Fool's Mate
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 3279 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 464.
(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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Fool's Mate track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Fool's Mate rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 6 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 36 Music Albums of 1971 | 24/36 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 94 Music Albums of 1971 | 61/94 | 2 |
| 2025 |  sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2023 |  AlexSVK | Top 10 Music Albums of 1971 | 4/10 | 4 |
| 2020 |  jnfbn | 1971: 100+ | 25/34 | - |
| 2020 | Red0510 | Top 67 Music Albums of 1971 | 59/67 | 1 |
| 2020 |  Lachapelle | Top 16 Music Albums of 1971 | 8/16 | 3 |
| 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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Fool's Mate ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/10/2026 19:29 | emnasut | 153 | 87/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2026 14:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,779 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/17/2025 03:01 | FrancK | 525 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/18/2023 09:32 | platus | 5,864 | 74/100 |
| ! | 03/30/2023 19:42 | LosWochos | 47,453 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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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 | #48914
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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