Tom Violence (track)
by Sonic Youth
Tom Violence appears on the following album(s) by Sonic Youth:
- Evol (track #1) (this album) (1986)
- Hold That Tiger (track #3) (1991)
- Live In Brooklyn 2011 (track #11) (2023)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/29/2026 01:36 | stareaterogni0n | 6,626 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2026 20:29 |  DommeDamian | 78,370 | 51/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2025 08:00 | hteavnafets | 4,763 | 79/100 |
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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 83.3/100, a mean average of 83.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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A Sonic Youth classic, opens an extremely strange record, and still one of SY's best, even though it seems to be forgotten. (Edited)
