Total Life Forever
by Foals
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Total Life Forever is ranked as the best album by Foals.
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Total Life Forever track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Total Life Forever rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | joathome | Top 63 Music Albums of 2010 | 6/63 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 75 Music Albums of 2010 | 66/75 | 1 |
| 2026 | araidernomore | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 22/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | 2010 Honorable Mentions | 21/38 | - |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 25 Music Albums of 2010 | 1/25 | 5 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Greatest Albums (Outside of BEA Top 1,000) | 1/100 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | javicho07 | Top 7 Music Albums of 2010 | 3/7 | 4 |
| 2026 | Kettwig | Top 26 Music Albums of 2010 | 21/26 | 1 |
| 2026 |  swed | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 74/100 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 287 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,323 | |||
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Total Life Forever ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/28/2026 18:00 |  Milhaud | 2,161 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/17/2026 06:27 | traistboar | 1,792 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/04/2026 02:55 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,772 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.9/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Total Life Forever forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5397): By Cheboygan74 BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsTotal Life Forever comments
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Matteo92 12/31/2014 14:44 | #130524 | TOP COMMENT
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Another beautiful album. The first 6 tracks, especially Spanish Sahara that I deem one of the best tracks of the 2010's, are all, one by one, catchy and beautiful. Total Life Forever reminds me of lots of different genres and I love it. As I said though, the first 6 tracks are all one better than the one before, but the last 5 ones are really, really useless.
7,5/10, would have been an 8,5 (!) though.
Suffers from the "Oracular Spectacular Syndrome". The first six tracks are amazing, the rest of the album is completely meh. Kinda disappointing, because if the rest were up to par, the album would easily rank among my favorites ever. Still a great album, all things considered, not many albums have the quality of those first 6 tracks
Best tracks: This Orient, Spanish Sahara, Total Life Forever
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jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/26/2012 20:15 | #53496 | TOP COMMENT
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I think this is still moving up my list as time goes on. Not only is it a solid, consistent album, you are starting to see its influence on others. There's an 80s-ish feel to this maybe but it's also truly contemporary. Nary a bad track. (Edited)
jeremih724 01/08/2015 02:31 | #131025 | TOP COMMENT
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fun, energetic, and intricate. the first half is very catchy and loaded with great instrumentation, and the second half serves as a mellower comedown. more mature than antidotes and with far better songwriting than holy fire, in my opinion, this is their best work
One of my favourite bands. Some incredible instrumentals on this album. Foals' debut album Antidotes was great, but Total Life Forever took them to a new level. Black Gold and Blue Blood are standouts, but it is a very consistent album. Shout out to this Orient and 2 Trees which fly under the radar but are excellent. Great lyric on Black Gold - "The future is not what it used to be". (Edited)
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