Silver (track) by Pixies

Silver by Pixies
Year: 1989
From the album Doolittle (track #14)
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 553 votes)
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Silver ratings

Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 553 votes)
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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.5/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.1.

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Rating:  
70/100
From 12/26/2020 18:24
Giving this 100/100 just does a massive disservice to the far better tracks on this album and the myriad of great songs that exist throughout the music world.

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70/100
From 10/31/2020 22:38
Glaringly the weakest song on the album. Real good stand-alone song, though. A testament to how amazing the rest of the album is.
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70/100
From 07/08/2019 10:31
Nice to have a slow, atmospheric one before Gouge Away, but this is the only time the album drags a little for me.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 09/29/2018 03:18
Underrated by too many...
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Rating:  
100/100
From 10/24/2017 21:40
Possibly the most underrated Pixies track ever. Hauntingly gorgeous.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 05/17/2017 20:27
This eerie Kim Deal-led song probably deserves a little more love than it gets on BEA, though it rightly gets overshadowed by the peppier and more memorable tracks on Doolittle. Deal, usually the bassist, adds some creepy work on the slide guitar.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 04/06/2017 10:51
Eerie track!
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Rating:  
80/100
From 05/16/2016 12:56
Those weird voices and that slider makes for a very special song.
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Rating:  
65/100
From 01/13/2015 23:08
A haunting track, I can see the similarities with Nirvana
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Rating:  
100/100
From 05/17/2014 22:09
How is THIS the worst rated track???
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