The Drop (studio album)
by Brian Eno
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Brian Eno bestography
The Drop is ranked 29th best out of 51 albums by Brian Eno on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Brian Eno is Another Green World which is ranked number 184 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,130.
(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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The Drop track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (1 out of 17 tracks have been rated).
The Drop rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2501-2600 | 42/100 | - |
| 2025 | Romanelli | Top 87 Music Albums of 1997 | 86/87 | 0 |
| 2025 |  ExTeaSea | Top 89 Music Albums of 1997 | 50/89 | 2 |
| 2025 | Skerns | Top 75 Music Albums of 1997 | 57/75 | 1 |
| 2023 | skrapoel | Top 50 Music Albums of 1997 | 47/50 | 0 |
| 2023 | ExTeaSea | F2LF: Brian Eno | 13/17 | - |
| 2022 | ExTeaSea | 90s albums by older artists | 26/32 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4 | |||
The Drop collection
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The Drop ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/12/2025 13:29 | Robininthetree | 136 | 84/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2025 02:56 |  OldToad | 1,283 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/25/2025 14:15 | Skerns | 5,055 | 80/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2024 03:26 |  ScrumpyArbuckle | 1,131 | 78/100 |
| ! | 02/24/2023 17:48 |  phantom1305 | 2,812 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.1/100, a mean average of 60.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 60.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
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OldToad 03/07/2025 02:56 | #307903
Bland and flat, not in a good way. Pains me to give an Eno album such a low rating; he made my favorite album of all time. With musicians, if they have long careers, some of the best have plenty of low points and head-scratchers sprinkled through their body of work. Inspiration comes and goes, and you don't stop working when it's gone, you work to try to get it back, and you convince yourself that it's still here. Among the worst things about this album is the way he talked about it at the time, saying that he was inventing a new type of music, citing Mahavishnu Orchestra as inspiration and going about "jazz." Eno's body of work is uneven in quality, I think, but that's not really a very serious criticism. Judging by his best, and not shades-of-beige filler like this whole album, he's actually fully worthy of his reputation.
ExTeaSea 01/17/2021 20:57 | #264574
Weird album cover haha. Really like the music though. It's hard to dislike anything he puts out and it's also hard to rank his catalogue. Love his stuff with vocals, his interesting instrumental stuff like this and his ambient stuff.
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