Baxter DuryBest Baxter Dury Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
8
Opinions
5
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Baxter Dury's catalog across 5 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Baxter Dury album is The Night Chancers (2020) with a 8.2/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by I Thought I Was Better Than You and B.E.D. The discography on Wavelength spans 2002 to 2023.
I Thought I Was Better Than You
“Baxter Dury opens his seventh studio album with an existential crisis: “Hey Mummy / Hey Daddy / Who am I?” Immediately, he sets the tone for I Thought I Was Better Than You, a record that delves deep into Dury’s life and, crucially, how he has dealt with the complexities of having a famous parent: “Why am I condemned because I’m the son of a musician?” he ponders on ‘Leon’. Dury isn’t the first s”
I Thought I Was Better Than You
“Baxter Dury’s pen is sharper than ever on I Thought I Was Better Than You”
The Night Chancers
“groovy misanthrope chips in on the endless scroll of modern life”
The Night Chancers
“Stanley Kubrick once said that a film is – or should be – more like music than fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. He also believed that observation is a dying art. The parallels between Baxter Dury – whose music is synonymous with self-disclosure and character scrutiny – and Kubrick are more visible than you’d think. The Night Chancers’ conscious progression is a nod to Ku”
B.E.D
“Return to 2017 and Baxter Dury was sniffly-nosed on the heart-broken ‘Prince of Tears’. In a bid to rebound he’s been catching the Friday morning Eurostar for a series of “cheeky weekends” away in Gay Paree. And he wants you to know he’s been up to no good. This new project with French producer Etienne De Crécy and Skinny Girl Diet vocalist Delilah Holliday isn’t described as a band, it’s a “tryst”
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