Take This Longing (track)
by Leonard Cohen
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Year: 1974
From the album New Skin For The Old Ceremony (track #10)
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Take This Longing appears on the following album(s) by Leonard Cohen:
- New Skin For The Old Ceremony (track #10) (this album) (1974)
- The Best Of Leonard Cohen (track #12) (compilation) (1975)
- The Complete Studio Albums Collection (track #38) (compilation) (2011)
- The Essential Leonard Cohen (track #10) (compilation) (2002)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/11/2026 09:36 | spinout | 41,117 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 20:25 | Exist-en-ciel | 167,523 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2025 17:12 | Johnnyo | 44,945 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/15/2025 11:02 | Imaybeparanoid | 52,674 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2025 14:21 |  AAL2014 | 40,185 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.7/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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