Discreet Music
by Brian Eno
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Discreet Music is ranked 7th best out of 51 albums by Brian Eno on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Brian Eno is Another Green World which is ranked number 192 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,810.
(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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 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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| 12/28/2025 10:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,793 | 70/100 | |
| 12/17/2025 02:52 | FrancK | 510 | 83/100 | |
| 10/13/2025 11:46 |  Tamthebam | 22,937 | 69/100 | |
| 09/06/2025 20:09 |  melisandre | 151 | 88/100 | |
| 07/05/2025 18:08 |  ExTeaSea | 5,141 | 82/100 |
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Jboy56 07/10/2023 12:53 | #298036
Moody Moods, tunnelmia viiikseen
teague 09/21/2021 22:46 | #274035
That title track will ring out for centuries after the human race is but a distant memory. The next two tracks are fascinating, but the last one is a bit too dissonant for me.
JulianR 02/27/2018 05:35 | #209728
I'm usually pretty good with ambient and such, but I just find the title track, well, dull. The rest is pretty interesting neo-classical type stuff, but that opener is just the same motif repeated quite a bit. I'm ok if it's slow, but I need some progression. I felt like I hadn't gone anywhere in half an hour. And maybe that's the point, but it didn't really jive with me.
The title track is the perfect representation of the sound of a spaceship wandering slowly through the quiet empty space.
An interesting album by Mr. Eno. Not to every ones taste but I like it.
telefunker 06/02/2009 05:20 | #4553
the polar opposite of trout mask.. only 4 or 5 notes in the piece, could be construed as simplistic, but it has such a hypnotic effect.. and each time a new bit of instrumentation comes in.. ahhhh.... fuck, i'm getting weirder by the day.
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