Big Fun
by Miles Davis
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Miles Davis bestography
Big Fun is ranked 27th best out of 128 albums by Miles Davis on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Miles Davis is Kind Of Blue which is ranked number 35 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,908.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Big Fun track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Big Fun rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 56 Music Albums of 1974 | 7/56 | 4 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 51/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Miles Davis... So Far... | 7/40 | - |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 9/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 38/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 83 Music Albums of 1974 | 70/83 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 99 Music Albums of 1974 | 84/99 | 1 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1974 | 36/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 56 Music Albums of 1974 | 35/56 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 58 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 214 | |||
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Big Fun ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/10/2026 20:17 | BoxFL | 2,766 | 51/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 07:58 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,426 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 07:27 | 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 76.4/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Big Fun comments
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covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/19/2011 01:46 | #26425 | TOP COMMENT
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Unexplainable how this album wasn't on the site, you're never gonna find a more eclectic piece, I've become a huge fan of Miles electric period and although this may not be as extraordinary as In A Silent Way or as ambitious as Bitches Brew it has more vibe and rhythm and it flows adequately through the amazing talent that appears on it (Zawinul, Hancock, Chick Corea, etc.), Four tracks, 20-30 minutes each, complex arangements, amazing tempo changes, superb production, jazz doesn't get any bigger than this... (Edited)
Superb album. The tracks are taken from about three or four sessions over the course of a few years, but it all holds together brilliantly. The first disc is completely hypnotic, the second is probably musically better, but both discs are excellent. It's a superb chill out album. Totally underrated and overlooked. (Edited)
Brilliant, spacey compositions from a cast of jazz immortals. Similar in vein to In A Silent Way and almost as good (Edited)
AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/14/2025 02:26 | #308501 | TOP COMMENT
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Each one of these tracks is like a giant, sprawling-yet-hypnotic, abstract painting masterwork.
Messy, futuristic, underrated. (Edited)
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