Red Mecca
by Cabaret Voltaire

Album
Red Mecca by Cabaret Voltaire
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-08-17
Overall rank: 9,464th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 69 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (147th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (1,320th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,464th)

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Cabaret Voltaire bestography

Red Mecca is ranked as the best album by Cabaret Voltaire.

Cabaret Voltaire album bestography « Higher ranked
- This album (9,464th)
Red Mecca Lower ranked (11,143rd) »
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Red Mecca rankings summary
Overall rank: 9,464th | 1980s rank: 1,320th | 1981 rank: 147th  Overall chart history
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70/100 (from 69 votes)
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From neilgee 11/27/2020 19:34 in What album are you listening to right now?
“What album are you listening to right now?”
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From Jimmy Dread 06/23/2017 17:38 in Albums You Purged From Your Collection Today
“An alternative to the thread where you tell everybody what you bought. This is the Yin to the Yang: Bye bye to the following vinyl LPs, all either going on Discogs on in my car boot sale box: Owned since the earth cooled. Listened to it today for first time in ages. Has aged terribly. Binned Still…”
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From Jimmy Dread 09/03/2016 13:30 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today
“Pay-day vinyl splurge, all bar one second hand: 79/100 - 80s repress All the way from Spanish Town, JA. Skanking away to it as I type Saw Keith picked this up the other week and thought I'd grab a copy too Last year's RSD press, slashed to stupidly cheap in a Reading record store bargain bin…”
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90/100
From 06/27/2009 23:19 | #4940 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A little NEU!, a little Wire and a dose of Joy Division's darkness, this album is a very good surprise!
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From 03/29/2014 10:26 | #107964 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
a difficult album full of hynotic, eerie an complex music. i couldn't listen to it casually. therefore it may be meaningful and profound but also topheavy and unsympathetic.
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