Lunacy (track)
by Swans
Lunacy appears on the following album(s) by Swans:
- The Seer (track #1) (this album) (2012)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/30/2025 16:55 | Exist-en-ciel | 25,249 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/19/2025 20:45 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,081 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/01/2025 20:21 | Pepeov | 6,355 | 78/100 |
| ! | 03/19/2025 19:14 | Siromynian | 15,175 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/28/2024 12:31 | snooppigg | 10,317 | 77/100 |
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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 87.9/100, a mean average of 87.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.0.
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corenfro 05/27/2017 19:27 | #191531
Great track. I don't think they needed so many repetitions of "lunacy" of the childhood lyric. This could have been a 4 minute track.
This starts strong with an epic intro that reminds easily of their previous album My father will guide me up a rope.
And continues with a haunting extremely distorted guitar, at the end of it...
A child-like voice repeats: The childhood is over
How strange
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