It Serves You Right To Suffer
by John Lee Hooker

It Serves You Right To Suffer by John Lee Hooker
Year: 1966
Overall rank: 5,844th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 54 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1966 (49th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (452nd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,844th)

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John Lee Hooker bestography

It Serves You Right To Suffer is ranked 3rd best out of 72 albums by John Lee Hooker on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Lee Hooker is I'm John Lee Hooker which is ranked number 3232 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 465.

John Lee Hooker album bestography « Higher ranked (5,815th)
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This album (5,844th)
It Serves You Right To Suffer
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The Healer

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Overall rank: 5,844th | 1960s rank: 452nd | 1966 rank: 49th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 54 votes)
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03/08/2026 20:53 ejiniestac  Ratings distribution  61766/100
 
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12/15/2025 01:12 Devilwoac  Ratings distribution  97897/100
 
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11/05/2025 18:54 Rivera  Ratings distribution  2,03282/100
 
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10/23/2025 11:52 rambleon80  Ratings distribution  2,62776/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.

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From 11/02/2022 15:29 | #290987
Deep as it gets, Hooker is always convincing!
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From 11/21/2019 16:36 | #245052
This album doesn't hold up very well in the present day. I feel like the blues have been beat into the ground over the last 50 years so it's tough to judge. It's also tough to judge because I'm sure the album format wasn't the most conducive environment for the music.
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