Treasure
by Cocteau Twins
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Cocteau Twins bestography
Treasure is ranked 2nd 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 9,448.
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Treasure track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Treasure rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 33 Music Albums of 1984 | 16/33 | 3 |
| 2026 | mianfei | Top 70 Music Albums of the 1980s | 25/70 | 13 |
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 25 Music Albums of 1984 | 15/25 | 2 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1984 | 8/50 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 1984 | 22/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 40 Music Albums of 1984 | 11/40 | 4 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 35/100 | 62 |
| 2026 | pinkfreud1981 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 4/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | VanillaBean | Shoegaze HW List | 39/70 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 580 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4,108 | |||
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Treasure ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 14:01 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2026 19:20 |  imimesis | 2,129 | 81/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2026 15:04 | emiro | 170 | 86/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.6/100, a mean average of 80.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Treasure forum mentions
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This 1984 album laid the groundwork for the development of post-rock electronica for the next 25 years and you can hear the Cocteau Twin's influence on nearly every contemporary electronica/dance band. The atmospheric sound, crafted around Robin Guthrie's creative use of distorted guitars, tape loops,and echo boxes; and the hypnotic, ethereal vocal stylings of Liz Frazier have become so common in electronic music that we often foget it all started with the Cocteau Twins.
Turbulent, romantic, and fiercely feminine, this album never fails to blow me away. I heard it for the first time as a teen reading Wuthering Heights and thought it was the perfect soundtrack for that book. And I stand by that. The sound is forceful, emotionally raw, and so very BIG. It is stylistically similar to gothic rock (powerful drums, jangly guitars, reverb reverb reverb) but much more sophisticated. This is probably my favourite album ever. No description can do it justice.
corenfro TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/30/2017 03:52 | #202357 | TOP COMMENT
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How is this not #1 for 84 or in top 5 for the 80's? Compared to their magnum opus, Treasure is more diffuse sonically. It feels like you are in a large room maybe a cave with crystals and there's more reverb on the vocals and some sound vocals sound close to the listener and some seem far away. Lots of echo on the drums to make it feel distant. Much more of a 3 dimensional ethereal space. More textbook ethereal than their other work although it strays occasionally, where Vegas to me is more shoegaze and borderlines on psychedelic dream pop.
But textures aside at the core it's the songwriting that is stellar. The composition of the music and the performances are amazing. The forward looking production and textural bliss doesn't hurt.
Creates such a wonderful vibe and atmosphere whenever I listen to it. "Otterley" is amazing.
radiofreespike 06/30/2009 13:34 | #4993 | TOP COMMENT
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Wow! I used to listen to Treasure and Blue Bell Knoll a lot. It conjures up abstract imagery to take you through a winter's night.
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