Thought For Food (studio album) by The Books

Thought For Food by The Books
Year: 2002
Overall rank: 5,283rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 109 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (98th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (924th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,283rd)
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Thought For Food is ranked 3rd best out of 6 albums by The Books on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Books is The Lemon Of Pink which is ranked number 2104 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 782.

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76/100 (from 109 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.

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From 01/04/2013 06:15
How could there be no comments for this underground classic?!? This record is something that if you are ready to dive in to it will take you to whole other worlds! It's a new genre that these dudes created in general, but especially here on their debut. Just listen to it and be ready to be impressed.
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