Lovely
by The Primitives

Lovely by The Primitives
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 6,085th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 39 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (82nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (889th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,085th)

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Lovely is ranked as the best album by The Primitives.

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Lovely track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 6,085th | 1980s rank: 889th | 1988 rank: 82nd
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2026henrygreen0203Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s80/1004
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of 198867/1002
2026 RepoTop 86 Music Albums of 198868/861
2026LittleM1971Top 86 Music Albums of 198836/863
2026 MadhattanJackTop 64 Music Albums of 19889/644
2026BraddlesHendoTop 100 Greatest Music Albums44/10056
2025 WasinskiTop 100 Music Albums of 198810/1005
2025 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of 198863/1002
2025JohnnyoIndie albums of the year 1988 by Radio X6/25 -
2025craabTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s74/1005
2025 WasinskiTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s57/1009
2025 MadhattanJackTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s100/1000
2024Foxforce5Top 37 Music Albums of 198827/371
2024TastyandTemptinTop 21 Music Albums of 198810/213
2024 johnnerTop 28 Music Albums of 198819/282
2024 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 198828/1004
2024 PAPPITUFOTop 100 Music Albums of 198839/1003
2024 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 198877/100 -
2023 DankelTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s22/10016
2023TonyF12345Top 46 Music Albums of 198811/464
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 41
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 217
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Lovely ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 39 votes)
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12/10/2025 21:22 luiz  Ratings distribution  4875/100
 
70/100
 
11/12/2025 23:48 NYAndreas  Ratings distribution  1,43344/100
 
75/100
 
09/10/2025 14:25 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  4,93281/100
 
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08/10/2025 04:45 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100
 
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12/01/2024 23:13 TastyandTemptin  Ratings distribution  3,04572/100

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This album is rated in the top 17% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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90/100
From 11/26/2013 08:52 | #94644
Really can't believe I'm the only comment for this record. I guess thanks to Morrissey wearing that STOP KILLING ME T SHIRT I wouldn't have bought it , it's a indie classic and adored the catchy songs . Don't care what Rolling Stone or NME write about it this is a gem ,
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