2007年 10月 21日 日曜日 05:06

When rating albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire body of similar music. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart does not include compilations or live albums.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
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1. (=) Gazpacho - Night (2007) - 8.00 (8.00)
2. (=) Naikaku - Shell (2006) - 7.86 (8.00)
3. (=) Areknamés - Love Hate Round Trip (2006) - 7.77 (7.73)
4. (=) Magenta - Revolutions (2001) - 7.73 (7.84)
5. (=) Black Bonzo - Sound of the Apocalypse (2007) - 7.05 (6.75)
6. (=) Social Tension - It Reminds Me of Macbethia (2000) - 7.04 (7.14)
7. (=) Biglietto Per L'Inferno - Biglietto Per L'Inferno (1974) - 7.00 (7.00)
8. (=) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007) - 6.98 (6.00)
9. (=) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (1972) - 6.88 (6.80)
10. (=) Cairo - Conflict and Dreams (1998) - 6.88 (6.50)

11. (=) KBB - Four Corner's Sky (2003) - 6.87 (6.86)
12. (=) Peter Pan - Days (2007) - 6.86 (6.78)
13. (=) The Watch - Ghost (2001) - 6.75 (6.83)
14. (=) Eloy - Dawn (1976) - 6.69 (6.88)
15. (=) Trace - Birds (1975) - 6.67 (6.14)
16. (=) Parallel Mind - Colossus ADEA (2005) - 6.62 (6.12)
17. (=) Magma - Üdü Wüdü (1978) - 6.61 (5.83)
18. (=) Areknamés - Areknamés (2002) - 6.51 (6.50)
19. (=) Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement (2007) - 6.49 (6.89)
20. (=) Nemo - Les Nouveaux Mondes (2002) - 6.40 (6.20)

21. (=) Tempest - Turn of the Wheel (1996) - 6.35 (6.30)
22. (=) Kula Shaker - Strange Folk (2007) - 6.34 (6.00)
23. (=) The Future Kings of England - The Fate of Old Mother Orvis (2007) - 6.32 (6.17)
24. (=) Little Atlas - Hollow (2007) - 6.32 (6.30)
25. (=) Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon (2007) - 6.29 (6.10)
26. (=) Pineapple Thief - What We Have Sown (2007) - 6.25 (6.00)
27. (=) Little Tragedies - New Faust (2006) - 6.24 (5.67)
28. (=) Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean (1972) - 6.21 (6.50)
29. (=) Trespass - In Haze of Time (2001) - 6.20 (6.29)
30. (=) Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il tempo della gioia (1974) - 6.17 (6.20)

31. (=) Eloy - Planets (1981) - 6.16 (6.25)
32. (=) Univers Zéro - Heresie (1979) - 6.15 (6.67)
33. (=) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Io sono nato libero (1973) - 6.14 (5.60)
34. (=) Gerard - Power of Infinity (2005) - 6.10 (6.40)
35. (=) Koenjihyakkei - Anger Shisspa (2005) - 6.10 (6.00)
36. (=) The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own (2007) - 6.09 (6.09)
37. (=) Matthew Parmenter - Astray (2004) - 6.08 (5.43)
38. (=) Fromuz - Audio Diplomacy (2007) - 6.02 (6.38)
39. (=) Singularity - Of All the Mysteries (2007) - 6.00 (6.00)
40. (=) Nuova Era - Il Passo Del Soldato (1995) - 6.00 (6.00)

41. (=) Locanda Delle Fate - Forse le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più (1977) - 6.00 (6.00)
42. (=) KBB - Proof of Concept (2007) - 6.00 (6.12)
43. (=) Gerard - The Ruins of a Glass Fortress (2000) - 6.00 (6.29)
44. (=) Puppet Show - The Tale of Woe (2007) - 5.97 (5.83)
45. (=) Radiomöbel - Gudang Garam (1978) - 5.94 (6.00)
46. (=) Millenium - Numbers and The Big Dream of Mr Sunders (2006) - 5.91 (5.90)
47. (=) Manning - Songs From the Bilston House (2007) - 5.89 (6.00)
48. (=) Rain - Cerulean Blue (2004) - 5.89 (5.86)
49. (=) Deluge Grander - August in the Urals (2006) - 5.88 (6.40)
50. (=) The Watch - Primitive (2007) - 5.88 (5.86)

