Burning Down The House (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1983
From the album Speaking In Tongues (track #1)
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Burning Down The House appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- Stop Making Sense (track #4) (1984)
- Speaking In Tongues (track #1) (this album) (1983)
- Popular Favorites 1976-1992 - Sand In The Vaseline (track #16) (compilation) (1992)
- The Best Of Talking Heads (track #13) (compilation) (2004)
- Brick Box Set (track #42) (compilation) (2005)
- Once In A Lifetime: The Best Of- (track #4) (compilation) (1992)
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95/100 | 08/30/2025 14:48 | gmessian | | 55/100 |
85/100 | 08/08/2025 23:40 | BurndenAce | | 79/100 |
100/100 | 08/08/2025 20:50 |  BroknsocialShawn | | 85/100 |
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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 89.7/100, a mean average of 89.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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Romanelli 07/26/2012 23:30
Excellent funky quirky tune, what this band was best at. One of the more enduring hits of the decade.
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