The Waiting (track) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1981
From the album Hard Promises (track #1)
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 |
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95/100  | 3 days ago |  ExTeaSea | | 86/100 |
95/100 | 05/06/2025 22:48 | matterhornrider | | 86/100 |
85/100 | 12/16/2024 13:10 | classicjoe | | 90/100 |
90/100 | 12/14/2024 05:19 | mash | | 92/100 |
80/100 | 07/07/2024 16:07 | Johnnyo | | 80/100 |
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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 85.5/100, a mean average of 84.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.6.
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