Terrible Lie (track)
by Nine Inch Nails
Year: 1989
From the album Pretty Hate Machine (track #2)
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Terrible Lie appears on the following album(s) by Nine Inch Nails:
- Pretty Hate Machine (track #2) (this album) (1989)
- And All That Could Have Been (track #1) (2002)
- Halo I-IV (track #5) (compilation) (2015)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 03/13/2026 13:01 | Exist-en-ciel | 92,708 | 71/100 | |
| 08/31/2025 21:24 |  ExTeaSea | 12,714 | 85/100 | |
| 04/24/2025 17:04 | Siromynian | 16,457 | 70/100 | |
| 04/20/2025 15:24 | Rayzer6 | 19,028 | 89/100 | |
| 02/16/2025 09:04 | Jboy69 | 848 | 78/100 |
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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 87.1/100, a mean average of 86.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.4.
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