Dulcinea
by Toad The Wet Sprocket (US)
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Toad The Wet Sprocket (US) bestography
Dulcinea is ranked as the best album by Toad The Wet Sprocket (US).
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Dulcinea track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Dulcinea 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 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 92 Music Albums of 1994 | 72/92 | 1 |
| 2026 | Ranger | Top 60 Music Albums of the 1990s | 40/60 | 7 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 66/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 6/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 46 Music Albums of 1994 | 37/46 | 1 |
| 2026 | borninhockeytown | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 30/100 | 66 |
| 2025 | paladisiac | all-time fav arteests (pts) #101-195* | 44/95 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 51 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 200 | |||
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Dulcinea ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/13/2026 15:35 | covecove | 6,727 | 74/100 |
| ! | 01/20/2026 21:28 | cicadelic | 14,148 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2025 03:22 |  Repo | 2,234 | 85/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.9/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.3.
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Dulcinea forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5367): By borninhockeytownDulcinea comments
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paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/13/2011 21:04 | #32856 | TOP COMMENT
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Toad the Wet Sprocket is one of those perfect artists for the void left between Kurt's passing and "what came next". Tortured, introspective, conflicted and yet melodic, i'd consider this alternative album near-great if not for the over-extended, non-hooky closing dirge. If you want a good example, start with "windmills" or "fly from heaven". In "windmills" he delicately divulges: "there's something that you won't show / waiting where the light goes / maybe anywhere the wind blows / it's all worth waiting for". The drums are wide but hit soft, like a phil collins signature drum song muted in the distance. And "nanci" is a bit of chick-swapping fun that has one of the neatest lines: "I can't believe you / You bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons". "Fall Down" was the hit.
Wonderful power pop from a band that never did anything this good again. The two hits, "Something's Always Wrong" and "Fall Down," are the highlights, but there's plenty more to recommend, particularly the two openers and the lovely ballad, "Begin." paladisiac is right; they could have left off the closing dirge and I wouldn't have missed it.
A good Pop record. I still occasionally give it a listen.
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