Dolmen Music
by Meredith Monk

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Dolmen Music by Meredith Monk
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-06-01
Overall rank: 2,631st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 84 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (46th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (384th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,631st)

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Dolmen Music is ranked as the best album by Meredith Monk.

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Dolmen Music rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,631st | 1980s rank: 384th | 1981 rank: 46th  Overall chart history
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Dolmen Music ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 84 votes)
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 !		03/13/2026 19:20 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,30470/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.6.


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From EyeKanFly 10/15/2021 15:43 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
“1) This was the perfect amount of weird. It's oddly fitting that Monk is her last name when she's creating music that draws many similarities with the music made by monks during the medieval period and early renaissance. Albeit...weirder, you don't hear a lot of voice trills in Gregorian chants. As…”
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From CharlieBarley 02/19/2021 13:36 in What album are you listening to right now?
“first listen ace weird and wonderful”
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From ForegroundNoise 03/20/2019 17:46 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today
“I don't normally post on these things but my copy of Meredith Monk's arrived today, I discovered Death Grips lets us download for free and I'm borrowing my friend's CD of for an album listening party tonight which I'm gonna digitize and put onto put my phone. Love all three dearly so v amped to add…”
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From 01/17/2010 00:26 | #8437 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Very "elstjewsom";) Picked this up on their recommendations. No complaint - another amazing musical experience ; I'd never heard anything like it !
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From 03/15/2010 13:45 | #9855 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This is pure art! It's experimental without going off the canvas; just the right amount.
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From 02/13/2024 17:01 | #301976
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