The Masquerade Overture (studio album)
by Pendragon
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The Masquerade Overture is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Pendragon on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pendragon is Not Of This World which is ranked number 9226 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 131.
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The Masquerade Overture 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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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/14/2025 18:52 | TonySayers61 | 23,185 | 64/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2024 13:38 |  doombringer | 2,153 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2024 21:39 |  sssvnnn | 8,159 | 67/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2023 14:38 | LosWochos | 46,643 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/06/2022 15:53 |  IlMala | 1,742 | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 80.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.7.
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The first three track and the guitar solo on the last song are as good as classic prog rock can get. Yes, this album was done on the 90's and owes much from Camel or Genesis, but in retrospective I feel it has a style of its own deserves much more listens than it has.
The seventies was the pro era. Interestingly prog died out in the eighties with a few exceptions, Rush, Genesis and Yes kept the fire burning for a little longer but all moved in a more commercial radio friendly direction. When Pendragon arose from the ashes with albums like this it re-kindled that flame. With tracks like 'As Good As Gold', 'Paintbox' and 'Bird Of Paradise' the sound and musical construction was more akin to the seventies prog masters, aka Camel, Caravan, Crimson, Floyd et al. The album is now over twenty years old itself but still sounds fresh, well to me anyway!
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