Deep Listening
by Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis
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Deep Listening track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Deep Listening rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 87 Music Albums of 1989 | 36/87 | 3 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Electronic | 24/100 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1989 | 29/100 | - |
| 2026 | RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 50/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Top 18 Music Albums of 1989 | 17/18 | 1 |
| 2026 |  bertrandu | Ambient 1958-2000 | 82/100 | - |
| 2025 | Weepingguitarman | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 60/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | RockyRaccoon | Top 42 Music Albums of 1989 | 7/42 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 26 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 93 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/18/2026 20:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,594 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/07/2025 19:57 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,721 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2023 08:22 |  LedZep | 5,115 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.
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Forum mentions
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ExTeaSea 11/12/2019 15:52 in Most unfamiliar with 87, 88 and 89. Rare recommendations?Deep Listening comments
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JulianR 03/23/2018 04:43 | #211538
While the first three are excellent exercises in drone music, the last is in excercise in banging on things while being in a really big cave. While it may not seem far removed from the first three in theory, it is clearly done becuase "hey that would be kinda cool," not "this would be interesting and artistic". Still, dont let it detract from the amazingness of the first three tracks
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