London 0 Hull 4
by The Housemartins

London 0 Hull 4 by The Housemartins
Year: 1986
Release date: 1986-06-16
Overall rank: 1,986th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 134 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (26th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (301st)
Award Best albums of all time (1,986th)

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London 0 Hull 4 rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,986th | 1980s rank: 301st | 1986 rank: 26th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 134 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.


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95/100
A classic, among the peak of British music of the 80s. a tremendous debut that hasn't lost steam in over 30 years. The songs are all great filled with political jabs and humor. A deft amalgamation of tone and style. Simply a must-have for any serious music collector. Here's the irony - their next album turned out to be even better.
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95/100
I have a hard time believing that anyone who has listened to this album finds it anything but brilliant. There's no accounting for taste. This is a band that should have changed the world but didn't.
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60/100
It's alright. Happy hour, is fantastic, easily the Housemartin's best song, but the rest is a bit dull and ordinary. They just don't have that raw edge that contemporaries like The Smiths and The Cure had. Still, it's not bad.
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85/100
Nice bit of 80's pop that's still enjoyable now. Quite often pick it up and give it a listen.
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From 01/23/2015 17:55 | #132334
Starts pretty well
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An album that is guaranteed to make you want to put turn ups on your trousers, don a shaggy cardigan and wave your arms around a lot. Politically charged fun... :-)
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