Dancing In Your Head
by Ornette Coleman

Dancing In Your Head by Ornette Coleman
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 6,663rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 34 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1977 (100th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,041st)
Award Best albums of all time (6,663rd)

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Ornette Coleman bestography

Dancing In Your Head is ranked 5th best out of 35 albums by Ornette Coleman on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ornette Coleman is The Shape Of Jazz To Come which is ranked number 440 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,856.

Ornette Coleman album bestography « Higher ranked (4,660th)
Science Fiction
This album (6,663rd)
Dancing In Your Head
Lower ranked (7,414th) »
Something Else!!!!

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Dancing In Your Head rankings

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Overall rank: 6,663rd | 1970s rank: 1,041st | 1977 rank: 100th
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2026cicadelicTop 67 Music Albums of 197764/670
2026 RockyRaccoonTop 88 Music Albums of 197752/882
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 197777/1001
2026 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of 197750/1003
2026pjerskeTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s94/1001
2025MaxStorm98Top 56 Music Albums of 197753/560
2025HyggevinylTop 56 Music Albums of 19771/565
2025HyggevinylTop 100 Greatest Music Albums20/10076
2025HyggevinylTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s5/10019
2025JohnnyoAlbums of the year 1977 by Ultimate Record Collector22/44 -
2025 neilgeeTop 100 Music Albums of 197758/1002
2025JohnnyoAlbums of the year 1977 by Acclaimed Music45/65 -
2025replacementlevelTop 50 Music Albums of 197727/502
2024LosWochosTop 100 Music Albums of 197788/1001
2024AlienCinemaTop 100 Music Albums of 197785/1001
2024JohnnyoGreatest albums of the '70's (201 - 300) by U R C3/100 -
2024PurpleHazelTop 42 Music Albums of 19774/425
2024 Jboy56Top 100 Music Albums of 197754/1002
2023WayneMCUncut: The 500 Greatest Albums Of The 1970s (201-300)3/100 -
2023Error FinnTop 36 Music Albums of 197621/36 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 37
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 193
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75/100
 
01/07/2026 01:54 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,79770/100
 
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09/01/2025 12:11 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,14773/100
 
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06/19/2025 20:29 Elauqsapid  Ratings distribution  2,72064/100
 
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05/21/2025 21:20 BorderFreeAndrew  Ratings distribution  14,95974/100
 
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05/29/2024 21:44 LosWochos  Ratings distribution  46,86975/100

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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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From 09/20/2022 19:57 | #289834
This is as if someone took Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and lit it on fire.
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From 10/14/2016 22:38 | #176892
An essential masterpiece that captures Ornette's Prime Time early peak as a psychedelic jamming unit. They developed and transformed this beautiful music throughout the 70's and 80's and delivered Body Meta (Check out the deeply hypnotic opening track Voice Poetry) and Of Human Feelings, probably the towering achievement of Coleman's harmolodic music.
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