How To Save A Life
by The Fray

Album
How To Save A Life by The Fray
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-09-13
Overall rank: 4,848th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
63/100 (from 101 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (87th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (822nd)
Award Best albums of all time (4,848th)

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How To Save A Life is ranked as the best album by The Fray.

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How To Save A Life track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
She Is
Average Rating: 78 (20 votes)Comments: View 0
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Over My Head (Cable Car)
Average Rating: 84 (31 votes)Comments: View 1
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How To Save A Life
Average Rating: 83 (47 votes)Comments: View 1
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All At Once
Average Rating: 79 (23 votes)Comments: View 0
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Fall Away
Average Rating: 74 (16 votes)Comments: View 0
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Heaven Forbid
Average Rating: 78 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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Look After You
Average Rating: 77 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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Hundred
Average Rating: 72 (15 votes)Comments: View 0
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Vienna
Average Rating: 74 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
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Dead Wrong
Average Rating: 73 (15 votes)Comments: View 0
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Little House
Average Rating: 74 (15 votes)Comments: View 1
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Trust Me
Average Rating: 75 (14 votes)Comments: View 0
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How To Save A Life rankings

How To Save A Life rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,848th | 2000s rank: 822nd | 2005 rank: 87th  Overall chart history
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How To Save A Life ratings

Average Rating: 
63/100 (from 101 votes)
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 !		10/16/2026 17:48 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,47833/100
 
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 !		10/15/2026 22:18 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,81570/100
 
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 !		10/05/2026 12:08 Timooosterink  Ratings distribution  94672/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 62.9/100, a mean average of 62.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 62.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 21.4.


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How To Save A Life forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 10/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5467): By AwaitingAndrew
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How To Save A Life comments

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From 07/31/2012 16:09 | #47538 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
People give it too much of a hard time because it was a very pop album at the time. I gave it a chance and was satisfied with most tracks. (Edited)
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75/100
From 12/04/2020 18:46 | #261952 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
People hate on it way too mch (Edited)
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From 07/27/2014 21:33 | #117930 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It starts off great and then declines a lot, the last tracks are barely even passable. But the first ones are great, How to Save a Life is fantastic, and songs like She Is, Over My Head, Heaven Forbid, Fall Away, are all worth a listen
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90/100
From 12/23/2014 14:09 | #129979 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Agree that the album is stronger up to Look After You but the strong tracks are VERY good
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