Tindersticks
by Tindersticks

Tindersticks by Tindersticks
Year: 1995
Release date: 1995-10-11
Overall rank: 3,032nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 130 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (55th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (514th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,032nd)

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Tindersticks bestography

Tindersticks is ranked 2nd best out of 22 albums by Tindersticks on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tindersticks is The First Tindersticks Album which is ranked number 1732 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 986.

Tindersticks album bestography « Higher ranked (1,732nd)
The First Tindersticks Album
This album (3,032nd)
Tindersticks
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Curtains

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Tindersticks rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,032nd | 1990s rank: 514th | 1995 rank: 55th  Overall chart history
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Tindersticks ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 130 votes)
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04/16/2026 21:29 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,71770/100
 
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03/10/2026 11:35 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  3,84783/100
 
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02/11/2026 20:56 Juneof44  Ratings distribution  2,63869/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.


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Tindersticks forum mentions

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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Jorbaa () 1. by (1978) 3. by (1971) 4. by (1981) 5. (1972) 6. by (1975) 7. by by (1969) 9. (1989) 10. by by (2019) 12. by (2004) 13. by (2017) 14. by (1998) 15. by by (2001) 17. by (1967) 18. by (2008) 19. by (1988) 20. by (1968) 21. by…”
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From dihansse 04/24/2024 20:28 in My discoveries per year
“These are the two albums of 1995 I listened to: First and album I already own/know and I promised to cover the main album catalogue of Tindersticks: And in fact I already discussed this album in this thread in a post of 22/6/2017 and had the following comment: The first album of The Tindersticks…”
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It's subdued, introspective, jazzy, perhaps even "sedate," almost a callback to the Beatnik Era, complete with the dingy 50's kitchen curtain and the stained coffee mug going cold on the side table as you chain-smoked Turkish cigarettes, the sort of album you probably wouldn't put on for your girlfriend but maybe, just maybe your girlfriend's friends while your girlfriend was out of town, a kind of stream-of-consciousness swaying-back-and-forth with theremins-not-theremins, horns and flutes, and you couldn't understand the lyrics because the singer's voice dripped with such pretentious affectation you almost couldn't distinguish it from yet another instrument, but above that there seemed to be an infinite sadness to it all, a feeling of resignation that didn't require understanding, just a realization that the universe is both infinite and infinitely empty, never to be truly comprehended. So basically, not a bad album if you're into this sort of thing. (Edited)
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