The Lemon Of Pink
by The Books

The Lemon Of Pink by The Books
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-10-07
Overall rank: 2,290th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 150 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (43rd)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (377th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,290th)

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Overall rank: 2,290th | 2000s rank: 377th | 2003 rank: 43rd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 150 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.


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90/100
I just heard this for the first time tonight, and I also listened to it the third time tonight, this is so mesmeryizing, and so quirky and ALIVE! feels something so childish and powerful. It's like traveling old and beautiful and sparse memories of your childhood with all that cherrish colour, deleted and recovered in cryptographic movies. fantastic stuff. I don't know what else to write but that this has taken me to a nostalgic and mystical escapism I haven't visited in quite a while.
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From 11/10/2013 15:38 | #91691
Pfff "There Is No There".... splendid album. Thanks for the rec, guys.
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A rather pleasant sound goes throughout. Could see it growing on me after another week. Things seem to happen and people seem to go. Like a car moving but the wheels are not turning. Bizarre. Out there. Most importantly, this feels comfortable.
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100/100
This is blowing my mind.
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Rating:  
80/100
These guys have really created a genre all to themselves. I don't even know what to make of most of it. But it remains as one of my favorite albums ever
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From 10/14/2012 01:45 | #52297
There is no there is the greatest song ever created.
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95/100
The title track is honestly one of the best songs I've ever heard. Fantastic album to go along with it, but I could listen to that song forever.
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