Down Down The Deep River (track)
by Okkervil River
Year: 2013
From the album The Silver Gymnasium (track #3)
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Down Down The Deep River appears on the following album(s) by Okkervil River:
- The Silver Gymnasium (track #3) (this album) (2013)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/16/2025 18:54 | bea | 19,959 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/06/2023 14:32 | Johnnyo | 41,644 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2021 20:25 | StreakyNuno | 3,797 | 92/100 |
| ! | 12/28/2020 21:10 |  dihansse | 66,557 | 76/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2020 02:13 |  Purplepash | 33,569 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 7% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 82.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.5.
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buzzdainer 11/30/2017 22:53 | #202404
A genuinely brilliant track that sounds very inspired by eighties synth pop, but also feels fresh. The song's central narrative evokes growing up in a small New England town, with its cast of shadowy characters ("We lie awake at night in a tent and I say, / Tell me about your uncle and his friend / because they seem like very bad men. / Well we oughtta keep away from them." These lines aren't delivered in a dramatic or fearful way, just the matter-of-fact way that a kid might explain a thing he doesn't know isn't quite right. Subtly and effectively done.
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