Back On The Chain Gang (track)
by Pretenders
Year: 1984
From the album Learning To Crawl (track #2)
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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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| ! | 05/14/2026 09:12 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
| ! | 03/17/2026 07:52 | Exist-en-ciel | 165,797 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2025 23:38 | machiaj | 9,085 | 74/100 |
| ! | 04/26/2025 18:56 | daCritic | 37,780 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/19/2025 04:30 | SD100852 | 12,030 | 77/100 |
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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 85.4/100, a mean average of 86.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.0.
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Kamens 11/02/2018 01:59 | #223705
One of the best songs of the 80s!
Romanelli 04/20/2012 23:09 | #40581
This song is one of the many reasons why this band is so underrated on this site. Too bad that people don't know them.
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