Good Fortune (track)
by PJ Harvey
Year: 2000
From the album Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (track #2)
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Good Fortune appears on the following album(s) by PJ Harvey:
- Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (track #2) (this album) (2000)
- Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - Demos (track #2) (2021)
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| ! | 09/03/2026 13:10 | Siromynian | 20,079 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 17:41 | libbyshuss | 963 | 78/100 |
| ! | 11/26/2025 21:19 | Exist-en-ciel | 172,110 | 71/100 |
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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 86.0/100, a mean average of 85.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.
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jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/12/2017 16:07 | #190691
The tremolo of the verbs in the verses is jarring at first then pulled off so well as the song goes on. Brilliant.
