TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Otis Redding
Otis Redding
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.5107
Otis Redding Album Rankings
1
Otis Redding's third album, and his first fully realized album, presents his talent unfettered, his direction clear, and his confidence emboldened, with fully half the songs representing a reach that
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2
This album, released posthumously, captured Otis Redding's show at the Whisky A Go Go from April of 1966 in Los Angeles.
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3
April 1960: In Nashville, Tenn.
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4
The Very Best of Otis Reddingwasn't the first Otis Redding compilation but it is the best of the single-disc collections, distilling the high points across his career (up thru the posthumous hits "(Si
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5
Otis Redding packed a whole lot of get-down and a lifetime's worth of testifyin' into the five short years that recorded for Staz/Volt Records, and now the legacy is given its first serious reissue tr
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6
Rhino's first Otis Redding volume was perfect within the confines of a 16-song single disc, and a difficult act to follow.The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol.
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7
It was never supposed to be like this: "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" was supposed to mark a beginning of a new phase in Otis Redding's career, not an ending.
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8
Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthologypresents an interesting dilemma.
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9
This album works on so many different levels, that it's essential listening for at least three categories of buyer -- fans of Otis Redding and Stax Records (natch), and more general soul listeners, an
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10
Otis Redding's talent began to surge, across songs and their stylesand absorbing them , with the recording ofThe Soul Album.
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11
Steve Cropper was a member of Booker T And The MG's, a more than accomplished funky instrumental group that appeared on numerous records both of their own, and in combination with a variety of soul si
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12
While Otis Redding was already one of the biggest stars in soul music when he died in a tragic plane crash in 1967, as is some times the case his star rose considerably after his passing, and this 196
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13
Live in Europe was the first full-length concert album released on Otis Redding, and the last LP of his work that he lived to see issued.
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15
When a major artist dies, labels can usually be counted on to release anything and everything the artist had in the can, regardless of quality.
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18
Sixteen of Redding's more romantically inclined performances, largely taken from minor hit singles and album tracks, although "Try a Little Tenderness," "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "That's How S
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29
One of the better posthumous Otis packages, this brings together tracks recorded between 1963 and 1967, including two alternate takes of the smash "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay.
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