The Magician's Birthday (studio album) by Uriah Heep

The Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 3,601st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 112 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1972 (62nd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (634th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,601st)

Uriah Heep bestography

The Magician's Birthday is ranked 3rd best out of 31 albums by Uriah Heep on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Uriah Heep is Demons & Wizards which is ranked number 1773 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 953.

Uriah Heep album bestography « Higher ranked (3,176th) This album (3,601st) Lower ranked (3,936th) »
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The Magician's Birthday track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 112 votes)
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09/17/2024 18:16 AAL2014  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,35877/100
 
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08/26/2024 15:02 FreakWolfenstein  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 3,93871/100
 
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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 75.9/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.

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85/100
From 01/12/2024 22:29
Not quite on a par with Demons and Wizards. Still a very good album with a Roger Dean cover.
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From 03/03/2018 03:51
Never been a catchier version of Happy Birthday..
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From 11/17/2017 20:40
I add this one to my que when I want something a little differant
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From 03/26/2016 11:58
This record is a little over the top even for Uriah Heep. I still dig it though, a guilty pleasure.
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