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| Once Twice Melody ranked
in order of goodness | 1 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Superstar
i tried to fight it, but this really is the one | 2 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Runaway
just electric, gripping in a way BH so rarely manage. love this a lot. | 3 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Through Me
blissful pensive conclusion to chapter 1. one of the biggest growers | 4 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Pink Funeral
oh yes i want a beach house cabaret now | 5 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Modern Love Stories
dramatic ominous closer! feels a little situational, like it should react to preceding tracks but the rest of chapter 4 gives it fuckall to work with. otherwise excellent. | 6 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
ESP
feels a little underdeveloped, but this is just gorgeous | 7 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Only You Know
one of my early favs - essentially Woo pt. 2 and I love that song. love the layerings and a lot of the melodies here, not a fan of the chorus though and i've now heard it enough times to be all too familiar with those godawful lyrics | 8 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Another Go Around
Beach House go full '60s! neat. some of the most memorable vocal delivery | 9 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Illusion of Forever
first Good song on the list. some of the best lyrics on the album (not saying much), this is quite lovely | 10 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
New Romance
decentish upbeat cut - chorus feels like it should hit bigger than it does, but at least it's a hook | 11 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
The Bells
Teen Dream but listenable. fuck that album. | 12 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Sunset
maybe this is a bit low actually, some nice melodeez | 13 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Masquerade
you can dance to it, but CAN YOU SING ALONG? | 14 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Over and Over
classic sparkle sparkle twinkle twinkly bland bland Beach House. don't mind this though - overlong, but not a priority KILL | 15 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Once Twice Melody
adequate intro, bad pop song, very france. shocked this didn't turn out the worst of the lot | 16 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Many Nights
pretty (vacant) | 17 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Hurts to Love
what do you call a single with no hooks | 18 | | Beach House Once Twice Melody
Finale
the absolute worst version of a 2022 beach house song | |
JohnnyoftheWell
02.19.22 | it is here | Sowing
02.19.22 | Nice I was waiting for someone to do something like this. I still don't have a firm grasp on every track to say with confidence how much I agree or disagree with this ranking as a whole, so I'll just say that I've been absolutely loving New Romance, The Bells, Superstar, Pink Funeral, Through Me, and Modern Love Stories. Also, Hurts to Love feels like it should be one of the worst things here, but it's so cheery and warm that I can't help but sort of sink into its melodic embrace (the choral hook is rather strong IMO, almost Shins-esque). Anyway, I started trying to make a 12-13 song version of this last night, but I'm already regretting certain omissions, so I have a feeling this will end up being another Dragon New Warm Mountain scenario where I just have to accept the entire thing. | JohnnyoftheWell
02.19.22 | oh haha, ngl i ripped this directly off from norma (https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1234487&listid=198646#11)
but
yeah i feel that this would have worked just fine as a longish single album, but that the final EP outside of Modern Love Stories added so little that it ended up a pointless double? similar to DNWM where i'm gravitating around the highlights big time, but unlike that album i don't think the weaker picks really add anything of their own flavour or, uh, justify their inclusion idk :[ | Sowing
02.19.22 | Oh haha, I had no idea. You could be right about the weaker cuts here; I've only listened once in-full (and several more times in scattered bits of 3-4 songs at a time). I know certain songs left me a little underwhelmed (Finale was kind of twinkle twinkle blah blah blah, and a small handful of other songs didn't feel essential). Right now I just need to figure out if it's all relative because the good songs are just THAT good, or whether they're truly worth chopping off from the rest of the tracklist. Right now I'm thinking a solid 4 as a whole or a 4.5 if shortened to its best 13 cuts, but it's still very early so who knows -- 5/5 incoming tomorrow, probably. ;-) | Gyromania
02.19.22 | 5 is my favourite so far. love how dark it is, comes outta nowhere. | rabidfish
02.19.22 | For me it's through me > modern love stories > new romance > masquerade. The rest is just ok to mid. I really wish the cut this down to an 8-10 album, as is it's just 4 decent EPs bundled up together | anat
02.19.22 | 5 is a cut above the rest that is true | dedex
02.19.22 | Superstar
i tried to fight it, but this really is the one
yes bro | theBoneyKing
02.19.22 | Sunset or thee closer were my 1st spin faves | alamo
02.19.22 | 1 and 2 are 1 and 2 | insomniac15
02.19.22 | For a second I thought it would be a Twice ranking. | YoYoMancuso
02.19.22 | Only 7 songs in but my 2 favorites so far are your top 2, so i guess this just gets worse on the back half : ( | markjamie
02.20.22 | 1 Superstar 2 Hurts to Love 3 Runaway 4 New Romance 5 Over and Over 6 Masquerade 7 Pink Funeral 8 Through Me 9 Once Twice Melody 10 Sunset 11 Only You Know 12 Finale 13 Illusion of Forever 14 Modern Love Stories 15 ESP 16 Another Go Around 17 Many Nights 18 The Bells
The Bells is the only regression (sounds like something from Beach House circa 2008-2012) and it is still great. Not a bad song on the whole album. |
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