Back On The Chain Gang (track)
by Pretenders

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Back On The Chain Gang by Pretenders
Year: 1984
From the album Learning To Crawl (track #2)

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86/100 (from 84 votes)

     

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Back On The Chain Gang appears on the following album(s) by Pretenders:

• Learning To Crawl (track #2) (this album) (1984)
• Greatest Hits (track #19) (compilation) (2000)
• The Singles (track #8) (compilation) (1987)
• Pirate Radio (track #21) (compilation) (2006)
• The Isle Of View (track #4) (1995)
• Live In London (track #7) (2010)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
95/100  !	05/11/2025 23:38	machiaj	8,977	74/100
90/100  !	04/26/2025 18:56	daCritic	34,726	76/100
90/100  !	01/19/2025 04:30	SD100852	11,238	77/100
85/100  !	12/23/2024 05:38	brent13	11,031	85/100
90/100  !	10/18/2024 10:52	NowhereMan	14,374	85/100

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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 85.7/100, a mean average of 86.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.0.

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From Kamens 11/02/2018 01:59 | #223705

One of the best songs of the 80s!

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