Exodus
by Bob Marley & The Wailers
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Bob Marley & The Wailers bestography
The best album by Bob Marley is Exodus which is ranked number 255 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,192.
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Exodus track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Exodus rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 29/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 14/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | World | 1/50 | - |
| 2026 | Fritz | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 96/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | jlsfourth | Top 10 Music Albums of 1977 | 8/10 | 2 |
| 2026 |  CharlieBarley | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 51/100 | 50 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 53 Music Albums of 1977 | 8/53 | 4 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 45 Music Albums of 1977 | 18/45 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 802 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 6,192 | |||
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Exodus ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 9 hours ago | AledJames | 1,694 | 69/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2026 21:59 | Timooosterink | 912 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2026 15:15 | AndyLish79 | 505 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.1/100, a mean average of 81.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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Exodus forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 42 hours ago in Chart of the day (#5449): By junodog4 BestEverAlbums 4 days ago in Chart of the day (#5447): By adbrack1988 BestEverAlbums 09/24/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5445): By MW19704UExodus comments
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Probably the most well known of the Bob Marley studio albums. Exodus, is full of classic Marley. One love/people get ready, three little birds, jamming, waiting in vain and the title track are all great. Some other good tracks in, natural mystic, and the smoochy, turn your lights down low. Classic reggae album.
This one has everything Bob Marley was, a political men, worried about his people, but also a man of peace, love and faith. He really should be put up there with the greats.
This album seems to start out slow to me with the back half being much stronger than the front. The last 2 tracks are my favorite by Marley.
buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/12/2017 20:01 | #187321 | TOP COMMENT
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If I were really being honest, Bob Marley's greatest hits compilation Legend would appear here, since it was a staple in my musical rotations from the end of my high school years through college. But I'd be breaking my tradition of including only proper albums in my top 100 of all time. Since a sizable chunk of Legend is culled from Exodus... Exodus it is! While I love Bob Marley and all he's contributed to the world of reggae music, it's his love songs, rather than his political ditties, that feel most memorable to me. "Waiting in Vain" is the highlight here, with its heartbreaking repetition at one point: "I don't wannna / I don't wanna / I don't wanna / I don't wanna / I don't wanna wait in vain." I hear you, Bob. Me neither.
corenfro TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/21/2017 16:49 | #189640 | TOP COMMENT
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I love Bob Marley and this is his best non-compilation album. My qualm with it is that he's perfected his reggae sound so well that he deviates very little from it. Some of the songs run the risk of sounding monotonous, but the string of classics towards the end of the album buck that trend and leave us w/ a lovely Marley LP.
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