Heartbeats (track)
by The Knife
Heartbeats appears on the following album(s) by The Knife:
- Deep Cuts (track #1) (this album) (2003)
- Silent Shout (An Audio Visual Experience) (track #8) (2006)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/03/2026 06:57 | Exist-en-ciel | 168,049 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2025 23:29 | Spartakist | 2,107 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2025 18:27 |  flamingyesdept | 16,017 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2024 02:57 | sunnydhamm | 18,628 | 57/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2024 04:20 |  CassidyInc | 1,658 | 100/100 |
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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 88.4/100, a mean average of 87.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.2.
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soundguardian 07/18/2014 22:06 | #117025
Quite possibly one of the most-scandalously-overlooked tracks of the early 00's - to the point that on first hearing it today I couldn't resist commenting and rating. To the point that I have overlooked it or have never been exposed to it for nearly 11 years of its existence. And, to the point that only 1 1/2 minutes into listening to "Heartbeats" for the first time, I realized that this belonged with the sounds of legend.
I'll keep this short, but with its impeccable sound production, really, and that funky bass line, the rhythmic and panned, weird, wobbly or synthy electronic sounds, all melding into the texture with the lead singer's vocals, the piece is a tour de force of a synthpop listening experience. It's clear that The Knife's been influenced by techno/trip-hop/grime greats, while in turn influencing a new generation of electronic acts.
strafvollzieher 02/01/2014 02:25 | #101976
This song never gets old. It's timeless.
(I´m still not sure if it's a love song from children's perspective. Or is this song declaring denial of a higher entity?)
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