The Widow (track)
by The Mars Volta
The Widow appears on the following album(s) by The Mars Volta:
- Frances The Mute (track #2) (this album) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/26/2025 15:53 | Exist-en-ciel | 55,039 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/04/2025 15:08 | FrancK | 4,460 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/16/2024 06:51 |  Tamthebam | 44,466 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2024 18:30 |  DommeDamian | 72,625 | 51/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2023 14:55 | zomg101 | 11,437 | 74/100 |
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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 86.2/100, a mean average of 85.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.2.
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soundguardian 12/18/2014 03:22 | #129590
The first half of the track is brilliant, but that's almost ruined when it enters shaky territory of experimental-sounding organ and electronic spasms. Not only is this non-radio-friendly, but it seems unfitting and disjoint from the highly structured and short piece that precedes this rather strange and long outro.
Although the outro is by no means ineffective, and it's actually kind of fascinating to listen to it, it seems mis-sorted, like the snippet should have been placed at a different time on the album. If anything, it could've possibly stood alone as a separate instrumental track. Instead, it draws "The Widow" out, breaks any hopes for the track to be regarded with the greats that perfectly justify form and length.
However, I feel inclined to rate the track based only on the single version of the song, since it's beautiful in lyrics, mood, and composition. 90/100
17 December 2014
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