Birds Of Pray
by Live
Live bestography
Birds Of Pray is ranked 8th best out of 11 albums by Live on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Live is Throwing Copper which is ranked number 672 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,575.
(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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Birds Of Pray track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Birds Of Pray rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (63), #0401-0500* | 20/65 | - |
| 2025 | DJStuart79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 68/100 | 2 |
| 2022 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2022 | paladisiac | 2000s 65rating (63.13-63), #001-100* | 8/18 | - |
| 2022 |  rambleon80 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2003 | 10/20 | 3 |
| 2021 |  ExTeaSea | F2LF: Live | 6/6 | - |
| 2013 | hockeybuff6 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 37/40 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 6 | |||
Birds Of Pray collection
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Birds Of Pray ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/11/2026 15:00 |  covecove | 6,527 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/06/2025 11:01 |  Milhaud | 1,820 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2024 16:53 | Cyrax | 1,766 | 61/100 |
| ! | 03/18/2023 20:43 |  MetalMan67 | 5,990 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/19/2023 06:22 |  zags7000 | 20,410 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.5/100, a mean average of 61.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 61.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.7.
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I think this is Live's second best album!
Clearly in the minority, Live trade in their corny spiritual suffering's (mostly; Sanctity of Dreams is verrrry corny and spiritual) for a blue collar and straight ahead refined 90's rocker.
The genre had passed at this point, so to many it felt outdated at release, but I thought it took the best of that sound and refined it here to make an excellent consistent sounding 90's album.
Lighthouse, What Are We Fighting For, Life Marches On are excellent highlights.
Skip Sanctity of Dreams and a couple B side songs and this is above average rock.
Live had fallen off the popularity map at this point. And by toning down the spiritual musings, this can be seen as generic but it's done efficiently and professionally here making it above average.
Underrated album
lightmyway 05/06/2012 20:37 | #41668
This is the last Live album I bought. When they were young and hungry they were like a different band, but here they just don't have much to say. They still have that big sound, but the lyrics are basically vapor, and the songs aren't as diverse or inspired as they once were. Ah well, at least I still have their 90s stuff.
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