It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career (track)
by Belle And Sebastian
Year: 1998
From the album The Boy With The Arab Strap (track #1)
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It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career appears on the following album(s) by Belle And Sebastian:
- The Boy With The Arab Strap (track #1) (this album) (1998)
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100/100  | 09/20/2025 16:09 | inthishole | | 87/100 |
90/100 | 09/07/2025 04:25 | brent13 | | 85/100 |
90/100 | 08/19/2025 16:52 |  AlvaroIesus | | 87/100 |
95/100 | 08/18/2025 17:36 |  Igtonumama | | 81/100 |
90/100 | 05/22/2024 10:28 |  luigybetis | | 89/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.6/100, a mean average of 84.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.4.
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