Into The Purple Valley
by Ry Cooder

Into The Purple Valley by Ry Cooder
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 6,689th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 43 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1972 (102nd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,049th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,689th)

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Ry Cooder bestography

Into The Purple Valley is ranked 2nd best out of 37 albums by Ry Cooder on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ry Cooder is Paris, Texas which is ranked number 5964 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 222.

Ry Cooder album bestography « Higher ranked (5,964th)
Paris, Texas
This album (6,689th)
Into The Purple Valley
Lower ranked (7,451st) »
Bop Till You Drop

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Into The Purple Valley track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Into The Purple Valley rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,689th | 1970s rank: 1,049th | 1972 rank: 102nd

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75/100 (from 43 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.

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From 02/12/2018 16:49 | #207859
Sono le leggere imperfezioni ( il bottleneck che batte sulla tastiera della chitarra, per dire… ) che mi fanno preferire "Into the purple valley" ad altri dischi successivi di Cooder perché lo rendono più vero, più vicino alla musica che vi è contenuta. "F.D.R. in Trinidad" e "Teardrops will fall" sono tra i miei brani preferiti di sempre e di chiunque.
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A near perfect record.
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