Should Have Known Better (track)
by Sufjan Stevens
Year: 2015
From the album Carrie & Lowell (track #2)
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Should Have Known Better appears on the following album(s) by Sufjan Stevens:
- Carrie & Lowell (track #2) (this album) (2015)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 04/24/2026 10:59 | stanchoiaz | 978 | 84/100 | |
| 04/20/2026 01:51 |  imacgill | 32,058 | 81/100 | |
| 03/31/2026 21:09 | alexandermause | 17,790 | 85/100 | |
| 01/22/2026 18:36 | StevenSerrao101 | 36 | 89/100 | |
| 01/13/2026 10:48 | aramsamsam | 335 | 67/100 |
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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 91.8/100, a mean average of 90.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.8.
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Beautiful piece of song writing. At 2:40 I get goosebumps, some of the lyrics really resonate with me. My favourite on the album.
What a beautiful song! It does remind me of paranoid android in the guitar but you can see that this song is so much more!
corenfro 06/04/2017 02:59 | #191946
Sort of like a folk paranoid android.
Daydreamer 02/25/2017 10:45 | #186318
One of the best songs of 2015, that second half is filled with such beautiful melodies.
koner1 05/01/2015 01:53 | #140610
the keyboard in the second half gives me flashbacks to Jim Wise, and also I think this might be my favorite song by Sufjan
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