From there:
Very (7/10 -- aside from the few big highlights, some of which are the highlights of their entire careers, it's pretty underwhelming)
Bilingual (8/10 -- most underrated album? They're entering the second half of the '90s, and it shows in the songwriting and production.)
Nightlife (7.75/10 -- a really fine album, but the inclusion of "New York City Boy" means I can't put it up there with Bilingual. It's a campy fag anthem, for lack of a better word, with whiny verses that don't fit the Village-People-pastiche chorus. Also one of the bonus discs has about 40 minutes of remixes of the song.)
Release (3/10 -- taking a conscious change in direction from dance music; it's a failed experiment with few good songs. The most notable song isn't for the music, but because it's about a one-night-stand with Eminem)
Fundamental (5/10 -- as boring as the last one, but the songs are marginally better.)
Yes (9/10 -- their best in a decade, and one of their most enjoyable period. This begins a late-career comeback)
Elysium (7/10 -- if Bilingual isn't their most underrated, this is, though the two records couldn't sound any more different. Elysium is downbeat, understated, not at all danceable except for a few tracks like "Ego Music", which is more of a musical sneer than any sort of dance song. Nobody liked or cared about this album so Parlophone cut them and the next year they released
Electric (9.5/10 -- not a ten because the tens I give to them are Introspective and Behaviour. But this is, indeed, musical electricity. It's hard to express how euphoric the album is.)
Super (8/10 -- back to earth, but a good album. Like a poppier Electric)
Hotspot (7/10 -- their latest. I didn't like it much.)
Agenda EP (1/10 -- must be heard to be believed. Christ Almighty)
Pandemonium (9/10 -- big euphoric live party album)
Inner Sanctum (7/10 -- lower rating not least because they broke their one-word-albums rule)
Disco 3 (7.5/10 -- don't remember this one much except the opener; "I'm in Love With a Married Man", and "Positive Role Model". But those three songs are awesome.)
Disco 4 (9.5/10 -- clever concept: whereas the first three Disco albums were other people's remixes of PSB songs, Disco 4 are PSB remixes of other people's songs. It's an interesting mix and is very listenable. One of their very most enjoyable.)
Alternative (9/10 -- I noticed you didn't include this, unless you did. It's a collection of B-sides which is made sort-of redundant by the Further Listening reissues, but is worth hearing. Thhere might be tracks unique to it; I don't remember.)
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