The Weight (track)
by The Band
Year: 1968
From the album Music From Big Pink (track #5)
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The Weight appears on the following album(s) by The Band:
- Music From Big Pink (track #5) (this album) (1968)
- Rock Of Ages (The Band In Concert) (track #11) (1972)
- Greatest Hits (track #1) (compilation) (2000)
- To Kingdom Come (track #6) (compilation) (1989)
- Palladium Circles (track #4) (2015)
- Anthology (track #1) (compilation) (1978)
- The Best Of The Band (track #3) (compilation) (1976)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 12/18/2025 21:46 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,021 | 70/100 | |
| 11/20/2025 08:41 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 | |
| 10/27/2025 14:44 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 | |
| 10/07/2025 03:40 | Toffuey | 2,276 | 85/100 | |
| 08/18/2025 15:51 | mattmaster | 66 | 85/100 |
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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 91.1/100, a mean average of 90.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.6.
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Truly one of the best songs ever written. So genuine and masterful, yet simple and relatable. It is a great story set to wonderfully pleasing music by one of the best groups of all time.
One of the best songs of the 60s
GandalfORiley345 02/11/2015 04:16 | #134689
May be the most beautiful, fresh song in the work, just an immortal classic
I like it but I won't say it is their anthem
Romanelli 01/22/2012 23:52 | #35678
Just simply a well written classic. Great vocals, sounds like a true group effort.
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