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 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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It's A Wonderful Life rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | albums in July 2021 - deleting | 81/99 | - |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 2001 | 33/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | VanillaBean | Top 72 Music Albums of the 2000s | 39/72 | 9 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 42/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | BlueNote | Top 99 Music Albums of the 2000s | 48/99 | 11 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 24 Music Albums of 2001 | 16/24 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 75 Music Albums of 2001 | 14/75 | 4 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 11/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2001 Pt 2 | 41/68 | - |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 89 Music Albums of 2001 | 22/89 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 201 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,114 | |||
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It's A Wonderful Life ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/29/2026 04:21 | juanr1096 | 6,285 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 13:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,693 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2026 17:21 | VanillaBean | 1,189 | 79/100 |
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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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It's A Wonderful Life forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 03/08/2024 21:00 in Album of the day (#4828): It's A Wonderful Life
dihansse 07/20/2023 20:03 in My discoveries per yearIt's A Wonderful Life comments
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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.
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.
Needs to be a longer album, this was incredible but too short. (Edited)
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/17/2017 05:15 | #203356 | TOP COMMENT
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Beautiful beautiful album, very under appreciated (Edited)
sageamagoo TOP 100 COMMENTER 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.
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