51. (=) Fish - 13th Star (2007) - 5.87 (5.80)
52. (=) Nemo - Présages (2003) - 5.86 (5.80)
53. (=) Tempest - The Double Cross (2006) - 5.85 (6.20)
54. (=) Nemo - Si Partie 1 (2006) - 5.85 (5.60)
55. (=) Little Tragedies - Sixth Sense (2006) - 5.84 (5.58)
56. (=) High Wheel - 1910 (2007) - 5.84 (5.75)
57. (=) The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands (2007) - 5.84 (6.00)
58. (=) Jim Bob - A Humpty Dumpty Thing (2007) - 5.83 (5.92)
59. (=) Neuschwanstein - Battlement (1978) - 5.82 (5.86)
60. (=) Magic Pie - Circus of Life (2007) - 5.80 (5.57)

61. (=) Kvazar - A Giant's Lullaby (2005) - 5.77 (5.88)
62. (=) Pineapple Thief - 8 Days Later (2004) - 5.77 (6.00)
63. (=) Sombre Reptile - Le Repli des ombres (2005) - 5.76 (6.00)
64. (=) Cairo - Time of Legends (2001) - 5.76 (5.83)
65. (=) Nemo - Si Partie II (2007) - 5.74 (5.70)
66. (=) Galleon - Engines of Creation (2007) - 5.74 (5.90)
67. (=) QOPH - Kalejdoskopiska aktiviteter (1998) - 5.73 (6.00)
68. (=) Kotebel - Omphalos (2006) - 5.70 (5.80)
69. (=) Abigail's Ghost - Selling Insincerity (2007) - 5.70 (6.00)
70. (=) Sandrose - Sandrose (1972) - 5.69 (5.43)

71. (=) Odin Dragonfly - Offerings (2007) - 5.69 (6.36)
72. (=) Dial - Synchronized (2007) - 5.69 (5.70)
73. (=) Nexus - Perpetuum Karma (2006) - 5.68 (5.67)
74. (=) Genesis - Invisible Touch (1986) - 5.67 (4.88)
75. (=) Satellite - Into the Night (2007) - 5.67 (5.75)
76. (=) Nil - Nil Novo Sub Sole (2005) - 5.65 (5.33)
77. (=) Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic - Part One (2007) - 5.64 (5.00)
78. (=) Sinkadus - Aurum Nostrum (1997) - 5.63 (5.75)
79. (=) Scythe - Divorced Land (2001) - 5.60 (6.00)
80. (=) Magenta - Seven (2004) - 5.59 (5.57)

81. (=) Final Conflict - Hindsight (2003) - 5.57 (5.62)
82. (=) Visible Wind - Barb-à-Baal-a-Loo (2000) - 5.56 (5.38)
83. (=) Tom McRae - King of Cards (2007) - 5.55 (5.55)
84. (=) Mangrove - Facing the Sunset (2005) - 5.54 (5.75)
85. (=) Xang - The Last of The Lasts (2006) - 5.54 (6.00)
86. (=) Alan Morse - Four O'Clock and Hysteria (2007) - 5.53 (5.75)
87. (=) Sylvan - Presets (2007) - 5.52 (5.25)
88. (=) Apple Pie - Crossroads (2007) - 5.51 (5.50)
89. (=) Spin XXI - Contraponto (2006) - 5.51 (5.60)
90. (=) Cast - Mosaïque (2006) - 5.49 (5.75)

