Strange Fruit (track)
by Nina Simone
Year: 1965
From the album Pastel Blues (track #8)
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Strange Fruit appears on the following album(s) by Nina Simone:
- Pastel Blues (track #8) (this album) (1965)
- Gold (track #28) (compilation) (2003)
- Pastel Blues / Let It All Out (track #8) (compilation) (1990)
- Feeling Good: The Very Best Of Nina Simone (track #13) (compilation) (1994)
- Compact Jazz: Nina Simone (track #12) (compilation) (1989)
- Anthology (track #12) (compilation) (2003)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/22/2026 11:39 | Rayzer6 | 19,558 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2026 06:28 | Siromynian | 20,126 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/04/2026 05:23 | Leginlists | 615 | 84/100 |
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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 88.6/100, a mean average of 88.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.1.
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swagnadalf 10/23/2019 21:39 | #244058
Is there a better song about black suffering? If there is I’ve never heard it
