We Can Do Anything
by Violent Femmes
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Violent Femmes bestography
We Can Do Anything is ranked 10th best out of 13 albums by Violent Femmes on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Violent Femmes is Violent Femmes which is ranked number 189 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,793.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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We Can Do Anything track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
We Can Do Anything rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 12 minutes ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | asimpkins | Top 65 Music Albums of 2016 | 50/65 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 80 Music Albums of 2016 | 63/80 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2016 101-200 | 70/100 | - |
| 2017 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 89/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4 | |||
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We Can Do Anything ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/05/2025 21:49 | asimpkins | 3,097 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2020 09:23 | Purplepash | 4,957 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/05/2019 16:06 | Elauqsapid | 2,721 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/01/2018 16:24 | jlinville | 895 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/03/2017 03:39 | AlienCinema | 3,365 | 73/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.9/100, a mean average of 66.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.
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alexgagne 04/06/2016 12:54 | #163401
I totally agree with josh 333. This album is useless in the Violent Femmes discography. I regret to have heard this album and I will listen immediately their eponymous album to keep a positive opinion of this band.
Favorite tracks: Foothills (75), Memory, What You Really Mean (2x 70)
Less favorite tracks: rest of the album
Unsuccessfully tries to capture the teenage magic of their first LP. The audiotory form of a midlife crisis.
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