Lament (track)
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Lament by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Year: 1990
From the album The Good Son (track #7)
Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 77 votes)
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Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 77 votes)
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.2/100, a mean average of 82.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.6.


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