Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
by The Magnetic Fields
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The Magnetic Fields bestography
Love At The Bottom Of The Sea is ranked 11th 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 502 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,425.
(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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Love At The Bottom Of The Sea track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Love At The Bottom Of The Sea rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 93 Music Albums of 2012 | 48/93 | 2 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 82/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  johnner | Top 69 Music Albums of the 2010s | 67/69 | 1 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2012 | 78/97 | - |
| 2025 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 61/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Amazon Best Albums 2012 | 33/100 | - |
| 2025 | johnner | Top 23 Music Albums of 2012 | 5/23 | 4 |
| 2024 |  Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2024 |  Kalos | Top 23 Music Albums of 2012 | 23/23 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 23 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 38 | |||
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Love At The Bottom Of The Sea ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/24/2026 22:43 | Moondance | 20,819 | 72/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 14:29 | Leginlists | 3,840 | 83/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2025 18:28 |  Sandrof1969 | 2,723 | 68/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.4/100, a mean average of 66.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.4.
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johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/15/2018 00:57 | #205619
Merritt's return to the synthesiser see's him get more twee'r to an almost evil extent. Songs like My Husband’s Pied-a-Terre or I’ve Run Away to Join the Fairies will either have you break out in a nervous sweat reaching for the nearest Metallica cd or like me you'll get the joke and enjoy the ride.
RockyRaccoon TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/10/2013 03:41 | #80883
If you haven’t heard of The Magnetic Fields I need to explain something. The Magnetic Fields are kind of a quirky band. Not that they are a joke band, but they write very quirky, interesting songs very much like They Might Be Giants. This album is very good but it’s not for everyone. With song titles like “All She Cares About Is Mariachi" and “Infatuation (With Your Gyration)", you can tell that they write interesting songs. This is a very good album though and it’s definitely worth giving a shot.
johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/12/2012 23:55 | #50474
Decent album, showing no slacking in the song-writing stakes but it's getting very twee in here!
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