Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)
by Gong
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Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1) is ranked as the best album by Gong.
(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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Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1) track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/01/2026 00:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,676 | 70/100 | |
| 09/13/2025 17:45 |  melisandre | 151 | 88/100 | |
| 09/08/2025 20:21 |  RockyRaccoon | 6,855 | 84/100 | |
| 08/25/2025 22:13 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,739 | 82/100 | |
| 08/07/2025 22:35 |  AAL2014 | 3,628 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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I am lucky enough to own a clear vinyl version with the original cover, not the cover in the picture on this site. Superb album from probably one of the most way out there bands at the time or maybe even since. I love the jazzy rockin groove of the title track. The musianship of this band often goes unnoticed, they tend to be remembered for the wacky elements.
Fantastic stuff from a criminally underrated band that still sound amazingly fresh and unique after almost 50 years. It's spacey, jazzy, quirky, in fact it's totally bonkers but I dare you not to at least smile when you listen to Gong. Wonderful.
A psychedelic masterpiece.
This brilliant fairy-tale sketched concept album essentially evokes the inner-workings of the imaginatively fertile mind of its protaganist, Daevid Allen. The album combines surrealism, anarchist philosophy and expressionist theatre within a rich tapestry of jazz, rock and ambient music in a way that is totally unique. Unsurprisingly, guitarist Steve Hillage would become influential in the emergence of techno in the 1980s. In 1973 Gong predicted the bass heavy trance-inducing pattern of music that would become Acid House.
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