Now That's What I Call Quite Good
by The Housemartins
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The Housemartins bestography
Now That's What I Call Quite Good is ranked 3rd best out of 4 albums by The Housemartins on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Housemartins is London 0 Hull 4 which is ranked number 1979 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 849.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Now That's What I Call Quite Good track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Now That's What I Call Quite Good rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 1 hour ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 86 Music Albums of 1988 | 9/86 | 5 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 201-300 | 32/100 | - |
| 2026 | BraddlesHendo | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 74/100 | 27 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1988 Pt 2 | 3/20 | - |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 21/100 | 4 |
| 2024 |  CharlieBarley | My Favourite 100 songs and Albums They Come From | 96/100 | - |
| 2024 | CharlieBarley | 201-300 | 70/100 | - |
| 2024 | LosWochos | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 42/100 | 3 |
| 2023 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 70/100 | 2 |
| 2020 | CharlieBarley | Top 89 Music Albums of 1988 | 18/89 | 4 |
| 2018 | Rich150 | A Chart of Compilations | 18/49 | - |
| 2017 |  suedehead | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2016 | suedehead | Top 48 Music Albums of the 1980s | 24/48 | 10 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 14 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 59 | |||
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Now That's What I Call Quite Good ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/19/2026 15:56 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,743 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/16/2024 15:07 |  Tamthebam | 23,171 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2024 17:46 | TonySayers61 | 25,018 | 64/100 |
| ! | 04/24/2024 04:55 | Johnnyo | 9,762 | 77/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2023 07:45 | Peio72 | 202 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.
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Good Collection of singles by a mostly ignore British band. Beautiful South and Fatboy Slim had their start with Housemartins. Great brit pop from the 1980s. Good introduction to group. Should proceed to London 0 Hull 4 - rerelease in 2009 is not good, try to get original copy.
Gathering singles, B-sides, BBC sessions, and key album cuts from all chapters of the Housemartins' brief but brilliant career, the posthumous Now That's What I Call Quite Good! is both a glowing greatest-hits package and an odds-and-ends clearinghouse -- a fitting epitaph for a band which thrived on contradictions in consistently pitting the personal versus the political and the secular versus the spiritual. Despite the uniform excellence of their two studio LPs, this release confirms once and for all that the Housemartins were first and foremost a singles band.
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