Rubycon
by Tangerine Dream
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Tangerine Dream bestography
Rubycon is ranked 3rd best out of 124 albums by Tangerine Dream on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Tangerine Dream is Phaedra which is ranked number 1187 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,468.
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Rubycon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rubycon rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Best Electronic / Dance albums of all time by DigitalDreamDoor | 96/100 | - |
| 2026 | Pavloss | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 23/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 13 Music Albums of 1975 | 3/13 | 4 |
| 2026 |  MW19704U | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 71/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 87 Music Albums of 1975 | 53/87 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 60 Music Albums of 1975 | 32/60 | 2 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 70 Music Albums of 1975 | 9/70 | 4 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 60 Music Albums of 1975 | 43/60 | 2 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 67/100 | 7 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 165 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 548 | |||
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Rubycon ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/03/2026 02:05 | jsmunh73 | 17 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/27/2026 21:33 | duelek | 2,192 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 10:38 |  Liedzeit | 2,523 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 79.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.
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Rubycon forum mentions
Liedzeit 08/31/2026 10:37 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
jdenny2018 11/26/2018 01:21 in A Deep Dive Into My Top 100 Albums everRubycon comments
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There is something quite disconcerting about the cover of this album, it is one of my all time favourite album covers for that very reason, the gloss green, the central water droplet, the text font, the name 'Rubycon' builds the imagination as to what lies within. I am fortunate to own a near mint copy on vinyl and it is without doubt a journey through sound, conjuring up visions of vast emptiness and otherworldly realms. When this came out in 1975 it must have sounded like something from another planet. As a musician myself, it has taken me years to work out how Tangerine Dream produced the bubbling bass lines which underpin many of their earlier great works, to think that they did this with fairly rudimentary recording techniques and unreliable instruments is fairly mind blowing. Naming a favourite Tangerine Dream album is always a tough call for me as I love much of their work, however for overall impact, I think Rubycon has to be top of the tree, Phaedra and Zeit following closely with Force Majeure, Ricochet, Stratosfear and Tangram all competing for fourth place. The early TD were way ahead of the game in terms of sound experimentation and sequencing. I have seen them live three times, the final time being at the Royal Albert Hall, awesome!
Inferior to its revolutionary predecessor, but it still remains a beautiful, pioneering dark-ambient record that has stood the test of time. (Edited)
A great record from a seminal, innovative and still relevant group.
Jboy56 12/16/2021 15:09 | #277570 | TOP COMMENT
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A great achievement from the early days of moody electrics. Still packs a punch, albeit being almost 50 years old. (Edited)
Anti TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/28/2019 15:40 | #236831 | TOP COMMENT
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This is what I imagined space sounding like when I was young.
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