What Sarah Said (track)
by Death Cab For Cutie
What Sarah Said appears on the following album(s) by Death Cab For Cutie:
- Plans (track #9) (this album) (2005)
Upcoming concerts
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/14/2025 07:17 | Exist-en-ciel | 53,243 | 71/100 |
| ! | 10/15/2025 13:23 |  AAL2014 | 35,044 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 19:51 |  Igtonumama | 31,393 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2025 20:15 |  dihansse | 66,680 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/25/2024 18:36 | araidernomore | 4,197 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.0/100, a mean average of 82.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.1.
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AAL2014 01/18/2022 01:43 | #279613
On top of the very nice piano and remarkably devastating lyrics, the drumming on here is outstanding. I love Jason McGerr’s groove/syncopation selection on this track. It’s like if Neil Peart played on the last couple Talk Talk records.
I don't see how you DCFC could have done better than what they did for this song. Lyrically and musically, this song couldn't be more perfect.
Long, but good.
Romanelli 11/03/2013 19:45 | #90483
Very good, but also very unremarkable. Not the strongest track here by far.
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