Phantom Power (studio album) by The Tragically Hip

Phantom Power by The Tragically Hip
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 8,326th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 49 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (135th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,408th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,326th)

The Tragically Hip bestography

Phantom Power is ranked 6th best out of 18 albums by The Tragically Hip on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Tragically Hip is Fully Completely which is ranked number 1878 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 891.

The Tragically Hip album bestography « Higher ranked (8,245th) This album (8,326th) Lower ranked (10,665th) »
Trouble At The HenhousePhantom PowerIn Violet Light

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Phantom Power track list

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77/100 (from 49 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.

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80/100
From 01/10/2019 00:13
Easily digestible rock record when the Hip were still at their creative peak. There are plenty of rockers. Bobcaygeon is possibly the best Hip song ever, but there's some gold in the deep cuts too. I would consider Phantom Power to be a return to form after some experimentation with Trouble at the Henhouse.

Key Tracks: Poets, Bobcaygeon, Membership, Fireworks, Membership, Escape is At Hand for the Traveling Man, Emperor Penguin
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From 01/08/2015 21:21
Being Canadian and a LONG time fan, this is perhaps my favourite Hip Album. Front to back, like many of their albums, this is so great and shows the band really coming into their own.
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85/100
From 05/21/2014 08:15
A bit of an oddity, this album was the first of a trio of records that began to alienate the Hip's original fanbase. An improvement over Trouble in the Henhouse, Phantom Power also finds the Hip exploring more 'pop' themes while losing the rough edges that had so often defined the production style of their previous records. Despite some of these shortcomings, the Hip managed to pull out a few of the best songs of their repertoire including "Bobcaygeon", "Emperor Penguin", and my personal favourite Hip song of all time: "Escape is at Hand...".
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75/100
From 06/23/2012 18:52
A few real standouts, but the majority of this album is filler. Bobcaygeon and Fireworks are great. This marks the end of the Hip's peak.
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From 05/16/2012 01:14
Solid record. Fav track; Escape is at hand...
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From 01/01/2012 00:10
The band's sixth full length studio album finds them still peaking. This was a great return to form after the lukewarm Trouble at the Henhouse. Bobcaygeon is a Canlit classic and there are seven songs on this album that I absolutely love.
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