Spiritchaser
by Dead Can Dance

Spiritchaser by Dead Can Dance
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 11,943rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 68 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (229th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,903rd)
Award Best albums of all time (11,943rd)

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Dead Can Dance bestography

Spiritchaser is ranked 8th best out of 13 albums by Dead Can Dance on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Dead Can Dance is Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun which is ranked number 1323 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,302.

Dead Can Dance album bestography « Higher ranked (5,710th)
Aion
This album (11,943rd)
Spiritchaser
Lower ranked (12,200th) »
Toward The Within

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Overall rank: 11,943rd | 1990s rank: 1,903rd | 1996 rank: 229th

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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.

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From 09/30/2012 10:35 | #51471
Spiritchaser is the seventh studio album by Dead Can Dance before Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard went their separate ways. It expands on its exploration of world music and like Into the Labyrinth, Spiritchaser was recorded at Quivvy Church, Perry's personal studio in Ireland.

The track "Indus" contains a melody that is very similar to the melody of "Within You Without You," a Beatles song that George Harrison composed with Indian musicians. Although not deliberate, Perry and Gerrard were asked to contact Harrison for his permission to use it; he granted it, but the record company insisted that they give him partial songwriting credit for it.
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