Ashes Are Burning
by Renaissance
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Ashes Are Burning is ranked 2nd best out of 30 albums by Renaissance on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Renaissance is Turn Of The Cards which is ranked number 2695 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 587.
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Ashes Are Burning track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Ashes Are Burning ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/30/2026 14:29 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
| ! | 04/27/2026 18:21 |  Records1974 | 53 | 82/100 |
| ! | 04/10/2026 18:20 | Deckard | 267 | 80/100 |
| ! | 03/29/2026 14:12 |  Ilolahti | 134 | 81/100 |
| ! | 12/31/2025 17:50 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,335 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.9/100, a mean average of 78.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Of all the albums I've reviewed lately based on first impressions, this one has blown me away the most—beautiful, engaging melodies put together by John Tout's worldly keys and Annie Haslam's soothing voice, all in a digestible prog rock style. The entire album is wonderful, but the opening Can You Understand? in particular is fantastic—that opening piano intro had my attention immediately. And the album also sounds extremely clean and polished, which wasn't always the case for every record coming out in 1973. Needless to say, I'll be revisiting this one frequently.
fabulous record
This album is bookended by two incredible songs: the band words overtime to deliver a bold instrumental opening in the first song, and Haslam's vocals in the last song are divine. Sandwiched between the two are some decent folk/symphonic tunes, including the shoulda-been-a-hit Carpet of the Sun.
Parktribur 06/08/2017 21:14 | #192251 | TOP COMMENT
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Great record. The Last Track is awesome.
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