91. (=) Hoggwash - The Last Horizon (2007) - 5.49 (5.25)
92. (=) Mr Brown - Mellan Tre Ögon (1977) - 5.47 (5.29)
93. (=) Little Tragedies - Return (2003) - 5.45 (5.60)
94. (=) US - Reflections (2007) - 5.45 (5.17)
95. (=) Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) - 5.45 (5.62)
96. (=) Taproban - Ogni Pensiero Vola (2001) - 5.44 (4.50)
97. (=) Outer Limits - Stromatolite (2007) - 5.44 (5.67)
98. (=) Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream (1999) - 5.43 (5.36)
99. (=) Gerard - Sighs of the Water (2002) - 5.42 (5.57)
100. (=) The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (2007) - 5.39 (5.50)

101. (=) Quidam - Alone Together (2007) - 5.36 (5.33)
102. (=) Arilyn - Alter Ego (2007) - 5.35 (5.22)
103. (=) Gösta Berlings Saga - Tid är ljud (2006) - 5.35 (5.43)
104. (=) Proto-Kaw - Before Became After (2004) - 5.35 (5.33)
105. (=) Albion - Wabiac Cienie (2005) - 5.34 (5.29)
106. (=) Timefall - Into the Shadows (2007) - 5.34 (5.20)
107. (=) Solstice - New Life (1993) - 5.34 (5.17)
108. (=) Saga - 10,000 Days (2007) - 5.33 (5.22)
109. (=) Frogg Café - The Safenzee Diaries (2007) - 5.32 (5.36)
110. (=) M.I.A. - Cornonstipicum (1978) - 5.29 (5.25)

111. (=) Beggars Opera - Waters of Change (1971) - 5.29 (5.60)
112. (=) Gazpacho - Bravo (2003) - 5.29 (5.18)
113. (=) PJ Harvey - White Chalk (2007) - 5.28 (5.36)
114. (=) Deadsoul Tribe - A Lullaby for the Devil (2007) - 5.27 (5.40)
115. (=) Metamorfosi - Inferno (1973) - 5.23 (5.09)
116. (=) Nima & Merge - Live in London (2004) - 5.23 (5.40)
117. (=) Marillion - Clutching at Straws (1987) - 5.22 (5.18)
118. (=) Blackfield - Blackfield II (2007) - 5.20 (5.20)
119. (=) Kings of Leon - Because of the Times (2007) - 5.18 (5.08)
120. (=) TriPod - TriPod (2007) - 5.17 (5.36)

121. (=) Villebråd - Alla är här utom jag (2006) - 5.16 (5.22)
122. (=) Lucifer Was - The Divine Tree (2007) - 5.16 (5.17)
123. (=) Trace - Trace (1974) - 5.14 (5.08)
124. (=) Dice - Within vs Without Part 2 (2007) - 5.13 (5.00)
125. (=) Lana Lane - Red Planet Boulevard (2007) - 5.13 (5.08)
126. (=) Grace - Poppy (1996) - 5.12 (5.25)
127. (=) Cairo - Cairo (1995) - 5.11 (5.17)
128. (=) Jordan Rudess - The Road Home (2007) - 5.10 (5.17)
129. (=) Runaway Totem - Tep Zepi (2002) - 5.09 (5.00)
130. (=) Glow - OK (2007) - 5.07 (5.25)

131. (=) Grace - Pulling Strings And Shiny Things (1994) - 5.05 (5.11)
132. (=) At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000) - 5.05 (5.00)
133. (=) Gordon Giltrap - Fear of the Dark (1978) - 5.03 (5.17)
134. (=) Rauta - Haudanmaa (2007) - 5.00 (5.00)
135. (=) Clearlight - Les Contes Du Singe Fou (1977) - 5.00 (5.00)
136. (=) Mangrove - Touch Wood (2004) - 5.00 (5.00)
137. (=) Anekdoten - A Time of Day (2007) - 5.00 (5.00)
138. (=) Phideaux - The Great Leap (2006) - 5.00 (5.00)
139. (=) Waterclime - Imaginitive (2007) - 5.00 (5.00)
140. (=) Galleon - From Land to Ocean (2003) - 5.00 (5.00)

