Zuma
by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography
Zuma is ranked 8th best out of 98 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 83 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,033.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Zuma track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Zuma rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 47/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  eclab | Top 20 Music Albums of 1975 | 15/20 | 2 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 91/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Neil Young (and related)- Albums ranked | 35/79 | - |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 60 Music Albums of 1975 | 18/60 | 4 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 39 Music Albums of 1975 | 10/39 | 4 |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 49 Music Albums of 1975 | 12/49 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 87 Music Albums of 1975 | 5/87 | 5 |
| 2026 |  JR | Neil Young | 7/10 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 376 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,721 | |||
Zuma collection
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Zuma ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/15/2026 21:27 |  DommeDamian | 7,794 | 48/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2026 08:21 |  LedZep | 5,145 | 79/100 |
| ! | 05/17/2026 10:49 | Deckard | 267 | 80/100 |
Rating metrics:
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.2/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
Zuma favourites
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Zuma forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 4 days ago in Chart of the day (#5449): By junodog4 BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsZuma comments
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Zuma ranks as one of the very best and consistent of Neil's huge catalogue. In my opinion it's vastly superior to his more celebrated but, in truth, uneven works like Goldrush and Harvest. Nowhere, Tonight, Rust and Zuma are the essential Young albums to have in any music collection.
This album could worth just by the presence of Cortez the Killer, the best Neil' Song.
The other songs? Some are really good, some less.
covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/24/2011 03:56 | #26584 | TOP COMMENT
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People usually hails Neil's late 60s-early 70s material at his best but the brutal and raw emotion in his ditch trilogy years and this album in particular ar far more intense, his lyrics are sadder and tougher than ever and his music epithomizes wht he was, is and will be. The power of his guitar riffs in this album simply paved the sound of bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam and no matter how picky you are this album has simply not a weak track in it, with On The Beach they remain my favorites two in an outstanding carreer...
people who truely appreciate how great Young is generally rate Zuma, Tonight, and On the beach as his best work
Every note on Cortez the killer is so right
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