Get Lost
by The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields bestography
Get Lost is ranked 9th 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 505 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,428.
(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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/15/2026 19:22 |  CellarDoor | 8,308 | 79/100 | |
| 12/09/2025 02:57 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 | |
| 04/14/2025 07:34 | dukeboxkool | 2,111 | 72/100 | |
| 03/28/2025 10:41 | RemainInLight | 3,231 | 36/100 | |
| 01/05/2025 06:01 | lanadeleswift | 3,575 | 86/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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johnner 08/08/2012 10:59 | #48091
Stephin Merritts songwriting got better and better with each album during the 90s, by now he was 2 albums away from his masterpiece 69 Love Songs. Get Lost unfairly languishes in its big brodher's shadow especially as it is not without merit. By now Stephin had honed his songwriting to a craft where we get Abba/Human League inflected songs recorded with a lo-fi sensibility often with an infuriaratingly earworm quality. Highlights include With Whom To Dance, Don't Look Away, and The Desperate Things You Made Me Do.
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