Ahead Rings Out
by Blodwyn Pig
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Ahead Rings Out is ranked as the best album by Blodwyn Pig.
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Ahead Rings Out track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Ahead Rings Out rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Marswolf68 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1969 | 64/91 | - |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 97 Music Albums of 1969 | 52/97 | 2 |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 92/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  JoSt | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1960s | 56/99 | 9 |
| 2025 | Steppenwolf666 | Collectable record labels, The Pink Island (UK) label albums | 29/73 | - |
| 2024 |  mutley88 | Top 52 Music Albums of 1969 | 23/52 | 3 |
| 2022 | rambleon80 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1969 | 19/20 | 1 |
| 2021 | Steppenwolf666 | All Time 50 Forgotten Gems by Colin Larkin (2000) | 15/50 | - |
| 2021 | Johnnyo | Classic rock - 30 best British Blues Rock albums | 21/30 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 20 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 52 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/27/2026 03:24 | Marswolf68 | 933 | 78/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2025 08:35 | duelek | 2,219 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2023 15:33 | fabm0 | 7,009 | 58/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 68.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.9.
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This album was really a lot different than I'd expected it to be. Given that guitarist Mick Abrahams, had a history in Jethro Tull, I expected music that was not so strongly based on blues and jazz.
In fact, there is probably only a small handful of numbers that can be called prog. rock - the rest is more or less pure blues with some inspiration from jazz - not least influenced by saxophonist Jack Lancaster.
Musically, the group is obviously highly competent and they play with great conviction. Unfortunately the music sounds, to my ears, like many bands from the same period which had their main inspiration in blues and jazz. Mick Abrahams is a good singer to the genre, but he is not particularly interesting. The group has certain similarities with Savoy Brown, a group which I also never really learned to appreciate.
My favorittes on "Ahead Rings Out" are clearly the numbers where the kinship with Jethro Tull may be felt, after all. These are songs like "Sing Me a Song att I Know "," See My Way "and" Walk on the Water ". Also the folkish "The Change Song" is fine. Otherwise, I must admit that I do not belong to the target audience for this music.
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