Richard ThompsonBest Richard Thompson Albums Ranked
7.7
Avg Score
25
Opinions
19
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 25 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Richard Thompson’s catalog across 19 albums from 25 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Richard Thompson album is Ship To Shore (2024) with a 8.2/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Walking on a Wire: 1968–2009 and Sweet Warrior. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1983 to 2024.
Walking on a Wire: 1968–2009
“A perennial dark-horse contender for the title of Greatest Living Rock Guitarist, Thompson has been boxed before — 1993’s triple-disc Watching the Dark and the five-disc 2006 rarities set, RT. While fanatics will debate omissions ("The End of the Rainbow," "ASailor’s Life," "When the Spell Is Broken"), normal folks should be sated by this excellent […]”
Ship To Shore
“another collection of beautifully gruelling material”
Music From Grizzly Man
“With help from Jim O’Rourke and Henry Kaiser, the British guitarist supplies the bittersweet backdrop to Werner Herzog’s 2005 film about humans’ doomed desire to conquer nature.”