A Brief History Of Love
by The Big Pink
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The Big Pink bestography
A Brief History Of Love is ranked as the best album by The Big Pink.
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A Brief History Of Love track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
A Brief History Of Love rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Hype Machine Music Blog Zeitgeist Top 50 Albums of 2009 | 43/50 | - |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | asimpkins | Top 27 Music Albums of 2009 | 23/27 | 1 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 51/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  briggs54 | Top 75 Music Albums of 2009 | 31/75 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Aversion Best Albums 2009 | 9/10 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Surfing On Steam Top 25 Albums of 2009 | 14/25 | - |
| 2025 |  johnner | Top 70 Music Albums of the 2000s | 65/70 | 2 |
| 2025 | stangetzaway | Top 16 Music Albums of 2009 | 6/16 | 3 |
| 2025 | johnner | Best Shoegaze & Dreampop Albums | 57/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 49 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 142 | |||
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A Brief History Of Love ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/05/2025 13:16 | mostlymor | 7,024 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/31/2024 04:00 | imacgill | 2,856 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2024 21:35 | asimpkins | 3,174 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.0.
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badfaith 10/10/2009 19:18 | #6696 | TOP COMMENT
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There's Nothing here perhaps that you won't have heard before, it sounds by turns remeniscent of 80s band sounds, 90s bands... with particular echoes of Sonic youth and Spiritualized, (but I'm usually wrong about these things) But basically, I can't stop playing it. Big and dreamy, occasionally nightmarish- the opening of Golden Pendulum sounds like Aphex twin's come to daddy.
I need a little time to pass to be sure this is not a minor infatuation, but not only can I see this making an appearence on my chart, but actually climbing fast!
thomas697 04/27/2010 13:27 | #11056 | TOP COMMENT
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I dont understand some of the negativity towards this album, its better then most of the crap thats come out in the last 5 years
johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/10/2012 18:00 | #48233 | TOP COMMENT
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Not bad, but have to agree with other users that it's not the most original of records to be released but they do have a knack with big catchy chorus's.
RaineyWins 05/31/2010 23:44 | #11613 | TOP COMMENT
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Quite suprised! I enjoyed this
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