Bringing Home The Ashes
by The Wild Swans

Bringing Home The Ashes by The Wild Swans
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 24,417th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 10 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (300th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (3,085th)
Award Best albums of all time (24,417th)

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Bringing Home The Ashes is ranked as the best album by The Wild Swans.

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Overall rank: 24,417th | 1980s rank: 3,085th | 1988 rank: 300th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 10 votes)
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12/31/2025 08:14 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  5,90666/100
 
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08/11/2025 03:46 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100
 
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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 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.

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