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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Phaedra rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1974 | 3/80 | 5 |
| 2026 | emptysquares | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 23/100 | 78 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 98 Music Albums of the 1970s | 80/98 | 4 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Sonoffatboy | Top 30 Music Albums of the 1970s | 18/30 | 9 |
| 2026 | pjerske | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 31/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 27/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Top 22 Music Albums of 1974 | 13/22 | 2 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 21 Music Albums of 1974 | 9/21 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1970s | 68/99 | 6 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 308 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,405 | |||
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Phaedra ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 07/27/2026 15:58 |  DommeDamian | 7,750 | 48/100 |
| ! | 06/05/2026 19:42 |  Beattieboi | 37 | 68/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2026 23:12 | acoustic-horn | 246 | 76/100 |
Rating metrics:
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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 78.5/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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Strangel 01/14/2024 02:24 | #301158 | TOP COMMENT
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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. (Edited)
Impressive for its time. (Edited)
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. (Edited)
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 (Edited)
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