High Water (track)
by Uncle Tupelo
High Water appears on the following album(s) by Uncle Tupelo:
- Anodyne (track #10) (this album) (1993)
- Live At Lounge Ax / March 24, 1994 (track #14) (2020)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/16/2026 20:16 | Fevernova | 34,540 | 82/100 |
| ! | 04/12/2026 08:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 171,956 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/08/2026 00:40 |  Purplepash | 35,595 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 11% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 79.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.5.
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/13/2016 19:18 | #172860
One of Uncle Tupelo's calling cards was their ability to identify with the middle-class everyman, the frustration one feels at losing an economic game he never wished to participate in, as in Jay Farrar's lyrics: "You can't break even / You can't even quit the game." Farrar's singing is complemented perfectly here by Max Johnston's outstanding work on lap steel guitar. A great, and much underappreciated, song.
