Don't Interrupt The Sorrow (track)
by Joni Mitchell
Year: 1975
From the album The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (track #4)
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Don't Interrupt The Sorrow appears on the following album(s) by Joni Mitchell:
- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (track #4) (this album) (1975)
- The Studio Albums 1968-1979 (track #69) (compilation) (2012)
- A Woman In The East - The 1983 Tokyo Broadcast (track #11) (2015)

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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/30/2026 02:01 | leniad | 14,956 | 89/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 03:27 | Exist-en-ciel | 168,365 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/06/2025 15:15 | bonnequestion | 17,022 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/20/2025 09:39 | Imaybeparanoid | 52,674 | 69/100 |
| ! | 09/16/2025 08:37 | 1,424 | 86/100 |
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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 86.9/100, a mean average of 87.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.6.
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