Beautiful Future
by Primal Scream

Beautiful Future by Primal Scream
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-07-21
Overall rank: 39,789th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 31 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (751st)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (7,391st)
Award Best albums of all time (39,789th)

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Primal Scream bestography

Beautiful Future is ranked 13th best out of 26 albums by Primal Scream on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Primal Scream is Screamadelica which is ranked number 327 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,117.

Primal Scream album bestography « Higher ranked (29,943rd)
Echo Dek
This album (39,789th)
Beautiful Future
Lower ranked (54,594th) »
Chaosmosis

(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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Beautiful Future rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 39,789th | 2000s rank: 7,391st | 2008 rank: 751st

Beautiful Future collection

Beautiful Future ratings

Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 31 votes)
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12/17/2025 15:17 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  3,40983/100
 
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10/16/2025 02:17 PapaShiz86  Ratings distribution  11,31679/100
 
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04/28/2025 12:07 Goodrump  Ratings distribution  5571/100
 
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11/05/2024 15:29 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,72073/100
 
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01/02/2024 02:52 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,72479/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.8/100, a mean average of 69.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.

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From 04/07/2018 12:10 | #212448
I'll tell you what "Beautiful Future" is... a solid pop-rock album. Yes, it could have sounded much darker and more interesting, but it succeeds in being catchy and simply a lot of fun, well more than the middling "Riot City Blues" anyway. If you can get past Gillespie's sometimes preachy nature then it's definitely worth checking out.
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From 01/06/2018 04:45 | #204683
This is PS's 9th studio album.
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