Otis ReddingBest Otis Redding Albums Ranked
8.8
Avg Score
28
Opinions
20
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 28 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Otis Redding’s catalog across 20 albums from 28 opinions, with an overall average of 8.8/10. The top-rated Otis Redding album is Otis Blue (Mono) (1965) with a 9.8/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition) and The Very Best of Otis Redding. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1963 to 2016. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay ranks as the highest-rated Otis Redding song on Rate.fm with a 9.8/10 average.
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition)
“This two — cd set doubles the pleasure of Otis Redding’s third album with B sides, outtakes, period live tracks and the entire record in mono and stereo versions. But Otis Blue was already perfect in its original 11 — song edition when released in September 1965 — an achievement that is even more remarkable […]”
Otis Blue (Mono)
“On July 8, 1965, Otis Redding was a young soul singer of modest renown, less than three months removed from releasing his first Top 10 r&b hit single. By July 10, he had become something else entirely: It took only 24 hours to lay down 10 of the 11 songs that would make up *Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul*, arguably the 1960s' greatest studio-recorded soul LP. (The only track not recorded at th”
The Very Best of Otis Redding
“April 1960: In Nashville, Tenn., frisky from two years of GI life and his first post-Army studio sessions two weeks earlier, Elvis wails a version of "O Sole Mio" entitled "It’s Now or Never" and croons "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" But then, along with tearing up Lowell Fulson’s bluesy "Reconsider Baby," he rips through a […]”

