I Could Live In Hope
by Low

I Could Live In Hope by Low
Year: 1994
Release date: 1994-02-18
Overall rank: 1,182nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 308 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1994 (34th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (220th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,182nd)

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Low bestography

I Could Live In Hope is ranked 3rd best out of 20 albums by Low on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Low is Hey What which is ranked number 1085 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,612.

Low album bestography « Higher ranked (1,106th)
Double Negative
This album (1,182nd)
I Could Live In Hope
Lower ranked (1,691st) »
Things We Lost In The Fire

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I Could Live In Hope track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 87 (92 votes)Comments: View 5

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I Could Live In Hope rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,182nd | 1990s rank: 220th | 1994 rank: 34th
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2026borninhockeytownTop 100 Greatest Music Albums36/10063
2026Cheboygan74Top 15 Music Albums of 19949/152
2026 EyeKanFlyTop 100 Music Albums of 199462/1002
2026 seb7Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s25/9915
2026LittleM1971Top 92 Music Albums of 199419/924
2026AdymanTop 50 Greatest Music Albums8/5083
2026 baystateoftheartTop 100 Music Albums of 19944/1005
2026 MadhattanJackTop 71 Music Albums of 199454/711
2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 199426/1004
2026Cheboygan74Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s69/1006
2026matterhornriderTop 48 Music Albums of 199428/482
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s93/1002
2026saltysurpriseTop 67 Music Albums of 199432/673
2026joathomeTop 58 Music Albums of 199458/580
2026sunnydhammTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s93/1002
2026 paladisiactop 60r albums (60), #0001-0100*18/66 -
2026 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s96/1001
2026 ssteveTop 66 Music Albums of 199414/664
2026 DommeDamianTop 39 Music Albums of 199429/391
2026Rm12398Top 47 Music Albums of 199422/473
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 260
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 1,478
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 308 votes)
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80/100
 
03/16/2026 17:17 joewooley24  Ratings distribution  2,97580/100
 
75/100
 
02/28/2026 23:28 Map  Ratings distribution  51381/100
 
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01/03/2026 22:22 mozzmozz  Ratings distribution  1,94882/100
 
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12/06/2025 20:25 ZacXavier  Ratings distribution  1362/100
 
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12/05/2025 04:50 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.

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85/100
From 09/11/2023 22:31 | #299081
Atmospheric slowcore record and I simply like this genre, also Lullaby is a masterpiece.
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From 11/09/2022 06:10 | #291161
Rest in Peace Mimi
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40/100
From 11/16/2021 08:19 | #276346
this is really depressing
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From 09/09/2021 16:31 | #273588
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50/100
From 05/28/2018 04:57 | #215690
Surprisingly this , Low's debut album, is their number 1 ranked release on BEA . I love this band and I love Slow Core and I'm telling you with full confidence Lows best album is 'Things We Lost In The Fire' from 2001, its a much more mature ,assured and technical superior album than this one

That's not to say this is a bad album , but you can just tell its a band trying to find its feet . And quite frankly a couple of tracks here stink in "Lazy" (I never did like that fat , lazy good for nothing Sarah ) and cover closer "Sunshine" which ends things on a bummer

If your a fan by all means check this album out , other wise take my advice and jump straight to 2001's 'Things We Lost In The Fire '

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95/100
From 01/12/2018 02:17 | #205293
I like this album cause when I'm sad theres no better way to feel the sorrow but listening to this. It really brings me down like no other album can.
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From 03/05/2017 16:27 | #186870
one of the best comedown albums
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From 08/04/2015 02:24 | #147014
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75/100
From 05/21/2015 11:02 | #142135
Haunting stuff.
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90/100
From 06/12/2014 03:22 | #114304
GREAT!
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