Exuma
by Exuma

Album
Exuma by Exuma
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-04-00
Overall rank: 1,243rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 205 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (33rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (245th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,243rd)

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Exuma track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Exuma, The Obeah Man
Average Rating: 86 (57 votes)Comments: View 0
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Dambala
Average Rating: 85 (53 votes)Comments: View 0
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Mama Loi, Papa Loi
Average Rating: 83 (47 votes)Comments: View 1
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Junkanoo
Average Rating: 74 (40 votes)Comments: View 0
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Seance In The Sixth Fret
Average Rating: 77 (39 votes)Comments: View 0
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You Don't Know What's Going On
Average Rating: 82 (45 votes)Comments: View 0
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Vision
Average Rating: 83 (46 votes)Comments: View 0

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Exuma rankings

Exuma rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,243rd | 1970s rank: 245th | 1970 rank: 33rd  Overall chart history
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Exuma ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 205 votes)
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 !		5 days ago pharoahstune  Ratings distribution  25579/100
 
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 !		09/25/2026 16:39 ecocruzr  Ratings distribution  25869/100
 
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 !		08/05/2026 19:45 Rhyner  Ratings distribution  1,73859/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.


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Exuma forum mentions

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Exuma comments

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From 07/23/2020 08:18 | #256066 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This isn't an album that I can just listen to in the background. Whenever it comes on it puts me into a trance.

No album has done atmosphere better than this one. When I hear this album, I AM in the Bahamas, lost in the woods as I happen upon a circle of people with musical instruments of all kinds. In the center of the north of the circle is a man with a guitar. He cuts through the sound of frogs with ferocious guitar playing, with the drummers following suit. Nature sings with him as he boasts and bellows about his power as an ancient deity.

From here the circle goes on a wild journey, one with heavenly prophecies, contacting the dead, and a zombie apocalypse.

I can't listen to this album enough. I cannot recommend it enough. I only wish that it did not have "junkanoo" which is a useless filler track. (Edited)
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90/100
From 02/19/2020 03:19 | #247988 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
its like in the court of the crimson king but from a different culture. also its amazing (Edited)
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From 06/18/2013 02:49 | #79232 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Arguably my favorite world album ever (Edited)
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From 02/07/2014 20:49 | #102493 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Deep within a mythical tropical island lies a man performing with the passion of Richie Havens. (Edited)
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From 01/05/2014 19:42 | #99933 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Really really good! (Edited)
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Best Albums of  1970
1. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
2. After The Gold Rush by Neil Young
3. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
5. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
6. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
7. Moondance by Van Morrison
8. Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin
10. Fun House by The Stooges