Meditations (studio album)
by John Coltrane
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John Coltrane bestography
Meditations is ranked 8th best out of 88 albums by John Coltrane on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Coltrane is A Love Supreme which is ranked number 73 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,763.
(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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Meditations track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Meditations ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/21/2025 13:46 |  Steebo | 542 | 86/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 04:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,684 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 16:03 | Araldo | 1,469 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2025 14:57 |  DommeDamian | 7,297 | 49/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2025 11:15 |  LedZep | 4,852 | 79/100 |
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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 79.4/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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Jboy56 08/26/2022 12:15 | #288936
Very difficult, his last works.
2nd comment: listened to this album a lot more since and is now probably my favourite free jazz album and one of my favourite Coltrane albums.
Better than A Love Supreme but not as good as The Ascencion, so 95
I like the insane, frenzied sound of this album but I struggle to indulge in it for the full 40 minutes.
One of those John Coltrane albums that's either genius or nonsense, depending on what mood I'm in. It sometimes works for me, other times it just annoys and frustrates me. Am i trying to like it? Do I like it? Or do I hate it? I don't know, I really don't know.
splashfoop 07/27/2016 08:09 | #171872
Uno de los discos más bellos y poderosos que haya escuchado en mi vida. Me mueve profundamente en todo sentido...
No entiendo por qué nadie más ha comentado.
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