141. (=) Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un amico (1972) - 5.00 (5.00)
142. (=) Le Orme - Uomo di pezza (1972) - 5.00 (5.00)
143. (=) Eclipse - Jumping From Springboards (2004) - 5.00 (5.00)
144. (=) Machiavel - Virtual Sun (1998) - 5.00 (5.00)
145. (=) Paatos - Kallocain (2004) - 5.00 (5.00)
146. (=) Big Big Train - The Difference Machine (2007) - 5.00 (5.00)
147. (=) JPL - Cannibales (2005) - 4.99 (5.12)
148. (=) Steve Thorne - Part Two: Emotional Creatures (2007) - 4.98 (5.00)
149. (=) Groves - Branch Upon the Ground (2001) - 4.95 (4.91)
150. (=) Lost World - Awakening of the Elements (2006) - 4.94 (4.92)

151. (=) The Lens - A World in Your Eye (2001) - 4.93 (4.78)
152. (=) Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band (2007) - 4.92 (4.67)
153. (=) Tori Amos - American Doll Posse (2007) - 4.91 (4.67)
154. (=) Grey Lady Down - The Crime (1994) - 4.90 (5.00)
155. (=) For Absent Friends - Square 1 (2006) - 4.90 (5.00)
156. (=) Maze of Time - Tales From the Maze (2006) - 4.90 (5.00)
157. (=) Univers Zéro - Implosion (2004) - 4.86 (5.00)
158. (=) Millenium - Interdead (2005) - 4.86 (4.91)
159. (=) NeBeLNeST - Zepto (2006) - 4.85 (5.57)
160. (=) Carptree - Insekt (2007) - 4.85 (4.91)

161. (=) The Underground Railroad - Through And Through (2000) - 4.83 (5.00)
162. (=) Glass Hammer - Perelandra (1995) - 4.82 (5.00)
163. (=) Beardfish - The Sane Day (2005) - 4.81 (4.73)
164. (=) Cast - Com.Union (2007) - 4.81 (4.83)
165. (=) Cerebus Effect - Dark Matter (2002) - 4.80 (5.00)
166. (=) Combination Head - Combination Head (2006) - 4.80 (4.75)
167. (=) 3 - The End Is Begun (2007) - 4.79 (4.93)
168. (=) Grinderman - Grinderman (2007) - 4.79 (4.73)
169. (=) The Third Ending - The Third Ending (2006) - 4.79 (4.73)
170. (=) Sagrado Coração da Terra - Grande Espírito (1994) - 4.77 (5.43)

171. (=) Little Tragedies - Chinese Songs (2007) - 4.75 (4.71)
172. (=) Royal Hunt - The Watchers (2002) - 4.75 (5.00)
173. (=) Thought Chamber - Angular Perceptions (2007) - 4.75 (5.00)
174. (=) Cast - Castalia (2001) - 4.74 (4.86)
175. (=) Red Sand - Gentry (2005) - 4.73 (5.00)
176. (=) Mystery - Beneath the Veil of Winters Face (2007) - 4.71 (4.60)
177. (=) Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007) - 4.71 (4.67)
178. (=) Ice - The Saga (2005) - 4.70 (4.70)
179. (=) Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse (2006) - 4.66 (5.29)
180. (=) Skryvania - Skryvania (1978) - 4.65 (4.88)

181. (=) Silhouette - A Maze (2006) - 4.65 (4.67)
182. (=) Big Big Train - Gathering Speed (2004) - 4.62 (4.86)
183. (=) Ritual - Superb Birth (2004) - 4.61 (4.42)
184. (=) Glass Hammer - Culture of Ascent (2007) - 4.61 (4.67)
185. (=) Knight Area - Under a New Sign (2007) - 4.60 (4.86)
186. (=) Black Bonzo - Lady of the Light (2005) - 4.55 (5.00)
187. (=) North Star - Triskelion (1993) - 4.48 (4.54)
188. (=) Abel Ganz - Back From The Zone (2001) - 4.48 (4.38)
189. (=) Assolo Di Bongo - Spinning Like A Top (2005) - 4.47 (4.62)
190. (=) Circles End - Hang on to That Kite (2004) - 4.46 (4.33)

