At Action Park (studio album)
by Shellac
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At Action Park is ranked as the best album by Shellac.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/12/2025 08:20 | 5,430 | 65/100 | |
| ! | 08/15/2025 03:39 | Proto | 3,853 | 33/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2025 21:58 | DaaN | 489 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2025 02:55 | 3,575 | 75/100 | |
| ! | 04/19/2025 13:46 | 4,852 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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...totally agree with @MadhattanJack ! For the exception that i love math : D)
Music critics started calling this sort of music "math rock" because they got tired of having to use terms like "angular," "abrasive," "aggressive," "rhythmically complex," "sharp-edged," "start-stop," and "spiky" all the time. Also, I suspect they didn't really like it, so they figured if they associated it with "math" (which everyone hates), nobody would buy it and they'd stop making albums like this. But they were wrong! So-called math rock bands continue to make records to this very day. "At Action Park" is a seminal album in the genre (if it can be called a "genre"), and personally I like it a lot better than equally seminal LPs like Slint's "Spiderland" or Polvo's "Today's Active Lifestyles." It may very well be the only album in the genre (if it can be called that) I've ever actually liked enough to listen to all the way through, which is hard because of my intense hatred of math.
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