Waitin' For A Superman (track)
by The Flaming Lips
Year: 1999
From the album The Soft Bulletin (track #8)
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Waitin' For A Superman appears on the following album(s) by The Flaming Lips:
- The Soft Bulletin (track #8) (this album) (1999)
- VOID (track #7) (compilation) (2005)
- Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002 (track #42) (compilation) (2011)
- The Soft Bulletin: Recorded Live At Red Rocks Amphitheatre (track #8) (2019)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/23/2025 16:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,258 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 19:39 |  AlvaroIesus | 4,416 | 87/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 20:52 |  ExTeaSea | 12,449 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2025 07:12 |  Igtonumama | 31,393 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2025 15:50 | Jantje | 754 | 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 88.5/100, a mean average of 87.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.0.
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GandalfORiley345 03/02/2015 20:35 | #135945
Beautiful work
Pure beauty
great song
Anti 03/22/2014 03:38 | #107128
Accurately describes the world now.
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