Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)
by Ravi Shankar
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Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) is ranked as the best album by Ravi Shankar.
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Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 1956 | 3/50 | 5 |
| 2026 | Hayden | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 24/100 | 74 |
| 2026 | downandout | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 8/100 | 19 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1956 | 18/20 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 30 Music Albums of 1956 | 26/30 | 1 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 15/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 41 Music Albums of 1956 | 14/41 | 3 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 11 Music Albums of 1956 | 10/11 | 1 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 86 Music Albums of 1956 | 73/86 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 92 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 684 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago |  Dingerbell | 4,175 | 63/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2026 15:09 | Hayden | 7,959 | 72/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2026 23:09 |  VictorVale | 3,907 | 81/100 |
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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 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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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.
A master at work.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/31/2016 06:09 | #158259 | TOP COMMENT
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Mesmerizing
Heavenly, divine, celestial, immortal.
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