The People's Key (studio album)
by Bright Eyes

The People's Key by Bright Eyes
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-02-15
Overall rank: 7,784th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 107 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2011 (170th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (1,519th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,784th)
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Bright Eyes bestography

The People's Key is ranked 7th best out of 17 albums by Bright Eyes on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bright Eyes is I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning which is ranked number 436 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,961.

Bright Eyes album bestography « Higher ranked (6,371st)
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
This album (7,784th)
The People's Key
Lower ranked (11,900th) »
Letting Off The Happiness

(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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70/100 (from 107 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.2/100, a mean average of 69.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.

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75/100
From 02/05/2019 05:10
Overall OK but underwhelming. I listened to this album a lot in 2011-2012 years and listening back now in 2019, I’m less impressed. Standouts for me include a signature Oberst sad sad song “Ladder Song”, the Rastafarian-influenced “One for You, One for Me”, and “Jejune Stars” which the band once played on American late night tv. There are a lot of dull songs sandwiched between the standouts. Not in my top five favourite Bright Eyes releases but I enjoy it ever now and again.
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From 09/10/2012 11:53
Album that sounds good. Nice music. This is not an outstanding work but at least you can listen to it quietly and not to just wait finally ended.
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From 08/12/2012 10:05
kötü albüm, adamin en kötüsü.
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From 04/12/2012 23:54
The Ladder Song. Wow.
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From 12/15/2011 22:43
While i like this bright eyes album, it's the least inventive and compelling of his bright eyes moniker. Maybe the wunderkid has lost the fire and has slipped into the creative sterility of old age.
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From 04/18/2011 01:58
A fine album, Oberst mantains that country style vibe to casually lead his lyrics, sometimes pretencious others beautiful. Nothing special though.
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