How Can I? (track)
by Steve Hackett
Year: 1978
From the album Please Don't Touch (track #5)
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How Can I? appears on the following album(s) by Steve Hackett:
- Please Don't Touch (track #5) (this album) (1978)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/02/2026 02:49 | phmusic | 73,577 | 100/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2026 12:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 171,923 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2025 11:20 |  Squonk007 | 3,369 | 73/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 15% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 79.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.9.
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AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/02/2024 18:00 | #303813
Did not expect Richie Havens to sing on this record, furthermore I didn’t expect the results of those efforts to sound as genuinely cool as this song ended up being. (Edited)
