Down With Wilco
by The Minus 5
The Minus 5 bestography
Down With Wilco is ranked as the best album by The Minus 5.
(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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Down With Wilco track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Down With Wilco rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 99 Music Albums of 2003 | 36/99 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 75/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top albums, #1201-1300* | 33/80 | - |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Top 79 Music Albums of 2003 | 79/79 | 0 |
| 2024 | paladisiac | 2000s, #101-200 | 55/100 | - |
| 2022 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 16/100 | 4 |
| 2020 | paladisiac | !You've Been Caught Sleeping! (p01) | 99/100 | - |
| 2018 | justicialism | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 20/40 | 13 |
| 2013 | kelp | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 38/40 | - |
| 2003 | Iguana | Albums Of The Year 2003 | 78/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 23 | |||
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Down With Wilco ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12/30/2025 07:32 | cicadelic | 11,536 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/17/2025 20:41 | traistboar | 1,482 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/31/2025 04:56 |  Nacho212 | 1,876 | 72/100 |
| ! | 06/13/2024 20:55 | Skerns | 5,061 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/23/2023 16:06 | Pluto11 | 11,739 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.8/100, a mean average of 69.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.2.
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paladisiac 01/03/2012 20:20 | #34329
The Minus 5 are an indie-pop/rock collective helmed by Scott McCaughey often collaborating with R.E.M.'s Peter Buck along with a multitude of other artists. On "down with wilco" they feature 4 members of...wilco (fresh off "yankee hotel foxtrot") across most tracks, sporting their instrumental proficiency and americana but not the experimentalism. This makes for a good set of songs from "the days of wine and booze" to "dear employer (the reason i quit)" with funny lines like "i'm dj mini-mart, cuz that's where i work" and "There's nothing worse than a narcissist / Working a disaster nurse / She ends up versus the goddamn / Centre of the universe". Or on "i'm not bitter" -- "Bitterness is reserved for stupid people / Not for someone intelligent like me" -- because he's "not bitter / just a lot". Tweedy sings on "The Town That Lost Its Groove Supply" and "The Family Gardener". The Minus 5 are one of those artists representing the antithesis of indie rock, witty and disarming, mundane and self-referential.
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