The Waiting Room
by Tindersticks
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Tindersticks bestography
The Waiting Room is ranked 5th best out of 22 albums by Tindersticks on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Tindersticks is The First Tindersticks Album which is ranked number 1719 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 993.
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The Waiting Room track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Waiting Room rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | 0f the Year 2016 (2 B deleted) | 65/99 | - |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 72/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 98 Music Albums of 2016 | 89/98 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Revista La Dosis Los 100 mejores discos internacionales de 2016 | 93/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 58 Music Albums of 2016 | 29/58 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Aquarium Drunkard 2016 Year in Review | 71/99 | - |
| 2025 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2023 |  MW19704U | Top 75 Music Albums of 2016 | 47/75 | 2 |
| 2022 | lanis | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2021 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2016 | 48/50 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 43 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 106 | |||
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The Waiting Room ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/08/2026 20:10 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,702 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 14:51 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 08:51 |  Norman Bates | 10,168 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.9/100, a mean average of 67.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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dihansse 06/26/2024 20:06 in My discoveries per year Repo 10/24/2023 14:12 in What album are you listening to right now?
benpaco 01/26/2016 02:02 in Sounds and NonsenseThe Waiting Room comments
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benpaco 01/28/2016 20:28 | #157986
They've been doing "The National sound" since before The National was a band. Just a bit more of a focus on the chamber pop elements than the post-punk revival elements as compared to early National.
Anyhow, this album is pretty different from their early stuff in that it's just far more lush, and I can see why some would prefer the more intimate feeling on their debut, but for me this is absolutely incredible.
One of those albums you know is good, but didn't quite listen to in the right setting or time. Very artistic and melodic in some senses, but other times it falls flat, losing my interest. Reminds me of Swans' album "The Seer". Worth listening to once . . . and only once.
Favorite Tracks: How He Entered, Follow Me and Like Only Lovers Can.
alexgagne 01/25/2016 14:46 | #157634
I'm not a really familiar with the previous stuff released by Tindersticks. However, this album is fair to good and some songs are unfortunately a bad attempt to reproduce The National sound.
In addition, some ''melodic'' song are awkwardly offbeat.
Fear Of Emptiness is the only great song of this album.
The last two songs save this from being a boring mess.
Best track: We Are Dreamers!
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