Ian BrownBest Ian Brown Albums Ranked

Golden Greats

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7.3

“Ian Brown is an ugly man. He's always been an ugly man. We were just more willing to tolerate it when he fronted a band as ferociously talented as the Stone Roses. These days, as a "solo act," the Monkey Man's total lack of presentability has never been more readily apparent and, strangely enough, embraced by the man himself. His ugliness, in an abstract and simplified form, is on full display on ”

The Greatest

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7.0

“Best-of collection from the uneven solo career of the former Stone Roses leader.”

Solarized

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6.1

“Ian Brown's solo output continues to improve, but he's still below the Mendoza line.”

The World Is Yours

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5.0

“The former Stone Roses singer is now nearly 10 years into his post-Stone Roses solo career, and he still sounds like he hasn't left the late-90s.”

Ripples

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4.0

““The one thing I do on every album is try and make it contemporary, like it could only have been made this year,” Ian Brown once said in an interview. That was during the promotional cycle for the former Stone Roses frontman’s sixth solo album, ‘My Way’. Like its predecessor ‘The World Is Yours’, it had a handful of modern, catchy R&B-inflected tracks. Perhaps Brown’s outlook has changed in the ye”