You Want It Darker (track)
by Leonard Cohen
Year: 2016
From the album You Want It Darker (track #1)
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You Want It Darker appears on the following album(s) by Leonard Cohen:
- You Want It Darker (track #1) (this album) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 25,855 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/02/2025 08:39 | 31,393 | 81/100 | |
| ! | 05/29/2025 15:40 | andyd1010 | 1,843 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/17/2025 05:24 | 34,155 | 76/100 | |
| ! | 05/01/2025 22:25 | ootsp | 910 | 82/100 |
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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 88.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.8.
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