Imperial Wax Solvent
by The Fall

Imperial Wax Solvent by The Fall
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-04-28
Overall rank: 17,528th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 23 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (317th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (3,179th)
Award Best albums of all time (17,528th)

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The Fall bestography

Imperial Wax Solvent is ranked 22nd best out of 55 albums by The Fall on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Fall is This Nation's Saving Grace which is ranked number 928 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,891.

The Fall album bestography « Higher ranked (17,105th)
Totale's Turns (It's Now Or Never)
This album (17,528th)
Imperial Wax Solvent
Lower ranked (19,613th) »
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Overall rank: 17,528th | 2000s rank: 3,179th | 2008 rank: 317th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 23 votes)
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11/13/2025 00:58 1977Podcast  Ratings distribution  6686/100
 
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10/10/2025 20:17 LittleM1971  Ratings distribution  5,95581/100
 
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09/22/2025 22:31 PapaShiz86  Ratings distribution  11,36779/100
 
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03/26/2024 07:45 Robmc70  Ratings distribution  1,48680/100
 
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09/01/2023 05:54 Sumbody  Ratings distribution  1,85676/100

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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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From 09/12/2017 15:49 | #197857
This was actually the first Fall album I bought as soon as it was released and also around the time I first saw the Fall live. The previous 8 or 9 years I was into the Fall I was immersed in the 80's albums which were an obvious highlight but this album proved they still had quite a lot to offer.

Initially, 50 Year Old Man was my favourite, that one seems to have faded a little for me as it is a little overlong but there are still quite a few others that are great - Wolf Kidult Man, Tommy Shooter and Alton Towers for example.
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