Ray Charles
by Ray Charles
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Ray Charles bestography
Ray Charles is ranked 2nd best out of 60 albums by Ray Charles on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ray Charles is Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music which is ranked number 1695 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 627.
(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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Ray Charles track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 3 days ago |  VictorVale | 3,800 | 81/100 | |
| 03/17/2026 01:27 | Rivera | 2,036 | 82/100 | |
| 02/04/2026 01:54 | davidleewrong | 2,358 | 81/100 | |
| 01/23/2026 17:41 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,585 | 70/100 | |
| 12/24/2025 16:19 | duelek | 1,822 | 76/100 |
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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 76.4/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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A collection of very good to excellent songs made all excellent by the stunningly talented Ray Charles. 9/10!
Contains all the great songs of Ray Charles early career. An absolute essential album to own.
Larcx13 09/27/2022 14:42 | #289992
Smooth soulful blues
Boltzmann 10/17/2019 07:31 | #243844
Here it started: where the whole band moves as one, where short licks make all the difference, where voices explore their own limits, where it wasn't about what but about how. It's soul. It sparked the "I'm so sad" soul of James Brown (before he invented funk) and the "life is so hard" soul of Otis Redding, but it's always heart-warming to go back to Ray Charles's "I love you so much" soul that is always deep down a bit happy under all the tears.
RoundTheBend 01/22/2016 04:35 | #157317
The King of Slow... and I mean that as a compliment. Anyone that's a musician knows that slow tempos are actually harder, and he's the master.
Plus he can rock... easily one of the best musicians to walk the earth. His voice and soul...
Ain't that love, Mess Around, This Little Girl of Mine, I've Got A Woman...Solid.
junodog4 03/03/2015 04:27 | #136032
Ray Charles was genius, and this album was remarkable.
Listen up! He doin' the Mess Around. Turns out he was Genius right from the start. All killer no filler. Remarkable for a non-jazz 50s album.
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