Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea
by Poi Dog Pondering
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Poi Dog Pondering bestography
Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea is ranked 4th best out of 14 albums by Poi Dog Pondering on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Poi Dog Pondering is Volo Volo which is ranked number 13512 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 87.
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Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1990 (101 - 200) | 39/52 | - |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 46/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 41 Music Albums of 1990 | 27/41 | 2 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 42 Music Albums of 1990 | 13/42 | 4 |
| 2023 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Poi Dog Pondering - Ranked | 11/13 | - |
| 2023 | craab | Top 10 Music Albums of 1990 | 5/10 | 3 |
| 2015 |  philbutrin | Top 90 Music Albums of 1990 | 23/90 | 4 |
| 1990 | WOXY.com | The 97 Best Of 1990 | 16/87 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 20 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/30/2025 05:24 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/08/2024 11:51 | Johnnyo | 9,815 | 77/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2024 07:15 | cicadelic | 13,836 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.
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Very much a Paul Simon Graceland era feel to it. A really rather good album. (Edited)
This band was so different from everything else happening in 1990. There may be some overlap in their sound with Edie Brickell, Paul Simon, and Rusted Root, but they really seem so original even to those comparisons. The band started as buskers and there is a real gypsy feel to their early work, especially this album. It is not my favorite PDP album, but it has some songs like U-Li-La-Lu and Spending the Day in the Shirt that You Wore that are among the band's most fun live. This was the album that introduced me to the band so it will always be special to me, even if I like Pomegranate and Volo Volo more. Not long after this album was released, the band toured England where they were turned onto the Manchester sound. It changed their future direction - on later efforts there are much more soul and dance and electronic elements. But this is the sound of the band before that shift happened and that band, the PDP of old, will forever be my first love. I bought this album from a CD club because I liked the name of the album and for no other reason! Never regretted it!
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