Bass Culture (studio album)
by Linton Kwesi Johnson

Bass Culture by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 5,670th   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 45 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 1980 (100th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (835th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,670th)

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Linton Kwesi Johnson bestography

Bass Culture is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by Linton Kwesi Johnson on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Linton Kwesi Johnson is Forces Of Victory which is ranked number 4813 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 287.

Linton Kwesi Johnson album bestography « Higher ranked (4,813th)
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Bass Culture

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Bass Culture rankings

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Overall rank: 5,670th | 1980s rank: 835th | 1980 rank: 100th

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 45 votes)
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01/23/2024 08:48 Jboy56   4,26878/100

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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 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.

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From 01/23/2024 08:36 | #301412
bass bass. With some weed this might me okay, but..
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From 02/12/2018 17:14 | #207869
Una musica fatta apparentemente con poco, con percussioni derivate dai Last Poets, un basso dub, una chitarra elettrica minimale, a volte dei fiati a ricordare gli Skatalites... Ma anche una musica che da' così tanto...
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Best Albums of 1980
1. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
2. Closer by Joy Division
3. Back In Black by AC/DC
4. Scary Monsters by David Bowie
5. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
6. Peter Gabriel (1980) by Peter Gabriel
7. The River by Bruce Springsteen
8. Permanent Waves by Rush
9. Pretenders by Pretenders
10. Making Movies by Dire Straits
11. Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
12. Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
13. Sandinista! by The Clash
14. Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath
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16. Boy by U2
17. Gaucho by Steely Dan
18. Dirty Mind by Prince
19. Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
20. Sound Affects by The Jam
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