The Biggest Lie (track)
by Hüsker Dü
Year: 1984
From the album Zen Arcade (track #11)
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The Biggest Lie appears on the following album(s) by Hüsker Dü:
- Zen Arcade (track #11) (this album) (1984)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 01/14/2026 18:44 | Exist-en-ciel | 79,297 | 70/100 | |
| 08/14/2025 22:58 |  DJFresh-Rock | 1,459 | 83/100 | |
| 06/28/2025 21:02 | habibi333 | 2,579 | 64/100 | |
| 06/01/2025 15:27 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 | |
| 04/28/2025 03:23 |  AAL2014 | 35,629 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 6% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 79.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.2.
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buzzdainer 10/25/2016 16:52 | #177418
"Your daydreams are forever, you better get your shit together for a new game," cries Bob Mould in this loud, explosive rocker that expresses great cynicism about the banality of small-town life. A characteristically loud and grungy song that provides perhaps a template for what grunge would sound like a decade later.
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