Top 7 Steve Hackett Albums

1. Please Don't Touch

2. Defector

3. Guitar Noir

4. Spectral Mornings

5. Beyond the Shrouded Horizon

6. Till We Have Faces

7. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Yes, some of these choices are controversial, but I've been listening to some of these albums for almost 40 years now, and compiling this list was very difficult. To answer the obvious question, Voyage of the Acolyte is not here because I think it's not really that good. It's an adequate introduction to Hackett's style, but I only really like "A Tower Struck Down" and "Star of Sirius". Just missing this list were Cured, Momentum, Darktown, and To Watch the Storms.

1. Voyage of the Acolyte

2. Spectral Mornings

3. Genesis Revisited (II)

4. Please Don't Touch

5. Defector

6. Cured

7. (whatever album Wolflight is from, but this is the only track I've heard)

2. Voyage of the Acolyte

3. Out of the Tunnel's Mouth

4. The Night Siren

5. Spectral Mornings

6. Wolflight

7. Beyond the Shrouded Horizon

8. Wild Orchids

9. Please Don't Touch

10. Till We Have Faces

I only listed studio albums, but a lot of his "Genesis Revisited" live albums (of which there are quite a few) are a nice treat.

2 - Spectral Mornings

3 - Defector

7 - Sketches From Satie

Honorable mention

8 - Guitar Noir

9 - Out Of The Tunnel Mouth

10 -  Beyond the Shrouded Horizon

1. Voyage of the Acolyte

2. Defector

3. Guitar Noir

4. Spectral Mornings

5. Highly Strung

6. Please Don't Touch

7. Bay of Kings

Honorable Mentions: Darktown, To Watch the Storms

2. At The Edge Of Light

3. Surrender Of Silence

4. Beyond The Shrouded Horizon

5. Out Of The Tunnels Mouth

6. To Watch the Storms

7. Sketches Of Satie (with John Hackett)

Plenty more I love besides those, he's done some great classical albums and lovely ambient stuff like the more recent Under a Mediterranean Sky. 

Using Psychedelic Paul's system:

1st = 12 points

2nd = 8 points

3rd = 6 points

4th = 4 points

5th = 3 points

6th = 2 points

7th = 1 point

Here's where we stand so far:

1. Voyage of the Acolyte = 104 points

2. Spectral Mornings = 59 points

3. Please Don't Touch = 40 points

4. Defector = 25 points

5. Genesis Revisited II = 18 points

6. To Watch the Storms = 16 points

7. Guitar Noir = 14 points

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8. Beyond the Shrouded Horizon = 12 points

9. Darktown = 12 points

10. Out of the Tunnel's Mouth = 11 points  

1. Voyage of the Acolyte = 107 points

2. Spectral Mornings = 71 points

3. Please Don't Touch = 44 points

4. Defector = 31 points

5. To Watch the Storms = 24 points

6. Genesis Revisited II = 18 points

7. Guitar Noir = 14 points

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8. Beyond the Shrouded Horizon = 13 points

9. Darktown = 12 points

10. Out of the Tunnel's Mouth = 11 points