The Traitor (track)
by Leonard Cohen
Year: 1979
From the album Recent Songs (track #6)
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The Traitor appears on the following album(s) by Leonard Cohen:
- Recent Songs (track #6) (this album) (1979)
- The Complete Studio Albums Collection (track #53) (compilation) (2011)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/29/2026 12:11 | Pluto11 | 28,778 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/20/2026 19:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 171,076 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/01/2025 13:08 |  AAL2014 | 41,383 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.5/100, a mean average of 86.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.4.
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