Shaking The Habitual
by The Knife
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Shaking The Habitual is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by The Knife on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Knife is Silent Shout which is ranked number 728 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,388.
(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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Shaking The Habitual track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| ! | 4 hours ago | This_is_handsome | 769 | 79/100 |
| ! | 26 hours ago |  JoaoMoreira | 466 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 17:21 | mutant | 1,634 | 55/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 17:06 | Proto | 3,916 | 33/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2025 00:07 |  Kalos | 1,154 | 77/100 |
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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 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
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teague 09/03/2021 17:35 | #273245
Shaking the Habitual is their most experimental and it's all the better for it.
Boltzmann 03/03/2020 23:30 | #248465
At a first glance they seem to have gone for electroclash completely, but then the ambient tracks pop up. The electroclash openers are rather try-hard to be outrageous, while the ambient tracks remind me a bit of Aphex Twin's (actual) ambient tracks (on DrukQs especially)... a lot actually, I'm hearing a lot of tricks they directly pulled out Richard's sleeve. However, the ambient tracks I can enjoy quite a bit (at least they're not as annoying as the songs that have a beat (can I call it that?)), but for the same reasons I enjoy Aphex Twin's ambient tracks. Then you have songs like 'Life would be boring without you' that try to be genreless, and of course succeed only to make something I cannot believe anyone puts up voluntarily in their spare time.
VictorVale 09/20/2019 18:01 | #242850
Onírico, as vezes um pouco além do que consigo entender acordado!
ExTeaSea 08/21/2018 19:28 | #219965
One of the most interesting albums of the 2000s. It's like pop music from hell in a great way, like a beautiful electronic nightmare of unique sounds and beats. Love it!
Full of Fire is one of the best songs this decade!
splashfoop 05/17/2017 05:14 | #190929
Sensacional. Brillantemente ejecutado.
An album full of exciting concepts, but many of the ideas drag on for too long. It is at times riveting and at other times tiresome.
Such an outrageous album - in a good way.
The first track really embodies what The Knife try to do. With A Tooth For An Eye, they make a song that doesn't sound poppy, but still commands your listening. Credit to this group for sounding unique, and progressive, incorporating a worldly sound. I only wish I had the patience to listen to an album like this over and over.
ButterThumbz 12/20/2013 12:00 | #98163
There's a great album here... somewhere! Frustratingly, it's been smothered in wank.
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