Let Your Dim Light Shine
by Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum bestography
Let Your Dim Light Shine is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by Soul Asylum on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Soul Asylum is Grave Dancers Union which is ranked number 3648 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 402.
(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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Let Your Dim Light Shine track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 30 hours ago | Devilwoac | 768 | 96/100 | |
| 3 days ago | traistboar | 1,601 | 79/100 | |
| 01/18/2026 23:13 | DJStuart79 | 5,908 | 58/100 | |
| 01/04/2026 22:27 | culwin | 1,382 | 75/100 | |
| 02/02/2025 13:04 | TonySayers61 | 23,781 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 71.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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Eastwood 12/15/2016 15:54 | #180205
Good album. Best 10 songs average is 87,3/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Best song is "Promises broken" great, followed by "Bittersweetheart" very good. All other songs good or ok. Only "Caged Rat" is bad.
Genre: Alternative Rock, Power Pop
junodog4 06/29/2012 00:49 | #45552
Soul Asylum loses momentum. This album lacks memorable melodies, and the lyrics sound cute at best, trite at worst. Still quite listenable, but pales in comparison to their earlier work.
paladisiac 12/13/2011 18:01 | #32830
From the opening lyrical salvo, "they say misery loves company. / we can start a company and make misery. / *frustrated incorporated*" on lead track "misery", you have a fair idea what awaits you. soul asylum, fresh off a hit single ("runaway train"), put out another alt-rock album with a lot of witty wordplay. Other favorite tracks are "promises broken", "bittersweetheart", "eyes of a child" (where a prostitute sees "some are like customers and some are like patience") and "string of pearls", which is loaded with fun lyrical twists. Following the pearls, we hear "And the sack breaks and out come / The Siamese Twins / Who grow up to become the first President / With two heads, are better than one" and "Now his wife took the train to her ex-lover's funeral / Who died in the bathroom, hit his head on a urinal / When they got together, the knowledge was carnal / And the widow was at the funeral and they had quite a cat fight. / And they fell into the hole where the casket was resting / And the preacher just left in the middle of the service / 'Cause death was one thing but women made him nervous". (It's tough to lift lyrics from the song without wanting to just quote the whole song.) Please avoid the one big, scream-fest lemon, "caged rat".
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