A Higher Place (track)
by Tom Petty
Year: 1994
From the album Wildflowers (track #12)
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A Higher Place appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty:
- Wildflowers (track #12) (this album) (1994)
- Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions) (track #1) (2021)
- Wildflowers & All The Rest (track #12) (2020)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/09/2026 01:43 |  imacgill | 32,824 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/08/2026 13:11 | Musicbuff123 | 605 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/14/2025 19:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 167,076 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2025 14:35 |  ExTeaSea | 12,981 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2025 04:23 | martintho | 68,800 | 74/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.1/100, a mean average of 80.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 8.3.
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buzzdainer 09/03/2017 22:00 | #197206
An incredibly uplifting song, despite subject matter that verges on the melancholy: "I remember walking with her in town / Her hair was in the wind / I gave her my best kiss / She gave it back again / When I add up what I've left behind / I don't want to lose no more." When Tom Petty insists "we've gotta get to a higher place," backing it with a great twelve-string chord progression, that's absolutely a place I want to go.
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