The Ship Song (track)
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Year: 1990
From the album The Good Son (track #5)
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The Ship Song appears on the following album(s) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
- The Good Son (track #5) (this album) (1990)
- Live Seeds (track #3) (1993)
- The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (track #14) (compilation) (1998)
- The Abattoir Blues Tour (track #6) (2007)
- Live At The Royal Albert Hall (track #7) (2008)
- Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) (track #16) (compilation) (2017)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/02/2026 16:53 |  HoldenM | 9,259 | 91/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2025 01:01 | Exist-en-ciel | 150,796 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2025 12:48 |  Igtonumama | 31,383 | 81/100 |
| ! | 05/19/2025 19:25 |  dihansse | 68,278 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2025 20:02 |  DommeDamian | 74,766 | 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 86.6/100, a mean average of 86.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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