The Wake
by IQ
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IQ bestography
The Wake is ranked 8th best out of 21 albums by IQ on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by IQ is The Road Of Bones which is ranked number 8809 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 140.
(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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The Wake track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Wake rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 74 Music Albums of 1985 | 30/74 | 3 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 93/100 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2024 |  PAPPITUFO | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2018 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Prog is Turning 50 in 2017- Rejoice | 55/100 | - |
| 2018 | Fischman | Best Prog of the 1980s | 55/100 | - |
| 2017 |  Kaiser | Top 25 Music Albums of 1985 | 4/25 | 4 |
| 2017 |  JoSt | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 26/100 | 15 |
| 2017 | JoSt | Top 45 Music Albums of 1985 | 4/45 | 5 |
| 2014 | FieryGunHand | Top 17 Music Albums of 1985 | 5/17 | 4 |
| 2014 | DigitalDreamDoor | Albums of the year 1985 | 63/99 | 2 |
| 2013 | FieryGunHand | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 59/100 | 8 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 46 | |||
The Wake collection
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The Wake ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/24/2026 10:59 |  doombringer | 2,305 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/08/2026 02:54 | SethGunde | 368 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/26/2024 15:15 | Skerns | 5,101 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2024 19:13 | TonySayers61 | 25,001 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2023 12:48 | Moondance | 20,670 | 72/100 |
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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 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.
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In terms of the songs, this album is great from beginning to end. Every song is killer; well written, well performed aside from a couple sloppy drum fills here and there, the vocals are very well performed, and Peter Nicholls has a great voice. However, the album has one glaring flaw. And it come from the production side. The mix on this album entire album is terrible. On nearly every song, the vocals are too quiet and drowned out by the keyboards, bass, and occasionally guitar. It's like they were listening to Bowie's Aladdin Sane album and were like "lets make every song on our album sound like Watch That Man", Bad idea. This album desperately needs a remix.
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