Slippery People (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1983
From the album Speaking In Tongues (track #4)
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Slippery People appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- Stop Making Sense (track #3) (1984)
- Speaking In Tongues (track #4) (this album) (1983)
- Brick (track #45) (compilation) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/07/2026 16:36 |  Tamthebam | 46,061 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/10/2026 14:09 | Siromynian | 19,267 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 15:48 |  DommeDamian | 77,865 | 51/100 |
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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 84.6/100, a mean average of 84.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.2.
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DeusExMackia 06/30/2021 07:48 | #271173
So absurdly groovy and minimal...that thumping Boogie beat is just world class, and whatever they're doing to Byrne's vocals is mesmerising. (Edited)
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