Translate Slowly (studio album)
by Zeitgeist (US)

Translate Slowly by Zeitgeist (US)
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 7,297th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 11 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (90th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,057th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,297th)

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Zeitgeist (US) bestography

The best album by The Reivers is Translate Slowly which is ranked number 7297 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 173.

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75/100 (from 11 votes)
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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 74.9/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.

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The Reivers (Formerly Zeitgeist) put out this debut album which I discovered a few years later right after they'd disbanded. It is hard to categorize this extremely literary, impressionistic cowboy jangle pop; so why try? I love this album. I love Kim and John's voices and the woe-woes and boh-dah-bohs. John's writing painted incredible pictures without specificity. They are lyrics to be studied or to float in the background. They are real poetry.
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