Budgie
by Budgie

Budgie by Budgie
Year: 1971
Overall rank: 11,698th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 55 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1971 (171st)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,641st)
Award Best albums of all time (11,698th)

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Budgie bestography

Budgie is ranked 4th best out of 18 albums by Budgie on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Budgie is Bandolier which is ranked number 8511 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 145.

Budgie album bestography « Higher ranked (11,435th)
Squawk
This album (11,698th)
Budgie
Lower ranked (11,951st) »
In For The Kill

(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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Budgie rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,698th | 1970s rank: 1,641st | 1971 rank: 171st

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Budgie ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 55 votes)
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75/100
 
3 days ago classicjoe  Ratings distribution  14378/100
 
70/100
 
01/04/2026 07:17 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,73170/100
 
80/100
 
11/22/2025 09:43 Johnnyo  Ratings distribution  9,74677/100
 
80/100
 
11/10/2025 16:37 spinout  Ratings distribution  3,27781/100
 
90/100
 
10/26/2025 11:20 RockyRaccoon  Ratings distribution  6,85884/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.

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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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Best Albums of 1971
1. Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) by Led Zeppelin
2. Who's Next by The Who
3. Hunky Dory by David Bowie
4. What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
5. Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
6. Blue by Joni Mitchell
7. Tago Mago by Can
8. Meddle by Pink Floyd
9. L.A. Woman by The Doors
10. Tapestry by Carole King
11. Fragile by Yes
12. Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
13. Master Of Reality by Black Sabbath
14. Aqualung by Jethro Tull
15. Ram by Paul & Linda McCartney
16. Electric Warrior by T. Rex
17. Imagine by John Lennon
18. Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
19. There's A Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone
20. At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
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