Find The River (track)
by R.E.M.
Year: 1992
From the album Automatic For The People (track #12)
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Find The River appears on the following album(s) by R.E.M.:
- Automatic For The People (track #12) (this album) (1992)
- Unplugged 1991 & 2001 - The Complete Sessions (track #27) (2014)
- Unplugged 2001 (track #10) (2014)
- Complete Studio Albums 1988-1996 (track #34) (compilation) (2014)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/02/2025 09:07 | mash | 4,100 | 92/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 02:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 26,701 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2025 23:06 |  Superunknown | 506 | 86/100 |
| ! | 08/21/2025 07:34 | Juneof44 | 2,959 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/14/2025 10:51 |  II | 3,963 | 71/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 87.3/100, a mean average of 86.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.
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How can a song follow Nightswimming and still be mindblowing? Well Find the River does just this. What an stunning ending of a classic album.
If I have the privilege of hearing one last song before I die of old age or sickness, this is it.
Once again, I agree with Jason.
Jasonconfused 01/21/2013 23:04 | #62427
Cool, chill way to close out the album. Beautifully done.
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