Ancient Melodies Of The Future
by Built To Spill
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Built To Spill bestography
Ancient Melodies Of The Future is ranked 6th 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 279 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,800.
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Ancient Melodies Of The Future track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Ancient Melodies Of The Future rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 77 Music Albums of 2001 | 59/77 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 7/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 59 Music Albums of 2001 | 6/59 | 5 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 61 Music Albums of 2001 | 22/61 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 59 Music Albums of 2001 | 44/59 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 26 Music Albums of 2001 | 11/26 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 89 Music Albums of 2001 | 30/89 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 42 Music Albums of 2001 | 24/42 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 65 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 223 | |||
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Ancient Melodies Of The Future ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/23/2026 19:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,615 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/03/2026 00:22 | alexandermause | 1,590 | 86/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2026 03:42 | lanadeleswift | 3,769 | 86/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Forum mentions
NoisyBeast 05/31/2023 20:56 in What album are you listening to right now?
mickilennial 12/07/2020 04:50 in Album of the day (#3640): Perfect From Now On
RoundTheBend 12/07/2020 02:39 in Album of the day (#3640): Perfect From Now OnAncient Melodies Of The Future comments
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SomethingSpecial 04/07/2025 13:18 | #308386 | TOP COMMENT
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Criminally underrated album - a near perfect record containing some of my favourite Built to Spill songs, and incredible instrumentation, as on their previous record, Keep It Like a Secret.
Favourite songs: In Your Mind, Alarmed, You Are (Edited)
What's not to like? This album is as solid as Keep it Like a Secret, but without the obvious high points ("Carry the Zero"), The cover art sucks though
luigybetis 05/18/2018 14:38 | #215119 | TOP COMMENT
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I see a change of pace from last album, but I still think they have it! 8/10. (Edited)
favourite song: trimmed and burning
RoundTheBend 05/10/2016 03:45 | #165624 | TOP COMMENT
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First and only Built to Spill album I've listened to. Very interested to listen to Perfect From Now On here shortly, but also interested to see how it stacks up.
I'd say half of this album is fantastic and the other half is ok. (Edited)
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