The Waiting (track)
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1981
From the album Hard Promises (track #1)
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The Waiting appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers:
- Greatest Hits (track #9) (compilation) (1993)
- The Live Anthology (track #44) (compilation) (2009)
- Hard Promises (track #1) (this album) (1981)
- Anthology: Through The Years (track #12) (compilation) (2000)
- Pack Up The Plantation: Live! (track #3) (1985)
- Playback (track #16) (1995)
- The Best Of Everything (The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016) (track #11) (compilation) (2019)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12/01/2025 01:33 |  AAL2014 | 35,077 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/12/2025 09:18 | mash | 4,204 | 92/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2025 14:38 |  ExTeaSea | 12,295 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2025 22:48 | matterhornrider | 22,553 | 86/100 |
| ! | 12/16/2024 13:10 | classicjoe | 35 | 89/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.7/100, a mean average of 85.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.6.
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