Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya
by Jon Hassell
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Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya is ranked as the best album by Jon Hassell.
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Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  arthurbittencourt | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1980s | 30/99 | 14 |
| 2026 |  AfterHours | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 66/100 | 34 |
| 2026 |  bertrandu | Ambient 1958-2000 | 59/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | pjerske | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 68/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | LosWochos | Top 99 Music Albums of 1981 | 88/99 | 1 |
| 2026 |  viquel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 10/100 | 88 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 90 Music Albums of 1981 | 82/90 | 1 |
| 2025 |  paologabriel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 58/100 | 37 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 46 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 365 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/06/2026 04:33 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,586 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/13/2025 17:00 | cicadelic | 14,282 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2025 21:30 | Proto | 4,429 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.
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BestEverAlbums 06/25/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5354): By arthurbittencourtView latest topic →
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Jon Hassell cleverly combines his electronic processing of sound with tribal/environmental recordings, giving this album a real sense of strangeness and wonder. Beware! The opening track will make you think your speakers are f*cked. I used to play this album all the time when I was younger and my girlfriend used to pretend she liked it. We have three kids now and she's a bit more honest.
This revolutionary sounding album is an extraordinary recording that uses Eno's 'environmental' concept translating it to the realms of the mystical and anthropological. The sound of electronics fused with trumpet fanfares and minimilist keyboards, conjures up primitive, mythological and eerie dreamlike atmospheres. The rainforest has never sounded as scary as this.
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