Ambient 1: Music For Airports (studio album) by Brian Eno
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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60/100  | 07/08/2025 13:50 |  Dingerbell | | 63/100 |
85/100 | 07/05/2025 18:06 |  ExTeaSea | | 83/100 |
80/100 | 07/01/2025 22:11 |  melisandre | | 86/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.2/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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Solid record
OldToad 03/04/2022 02:03
The ideas of Morton Feldman, Christian Wolfe, et al in the 50s and 60s are here recontextualized (Feldman and the others were not thinking of making background music), made more accessible (the tempos here are blistering fast compared to a lot of Feldman) and given the luster of Eno's fame. Eno knew those composers personally and is obviously not hesitant to credit them as influences, but some fans seem to think Eno came up with the concept of musical minimalism, lol. This tradition had been running for at least two decades at the time, but he gave it a whole new life, that's for sure. For me, the vocal pads that he uses on some tracks of this and the follow-up have aged extremely badly, making those tracks unlistenable. I prefer his later stuff in this vein, the Apollo thing and his art installation music, where his subtle skills at synthesis and sound design are, to my ears, on better display.
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AlvaroIesus 09/21/2021 21:25
highlights: 1/2 and 2/2
If you listen to this in a particular mood, it seems like the best album ever. Outside that context, though, it makes little sense.
teague 06/24/2020 04:43
Not a huge fan of most ambient music, but Eno infuses creativity into every track here.
Very good for those of us with GAD. The calm, gentle but beautiful sounds Eno creates take the sting out of any anxiety attacks.
LedZep 02/04/2020 22:52
Arguably the most important release from the guy who coined the term "ambient music". But it's not the best ambient album from the 70s, not even from Eno himself.
it is very strange how as you get older you start liking stuff you hated.honestly 10 yrs ago this stuff sounded crap,after moby I thought a couple of years ago to give this ago,i brought this and films and I found myself really enjoying it.it really does calm you down and makeyour mind wander off. great.
ramthecowy 01/22/2019 13:36
Incredibly soothing, I can hardly believe that this album is 41 years old, honestly. Great to put on and simple zone out or go to sleep, I can't quite wrap around the creative genius but I'll leave that to the other smarter commenters haha
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