Tiny Cities
by Sun Kil Moon
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Tiny Cities is ranked 7th best out of 29 albums by Mark Kozelek on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Mark Kozelek is Benji which is ranked number 374 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,391.
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Tiny Cities track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Tiny Cities 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 |  SomethingSpecial | Mark Kozelek Ranked | 3/32 | - |
| 2026 | Scrabbler | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 67/100 | 34 |
| 2026 | SomethingSpecial | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 67/100 | 33 |
| 2026 |  arthurbittencourt | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 8/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2005 | 16/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 93 Music Albums of 2005 | 37/93 | 3 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 86 Music Albums of 2005 | 64/86 | 1 |
| 2026 | SomethingSpecial | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 11/100 | 18 |
| 2025 | SomethingSpecial | Top 7 Music Albums of 2005 | 3/7 | 4 |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 58 Music Albums of 2005 | 45/58 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 27 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 173 | |||
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Tiny Cities ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/25/2026 09:09 | brent13 | 2,179 | 66/100 |
| ! | 07/15/2026 22:23 |  teague | 4,365 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/20/2026 10:27 | Scrabbler | 291 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 70.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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Tiny Cities forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5391): By SomethingSpecial SomethingSpecial 05/09/2025 10:46 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
NoisyBeast 05/03/2024 07:18 in What album are you listening to right now?Tiny Cities comments
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SomethingSpecial 06/29/2025 12:11 | #309770 | TOP COMMENT
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Recorded after their 2003 masterpiece Ghosts of the Great Highway, Tiny Cities is a cover album that sees Kozelek reconstruct and breathe new life into songs by the legendary Modest Mouse. It also captures some of Kozelek's most beautiful singing and playing, with each song feeling as inspired as the originals. (Edited)
This one keeps growing on me. What a bizarre album it is, but very well played and sung. I think people haven't spun this fucker enough to realize how good it is. (Edited)
luigybetis TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/11/2016 11:42 | #161728 | TOP COMMENT
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I think this album is underrated, I like it more than newest Kozelek's work in the 2010's (Edited)
A weird idea: an album of Modest Mouse covers in the way of Sun Kil Moon.
Sometimes it's hard to recognize it. (Edited)
Not a big fan, but it's not bad by all means. (Edited)
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