Jane From Occupied Europe
by Swell Maps
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Jane From Occupied Europe is ranked as the best album by Swell Maps.
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Jane From Occupied Europe track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Jane From Occupied Europe rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 59 Music Albums of 1980 | 30/59 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 501-600 | 32/100 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 44/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 83/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 26 Music Albums of 1980 | 4/26 | 4 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 16 Music Albums of 1980 | 12/16 | 2 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 91 Music Albums of 1980 | 14/91 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 76 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 285 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/04/2026 19:17 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,666 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 20:32 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 04/06/2025 12:49 | Cheboygan74 | 1,289 | 52/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.0.
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teague 07/19/2020 20:35 | #255825 | TOP COMMENT
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Jane from Occupied Europe is a collection of poppy punk songs atop a noisy foundation. The album never really slows down and it never stagnates. It's like a weird combination of Can and the Velvet Underground. I wouldn't be surprised if Sonic Youth said they were big fans of Swell Maps.
babyBlueSedan 07/07/2019 21:05 | #239089 | TOP COMMENT
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This is a really interesting album - I like how it plays around with different tones and sounds in a way that almost sounds like noise rock filtered through a post-punk lens. Unfortunately, all the chaos results in very few songs that work, and the ones that are interesting outstay their welcome long after their only trick was revealed. It's telling that my favorite things here are the opener and closer. The piano on the closer especially sounds great, and while it also lacks variety it succeeds in doing what it's supposed to do: close the album. I wish the ideas were reigned in a bit on the rest because a slightly more organized version of this would be just fantastic.
Very energetic post-punk. Huge influence on bands like Pavement.
Hahaha! Yeah, this album was wild.
timtooky 05/09/2014 20:37 | #111315
sophisticated, strange, annoying. what was the name of the drug again?
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