It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career (track)
by Belle And Sebastian
Year: 1998
From the album The Boy With The Arab Strap (track #1)
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It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career appears on the following album(s) by Belle And Sebastian:
- The Boy With The Arab Strap (track #1) (this album) (1998)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 03/06/2026 14:00 | lolhahaha | 1,077 | 82/100 | |
| 11/25/2025 04:48 | Exist-en-ciel | 99,714 | 71/100 | |
| 09/20/2025 16:09 | inthishole | 1,149 | 87/100 | |
| 09/07/2025 04:25 | brent13 | 11,041 | 85/100 | |
| 08/19/2025 16:52 |  AlvaroIesus | 4,425 | 87/100 |
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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 83.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.5.
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