The Mercy Seat (track)
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Year: 1988
From the album Tender Prey (track #1)
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The Mercy Seat appears on the following album(s) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
- Tender Prey (track #1) (this album) (1988)
- Live Seeds (track #1) (1993)
- The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (track #11) (compilation) (1998)
- Live From KCRW (track #4) (2013)
- Live At The Royal Albert Hall (track #12) (2008)
- Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) (track #14) (compilation) (2017)
- Distant Sky (Live In Copenhagen) (track #4) (2018)
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The Mercy Seat ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/19/2025 13:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,089 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/30/2025 22:27 | mash | 4,264 | 92/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2025 17:30 | Invader666 | 389 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/24/2025 00:46 |  Repo | 5,786 | 84/100 |
| ! | 01/12/2025 12:21 | Jboy69 | 833 | 78/100 |
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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 88.6/100, a mean average of 88.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.7.
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exileonthehell 10/24/2015 22:28 | #151963
EPIC SONG, and the mercy seat is burning.
Kalos 02/26/2014 20:56 | #104604
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