Burning Down The House (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1984
From the album Stop Making Sense (track #4)
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Burning Down The House appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- Stop Making Sense (track #4) (this album) (1984)
- Speaking In Tongues (track #1) (1983)
- Popular Favorites 1976-1992 - Sand In The Vaseline (track #16) (compilation) (1992)
- The Best Of Talking Heads (track #13) (compilation) (2004)
- Brick Box Set (track #42) (compilation) (2005)
- Once In A Lifetime: The Best Of- (track #4) (compilation) (1992)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 38 hours ago |  goeie-oko | 674 | 87/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 20:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 45,571 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2025 22:40 | daCritic | 34,002 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2025 07:52 | zsolti | 6,692 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2025 14:39 |  ExTeaSea | 12,264 | 85/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 90.1/100, a mean average of 90.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.7.
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