Potter's Field (track)
by Tom Waits
Potter's Field appears on the following album(s) by Tom Waits:
- The Asylum Years (track #11) (compilation) (1986)
- Foreign Affairs (track #6) (this album) (1977)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/26/2025 01:45 |  AAL2014 | 33,942 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2025 16:08 | MaxStorm98 | 51,483 | 99/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2024 19:54 | phmusic | 62,859 | 100/100 |
| ! | 09/28/2023 16:12 |  Jboy56 | 39,200 | 78/100 |
| ! | 07/23/2023 00:34 | daCritic | 33,652 | 76/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.9.
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Extremely ambitious and definitely overlong, this is a dramatic slice of film noir orchestration full of wise guys and down and outs. It's certainly interesting but to be honest, it's all a bit too much and also very boring. You can't deny the brilliance of Waits' use of language, but it just tries way too hard for me. Atmospheric, but not particularly engaging.
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