Fisherman's Blues (track)
by The Waterboys

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Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys
Year: 1988
From the album Fisherman's Blues (track #1)

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Fisherman's Blues appears on the following album(s) by The Waterboys:

• Fisherman's Blues (track #1) (this album) (1988)
• Karma To Burn (track #12) (2005)
• The Best Of The Waterboys 81-90 (track #7) (compilation) (1991)
• The Magnificent Seven - The Waterboys Fisherman's Blues/Room To Roam Band, 1989-90 (track #23) (compilation) (2021)
• The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys (track #4) (1998)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
80/100	03/31/2026 03:25	martintho	68,424	74/100
90/100	03/22/2026 18:02	Spartakist	1,651	79/100
80/100	03/18/2026 01:49	Exist-en-ciel	98,885	71/100
80/100	10/05/2025 03:55	AAL2014	36,574	76/100
75/100	05/11/2025 10:38	spinout	39,450	83/100

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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 87.0/100, a mean average of 87.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.1.

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From DeusExMackia 10/31/2018 00:27 | #223626

I have friend who swears by this song, he's told me it's his favourite song ever more times I can remember.

Not hard to see why, is it.

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From jhuik 04/18/2015 00:34 | #139738

On my list of 100 best songs ever.

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