Sounds Of Silence
by Simon & Garfunkel
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Simon & Garfunkel bestography
Sounds Of Silence is ranked 3rd best out of 20 albums by Simon & Garfunkel on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Simon & Garfunkel is Bridge Over Troubled Water which is ranked number 104 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,619.
(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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Sounds Of Silence track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Sounds Of Silence rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 95/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 42/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 40 Music Albums of 1966 | 4/40 | 5 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 80 Music Albums of 1966 | 44/80 | 2 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 87 Music Albums of the 1960s | 31/87 | 13 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 25 Music Albums of 1966 | 9/25 | 3 |
| 2026 | BoxFL | Top 28 Music Albums of the 1960s | 28/28 | 1 |
| 2026 |  calsper | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1960s | 66/99 | 7 |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 45/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  Larcx13 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 60/100 | 8 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 634 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4,088 | |||
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Sounds Of Silence ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 1 hour ago | wizardalien | 922 | 48/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2026 10:08 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/29/2026 23:39 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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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 79.7/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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Sounds Of Silence forum mentions
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A good Simon & Garfunkel album, though not as good as their later music. Some of this stuff drags a bit, but even the songs that drag are usually pretty.
Decurso TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/31/2014 14:23 | #120854 | TOP COMMENT
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Songwriting 101 right here. I don't really think of Simon and Garfunkle as a dark band, but this is a really dark album. It consistently evokes feeling of loneliness and isolation. I Am a Rock, Richard Cory and the title track are the stand out tracks. (Edited)
sszwalbenest 07/12/2013 02:36 | #81205 | TOP COMMENT
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Fantastic album. Paul Simon truly seems to have been a tortured soul at the time of this album's creation. "A Most Peculiar Man" is an amazingly simple but dark song and the highlight of the album.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/29/2012 04:20 | #45560 | TOP COMMENT
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This is probably the weakest of Simon and Garfunkel's big 4 albums, and it's still beautiful and layered. These guys are underrated in the 60s, even if Garfunkel was just some poofy looking singer.
ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/06/2010 20:42 | #14956 | TOP COMMENT
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"Kathy's song" is my favorite and it might be my overall S/G fav.
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