Echo
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Echo by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1999
Overall rank: 11,800th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 71 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1999 (179th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,881st)
Award Best albums of all time (11,800th)

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers bestography

Echo is ranked 15th best out of 32 albums by Tom Petty on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tom Petty is Full Moon Fever which is ranked number 531 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,253.

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album bestography « Higher ranked (11,447th)
The Last DJ
This album (11,800th)
Echo
Lower ranked (12,541st) »
Wildflowers & All The Rest

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Echo track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Echo rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,800th | 1990s rank: 1,881st | 1999 rank: 179th  Overall chart history
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Echo ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 71 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.3.


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From 02/09/2019 14:42 | #231631
I'm surprised how little love this one gets here. It's Petty's last classic and just a really good album through and through. He was going through a lot of stuff here and it shows but I'd put it up there with his very best work.
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From 03/02/2013 02:56 | #66622
Tom Petty finished out a great decade of work with his 4th classic album in ten years. This one doesn't hold up to comparisons with Wildflowers, but it's on par with Full Moon Fever and Into the Great Wide Open.. With 15 tracks, this one is big on both quality and quantity. For favorite tracks, I'd have to go with "Lonesome Sundown" "Room at the Top" and the title track.
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