Christmas At The Zoo (track)
by The Flaming Lips
Year: 1995
From the album Clouds Taste Metallic (track #11)
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Christmas At The Zoo appears on the following album(s) by The Flaming Lips:
- Clouds Taste Metallic (track #11) (this album) (1995)
- Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Cloud Taste Metallic 1994-1997 (track #11) (compilation) (2015)
- VOID (track #11) (compilation) (2005)
- Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002 (track #32) (compilation) (2011)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/14/2025 19:40 | Exist-en-ciel | 51,028 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 20:56 | 12,264 | 85/100 | |
| ! | 02/26/2025 03:10 | 29,979 | 81/100 | |
| ! | 11/02/2024 22:14 | 15,978 | 84/100 | |
| ! | 06/24/2024 16:36 | 35,044 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.8/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.3.
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My second favorite Christmas song, after Sufjan Steven's 'Christmas Unicorn'
Such a beautiful and powerful song. Possibly my all-time fav from the Lips.
I love the whistling in the end
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