Strange Celestial Road
by Sun Ra

Strange Celestial Road by Sun Ra
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 55,258th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 13 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (596th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (6,231st)
Award Best albums of all time (55,258th)

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Sun Ra bestography

Strange Celestial Road is ranked 35th best out of 90 albums by Sun Ra on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sun Ra is Lanquidity which is ranked number 2090 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 799.

Sun Ra album bestography « Higher ranked (52,900th)
To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds
This album (55,258th)
Strange Celestial Road
Lower ranked (55,654th) »
Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 55,258th | 1980s rank: 6,231st | 1980 rank: 596th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 13 votes)
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03/21/2024 16:58 JamesMowbray  Ratings distribution  5,66669/100
 
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11/27/2023 01:56 Anti  Ratings distribution  4,62578/100
 
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06/04/2023 21:17 BorderFreeAndrew  Ratings distribution  15,72974/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.8/100, a mean average of 66.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.


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From Anti 01/18/2024 04:06 in The Great Revisitation Project: 2023-24 Edition
November 27, 2023 ◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈ ◈◈◈◈◈ While not as "out there" as his free jazz work, Strange Celestial Road is a fairly avant-garde jazz fusion album. There is a sublime feel to the funk fusion. It does not feel as heavy on the funk like, say, Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, but…
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From Skinny 01/20/2021 12:29 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
1. Threw this album onto the list despite a gnawing feeling I'd heard it before, and indeed I had. However, a thoroughly pleasant revisit, even if it only lightly touches on the funk elements I'd been anticipating, leaning on some Latin-style grooves at times and occasionally threatening to bust…
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From kokkinos 01/19/2021 21:10 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
1. A more "standard" listening with no alarms no surprises. The album that brought Thin Lizzy into the spotlight and resulted in their commercial breakthrough. It's a classic, guitar-driven hard rock 70's album. Nothing more, nothing less. Not a huge fan, but enjoyable nonetheless. I'm sure I would…
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