Human Racing
by Nik Kershaw

Human Racing by Nik Kershaw
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 15,583rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 38 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1984 (211th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,119th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,583rd)

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Nik Kershaw bestography

Human Racing is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Nik Kershaw on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nik Kershaw is The Riddle which is ranked number 9317 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 130.

Nik Kershaw album bestography « Higher ranked (9,317th)
The Riddle
This album (15,583rd)
Human Racing
Lower ranked (39,318th) »
The Works

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Overall rank: 15,583rd | 1980s rank: 2,119th | 1984 rank: 211th

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67/100 (from 38 votes)
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08/20/2025 05:46 LammyTS1  Ratings distribution  1,05259/100
 
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03/30/2025 15:02 tim0505  Ratings distribution  4,36982/100
 
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07/09/2024 15:20 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,30636/100
 
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From 08/20/2025 05:53 | #310572
His debut album containing four Top 20 hits, "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"(2), "Wouldn't It Be Good"(4), "Dancing Girls"(13) and "Human Nature"(19).
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From 02/23/2018 20:32 | #209353
Decent 80’s synth album let down by two poor tracks, the highlights being the single releases.
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From 12/06/2017 21:01 | #202733
This and The Riddle were two of my favourite albums from the eighties. I have been lucky enough to see Nik Kershaw twice, once in his heyday and more recently about ten years ago. Both were excellent concerts which immediately transformed me back to Human Racing and The Riddle on vinyl. To choose between the two albums is difficult, I think for me that Human Racing has the edge with three cracking tracks, 'I Wont Let the Sun Go Down On Me', 'Wouldn't it be Good' and 'Human Racing'. I still have my original vinyl copies which sound as good today as they did over thirty years ago.
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