Electric Mud
by Muddy Waters

Electric Mud by Muddy Waters
Year: 1968
Overall rank: 5,406th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 62 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1968 (77th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (424th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,406th)

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Muddy Waters bestography

Electric Mud is ranked 5th best out of 38 albums by Muddy Waters on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Muddy Waters is The Best Of Muddy Waters which is ranked number 2039 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 806.

Muddy Waters album bestography « Higher ranked (4,271st)
Hard Again
This album (5,406th)
Electric Mud
Lower ranked (9,784th) »
The Chess Box

(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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Electric Mud rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,406th | 1960s rank: 424th | 1968 rank: 77th
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2026Johnnyomale solo artists (2 B deleted)25/99 -
2026JohnnyoMost listened to studio albums of 2021 (101 - 200) (To delete)25/99 -
2026Johnnyo6 months in (2 B deleted)7/99 -
2026 FischmanTop 100 Music Albums of 196850/1003
2026LittleM1971Top 76 Music Albums of 196827/763
2026 TamthebamTop 100 Music Albums of 196869/1002
2026 RockyRaccoonBlues/Blues Rock37/43 -
2026JohnnyoMost listened t2021 (2 B deleted)47/99 -
2026adbrack1988Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s57/1009
2026daCriticTop 32 Music Albums of 196830/320
2026JohnnyoMost listened to albums in March 2021 (To delete)47/95 -
2025 Patman360Top 88 Music Albums of 196847/882
2025albumcelesteTop 46 Music Albums of 196846/460
2025adbrack1988Top 27 Music Albums of 196811/273
2025spinoutTop 99 Music Albums of the 1960s71/996
2025 xo66Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s80/1004
2025JohnnyoTop 85 Music Albums of 19682/855
2025 rambleon80Top 75 Music Albums of the 1960s50/757
2025 RepoTop 61 Music Albums of 196855/611
2025 rambleon80Top 20 Music Albums of 19688/203
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 79
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 251
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 62 votes)
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01/10/2026 07:07 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  22,94169/100
 
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12/28/2025 19:54 RockyRaccoon  Ratings distribution  6,89284/100
 
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10/17/2024 20:54 Johnnyo  Ratings distribution  9,65677/100
 
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09/20/2024 08:23 zsolti  Ratings distribution  66981/100
 
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04/09/2024 13:54 LosWochos  Ratings distribution  46,86975/100

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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.

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90/100
From 02/07/2023 16:26 | #293748
Electric Mud is a kind of musical masterpiece that is largely forgotten by many, but this time it made me think,´this is hip hop.. Funkadelic guys must have listened to this very much...
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95/100
From 04/12/2021 19:52 | #268483
Approach this album without any preconceptions and you’ll love it. Great blues rock album.
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From 11/01/2016 03:20 | #177811
Muddy hated this album and I can see why. It's just a commercial move to uplift Muddy's career jumping on the bandwagon of blues based psychedelic rock of that time.

His golden stuff has to be found on other albums.
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95/100
From 03/31/2016 13:42 | #163046
If you let go of your image of Muddy Waters for a moment, and listen to this record strictly as a heavy metal LP, you will realize how good it really is.
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80/100
From 08/26/2015 01:11 | #148570
Very Good to excellent blues /Hard rock with psychedelic tones album. I think some that do not agree do not realize this is from 1968.
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From 08/11/2014 16:38 | #119226
I fail to see why this album is maligned by so many. This is the missing link between blues and hard rock....and Muddy's rendition of Let's Spend the Night Together is absolutely scorching.
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From 07/04/2014 02:10 | #115944
Bad but still fun.
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