Phantom Power (studio album)
by The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip bestography
Phantom Power is ranked 5th 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 1727 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 981.
(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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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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| ! | 09/10/2025 21:40 | traistboar | 1,432 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2025 13:25 | TonySayers61 | 22,904 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/18/2024 00:00 | mattmaster | 424 | 79/100 |
| ! | 10/05/2024 13:17 | BurndenAce | 1,005 | 77/100 |
| ! | 08/12/2024 04:42 |  Tamthebam | 22,875 | 69/100 |
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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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
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.
ghosttomost 05/21/2014 08:15 | #112451
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...".
junodog4 06/23/2012 18:52 | #45195
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.
Solid record. Fav track; Escape is at hand...
jhuik 01/01/2012 00:10 | #34074
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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