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Highest Rated Soul Albums of All Time
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1.
Etta James - At Last!
November 15, 1960
Score
100
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2.
Al Green - Call Me
April 1, 1973
Score
100
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3.
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind
October 7, 2008
Score
100
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4.
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
February 26, 2008
Score
100
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5.
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
July 1, 1972
Score
100
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6.
Otis Redding - Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
September 15, 1965
Score
100
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7.
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
May 1, 1963
Score
100
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8.
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
December 15, 2014
Score
100
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9.
D'Angelo - Voodoo
January 25, 2000
Score
100
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10.
Anita Baker - Rapture
March 20, 1986
Score
100
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11.
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
March 3, 1968
Score
100
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12.
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
September 23, 1969
Score
100
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13.
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
October 27, 2006
Score
100
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14.
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
May 21, 1971
Score
100
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15.
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
March 31, 1969
Score
100
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16.
Bill Withers - Still Bill
May 1, 1972
Score
100
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17.
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
September 1, 1970
Score
100
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18.
Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
February 23, 1968
Score
100
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19.
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
February 1, 1976
Score
100
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20.
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
April 1, 1962
Score
100
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21.
Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You
October 23, 1972
Score
100
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22.
James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
March 1, 1967
Score
100
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23.
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
January 31, 1972
Score
100
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24.
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
November 3, 1973
Score
100
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25.
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Winter in America
May 1, 1974
Score
100
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings awarded albums throughout all.
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