The Stage Names
by Okkervil River
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Okkervil River bestography
The Stage Names is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by Okkervil River on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Okkervil River is Black Sheep Boy which is ranked number 3149 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 486.
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The Stage Names track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| ! | 07/27/2026 10:05 |  Martini | 758 | 95/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 02:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,468 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2026 23:01 |  Milhaud | 2,143 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 00:10 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 19:31 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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buzzdainer 10/06/2016 19:21 | #176442 | TOP COMMENT
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The Stage Names contains several of Okkervil River's best songs, including the wonderful loud rocker "Unless It's Kicks" and the Beach Boys tribute "John Allyn Smith Sails." But the song I want to discuss with you is "A Girl in Port," a piano-driven ballad that explores, deeply and profoundly, the complicated and intimate relationship between musicians and their fans, the powerful thing that happens when the needle hits the groove. Toward the end of the song come these unexpected knockout lines: "These several years out on the sea / Have made me empty, cold and clear / Pour yourself into me." A woman I know once quoted these lines in her blog, and it was then, immediately, that I knew I loved her.
Unless it's Kicks is grand, but the rest of it comes up a bit short of Black Sheep Boy. Still, Okkervil River is always a blast.
paladisiac 12/14/2011 14:30 | #32926 | TOP COMMENT
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About as dark as "Black Sheep Boy" and more rockin' but leaves me feeling it's a bit too brief coming in at 9 songs ending with a cool tie-in to the "sloop john b" chronicling the adverse effects of fame and general notoriety. Best track = "plus ones". (Wish "the president's dead" could've been included!)
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