The Future Now (studio album)
by Peter Hammill

The Future Now by Peter Hammill
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 25,375th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 24 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (307th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,941st)
Award Best albums of all time (25,375th)

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Peter Hammill bestography

The Future Now is ranked 10th best out of 45 albums by Peter Hammill on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Peter Hammill is The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage which is ranked number 3160 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 474.

Peter Hammill album bestography « Higher ranked (21,425th)
And Close As This
This album (25,375th)
The Future Now
Lower ranked (27,492nd) »
Fool's Mate

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The Future Now track list

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

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The Future Now rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 25,375th | 1970s rank: 2,941st | 1978 rank: 307th

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75/100 (from 24 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.2.

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From 08/20/2012 18:06 | #48900
A change of sound. PH starts experimenting more with odd synthesised sounds and oddly atypical sounds. Still includes a few typical strong PH songs.
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2. Parallel Lines by Blondie
3. The Cars by The Cars
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