A Design For Life (track)
by Manic Street Preachers
Year: 1996
From the album Everything Must Go (track #2)
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A Design For Life appears on the following album(s) by Manic Street Preachers:
- Everything Must Go (track #2) (this album) (1996)
- Forever Delayed (The Greatest Hits) (track #1) (compilation) (2002)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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85/100  | 10/21/2025 10:08 |  Purplepash | | 77/100 |
100/100 | 10/17/2025 06:44 |  Larcx13 | | 84/100 |
85/100 | 10/09/2025 03:28 | BurndenAce | | 79/100 |
100/100 | 09/26/2025 21:38 |  Squonk007 | | 73/100 |
85/100 | 09/13/2025 07:45 | byuzak | | 78/100 |
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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 88.2/100, a mean average of 87.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.7.
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Squonk007 09/26/2025 21:39
Not many things moved me in the 90s but this did...awesome.
Cool song.
Mother Nature's Son 10/17/2012 01:31
Incredible song, can't get enough of it. Even if the Manics can get a bit over the top, this song couldn't have been performed better by any other band!
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