The Dock Of The Bay
by Otis Redding
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Otis Redding bestography
The Dock Of The Bay is ranked 2nd best out of 25 albums by Otis Redding on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Otis Redding is Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul which is ranked number 360 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,559.
(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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The Dock Of The Bay 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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The Dock Of The Bay rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 90/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 45/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 83/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 88/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1968 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 45 Music Albums of 1968 | 13/45 | 4 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 65 Music Albums of 1968 | 3/65 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 31 Music Albums of 1968 | 28/31 | 1 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #2301-2400* | 70/82 | - |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 77 Music Albums of 1968 | 33/77 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 215 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 985 | |||
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The Dock Of The Bay ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/09/2026 21:57 |  ExTeaSea | 5,242 | 83/100 |
| ! | 05/19/2026 21:45 | BurndenAce | 1,320 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 16:32 | Jakor | 5,544 | 70/100 |
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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 79.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/28/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5418): By baystateoftheart neilgee 07/26/2026 13:16 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)The Dock Of The Bay comments
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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. (Edited)
Jboy56 11/27/2022 18:39 | #291602
What a collection
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.
RoundTheBend 02/26/2016 02:35 | #160743 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
swhaze 11/25/2014 19:37 | #127967 | TOP COMMENT
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I could listen to the song "Dock of the Bay" all day long... (Edited)
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