Primary Colours
by The Horrors (UK)
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The Horrors bestography
Primary Colours is ranked as the best album by The Horrors.
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Primary Colours track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Primary Colours rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Surfing On Steam Top 25 Albums of 2009 | 3/25 | - |
| 2026 |  hoyquarlow | Top 50 Music Albums of the 2000s | 22/50 | 12 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 82 Music Albums of 2009 | 8/82 | 5 |
| 2026 | Jorbaa | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 51/100 | 49 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 88/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 15 Music Albums of 2009 | 9/15 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 39/100 | 62 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 91 Music Albums of 2009 | 38/91 | 3 |
| 2026 | ssteve | Top 53 Music Albums of 2009 | 3/53 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 277 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,276 | |||
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Primary Colours ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/11/2026 16:54 |  ecocruzr | 318 | 68/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 23:30 | Map | 529 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/24/2026 00:30 | TastyandTemptin | 3,196 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Primary Colours forum mentions
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Primary Colours comments
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PrinceMush 01/13/2014 03:58 | #100542 | TOP COMMENT
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If you love Joy Division, there's no doubt in my mind, you'll love this as well. Weird Post-punk with shoegaze elements and creepy and eerie vocals/lyrics. Give it some time to grow on you.
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/24/2017 01:51 | #203798 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is absolutely a grower as mentioned previously. On listen 1 I was neutral, on listen 2 the magic began to flow and on listen 3 I really loved this album. All tracks are great with none weak or filler material. So I highly recommend this album but make sure you have multiple listens before making your mind up.
Yeah it's a grower. At first I found it to be a weird Cure-goes-My-Bloody-Valentine listen, but when you listen to it closely it does really interesting things with the basic punk/shoegaze template, with some terrific songs (ranging from fast and menacing to spacious and dreamy) and some amazing feedback-drenched musical solos.
Norman Bates 04/28/2013 15:29 | #74691 | TOP COMMENT
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Awesome production value adds greatly to otherwise good/very good songs already. Utterly derivative, but when it's aptly done, what's not to love?
I love it when a band make a giant leap forward and takes a risk (think U2 Achtung Baby or Radiohead Kid A). They could have kept churning out punk garage rocks of Strange House (another great album though) but they changed course and produced this absolute pearl of an album. 5 stars.
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