Four-Calendar Café
by Cocteau Twins

Four-Calendar Café by Cocteau Twins
Year: 1993
Release date: 1993-10-18
Overall rank: 4,731st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 139 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (81st)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (775th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,731st)

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Cocteau Twins bestography

Four-Calendar Café is ranked 8th best out of 16 albums by Cocteau Twins on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Cocteau Twins is Heaven Or Las Vegas which is ranked number 141 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,610.

Cocteau Twins album bestography « Higher ranked (4,398th)
The Pink Opaque
This album (4,731st)
Four-Calendar Café
Lower ranked (7,486th) »
Milk & Kisses

(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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Four-Calendar Café rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,731st | 1990s rank: 775th | 1993 rank: 81st

Four-Calendar Café collection

Four-Calendar Café ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 139 votes)
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04/24/2026 14:37 Bach  Ratings distribution  71675/100
 
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04/03/2026 13:45 AAL2014  Ratings distribution  3,79275/100
 
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02/09/2026 05:39 saltysurprise  Ratings distribution  2,94483/100
 
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12/07/2025 07:22 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100

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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 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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80/100
From 04/04/2021 06:23 | #268179
Their last great album and one of their best.
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From 06/23/2019 12:50 | #238115
her voice is so fricking amazing. the best in all pop/rock
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85/100
From 06/04/2015 11:46 | #142999
How sad that this is relegated to the outer limits of the BEA universe. "Know Who Your Are At Every Age" is the best song of the the entire Cocteau Twins canon. And who couldn't fall in love with the shoegaze "Summerhead". There doesn't exist a Cocteau Twins album without a few weak tracks but this is possibly the most consistent of them all.
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95/100
From 06/13/2011 16:47 | #23074
I'm surprised how low this comes in a list of their albums. Favourite track is pur
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From 06/09/2011 15:21 | #22917
not one of their best but fav song: "Pur"
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