The Dock Of The Bay (compilation album) by Otis Redding

The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding
(Compilation album)
Year: 1968
Overall rank: 1,854th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 180 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1968 (32nd)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (179th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,854th)
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The Dock Of The Bay is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Otis Redding on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Otis Redding is Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul which is ranked number 372 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,773.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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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 79.4/100, a mean average of 79.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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90/100
From 03/27/2024 18:43
A very good, but not excellent album. The title track is a classic. The rest is hit-and-miss. Interestingly, the songs Redding either wrote or co-wrote are stronger than the songs he covers. 9/10.
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80/100
From 11/27/2022 18:39
What a collection
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From 09/14/2021 23:19
The real highlight of this album is the vocal performance which is consistently phenomenal throughout and it truly is one of the best voices in history. The title track does carry this album as you imagine however but there are some hidden gems that are very enjoyable as well. Most songs you can tell are a little incomplete or feel a little empty and that does weaken the album. Overall, a lot of great potential present on the record and it is such a shame we can never see this be fully realised but we should feel lucky and blessed we got to experience the small amount of content we got from this incredible artist.
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75/100
From 02/26/2016 02:35
Ole Man Trouble and Tramp are pretty good, but (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay is easily one of the top 10 songs ever written.
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85/100
From 11/25/2014 19:37
I could listen to the song "Dock of the Bay" all day long...
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80/100
From 10/21/2014 00:47
This album should be in the top 500 in my opinion.
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75/100
From 05/22/2013 00:40
The Dock of the Bay is the first of a number of posthumously released Otis Redding albums. It contains the classic title track it contains a number of singles and B-sides.

"The Dock of the Bay" which was Otis first nummer one hit-single, sad after his death, indicated that Redding was widening his musical influences, and the song is not very strictly based in the blues patterns which most of his songs were. It very sad that Redding died so young and was never given the opportunity to follow this new exciting direction.

There are several other fine songs on this album, but the title-track is the immortal classic.

"I Love you More than Words Can Say" is a great soulful ballad written by Eddie Floyd and Booker T. Redding himself was the co-writer of the bluesy "Let Me Come on Home", which has some very nice guitar licks, which is not very often found on Redding's recordings.

Another great ballad is "The Glory of Love", which was written by Billy Hill.

Another favourite is the closing track "Ole Man Trouble", which was written by Redding and which dates back to 1965.

"Tramp" which is a duet with Carla Thomas shows a more informal and humorous side of Redding.
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From 09/30/2012 23:16
Best Redding.
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From 03/17/2012 19:17
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay has to be one of the all-time great tracks for empathy. You can really imagine the lack of direction, sense of loss, and searching for hope. You can see yourself sitting there with him watching time roll away. What a craftsman with his voice.
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From 08/08/2011 21:49
I just listened to this yesterday, only to find out it wasn't on our charts, and the next day, it's on :). Ironic. Nice album, bit empty though.
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