating: 80 (134 votes)Comments: 0

Beautiful Feeling

Average Rating: 80 (136 votes)Comments: 0

The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore

Average Rating: 84 (154 votes)Comments: 1

This Mess We're In

Average Rating: 87 (187 votes)Comments: 0

You Said Something

Average Rating: 84 (142 votes)Comments: 2

Kamikaze

Average Rating: 80 (134 votes)Comments: 1

10.

This Is Love

Average Rating: 84 (159 votes)Comments: 0

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Horses In My Dreams

Average Rating: 81 (138 votes)Comments: 1

12.

We Float

Average Rating: 85 (155 votes)Comments: 0

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea rankings

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea rankings summary

Overall rank: 344th | 2000s rank: 55th | 2000 rank: 8th
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings).(Last updated: 4 hours ago)

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Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2026	Johnnyo	Top 91 Music Albums of 2000	8/91	5
2026	fabm0	List 2000	40/100	-
2026	cicadelic	Babylon Best Albums 2000	5/21	-
2026	ssteve	Top 58 Music Albums of 2000	33/58	2
2026	matterhornrider	Top 30 Music Albums of 2000	12/30	3
2026	sssvnnn	Top 80 Music Albums of 2000	40/80	3
2026	SomethingSpecial	Top 14 Music Albums of 2000	7/14	3
2026	cestuneblague	Top 100 Music Albums of 2000	17/100	4
2026	LittleM1971	Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s	7/100	19
2026	Hyggevinyl	Top 60 Music Albums of 2000	6/60	5
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		742
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		4,832

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea ratings

Average Rating:

81/100 (from 859 votes)

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75/100 !	09/01/2026 15:24	AndyLish79	505	81/100
80/100 !	08/27/2026 08:17	robertoveltri	901	79/100
80/100 !	08/25/2026 17:16	gilmourdavid	7	59/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.2/100, a mean average of 80.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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95/100

From Johnnyo 02/27/2026 08:47 | #313319

Album of the year at the 2001 Mercury Music Prize (Edited)

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60/100

From wizardalien 08/31/2024 17:49 | #305062

Great album, not a single bad track on the album. My favourites are This Is Love, We Float and A Place Called Home. (Edited)

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85/100

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VictorVale 04/23/2023 10:26 | #296325

Genial.

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90/100

From mrmcrook 11/04/2022 22:20 | #291050 | TOP COMMENT

On revisiting this it has shot up in my ratings. I feel this is the album she made that showed she is one of the greatest female vocalists. Great songwriter too. Her voice conveys such emotion whether it be rock or simplistic ballads. This album also has the best duet ever with Thom Yorke. Top notch album. How can you not love her.

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70/100

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planetneutral 12/31/2020 00:28 | #263508

There are flashes of what I didn't particularly enjoy about Rid of Me, but this is my favorite PJ Harvey album so far.

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