Dirty Old Town (track)
by The Pogues
Year: 1985
From the album Rum Sodomy & The Lash (track #7)
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Dirty Old Town appears on the following album(s) by The Pogues:
- Rum Sodomy & The Lash (track #7) (this album) (1985)
- The Best Of The Pogues (track #3) (compilation) (1991)
- The Very Best Of... (track #1) (compilation) (2001)
- Dirty Old Town (track #3) (compilation) (2005)
- Streams Of Whiskey- Live In Leysin, Switzerland 1991 (track #12) (2002)
- The Ultimate Collection (Including Live At The Brixton Academy) (track #4) (compilation) (2005)
- BBC Sessions 1984-85 (track #16) (compilation) (2020)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/23/2026 10:56 | platus | 32,788 | 76/100 |
| ! | 03/17/2026 23:47 | Exist-en-ciel | 168,513 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/24/2025 23:11 | mrmcrook | 12,608 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/11/2025 18:36 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 |
| ! | 05/02/2025 15:35 | Pluto11 | 28,736 | 75/100 |
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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 85.2/100, a mean average of 85.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 8.3.
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