First We Take Manhattan (track)
by Leonard Cohen

First We Take Manhattan by Leonard Cohen
Year: 1988
From the album I'm Your Man (track #1)
Average Rating: 
85/100 (from 97 votes)
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Average Rating: 
85/100 (from 97 votes)
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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 85.1/100, a mean average of 85.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.8.


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