The Killing Moon (track)
by Echo & The Bunnymen
Year: 1984
From the album Ocean Rain (track #6)
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The Killing Moon appears on the following album(s) by Echo & The Bunnymen:
- Ocean Rain (track #6) (this album) (1984)
- Songs To Learn And Sing (track #8) (compilation) (1985)
- Me, I'm All Smiles (track #10) (2006)
- Live In Liverpool (track #12) (2002)
- Ballyhoo: The Best Of Echo & The Bunnymen (track #11) (compilation) (1997)
- More Songs To Learn And Sing (track #3) (compilation) (2006)
- Killing Moon: The Best Of Echo & The Bunnymen (track #19) (compilation) (2007)
- The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon (track #15) (2018)
- The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983 (track #17) (compilation) (2019)
- Greatest Hits Live In London (track #4) (2017)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 37 hours ago | Leginlists | 615 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 16:22 |  Brandon8 | 4,716 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/04/2026 23:48 |  serpico | 3,652 | 90/100 |
| ! | 05/29/2026 16:58 |  junodog4 | 8,621 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2026 15:04 |  NowhereMan | 14,727 | 85/100 |
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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 90.7/100, a mean average of 89.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.4.
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For me this is just the gold standard. Simply the greatest song ever written, and the performance here is just timeless. He credits the lyrics partly to the Heavens. And that is warranted.
100/100
wikingos 01/28/2018 11:18 | #206690
Love this song and it's melancholy
Amazing track
If I made this song, I would brag all the time about it, perfect song, probably in my top time of all time.
Discovered it way before I became familiar with pop music through Donnie Darko... Never fails to amuse me.
Secondsoul 12/17/2012 13:51 | #58134
One of the greatest songs ever made!
My favourite song of the 80's, and maybe of all time
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