On Fire
by Galaxie 500
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On Fire is ranked as the best album by Galaxie 500.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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On Fire track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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On Fire ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 03/25/2026 10:06 |  melisandre | 284 | 79/100 | |
| 03/18/2026 01:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,318 | 70/100 | |
| 02/27/2026 17:40 | Map | 501 | 81/100 | |
| 02/22/2026 19:54 |  DommeDamian | 7,334 | 49/100 | |
| 02/12/2026 10:22 |  Dingerbell | 4,017 | 62/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.7/100, a mean average of 80.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Great album, probably not for everybody, but I totally get the vibe of this record. Some tracks are gorgeous harmony of slow paced instrumentals and vocals. My favorite are: Strange, When Will You Come Home, Decomposing Trees, Tell Me, Another Day, Isn't It A Pity.
The group create a unique and engaging sound on this release that has led to me always getting excited when I revisit this album. Musically, it is heavy and slow with each song being beautifully built up with a large amount of attention being put on every track. We open the record with a fantastic cut that sets the tone for the music we are about to experience and is a brilliant introduction. The other bookend of the album closes it off perfectly with a beautiful cover of Isn't It A Pity which they make their own and the quality on the song is stunning. I thoroughly enjoy the different feel their instrumentations brings to us as well as it gives the music an edge a lot of other records don't have. Also, I love the vocal performance on here and it only adds to how special this record is. Overall, this record is consistently great and is slightly under appreciated for how much quality is present all across this release.
masterpiece
Jboy56 03/30/2022 10:05 | #283600
whoa, my new favorite band
teague 09/20/2021 19:49 | #273998
Horrid vocals, amateurish guitar playing, monotonous rhythms, yet somehow pulls through with some euphoric moments, even if On Fire is largely uninteresting. Maybe I'll get slowcore at some point, but for right now it just seems like pointless drivel to me.
VictorVale 04/08/2021 22:19 | #268352
Que álbum impressionante! Lindas camadas de som e distorção!
Boltzmann 04/08/2021 14:26 | #268325
"Hey, can you strike your guitar on the one, the second off-beat, and the fourth beat"
"For this song?"
"No, the whole album"
"Sure, can you then sing like someone is choking you"
"For this song?"
"No, the whole album"
"I'm sure glad we're not repetitive and bland like the hip hop and pop that posers listen to nowadays"
Wasn't surprised to find out they were American. It clarified a lot rather.
I've come to appreciate it more in the course of time, but it still hasn't clicked.
Cargusbralem 04/16/2020 20:58 | #250043
Give me all the unhelpfuls you like, but I don't see the appeal of this. All songs sound exactly the same to me. Simple hazy chord progressions with somewhat pleasant guitar soloing over a slow beat with little to no dynamism. No hate intended, just my opinion.
InsanityPrawnBoy 06/19/2019 08:48 | #237845
SamAndreas (who previously commented) is either a racist or suffering from internalised racism. No need to bring up skin colour.
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