Contours (studio album) by Sam Rivers

Contours by Sam Rivers
Year: 1967
Overall rank: 18,071st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 24 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1967 (164th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (1,200th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,071st)
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Sam Rivers bestography

Contours is ranked 3rd best out of 15 albums by Sam Rivers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sam Rivers is Streams which is ranked number 14113 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 81.

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77/100 (from 24 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 79.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.

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Meditative and moody. Interesting.
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Best Albums of 1967
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico
3. The Doors by The Doors
4. Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5. Forever Changes by Love
6. Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles
7. Songs Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
8. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd
9. Axis: Bold As Love by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
10. Strange Days by The Doors
11. Disraeli Gears by Cream
12. Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane
13. Days Of Future Passed by The Moody Blues
14. I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin
15. Something Else By The Kinks by The Kinks
16. Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
17. The Who Sell Out by The Who
18. Chelsea Girl by Nico
19. John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
20. Younger Than Yesterday by The Byrds
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