Taking Your Life In Your Hands (track)
by John Cale
Year: 1982
From the album Music For A New Society (track #1)
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Taking Your Life In Your Hands appears on the following album(s) by John Cale:
- Music For A New Society (track #1) (this album) (1982)
- M:FANS (track #3) (2016)
- Seducing Down The Door: A Collection 1970-1990 (track #26) (compilation) (1994)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/03/2026 22:30 | Exist-en-ciel | 167,076 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2025 14:13 | TradeShark | 4,948 | 30/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2024 02:00 | MaxStorm98 | 51,527 | 99/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2023 01:12 |  Brandon8 | 4,694 | 88/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2022 13:54 | Fevernova | 34,542 | 82/100 |
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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 85.3/100, a mean average of 85.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.1.
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