American Girl (track)
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1976
From the album Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (track #10)
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American Girl appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers:
- Greatest Hits (track #1) (compilation) (1993)
- Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (track #10) (this album) (1976)
- The Live Anthology (track #34) (compilation) (2009)
- Anthology: Through The Years (track #2) (compilation) (2000)
- Pack Up The Plantation: Live! (track #5) (1985)
- Playback (track #2) (1995)
- The Best Of Everything (The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016) (track #18) (compilation) (2019)
- Live At The Fillmore - 1997 (track #41) (2022)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/12/2026 14:54 |  NowhereMan | 15,099 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 10:31 | Deckard | 443 | 68/100 |
| ! | 05/24/2026 17:00 | Rounder89 | 4,990 | 83/100 |
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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 88.2/100, a mean average of 88.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.6.
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Tom Perry's greatest song ever in my opinion. Rock'n'roll genius.
Great song, but reminds me of "silence of the lambs"....
Perhaps one of the few perfect songs ever written.
