Emergency! (studio album)
by The Tony Williams Lifetime

Emergency! by The Tony Williams Lifetime
Year: 1969
Overall rank: 8,639th   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 38 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (134th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (638th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,639th)

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Emergency! is ranked as the best album by The Tony Williams Lifetime.

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Emergency! track list

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Emergency! rankings

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Overall rank: 8,639th | 1960s rank: 638th | 1969 rank: 134th

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Emergency! ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 38 votes)
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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 76.9/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.7.

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From 03/06/2020 00:43 | #248500
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.
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From 09/04/2019 02:55 | #242180
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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