Fool's Mate (studio album) by Peter Hammill
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Peter Hammill bestography
Fool's Mate is ranked 11th 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 3035 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 498.
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Fool's Mate track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Fool's Mate rankings
All 10 charts that this album appears in:
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2025 | Skerns | Top 95 Music Albums of 1971 | 58/95 | 2 |
| 2023 |  AlexSVK | Top 10 Music Albums of 1971 | 4/10 | 4 |
| 2020 | Red0510 | Top 67 Music Albums of 1971 | 59/67 | 1 |
| 2020 |  Lachapelle | Top 16 Music Albums of 1971 | 8/16 | 3 |
| 2020 |  jnfbn | 1971: 100+ | 25/34 | - |
| 2019 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 38 Music Albums of 1971 | 26/38 | 2 |
| 2018 | Lachapelle | PH / VDGG Collection | 8/11 | - |
| 2013 | FieryGunHand | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 69/100 | - |
| 2013 | FieryGunHand | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 13/100 | 18 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 32 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 12/18/2023 09:32 | platus | | 74/100 |
75/100 | 03/30/2023 19:42 | LosWochos | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 01/24/2023 14:06 | AlexSVK | | 62/100 |
50/100 | 05/03/2022 01:24 | dhbarrett | | 65/100 |
80/100 | 03/13/2022 23:50 | Skerns | | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.0/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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No-one does melancholy better than Peter Hammill. His first solo album and it remains amongst his best for me. Vision is a beautifully simple song, plus The Birds and Solitude are PH classics.
Robert Anton Wilson 08/20/2012 18:55
This nearly feels more like a long lost VdGG album although the aural assault is a little more quiet but still there. If you love first generation VdGG (i.e. until H to He), you must give this record a spin too.
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