Spiritual Unity
by Albert Ayler Trio
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Albert Ayler Trio bestography
The best album by Albert Ayler is Spiritual Unity which is ranked number 1458 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,176.
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Spiritual Unity track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Spiritual Unity rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 49 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1965 | 16/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | pjerske | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 13/100 | 86 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 84/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 79 Music Albums of 1965 | 51/79 | 2 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1965 | 13/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 54 Music Albums of 1965 | 19/54 | 3 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Jazz | 81/100 | - |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 10 Music Albums of 1965 | 10/10 | 1 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 41 Music Albums of 1965 | 41/41 | 0 |
| 2026 |  AfterHours | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 56/100 | 44 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 207 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,176 | |||
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Spiritual Unity ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/03/2026 01:49 | AdamRP | 17 | 16/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2026 11:32 |  MetalMan67 | 6,250 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/15/2026 21:30 |  LedZep | 5,155 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.2.
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Spiritual Unity forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5388): By pjerske BestEverAlbums 06/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5359): By PurpleHazel BestEverAlbums 02/22/2023 21:00 in Album of the day (#4448): Spiritual UnitySpiritual Unity comments
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Mother Nature's Son TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/29/2013 17:14 | #84773 | TOP COMMENT
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Okay, this is one of the harder jazz albums to get into. "Ghosts" (both variations) has a pretty scary combination of catchiness and atonal insanity!
Cojo7 05/02/2016 04:48 | #164974 | TOP COMMENT
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Radical album. I supposed that it's my fault and not the album's that I don't like, but a good album, in my opinion, can break down any barriers of the listener. The chaotic bits on here are just too much, I know it's not but it sounds like random playing of instruments. This album does have some conventional parts especially on Ghosts V:1 that I enjoyed quite a bit, but I just can't get into this album at all. I'm not demanding 4/4 Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus songs, I just need a little bit of structure.
antiloopje 09/03/2013 15:14 | #85110 | TOP COMMENT
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At first hearing, this album put me in some sort of Witch-like, dark mood. But upon hearing it again, one starts to find out how good it is and the mood sort of softens. If you heard it once but didn't like it, it's definitely worth a second try.
Onater 01/10/2019 18:55 | #229463 | TOP COMMENT
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This is post-music
Wow, this was incredible. My jaw was literally dropping at some of the sounds this man was making with his saxophone. I have been listening to a lot of jazz over the last month, trying to get a better appreciation for the genre, and this was both the most abrasive one I've heard while also being one of my immediate favorites.
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