The World Is To Dig
by They Might Be Giants
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The World Is To Dig is ranked 23rd best out of 37 albums by They Might Be Giants on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by They Might Be Giants is Flood which is ranked number 1354 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,273.
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The World Is To Dig track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The World Is To Dig rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 1 hour ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  bojolpif71 | Top 27 Music Albums of 2026 | 18/27 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of 2026 | 41/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  skelter54 | Top 59 Music Albums of 2026 | 43/59 | 1 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Next 94 Music Albums of 2026 | 43/94 | - |
| 2026 |  imimesis | Top 28 Music Albums of 2026 | 13/28 | 2 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 75 Music Albums of 2026 | 59/75 | 1 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2026 | 37/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 7 | |||
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The World Is To Dig ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | angryandy | 2,348 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/18/2026 19:42 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2026 18:55 | RockyRaccoon | 7,153 | 84/100 |
| ! | 05/24/2026 09:33 | bojolpif71 | 14,865 | 58/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2026 18:29 | imimesis | 2,076 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 68.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.4.
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MadhattanJack 04/14/2026 09:35 | #313920 | TOP COMMENT
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They've come a long way since "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head," but if that song were on this LP instead of the first one, released 40 years earlier, I don't think it would sound the slightest bit out of place. And really, who doesn't like puppets? I, for one, prefer them to most real people, though that probably wasn't true 40 years ago.
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