Half The City
by St. Paul & The Broken Bones
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones bestography
Half The City is ranked as the best album by St. Paul & The Broken Bones.
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Half The City track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Half The City rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | asimpkins | Top 44 Music Albums of 2014 | 15/44 | 3 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Finky | Top 95 Music Albums of the 2010s | 6/95 | 19 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 12 Music Albums of 2014 | 10/12 | 1 |
| 2026 | spigelwii | Top 90 Music Albums of the 2010s | 85/90 | 1 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Glide’s Best Albums of 2014 | 17/45 | - |
| 2025 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2022 |  mutley88 | Top 85 Music Albums of 2014 | 71/85 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 29 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 96 | |||
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Half The City ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/03/2026 23:24 | spigelwii | 672 | 84/100 |
| ! | 03/31/2026 07:29 | Leginlists | 3,842 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/11/2025 17:31 | asimpkins | 3,189 | 70/100 |
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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 77.5/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
Half The City forum mentions
samistake2ice 04/19/2016 19:19 in Please post your top 3 of 2014
zdwyatt 11/16/2015 21:05 in Best soul or Motown albums?Half The City comments
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/07/2018 18:47 | #212460
Blue-eyed soul isn't normally a genre that I'm drawn to much. In general, it feels like music that white people have appropriated from black artists and homogenized for white audiences. Too often, the "soul" becomes lost in translation. But that's not at all the case with St. Paul & the Broken Bones, largely on the strength of Paul Janeway's huge voice and the strength of his songwriting. They're from Birmingham, Alabama, a place with a checkered racial history, to be sure, but also paradoxically with a history of deeper racial integration than in most places that see themselves as more "progressive" than Alabama. I have little doubt that this history finds its way into the band's music, and the result is a genuinely affecting, powerful, danceable collection of tunes.
Great soul music. My favorite songs on this album are:
I'm Torn Up, Call Me, Half the City, and Don't Me a Thing.
My favorite songs : Call me.....Half the city.....That glow......Sugar dyed.....Let it be so
zdwyatt TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/09/2015 16:57 | #131131
Like so many albums out of Muscle Shoals, this is a group of great musicians led by a charismatic singer. In this case, it's a gospel-tinged nod to James Brown and Otis Redding, but packaged into what looks like an accountant. If there's a group of white dudes making better soul music, I haven't heard it.
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