We Only Come Out At Night (track)
by The Smashing Pumpkins
Year: 1995
From the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #24)
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We Only Come Out At Night appears on the following album(s) by The Smashing Pumpkins:
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #24) (this album) (1995)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 01/30/2026 20:29 | wizardalien | 9,027 | 65/100 | |
| 12/23/2025 21:25 | Sumbody | 121 | 89/100 | |
| 11/21/2025 02:18 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,021 | 70/100 | |
| 10/11/2025 10:43 | sunnydhamm | 18,449 | 57/100 | |
| 10/09/2025 21:23 | mrmcrook | 11,588 | 78/100 |
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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 80.3/100, a mean average of 79.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.4.
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Keatownrodriguez 09/26/2019 14:08 | #243093
I had a fever dream while listening to this song, thank you Pumpkins very cool
Most underrated song on the album.
GandalfORiley345 07/14/2015 02:08 | #145704
Beautiful song, really good
Antonio-Pedro 07/19/2014 21:47 | #117129
actually It's one of my favs of this album, the sound in the beginning sounds like frogs jumping around a lot of dancing little elfs, that are freezing your feet to you not escape, and see their dance... they need feedback...lol
Anti 03/28/2014 01:33 | #107849
Good.
Nice song
paladisiac 01/05/2012 23:57 | #34636
Vampiric tale drumbeat pulsating with angelic harp. Cool song. Great contrast to "x.y.u.". Another example of great sequencing on this album. Billy tries to comfort: "once again, you'll pretend to know that / There's an end, that there's an end to this begin / It will help you sleep at night".
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