Free Fallin' (track)
by Tom Petty
Year: 1989
From the album Full Moon Fever (track #1)
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Free Fallin' appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty:
- Greatest Hits (track #14) (compilation) (1993)
- The Live Anthology (track #43) (compilation) (2009)
- Anthology: Through The Years (track #25) (compilation) (2000)
- Playback (track #38) (1995)
- The Best Of Everything (The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016) (track #1) (compilation) (2019)
- Live At The Fillmore - 1997 (track #64) (2022)
- Full Moon Fever (track #1) (this album) (1989)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/09/2026 19:06 | wizardalien | 9,756 | 61/100 |
| ! | 05/24/2026 17:00 | Rounder89 | 4,963 | 83/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2026 16:52 | alexandermause | 17,953 | 85/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 20:56 | Jantje | 927 | 77/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 13:19 |  katerpillar | 2,173 | 77/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.4/100, a mean average of 87.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.1.
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Squonk007 01/20/2024 17:13 | #301335
Excellent.
A great song, but I don't it's that much better than the other tracks on the album.
Love the singing in this song. Amazing
Jasonconfused 12/22/2012 04:47 | #58525
Cute song. The lyrics are probably the best part of the song. It's a great song and the chorus is recognized by most people. I'll look past the hints of alternative rock because other than that, it's a masterpiece.
Maybe my fav all time Petty song.
Romanelli 01/24/2012 15:05 | #35797
One of those accidental hit singles. A nearly perfect song.
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