Countdown (track)
by John Coltrane

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Countdown by John Coltrane
Year: 1960
From the album Giant Steps (track #3)

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Countdown appears on the following album(s) by John Coltrane:

• Giant Steps (track #3) (this album) (1960)
• The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (track #13) (compilation) (1995)
• The Atlantic Years In Mono (track #3) (compilation) (2016)
• The Art Of John Coltrane / The Atlantic Years (track #3) (compilation) (1973)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
30/100  !	28 hours ago	DommeDamian	72,180	51/100
65/100  !	06/25/2025 10:49	SD100852	10,844	77/100
95/100  !	04/17/2025 14:56	VictorVale	42,902	88/100
70/100  !	12/22/2024 08:04	brent13	10,909	85/100
95/100  !	11/21/2024 13:43	davidleewrong	988	82/100

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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.0/100, a mean average of 81.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.1.

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From AAL2014 05/14/2023 15:41 | #296948

Aside from his construction and performance of the album’s title track, Countdown is one of the album’s best examples of Coltrane’s leveling up around this time on a technical level.

Heard this track compared to Van Halen’s Eruption on a podcast recently, made a lot of sense.

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