The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (compilation album)
by The Magnetic Fields
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The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees is ranked 13th best out of 15 albums by The Magnetic Fields on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Magnetic Fields is 69 Love Songs which is ranked number 508 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,457.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (3 out of 21 tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 03/22/2023 23:22 |  mickilennial | | 91/100 |
70/100 | 01/22/2023 10:18 | Moondance | | 72/100 |
70/100 | 11/09/2022 23:13 |  Arthurknight | | 72/100 |
75/100 | 08/24/2022 03:15 |  Handpora | | 82/100 |
70/100 | 07/30/2022 20:20 |  imacgill | | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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Many consider The Magnetic Fields one of the essential acts in alternative music. Usually, this claim is immediately defended with mentions of Stephin Merritt's songwriting and vision. While I could never knock one of the greatest pop figures of our times or diminish the fact that the Fields really are his brainchild, I will fight to the grave the notion that The Magnetic Fields were not at their absolute peak under their early female vocalist Susan Anway. The delicacy of her delivery combined with whatever you want to chock up Merritt's songwriting to - starry-eyed youth, a keen cleverness - resulted in one of the most serene, delectable dishes in the indie lexicon.
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