Building Nothing Out Of Something
by Modest Mouse
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Modest Mouse bestography
Building Nothing Out Of Something is ranked 6th best out of 17 albums by Modest Mouse on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Modest Mouse is The Moon & Antarctica which is ranked number 168 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,440.
(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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Building Nothing Out Of Something track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Building Nothing Out Of Something rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 70 Music Albums of 2000 | 50/70 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 89 Music Albums of 2000 | 2/89 | 5 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 27 Music Albums of 2000 | 15/27 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 50 Music Albums of 2000 | 15/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 61/100 | 8 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | F2LF: Modest Mouse/Ugly Casanova | 5/14 | - |
| 2026 | tyleraepps | Top 89 Music Albums of the 2000s | 37/89 | 12 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 56 Music Albums of 2000 | 22/56 | 3 |
| 2026 | glynspsa | Top 99 Music Albums of 2000 | 58/99 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 116 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 723 | |||
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Building Nothing Out Of Something ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 8 hours ago | jnmayles | 2,383 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/27/2026 23:21 | dhbarrett | 8,806 | 65/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2026 19:01 | hachedoso | 273 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.6/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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Building Nothing Out Of Something forum mentions
NoisyBeast 03/27/2023 06:35 in What album are you listening to right now? Purplepash 01/31/2019 12:45 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition Repo 07/10/2017 21:35 in My discoveries per yearBuilding Nothing Out Of Something comments
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40footwolf 07/14/2011 07:47 | #24385 | TOP COMMENT
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Modest Mouse's leftovers are better than the "real" albums of 95% of the artists out there. (Edited)
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/27/2012 03:31 | #45418 | TOP COMMENT
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Shows how strong Modest Mouse's output is, when a collection a B-Sides is stronger than most other stuff coming out. Almost made my chart, and it's leftovers. Modest Mouse are brilliant.
Christovskee 06/13/2018 10:12 | #216630 | TOP COMMENT
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In all honesty, I think if Edit The Sad Parts was on this album... it might've made my top ten.
This was my first modest mouse album and I didn't realize it was a collection of leftover tracks. I actually think it's better than their official album Strangers to ourselves
teague TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/24/2021 21:16 | #272798 | TOP COMMENT
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Some duds, some great songs. Definitely worth a listen just for songs like Never Ending Math Equation and Baby Blue Sedan
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