Avalon (track)
by Roxy Music
Avalon appears on the following album(s) by Roxy Music:
- Avalon (track #3) (this album) (1982)
- Live (track #14) (2003)
- Heart Still Beating (track #12) (1990)
- The Best Of Roxy Music (track #1) (compilation) (2001)
- 12 Of Their Greatest Ever Hits (track #12) (compilation) (2009)
- The Studio Albums (track #67) (compilation) (2015)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 05/29/2026 06:34 | Juneof44 | 4,697 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 22:44 | TheSmiths82-87 | 16,547 | 85/100 |
| ! | 04/09/2026 18:07 | Musicbuff123 | 605 | 71/100 |
| ! | 03/13/2026 20:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 162,882 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2026 09:13 | Siromynian | 17,775 | 71/100 |
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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 84.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 15.5.
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A Truly melancholic feel to this track, or maybe it's Ferry's luscious voice serenading us into relaxed stuppour
The gorgeous backing vocals, performed by Yanick Etienne, just adds so much to this lovely track. It was a real deft move by Bryan Ferry to invite her in (so much so that her got her back again on some of his solo albums)
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