Liquid Tension Experiment
by Liquid Tension Experiment

Liquid Tension Experiment by Liquid Tension Experiment
Year: 1998
Release date: 1998-00-00
Overall rank: 11,479th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 54 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (179th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,848th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,479th)

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Liquid Tension Experiment rankings

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Overall rank: 11,479th | 1990s rank: 1,848th | 1998 rank: 179th

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75/100 (from 54 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.

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From 09/26/2019 08:45 | #243084
Very interesting album
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From 01/22/2019 17:21 | #230262
Taking this album for what it is, I find LTE to be pretty decent. I hate the feeling of not rating these legends higher but as a commentary on the album itself, the structure and components could be better refined, even if some individual tracks are phenomenal. More than anything else, I simply love the playfulness and enjoy instrumental stuff quite a lot, so this album gets a solid recommendation.
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From 04/25/2017 21:12 | #189845
I really love this group of musicians. Mike Portnoy is one of my favorite drummers and one of my personal biggest influences. This album having such a focus on improvisation is a great contrast from their usual bands who are very orchestration oriented.

Portnoy and Tony Levin are the strong points of this album for me. John Petrucci and Jordan Ruddess have their strong moments especially the dueling solos in Universal Mind, State Of Grace, however, almost put me to sleep.

Overall, the first LTE album is a very unique one.
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