Learning To Fly (track)
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1991
From the album Into The Great Wide Open (track #1)
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Learning To Fly appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers:
- Into The Great Wide Open (track #1) (this album) (1991)
- Greatest Hits (track #15) (compilation) (1993)
- The Live Anthology (track #21) (compilation) (2009)
- Anthology: Through The Years (track #29) (compilation) (2000)
- Playback (track #44) (1995)
- The Best Of Everything (The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016) (track #21) (compilation) (2019)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/12/2026 14:55 |  NowhereMan | 15,091 | 85/100 |
| ! | 04/08/2026 04:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 172,085 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/06/2026 15:13 | alexandermause | 17,992 | 85/100 |
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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 87.2/100, a mean average of 86.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.4.
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Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/20/2012 18:20 | #38675
Another perfect single from Petty. Great guitar work from Mike Campbell, as usual!
DeusExMackia TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/29/2018 12:38 | #218922
Damn if this song doesn't just make everything better whenever you play it.
