Beacon
by Two Door Cinema Club
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Two Door Cinema Club bestography
Beacon is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Two Door Cinema Club on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Two Door Cinema Club is Tourist History which is ranked number 1903 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 892.
(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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Beacon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Beacon 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 |  MadhattanJack | Top 77 Music Albums of 2012 | 72/77 | 0 |
| 2026 | DJStuart79 | Top 97 Music Albums of 2012 | 78/97 | 1 |
| 2026 | tyleraepps | Top 17 Music Albums of 2012 | 13/17 | 1 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 92/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  EyeKanFly | Top 67 Music Albums of 2012 | 63/67 | 0 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 80 Music Albums of 2012 | 58/80 | 1 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 15 Music Albums of 2012 | 7/15 | 3 |
| 2025 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 2012 | 71/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Amazon Best Albums 2012 | 25/100 | - |
| 2025 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2012 | 17/50 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 46 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 153 | |||
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Beacon ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/24/2026 20:15 | traistboar | 1,801 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 06:42 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,265 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2025 11:03 | TonySayers61 | 25,897 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.2/100, a mean average of 69.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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Beacon forum mentions
benpaco 07/03/2014 16:34 in Albums before the 2000sBeacon comments
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To me its a very ok album. Never gets me fully engaged and nothing that I dislike. Never think it will be one of my favourites, but will give it a few more listens, but others will grab my attention more.
Syndrome of the second album? Usually after the very good debut the second album is worse. The same is here. This album is less than average.
RockyRaccoon TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/10/2013 01:34 | #80820 | TOP COMMENT
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Look, Two Door Cinema Club is good. There’s no use in denying it. If you heard their first album, you know how good they can be and if you’ve seen them live, you know even more so how good they can be. Now if you were worried about a sophomore slump from Two Door Cinema Club, don’t worry, because this album is great. Lets get the criticisms out of the way, though there aren’t many. This isn’t exactly a departure musically for them, it sounds very similar to their first album and, while not every song on this album is great like the last one, it’s still very very good. And sure, lyrically, there isn’t a whole lot of substance here, and that is a valid criticism, though I don’t think that’s Two Door Cinema Club’s game. Their game is kinetic beats, loud guitar and catchy melodies, and they do quite well with that. “Beacon" isn’t as good as “Tourist History", but it is still very good
benpaco 09/29/2013 02:54 | #87139 | TOP COMMENT
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Hm ... this is really hard to rate. Tourist History was a very consistently GOOD album. Not GREAT, but every song for the most part was at least good ... but rarely anything more. Here, every song is either GREAT or AWFUL. It's very up and down. If you take it as an experience, it's very poor, but if you weed it down to the about half worth keeping, it's very good.
Fantastic debut made for a great live band. First release off this album was Sleep Alone and sounded great when they aired it - then the album came out and wasn't a patch on the first one. Actually, it was quite nauseating.
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