Heat Wave
by Martha And The Vandellas

Heat Wave by Martha And The Vandellas
Year: 1963
Overall rank: 11,971st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 40 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1963 (44th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (835th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,971st)

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Martha And The Vandellas bestography

Heat Wave is ranked 2nd best out of 14 albums by Martha Reeves on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Martha Reeves is Dance Party which is ranked number 7203 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 179.

Martha And The Vandellas album bestography « Higher ranked (7,203rd)
Dance Party
This album (11,971st)
Heat Wave
Lower ranked (11,971st) »
Heat Wave

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Overall rank: 11,971st | 1960s rank: 835th | 1963 rank: 44th

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Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 40 votes)
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12/04/2025 10:50 Squonk007  Ratings distribution  74924/100
 
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11/11/2025 05:07 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  5,89066/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.2/100, a mean average of 63.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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From 10/16/2021 05:47 | #275078
Heat wave is great. Quick Sand and Hammer are worth a listen. The rest of the album doesn't really make much of a contribution.
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From 02/27/2016 05:06 | #160825
Lots of covers and they aren't better than the originals... Heat Wave is the only great song, the rest are ok.
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