Koyaanisqatsi (soundtrack album) by Philip Glass

Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass
(Soundtrack album)
Year: 1983
Overall rank: 1,984th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 122 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (30th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (308th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,984th)

Philip Glass bestography

Koyaanisqatsi is ranked 2nd best out of 38 albums by Philip Glass on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Philip Glass is Glassworks which is ranked number 1639 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,045.

Philip Glass album bestography « Higher ranked (1,639th) This album (1,984th) Lower ranked (7,815th) »
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Koyaanisqatsi ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 122 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.

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80/100
From 02/09/2024 01:20
Great piece of creative music.
Clearly a new wave of approaching structure and narrative as well as intensity.
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From 09/08/2018 10:55
Koyaanisqatsi is a phantastic film and it would be a lot different without the soundtrack from Philip Glass. I listen to score music a lot but except for "Koyaanisqatsi" and "Prophecies" most songs from this soundtrack only work if you see the pictures as well (album rating: 58,33 %)
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From 12/28/2014 17:46
One of my all time favorite films, and a fantastic soundtrack. Don't buy the iTunes version though, it's just the film audio lifted and sold. Buy a used CD or Vinyl.
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From 11/07/2011 17:02
What is the point of changing the album on the turntable or the CD in the player if the next album is to be more of the same. Koyaanisqatsi, the soundtrack of the movie by Giorogio Moroder. Electronica, not the dance type, more the dreadfully intellectual type my dears. Musical pieces built around repetitive structures that just grows on whiffs of wind until they overwhelm you like a thunderstorm.
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