Ship Ahoy (studio album)
by The O'Jays

Ship Ahoy by The O'Jays
Year: 1973
Overall rank: 11,328th   
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 35 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1973 (189th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,602nd)
Award Best albums of all time (11,328th)

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The O'Jays bestography

Ship Ahoy is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by The O'Jays on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The O'Jays is Back Stabbers which is ranked number 5679 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 235.

The O'Jays album bestography « Higher ranked (5,679th)
Back Stabbers
This album (11,328th)
Ship Ahoy
Lower ranked (42,852nd) »
Family Reunion

(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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Ship Ahoy track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Ship Ahoy rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,328th | 1970s rank: 1,602nd | 1973 rank: 189th

Ship Ahoy collection

Ship Ahoy ratings

Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 35 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.3/100, a mean average of 82.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.2.

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If not for Innervisions by Stevie Wonder, this would be the best soul LP of 1973.
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Best Albums of 1973
1. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
2. Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
3. Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin
4. Selling England By The Pound by Genesis
5. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
6. Quadrophenia by The Who
7. Band On The Run by Paul McCartney & Wings
8. Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
9. Raw Power by Iggy And The Stooges
10. Future Days by Can
11. (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd
12. For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music
13. Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
14. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
15. Closing Time by Tom Waits
16. Berlin by Lou Reed
17. The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
18. Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye
19. Larks' Tongues In Aspic by King Crimson
20. Paris 1919 by John Cale
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