The Stand Ins
by Okkervil River

The Stand Ins by Okkervil River
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-09-09
Overall rank: 9,434th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 67 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2008 (161st)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,647th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,434th)

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Okkervil River bestography

The Stand Ins is ranked 4th 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 3076 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 490.

Okkervil River album bestography « Higher ranked (6,383rd)
The Silver Gymnasium
This album (9,434th)
The Stand Ins
Lower ranked (15,448th) »
I Am Very Far

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

Upcoming concerts

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The New Pornographers with support from Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)
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The New Pornographers with support from Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)
House of Blues Cleveland, Cleveland, United States. United States
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The New Pornographers with Will Sheff of Okkervil River
Chelsea’s Live, Baton Rouge, United States. United States
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The Stand Ins rankings

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Overall rank: 9,434th | 2000s rank: 1,647th | 2008 rank: 161st

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 67 votes)
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09/30/2025 11:10 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  23,76364/100
 
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10/22/2024 02:22 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,63579/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.7.

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From 06/28/2012 16:10 | #45535
This is one of a handful of cases where their album was just as good, and highly similar stylistically, as their last album; and yet, i liked the album a bit less because i've become a bit tired of the "formula". This is simply a "ho hum / show me something new" reaction to an otherwise solid bookend to "The Stage Names". They continue writing songs in the perspective of "people in the limelight". Pop Lie is the best track. Now if they could give me the uncompromising darkness of "Black Sheep Boy" with the matured song-craft of "The Stage Names"/"The Stand-Ins", then i'd be SET.
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