The Mercy Seat (track) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Mercy Seat by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Year: 1988
From the album Tender Prey (track #1)
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89/100 (from 135 votes)
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-The Mercy SeatUp Jumped The Devil

The Mercy Seat appears on the following album(s) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:


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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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From 10/24/2015 22:28
EPIC SONG, and the mercy seat is burning.
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S C A R Y
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