Brave Words
by The Chills
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The Chills bestography
Brave Words is ranked 5th best out of 14 albums by Martin Phillipps & The Chills on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Martin Phillipps & The Chills is Submarine Bells which is ranked number 5318 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 261.
(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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Brave Words track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Brave Words rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 94 Music Albums of 1987 | 50/94 | 2 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 66 Music Albums of 1987 | 26/66 | 3 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 51/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | JamesMowbray | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 85/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 59/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 21/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 69 Music Albums of 1987 | 34/69 | 3 |
| 2025 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 81/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 28 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 53 | |||
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Brave Words ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/17/2026 14:01 | jnmayles | 2,393 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/03/2026 10:54 | JamesMowbray | 5,724 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 23:04 | MadhattanJack | 6,035 | 66/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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