High Tide
by High Tide

High Tide by High Tide
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 50,296th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 14 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (459th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (4,724th)
Award Best albums of all time (50,296th)

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High Tide bestography

High Tide is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by High Tide on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by High Tide is Sea Shanties which is ranked number 11434 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 104.

High Tide album bestography « Higher ranked (47,005th)
Open Season
This album (50,296th)
High Tide
Lower ranked (88,809th) »
Precious Cargo

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 50,296th | 1970s rank: 4,724th | 1970 rank: 459th

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72/100 (from 14 votes)
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01/06/2026 10:48 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  13,66970/100
 
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08/08/2025 08:56 sssvnnn  Ratings distribution  8,40967/100
 
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09/10/2020 20:51 Red0510  Ratings distribution  1,95466/100

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From 03/15/2016 17:22 | #161976
To me this was a disappointment after the over the top guitar/violin histrionics of sea shanties - an album guaranteed to annoy the neighbours (and virtually everyone else). This is a lot milder, and lacks the individuality of their first magnum opus.
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From 03/01/2014 19:40 | #104989
High Tide's debut, Sea Shanties, is noteworthy for its overdriven guitar tones, which is why it's often categorized as an instance of proto-metal. This second effort sets the ove-amplified proto-metal noodling aside and adopts prog noodling in its place. Allmusic's review chastises the album for this reason, but the fact of the matter is that the prominent violin parts make better sense here, where the music veers toward folk (as in the second track) and baroque (as in the first) than they ever did in the volume wars of 1969 hard rock/psychedelia. Happily, I hear a fair bit of early Gentle Giant in this. Still the jam sections are just too overblown - the third track is particularly masturbatory.
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