Mic City Sons
by Heatmiser

Album
Mic City Sons by Heatmiser
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-10-29
Overall rank: 6,750th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 46 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (117th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,076th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,750th)

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Mic City Sons is ranked as the best album by Heatmiser.

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Mic City Sons rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,750th | 1990s rank: 1,076th | 1996 rank: 117th  Overall chart history
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Mic City Sons ratings

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73/100 (from 46 votes)
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 !		10/18/2025 08:40 RasmV  Ratings distribution  2,61673/100
 
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 !		07/11/2025 22:58 PapaShiz86  Ratings distribution  11,78879/100

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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.4.


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Mic City Sons forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 08/14/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5404): By pctrooper
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by pctrooper () 1. (1975) 3. by (2008) 4. by (2000) 5. by (1974) 6. by (1978) 7. by (1979) 8. by (1971) 9. (1994) 10. by (1973) 11. by (1977) 13. by (1976) 14. by by (2019) 16. by (1973) 18. by (1969) 19. by (1974) 20. by (2015) 21. by (1996)…”
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From matterhornrider 03/26/2024 02:57 in What album are you listening to right now?
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From dihansse 01/19/2019 21:42 in My discoveries per year
“There were a number of albums of the nineties I hadn't yet listened to so here they are: - (1999 and rank 2084 overall): a weird album and a weird cover but anyway a number of tracks that are very good so good enough to include it in my top charts - (1996 and rank 4926): so not part of the overall…”
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From 05/02/2018 12:32 | #214024 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Being a moderate Elliott Smith I finally got around to listening to this album , essentially where it all began before the solo career took off

I really enjoyed the tracks with the trademark ES DNA in "Half Right" , "Get Lucky" , "Plainclothes Man" , "The Fix Is In" , "You Gotta Move" and especially "See You Later" . Whilst the remaining straight up rock tracks were kind of so so ....

If your an Elliott Smith devote this album is a must but I'm sure you already know this is a terrific album

R.I.P ES

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From 07/20/2018 21:15 | #218571 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This is really good! Some killer songs here. Half Right is one of the best songs ever (Edited)
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From 01/09/2015 13:46 | #131123 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Amazing album, sadly underrated... (Edited)
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From 09/21/2018 21:56 | #221437 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I definitely like the Elliott Smith songs more, but Neil Gust is very talented as well. The last two tracks are among the best ending to any album ever, I think.
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