Barbarism Begins At Home (track)
by The Smiths
Year: 1985
From the album Meat Is Murder (track #8)
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Barbarism Begins At Home appears on the following album(s) by The Smiths:
- Meat Is Murder (track #8) (this album) (1985)
- The Sound Of The Smiths (track #10) (compilation) (2008)
- Complete (track #19) (compilation) (2011)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 5 days ago | stareaterogni0n | 3,721 | 72/100 | |
| 03/01/2026 23:16 |  JR | 3,502 | 88/100 | |
| 12/25/2025 16:39 | sunnydhamm | 18,449 | 57/100 | |
| 11/19/2025 15:35 | timosbuecherei | 3,267 | 60/100 | |
| 11/17/2025 21:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,502 | 70/100 |
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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 87.1/100, a mean average of 86.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.4.
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i might have fell in love with the bass line
Top 3 Smiths song for me. Love the bass and Moz vocals.
GandalfORiley345 06/23/2014 23:06 | #115114
Pretty good, just it
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