Pastime Paradise (track)
by Stevie Wonder
Year: 1976
From the album Songs In The Key Of Life (track #8)
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Pastime Paradise appears on the following album(s) by Stevie Wonder:
- Songs In The Key Of Life (track #8) (this album) (1976)
- At The Close Of A Century (track #44) (compilation) (1999)
- Natural Wonder (track #9) (1995)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/17/2025 00:29 |  Norshammar | 1,036 | 90/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 07:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 43,906 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2025 10:13 |  ssteve | 24,936 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/07/2025 18:36 |  ExTeaSea | 12,264 | 85/100 |
| ! | 08/14/2025 15:50 |  Igtonumama | 31,393 | 81/100 |
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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 86.6/100, a mean average of 86.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.7.
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I was so surprise to hear gangsta paradise when I firts listen to this song.
AAL2014 06/13/2022 03:56 | #286313
This is kinda like the George Harrison track of Key of Life.
I like all of what goes on here and it’s catchy in a non-traditional way. However, I don’t think Pastime Paradise (currently 86/100) is a better song than Knocks Me Off My Feet or Summer Soft (currently both 84/100), the songs that surround it in the track-listing.
Glitterboiii 08/08/2019 03:47 | #240917
Shows how lazy of a song “Gangsta’s Paradise” really is. It’s literally just this whole song sampled lmao.
tgarritsen 03/10/2015 17:33 | #136507
It's true, They've been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise. The music fits very nice with the lyrics.
Now I know why Gangster Paradise actually sounded good.
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