The Magician's Birthday
by Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep bestography
The Magician's Birthday is ranked 4th best out of 31 albums by Uriah Heep on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Uriah Heep is Demons & Wizards which is ranked number 1774 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 948.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Magician's Birthday track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/06/2026 11:54 | cicadelic | 12,109 | 73/100 | |
| 01/03/2026 02:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,762 | 70/100 | |
| 11/13/2025 03:54 | Proto | 4,106 | 33/100 | |
| 04/25/2025 01:20 | mrmcrook | 1,041 | 77/100 | |
| 09/17/2024 18:16 |  AAL2014 | 3,642 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Nowhere close to the brilliance of 'Demons and Wizards' released earlier the same year. Most of this has a softer feel being quite ballad like. Good but not up to par with most of their other early 70's albums.
Not quite on a par with Demons and Wizards. Still a very good album with a Roger Dean cover.
Lachapelle 03/03/2018 03:51 | #209976
Never been a catchier version of Happy Birthday..
earlysparker 11/17/2017 20:40 | #201498
I add this one to my que when I want something a little differant
This record is a little over the top even for Uriah Heep. I still dig it though, a guilty pleasure.
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