Budgie
by Budgie

Budgie by Budgie
Year: 1971
Overall rank: 11,436th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 57 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1971 (168th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (1,584th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,436th)

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Budgie bestography

Budgie is ranked 3rd best out of 18 albums by Budgie on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Budgie is Bandolier which is ranked number 8832 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 140.

Budgie album bestography « Higher ranked (9,161st)
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This album (11,436th)
Budgie
Lower ranked (11,701st) »
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Budgie rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,436th | 1970s rank: 1,584th | 1971 rank: 168th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).

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Budgie ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 57 votes)
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06/29/2026 21:40 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  5,11681/100
 
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04/04/2026 12:27 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,69962/100
 
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03/02/2026 12:16 classicjoe  Ratings distribution  50778/100
 
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01/04/2026 07:17 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,32470/100
 
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11/22/2025 09:43 Johnnyo  Ratings distribution  9,77977/100

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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.


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85/100
From 06/29/2026 21:41 | #315121
Criminally underrated!
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80/100
From 04/28/2023 12:34 | #296455
Never heard it before. A very hard-rocking album with some fine guitar work. Very refined Sabbath and heavy prog elements with a cheek in tongue twist.
This album has got one of the weirdest song names: "Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" , yeah!
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75/100
From 09/03/2017 20:42 | #197197
A more melodic and intelligent Black Sabbath which hints towards early Rush. Raw but powerful rock, sounds excellent on vinyl. The track titles suggest they didn't take themselves too seriously which is perhaps why they didn't reach the heights of BS
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