Chill Out
by The KLF
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Chill Out is ranked as the best album by The KLF.
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Chill Out track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Chill Out 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 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1990 | 27/100 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 90 Music Albums of 1990 | 25/90 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Top 23 Music Albums of 1990 | 19/23 | 1 |
| 2026 |  bertrandu | Ambient 1958-2000 | 1/100 | - |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 85 Music Albums of 1990 | 26/85 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 72 Music Albums of 1990 | 26/72 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 71 Music Albums of 1990 | 40/71 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 120 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 677 | |||
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Chill Out ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/07/2026 04:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,683 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2026 10:41 | Leginlists | 3,840 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/30/2025 04:48 | matterhornrider | 5,162 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 75.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Chill Out forum mentions
baystateoftheart 10/26/2025 18:35 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
EyeKanFly 01/10/2022 18:12 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
Mercury 01/10/2022 15:57 in What album are you listening to right now?Chill Out comments
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There is nothing like listening to this album on my morning commute. It is almost as if it has been specifically created for it - it's almost exactly the same length as my train journey so can be listened to start to finish. I used to love UF Orb, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and this album back in the day and whilst I struggle to go back to the Orb's albums which I feel haven't dated so well as complete works, this is still the ultimate ambient album for me and still feels perfect from start to finish. I never tire of Elvis and Fleetwood Mac fading in and out and Wichita Lineman... still gives me chills. People that haven't heard it don't understand why this album is one of my all time favourites, I guess they only know KLF for their dance singles. If you like instrumental/ambient music and haven't heard it give it a try - you don't know what you're missing.
JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/09/2018 08:12 | #224168 | TOP COMMENT
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"Ambient Music" doesn't do it justice. This is not Brian Eno dinking around on a piano for half an hour. This is so much more. One single, cohesive, enthralling, beautiful, unrivaled composition. If I were to apply the term "post-music" to any piece of music I have heard so far, it would be this. It is not a conscious deconstruction of musical conventions, as in post-rock or ambient, but seemingly created from a state of mind with no concept of musical convention at all. Just beauty, emotion, feeling. There are very very few albums that get added to my chart after just 2 listens, but this is one.
90/100 (Excellent) (Edited)
ButterThumbz TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/17/2016 20:12 | #166310 | TOP COMMENT
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My introduction to ambience is still a stunning listen.
Very entertaining music album! I liked the funny voices in the first part. Made me laugh!
Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/02/2014 04:42 | #102033 | TOP COMMENT
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Ambient masterpiece. All done in one take from start to finish with lots of beautiful and varied samples laid over the original music of the KLF. It's just a really interesting album. I, clearly and emphatically, love it from start to finish.
Recommended for anyone who likes ambient or electronic or sample-based experimental, or ambient house, or super chill and creative music.
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