Taking The Veil (track)
by David Sylvian

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Taking The Veil appears on the following album(s) by David Sylvian:

• Gone To Earth (track #1) (this album) (1986)
• Weatherbox (track #14) (compilation) (1989)

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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.2/100, a mean average of 84.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 8.7.

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