For Keeps
by The Field Mice

Album
For Keeps by The Field Mice
Year: 1991
Overall rank: 11,570th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 32 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1991 (158th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,847th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,570th)

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The Field Mice bestography

For Keeps is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by The Field Mice on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Field Mice is Snowball which is ranked number 4095 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 357.

The Field Mice album bestography « Higher ranked (4,095th)
Snowball This album (11,570th)
For Keeps Lower ranked (19,268th) »
Skywriting

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For Keeps rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,570th | 1990s rank: 1,847th | 1991 rank: 158th  Overall chart history
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For Keeps ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 32 votes)
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75/100
 !		04/08/2026 06:14 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,19570/100
 
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 !		12/22/2025 08:34 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  6,04266/100
 
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 !		11/30/2025 08:16 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.


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For Keeps forum mentions

This album has been referenced 10 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From BestEverAlbums 09/17/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5438): By luigybetis
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by luigybetis () 1. by (2015) 2. (1977) 3. by by (1975) 5. by by (2015) 7. (1997) 10. by by (1973) 12. (2005) 13. by (1996) 14. by by (1969) 16. by by (1995) 18. by (1968) 19. by (2018) 20. by (1969) 21. by (2003) 23. by (2017) 24. by by by by…”
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From MadhattanJack 02/26/2023 02:13 in What album are you listening to right now?
“Well, it's blue, and there's a stripe, so...”
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From dihansse 02/07/2018 20:05 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys
“And Tilly I listened to two more of your albums in your 1991 top chart: The first is this one: At first sight this is a a very twee album and therefore a bit juvenile but there are actually some good tracks on it like Of The Perfect Kind and Freezing Point. So I'm gonna include it but I'm not wild…”
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From 01/02/2017 14:00 | #181464
This album is a masterpiece.
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