A Rose For Emily (track)
by The Zombies
Year: 1968
From the album Odessey And Oracle (track #2)
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A Rose For Emily appears on the following album(s) by The Zombies:
- Odessey And Oracle (track #2) (this album) (1968)
- Odessey And Oracle (Revisited): The 40th Anniversary Concert - Live At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 2008 (track #2) (2009)
- Time Of The Zombies (track #18) (compilation) (1973)
- Zombie Heaven (track #33) (compilation) (1997)
- Live At The Bloomsbury Theatre, London (track #6) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 01/31/2026 08:01 | Deckard | 278 | 75/100 | |
| 01/06/2026 19:54 | alexandermause | 15,638 | 85/100 | |
| 12/10/2025 20:58 | Exist-en-ciel | 79,856 | 70/100 | |
| 11/20/2025 11:24 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 | |
| 11/03/2025 22:04 | machiaj | 9,062 | 74/100 |
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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 87.2/100, a mean average of 86.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.
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Very pretty song with sad, poetic lyrics and nice vocals. It's a little bare for my personal tastes, but I see why it's generally so highly rated.
Beautiful
Anti 04/21/2014 20:26 | #109685
Oh Emily...
Jasonconfused 02/05/2013 02:43 | #64015
Simply fantastic. So simple with vocals and piano, but so much is accomplished with so little!
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