The Glasgow School
by Orange Juice
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Orange Juice bestography
The Glasgow School is ranked 5th best out of 7 albums by Orange Juice on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Orange Juice is You Can't Hide Your Love Forever which is ranked number 2125 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 772.
(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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The Glasgow School track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Glasgow School rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | LosWochos | Top 89 Music Albums of 2005 | 74/89 | 1 |
| 2020 | gloriousgoo | Top 13 Music Albums of 2005 | 12/13 | 1 |
| 2016 | antisecurity | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 77/100 | 1 |
| 2015 | antisecurity | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 16/100 | 17 |
| 2015 |  Jimmy Dread | Don't (Don't) Stop Indie Pop! | 14/86 | - |
| 2014 |  Secondsoul | Top 100 Compilation Albums | 24/100 | - |
| 2012 |  lancashirearab | Top 27 Music Albums of 2005 | 6/27 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 24 | |||
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The Glasgow School ratings
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av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/08/2025 18:06 | traistboar | 1,637 | 79/100 | |
| 02/05/2022 14:41 |  Maxence | 12,672 | 61/100 | |
| 08/13/2019 19:40 | Pretender | 1,457 | 65/100 | |
| 03/30/2019 10:15 |  Tamthebam | 22,950 | 69/100 | |
| 12/02/2018 09:58 | gloriousgoo | 427 | 71/100 |
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Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.1/100, a mean average of 80.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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A collection of some of the best stuff by one of the most overlooked post-punk innovators. Worth a listen, but it flows much, much worse than their actual albums.
The first great indie rock recordings by any band and never really bettered. As important to the history of post-punk guitar bands as Unknown pleasures, Murmer and anything by the Smiths.
Norman Bates 03/07/2014 18:51 | #105596
Orange Juice at their jinglest-janglest. Proto-Smiths as hell, indispensable listen.
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