Any Other City
by Life Without Buildings
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Any Other City is ranked as the best album by Life Without Buildings.
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Any Other City track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Any Other City rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 21 Music Albums of 2001 | 11/21 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 41/100 | 12 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 2001 | 19/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 2001 | 7/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | sweetness | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 2/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 40/100 | 60 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 52 Music Albums of 2001 | 47/52 | 1 |
| 2026 | jtrizzle35 | Top 68 Music Albums of the 2000s | 36/68 | 10 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 39 Music Albums of 2001 | 8/39 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 112 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 857 | |||
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Any Other City ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/22/2026 01:47 | PapaShiz86 | 11,786 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 18:03 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,195 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/02/2026 23:41 | TastyandTemptin | 3,182 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Any Other City forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5371): By seb7
Rhyner 05/23/2024 17:52 in What album are you listening to right now?Any Other City comments
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Too late to fall in love with this now, I'm afraid. Back in the day they would've been a great gateway band to The Slits and some cool math rock. Still, the songs sound fresh and convey genuine feeling. And despite the mathy arrangements the grooves are pretty agreeable - they clearly prefer the sweeter stuff from the dissonant bands they draw from (SY's Schizophrenia came to mind more than once). (Edited)
flamingyesdept TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/30/2016 16:30 | #173810 | TOP COMMENT
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some really wonderful alternative indie
seb7 10/26/2022 02:55 | #290807 | TOP COMMENT
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vaguely reminiscent of the sundays but a little punkier
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