Holiday
by The Magnetic Fields
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The Magnetic Fields bestography
Holiday is ranked 4th best out of 15 albums by The Magnetic Fields on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Magnetic Fields is 69 Love Songs which is ranked number 487 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,497.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Holiday track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Holiday rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Stevo796 | Top 19 Music Albums of 1994 | 14/19 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1994 | 47/50 | 0 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 47 Music Albums of the 1990s | 27/47 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Kalos | Top 25 Music Albums of 1994 | 22/25 | 1 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 15 Music Albums of 1994 | 4/15 | 4 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 91/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  flamingyesdept | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 66/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 12/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 76 Music Albums of 1994 | 38/76 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 65 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 308 | |||
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Holiday ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 31 hours ago | AAL2014 | 4,331 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/06/2026 00:59 | Proto | 4,318 | 33/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2026 08:11 | cicadelic | 14,102 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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Holiday forum mentions
Patman360 05/14/2024 14:11 in What album are you listening to right now?
Romanelli 05/07/2021 23:05 in What Song Are You Listening To Right Now?Holiday comments
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A breezy, quirky and endearing record from The Magnetic Fields that sounds like some of the best synthpop artists from the previous decade whilst carrying its own distinctive flourishes. Just as synthpop faded completely once the 90s came around, here's why no-one should have dismissed the genre so easily.
indieshins 05/23/2022 02:05 | #285626 | TOP COMMENT
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Love this band. Everything I've heard from them has been incredibly charming, catchy and clever. This one sounds like synth-pop Phil Spector or something, really dense waves of sound almost burying the vocals. Or My Bloody Valentine goes synth-pop. Catchy and addictively so.
A compact package of very good tracks, in fact this is probably some of the best synthpop of the 90s, the only other act that comes to mind is depeche mode.
Wonderful record.
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