The Lemon Of Pink
by The Books
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The Lemon Of Pink is ranked as the best album by The Books.
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The Lemon Of Pink track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Lemon Of Pink rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 60 Music Albums of 2003 | 18/60 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 60 Music Albums of 2003 | 2/60 | 5 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 43 Music Albums of 2003 | 10/43 | 4 |
| 2026 |  imimesis | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 97/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 59 Music Albums of 2003 | 43/59 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 51 Music Albums of 2003 | 14/51 | 4 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | June 26: 101-200 | 78/100 | - |
| 2026 | imimesis | Top 29 Music Albums of 2003 | 12/29 | 3 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 62/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | imimesis | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 56/100 | 9 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 124 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 703 | |||
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The Lemon Of Pink ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/13/2026 16:15 |  Kalos | 1,171 | 77/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2026 06:56 | NyanTanis | 33 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/10/2026 12:38 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,700 | 70/100 |
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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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The Lemon Of Pink forum mentions
NoisyBeast 08/24/2023 14:42 in What album are you listening to right now?
LedZep 10/09/2019 08:29 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
Antonio-Pedro 01/15/2018 02:09 in I try: Parts II & IIIThe Lemon Of Pink comments
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Hayden TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/04/2011 00:02 | #27026 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
Antonio-Pedro TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/15/2018 02:04 | #205633 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
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.
Defago 04/11/2013 17:19 | #72439 | TOP COMMENT
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This is blowing my mind.
imnotanotter 03/06/2013 23:58 | #67266 | TOP COMMENT
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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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