Answering Machine (track)
by The Replacements
Year: 1984
From the album Let It Be (track #11)
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Answering Machine appears on the following album(s) by The Replacements:
- Let It Be (track #11) (this album) (1984)
- For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986 (track #20) (2017)
- Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of The Replacements (track #7) (compilation) (2006)
- Dead Man's Pop (track #44) (compilation) (2019)
- The Complete Inconcerated Live (track #13) (2020)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/17/2025 17:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,959 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/27/2025 22:15 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,498 | 100/100 |
| ! | 09/17/2025 06:42 | mash | 4,269 | 92/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2025 15:53 |  AlvaroIesus | 4,416 | 87/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2025 07:14 |  Igtonumama | 31,393 | 81/100 |
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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 85.2/100, a mean average of 85.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.7.
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Onater 04/08/2017 04:27 | #188888
It's incredible how much energy and passion is packed into this song that is, except for the very end, just vocals and electric guitar.
could use some more instrumentation
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