The Glorious Dead
by The Heavy
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The Glorious Dead is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by The Heavy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Heavy is The House That Dirt Built which is ranked number 22096 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 46.
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The Glorious Dead track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Glorious Dead rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | jlsfourth | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 78/100 | 5 |
| 2025 | dukeboxkool | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 87/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Amazon Best Albums 2012 | 27/100 | - |
| 2024 |  PAPPITUFO | Top 78 Music Albums of 2012 | 17/78 | 4 |
| 2023 | jlsfourth | Top 10 Music Albums of 2012 | 10/10 | 1 |
| 2018 | musicoed | Top 50 Music Albums of 2012 | 26/50 | 3 |
| 2017 | Evil Wolfie | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 43/50 | 0 |
| 2016 |  ShaneSpear | Top 31 Music Albums of 2012 | 19/31 | 2 |
| 2016 |  Jackwc | Top 49 Music Albums of 2012 | 47/49 | - |
| 2015 | ShaneSpear | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 100/100 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 19 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2025 22:47 | rfowler | 443 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/29/2023 19:53 | jlsfourth | 1,214 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2022 09:23 | plasmicmist | 1,990 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.9/100, a mean average of 78.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.1.
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ShaneSpear TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/25/2012 22:13 | #51200
More than a bit manufactured, but that's not always a bad thing. The production on this album is crisp and tight. Jim Abbiss helped out a lot with this album (as well as their previous one) and he has credibility from his work with Arctic Monkeys, Adele, and Kasabian.) It reminds me a lot of a Danger Mouse production. Outside of that, it is what it is - - not groundbreaking but the type of music all types of people can enjoy, especially advertisers (I already heard one song during a Borderland 2 commercial and David Letterman LOVES these guys.)
This album is criminally underrated on this site. Not even in the top 1000 of the year?! I might personally put this in my top 100 of the decade! The other comment says it's not groundbreaking music, and that's probably true, but it is very good music, and that's not a bad thing. "What Makes a Good Man" is fantastic gospel-ey rock, and the xylophone riff in "Big Bad Wolf" along with the "howling" vocals are strokes of genius.
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