A Sailor's Life (track)
by Fairport Convention
Year: 1969
From the album Unhalfbricking (track #4)
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A Sailor's Life appears on the following album(s) by Fairport Convention:
- Unhalfbricking (track #4) (this album) (1969)
- Chronicles (track #10) (compilation) (2005)
- The History Of Fairport Convention (track #5) (compilation) (1972)
- Fairport Unconventional (track #41) (compilation) (2002)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/15/2025 22:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,479 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/20/2025 12:02 | plasmicmist | 7,576 | 91/100 |
| ! | 06/28/2025 03:38 |  AAL2014 | 35,241 | 76/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2025 09:34 | Jantje | 754 | 78/100 |
| ! | 02/20/2025 08:19 | byuzak | 32,726 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.5/100, a mean average of 86.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.9.
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