The Correct Use Of Soap
by Magazine

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The Correct Use Of Soap by Magazine
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-05-00
Overall rank: 3,215th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 104 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1980 (62nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (474th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,215th)

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Magazine bestography

The Correct Use Of Soap is ranked 2nd best out of 8 albums by Magazine on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Magazine is Real Life which is ranked number 1124 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,558.

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The Correct Use Of Soap Lower ranked (4,875th) »
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Overall rank: 3,215th | 1980s rank: 474th | 1980 rank: 62nd  Overall chart history
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“These are the two albums from 1980 I listened to: An album I already own/know: By Many viewed as one of their less good albums if you have a track like Song From Under The Floorboards on offer, you can't go wrong. and there's so much more from this great postpunk band. So the album moves up from…”
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From 07/06/2016 17:00 | #170693 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
An energetic and enjoyable album from Magazine. It's a surprisingly overlooked record, but it's full of good songs. Maybe not as strong as, real life, but decent enough.
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The first time I listened to this disc, and the overall impression is not the best. One or two songs worthy of note the rest very average. :(
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A step down in quality from their first 2 records but there are still gems to be found here, notably Song From Under the Floorboards
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From 10/21/2012 14:56 | #52961 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Song Under The Floorboards is excellent.
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