Sound
by Roscoe Mitchell

Sound by Roscoe Mitchell
Year: 1966
Overall rank: 10,283rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 31 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1966 (77th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (740th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,283rd)

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Overall rank: 10,283rd | 1960s rank: 740th | 1966 rank: 77th

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70/100 (from 31 votes)
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06/02/2025 17:43 Elauqsapid  Ratings distribution  2,72064/100
 
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10/06/2024 23:17 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,42765/100
 
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01/10/2024 20:15 BorderFreeAndrew  Ratings distribution  14,95474/100
 
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11/12/2023 19:03 replacementlevel  Ratings distribution  7,72470/100
 
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08/04/2023 12:12 LedZep  Ratings distribution  4,93079/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 69.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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From 09/16/2022 12:50 | #289712
I bet this is outside my jazz genre spectrum which is not narrow, but this is ratherpainful to distill and quite hard to get to the atomics of this. Requires effort to be judged correctly, perhaps.. Later
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From 07/11/2021 02:21 | #271520
The way the mysterious and poetic more conventional introduction of Sound (the track) suddenly transitions to silence broken by sparse, seemingly spontaneous sounds (from various unidentified sources) felt very much like the introduction of an old Japanese movie (Opening music during the credits dissolving into real time). Required 3 listens to fully appreciate the imaginative in-the-moment soundscape it creates and not lose myself in the arbitrariness.
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Best Albums of 1966
1. Revolver by The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
3. Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan
4. Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
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19. Blues Breakers by John Mayall & Eric Clapton
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