Basket Of Light
by Pentangle

Album
Basket Of Light by Pentangle
Year: 1969
Release date: 1969-10-26
Overall rank: 2,484th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 151 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (61st)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (223rd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,484th)

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Basket Of Light is ranked as the best album by Pentangle.

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- This album (2,484th)
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Overall rank: 2,484th | 1960s rank: 223rd | 1969 rank: 61st  Overall chart history
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76/100 (from 151 votes)
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 !		09/06/2026 01:33 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,36533/100
 
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 !		01/19/2026 14:24 Fischman  Ratings distribution  11,86166/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.


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From 12/29/2011 11:39 | #33930 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I remember to this day the first I listened to this album and immediately fell in love. A perfect folk album, and my #1 of all times.
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From 06/30/2016 20:10 | #170201 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A quite lovely album. Basket of light, is one of the great folk records of all time. Excellent performances all round, especially Jacqui Mcshee, who is superb throughout. Great songs in, light flight, Sally go round the roses, and, the cuckoo. Great LP.
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The opening track Light Flight was the theme tune of a popular British TV series, Take Three Girls and so is still one of the best known of their songs. The traditional folk song Once I Had A Sweetheart is another standout track.
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From 12/07/2014 14:24 | #128906 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A wonderful album but perhaps a little dated now. Pentangle were very much a band of their time. I remember seeing them perform most of the songs from it live at Brighton Dome. I visited Bert Jansch's grave at Highgate Cemetery recently.
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Great album anyway but "Sally Go Round The Roses" - oh my what a version!
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3. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
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5. Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
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