Out Of Water
by Peter Hammill
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Peter Hammill bestography
Out Of Water is ranked 24th best out of 45 albums by Peter Hammill on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Peter Hammill is The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage which is ranked number 3326 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 458.
(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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Out Of Water track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Out Of Water rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 70 Music Albums of 1990 | 48/70 | 2 |
| 2019 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 11 Music Albums of 1990 | 6/11 | 3 |
| 2014 | FieryGunHand | Top 13 Music Albums of 1990 | 12/13 | 1 |
| 1990 | OOR | Jaarlijst Oor 1990 | 44/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 4 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 8 | |||
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Out Of Water ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/07/2025 18:34 | TonySayers61 | 25,537 | 64/100 |
| ! | 04/20/2024 22:15 | Skerns | 5,190 | 80/100 |
| ! | 03/30/2023 20:04 | LosWochos | 47,669 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.6/100, a mean average of 69.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.2.
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Robert Anton Wilson 08/20/2012 18:20 | #48909
One of his albums that gets the worst press, Not sure why, It is not that bad. Marked a change and PH was quite busy relearning to record music using the new instruments and technologies that modern recording equipment allowed. The main thing you could reproach this album is long drawn out and repetitive songs but this trend had already been started with the Enter K album.
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