By Starlight (track)
by The Smashing Pumpkins
Year: 1995
From the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #27)
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By Starlight appears on the following album(s) by The Smashing Pumpkins:
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #27) (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 | 9,061 | 65/100 | |
| 01/09/2026 15:10 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,774 | 70/100 | |
| 12/23/2025 21:38 | Sumbody | 122 | 89/100 | |
| 10/11/2025 10:43 | sunnydhamm | 18,449 | 57/100 | |
| 10/09/2025 21:23 | mrmcrook | 11,645 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.8/100, a mean average of 84.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.6.
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GandalfORiley345 08/04/2015 03:47 | #147032
C'mon! This one is awesome!
Tamthebam 02/13/2015 10:22 | #134857
A lovely song one of their best.
Anti 03/28/2014 01:34 | #107852
REALLY GREAT.
Another beautiful song
paladisiac 01/05/2012 23:59 | #34639
Good song questioning love again. This would make a nice album closer into the deep, dark night. "dead eyes, are you just like me?"
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