In The Backseat (track)
by Arcade Fire
In The Backseat appears on the following album(s) by Arcade Fire:
- Funeral (track #10) (this album) (2004)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 80,819 | 70/100 | |
| 02/25/2026 15:47 | machiaj | 9,085 | 74/100 | |
| 01/11/2026 13:17 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 | |
| 10/13/2025 23:39 |  Superunknown | 507 | 86/100 | |
| 10/09/2025 15:00 | Rayzer6 | 19,009 | 89/100 |
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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 88.2/100, a mean average of 87.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.0.
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This is my favourite ever song.
Regine's voice and the last 2/3 minutes of this song might be the most UNDERRATED thing on the album IMO
Beautiful conclusion to the whole thing, sums up the theme of the album perfectly. Regine's voice builds up a general childishness and innocence along with the lyrics, and then the belting in the last couple minutes or so brings everything to a head emotionally. I love the last minute of the song as well. The rising piano chords are just really pretty. This is the first song that I remember bringing me to tears. I was in my late teens. Given the general theme of the track it must've evoked something.
I find it easy to get swept away with the obvious tracks when it comes to discussing Arcade Fire's best song (Wake Up, Tunnels, Rebellion, Keep The Car Running, No Cars Go, Intervention, Sprawl 2, The Suburbs, Reflektor, Afterlife etc.), but I think this somehow always felt like the most poignant thing they've ever done at least for me personally.
slurpdurp 01/07/2017 21:04 | #181974
A beautiful song made stronger by the beautiful metaphor that it is written around.
Nice finish to a great album!
This is right up there for best all-time concluding track on an album.
Space-Dementia 01/10/2016 19:25 | #156232
There's so much emotion in her voice. It's such a sad but uplifting story told in song.
LAF2 04/22/2015 00:00 | #139990
Probably the best song on the album. Definitely the most emotional.
GandalfORiley345 05/10/2014 00:08 | #111388
This song it´s better than the must of the others because it sing it a women as the best, and the guitars and lyrics are beautiful
Anti 02/22/2014 02:32 | #103955
Absolutely beautiful.
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