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Where to start with The Walkmen
Start with They're Winning — Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone, 2002. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 25 The Walkmen tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 25 The Walkmen tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 25 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 13 of the 25 tracks come from Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone alone.
The years need a caveat: 24 of 25 dated tracks land in the 2000s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under indie rock; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The energy knob swings 62 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
They're Winning — Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone, 2002. Of the 25 The Walkmen tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
No Christmas While I'm Talking — Bows + Arrows, 2004. The lowest energy reading of any The Walkmen track in the room (30 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
The Rat — Bows + Arrows, 2004. The highest energy reading here, at 92 out of 100 — a 62-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where The Walkmen sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are The Walkmen's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 43 | 32–58 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 49 | 30–92 | ambient → driving |
| density | 57 | 48–75 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 45 | 32–60 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 | 13 |
| Bows + Arrows | 2004 | 11 |
| Heaven | 2012 | 1 |
Every The Walkmen track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| French Vacation | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| I'm Never Bored | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| It Should Take a While | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| Revenge Wears No Wristwatch | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| Roll Down the Line | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| Rue the Day | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| Stop Talking | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| That's the Punch Line | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| The Blizzard Of '96 | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| They're Winning | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| Wake Up | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| We've Been Had | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 2002 |
| 138th Street | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| Bows + Arrows | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| Hang on Siobhan | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| Little House of Savages | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| My Old Man | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| New Year's Eve | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| No Christmas While I'm Talking | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| The North Pole | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| The Rat | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| Thinking of a Dream I Had | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| What's in It for Me | Bows + Arrows | 2004 |
| Heaven | Heaven | 2012 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to The Walkmen's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Grizzly Bear — indie rock, 67 tracks
- Where to start with The Wake — post-punk, 23 tracks
- Where to start with Wayne Shorter — bebop, 36 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists The Walkmen as a group, from New York, the United States and formed in 2000. Its contributors tag the artist indie rock, post-punk revival and rock and indie. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many The Walkmen tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 25, across 3 albums. 25 of them carry a date, running from 2002 to 2012. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 25 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 25 of these 25 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.