The Source (studio album) by Ayreon

The Source by Ayreon
Year: 2017
Release date: 2017-04-28
Overall rank: 22,437th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 12 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2017 (540th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (5,204th)
Award Best albums of all time (22,437th)
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Ayreon bestography

The Source is ranked 8th best out of 15 albums by Ayreon on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ayreon is The Human Equation which is ranked number 5713 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 231.

Ayreon album bestography « Higher ranked (15,213th) This album (22,437th) Lower ranked (22,961st) »
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The Source track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 12 votes)
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11/28/2023 14:04 steve397  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 41778/100
 
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01/18/2023 12:59 AlexSVK  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,07462/100
 
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12/27/2020 22:31 svk4ever  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,56676/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.7/100, a mean average of 67.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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From 01/01/2018 05:19
I am ashamed to say that I bought the deluxe version purely for the 5.1 version. It just demonstrates that I am desperate to purchase 5.1 knowing how boring and uninspiring the album will be. I loved the Ayreon albums from The Final Experiment to The Universal Migrator (inclusive). But since then, Arjen Lucassen's recordings have been more of the same and frankly not as good.
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