Sink Or Swim (studio album)
by The Gaslight Anthem

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Sink Or Swim by The Gaslight Anthem
Year: 2007
Release date: 2007-05-29
Overall rank: 9,889th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 52 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 2007 (174th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,734th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,889th)

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The Gaslight Anthem bestography

Sink Or Swim is ranked 5th best out of 11 albums by The Gaslight Anthem on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Gaslight Anthem is The '59 Sound which is ranked number 1335 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,280.

The Gaslight Anthem album bestography « Higher ranked (9,882nd)
Get Hurt This album (9,889th)
Sink Or Swim Lower ranked (15,679th) »
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Sink Or Swim track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Boomboxes And Dictionaries
Average Rating: 77 (13 votes)Comments: View 0
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I Coul'da Been A Contender
Average Rating: 77 (13 votes)Comments: View 0
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Wooderson
Average Rating: 77 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
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We Came To Dance
Average Rating: 79 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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1930
Average Rating: 82 (18 votes)Comments: View 1
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The Navesink Banks
Average Rating: 80 (16 votes)Comments: View 0
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Red In The Morning
Average Rating: 76 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
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I'da Called You Woody, Joe
Average Rating: 79 (15 votes)Comments: View 0
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Angry Johnny And The Radio
Average Rating: 77 (13 votes)Comments: View 1
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Drive
Average Rating: 77 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
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We're Getting A Divorce You Keep The Diner
Average Rating: 75 (12 votes)Comments: View 1
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Red At Night
Average Rating: 79 (14 votes)Comments: View 0
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Sink Or Swim rankings

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Overall rank: 9,889th | 2000s rank: 1,734th | 2007 rank: 174th

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Sink Or Swim ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 52 votes)
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 !		11/13/2025 14:24 AledJames   1,44969/100
 
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 !		09/24/2025 08:19 TonySayers61   23,21564/100
 
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 !		08/24/2025 11:13 Ilovesuicide   32568/100
 
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 !		01/23/2025 15:43 Milhaud   1,66870/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.

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From 10/03/2021 21:10 | #274636
Sink or Swim is the debut album from Gaslight Anthem. The group originated as orgcore (an unofficial genre classified by popular albums on the site Punknews.org) and make a wonderful energetic set here. Acoustic folk gems are found at the end of each side: Red in the Morning and Red at Night. They would never again be so lively.

Condensed to a 7" Single:
A-Side: Drive
B-Side: Red at Night
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85/100
From 03/14/2021 18:20 | #267375
Completely agree with NoAlarms on this one. I am constantly going back and forth on whether I prefer this or '59 Sound (not a huge fan of Gaslight's output after their first two).

Incredibly consistent throughout, and the slower tempo acoustic tracks at the midpoint and the end work nicely. Lyrics are a bit vanilla at times, but I enjoyed some of the musical references to Clash, Dylan, etc.. Favorite part might be the heavy/soft juxtaposition of 1930 and the Navesink Banks back-to-back, or the outro to Angry Johnny.
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From 03/29/2020 03:00 | #249228
This album is ridiculously slept on....In some ways it's better than The '59 Sound
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