Rock & Roll Music To The World
by Ten Years After
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Rock & Roll Music To The World is ranked 4th best out of 23 albums by Ten Years After on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ten Years After is Cricklewood Green which is ranked number 5412 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 255.
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Rock & Roll Music To The World track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Rock & Roll Music To The World rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 34/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 86/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 28/100 | 72 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1972 | 25/80 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 6/100 | 5 |
| 2025 | steve397 | Top 14 Music Albums of 1972 | 8/14 | 3 |
| 2025 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 63/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  MetalMan67 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 68/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of the 70’s (301 - 400) | 25/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 24 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 140 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/30/2025 13:36 |  Sandrof1969 | 2,723 | 68/100 |
| ! | 11/21/2024 10:37 | steve397 | 513 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2023 16:33 |  Jboy56 | 4,268 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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BestEverAlbums 09/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5429): By Steppenwolf666 BestEverAlbums 07/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5364): By steve397
jackup 05/24/2022 15:15 in What album are you listening to right now?Rock & Roll Music To The World comments
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Ten Years After's eighth studio album "Rock & Roll Music To The World" from 1972 is possibly one of the group's least interesting. Eight albums in just five years probably was than Alvin Lee and his band were able to deliver inspired new material for. This does not mean that the album is without highlights or memorable songs.
The opening track "You Give Me Loving" is a solid blues-rocker in the best Ten Years After style. The "Convention Prevention" follows up on the the slightly softer style that characterized its predecessor. "A Space in Time".
A bunch of fairly traditional blues rockers like "You Can not Win Them All," "Choo Choo Mama" and "Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town" are each solid enough, but sound on the other hand also very much like things heard before from the group. "Turned Off TV Blues" is pure blues at best Peter Green style.
The title track gained quite some radio play and it is actually a nice and catchy rocker.
The highlight for me is clearly "Religion," which shows the group from its strongest side. Fine structure with increasing intensity and with classic rock supplemented with more modern elements. Here Alvin Lee is given space and time to showcase his the lead guitarskills tastefully og never boring.
After the well-executed A Space In Time release, this quick follow-up resembles the early TYE style of rock and roll blues, with a few gems that stand out from the blues-rock-boogie fill. The song Religion on the B-side, track 2 is one of those aforementioned gems.
Really, if you like Alvin Lee's fretwork, you still get your fill of hectic solos over jamming blues progressions. It just doesn't stand out relative to TYE's earlier, more definitive albums. Almost feels like the production took a step back with this one, too...
Get this LP if you live for bluesy boogie rock n' roll. Or, don't - and instead check out their prior releases. This release is their eighth, so you've got options.
Some great tracks - Religion, You give me loving and the incredible Standing at the station - which is guitar playing at it's fastest and greatest. Everyone should have this album for this track alone.
Jboy56 05/06/2023 17:03 | #296691 | TOP COMMENT
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