Young, Gifted And Black
by Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Franklin bestography
Young, Gifted And Black is ranked 4th best out of 68 albums by Aretha Franklin on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Aretha Franklin is I Never Loved A Man, The Way I Love You which is ranked number 395 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,180.
(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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Young, Gifted And Black 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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Young, Gifted And Black rankings
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Young, Gifted And Black ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/26/2026 01:50 | matterhornrider | 5,108 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 12:33 |  MagicSix | 1,044 | 60/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2026 23:04 | davidleewrong | 2,357 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/01/2026 16:21 | sweetness | 1,127 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/02/2026 04:33 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,744 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.6/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Beautiful, soulful, amazing… production is a little muddy, at the time I’m writing, recording is crying out for a remaster. But Aretha is immortal
VictorVale 08/25/2022 19:42 | #288922
Aretha tava pegando fogo nesse período. Só pedrada! Grande álbum!
planetneutral 01/22/2021 00:09 | #264815 | TOP COMMENT
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Another solid track list that plays to Ms. Franklin's many strengths, with a great Elton cover and an obscure small-town Indiana reference to boot.
tgarritsen 01/16/2019 12:22 | #229765 | TOP COMMENT
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First half is pretty good, but after 'brand new me' it gets a little less interesting. Nonetheless does Aretha what Aretha does, sing amazingly.
Ms. Franklin bravely covers some songs on this record that would intimidate others at the time. She makes them her own with great production and arrangements.
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