Simple Things
by Zero 7
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Simple Things is ranked as the best album by Zero 7.
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Simple Things track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Simple Things rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Vasco | Top 69 Music Albums of the 2000s | 44/69 | 8 |
| 2026 |  Graeme2 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 42/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 78 Music Albums of 2001 | 47/78 | 2 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 41 Music Albums of 2001 | 31/41 | 1 |
| 2026 | Vasco | Best Debut Albums | 18/35 | - |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1601-1700 | 28/100 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | rubens | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 28/100 | 68 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 28 Music Albums of 2001 | 22/28 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 108 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 706 | |||
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Simple Things ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/22/2026 22:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,168 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 08:58 | Adhura | 1,735 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/30/2026 09:56 | Liks_on_music | 679 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Simple Things forum mentions
Romanelli 02/07/2025 17:00 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
CharlieBarley 10/07/2024 13:20 in Working My Way Through The BEA Overall Chart Romanelli 06/17/2024 13:40 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Classics Volume 24Simple Things comments
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letty 12/07/2017 16:46 | #202773 | TOP COMMENT
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Clearly not enough people have listened to this. It's one of my all time favourites and everybody I have played it to agrees it's *amazing*.
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/14/2020 22:53 | #260829 | TOP COMMENT
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This is a damn good album. When it came out I was shocked at how much they'd "ripped off" Air. But when you delve in the carve their own path. Wonderfully produced. In fact not far behind Moon Safari on quality. Quality instrumentation, songs and vocals (Sia makes her name here). A must hear from the period. I want to hear it now, where is my cd?
The first three tracks r great. "Easy listening" at its finest. If I owned a coffee shop or a lounge, they would be on heavy rotation. After that, the album becomes pretty boring & doesn't really hold up to dedicated listening. Music for Mausoleums?
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2001 Mercury Music Prize. The winner was Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey (Edited)
Great trip-hop/lounge album, with 2 songs, The Waiting Line & Destiny, featuring some of most chilling & superb female vocal performances ever recorded.
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