The Listening
by Little Brother

The Listening by Little Brother
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 23,496th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 19 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2003 (453rd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (4,367th)
Award Best albums of all time (23,496th)

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Little Brother bestography

The Listening is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by Little Brother on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Little Brother is The Minstrel Show which is ranked number 13944 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 82.

Little Brother album bestography « Higher ranked (13,944th)
The Minstrel Show
This album (23,496th)
The Listening
Lower ranked (24,339th) »
May The Lord Watch

(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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The Listening track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (12 out of 18 tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 23,496th | 2000s rank: 4,367th | 2003 rank: 453rd
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2025 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 200344/1003
2025 ExTeaSeaTop 100 Music Albums of 200362/1002
2025 LebowskiRamsTop 23 Music Albums of 20034/234
2025 Larcx13Top 50 Music Albums of 200316/504
2025HyggevinylTop 63 Music Albums of 200326/633
2025 cestuneblagueTop 100 Music Albums of 200374/1001
2025 HaydenTop 70 Music Albums of 200351/701
2023 srogers900Top 12 Music Albums of 200312/120
2023thugginslugginTop 40 Greatest Music Albums21/40 -
2023LosWochosDie 50 besten HipHop-Alben (2015) by Rolling Stone Deutschland49/50 -
2022 Larcx13Best Hip Hop Records 2003 Top 246/24 -
2021 Larcx13Alternative Hip Hop Timeline91/100 -
2021 Larcx13Best of Hip Hop in the 2000's18/100 -
2021 Larcx13Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time70/100 -
2019sonicdiscourseTop 50 Music Albums of 20036/505
2019sonicdiscourseTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s54/1009
2019 Lowkey2003: 101-x37/40 -
2003NöjesguidenÅrets bästa utländska skivor 200320/503
2003Village VoiceBest Albums 200384/1001
2003Baltimore City PaperBest Albums 20032/105
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 20
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 41
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The Listening ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 19 votes)
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80/100
 
11/05/2025 04:22 Larcx13  Ratings distribution  2,85074/100
 
75/100
 
12/31/2023 13:55 Hyggevinyl  Ratings distribution  4,23372/100
 
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05/27/2023 04:46 LebowskiRams  Ratings distribution  1,39177/100
 
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10/14/2022 18:02 skrapoel  Ratings distribution  2,24871/100
 
80/100
 
01/31/2022 15:14 joewooley24  Ratings distribution  2,94080/100

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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.0.

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75/100
From 12/07/2016 00:00 | #179676
Why is this album so unknown?
I would recommend it to anyone who likes hip hop
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