Quicksilver Messenger Service
by Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Quicksilver Messenger Service bestography
Quicksilver Messenger Service is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by Quicksilver Messenger Service on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Quicksilver Messenger Service is Happy Trails which is ranked number 2961 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 520.
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Quicksilver Messenger Service track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Quicksilver Messenger Service rankings
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Quicksilver Messenger Service ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/14/2026 12:37 | cicadelic | 13,538 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2026 08:06 |  doombringer | 2,313 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2024 18:20 |  RockyRaccoon | 7,154 | 84/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2024 00:18 | PapaShiz86 | 11,599 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/15/2024 16:30 |  dihansse | 6,359 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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The one to start with is their best, "Just For Love." "Shady Grove" has its merits too.
I simply don't hear what the people praising this one hear. The Airplane, the Dead, Fairport, any number of truly great bands stunk their first time in a studio, and this was no different.
Jboy56 09/19/2022 17:33 | #289802
QMS , prettyish kind of wild music,
Pretty awful; first trip to the studio stuff. "Pride Of Man" was an important song to a lot of people, but even it was a rather poor take. I hung on to this for far too long, but eventually the batteries run flat on your 60's nostalgia, ya know?
mdbaxter 12/16/2021 17:58 | #277581 | TOP COMMENT
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Really good psychedelic rock. Very much in line with the rest of the scene at the time. Not as original as some others but technically sound. They're at their best on the extended jams where they can delve into some uniqueness I think.
seb7 12/28/2020 03:13 | #263331
ummmmm UMMMMM this album is just amazing. The best quicksilver album
seb7 11/30/2020 00:32 | #261661
A great album with no faults as far as I can tell.
Their best!
Definitely Quicksilver's best. It epitomizes the San Francisco sound of the 67-68 era, along with JA's Surrealistic Pillow. Very little to not like with this album.
nitomano 11/15/2018 05:37 | #224955
Mejor de lo que esperaba, me agrada la vibra de finales de los sesenta que posee, así como la experimentación y psicodelia que caracterizaba a los Estados Unidos durante esa época.
An album which epitomises the sound of 60's psychedelia in San Fransico. 'Light Your Windows' is a personal favourite along with the instrumental 'Gold and Silver', the latter of which makes the album for me. San Fransico in the 60's must have been an amazing experience.
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