The Innocence Mission
by The Innocence Mission
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The Innocence Mission bestography
The Innocence Mission is ranked 5th best out of 16 albums by The Innocence Mission on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Innocence Mission is Glow which is ranked number 8484 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 148.
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The Innocence Mission track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Innocence Mission rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TastyandTemptin | Top 47 Music Albums of 1989 | 19/47 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  craola | Top 20 Music Albums of the 1980s | 18/20 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1989 (101 - 200) | 19/25 | - |
| 2025 |  Repo | 1989: Even More Gems | 3/5 | - |
| 2025 |  imimesis | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 45/100 | 11 |
| 2024 | TastyandTemptin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 91/100 | 2 |
| 2024 |  meccalecca | Top 65 Music Albums of 1989 | 10/65 | 4 |
| 2024 | meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 48/100 | 11 |
| 2023 |  TheDude85 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 9/100 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 46 | |||
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The Innocence Mission ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/16/2026 00:21 | TastyandTemptin | 3,193 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2026 22:00 |  sssvnnn | 8,497 | 67/100 |
| ! | 03/03/2022 10:10 | Taosjohn | 850 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.2.
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The Innocence Mission forum mentions
Repo 01/15/2025 06:42 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
dihansse 04/29/2021 20:11 in My discoveries per yearThe Innocence Mission comments
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TheDude85 09/08/2019 21:12 | #242372
The Debut of The Innocence Mission announces the arrival of vocalist and songsmith Karen Peris - whose vocal style reminds me of Kate Bush, Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Harriet Wheeler. She is a dynamic multi-octave performer who writes introspective Joni Mitchell-esque folk/pop masterpieces about family, lost love and growing old. This album was in fact produced by Mitchell's then husband, Larry Klein, and bears his handprints all over it. If there is one drawback it is that the songs are somewhat temporal and would have benefitted from having a sembelance of a hook or two thrown in. I really enjoyed Peris' voice though and "Curious" and "Come Around And See Me" were both catchy and hummable on first listen. The Innocence Mission evolved from this debut to a more straight ahead folk sound, but they started off with this pop masterpiece.
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