Dead Letter Office
by R.E.M.
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Dead Letter Office is ranked 18th best out of 36 albums by R.E.M. on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by R.E.M. is Automatic For The People which is ranked number 45 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,581.
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Dead Letter Office track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/22/2026 03:31 | brent13 | 2,143 | 67/100 |
| ! | 03/09/2026 23:43 | matterhornrider | 5,144 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/16/2026 21:53 |  Milhaud | 2,143 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2025 10:51 | cicadelic | 13,722 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2024 21:42 |  slatsheit | 2,042 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.0/100, a mean average of 70.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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RoundTheBend 04/30/2016 23:58 | #164914
Cool to hear VU covers... other than that just listen to Chronic Town and their real albums.
It does sound good throughout. Nothing stands out as amazing though. Definitely a must for the REM fans because of the good new (now old) songs
Mr. Shankly 06/21/2012 05:23 | #44922
Well, as a fellow R.E.M. fan, and some might say the biggest one on BEA, I can tell you why that is. They got kind of lazy with their B-sides during the Warner years. Most of their B-sides during this period were live cuts. There were a few great covers though that they did like Wichita Lineman, Wall of Death, and First, We Take Manhattan. A couple of original B-sides I think were on the deluxe version of the best of, but they didn't put out too many originals. Also, the single was becoming something of a dead medium. Anyways, Dead Letter Office is a weird oddity with a few great songs, and their debut EP Chronic Town, which makes it worth owning.
Interesting only to R.E.M. fans. Some excellent covers and outtakes. Too bad we never got an album like this for the Warner Bros. years.
Proof that one man's trash... Those who are not hard core REM heads won't dig this album. However, there are gems to be found here for the rest of us. Especially REM's read on Velvet Underground songs.
junodog4 06/14/2012 03:20 | #44393
Interesting, but there's a reason this is full of B sides. They didn't make the cut before.
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