Invisible Lantern
by Screaming Trees

Invisible Lantern by Screaming Trees
Year: 1988
Release date: 1988-05-12
Overall rank: 21,652nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 26 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (266th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (2,780th)
Award Best albums of all time (21,652nd)

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Screaming Trees bestography

Invisible Lantern is ranked 6th best out of 12 albums by Screaming Trees on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Screaming Trees is Dust which is ranked number 2264 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 725.

Screaming Trees album bestography « Higher ranked (15,446th)
Even If And Especially When
This album (21,652nd)
Invisible Lantern
Lower ranked (26,042nd) »
Last Words: The Final Recordings

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Invisible Lantern rankings summary
Overall rank: 21,652nd | 1980s rank: 2,780th | 1988 rank: 266th  Overall chart history
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Invisible Lantern ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 26 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.1/100, a mean average of 69.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.


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From dihansse 11/28/2018 20:21 in My discoveries per year
(The) Screaming Trees was a band originally from Ellensburg Washington but then moved to Seattle. After a first demo in 1985 they issued many albums first for SST and then for Epic Records. The main character of the band and one of my favorite artists is the singer Mark Lanegan who also starred as…
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From 04/18/2020 14:29 | #250161
Absolute great songs. Unfortunately the album was produced as a totally crap. Although it's the honorable Steve Fisk. Sad... Otherwise it would be a total classic! (Edited)
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