191. (=) Willowglass - Willowglass (2005) - 4.46 (4.71)
192. (=) Kayak - See See the Sun (1973) - 4.44 (4.45)
193. (=) Robert Svilpa - The Sound of Thoughts (2005) - 4.44 (5.00)
194. (=) Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) - 4.38 (4.60)
195. (=) Le Orme - Felona E Sorona (1973) - 4.37 (4.75)
196. (=) Cliffhanger - Not To Be Or Not To Be! (1996) - 4.35 (5.00)
197. (=) Khatsaturjan - Aramed Forces of Simantipak (2006) - 4.35 (4.60)
198. (=) SBB - The Rock (2007) - 4.33 (4.27)
199. (=) The Phase - Reviews (2007) - 4.33 (4.30)
200. (=) Yole - Lead Us Away (2006) - 4.30 (4.70)

201. (=) Planet X - Quantum (2007) - 4.26 (4.33)
202. (=) T - Voices (2006) - 4.25 (4.27)
203. (=) Everon - Flood (1995) - 4.23 (4.44)
204. (=) Touchstone - Discordant Dreams (2007) - 4.21 (4.80)
205. (=) Salva - A Handful of Earth (2004) - 4.20 (4.14)
206. (=) New Power Generation - Exodus (1995) - 4.20 (4.78)
207. (=) Poor Genetic Material - Paradise Out of Time (2007) - 4.19 (4.11)
208. (=) Sympozion - Kundabuffer (2006) - 4.17 (4.12)
209. (=) The Quatloos - 5000 on the Newcomers - 4.15 (4.27)
210. (=) Art of Simplicity - Caught in This Iless Storm (2006) - 4.11 (4.00)

211. (=) Unitopia - More Than a Dream (2007) - 4.09 (4.22)
212. (=) Karfagen - The Space Between Us (2007) - 4.08 (4.07)
213. (=) Galahad - Empires Never Last (2007) - 4.08 (4.67)
214. (=) The Rebel Wheel - Diagramma (2007) - 4.04 (4.14)
215. (=) Premiata Forneria Marconi - Passpartù (1978) - 4.00 (4.00)
216. (=) Far Corner - Far Corner (2004) - 4.00 (4.00)
217. (=) Suspekt Aspekt - Minnet Sviker (2003) - 4.00 (4.00)
218. (=) Lord of Mushrooms - Seven Deadly Songs (2005) - 4.00 (4.00)
219. (=) High Wheel - Remember The Colours (1994) - 4.00 (4.00)
220. (=) Thirteen of Everything - Welcome, Humans (2005) - 4.00 (4.00)

221. (=) Shadow Circus - Welcome to the Freakshow (2006) - 4.00 (4.00)
222. (=) Gary Hughes - Once and Future King - Part II (2003) - 4.00 (4.00)
223. (=) Shakary - Shakary 2006 (2006) - 4.00 (4.00)
224. (=) Violent Silence - Violent Silence (2003) - 4.00 (4.00)
225. (=) Clear Blue Sky - Clear Blue Sky (2005) - 4.00 (4.00)
226. (=) Mantra Sunrise - Mantra Sunrise (2007) - 3.97 (4.00)
227. (=) Pangaea - A Time and a Place (2003) - 3.92 (4.00)
228. (=) Arcansiel - Swimming In The Sand (2004) - 3.92 (4.00)
229. (=) Abraxas - Centurie (1998) - 3.92 (4.00)
230. (=) Jazz Mutants - The Jazz Mutants (2007) - 3.88 (3.88)

