Castaways And Cutouts
by The Decemberists
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The Decemberists bestography
Castaways And Cutouts is ranked 5th best out of 19 albums by The Decemberists on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Decemberists is The Crane Wife which is ranked number 773 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,231.
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Castaways And Cutouts track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Castaways And Cutouts rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 70/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | skrapoel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 52/100 | 46 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 70/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 25 Music Albums of 2002 | 2/25 | 5 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | 21st century top albums 001-100 | 85/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 96 Music Albums of 2002 | 76/96 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 72 Music Albums of 2002 | 54/72 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 93 Music Albums of 2002 | 41/93 | 3 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 61 Music Albums of 2002 | 29/61 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 126 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 483 | |||
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Castaways And Cutouts ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/20/2026 03:52 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,603 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 21:16 | snailmail500 | 278 | 83/100 |
| ! | 03/10/2026 11:59 | Leginlists | 3,837 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5406): By skrapoel
Rhyner 06/01/2025 23:47 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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Genial álbum y muy recomendable si te gusta el Indie-Folk. Las primeras 3 canciones te atrapan desde el primer momento y el resto de las canciones mantienen casi el mismo nivel, aunque cayendo un poco en canciones como "Cocoon" y "Clementine" las cuales son las pistas más débiles del disco, pero sin llegar a ser malas.
Very nice debut album that shines with all kinds of potential that the group would expand upon in subsequent albums (though I see the viewpoint that their is a certain charm here that may be lost with some of the more bombastic later works). The two opening tracks are right up there with my favorites in their catalog.
Favorite tracks: Leslie Anne Levine, Here I Dreamt...
Also very nice and are growing on me: Odalisque, Grace Cathedral Hill, California One...
This is my favorite Decemberists album for its simplicity, compared to the mostly baroque albums that started with Picaresque. I feel like this album and the one that followed, Her Majesty the Decemberists, an inferior companion to this one, were their last sincere albums before they became a curdled starbucks chamber ensemble. (I'm especially allergic to "The Crane Wife," which I liked for about a year.) The songs are just good songs, with beautiful melodies and stories that don't work terribly hard.
Favorite Tracks: Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect, A Cautionary Song & Leslie Anne Levine
Not as good as their top 2-3 albums but this is real solid. Just a real good sounding band. MEZ
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