Portrait Of Genius
by Ravi Shankar
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Ravi Shankar bestography
Portrait Of Genius is ranked 4th best out of 42 albums by Ravi Shankar on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ravi Shankar is Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) which is ranked number 2364 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 684.
(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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Portrait Of Genius track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Portrait Of Genius rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 57 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Repo | Repo Music: An Alt Hx of Cosmic Music | 5/32 | - |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 21 Music Albums of 1965 | 17/21 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 73 Music Albums of 1965 | 32/73 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 40 Music Albums of 1965 | 15/40 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 95 Music Albums of 1965 | 63/95 | 2 |
| 2025 | TodFitz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1965 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | rkm | Top 50 Music Albums of 1965 | 49/50 | 0 |
| 2025 |  baystateoftheart | If The Chart Represented Population | 51/99 | - |
| 2024 |  meccalecca | Top 61 Music Albums of 1964 | 22/61 | - |
| 2024 | MaxStorm98 | Top 29 Music Albums of 1964 | 29/29 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 37 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 58 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/11/2024 00:24 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,749 | 74/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2024 00:19 |  Cardboardfolder | 3,731 | 88/100 |
| ! | 04/27/2024 09:23 | DommeDamian | 7,838 | 48/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.6/100, a mean average of 71.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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One of the two or three Shankar albums that changed the course of music through the influence it had on fellow musicians (David Crosby, George Harrison et al). Apart from that, it is just simply enjoyable and ravishing.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/06/2016 02:53 | #161404
More Rythmic than the last Ravi Shankar album I listened to, Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas). Very fun listen.
dihansse 03/09/2021 20:54 | #267149
Ravi Shankar is the best known Indian classical artist which of course has lots to do with his connections with Yehudi Menuhin and especially George Harrison. He is a genius on the Indian sitar which at least has 18 strings and on this album he plays a number of shorter raga-like songs and also a real 20 minutes raga at the the end. The raga is a kind of improvisational piece but subject to very strict rules and on this album we mostly hear his sitar, a tabla (drum) and flute performed by a western jazz flutist Paul Horn.
I fairly like this mesmerizing but finally very melodic type of music and listening to this album was worthwhile but all in all maybe not a keeper for this western ear.
A lesser work in comparison to his utterly brilliant debut "Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)", however "Portrait of Genius" is indeed a portrait of a genius that can still create such gorgeous compositions. The only problem here are the lengths of the songs. I wish every single track was longer except the final track, "Raga Multani", which does manage to reach the heights set by "Three Classical Ragas".
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