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Best soul albums (all time)

A ranking of soul music albums.

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Station to Station
1

Station to Station

(1976)
Station to Station is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and the cover artwork feat...
9.5
9.5
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from 2 votes
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Young Americans
2

Young Americans

(1975)
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in 1975. Bowie is quoted describing the album as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung b...
9
9
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from 2 votes
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Cold Fact
3

Cold Fact

(1970)
Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold very poorly in the United States (Rodriguez was himself an unknown in t...
9
9
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from 1 vote
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Coming from Reality
4

Coming from Reality

(1971)
Coming from Reality is the second and final studio album to date from American singer and songwriter Rodriguez, originally released by Sussex Records in 1971. It was later released in South Africa in 1976 with the alternate title...
8
8
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from 1 vote
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Burn to Shine
4

Burn to Shine

(1999)
Burn to Shine is an album by Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, released in 1999 on Virgin Records America. The album shows Harper working within many different genres, including blues, rock, soul, and folk. The songs "Steal M...
8
8
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from 1 vote
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Black Tie White Noise
6

Black Tie White Noise

(1993)
Black Tie White Noise is the eighteenth studio album by David Bowie. Released in 1993, it was his first solo release in the 1990s after spending time with his hard rock band Tin Machine, retiring his old hits on his Sound+Vision T...
7.7
7.7
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from 3 votes
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Amos Lee
7

Amos Lee

(2005)
Amos Lee is the self-titled debut album by American singer-songwriter Amos Lee, released in the U.S. by Blue Note Records on March 1, 2005. The album was produced by Lee Alexander, the bassist in Norah Jones' band. The songs on th...
7
7
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from 1 vote
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Are You Passionate?
8

Are You Passionate?

(2002)
Are You Passionate? is the twenty-fifth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, the only album to feature Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and his eighth with Crazy Horse, released on April 9, 2002. It represents Young's foray into s...
6
6
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from 1 vote
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Tonight
8

Tonight

(1984)
Tonight is the sixteenth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1984. He described the album, released immediately after his previous album's tour wrapped up, as an effort to "keep my hand in, so to speak," and to retain the new...
6
6
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from 1 vote
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