If You Really Want To Be My Friend (track) by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1974
From the album It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (track #8)
If You Really Want To Be My Friend appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (track #8) (this album) (1974)
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This track is rated in the top 15% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 78.4/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.7.
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Fischman 04/04/2017 16:59
Another excellent ballad, although not quite up to the level of 'Til the Next Time We Say Goodbye.
Like the, 'till the next goodbye, this is another big ballad. And like that other track it's also rather lovely. The Stones sound confident here, relaxed, going with the flow, where as on the rockier material they sound like they're trying too hard. If you really want to be my friend is one of the album's best tracks, a beautiful song.
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