The Normal Years
by Built To Spill
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Built To Spill bestography
The Normal Years is ranked 13th 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 277 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,865.
(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 Normal Years track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Normal Years rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | Repo | Rank 'Em: Built To Spill/Treepeople/Doug Martsch | 3/4 | - |
| 2024 |  Wasinski | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 54 Music Albums of 1996 | 48/54 | 1 |
| 2019 | sonicdiscourse | Top 47 Music Albums of 1996 | 46/47 | 0 |
| 2016 |  PatrickD | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2016 | PatrickD | Greatest K Records Albums | 12/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 9 | |||
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The Normal Years ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/15/2022 02:53 |  Arthurknight | 9,590 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2022 21:34 | Sforge | 1,530 | 77/100 |
| ! | 06/30/2022 11:23 |  videoheadcleaner | 12,361 | 85/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2022 23:31 | BigR78 | 524 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2021 05:41 |  adnielsen | 1,155 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, 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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Superb. It's a compilation that flows like an album. It's sort of like a sequel to "There's Nothing Wrong With Love".
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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