Please Don't Touch
by Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett bestography
Please Don't Touch is ranked 14th best out of 42 albums by Steve Hackett on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Steve Hackett is Voyage Of The Acolyte which is ranked number 3881 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 374.
(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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Please Don't Touch track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/18/2026 12:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,704 | 70/100 | |
| 09/01/2025 17:30 |  RockyRaccoon | 6,856 | 84/100 | |
| 07/23/2025 13:00 | platus | 5,825 | 74/100 | |
| 01/26/2025 19:45 | TonySayers61 | 23,793 | 64/100 | |
| 01/23/2025 12:07 |  Squonk007 | 749 | 24/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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Squonk007 01/23/2025 12:08 | #307140
This is my favourite Hackett album. The addition of Richie Havens and Randy Crawford is inspired and they contribute to the best tracks on the album. Sometimes quirky but almost, almost brilliant.
First half of the album is pretty naff, veering from annoyingly childish fluff to slushy pop ballads. Side two, from 'Land of a Thousand Autumns' onward is great - very much in the same vein as 'Voyage of the Acolyte' and Genesis at their most inventive and creepy.
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