I Often Dream Of Trains
by Robyn Hitchcock
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I Often Dream Of Trains is ranked as the best album by Robyn Hitchcock.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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| 01/24/2026 00:36 |  LedZep | 4,930 | 79/100 | |
| 05/20/2025 14:16 | JamesMowbray | 5,378 | 69/100 | |
| 03/20/2025 21:27 | TheHutts | 2,033 | 76/100 | |
| 12/27/2024 03:55 | davidleewrong | 2,337 | 81/100 | |
| 11/28/2024 03:42 |  slatsheit | 2,041 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.9.
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TheDude85 04/21/2019 12:06 | #235317
OMG! Such a discovery for me! Mostly strummed acoustic guitar and Hitchcock's voice spewing weird and wonderful lyrics about creatures great and small, like furry green atom bowls, and looking at one's self in the shower. A beautiful twisty peek into a warped and whacky, kaleidoscopic mind of a demented soul. This one is a keeper and started me down the path to Hitchcock's entire catalogue. Sadly, I am currently in the search for a replacement for my 4th copy of this album.
ddeeddles64 04/14/2018 07:25 | #212845
One of those albums that creates its own world. It's a fog-bound England where the trams and trains are spirit-powered. Plus those warnings about child rearing.
Sandrof1969 02/17/2018 12:30 | #208530
All'ex "ragazzo soffice" Robyn Hitchcock basta un niente per creare il suo capolavoro, anzi meno cose maneggia, meglio fa. Gli basta infatti una chitarra acustica, al più un basso ( acustico pure quello ), rarissime amplificazioni; a volte anche solo la voce a cappella. In questo modo riesce a focalizzare meglio le sue visioni da Syd Barrett non bruciato dall'acido, a far veicolare meglio la sostanza senza che a prevalere sia la forma.
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