Count me in the "Snow is a favorite" camp. My favorite of the Neal-era albums at least, and pretty high up there in the overall discography.
Concerning Day For Night, when I got into SB (around 2005/2006), I had veered toward popular opinion at the time, which was DFN wasn't as good as any of the other albums, especially among the six Neal-era ones, and I sort of agreed. Snow was an instant favorite, and V and Beware Of Darkness were tied in a close 2nd, while TKOS really stuck to me with tunes like "The Good Don't Last" and "Harm's Way". Day For Night just didn't have the same punch and power the albums around it had, but it still had some great pieces like "Crack The Big Sky", "The Gypsy", and "The Healing Colors Of Sound", which was a bit more disjointed than the band's prior epics, but still pretty good! I think pieces like "Gibberish", "Skin" and "Can't Get It Wrong" felt like rehashes of songs they had already released, and didn't feel like anything new to me compared to similar songs on the prior 3 albums, where as V would put together some rather unique shorter songs in the middle of its two grand epics.
Since then, I've come around a bit more on DFN, and have grown to appreciate the album as a whole, but if you had to ask me, it's still my least favorite Neal-era album, but by no means does that make it a BAD album!
As for a ranking? Good god I don't think I could do one...but here's my best effort anyway:
Snow
V / X (tied!)
Beware Of Darkness
Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
The Light
The Kindness Of Strangers
Octane
Day For Night
The Oblivion Particle
Spock's Beard
Feel Euphoria
...even looking at it for a minute before hitting POST, I feel a bit reluctant to submit that, but we'll just go with my gut feelings on it for now.
-Marc.