Horizontal
by Bee Gees
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Horizontal is ranked 5th best out of 40 albums by Bee Gees on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bee Gees is Odessa which is ranked number 3150 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 485.
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Horizontal track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Horizontal rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 18 Music Albums of 1968 | 10/18 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Bee Gees: So Far.. | 5/7 | - |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 28 Music Albums of 1968 | 26/28 | 1 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 50 Music Albums of 1968 | 5/50 | 5 |
| 2026 | arnellarsen | Top 99 Music Albums of 1968 | 30/99 | 4 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 88 Music Albums of 1968 | 68/88 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1968 | 28/34 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 64 Music Albums of 1968 | 52/64 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 24 Oceania | 58/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1968 | 83/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 43 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 101 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/29/2026 10:37 | Siromynian | 1,773 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/03/2026 10:53 | Leginlists | 3,842 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 07:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,967 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.5/100, a mean average of 68.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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jackup 12/08/2021 14:49 in What album are you listening to right now?
meccalecca 05/25/2014 22:23 in Recommendations ThreadHorizontal comments
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meccalecca TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/05/2013 17:49 | #96433
The enormous success of Saturday Night Fever has made the BeeGees synonymous with disco. In the beginning, the trio of Gibb brothers were a 60s psych pop group. Characterized by their beautiful voices and a sense of melodrama, Horizontal has become my personal favorite of that era of their careers. The detailed arrangements are far less predictable than the standard contemporary pop song. On “World” a screaming guitar riff infiltrates an otherwise sugar-coated song about heartbreak. It’s subtle, but effective, even in the context of an album that’s outrageously over-the-top. It would be easy to toss this aside as a Beatles clone. The similarities between the songwriting of the two bands are endless but the BeeGees execute with a level of craft that is impossible to ignore.
I agree with Mecca below, their reputation as a disco band really overshadowed all of the amazing albums and singles they had in the 60s. This is my favorite of theirs, and I especially like Earnest of Being George
For those who conjure up an idea of them from the ultra high pitched 'Tragedy' era, check this out to find out they sounded like in the late 60s. They sounded a bit like the Beatles at the time and there is a run of about 4 songs towards the end of this record which are just brilliant.
As a follow up to the Bee Gees first masterpiece album, this is a disappointment, but as a whole, it's a pretty good album. "Birdie Told Me" and some other corny love songs could've been replaced, but whatever.
Cualquier disco que contenga maravillas como Massachusetts o World merece toda la atención.
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