Translate Slowly
by Zeitgeist (US)
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Zeitgeist (US) bestography
The best album by The Reivers is Translate Slowly which is ranked number 7933 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 160.
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Translate Slowly track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Translate Slowly rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 29 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 46 Music Albums of 1985 | 31/46 | 2 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 93/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | JamesMowbray | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | Joe4242 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 2/40 | 83 |
| 2024 | jlinville | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 2/100 | 73 |
| 2023 | dhbarrett | Top 23 Music Albums of 1988 | 18/23 | - |
| 2023 | cicadelic | L.A. Times HILBURN’S BEST LP’S OF ’85 | 70/99 | - |
| 2022 |  buzzdainer | Top 39 Music Albums of 1988 | 36/39 | - |
| 1986 | OOR | Jaarlijst Oor 1986 | 63/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 160 | |||
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Translate Slowly ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 01/25/2026 02:34 |  MadhattanJack | 5,994 | 66/100 |
| ! | 10/09/2025 19:34 | dihansse | 6,364 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2025 10:03 | JamesMowbray | 5,620 | 69/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2025 19:55 | Joe4242 | 11 | 96/100 |
| ! | 03/02/2023 14:41 | TonySayers61 | 25,274 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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The Reivers (Formerly Zeitgeist) put out this debut album which I discovered a few years later right after they'd disbanded. It is hard to categorize this extremely literary, impressionistic cowboy jangle pop; so why try? I love this album. I love Kim and John's voices and the woe-woes and boh-dah-bohs. John's writing painted incredible pictures without specificity. They are lyrics to be studied or to float in the background. They are real poetry.
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