Lost Souls
by Doves (UK)
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Doves (UK) bestography
Lost Souls is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Doves (UK) on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Doves (UK) is The Last Broadcast which is ranked number 1388 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,240.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Lost Souls track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Lost Souls rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 19 Music Albums of 2000 | 10/19 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 101-200 | 77/100 | - |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 11/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | videoheadcleaner's 101-200 | 7/100 | - |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 64 Music Albums of 2000 | 44/64 | 2 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 32 Music Albums of 2000 | 23/32 | 2 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 22 Music Albums of 2000 | 1/22 | 5 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 90 Music Albums of 2000 | 7/90 | 5 |
| 2026 |  johnner | Top 16 Music Albums of 2000 | 1/16 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Mauce | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 62/100 | 38 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 230 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,116 | |||
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Lost Souls ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/27/2026 00:38 | dhbarrett | 8,745 | 65/100 |
| ! | 06/24/2026 08:48 | VeVt | 98 | 39/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2026 02:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,600 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/17/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5407): By Charade
pedro1976 08/10/2026 06:01 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Lost Souls comments
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2000 Mercury Music Prize. The winner was The Hour Of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy (Edited)
A great debut. I marginally preferred The Last Broadcast, but this album has its fair share of beautiful relaxing instrumentals. My highlight is probably Sea Song or The Cedar Room. (Edited)
Charade 05/20/2024 04:09 | #303620 | TOP COMMENT
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This is the perfect winter album. The three-song stretch of "Catch the Sun", "The Man Who Told Everything", and "The Cedar Room" is perhaps my favorite twenty-minute sequence off of any album ever. (Edited)
Jboy56 02/05/2022 07:35 | #280769 | TOP COMMENT
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A decent album with songs that last forever, I do not like the habit of extending songs beyond their useful life. Thank you. In the 1960s a songwriter could make a classic song that lasts only 2,5 minutes
I remember liking this much more, not sure what changed in the meantime.
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