Basket Of Light
by Pentangle
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Basket Of Light is ranked as the best album by Pentangle.
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Basket Of Light track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| ! | 07/25/2026 00:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,375 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2026 11:27 | Timooosterink | 901 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/19/2026 14:24 |  Fischman | 11,856 | 66/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2026 17:00 | AledJames | 1,643 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 19:27 | Pienk | 737 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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more than folk-rock. multi-faceted and multilayered.
more than folk-rock. multifaceted and multi-leveled
planetneutral 01/07/2018 22:38 | #204931
Even though some of the music is interesting, I can't seriously recommend this.
A quite lovely album. Basket of light, is one of the great folk records of all time. Excellent performances all round, especially Jacqui Mcshee, who is superb throughout. Great songs in, light flight, Sally go round the roses, and, the cuckoo. Great LP.
Great album anyway but "Sally Go Round The Roses" - oh my what a version!
The opening track Light Flight was the theme tune of a popular British TV series, Take Three Girls and so is still one of the best known of their songs. The traditional folk song Once I Had A Sweetheart is another standout track.
A wonderful album but perhaps a little dated now. Pentangle were very much a band of their time. I remember seeing them perform most of the songs from it live at Brighton Dome. I visited Bert Jansch's grave at Highgate Cemetery recently.
I remember to this day the first I listened to this album and immediately fell in love. A perfect folk album, and my #1 of all times.
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