Melting Pot
by Booker T. & The M.G.'s
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Booker T. & The M.G.'s bestography
Melting Pot is ranked 2nd best out of 20 albums by Booker T. & The M.G.'s on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Booker T. & The M.G.'s is Green Onions which is ranked number 2286 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 718.
(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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Melting Pot track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Melting Pot rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 50 Music Albums of 1971 | 17/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Funk & Soul | 38/100 | - |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 95 Music Albums of 1971 | 57/95 | 2 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 74/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Graeme2 | Top 92 Music Albums of 1971 | 44/92 | 3 |
| 2025 | TodFitz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 76/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 | 85/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | replacementlevel | Top 50 Music Albums of 1971 | 36/50 | 2 |
| 2025 | Hyggevinyl | Top 75 Music Albums of 1971 | 52/75 | 2 |
| 2024 |  mutley88 | Top 77 Greatest Music Albums | 38/77 | 39 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 37 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 181 | |||
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Melting Pot ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/21/2026 18:34 | RemainInLight | 3,827 | 36/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2026 11:44 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,265 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/27/2025 17:52 | Johnnyo | 9,846 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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Melting Pot forum mentions
Jboy56 04/10/2023 08:52 in What album are you listening to right now?
grogg 05/09/2019 01:46 in Grogg listens to musicMelting Pot comments
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tgarritsen 01/12/2014 15:07 | #100482 | TOP COMMENT
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Green Onions may be more popular mostly because of the tittle track but this one is way better.
Literally my favourite album of all time. The title track in particular is a brilliantly composed and played track which just oozes style and sophistication. Big city funk as good as it gets. Booker's organ-grinding is utterly inspired and totally compelling.
Innovative soul/funk from a great band.
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