A Song For The Dead (track)
by Queens Of The Stone Age
Year: 2002
From the album Songs For The Deaf (track #4)
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A Song For The Dead appears on the following album(s) by Queens Of The Stone Age:
- Songs For The Deaf (track #4) (this album) (2002)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/14/2026 16:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,483 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2025 00:24 |  II | 4,078 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2025 17:37 | gmessian | 1,465 | 55/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2025 15:48 | machiaj | 8,945 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/28/2025 18:46 |  ExTeaSea | 12,448 | 85/100 |
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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 87.3/100, a mean average of 87.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.0.
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One of their best songs, it's intense and beautiful. Should totally have a higher rating on this site.
This rocks so hard!
TheHolyKiwi 08/22/2014 11:23 | #120085
Too low! This is one of QOTSA's masterpieces, should be up there with Go With the Flow and No One Knows.
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