The Suburbs (track)
by Arcade Fire
The Suburbs appears on the following album(s) by Arcade Fire:
- The Suburbs (track #1) (this album) (2010)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/26/2026 11:03 | Siromynian | 18,594 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/30/2026 20:28 | Exist-en-ciel | 170,179 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/26/2026 16:17 | Bjartmar03 | 3,235 | 80/100 |
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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 91.3/100, a mean average of 90.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.6.
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cestuneblague 07/28/2017 07:39 | #195030
Essentially Win's "Waterloo Sunset", but much more cryptic with it's specific hometown references and replaces the more nostalgic romanticism of the Davies song with an allegorical, apocalyptic malaise.
This is an amazing song. It reminds me of something out of the past. Good on the band!
Fantastic opener and comfortably the best track on the album. (Edited)
Their best song, when I first heard it in 2010 I thought it was something from the 90's.
I felt nostalgia
One of their best songs
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