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Posted by: danG 4th July 2019, 10:21 PM

Calvin Harris' 2nd album 'Ready For The Weekend' was released on 14 August 2009 – nearly 10 years ago now! The album featured the #1s 'I'm Not Alone' and 'Dance Wiv Me' alongside three other singles, the title track, 'Flashback' and 'You Used to Hold Me'.

To mark the anniversary we are running a rate for it with the results to be revealed closer to the anniversary date. The tracklist is listed below, and the album is available on any good streaming site so take a listen before you rate it and try to not leave out any tracks.

You can give out one 11 to your favourite track, otherwise rate each song out of ten.

1. "The Rain"
2. "Ready for the Weekend"
3. "Stars Come Out"
4. "You Used to Hold Me"
5. "Blue"
6. "I'm Not Alone"
7. "Flashback"
8. "Worst Day" (featuring Izza Kizza)
9. "Relax"
10. "Limits"
11. "Burns Night"
12. "Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La"
13. "Dance Wiv Me" (Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome)
14. "5iliconeator"
15. "Greatest Fear"

You have until ~~16 July~~ 30 July 23:59 BST, so just under two weeks.

Posted by: gavindeejay 5th July 2019, 06:47 AM

I remember buying this album on day of release and saw Calvin in Bristol's O2 academy in October 2009. Good times. Will take a listen over the weekend and refresh my memory with some of the tracks over the weekend and put my rate in next week sometime.

Posted by: Juan Carlos 6th July 2019, 09:49 PM

This is so hard because Ready For The Weekend is still my favourite album from him to date.

10.0 The Rain
09.5 Ready for the Weekend
08.5 Stars Come Out
10.0 You Used to Hold Me
09.0 Blue
10.0 I'm Not Alone
11.0 Flashback
07.5 Worst Day (featuring Izza Kizza)
08.5 Relax
09.0 Limits
07.5 Burns Night
07.0 Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La
08.0 Dance Wiv Me (Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome)
07.5 5iliconeator
08.0 Greatest Fear

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2019, 12:59 PM

Going to get on this later today, it’s been so long since I listened to it in full! My 11 points will probably go to You Used To Hold Me though haha

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2019, 08:12 PM

07 | The Rain
09 | Ready for the Weekend
08 | Stars Come Out
11 | You Used to Hold Me
09 | Blue
10 | I'm Not Alone
10 | Flashback
03 | Worst Day (feat. Izza Kizza)
04 | Relax
04 | Limits
02 | Burns Night
07 | Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La
10 | Dance Wiv Me (Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome)
04 | 5iliconeator
09 | Greatest Fear

The singles are quite clearly the obvious standout here; You Used To Hold Me will always remain a top Calvin song for me. This really dips in quality in the middle after Flashback though. Worst Day is incredibly bad and the autotune on Limits is terrible Dance Wiv Me is a nice inclusion towards the end. Of the ATs, Blue, Greatest Fear and Stars Come Out are definitely the highlights.

Posted by: Mack. 8th July 2019, 01:49 PM

Posted by: lewistgreen 11th July 2019, 07:31 PM

Some more rates pls x

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th July 2019, 09:27 PM

Deadline has been extended for another couple of weeks so get those votes in

Posted by: Frenchie 16th July 2019, 10:04 AM

Posted by: gavindeejay 16th July 2019, 03:15 PM

07 The Rain
08 Ready for the Weekend
09 Stars Come Out
09 You Used to Hold Me
07 Blue
11 I'm Not Alone
10 Flashback
06 Worst Day (featuring Izza Kizza)
08 Relax
08 Limits
07 Burns Night
06 Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La
10 Dance Wiv Me (Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome)
08 5iliconeator
08 Greatest Fear

Posted by: danG 17th July 2019, 10:21 AM

07 "The Rain"
07 "Ready for the Weekend"
07 "Stars Come Out"
08 "You Used to Hold Me"
05 "Blue"
11 "I'm Not Alone"
09 "Flashback"
05 "Worst Day" (featuring Izza Kizza)
06 "Relax"
05 "Limits"
06 "Burns Night"
07 "Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La"
10 "Dance Wiv Me" (Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome)
07 "5iliconeator"
09 "Greatest Fear" [why the hell was this hidden away as a bonus track?!]

Posted by: lewistgreen 27th July 2019, 07:46 AM

Anymore for anymore??

Posted by: coi 27th July 2019, 05:29 PM

6.0 The Rain
6.5 Ready for the Weekend
7.5 Stars Come Out
10.0 You Used to Hold Me
9.0 Blue
11.0 I'm Not Alone
9.0 Flashback
7.5 Worst Day (feat. Izza Kizza)
6.0 Relax
5.0 Limits
7.5 Burns Night
2.0 Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La
9.0 Dance Wiv Me (Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome)
8.0 5iliconeator
8.0 Greatest Fear

Posted by: lewistgreen 30th July 2019, 07:27 PM

Just a few hours left!!

