The Grey Album
by Danger Mouse
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The Grey Album track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Grey Album rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 2004 | 44/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | The Glide 20: Our Top Albums Of 2004 | 27/40 | - |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 67 Music Albums of 2004 | 47/67 | 2 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 22 Music Albums of 2004 | 4/22 | 4 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 52 Music Albums of 2004 | 15/52 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 98 Music Albums of 2004 | 27/98 | 4 |
| 2026 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 3/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 69/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 88/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 90 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 313 | |||
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The Grey Album ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2026 17:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,819 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/01/2026 00:47 | Proto | 4,319 | 33/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 01:07 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 70.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.
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EyeKanFly 02/25/2021 18:38 in What album are you listening to right now?
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ShaneSpear TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/07/2011 04:32 | #18153 | TOP COMMENT
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It's not the best mash-up album out there. It might not even be the best one released in that year (I think American Edit came out the same year.) Nonetheless, while the album proper probably won't be remembered, what we WILL remember this for is that it launched the career of one of the greatest producers of the 2000s so far. In his young career, Danger has managed to work with MF DOOM, Damon Albarn/Gorillaz, Sparklehorse, Beck, The Black Keys, Cee-Lo, and James Mercer among others. If it wasn't for this work and the publicity it received, he may have never got his chance, so for that fact alone it's hard to consider The Grey Album anything but a smashing success.
ERadio 05/23/2015 15:06 | #142267 | TOP COMMENT
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It doesn't matter what this album is rated - its influence was its success. It will be forever cherished by those bootleggers that remember "grey Tuesday" and a stab in the heart of corporate creativity-killers. Thanks DM...
http://firstmonday.org/article/view/1180/1100
https://remixhumanities.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/the-greying-of-the-internet-the-grey-album-and-the-rise-of-the-mashup-part-1-of-2/
Don't understand the other comments here, to me this simply a fantastic work of collage.
StefanR10 06/26/2020 14:07 | #254547 | TOP COMMENT
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Nice to hear this mashup. I hear some better but this is a good album you can hear this. I say it is listenable.
VictorVale 12/08/2020 12:31 | #262271
Não sabia que precisava disso até ouvir isso eheheheh
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