I Need To Know (track)
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1978
From the album You're Gonna Get It! (track #6)
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I Need To Know appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers:
- Greatest Hits (track #4) (compilation) (1993)
- You're Gonna Get It! (track #6) (this album) (1978)
- Anthology: Through The Years (track #5) (compilation) (2000)
- Playback (track #5) (1995)
- The Best Of Everything (The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016) (track #24) (compilation) (2019)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/18/2026 11:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,959 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/12/2025 09:20 | mash | 4,272 | 92/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2025 14:47 |  ExTeaSea | 12,449 | 85/100 |
| ! | 08/12/2025 06:27 | jtc91 | 13,902 | 82/100 |
| ! | 05/25/2025 04:24 |  AAL2014 | 35,372 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.0/100, a mean average of 83.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.0.
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Great, hard, fast early T.P. perfect Opening on side 2 before
"Listen to her heart"
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