The Optimist LP
by Turin Brakes
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The Optimist LP is ranked as the best album by Turin Brakes.
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The Optimist LP track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Optimist LP rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 88/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 94 Music Albums of 2001 | 47/94 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 99 Music Albums of 2001 | 52/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 46 Music Albums of 2001 | 33/46 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 2001 | 41/45 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 90 Music Albums of 2001 | 19/90 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 16/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  latenighttv | [[ Acoustic Rock ]] | 5/10 | - |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 61 Music Albums of 2001 | 14/61 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 62 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 148 | |||
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The Optimist LP ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/28/2026 22:06 | DJStuart79 | 5,983 | 59/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2025 12:54 |  Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
| ! | 06/28/2025 13:20 | TonySayers61 | 25,430 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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Mainly indie with some folk rock elements. A few good songs but generally I found this a tad underwhelming. (Edited)
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2001 Mercury Music Prize. The winner was Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey (Edited)
Album Rating: 77.58
(931/12)
1.Feeling Oblivion - 78
2.Underdog (Save Me) - 77
3.Emergency 72 - 83
4.Future Boy - 74
5.The Door - 77
6.The State Of Things - 84
7.By TV Light - 72
8.Slack - 75
9.Starship - 69
10.The Road - 79
11.Mind Over Money - 89
12.The Optimist - 73
luigybetis 02/28/2019 00:06 | #232750 | TOP COMMENT
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Simply beautiful.
An album that is somewhere between warm and mild. Spacy song patturns and fancy acoustic guitars put on quite a good display. Pleasantness surrounds this album. It is the whole air it breezes. Having trouble remembering parts of whole songs even after listening a while. I suppose 'Underdog (Save Me)' is a good one, as is 'State of things'.
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