Black Wave/Bad Vibrations (track)
by Arcade Fire
Year: 2007
From the album Neon Bible (track #5)
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Black Wave/Bad Vibrations appears on the following album(s) by Arcade Fire:
- Neon Bible (track #5) (this album) (2007)
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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 84.2/100, a mean average of 83.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.2.
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JulianR 08/29/2017 03:51 | #196877
The first half is probably the weak point of the album, the last half is one of the strongest
The second half of the song is feels
GandalfORiley345 05/14/2014 21:43 | #111815
Just Amazing
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