The Great Curve (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1980
From the album Remain In Light (track #3)
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The Great Curve appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- Remain In Light (track #3) (this album) (1980)
- The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (track #15) (1982)
- Brick Box Set (track #36) (compilation) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 80,772 | 70/100 | |
| 02/01/2026 15:43 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 | |
| 01/13/2026 16:17 | philschmil | 427 | 88/100 | |
| 01/08/2026 03:19 | stareaterogni0n | 3,754 | 72/100 | |
| 12/07/2025 14:02 |  DommeDamian | 73,280 | 51/100 |
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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 88.7/100, a mean average of 88.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.8.
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Stunning guitar solo - brilliant!
Great song. The guitar solo sound reminds me of Bowie's Lodger which Eno also worked on
This has to be pretty far up on my list of greatest songs ever. Possibly number one. This whole album is fantastic, but the way the brass is incorporated here is unlike anything else.
Crosseyed and Painless has the star over this? What is wrong with people.
Alright here's another one you can tell me is the best on the album and I would have no reason to dispute it. I would just say yeah I can see why you would think that.
JulianR 08/31/2017 02:00 | #196977
What even is a guitar solo though, right?
Cojo7 04/10/2016 18:41 | #163603
My favorite song on here, so underrated. The harmonies and that tempo push this over the top of everything else on this masterpiece, even Once In A Lifetime.
Definitely the best in the album
PsychologistHD 02/08/2015 04:37 | #134340
Are we not gonna talk about how underrated this song is? Best song on the album.
This track is particularly underrated. An excellent song.
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