Spiral (track)
by John Coltrane
Spiral appears on the following album(s) by John Coltrane:
- Giant Steps (track #4) (this album) (1960)
- The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (track #12) (compilation) (1995)
- The Atlantic Years In Mono (track #4) (compilation) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 12/29/2025 18:31 | bonnequestion | 16,341 | 75/100 | |
| 12/10/2025 20:29 | Exist-en-ciel | 79,856 | 70/100 | |
| 08/06/2025 15:30 |  DommeDamian | 73,264 | 51/100 | |
| 06/25/2025 10:57 | SD100852 | 11,343 | 77/100 | |
| 04/17/2025 15:34 |  VictorVale | 43,211 | 88/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.8/100, a mean average of 84.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.4.
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AAL2014 05/14/2023 15:43 | #296949
One of the great and more cinematic hooks on this record or anywhere in Coltrane’s catalog. The way he continues to play with the main motif as it comes back around is one of the album’s true highlights.
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