Unfinished Monkey Business
by Ian Brown
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Ian Brown bestography
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 16199 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 70.
(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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Unfinished Monkey Business track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Unfinished Monkey Business rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 81/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | henriknaess | Top 50 Music Albums of 1998 | 45/50 | 1 |
| 2025 |  pedro1976 | Top 19 Music Albums of 1998 | 16/19 | 1 |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Top 25 Music Albums of 1998 | 7/25 | 4 |
| 2025 | DJStuart79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 69/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Greatest albums of the 90's (401 - 500) by U R C | 51/100 | - |
| 2023 |  bonafini | Top 95 Music Albums of the 1990s | 95/95 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 16 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 36 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/24/2026 00:58 | Gedi | 367 | 83/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2026 04:45 | Leschoses | 123 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/30/2024 04:38 | dhbarrett | 8,801 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 69.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.3.
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pedro1976 02/04/2023 15:41 in What album are you listening to right now?Unfinished Monkey Business comments
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latenighttv 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. (Edited)
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 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.
pedro1976 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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