The Early Years
by Girl Band (IE)
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Girl Band (IE) bestography
The Early Years is ranked 5th best out of 6 albums by Gilla Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Gilla Band is Holding Hands With Jamie which is ranked number 4438 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 325.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Early Years track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Early Years rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Xxnu99etxX | My Top 116 EPs (of those allowed on the site) pt. 1 | 27/81 | - |
| 2025 | Xxnu99etxX | Top 99 Music Albums of the 2010s | 85/99 | 3 |
| 2023 | Xxnu99etxX | Post-punk (plus some gothic rock and no wave) | 78/100 | - |
| 2023 | Xxnu99etxX | Top 51 Music Albums of 2015 | 18/51 | 3 |
| 2023 | Xxnu99etxX | Girl Band Discography Ranked | 6/6 | - |
| 2021 | Xxnu99etxX | Noise rock | 80/100 | - |
| 2017 |  fractaljazz | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 26/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 13 | |||
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The Early Years ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/27/2025 08:44 | Purplepash | 4,970 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2022 09:02 | Shalvey | 760 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/16/2021 13:41 |  CellarDoor | 8,760 | 79/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2020 02:03 | Xxnu99etxX | 2,857 | 63/100 |
| ! | 12/13/2019 01:44 | LosWochos | 47,364 | 75/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.0.
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johnner 05/03/2015 20:33 | #140773
Fans of Mark E Smith and Sonic Youth stop here, you're going to like this. Absurdist lyrics surfing a churning sea of some serious guitar abuse. Anarchy reigns supreme amongst the random NOISE bursts from the most promising band of 2015. With love from Dublin. (Edited)
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