Girlfriend Is Better (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1984
From the album Stop Making Sense (track #5)
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Girlfriend Is Better appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- Stop Making Sense (track #5) (this album) (1984)
- Speaking In Tongues (track #3) (1983)
- The Best Of Talking Heads (track #12) (compilation) (2004)
- Brick Box Set (track #44) (compilation) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 02/06/2026 21:43 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 |
| ! | 02/01/2026 01:17 | culwin | 20,417 | 75/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 20:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,796 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2025 22:40 | daCritic | 34,697 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2025 07:56 | zsolti | 6,816 | 80/100 |
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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 86.5/100, a mean average of 86.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.6.
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DeusExMackia 02/21/2021 13:09 | #266574
I'm a big stickler for rhythm and songs that make you want to play them loud enough to be heard 40 miles away, but this is just in another league entirely. Talk about songs that make you cry, how about songs that are so astonishing you well up for the sake of it?
The fleetingness of human connection is turned menacing, foreboding, euphoric even on this. Everyone's running out of time get with someone on the dance floor, for fear that if you don't, it represents a sense that you're running out of time for life itself. Girlfriend Is Better borders on the high concept and cuts deep into the human pysche.
A blisteringly good live rendition that is so immaculate and complete, it's almost overwhelming to comprehend. This is just simply one of the most intense releases of sonic energy I've ever witnessed, not to mention the god damn suit.
2 stars alone goes to that "AS WE GET OLDER, AND STOP MAKING SENSE...MAKING SENSE, MAKING SENSE, MAKING SENSE" section, lyricism for the ages.
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