Spirit Bird (studio album)
by Xavier Rudd
Xavier Rudd bestography
Spirit Bird is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by Xavier Rudd on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Xavier Rudd is Food In The Belly which is ranked number 17161 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 64.
(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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Spirit Bird track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Spirit Bird rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Moondance | 2010's: albums 101 - 200 | 25/100 | - |
| 2025 |  sssvnnn | Top 80 Music Albums of 2012 | 11/80 | 4 |
| 2025 | stevengnz | Top 63 Music Albums of 2012 | 29/63 | 3 |
| 2025 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 53/100 | 2 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 99 Music Albums of 2012 | 12/99 | 4 |
| 2024 | buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 79/100 | 4 |
| 2023 |  RasmV | Top 44 Music Albums of 2012 | 35/44 | 1 |
| 2023 | sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 30/100 | 14 |
| 2021 |  pa | Top 77 Music Albums of 2012 | 66/77 | 1 |
| 2016 | lanis | Top 82 Music Albums of 2012 | 76/82 | 0 |
| 2016 | bigbird | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 62/100 | 8 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 43 | |||
Spirit Bird collection
Spirit Bird ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 09/24/2022 19:51 | buzzdainer | 3,338 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/10/2022 11:42 | Moondance | 19,852 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/17/2021 07:09 | KineticEchoes02 | 1,083 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/30/2019 00:05 |  InsanityPrawnBoy | 560 | 79/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2016 08:33 | 100IDream | 540 | 69/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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buzzdainer 01/05/2017 21:34 | #181824
Spirit Bird was the release on which Xavier Rudd took a turn toward woo-woo New Age spirituality, and in so doing brought him a step closer to perform something like "world" music--a genre I normally hate for its conflation of genre and instrumentation, its tendency to layer African djembe beats over some obscure Mongolian stringed instrument, with lyrics borrowed from a tribe in the Andes. Xavier Rudd falls into some of that here, but there are some genuinely affecting tunes here, partly because Rudd has done his homework: he's deeply steeped in Australian aboriginal culture and one of the finest didgeridoo players in pop music, and he's penned some great songs filled with indigenous wisdom. My favorite track is "Full Circle," which builds from a simple folk guitar riff into a gorgeous melody accented by the cries of birds--a beautiful achievement.
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