Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
by Sarah McLachlan
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Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is ranked as the best album by Sarah McLachlan.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | traistboar | 1,473 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 15:27 |  Kingturtle | 7,477 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2025 16:53 | Exist-en-ciel | 5,416 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2025 02:56 | Proto | 3,883 | 33/100 |
| ! | 11/29/2024 07:36 |  slatsheit | 2,041 | 81/100 |
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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 75.6/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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This is an amazing album. It hits me at my core, really impacted me back in 1993. If life feels hard, hopeless, put this album on and let the music sink in.
Best tracks - Possession, Elsewhere and the title track.
Tumbling towards ecstasy, is without doubt Sarah Mcclachlan's best album. It's a beautiful record that has influences ranging from Joni Mitchell to Enya. There are great songs here, from opener, possession, to the achingly lovely, good enough, from the sweet, ice cream, to the atmospheric title track. Mcclachlan is at her best on an album that is totally underrated and overlooked. It's an album that deserves more attention. Excellent.
junodog4 05/28/2012 03:52 | #43110
Such a haunting voice... she got bigger after this album, but lost her aching vocals.
lightmyway 05/17/2012 20:56 | #42572
Great songs, great voice, beautiful album.
This and 'Solace' are her better ones, solid album.
paladisiac 01/09/2012 20:41 | #34893
Her delicate, folky pop came to fruition here. She keeps her emotions guarded but bare.
ilovelctr 02/05/2011 11:14 | #18117
Great voice, but average songs. -_-
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