Waiting For Columbus
by Little Feat
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Waiting For Columbus is ranked 2nd best out of 28 albums by Little Feat on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Little Feat is Dixie Chicken which is ranked number 2886 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 537.
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Waiting For Columbus track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Waiting For Columbus rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | martintho | Top 76 Music Albums of 1978 | 51/76 | 2 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 26 Music Albums of 1978 | 2/26 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1701-1800 | 49/100 | - |
| 2026 | Jantje | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 52/100 | 48 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 47/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 98 Music Albums of 1978 | 12/98 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 77 Music Albums of 1978 | 41/77 | 2 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 18/100 | 17 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 106 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 439 | |||
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Waiting For Columbus ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/16/2026 19:31 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/16/2026 08:53 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,939 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2025 12:55 | Tamthebam | 23,300 | 69/100 |
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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 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.
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Waiting For Columbus forum mentions
Romanelli 06/27/2023 12:45 in The Romanelli Music Diary: The Milk Of Human Kindness Romanelli 05/18/2023 19:55 in What album are you listening to right now?Waiting For Columbus comments
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ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/12/2009 21:36 | #7618 | TOP COMMENT
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This was their biggest album by far (2BS 3140), it came out when Queen, "News of the world" and "Aja" were out..at the height of 70s album sales..this was a huge album and got a lot of airplay that Little Feat hadn't had before. This album was our chain's biggest selling album for 1977, just beating out Queen's "News of the world" and Kenny Loggins "Celebrate me Home"..all three albums got so much airplay in Cincinnati.
but "Last Record album" is my favorite little feat album, "long distance love', a classic love song. (Edited)
I try hard to not reward live albums that function as hits packages, because it sort of doesn't feel fair to the studio efforts. But once in a while, you simply have to deal with one that does that but also offers new angles on band and music-- and this, with the fabulous horn parts, does that sufficiently to make it the exception that suspends the rule, at least... (Edited)
ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/05/2019 12:09 | #237139 | TOP COMMENT
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they were so perfectly integrated..it was almost like they combined boogie, black blues, R/B country, folk, gospel, soul, jazz fusion, and came up with what i would call "white blues", such great musicians (Edited)
This record shows what a live album is about.
If you dig the Little Feat blend, you'll really enjoy this double-LP live album. If you're less enthralled with this group's sound, the live context and sheer volume of music might prove too grand a 'Feat' to accept.
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