Future Shock
by Herbie Hancock

Future Shock by Herbie Hancock
Year: 1983
Overall rank: 9,636th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 62 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (120th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,386th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,636th)

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Herbie Hancock bestography

Future Shock is ranked 7th best out of 42 albums by Herbie Hancock on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Herbie Hancock is Head Hunters which is ranked number 537 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,269.

Herbie Hancock album bestography « Higher ranked (8,460th)
Inventions And Dimensions
This album (9,636th)
Future Shock
Lower ranked (10,648th) »
Man-Child

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 9,636th | 1980s rank: 1,386th | 1983 rank: 120th

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 62 votes)
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02/12/2026 11:40 Hyggevinyl  Ratings distribution  4,32472/100
 
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10/22/2025 22:54 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,54465/100
 
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07/08/2025 01:41 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,18783/100
 
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10/02/2024 20:44 Banner  Ratings distribution  4,91680/100
 
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06/17/2024 14:55 MetalMan67  Ratings distribution  6,01071/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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From 11/28/2019 07:30 | #245247
Rock is is good, the rest so lala.
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From 01/16/2016 22:25 | #156780
Herbie Hancock is jazz music and this record is absolutely not, in the strict sense .... At the same time Miles Davis test funk and it is my sense that jazz starts and the electronic rap ... it's herbie Hancock disc UFO and then move to more things ... analog .... this disc represents the end of the underground for rap and electronica and switching to ground. And now the rap, as electronic music are naturally present in all ears! is this good, what is evil? this is not the issue, it is a fact! and you take what you like.
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