Heavy Weather (studio album) by Weather Report
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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90/100  | 06/16/2025 13:41 |  luigybetis | | 87/100 |
70/100 | 06/15/2025 09:05 | Invader666 | | 65/100 |
10/100 | 12/31/2024 03:16 | Proto | | 34/100 |
80/100 | 10/31/2024 21:25 |  AAL2014 | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 10/03/2024 05:08 |  colonelchibbers | | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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Epic, unearthly sonics - Weather Report speak a musical language that could be from lightyears ahead in the future, or is as old as time itself.
endless drivel jazz
teague 09/07/2021 15:52
Heavy Weather shows a completely different side to jazz fusion than, say, Bitches Brew. Vibrant, colorful, and smooth, as opposed to dark, brooding, and jagged.
Boring , meandering, directionless, riff-less. Proves you can be a great musician but not necessarily a great composer. The only track that works is Birdland and that's just cause it has a nice hook which is repeated ad nauseum when it isn't interrupted by the slow building intro, middle break, outro. I'll take Yes over this if I want to hear excellent musicians who at least can put a meaningful track together.
TheDude85 10/13/2019 16:18
The Album where Jaco Pastorius really cements his place in the group. His bass is such a complimentary voice and shines when soloing.
Fischman 01/07/2019 02:08
Weather Report's best album. Birdland is one of the great jazz instrumental that you don't have to be a jazz fan to appreciate.
discojets1 06/24/2016 03:11
A classic jazz fusion album from the 1970's. Great musicianship especially from Jaco Pastorius (fretless bass), and Joe Zawinul (keyboards). Also this album has classic jazz standards such as "Birdland","Teen Town", and Wayne Shorter composition "A Remark You Made." Classic album.
I don't like this kind of jazz music. Sounds too smooth and slick for me.
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