Pretty Persuasion (track) by R.E.M.
Year: 2006
From the album And I Feel Fine... The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (track #3)


Pretty Persuasion appears on the following album(s) by R.E.M.:
- Reckoning (track #4) (1984)
- Live At The Olympia In Dublin 39 Songs (track #37) (2009)
- The Best Of R.E.M. (track #7) (compilation) (1991)
- And I Feel Fine... The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (track #3) (this album) (compilation) (2006)
- R.E.M. At The BBC (track #43) (compilation) (2018)
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This track is rated in the top 8% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 79.4/100, a mean average of 82.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.0.
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