Do The Collapse
by Guided By Voices

Do The Collapse by Guided By Voices
Year: 1999
Overall rank: 16,775th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 30 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1999 (271st)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (2,604th)
Award Best albums of all time (16,775th)

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Guided By Voices bestography

Do The Collapse is ranked 10th best out of 65 albums by Guided By Voices on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Guided By Voices is Bee Thousand which is ranked number 566 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,009.

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Do The Collapse rankings summary
Overall rank: 16,775th | 1990s rank: 2,604th | 1999 rank: 271st  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 30 votes)
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01/31/2026 15:34 Milhaud  Ratings distribution  2,16771/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.


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From dihansse 08/22/2019 21:02 in My discoveries per year
“Here is my second post on Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices and the likes now covering his classic album period from 1994 to 2004 when he disbanded GBV but only for a short period. This is to me the classic period because all GBV period are really good and nearly every single one of them contains at…”
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“Here are are my top 10 albums (limited to 3 per year) which don't appear in the overall top 100 of that year: 1990: 1. (157th of 1990) 4. (266th of 1990) 5. (214th of 1990) 1993: 5. (113th of 1993) 10. (597th of 1993) 1996: 1. (230th of 1996) 2. (142nd of 1996) 5. (168th of 1996) 1999: 2. (125th of…”
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From 06/06/2016 14:19 | #168022
Standout Tracks; Teenage FBI, Things I Will Keep, Surgical Focus, Hold on Hope, Dragons Awake. (Edited)
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