Phaedra
by Tangerine Dream
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Phaedra is ranked as the best album by Tangerine Dream.
(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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Phaedra track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 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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| ! | 02/10/2026 18:55 |  DommeDamian | 7,325 | 49/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2026 21:10 | samr2002 | 202 | 77/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2026 19:59 | Timooosterink | 787 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/01/2026 11:37 | Imaybeparanoid | 7,336 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 18:46 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,503 | 70/100 |
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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 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Strangel 01/14/2024 02:24 | #301158
Took me a while to get around to fully immersing myself in this one and I’d have to say that the most impressive element to the album is the freshness and clarity of sound that they produced 50-odd years ago.
Impressive for its time.
endlessly extended organ chords and recorded sounds. I would call it head music
andyjb 11/24/2020 12:22 | #261309
Superb early ambient space rock that sounds as fresh today as it did back in 1974. Can't really believe it's that old.
LebowskiRams 09/20/2020 22:47 | #258477
It's wild to listen to this and know it was made in 1974. Sounds very ahead of its time
This album is so unique. One of the best albums from 1974 and Tangerine Dream´s best.
LedZep 08/07/2019 12:29 | #240889
Still think Zeit is their best work, but this is pretty incredible early ambient music
From another world, even now in 2018. Some really eerie use of Mellotron and the first album where the Moog Modular carved out those hypnotic bass sequences. A meditation in sound.
This milestone 1974 Krautrock recording achieved unexpected commercial success, inadvertently kickstarting the then fledgling career of Richard Branson who would go on become a world leader in sycophancy and tax avoidance.
I could see why people are saying it hasn't aged as gracefully. But to me this is excellent. A cold and spacious record that will set the blueprint for decades to come.
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