Playing It Cool & Playing It Right
by Keith Hudson

Playing It Cool & Playing It Right by Keith Hudson
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 11,656th   
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74/100 (from 27 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (175th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,638th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,656th)

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Keith Hudson bestography

Playing It Cool & Playing It Right is ranked 3rd best out of 11 albums by Keith Hudson on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Keith Hudson is Pick A Dub which is ranked number 8680 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 141.

Keith Hudson album bestography « Higher ranked (8,952nd)
The Black Breast Has Produced Her Best, Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood
This album (11,656th)
Playing It Cool & Playing It Right
Lower ranked (47,700th) »
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Playing It Cool & Playing It Right rankings

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Overall rank: 11,656th | 1980s rank: 1,638th | 1981 rank: 175th

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74/100 (from 27 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.

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From 12/28/2016 17:37 | #181145
Whilst a more-than-decent record, I can't for the life of me work out why this is more highly rated than the seminal Pick A Dub or Flesh Of My Skin, especially bearing in mind how this virtually sunk without trace on release. Always thought Trust & Believe sounded a dead ringer for the chorus of John Lennon's Woman, as it goes...
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Time by Electric Light Orchestra
7. Dare by The Human League
8. Faith by The Cure
9. Damaged by Black Flag
10. Deceit by This Heat
11. Youth Of America by Wipers
12. Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones
13. Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
14. Ghost In The Machine by The Police
15. The Ascension by Glenn Branca
16. Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen
17. Face Value by Phil Collins
18. Killers by Iron Maiden
19. Nightclubbing by Grace Jones
20. Movement by New Order
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