Much Afraid
by Jars Of Clay
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Jars Of Clay bestography
Much Afraid is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by Jars Of Clay on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jars Of Clay is Jars Of Clay which is ranked number 8280 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 152.
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Much Afraid track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Much Afraid rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 39 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  PanheadWarrior | Top 20 Music Albums of 1997 | 1/20 | 5 |
| 2026 | PanheadWarrior | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 15/100 | 17 |
| 2025 | rkm | Top 33 Music Albums of 1997 | 16/33 | 3 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top albums, #0401-0500* | 12/78 | - |
| 2025 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | PanheadWarrior | Top Album Every Year (Since 1955) | 43/68 | - |
| 2023 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 80/100 | 4 |
| 2021 |  NickVolos | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 83/100 | 1 |
| 2020 | paladisiac | !You've Been Caught Sleeping! (p01) | 36/100 | - |
| 2019 | jkmorgan2 | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 8/10 | 7 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 19 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 45 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/08/2019 07:24 | TheHutts | 2,107 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2018 01:05 |  sssvnnn | 8,480 | 67/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2018 00:52 | NickVolos | 9,131 | 77/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.1/100, a mean average of 64.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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paladisiac 06/16/2014 16:45 in What album are you listening to right now?Much Afraid comments
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paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/12/2011 19:48 | #32775
Songs on Much Afraid harken back to love and beauty and the absence in my own life, straight on from opener "overjoyed" ("love is the thing i know for sure / and i couldn't need you more now") which is about needing god and god's love in one's life, but is written in a way to apply to other nuances of love in other subjective arenas. I adore the soft, heartfelt plucking at the beginning of "frail"; the light soaring of strings, the building anticipation of a story already being sung through instrumentation, the calm before the flood of emotions. Then "a rose could never lie about the love it brings / and i could never promise to be any of those things" hits me hard, followed by "if i was not so weak / if i not was so cold / if i was not so scared of being broke and growing old / i would be". The lyrics are brief but powerful, especially with the slowing building and ebbing soaring background which ease into a 3 minute instrumental as delicate and heart-tugging as the intro crashing with cymbal-weight near the very end.
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