Aretha FranklinBest Aretha Franklin Albums Ranked
8.4
Avg Score
50
Opinions
40
Albums
11
Reviewers
Summary from 50 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Aretha Franklin's catalog across 40 albums from 50 opinions, with an overall average of 8.4/10. The top-rated Aretha Franklin album is I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) with a 8.9/10 average from 10 ratings, followed by Lady Soul and Young, Gifted and Black. The discography on Wavelength spans 1955 to 2021. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man ranks as the highest-rated Aretha Franklin song on Wavelength with a 9.2/10 average.
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
1967
Lady Soul
1968
Young, Gifted and Black
1972
Amazing Grace (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, 01/13/72)
1972
Live At Fillmore West
1971
Spirit In the Dark
1970
Who's Zoomin' Who? (Expanded Edition)
1985
Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia
2011
Aretha Now
1968
Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel (Live at New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit 1956)
1955
A Rose Is Still a Rose
1998
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (Live)
1987
ARETHA
2021
Unforgettable: A Tribute To Dinah Washington (Expanded Edition)
1964
The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (Expanded Edition)
1962
Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics
2014
Runnin' Out of Fools (Expanded Edition)
1964
Laughing On the Outside (Expanded Edition)
1963
The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin (Expanded Edition)
1962
What You See Is What You Sweat
1991
A Woman Falling Out of Love
2011
Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Live)
1972
Spirit In the Dark
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we explore Aretha Franklin’s immensely personal 1970 album Spirit in the Dark.”
Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia
“From the summer of 1960, when 18-year-old Aretha Franklin made her first Columbia recordings, until January 1967, when she cut her torrid Atlantic debut, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You)," the Queen of Soul was royalty in waiting. Her many producers at Columbia (including John Hammond, who signed her to […]”
ARETHA
“The very first recordings of Aretha Franklin, captured in Detroit when she was all of 14 years old, are remastered and offer a window into the early sounds of a genius.”
Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel (Live at New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit 1956)
“The very first recordings of Aretha Franklin, captured in Detroit when she was all of 14 years old, are remastered and offer a window into the early sounds of a genius.”
A Rose Is Still a Rose
“On "A Rose Is Still A Rose," her new single, Aretha Franklin dispenses advice to an unsuspecting young woman who’s had her first round of rotten love, having tangoed with a lying guy who wages, as Franklin sings, a "sticky game." Written and produced by the Fugees’ Lauryn Hill, the song floats atop an incessant […]”
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (Live)
“This album is about the one true soul music, the holy root of nearly all popular black American music in this century. It is also irrefutable proof — as if any were really needed — that when it comes to the music of the church, you can always go home again. Indeed, the New Bethel […]”
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