What's He Building? (track)
by Tom Waits
Year: 1999
From the album Mule Variations (track #8)
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What's He Building? appears on the following album(s) by Tom Waits:
- Mule Variations (track #8) (this album) (1999)
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| 02/03/2026 20:17 |  JR | 3,502 | 88/100 | |
| 12/14/2025 15:47 | Exist-en-ciel | 84,529 | 71/100 | |
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This track is rated in the top 6% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.2/100, a mean average of 80.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.3.
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Whatever he's building in there, it can't be good.
I don't know, please stop asking me
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