Once In A Lifetime (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1984
From the album Stop Making Sense (track #6)
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Once In A Lifetime appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- Remain In Light (track #4) (1980)
- Stop Making Sense (track #6) (this album) (1984)
- Popular Favorites 1976-1992 - Sand In The Vaseline (track #14) (compilation) (1992)
- The Best Of Talking Heads (track #9) (compilation) (2004)
- Brick (track #37) (compilation) (2005)
- Once In A Lifetime: The Best Of- (track #3) (compilation) (1992)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/30/2026 09:06 | kinginsomniac12 | 6,213 | 100/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2026 02:38 | stareaterogni0n | 6,601 | 69/100 |
| ! | 04/18/2026 16:12 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
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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 90.9/100, a mean average of 90.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.0.
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