The Smoky Life (track)
by Leonard Cohen
Year: 1979
From the album Recent Songs (track #9)
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The Smoky Life appears on the following album(s) by Leonard Cohen:
- Recent Songs (track #9) (this album) (1979)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 01/20/2026 19:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 84,615 | 71/100 | |
| 08/01/2025 13:24 |  AAL2014 | 35,973 | 76/100 | |
| 04/01/2024 10:27 | phmusic | 62,861 | 100/100 | |
| 11/23/2023 00:45 | MaxStorm98 | 51,529 | 99/100 | |
| 03/02/2022 13:46 |  sszwalbenest | 6,851 | 90/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 6% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.0/100, a mean average of 84.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.6.
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