Moving Waves
by Focus
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Moving Waves is ranked as the best album by Focus.
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Moving Waves 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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Moving Waves rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 57 Music Albums of 1971 | 20/57 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Wanted Europe | 22/100 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | MrOlan | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 74/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 67 Music Albums of 1971 | 3/67 | 5 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 82/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 31/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | 4 My Chart Europe (without Gbr Irl Fra) | 75/100 | - |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | 1971 4TH 100 | 85/100 | - |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 65 Music Albums of 1971 | 47/65 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 110 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 353 | |||
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Moving Waves ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/22/2026 10:59 |  DanielNunes93 | 2,819 | 61/100 |
| ! | 02/06/2026 19:28 | Gedster | 181 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/04/2026 05:16 | Proto | 4,318 | 33/100 |
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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 77.8/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.
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Moving Waves forum mentions
jdenny2018 10/28/2018 20:02 in Albums You Added To Your Collection TodayMoving Waves comments
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This album is worth buying for the title track alone which is wonderful. The rest of the album is really good with lots of contrasting musical styles melded together with great skill. Musicanship is top notch throughout and Jan Akkerman is one of the greatest guitarists ever (Edited)
Jboy56 02/10/2022 18:07 | #281094 | TOP COMMENT
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My all-time favorite prog album. One of the most listened to one ever. Jan Akkerman a real guitar here ahead of his time. (Edited)
This album is one of the highlights of Focus. Eruption and Hocus Pocus are the obvious candidates of mustlistens. But the rest of the album is great too. (Edited)
I got to the end of the album very quickly, and thought - that was a small album, and then I realised the last track Eruption lasted 23 minutes long. That was a bit of a shock but what a great track. There is a bit of singing on Moving Waves and a bit of yodelling on Hocus Pocus, and some chanting on Eruption, but otherwise it is totally instrumental. I've never been much of a fan of this band but this is a pretty good album. A nice fusion of different styles of music and the last track was like a jazz inspired epic meandering track.
I listened to this in conjunction with Tarkus (ELP) (both from the same year 1971) and I prefer this album. (Edited)
discojets1 09/16/2016 02:28 | #175070 | TOP COMMENT
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Hocus Pocus and Eruption are the highlights (Edited)
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