Handshake Drugs (track)
by Wilco
Year: 2004
From the album A Ghost Is Born (track #6)
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Handshake Drugs appears on the following album(s) by Wilco:
- A Ghost Is Born (track #6) (this album) (2004)
- Kicking Television Live In Chicago (track #5) (2005)
- More Like The Moon EP (track #2) (2003)
- Live At The Pitchfork Music Festival (track #11) (2015)
- What's Your 20? (Essential Tracks 1994-2014) (track #28) (compilation) (2014)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/01/2026 03:18 |  imacgill | 33,094 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 15:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 169,532 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2026 07:26 | Juneof44 | 4,709 | 73/100 |
| ! | 02/23/2026 22:41 | wizardalien | 9,967 | 61/100 |
| ! | 12/30/2025 01:15 |  AAL2014 | 40,843 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.0/100, a mean average of 84.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.6.
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The best song of Wilco so far. I’ve seem them live ten times and they played Handshake Drugs almost every concert! Welcome to Holland, Wilco! Also in 2025? (Edited)
koner1 08/29/2014 18:26 | #120741
my favorite from this album
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