Untune The Sky
by The Moles
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Untune The Sky is ranked as the best album by The Moles.
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Untune The Sky track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Untune The Sky rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Arthurknight | Top 99 Music Albums of 1991 | 7/99 | 5 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 62/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 95 Music Albums of 1991 | 85/95 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 52/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2025 |  dihansse | Top 91 Music Albums of 1991 | 21/91 | 4 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | dihansse | My Overall Top 1000: 301-400 | 79/100 | - |
| 2024 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 51/100 | 3 |
| 2023 | sonicdiscourse | 011010101010011001101010 | 19/34 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 18 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 41 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/30/2025 21:52 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/12/2024 12:45 |  sssvnnn | 8,480 | 67/100 |
| ! | 12/08/2021 21:46 | Moondance | 20,822 | 72/100 |
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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 76.7/100, a mean average of 80.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
Untune The Sky forum mentions
Repo 03/08/2018 13:14 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys Repo 02/20/2018 13:24 in What album are you listening to right now?Untune The Sky comments
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Repo TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/07/2018 14:10 | #210315
MOLE N' ORDER
Sequencing matters. Especially for the Lo-fi American Underground indie scene of the late 80s/early 90s. Stuff like Zen Arcade, Slanted & Enchanted, GBV’s Propellor, and Sebadoh’s III. These albums wouldn’t have worked half as well if the order of the songs had been different. These albums were not collections of songs. They were sound collages. One song melded into the next. Alone the songs were just neat little snippets of sonic pop experimentation, but they often made little sense isolated and apart from one other. No. It was together - one sound tumbling logically & expectedly into the next - that these lo-fi snippets were weaved into the masterpieces they are now generally recognized to be.
So when the Moles debut material was re-released and expanded as Flashbacks & Dream Sequences, they sort of got the order all wrong. I like it. A lot. It’s a great collection of lo-fi indie rock songs. But, it wasn’t until I recreated the sequencing with a Spotify playlist that I recognized it for the indie lo-fi benchmark it should of been. And album that fits right along with other lo-fi classics of the era such as III, Propeller, & Perfect Sound Forever.
Here’s the track listing I particularly like from he original Australian CD release of this album back in 1991 on Seaside Records...
Bury Me Happy
Tendrils and Paracetamol
This Is A Happy Garden
Breathe Me In
Lonely Hearts Get What They Deserve
the Crown Souls
Rebecca
Europe by Car
Curdle
Wires
Nailing Jesus to the Cross
Grade: A+ Like Pavement, The Moles ably pilfer The Swell Maps (the most underrated but massively influentail band in indie rock I wonder) aesthetic but their DNA is chiefly cobbled from lineage of The Clean and other legends of kiwi rock as opposed to The Fall.
Essential.
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