Ferment (studio album) by Catherine Wheel

Ferment by Catherine Wheel
Year: 1992
Overall rank: 2,861st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 117 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1992 (49th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (502nd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,861st)

Catherine Wheel bestography

Ferment is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Catherine Wheel on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Catherine Wheel is Chrome which is ranked number 2779 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 550.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 117 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.

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95/100
From 11/10/2024 15:51
Gorgeous production, stellar songwriting, haunting vocals. The ultimate juxtaposition of hard rock and shoegaze.
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From 11/10/2024 06:09
Not even in the top 2,000 albums on this site?!? You've got to be kidding. This is one of the four greatest shoegaze album of the original early-'90s era, along with Loveless, Souvlaki, and Nowhere. Chrome is quite good, but it's mostly a pseudo-metal album, not so much shoegaze. The guitar sounds they achieve here are fantastic. "Black Metallic" gets all of the ink, but there are so many other fantastic songs - "Bill and Ben," "Indigo is Blue," "Shallow," "Texture," "She's My Friend," "I Want to Touch You," "Flower to Hide," "Salt," and on the US version, "Balloon." Rob Dickinson was probably the greatest *songwriter* in the original shoegaze era other than Neil Halstead.

One of my favorite 100 albums of all time.
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65/100
From 08/25/2021 18:53
Pleasant, but not as rewarding of a listen as classics by bands such as Ride, Slowdive, or My Bloody Valentine.
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90/100
From 07/30/2019 08:59
I think the album starts strongly from "Texture" to "She's My Friend", followed by a slight dip and right back with "Flower To Hide". Great interplay from the two guitars and always banging bass and drums. Somehow I've only just found this gem but so happy I have - listen and enjoy
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80/100
From 09/09/2017 00:45
Music in this year was mostly mediocre, but this was a standout. Just a very strong, cathartic, rich sound to this record, with beautiful, slow-churning melodies. Music for the sake of music, sound for the sake of sound. Like most of shoegaze, the words mean nothing but the vocal delivery is everything.
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85/100
From 07/16/2014 16:40
This is their 4th best album! Really? Were they big in America or something?
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From 05/08/2014 21:52
Wonderfully woozy!
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From 03/10/2014 13:38
I enjoyed this album a lot. It may be not as good as Loveless or Ride's Nowhere, but it's a very good shoegazing record. It's a consistent album, there is not a low point here, it's energetic, fun and dreamy at the same time. It's recommended to any shoegazing fans.
My track picks are:
'I Want to Touch You', 'Black Metallic', and 'Flower to Hide'.
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From 12/26/2013 22:13
Always written off as a bit of a joke and not cool enough. Maybe to do with the singer being bruce dickinsons cousin. Not sure but I always thought this was a great album. Saw them.live too very good.
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From 04/29/2013 12:50
Along with Curve, another ignored group
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