The Normal Years (compilation album) by Built To Spill

The Normal Years by Built To Spill
(Compilation album)
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 52,792nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 23 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (880th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (8,197th)
Award Best albums of all time (52,792nd)
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Built To Spill bestography

The Normal Years is ranked 12th best out of 13 albums by Built To Spill on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Built To Spill is Perfect From Now On which is ranked number 276 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,150.

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75/100 (from 23 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.

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From 02/26/2014 02:42
Superb. It's a compilation that flows like an album. It's sort of like a sequel to "There's Nothing Wrong With Love".
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I LOVE this album. The only reason this isn't in my top 20 or so (it's currently 88) is because this is a compilation record. Typically my only criterion for where to place an album on my list is how much I enjoy it, but, reasonably or not, I feel compilation albums have an unfair advantage because a band can cherry pick from their back catalog. They often don't flow well anyway. But this is an exceptionally good compilation album. They had only released two albums so far, and this was in no way an attempt at a greatest hits record, but simply a compilation of singles and other hard to find or unreleased tracks. And they somehow make a really good album out of it.

This album, Ultimate Alternative Wavers and Perfect From Now On are the three definitive albums of my mid to late teens. This album is full of nostalgia for me.
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