Elegant Slumming
by M People
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Elegant Slumming is ranked as the best album by M People.
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Elegant Slumming track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Elegant Slumming rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 1993 | 43/90 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Mercury Music Prize winners 1992 - 2025 | 3/24 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 74/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 29 Music Albums of 1993 | 24/29 | - |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 62/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 11 Music Albums of 1993 | 10/11 | 1 |
| 2025 | paladisiac | top 65r albums (62), #0101-0200* | 38/70 | - |
| 2025 | paladisiac | 1990s 65rating (62-61.82), #001-100* | 26/83 | - |
| 2025 | byuzak | Top 60 Music Albums of 1993 | 18/60 | 4 |
| 2025 | dukeboxkool | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 34/100 | 13 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 19 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 46 | |||
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Elegant Slumming ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/08/2026 14:21 | Cyrax | 1,869 | 61/100 |
| ! | 02/14/2025 22:15 | dukeboxkool | 2,232 | 72/100 |
| ! | 06/10/2024 08:23 | cicadelic | 13,803 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.9/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.7.
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neilgee 06/05/2021 13:55 in What album are you listening to right now? paladisiac 03/28/2017 14:54 in What album are you listening to right now?Elegant Slumming comments
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Album of the year at the 1994 Mercury Prize (Edited)
Some snubbed this group and their music when this was released. The nineties was already so full of dance-floor tracks that failed to hold their own alongside the time's Britpop and Indie "materpieces". Re-listening to it now, I can only hold my breath, and respect its qualities, not to mention Heather Small´s vocal abilities. The album contains seven or eight dance classics, and what is left is not album fodder either.
If you want to stray from your early 1990s musical mansions for a welcome breather, then this release may be just what you are looking for. (Edited)
Brad1770 11/12/2019 01:34 | #244708
Controversial winner of the 1994 Mercury Music Prize beating out such luminaries as Paul Weller, Blur , Pulp, and The Prodigy in the process
Heather Small is clearly the star of the show here on an album that produced 4 mega smash hits in "One Night in Heaven" (June 1993) , "Moving on Up" (September 1993) , "Don't Look Any Further" (November 1993) and "Renaissance" (February 1994) and spent 87 weeks on the charts
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