Learning To Fly (track)
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

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Learning To Fly 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
75/100  !	04/08/2026 04:02	Exist-en-ciel	160,339	71/100
90/100  !	02/06/2026 15:13	alexandermause	17,953	85/100
95/100  !	12/01/2025 09:51	platus	32,782	76/100
100/100  !	09/06/2025 14:37	ExTeaSea	12,955	85/100
90/100  !	02/03/2025 13:56	doombringer	14,844	74/100

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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 88.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.5.

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From DeusExMackia 07/29/2018 12:38 | #218922

Damn if this song doesn't just make everything better whenever you play it.

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From Romanelli 03/20/2012 18:20 | #38675

Another perfect single from Petty. Great guitar work from Mike Campbell, as usual!

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