What It Takes To Move Forward
by Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)

What It Takes To Move Forward by Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-09-29
Overall rank: 21,334th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 15 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2009 (414th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (3,919th)
Award Best albums of all time (21,334th)

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Overall rank: 21,334th | 2000s rank: 3,919th | 2009 rank: 414th

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74/100 (from 15 votes)
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06/17/2025 23:44 idiotican  Ratings distribution  2,80374/100
 
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01/31/2025 05:24 Nacho212  Ratings distribution  1,88172/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.

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From 02/13/2018 21:58 | #208048
fans of good emo/alternative music will be fans of this, so long as they can tolerate the lead singers vocals. Reminiscent of American Football, and near identical to TWIABPAIANLATD
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Great pseudo-American Football record.
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