I Am A Bird Now
by Antony & The Johnsons

Album
I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-02-01
Overall rank: 689th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 385 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2005 (10th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (104th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (689th)

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Antony & The Johnsons bestography

I Am A Bird Now is ranked as the best album by Antony & The Johnsons.

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I Am A Bird Now track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Hope There's Someone
Average Rating: 89 (119 votes)Comments: View 1
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My Lady Story
Average Rating: 83 (67 votes)Comments: View 0
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For Today I Am A Bouy
Average Rating: 83 (68 votes)Comments: View 0
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Man Is The Baby
Average Rating: 82 (65 votes)Comments: View 0
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You Are My Sister
Average Rating: 84 (77 votes)Comments: View 0
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What Can I Do?
Average Rating: 83 (69 votes)Comments: View 0
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Fistful Of Love
Average Rating: 86 (70 votes)Comments: View 0
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Spiralling
Average Rating: 83 (63 votes)Comments: View 0
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Free At Last
Average Rating: 79 (54 votes)Comments: View 0
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Bird Gurhl
Average Rating: 86 (73 votes)Comments: View 0

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I Am A Bird Now rankings

I Am A Bird Now rankings summary
Overall rank: 689th | 2000s rank: 104th | 2005 rank: 10th  Overall chart history
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 !		07/19/2026 23:05 AledJames  Ratings distribution  1,71269/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.0/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.


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I Am A Bird Now forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 09/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5437): By Untitled
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From 08/09/2016 22:47 | #172649 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A beautiful album, romantic and heartbreaking and extremely powerful for the LGBT community
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From 01/14/2010 10:17 | #8369 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Dim the lights and pour yourself a glass of wine.
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From 02/10/2015 04:48 | #134569 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I just finished listening to this and broke out crying at Bird Gurhl. A stunning album that is of course carried by her voice but which has the instrumental diversity to make it consistently interesting. The subjects of the songs are very emotional as well which helps tie the album together.
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From 07/22/2020 20:35 | #256025 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
One of the seminal trans texts. An astonishing work of songwriting and intimate performance whose emotion and hard-won sense of self is overwhelming and triumphant.
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From 09/01/2015 20:30 | #149052 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A masterpiece in the 2000's.
A stunning and powerful voice, sweet arrangements and perfect songs.
There will be no more an inspired Antony like this.
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