Nineteeneighties
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 27, 2006
GenreRock, folk
Length43:54
LabelZoë
ProducerGrant-Lee Phillips
Grant-Lee Phillips chronology
Virginia Creeper
(2004)
Nineteeneighties
(2006)
Strangelet
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
MusicOMH[3]

Nineteeneighties is a cover album by American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips. It was released on June 27, 2006 under Zoë Records.

Critical reception

Nineteeneighties was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 75, based on 10 reviews.[1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 73 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 5 reviews.[4]

Track listing

No.TitleOriginal artist(s)Length
1."Wave of Mutilation"Pixies3:36
2."Age of Consent"New Order3:34
3."The Eternal"Joy Division5:15
4."I Often Dream of Trains"Robyn Hitchcock3:20
5."The Killing Moon"Echo & the Bunnymen4:14
6."Love My Way"The Psychedelic Furs4:33
7."Under the Milky Way"The Church4:29
8."City of Refuge"Nick Cave3:36
9."So. Central Rain"R.E.M.3:24
10."Boys Don't Cry"The Cure3:46
11."Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"The Smiths4:07

References

  1. ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Heywood, Tony (June 26, 2006). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  4. ^ "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved September 12, 2020.