Emergency!
by The Tony Williams Lifetime
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Emergency! is ranked as the best album by The Tony Williams Lifetime.
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Emergency! track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Emergency! rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 91/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 37 Music Albums of 1969 | 5/37 | 4 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Tony Williams/The Tony Williams Lifetime: So Far.. | 2/10 | - |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Jazz #301-400 | 32/82 | - |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 51 Music Albums of 1969 | 34/51 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 44 Music Albums of 1969 | 11/44 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Graeme2 | Top 84 Music Albums of 1969 | 66/84 | 1 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 22/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 1969 by Ultimate Record Collector | 94/100 | - |
| 2026 | Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 38/100 | 13 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 51 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 131 | |||
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Emergency! ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/09/2026 14:37 | Pluto11 | 12,291 | 72/100 |
| ! | 08/03/2025 22:44 | WayneMC | 5,327 | 86/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2025 19:29 | Hyggevinyl | 4,474 | 72/100 |
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.5.
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Purplepash 04/23/2019 09:52 in You must listen to the album below you: canon editionEmergency! comments
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Comfortably one of the best jazz/rock fusion albums I've heard. Tony Williams on the drums, John McLaughlin with guitar and Larry Young on the Organ. All on full cylinders here.
The poetry slam sections completely ruin an album I would otherwise potentially love, with three monster players just tearing stuff up. What a bummer.
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