Blinded By The Light (track)
by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Year: 1976
From the album The Roaring Silence (track #1)
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Blinded By The Light appears on the following album(s) by Manfred Mann's Earth Band:
- The Roaring Silence (track #1) (this album) (1976)
- Budapest Live (track #6) (1984)
- Mann Alive (track #10) (1998)
- The Best Of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Warner Archives) (track #1) (compilation) (1996)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/07/2026 16:43 | Deckard | 423 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/09/2026 03:40 |  AAL2014 | 39,933 | 76/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2026 03:43 | culwin | 22,530 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2025 08:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 166,265 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 12:30 |  Norshammar | 1,424 | 86/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 86.9/100, a mean average of 86.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.9.
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Liedzeit 02/11/2025 16:33 | #307553
Funny comments here. The truth is that is version is so much better than the original that it is difficult to see how they can exist in the same universe.
thirstyDog 08/06/2019 02:49 | #240798
The sad thing is that this is so, so, so so so much worse than the original which is pretty great, but it's the only version that got played on the radio. I never even heard the original until today. I only knew this shit version.
thirstyDog 08/06/2019 02:42 | #240797
Possibly the worst song ever to be played on "classic" rock radio
This song was originally written by Bruce Springsteen
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