Summary from 9 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated The The’s catalog across 8 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated The The album is Soul Mining (1983) with a 8.1/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Ensoulment and Burning Blue Soul. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1981 to 2024. Slow Emotion Replay ranks as the highest-rated The The song on Rate.fm with a 8.7/10 average.
Burning Blue Soul
“Y'know, if only the Trenchcoat Mafia could've discovered The The instead of Marilyn Manson. When I was attending high school in the '80s, all us lonely, depressed potential sociopaths took solace in bands like The The, the Cure and Joy Division. If we merely killed ourselves, well, hey, it was enough. But good old fashioned self-immolation has become outmoded. Nowadays, you've gotta take a few doz”
NakedSelf
“If Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry was the quintessential soulful white-boy crooner of sleek pop, Matt Johnson is a sort of flipside: the quintessential purveyor of bleak, gritty, introspective emotion. Johnson's diverse arrangements and intimate songwriting set him apart from a host of other contemporaries who don't have the confidence to pull off direct statements about the heavier issues-- religion, t”
45 RPM - The Singles of The The
“Matt Johnson's always been a hard guy to pin down, taking his ever-shifting lineup and smart-ass bandname over a wide range of oddball ground in a career that's going on 25 years now. The The first crawled up from the periphery of England's post-punk scene, though they ultimately ended up walking territory that had more in common with acts like Oingo Boingo than Gang of Four and Wire. Johnson's fi”