231. (=) Delusions of Grandeur - Got Your Glasses On? - 3.81 (3.73)
232. (=) Elegy - Forbidden Fruit (2001) - 3.80 (4.00)
233. (=) Mythologic - Standing in Stillness (2003) - 3.80 (4.00)
234. (=) Wastefall - Self Exile (2006) - 3.80 (4.00)
235. (=) Rhapsody - Legendary Tales (1997) - 3.80 (4.00)
236. (=) Tempus Fugit - The Dawn After the Storm (1999) - 3.78 (3.56)
237. (=) Country Lane - Substratum (2000) - 3.78 (4.12)
238. (=) Ange - Au-delà du délire (1974) - 3.77 (4.00)
239. (=) Aphrodite's Child - 666 (1971) - 3.73 (4.44)
240. (=) 3 - Wake Pig (2006) - 3.59 (3.08)

241. (=) The Syn - Armistice Day (2007) - 3.55 (4.60)
242. (=) Canvas - Digital Pigeon (2007) - 3.53 (3.50)
243. (=) Shades of Dawn - From Dusk till Dawn (2007) - 3.52 (3.75)
244. (=) Eye To Eye - One In Every Crowd (2006) - 3.35 (3.11)
245. (=) Yesterdays - Holdfénykert (2006) - 3.33 (3.10)
246. (=) Moving Gelatine Plates - Removing (2006) - 3.26 (3.11)
247. (=) Osiris - Visions From the Past (2007) - 3.25 (3.43)
248. (=) Jonesy - No Alternative (1972) - 3.25 (3.22)
249. (=) Walking On Ice - No Margin for Error (1994) - 3.14 (3.09)
250. (=) Persephone's Dream - Pyre of Dreams (2007) - 3.12 (3.07)

251. (=) Junk Farm - Ugly Little Thing (2007) - 3.10 (3.09)
252. (=) Spaced Out - Unstable Matter (2006) - 3.09 (3.40)
253. (=) Taylor's Universe - Certain Undiscoveries (2006) - 3.06 (4.38)
254. (=) Vertical Alignment - Signposts (2006) - 3.00 (3.00)
255. (=) Albatross - Blues Landing (2000) - 3.00 (3.00)
256. (=) Moonsafari - A Doorway to Summer (2005) - 3.00 (3.00)
257. (=) Amarok - Sol de Medianoche (2007) - 3.00 (3.00)
258. (=) Visual Cliff - Into the After (2007) - 3.00 (3.00)
259. (=) The Green Children - The Awakening (1991) - 3.00 (3.00)
260. (=) Von Daniken - New Worlds (1995) - 2.95 (3.00)

261. (=) Mastermind - Broken (2006) - 2.92 (3.14)
262. (=) Richard Barbieri - Things Buried (2004) - 2.88 (3.00)
263. (=) Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet (2006) - 2.85 (3.00)
264. (=) Circa - Circa: 2007 (2007) - 2.84 (2.44)
265. (=) Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp Färankrat i Forntiden (1972) - 2.70 (3.00)
266. (=) Kopecky - Blood (2006) - 2.68 (4.00)
267. (=) T.A.O. - The Abnormal Observations (2006) - 2.67 (3.17)
268. (=) Art Rock Circus - Tell a Vision (2005) - 2.67 (2.75)
269. (=) Prince - Planet Earth (2007) - 2.28 (2.20)
270. (=) Henry Cow - Western Culture (1979) - 2.13 (2.12)

271. (=) Metaphor - Entertaining Thanatos (2004) - 2.07 (2.14)
272. (=) White Willow - Ignis Fatuus (1995) - 1.96 (2.00)
273. (=) A Triggering Myth - The Remedy of Abstraction (2006) - 1.94 (2.11)
274. (=) Andy Tillison - Fog (2007) - 1.92 (2.00)
275. (=) Thieves' Kitchen - Shibboleth (2003) - 1.28 (3.60)
276. (=) New Trolls - Concerto grosso No. 1 e No. 2 (1976) - 1.14 (3.70)
277. (=) Jovian Oblivion - Frontier of Darkness (2007) - 1.00 (1.00)
278. (=) Heronimus Fin - Bloodguilt (2002) - 0.97 (1.00)
279. (=) Ancient Stone - Ringing Ring (2007) - 0.81 (1.00)