Is It Really So Strange? (track)
by The Smiths

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Is It Really So Strange? by The Smiths
Year: 1987
From the album Louder Than Bombs (track #1)

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86/100 (from 114 votes)

     

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Is It Really So Strange? appears on the following album(s) by The Smiths:

• Louder Than Bombs (track #1) (this album) (compilation) (1987)
• Rank (track #8) (1988)
• Complete (track #48) (compilation) (2011)
• Complete (track #89) (compilation) (2011)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
85/100	03/01/2026 23:18	JR	3,502	88/100
90/100	11/29/2025 04:44	imacgill	31,246	81/100
80/100	11/17/2025 03:29	Exist-en-ciel	88,562	71/100
100/100	10/17/2025 11:31	kinginsomniac12	5,615	100/100
90/100	08/07/2025 01:48	matterhornrider	22,845	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 85.9/100, a mean average of 86.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.

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From DeusExMackia 02/29/2016 20:57 | #161034

A bumbling, jumpy, upbeat sing-a-long, with the perfect dash of melancholy and a splash of Johnny Marr's guitar wizardry.

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From F1Aaron 02/16/2015 18:27 | #135122

Great opener to the Louder Than Bombs compilation album and one of my most favorite tracks from The Smiths

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