Cutting Stone (track)
by The Decemberists
Year: 2018
From the album I'll Be Your Girl (track #2)
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Cutting Stone appears on the following album(s) by The Decemberists:
- I'll Be Your Girl (track #2) (this album) (2018)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 09/01/2025 17:13 |  ExTeaSea | 12,771 | 85/100 | |
| 02/02/2023 16:28 |  identifer | 874 | 88/100 | |
| 02/21/2021 05:57 | JoeyBones1986 | 1,987 | 88/100 | |
| 02/20/2021 19:09 | panapsal | 15,099 | 84/100 | |
| 03/24/2019 08:30 |  tw1nk | 1,270 | 85/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.5.
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paladisiac 03/19/2018 19:50 | #211289
Track #2 is the first that is like a fully-realized song. Still awash in (mischievous) synthesizers, this melancholy tale of the cutting stone features some late 70s / early 80s style basis and pleasant harmonies.
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