Spiderland
by Slint

Album
Spiderland by Slint
Year: 1991
Release date: 1991-03-27
Overall rank: 106th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,297 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1991 (4th)
Award Top 20 albums of of the 1990s (20th)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (106th)

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Spiderland track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 87 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Breadcrumb Trail
Average Rating: 90 (361 votes)Comments: View 2
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Nosferatu Man
Average Rating: 87 (320 votes)Comments: View 1
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Don, Aman
Average Rating: 85 (299 votes)Comments: View 1
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Washer
Average Rating: 90 (342 votes)Comments: View 5
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For Dinner...
Average Rating: 81 (280 votes)Comments: View 0
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Good Morning, Captain
Average Rating: 91 (375 votes)Comments: View 8

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Spiderland rankings

Spiderland rankings summary
Overall rank: 106th | 1990s rank: 20th | 1991 rank: 4th  Overall chart history
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From BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
“The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…”
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From 04/24/2026 11:03 | #314131
You have to be very pretentious to love this record in my opinion. An experimental album - yes. A good album - not really. It's an interesting take, interesting point of view, however, it is very overrated. The spoken word thing and the instrumentals are just not it, sounds like a bunch of demos stitched together (Edited)
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40/100
From 04/09/2026 16:05 | #313828
I don't usually post-rock, spoken-word vocals and generally this kind of music but this was passable for me. Washer is a really good track, I love the guitar. It's got a unique chilling sound. The vocals I am still not a huge fan of but there are moments where I enjoyed them. (Edited)
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85/100
From 07/17/2025 02:38 | #310181
Understated music, but what's there is quite good: the two guitars play off each other very well. Interesting narratives, and the music matches the drama of the lyrics. The album creates an eerie mood and in that sense it's quite original. (Edited)
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From 02/02/2025 10:04 | #307358
To add some controversy : The lyrics are spoken , not sung . ( That's fine with me ) . The guitar sounds as if it's strutted for the whole 39 minutes . Maybe they are rehearsing all the time and they've been recorded by incident... .
Sorry i cannot understand the high ratings here . (Edited)
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From 07/11/2024 16:38 | #304235
It took a while for me to really get into this album. At first I thought it was pretty boring, but when I revisited it while walking through the woods I realised how wrong I was. The guitar work is amazing and the vocals are great too. Everything about this album is near perfect actually (Edited)
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