It's A Wonderful Life
by Sparklehorse
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It's A Wonderful Life is ranked as the best album by Sparklehorse.
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It's A Wonderful Life track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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It's A Wonderful Life rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/29/2026 04:21 | juanr1096 | 6,203 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 13:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,793 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2026 17:21 | VanillaBean | 1,188 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/18/2026 15:05 | Map | 516 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/01/2026 02:21 | stangetzaway | 2,306 | 84/100 |
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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 78.2/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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Simply beautiful
Brad1770 12/17/2017 05:15 | #203356 | TOP COMMENT
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Beautiful beautiful album, very under appreciated
sageamagoo 11/27/2015 02:51 | #153529 | TOP COMMENT
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A great record to follow two excellent records. Piano Fire might be my favourite Sparklehorse track.
Needs to be a longer album, this was incredible but too short.
HazeyTwilight 12/28/2014 21:32 | #130318
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philbutrin 08/22/2014 01:18 | #120043 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
Graeme2 11/29/2013 13:06 | #95315
Maybe his best. Didn't like follow up at all. Another sadly departed talent.
drivebytornado 02/25/2013 23:30 | #66127 | TOP COMMENT
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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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