Ashes Are Burning (studio album) by Renaissance

Ashes Are Burning by Renaissance
Year: 1973
Overall rank: 2,697th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 109 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1973 (53rd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (491st)
Award Best albums of all time (2,697th)
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Renaissance bestography

Ashes Are Burning is ranked 2nd best out of 29 albums by Renaissance on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Renaissance is Scheherazade And Other Stories which is ranked number 2505 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 633.

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80/100 (from 109 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.0/100, a mean average of 79.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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95/100
From 12/31/2023 20:44
Of all the albums I've reviewed lately based on first impressions, this one has blown me away the most—beautiful, engaging melodies put together by John Tout's worldly keys and Annie Haslam's soothing voice, all in a digestible prog rock style. The entire album is wonderful, but the opening Can You Understand? in particular is fantastic—that opening piano intro had my attention immediately. And the album also sounds extremely clean and polished, which wasn't always the case for every record coming out in 1973. Needless to say, I'll be revisiting this one frequently.
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fabulous record
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From 04/05/2021 00:41
This album is bookended by two incredible songs: the band words overtime to deliver a bold instrumental opening in the first song, and Haslam's vocals in the last song are divine. Sandwiched between the two are some decent folk/symphonic tunes, including the shoulda-been-a-hit Carpet of the Sun.
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From 06/08/2017 21:14
Great record. The Last Track is awesome.
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Best Albums of 1973
1. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
2. Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
3. Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin
4. Selling England By The Pound by Genesis
5. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
6. Quadrophenia by The Who
7. Band On The Run by Paul McCartney & Wings
8. Raw Power by Iggy And The Stooges
9. Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
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12. For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music
13. Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
14. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
15. Closing Time by Tom Waits
16. Berlin by Lou Reed
17. The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
18. Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye
19. Artaud by Pescado Rabioso
20. Paris 1919 by John Cale
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