Golden Age Of Radio
by Josh Ritter
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Josh Ritter bestography
Golden Age Of Radio is ranked 7th best out of 24 albums by Josh Ritter on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Josh Ritter is The Animal Years which is ranked number 7969 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 159.
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Golden Age Of Radio track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Golden Age Of Radio rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (65), #0301-0400* | 58/79 | - |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 68/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 40/100 | 12 |
| 2024 | buzzdainer | Top 64 Music Albums of 2002 | 7/64 | 5 |
| 2024 | paladisiac | 2000s 65rating (65.42-65), #001-100* | 18/21 | - |
| 2023 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Josh Ritter (US) - Ranked | 1/21 | - |
| 2020 |  samistake2ice | Top 29 Music Albums of 2002 | 6/29 | 4 |
| 2016 | samistake2ice | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 50/100 | 10 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 36 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/18/2025 05:01 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 03/03/2022 00:00 | Moondance | 20,714 | 72/100 |
| ! | 01/29/2021 23:38 | LosWochos | 47,351 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/03/2019 02:28 | weston | 3,176 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2016 16:08 | Imaybeparanoid | 7,396 | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 81.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.3.
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buzzdainer 09/13/2016 14:51 | #174885
I first learned about Josh Ritter from my buddy John, who heard Josh play at open mics in Edinburgh while he was studying at the School of Scottish Folk Studies. According to John, Josh Ritter didn't make much of an impression on him at the time; his guitar playing wasn't anything special and his songwriting seemed a little immature. But he paid enough attention to follow Josh's career when he started releasing albums, and he was astonished to hear how much he'd grown as a musician by the time Golden Age of Radio came out. So he was pretty evangelical about this one, and I can't blame him. It's such a huge leap forward from his self-titled debut; for instance, check out these lines from the tender love song "Come and Find Me": "If I could trace the lines that ran / Between your smile and your sleight of hand / I would guess that you put something up my sleeve."
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