Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)
by Ravi Shankar

Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) by Ravi Shankar
Year: 1956
Overall rank: 2,360th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 87 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1956 (13th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1950s (69th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,360th)

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Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,360th | 1950s rank: 69th | 1956 rank: 13th  Overall chart history
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2026PurpleHazelTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s15/10017
2026jdizzle123456World4/50 -
2026pjerskeTop 27 Music Albums of the 1950s3/2719
2026Steppenwolf666Top 86 Music Albums of 195673/861
2026downandoutTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s53/10010
2026 HaydenTop 50 Music Albums of 19563/505
2026 DommeDamianTop 22 Music Albums of the 1950s9/2213
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s69/1006
2026 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s8/10019
2026Exist-en-cielTop 40 Music Albums of 195614/403
2026 HaydenTop 100 Greatest Music Albums24/10076
2026 HeliosTop 30 Music Albums of 195626/301
2026 junodog4Top 18 Music Albums of 195618/180
2026 bertranduTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s68/1007
2026 baystateoftheartTop 11 Music Albums of 195610/111
2025 IgtonumamaTop 100 Music Albums of 195610/1005
2025 DommeDamianLet's Harmonize All Around The World28/64 -
2025 baystateoftheartIf The Chart Represented Population23/99 -
2025 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s25/10015
2025 DommeDamianBest album each year69/76 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 93
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 687
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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 87 votes)
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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 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.


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The plethora of music from hundreds of different countries outside the western-world tends to get clumped into a single "World" genre which is incredibly trivialising and in all honesty really, really stupid. These records tend to be incredibly underrated in the western-world, especially in comparison to rock music from white british / american men (perhaps a few records from Africa and Asia will be picked out and be called "good for world music"). Here's the very best antidote to this bias.

These ragas are complex, mesmerising and sound truly timeless. This is an unbelievably beautiful record and as a person of (mostly) ethnically Indian origin yet living in england, "Music of India" is incredibly important to me. It is a statement that resonates with me and also broke cultural and geographical barriers in its day. Ravi Shankar is the virtuoso of all virtuosos.
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Heavenly, divine, celestial, immortal.
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A master at work.
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Mesmerizing
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