Bakesale
by Sebadoh
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Bakesale is ranked as the best album by Sebadoh.
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Bakesale track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Bakesale ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/15/2026 18:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,714 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2026 15:55 | tjs122 | 22 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/19/2025 17:07 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,774 | 82/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2025 23:31 | traistboar | 1,741 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 20:41 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.3/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.
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Fischman 04/12/2019 19:15 | #234855
For me, the confluence of the worst of alternative/indie, punk and emo. It sounds quite musically unimaginative to my ears.
Woefully underappreciated music leads to cheap tix prices this summer
buzzdainer 03/01/2017 23:21 | #186625 | TOP COMMENT
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The mid-nineties were great years for albums that brought together punk's two-minute punchiness with the earnest relationship laments that would soon become the genre we now know as emo. Unlike Sebadoh's scattershot early albums, Bakesale is one of the era's best at bridging these two strains of nineties indie rock, the tracks blending together into a memorable whole. While Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, and company probably weren't explicitly trying to make a statement--the very notion of the concept album ran counter to the aesthetic within which they were working at the time--by tightening up and aiming for clarity, I think they managed one anyway. These songs feel like unpretentious, urgent, self-reproaching explosions of heartbreak, perhaps best exemplified by the brooding "Not Too Amused": "Don't make me your captive / I don't feel like talking your shit / I nod my broken head / I'm not too amused with humans." What were we all so bummed about in the nineties, anyway?
Skull is such a beautifull song
Catchy indie rock.
Favorite tracks: License to Confuse, Careful, Not Too Amused, Dreams
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junodog4 07/18/2013 16:54 | #81884 | TOP COMMENT
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Dinosaur Jr.'s loss... Sebadoh is underrated band. Going against the general opinion, I think they got better as they developed poppier sensibilities on later albums, starting with this one.
drakonium 02/23/2013 18:19 | #65896 | TOP COMMENT
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Good indie album, at times a bit too close to grunge to me, though.
Decent record, few good songs.
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