The Only Place
by Best Coast
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The Only Place is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Best Coast on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Best Coast is Crazy For You which is ranked number 2816 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 555.
(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 Only Place track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Only Place rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 77 Music Albums of 2012 | 68/77 | 1 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 89/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 46/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #2601-2700* | 51/82 | - |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | paladisiac | 2010s, #401-500 | 87/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | The Owl 50 Best Albums of 2012 | 10/50 | - |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2012 | 4/20 | 4 |
| 2026 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 26/100 | 15 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 40 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 133 | |||
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The Only Place ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/13/2026 18:17 | covecove | 6,717 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/28/2025 11:59 | TonySayers61 | 25,728 | 64/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2025 02:11 | MadhattanJack | 6,024 | 66/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.5/100, a mean average of 67.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.
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The Only Place forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5397): By Cheboygan74
imacgill 09/03/2024 23:01 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
SleepDealer 01/29/2020 10:04 in What album are you listening to right now?The Only Place comments
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paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/02/2013 17:22 | #59814 | TOP COMMENT
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This music is light-hearted indie california sorta-surfer pop made for lounging on the coast just watching the waves come in. (You might've heard the best track "the only place" advertising windows 8 / surface.) The title track is an ecstatic celebration of living beside the ocean ("why would you live anywhere else?") and sets the tone, but some of the songs (like "how they want me to be") are lazy, sunny afternoon tracks. "let's go home" sounds like they recorded the following extended jam of the title track. If you're into tuneful, peppy-wussy surfers, then check this out.
ProfessorSquid 06/02/2012 23:12 | #43631 | TOP COMMENT
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It's unclear to me what everyone was expecting from this album that has them so disappointed. I wasn't initially taken with Dreaming My Life Away, but the rest of the record is good enough that it deserves better than its 118 rank for the year. Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is about Cloud Nothings
I cant stand this. However I know people from cali who spin this album all the time. I guess you just have to be from there. My problem is the lyrics, cheesy, unintelligent, as well as repetitive. we have fun we have fun we have fuuun..? not enjoyable at all for me.
I don't like talking about albums I don't like... but this was just nauseating, more so cause it's easy to see how much care went into it.
babyBlueSedan TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/04/2015 21:49 | #140856 | TOP COMMENT
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Their debut was a fun little album made up of some pretty fun pop songs with simple lyrics and structures. This at first seems like more of the same but the act has worn thin, as the lyrics here go from simple to uninteresting and the instrumentation is lackluster. I won't say I don't like it but I will say it's one of the most uninteresting albums that I have no strong feelings about that I've ever heard.
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