Amarok (studio album)
by Mike Oldfield
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Mike Oldfield bestography
Amarok is ranked 5th best out of 34 albums by Mike Oldfield on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Mike Oldfield is Tubular Bells which is ranked number 522 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,330.
(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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Amarok track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Amarok ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/29/2025 04:06 |  Kingturtle | 7,441 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2025 06:48 | davidhuret | 2,000 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/21/2024 04:27 | PapaShiz86 | 10,897 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2023 15:41 | yes340 | 660 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2023 14:42 | gregorrr | 43 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.2.
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DJFresh-Rock 05/14/2022 22:29 | #285350
The story goes that Mike Oldfield had to commit to one more album with Virgin Records and they'd been on at him to produce something a little more radio friendly. Ever the contrarian, Mike came up with Amarok. One, hour-long track, split up into little nuggets of weirdness. There's barely a movement over 2 minutes and there's a considerable amount of oddity contained herein. Nevertheless, it hangs together brilliantly and if you can get past the incoherence, there's much to be enjoyed. Personally, I think it ranks as one of Oldfield's best albums.
allgood 07/26/2017 16:00 | #194940
A weird and great album, definitely among its best.
Best album ever.
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