Ain't Living Long Like This
by Rodney Crowell
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Rodney Crowell bestography
Ain't Living Long Like This is ranked 3rd best out of 23 albums by Rodney Crowell on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rodney Crowell is The Houston Kid which is ranked number 15460 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 74.
(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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Ain't Living Long Like This track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Ain't Living Long Like This rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 29 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 20/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 99 Music Albums of 1978 | 13/99 | 4 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1978 (101 - 200) | 2/7 | - |
| 2025 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 16/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | henrygreen0203 | Top 40 Music Albums of 1978 | 3/40 | 5 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 25 Music Albums of 1978 | 20/25 | 1 |
| 2024 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1978 | 49/52 | - |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Decades of Texas Singer-Songwriters | 88/100 | - |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | Texas 50/50 Songwriters | 21/99 | - |
| 2019 |  briggs54 | Country 1-100 | 29/100 | - |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | Artists Through the Decades | 12/99 | - |
| 2019 | briggs54 | Top 73 Music Albums of 1978 | 37/73 | 3 |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | 100 Male Texas Singer-Songwriters | 33/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 33 | |||
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Ain't Living Long Like This ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 07/07/2025 18:20 | Johnnyo | 9,795 | 77/100 |
| ! | 08/03/2024 23:36 | Repo | 2,214 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2023 19:32 | LosWochos | 47,365 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2023 18:57 | salvador | 1,460 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2023 23:54 | Moondance | 20,771 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 68.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 25.6.
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Rodney Crowell's debut had a large impact. It would begin his career of writing stellar songs that didn't really go up the charts until they were covered by hitmakers. Nearly every song here, according to Allmusic, was covered by other musicians.
The production here is classic 70s folk/country rock. It fits, but loses Rodney's music to a forgotten radio era. Rodney would continue to conform with many radio accessible styles until fitting into a comfortable acoustic niche later in his career.
Crowell has really strong material here. If it wasn't for the three so-so covers, this would rival Diamonds & Dirt as his best album.
Track Pick: Song for the Life (Edited)
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