A Dead Song (track)
by The Birthday Party
Year: 1981
From the album Prayers On Fire (track #8)
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A Dead Song appears on the following album(s) by The Birthday Party:
- Prayers On Fire (track #8) (this album) (1981)
- Live 81-82 (track #2) (1999)
- It's Still Living (track #5) (1985)
- Nether Lands (The Full 1982 VARA Holland Broadcast) (track #4) (2020)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/06/2026 05:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 169,530 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2025 16:24 |  DriftingOrpheus | 8,132 | 77/100 |
| ! | 01/25/2024 09:35 | platus | 32,787 | 76/100 |
| ! | 10/21/2021 21:39 | xhitmanx | 13,924 | 79/100 |
| ! | 08/17/2021 09:19 |  Purplepash | 35,499 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 26% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.2.
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