High Tide (studio album) by High Tide
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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 11029 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 106.
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High Tide track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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High Tide rankings
All 13 charts that this album appears in:
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of the 70’s (301 - 400) | 76/100 | - |
| 2024 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1970 | 26/65 | - |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 1970s 2 | 71/100 | - |
| 2021 | vruslov | Top 93 Music Albums of 1970 | 46/93 | 3 |
| 2020 | Steppenwolf666 | My Rarest Vinyl Albums pt 3 | 38/100 | - |
| 2020 | Red0510 | Top 79 Music Albums of 1970 | 23/79 | 4 |
| 2017 |  ObsoleteEntity | Top 34 Music Albums of 1970 | 29/34 | 1 |
| 2016 | Coconut | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2016 |  briggs54 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 76/100 | 1 |
| 2016 | Coconut | Greatest Psychedelic Albums | 85/100 | - |
| 2015 |  NoisyBeast | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2015 | NoisyBeast | Top 1000 Albums of the 1970s... #601-700 | 61/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 13 | |||
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High Tide ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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65/100  | 08/08/2025 08:56 |  sssvnnn | | 67/100 |
75/100 | 06/16/2021 01:01 | Moondance | | 72/100 |
60/100 | 04/06/2021 15:56 | TonySayers61 | | 64/100 |
75/100 | 09/10/2020 20:51 | Red0510 | | 66/100 |
75/100 | 08/29/2020 03:37 | PapaShiz86 | | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.5.
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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.
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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