Sapokanikan (track) by Joanna Newsom
Sapokanikan appears on the following album(s) by Joanna Newsom:
- Divers (track #2) (this album) (2015)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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90/100  | 10/22/2023 13:59 | HPumphrey | | 84/100 |
75/100 | 10/05/2023 10:11 |  Tamthebam | | 79/100 |
85/100 | 08/17/2023 15:38 |  flamingyesdept | | 83/100 |
90/100 | 05/20/2023 07:03 | Aaron98 | | 90/100 |
95/100 | 05/07/2023 04:00 | Absurdities18 | | 82/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.1/100, a mean average of 86.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 17.1.
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Fishmans 11/03/2015 15:25
I believe this song is about the 21st century and the past. And how everything that was once sacred is beneath the cities and concrete.
"For the Western front where our work might count
O mercy! O God!
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
And what lies under the city is gone"
"Beneath a patch of grass, her
Bones the old Dutch master hid"
"Interred with other daughters
In dirt in other potters' fields
Above them, parades
Mark the passing of days
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel"
There's a lot more examples, but anyway that's just my personal theory. It's quite a sad song I think. "Look and despair."
Behrus58 10/31/2015 16:00
"The tributes we have left to rust in the parks"
In the Top 5 Tracks of 2015. The reason it's not the best, is because 2015 is the Best year in Music, ever.
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