The Spangle Maker (track)
by Cocteau Twins
Year: 1986
From the album The Pink Opaque (track #1)
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The Spangle Maker appears on the following album(s) by Cocteau Twins:
- The Pink Opaque (track #1) (this album) (compilation) (1986)
- Lullabies To Violaine: Singles And Extended Plays 1982-1996 (track #11) (compilation) (2005)
- Singles Collection (track #12) (compilation) (1991)
- Lullabies To Violaine Volume 1 (track #11) (compilation) (2006)
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| ! | 03/10/2026 09:29 | Exist-en-ciel | 181,909 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2025 04:57 | Spartakist | 2,783 | 81/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2024 19:13 |  neilgee | 699 | 86/100 |
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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 84.1/100, a mean average of 88.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 7.8.
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ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/08/2016 14:21 | #179750
In my All time top 25 tracks...unbelievable. She was so influential. Her voice was so supple and had such a wide dynamic range
