Closing Time (track)
by Tom Waits
Closing Time appears on the following album(s) by Tom Waits:
- Closing Time (track #12) (this album) (1973)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/06/2025 09:29 | Exist-en-ciel | 32,619 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2025 14:37 | bronestock | 1,187 | 82/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2025 03:05 |  AAL2014 | 34,364 | 76/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2025 19:21 |  dihansse | 66,552 | 76/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2024 02:19 |  imacgill | 29,743 | 81/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.3/100, a mean average of 80.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.9.
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buzzdainer 09/04/2016 17:50 | #174265
The album ends with this somber instrumental track that concludes the album on a somewhat down note. Compared to the rest of the album, this is a relatively slight song, since by now we've heard lots of piano and tenor sax up to this point. But it's probably an appropriately contemplative way to end. You can imagine listening to the album on vinyl back in the mid-seventies, beer in hand, window open to the sounds of the urban night, as the final notes to this song drift off and the needle begins to skip against the inside grooves of the record.
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