Black Clouds & Silver Linings (studio album)
by Dream Theater
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Dream Theater bestography
Black Clouds & Silver Linings is ranked 6th best out of 39 albums by Dream Theater on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Dream Theater is Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory which is ranked number 766 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,269.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Black Clouds & Silver Linings track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/19/2025 07:51 |  luigybetis | 1,524 | 87/100 |
| ! | 04/30/2025 11:51 | cicadelic | 11,264 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/24/2025 14:57 | lolothardo | 416 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/05/2025 01:16 |  ExTeaSea | 5,078 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2024 06:14 | Proto | 3,736 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Has issues at its halfway point, but it´s strong enough to get past that with one of the best openers and closers. Very strong DT record overall.
Great Album!
Much more than only a good album of Dream Theater. In spite of its length, Black Clouds & Silver Linings never gets boring. Each minute is worth it, 75 minutes of great level and musical pleasure, with A Rite of Passage and The Count of Tuscany as the weightiest and hookiest moments. You will hardly find such a long album keeping so relevant from start to end.
This album seems to rest somewhere between Octavarium and Systematic Chaos. It's more mature than SC but not quite as soft and atmospheric as 8V; it still packs a punch. One thing that stands out on this album are the melodies, especially in songs like A Nightmare to Remember and The Best of Times. Wither is a nice song in the Forsaken and Another Day vein; solid second-song material. The album is book-ended by two of DT's best epics (even though Tuscany is kinda cheesy).
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