A Pleasant Shade Of Gray
by Fates Warning
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Fates Warning bestography
A Pleasant Shade Of Gray is ranked 8th best out of 16 albums by Fates Warning on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Fates Warning is Parallels which is ranked number 5837 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 232.
(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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A Pleasant Shade Of Gray track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
A Pleasant Shade Of Gray rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Repo | 1997: Metal | 7/22 | - |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 93 Music Albums of 1997 | 7/93 | 5 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 2/100 | 5 |
| 2023 |  MW19704U | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 63/100 | 2 |
| 2021 |  pa | one year of music and dystopia | 75/100 | - |
| 2021 |  stefanshine | Top 18 Music Albums of the 1990s | 10/18 | 10 |
| 2021 | Fischman | Fates Warning Albums Ranked | 8/16 | - |
| 2021 | pa | Top 59 Music Albums of 1997 | 10/59 | 4 |
| 2020 | jeremy9 | Best Fates Warning's Album | 2/16 | - |
| 2019 | Fischman | My Top Metal Albums of 1997 | 1/10 | - |
| 2019 | Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 59/100 | 8 |
| 2018 | Fischman | Best Prog of the 1990s | 30/100 | - |
| 2017 | Fischman | Greatest Progressive Metal Albums | 52/100 | - |
| 2016 |  Kaiser | Top 40 Music Albums of 1997 | 29/40 | 2 |
| 2015 | Cafu86 | Top 92 Music Albums of the 1990s | 92/92 | 0 |
| 2014 |  Vaggelis | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 93/100 | 2 |
| 2014 | Vaggelis | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 8/100 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 42 | |||
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A Pleasant Shade Of Gray ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/26/2025 17:09 | TonySayers61 | 24,834 | 64/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2024 14:31 | davidleewrong | 2,357 | 81/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2024 14:56 |  Special | 2,775 | 72/100 |
| ! | 03/22/2023 16:27 | LosWochos | 47,265 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2023 02:39 | Moondance | 20,585 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 79.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.1.
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jeremy9 09/11/2019 12:43 | #242458
One of the best prog-metal album
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