Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15
by Bardo Pond

Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15 by Bardo Pond
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 8,463rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 38 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (148th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,361st)
Award Best albums of all time (8,463rd)

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Overall rank: 8,463rd | 1990s rank: 1,361st | 1995 rank: 148th
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2026LittleM1971Top 89 Music Albums of 199570/891
2026 ssteveTop 60 Music Albums of 199526/603
2026 arthurbittencourtTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s91/1002
2026 melisandreTop 64 Music Albums of the 1990s35/649
2025 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of 199536/1003
2025 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 199576/1001
2024 Luciano1962Top 26 Music Albums of 199522/261
2024sonicdiscourseThe 90s Vol 125/64 -
2024 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 199592/1000
2024 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 19955/100 -
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 199523/1004
2023 Xxnu99etxXTop 74 Music Albums of 199527/743
2023 Xxnu99etxXDrive Like Jehu (& Related) Discography Ranked6/6 -
2023Steppenwolf666Top 100 Music Albums of 199522/1004
2023cmoshierTop 100 Music Albums of 199549/1003
2022 ArthurknightOnly Over 3k100/100 -
2021 kaduphemingTop 89 Music Albums of 199550/892
2020 The GolluxTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s18/10017
2020 Tha1ChiefRockaTop 100 Music Albums of 199588/1001
2020 ObsoleteEntityPsychedelic & Mind Bending, 1-10081/100 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 38
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 146
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03/21/2026 08:44 melisandre  Ratings distribution  28479/100
 
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09/14/2025 17:30 BorderFreeAndrew  Ratings distribution  15,20274/100
 
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08/09/2025 22:03 boyd94  Ratings distribution  20084/100
 
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04/07/2025 19:52 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,33436/100

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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.

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From 09/27/2017 13:27 | #198813
La versión otra:

Obra maestra psicodélica de proporciones colosales. Una especie de mezcla entre shoegaze y punk rock, que se transmuta alternadamente en drones y metafísicas odas de pulsaciones melódicas redundantes.

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Este álbum lo está cansando mucho. Él lo escucha varias veces y después se aburre. Le parece demasiado simple y monótono.
Pero un día, inesperadamente, le parece demasiado fresco.
Así que un día lo escucha y la parece irritante.
Un día, sin embargo, lo conmueve tanto que no puede evitar soltar unas lágrimas.
A pesar de ello, un día lo empieza a escuchar y ni siquiera lo termina.
Un día lo escucha y casi se queda dormido con su exquisito arrullo.
Claro, un día se cansa y dice que sí, que ya, que es muy, muy bueno pero que tampoco tanto.
No, no es una versión psychedelic-hard-rock de Loveless. Sí, sí se escucha mejor en drogas. No, no tiene desperdicio alguno. Sí, sí tiene canciones que parecen mejores que el resto (pero no lo son, oh, yo te lo aseguro; no lo son).

Su resumen: definitivamente no es un álbum de shoegaze, pero definitivamente es el mejor álbum de shoegaze.
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From 06/07/2017 01:17 | #192169
Este álbum merece mucho más.
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From 08/08/2011 21:05 | #25994
One of the most musically accomplished bands of their time and of any time), Bardo Pond produced a brilliant album that comprises a maelstrom of guitar distortions and manic drumming underscored by repetitively brutal, cosmic and supersonic drones. The overall soundscape is one that merges the post-rock and avante-garde experimentalism of Sonic Youth, the acid jam of Grateful Dead, the powerhouse blues of MC5 and the shoegazing of My Bloody Valentine. This is one of the key albums of the 1990s - it's reputation grows with the passage of time.
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