Unfinished Monkey Business
by Ian Brown

Unfinished Monkey Business by Ian Brown
Year: 1998
Release date: 1998-02-02
Overall rank: 25,515th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 32 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1998 (408th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (3,973rd)
Award Best albums of all time (25,515th)

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Unfinished Monkey Business is ranked 5th best out of 10 albums by Ian Brown on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ian Brown is The World Is Yours which is ranked number 16165 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 69.

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This album (25,515th)
Unfinished Monkey Business
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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 25,515th | 1990s rank: 3,973rd | 1998 rank: 408th

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72/100 (from 32 votes)
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10/10/2025 14:54 OldToad  Ratings distribution  1,29374/100
 
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12/30/2024 04:38 dhbarrett  Ratings distribution  8,36265/100
 
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11/06/2023 20:31 DaaN  Ratings distribution  48978/100
 
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07/27/2023 05:08 LammyTS1  Ratings distribution  1,04159/100
 
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From 02/04/2023 16:52 | #293582
Not King Monkeys finest, few too many clunkers on this Sunshine and Lions are particular low points for me... There's a solid 38 minute LP in here with some editing... My Star, Corpses, Nah Nah all fantastic, the rest of the songs range from poor to ok...
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From 04/14/2018 15:06 | #212862
I heard this at the time after having the first 2 singles and enjoying those but thinking this album was awful. Listening now it's not as bad as I thought, though my expectations were so low. Listenable but most of it sounds like demos and some of the drums are laughable. I'd rather listen to this than the seahorses record, brown still has charm. Really the only studio album of his I need is golden greats and his best of is really only what most need.
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From 10/09/2013 00:35 | #87967
This album is actually in my 'hall of shame' as one of the worst I've ever heard. The singles are fine, but some of the album tracks are so poor it makes me wonder if Brown might actually have been taking the piss.
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