Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
by Jon Hassell & Brian Eno

Overall rank: 7,118th | 1980s rank: 1,001st | 1980 rank: 119th
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Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2026	bertrandu	Ambient 1958-2000	34/100	-
2026	Norman Bates	Top 100 Music Albums of 1980	10/100	5
2026	cestuneblague	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s	51/100	10
2026	pjerske	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s	16/100	17
2026	viquel	Top 100 Greatest Music Albums	92/100	9
2026	Exist-en-ciel	Top 100 Music Albums of 1980	66/100	2
2026	kadupheming	Top 35 Music Albums of 1980	5/35	4
2026	pjerske	Top 100 Greatest Music Albums	98/100	3
2026	cicadelic	Top 100 Music Albums of 1980	41/100	3
2026	Hyggevinyl	Top 52 Music Albums of 1980	37/52	2
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		45
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		183

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75/100 !	04/04/2026 19:04	Exist-en-ciel	16,163	70/100
80/100 !	01/31/2026 13:05	Liedzeit	2,524	74/100
10/100 !	11/12/2025 20:35	NYAndreas	1,433	44/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.

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BestEverAlbums 07/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5388): By pjerske

“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by (1967) 2. by (2004) 3. by (1968) 4. by (1969) 5. by by by (1969) 8. (1970) 9. (1973) 10. by (1977) 11. by (1975) 12. by (1992) 13. by (1965) 14. by (1970) 15. by (1967) 16. by by (2012) 18. by (2016) 19. by (1998) 20. by (1978) 21.…”

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Liedzeit 01/31/2026 13:05 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)

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From antiquusxy 01/08/2019 00:47 | #229283 | TOP COMMENT

ambient exotification , a quiet precursor to the superior "my life in the bush of ghosts" but has its own modest charms

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