The Heat Is On
by The Isley Brothers
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The Heat Is On is ranked 2nd best out of 42 albums by The Isley Brothers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Isley Brothers is 3 + 3 which is ranked number 2022 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 830.
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The Heat Is On track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/08/2026 15:26 | Jakor | 5,525 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2026 02:56 | davidleewrong | 2,357 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/18/2026 22:02 | Pluto11 | 12,259 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/28/2025 07:43 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,495 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2024 17:47 | matterhornrider | 5,150 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.0/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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The Brothers at the top of their game. Soulful and funky, this is a great record.
tgarritsen 12/22/2014 14:19 | #129887
What an incredibly underrated album on this site. A wonderfull soul and funk album.
ffudnebbuh 10/22/2013 11:43 | #88875
Love "time has come today", you are correct, they are closer to Funkadelic...
I also checked this one out after seeing ffud's chart. Touchstone for me is the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today", which I like, but the rock guitar inches closer to Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain". Good stuff.
ffudnebbuh 06/07/2011 11:44 | #22805 | TOP COMMENT
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I am so glad that you like it, everything about it is perfect..it has the slow side and the funky side and Ronald Isley voice is heaven sent. also the Ernie Isley has the most incredible guitar solo on "Hope you feel better love'..Jimi Hendrix played with them in the early 60s and Ernie's guitar solo sounds every bit as good as hendrix. 247joelnetwork, your comment is hilarious.
Good Lord. There are some hot baby-making tracks on this
one. Thanks, ffudnebbuh. I wouldn't have found this if it wasn't featured in your top 50. I've listened to this album 4x tonight. It's that good! You all need to buy this!
ffudnebbuh 01/09/2010 22:00 | #6277 | TOP COMMENT
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Every morning, I get down on my knees and thank God that Ronald Isley was born. His performance alone on "Sensuality" puts this album as one of the greatest ever. So perfectly written. Rock stations at the time had very broad playlists..The Album oriented Rock station in Cincinnati at the time included "Sensuality" on their playlist...so you could hear Pink Floyd("Time"), Tom Waits("Tom Traubert's blues"), Isley Brothers("Sensuality"), Joni Mitchell("Cactus Tree"), Beatles("Helter Skelter"), Stooges("I wanna be your dog"), etc...really miss that kind of radio.
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