It's A Wonderful Life (studio album) by Sparklehorse

It's A Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse
Year: 2001
Overall rank: 1,433rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 175 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2001 (24th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (228th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,433rd)
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It's A Wonderful Life is ranked as the best album by Sparklehorse.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 175 votes)
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03/30/2024 23:32 cestuneblague  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 7,21580/100
 
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02/12/2024 03:47 imacgill  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,61980/100
 
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01/03/2024 14:25 ForegroundNoise  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,49760/100

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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 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.

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95/100
From 02/04/2018 00:30
Simply beautiful
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From 12/17/2017 05:15
Beautiful beautiful album, very under appreciated
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From 11/27/2015 02:51
A great record to follow two excellent records. Piano Fire might be my favourite Sparklehorse track.
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From 10/24/2015 22:27
Needs to be a longer album, this was incredible but too short.
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From 12/28/2014 21:32
Waking up in the morning of Spring, feeling miserable as always. A new beginning and you're still regressing your past mistakes. How pathetic.
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100/100
From 08/22/2014 01:18
a good friend of mine once walked into the room while i was listening to this album, and after a while he said that the music was like the sonic equivalent of an old roll of movie film that is faded, rough, and darkened around the edges and is always just on the verge of breaking. i thought that was a very apt description.
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From 11/29/2013 13:06
Maybe his best. Didn't like follow up at all. Another sadly departed talent.
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From 02/25/2013 23:30
Strangely beautiful is how some have described the music of Sparklehorse, and I think that's very fitting. This, their third album, and first in which Mark Linkous was working free of pharmaceutical influences, is a bit more focused. Track 2 - "Gold Day" is just an amazingly beautiful song.
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