Meddle
by Pink Floyd

Meddle by Pink Floyd
Year: 1971
Release date: 1971-10-30
Overall rank: 174th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 2,010 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1971 (8th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1970s (42nd)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (174th)

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Pink Floyd bestography

Meddle is ranked 6th best out of 37 albums by Pink Floyd on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pink Floyd is The Dark Side Of The Moon which is ranked number 2 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 56,736.

Pink Floyd album bestography « Higher ranked (157th)
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
This album (174th)
Meddle
Lower ranked (592nd) »
The Division Bell

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Meddle rankings

Meddle rankings summary
Overall rank: 174th | 1970s rank: 42nd | 1971 rank: 8th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).
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2026AbsurdCheesecakeTop 70 Music Albums of the 1970s38/709
2026 PanheadWarriorTop 13 Music Albums of 19716/133
2026bonnequestionBEA Top 200 Reorganized According To My Taste79/100 -
2026 LebowskiRamsTop 11 Music Albums of 197110/111
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 101 - 200 Greatest Music Albums4/100 -
2026brent13Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s35/10013
2026 JMGL95Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s24/10015
2026MoondanceTop 100 Music Albums of 197166/1002
2026fabm0All Time Pt 498/100 -
2026stangetzawayTop 57 Music Albums of 197121/573
2026adbrack1988Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s23/10016
2026culwinTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s60/1008
2026 CharlieBarleyMy Next 100 Favourite Songs 101-20068/100 -
2026FlapJackJoeyTop 5 Music Albums of 19715/51
2026 bertranduTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s51/10010
2026 ERadioTop 50 Music Albums of 197111/504
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s84/1003
2026 LebowskiRamsTop 73 Music Albums of the 1970s34/7311
2026leniadTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s97/1001
2026JoshN125Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s47/10011
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 1,127
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 8,409
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84/100 (from 2,010 votes)
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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 84.3/100, a mean average of 83.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.


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35/100
From 10/14/2023 17:21 | #299486
Not really for me, too much ambient filler. Fearless is a nice song. Echoes is good but far too long. If it were 6 minutes long I'd love it, but dragging it out for 23 minutes is bound to lessen the quality. I enjoy much of Pink Floyd's work but not this album.
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From 07/11/2023 19:46 | #298072
Quando estavam super prog!
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70/100
From 04/08/2023 00:22 | #295856
A bunch of nonsense on the first end, with some sprinkling of good music here and there.

And then probably the best song ever on the other side.

Hard record to rate.
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85/100
From 12/12/2022 13:12 | #291924
Tracks 4 and 5 shouldn´t be there IMO. The rest of he album is amazing.
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From 08/31/2022 03:49 | #289161
Solid album
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From 08/18/2022 15:22 | #288606
Echoes is a timeless piece of music, and other songs on this album like One of These Days and Fearless are excellent too!
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From 01/27/2022 22:27 | #280199
Opener record for Pink Floyd greatest era. Echoes is magnificent and the rest is pretty good too.
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From 01/23/2022 17:55 | #279904
The "Eternal Second" from PF discography: everybody loves this album, basically do not know anyone who puts it as their favourite from Pink Floyd.
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From 12/03/2021 21:05 | #277075
85.83

Lo primero que me llamó la atención de este disco fue su portada. Yo no tenia idea que Pink Floyd tenía un disco con ese gráfico y me pareció genial como cover art, porque además destila un estilo psicodélico y de rock experimental.

La primera canción que escuché fue San Tropez y fue en una historia de ig. Me llamó la atención la mera existencia del album y me fui a escucharlo. Eso fue hace unas semanas, hace ya casi un mes, y desde entonces, por lo que recuerdo, he escuchado el album completo unas 4 veces en total, pero claro, he repetido muchas más veces mi canción favorita del album, que es Fearless. También debo mencionar One of These Days, porque me encantó como primera canción. Yo muchas veces cuando escucho albums renombrados tiendo a juzgar si lo escucho completo o no por la sensación que me genera la primera canción, y definitivamente la primera de Meddle me obligó a continuarlo porque me atrapó y hasta ahora me sigue sorprendiendo cómo Pink Floyd logra hacerme disfrutar los instrumentales.

Ahora, honestamente no recuerdo A Pillow of Winds, es decir, ya me la olvidé, pero en su momento le di 80, que no está mal. San Tropez, al ser la primera que escuché, se queda con un recuerdo especial, yo le doy un 85 y disfruto mucho al escucharla. Seamus me parece un filler, o una canción con la que quisieron rellenar el album. Sin dudas le baja un poco el puntaje al album.

Finalmente, me encojo al calificar Echoes, porque hay partes que disfruto, pero no es lo mío esto de estar escuchando canciones tan largas, diría que solamente lo hago cuando me encantan verdaderamente y por ende, son de mis favoritas, porque sino no le veo el sentido de estar escuchando una misma canción tanto tiempo. Habiendo tratado de justificar esto, digo que le pongo 85 a Echoes, y esto con el perdón de los fans de Pink Floyd que me lean, porque estoy seguro que a lo mejor le deben colocar un 100. Sin embargo, lamento que no sea mi caso.

Ya para concluir, este es un album demasiado canchero y agradable. Diría que hasta ahora, que me faltan escuchar Animals y Wish You Were Here, es mi #2 album favorito de Pink Floyd después de The Dark Side of the Moon, y comparte el 2do puesto con The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Fearless es mi highlight y Echoes es la obra maestra que por ahora no conecta conmigo. Eso sería todo, seguiré en orden con la discografía de Pink Floyd. Por ende, la siguiente que escucharé será Obscured by Clouds, disco al que honestamente le tengo expectativas. Paz.
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From 11/21/2021 11:32 | #276497
Muy buen disco. Uno de los mejores, un pasito por detrás de sus cuatro grandes clasicos.
Echoes es un temazo a la altura de su leyenda.
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