Ask (track)
by The Smiths
Year: 2001
From the album The Very Best Of The Smiths (track #4)
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Ask appears on the following album(s) by The Smiths:
- Louder Than Bombs (track #13) (compilation) (1987)
- The World Won't Listen (track #2) (compilation) (1987)
- The Sound Of The Smiths (track #17) (compilation) (2008)
- Singles (track #12) (compilation) (1995)
- ...Best II (track #4) (compilation) (1992)
- The Very Best Of The Smiths (track #4) (this album) (compilation) (2001)
- Rank (track #4) (1988)
- Complete (track #44) (compilation) (2011)
- Complete (track #72) (compilation) (2011)
- Complete (track #101) (compilation) (2011)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/07/2026 13:37 |  Ilolahti | 2,016 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2023 09:27 | MaxStorm98 | 51,524 | 99/100 |
| ! | 08/22/2022 21:47 | LosWochos | 317,313 | 80/100 |
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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 84.3/100, a mean average of 84.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 21.2.
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