The Long Goodbye
by The Essex Green
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The Essex Green bestography
The Long Goodbye is ranked 3rd best out of 4 albums by The Essex Green on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Essex Green is Hardly Electronic which is ranked number 14980 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 77.
(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 Long Goodbye track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Long Goodbye rankings
The Long Goodbye rankings summary
Overall rank: 19,391st | 2000s rank: 3,522nd | 2003 rank: 359th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 2/100 | 5 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 2/100 | 5 |
| 2025 | desh79 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 100/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 23/100 | 16 |
| 2023 | Igtonumama | Elephant 6 Collective | 29/100 | - |
| 2022 | desh79 | Underrated Albums | 1/33 | - |
| 2022 |  Brad1770 | Top 18 Music Albums of 2003 | 16/18 | 1 |
| 2020 | desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 12/100 | 18 |
| 2020 | boppare | Top 20 Music Albums of 2003 | 13/20 | 2 |
| 2018 |  bertrandu | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 69/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 55 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/21/2025 08:50 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2024 09:14 |  sssvnnn | 8,495 | 67/100 |
| ! | 02/12/2023 01:57 | Moondance | 20,840 | 72/100 |
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From desh79 03/01/2018 07:22 in Most underrated album of all time?
desh79 03/01/2018 07:22 in Most underrated album of all time?“Great bit of indie/chamber pop that's rated ludricously low on BEA (593rd for 2003!). "Chartiers" is the kind of song that immediately lightens my mood.”
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