Posted by: danG 4th August 2019, 08:39 AM

Let's get these results started then, starting with the bottom five.

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11. "Relax" 6.214285714
12. "Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La" 6.142857143
13. "Limits" 6
14. "Worst Day" (featuring Izza Kizza) 5.714285714
15. "Burns Night" 5.571428571

Right at the bottom is the downbeat interlude track 'Burns Night', which I didn't think was the worst on the album actually but it's not very exciting of a song either.
'Worst Day' is the other song with a sub-six average, not helped by a poor guest rap verse and the song doesn't suit Calvin at all, thankfully he soon found a style that worked for him.
'Limits' suffers here from the overuse of autotune on Calvin's voice and finishes with an average of exactly six.
'Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La' is a bit more upbeat and should've finished top 10 really but like most of this album isn't a big Calvin fave.
Just missing the top 10 is 'Relax' which is one of the more electro sounding tracks of the album.

Posted by: lewistgreen 4th August 2019, 09:03 AM

The next five, continuing with the album tracks of course

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6. "Greatest Fear" 8.142857143
7. "Stars Come Out" 7.714285714
8. "Blue" 7.428571429
9. "The Rain" 7.285714286
10. "5iliconeator" 6.357142857

Some fairly middling votes here, but I'd say some of the better tracks on the album for sure. 'Greatest Fear' just misses the Top 5 and was included as a bonus track on the album but if it had been given an edit and release I reckon it could've done quite well!

Posted by: lewistgreen 4th August 2019, 09:04 AM

Only the 5 singles left to reveal! What has come out on top?

Posted by: danG 4th August 2019, 09:32 AM

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5. "Ready for the Weekend" 8.142857143

The weakest single of the album as judged by the voters here turns out to be the title track! It was released as the second single from the album and peaked at #3 and saw him return to a more disco style.

Posted by: coi 4th August 2019, 09:34 AM

Ready For The Weekend got the same average as Greatest Fear? Wow!

Posted by: lewistgreen 4th August 2019, 10:20 AM

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4. "You Used to Hold Me" 9.142857143

The final single released from the album, which reached #27 in charts in 2010. The track was more electro in style and is definitely one of my favourite tracks from him.

Posted by: danG 4th August 2019, 11:03 AM

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3. "Dance Wiv Me" (Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome) 9.428571429

Released in 2008 as a Dizzee Rascal single with guest vocals from Calvin and Chrome in the chorus, it became a massive #1 - the first of Calvin's career. The song was produced by Calvin and is as much his song as it is Dizzee's really, which led to it being included on the album.

It's between I'm Not Alone and Flashback for the #1, one of which has an average of above 10!

Posted by: coi 4th August 2019, 11:23 AM

An average above 10!

It deserves it too!

Posted by: lewistgreen 4th August 2019, 11:33 AM

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2. "Flashback" 9.714285714

The third single from 2009 is our runner up! The song featured vocals from Ayah Marar and reached #18 in the UK Singles Chart which wasn't bad going for a post-album single.

I'll leave Dan to reveal the inevitable winner

Posted by: danG 4th August 2019, 11:48 AM

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1. "I'm Not Alone" 10.42857143

Unsurprisingly this is the favourite! I'm Not Alone was released as the first track of the album and gave Calvin his first solo UK #1. It saw him go in a new direction with an anthemic trance influenced breakdown. Ten years later it's still one of his most highly regarded tracks on Buzzjack and is certainly the best track of this era.

Full results:
1. "I'm Not Alone" 10.42857143
2. "Flashback" 9.714285714
3. "Dance Wiv Me" (Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome) 9.428571429
4. "You Used to Hold Me" 9.142857143
5. "Ready for the Weekend" 8.142857143
6. "Greatest Fear" 8.142857143
7. "Stars Come Out" 7.714285714
8. "Blue" 7.428571429
9. "The Rain" 7.285714286
10. "5iliconeator" 6.357142857
11. "Relax" 6.214285714
12. "Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La" 6.142857143
13. "Limits" 6
14. "Worst Day" (featuring Izza Kizza) 5.714285714
15. "Burns Night" 5.571428571

While we wait for a new Calvin single (it's been ages!) we may as well have another album rate shortly. Leave your suggestions for which album we should look back at next.

Posted by: coi 4th August 2019, 11:58 AM

I'm Not Alone is still one of his best songs to date, glad it's done so well here!

As for suggestions on another album to look back on, I would definitely say Motion! It's coming up to five years since the album was released and I still think it's one of his two best albums (the other being 18 Months).

Posted by: lewistgreen 4th August 2019, 02:27 PM

Yeah it’s got to be Motion for me too seeing as it’s 5 years old now!

Posted by: gavindeejay 5th August 2019, 06:58 AM

I'm sure in time we'll go through them all

Posted by: lewistgreen 5th August 2019, 05:28 PM

If we last that long