Something I Can Never Have (track)
by Nine Inch Nails
Year: 1989
From the album Pretty Hate Machine (track #5)
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Something I Can Never Have appears on the following album(s) by Nine Inch Nails:
- Pretty Hate Machine (track #5) (this album) (1989)
- Still (track #1) (2002)
- And All That Could Have Been (track #17) (2002)
- Halo I-IV (track #8) (compilation) (2015)
- The Definitive Nine Inch Nails - Deep Cuts (track #10) (compilation) (2006)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/18/2025 05:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,752 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2025 21:24 |  ExTeaSea | 12,449 | 85/100 |
| ! | 04/24/2025 17:04 | Siromynian | 15,968 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/20/2025 15:45 | Rayzer6 | 18,891 | 89/100 |
| ! | 02/16/2025 09:04 | Jboy69 | 833 | 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 86.8/100, a mean average of 86.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.9.
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