American Water (studio album) by Silver Jews
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American Water is ranked as the best album by Silver Jews.
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American Water track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 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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50/100  | 05/19/2025 21:20 | brent13 | | 72/100 |
60/100 | 05/02/2025 03:30 | dhbarrett | | 65/100 |
80/100 | 04/28/2025 03:20 | juanr1096 | | 78/100 |
65/100 | 04/23/2025 15:21 | Jakor | | 69/100 |
75/100 | 04/01/2025 07:23 |  Milhaud | | 75/100 |
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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 78.3/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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A decent enough album but….. it doesn’t really grab me. Not half as good as it’s predecessor, the natural bridge which is an absolute classic. Not too disappointed with this but not sure how many times I will be playing it
teague 07/10/2020 06:15
Nothing particularly interesting, but it seems like they're not really trying to write the most mind blowing material in the world. The quality of songs dips pretty hard after the first two or three tracks.
I just discovered this album. It's one of those you can't believe has existed all this time without you knowing about it. Absolutely love it.
NoeSSS 03/12/2016 18:09
This has to be the strangest Pavement record
Dingerbell 01/13/2014 20:03
People is absolutely amazing. One of the best I've heard.
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