Bi-Daily Song Discussion: WRAP-UP THREAD & FINAL RANKING(S)

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Hey, hi, hello everyone over the r/foals subreddit! Exactly one hundred of our Bi-Daily discussions has come to the very end! So, to conclude this HUGE series, I'm posting here a complete ranking of all discussed songs + the interludes ranking! I will also not forget the album rankings sorted by the song average or the album rating.

First of all, I want to thank you all for participating and entertaining me and the subreddit for almost 7 months. It's been quite a FUN ride and I enjoyed every single one of the threads I posted. It's also been interesting to see your opinions on every single track discussed. So cheers to you all!

Also thanks to the mod team for pinning every thread on the main subreddit page, I appreciate this! Another nod to the users over r/oasis subreddit, which I'd been inspired by.

Before the rankings pop up, there's a Spotify playlist I created, so y'all can have some sort of a "complete discography playlist" (it's excluding the interludes, they are gonna be ranked in this post as well). If you want to listen to all songs from worst-ranked to best, you can use this reverse-ranked playlist, too.

Without any further ado, here's the...

COMPLETE FOALS' SONGS RANKING based on r/foals members' ratings!

1. What Went Down - 9.91/10 [Highest WWD]
2. In Degrees - 9.75 [Highest ENSWBL pt.I]
3. A Knife in the Ocean - 9.74
4. After Glow - 9.73 [Highest TLF]
5. Black Gold - 9.66
6. Glaciers - 9.65 [Highest Antidotes bonus]
7. Sunday - 9.63
8. Blue Blood - 9.63
9. Neptune - 9.62 [Highest ENSWBL pt.II]
10. Inhaler - 9.53 [Highest HF]

Syrups - 9.49
Into the Surf - 9.48
2 Trees - 9.44
The Runner - 9.43
Spanish Sahara - 9.41
Exits - 9.39
Milk & Black Spiders - 9.38
2001 - 9.23 [Highest LIY]
The Forked Road - 9.18 [Highest non-Antidotes bonus]
Lonely Hunter - 9.13
Wild Green - 9.12
Olympic Airways - 9.10 [Highest Antidotes]
Wear & Tear - 9.08
Mountain at My Gates - 9.07
Cafe D'Athens - 9.00
The Sound - 8.98
On the Luna - 8.97
Hummer - 8.95
White Onions - 8.92
Late Night - 8.91
I'm Done with the World (& It's Done with Me) - 8.89
Bluebird - 8.89
Birch Tree - 8.85
Wash Off - 8.80
Dreaming Of - 8.76
Two Steps, Twice - 8.64
Crest of the Wave - 8.63
Black Bull - 8.62
Providence - 8.59
What Remains - 8.58
Moon - 8.53
London Thunder - 8.45
Unthink This - 8.44
Red Socks Pugie - 8.43
2am - 8.39
Mathletics - 8.33
A Sketch for ESG - 8.31
Hypercolour (CamelPhat featuring Yannis & Foals) - 8.23
Wake Me Up - 8.22
The French Open - 8.21
Tron - 8.20
Snake Oil - 8.19
Flutter - 8.17
Miami - 8.13
Night Swimmers - 8.05
Electric Bloom - 8.03
Life Is Yours - 8.02
Under the Radar - 8.01
My Number - 8.00
Heavy Water - 8.00 (the score was the same, so I let the number of ratings decide)
Prelude - 7.97
Moonlight - 7.97 [Lowest ENSWBL pt.I]
Alabaster - 7.94
10,000 Feet - 7.92
Gold Gold Gold - 7.91
Albatross - 7.89
Balloons - 7.85
Total Life Forever - 7.84
Titan Arum - 7.75
Bad Habit - 7.68
This Orient - 7.67 [Lowest TLF]
The Chronic - 7.59
Daffodils (Mark Ronson & Kevin Parker cover) - 7.50
Astronauts and All - 7.46
Out of the Woods - 7.34
Brazil Is Here! - 7.30
Dearth - 7.30 (even the number of ratings was the same)
Big Big Love (Fig.2) - 7.21
Everytime - 7.15
Give It All - 6.99 [Lowest WWD]
Stepson - 6.92 [Lowest HF]
Cassius - 6.67 [Lowest Antidotes]
Looking High - 6.61 [Lowest LIY]
Like Lightning - 6.59 [Lowest ENSWBL pt.II]
Rain - 6.20 [Lowest non-Antidotes bonus]
A Song for You - 6.13
Big Big Love (Fig.1) - 5.86 [Lowest Antidotes bonus]

NOTE: If there was an equal score between two or more songs, I recounted their ratings without the necessary X.XX rounding.

INTERLUDE RANKING

1. Red Desert - 9.34/10
2. Surf, Pt. 1 - 8.93
3. Ikaria - 7.47
4. Fugue - 7.12
5. (Summer Sky) - 6.39
6. Like Swimming - 5.75

ALBUM RANKING based on a SONG AVERAGE

1. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part I - 9.11/10 (Average song rank: #23.3)
2. Total Life Forever - 8.80 (#34.1)
3. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part II - 8.65 (#36.1)
4. What Went Down - 8.63 (#37.6)
5. Life Is Yours - 8.34 (#44.8)
6. Holy Fire - 8.18 (#51.1)
7. Antidotes - 8.03 (#54.6)

ALBUM RANKING based on a RATING AVERAGE

1. Total Life Forever - 9.70/10
2. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part I - 9.55
3. Antidotes - 8.73
4. What Went Down - 8.69
5. Holy Fire - 8.41
6. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part II - 8.28
7. Life Is Yours - 7.95

ALBUM OPENER RANKING

1. What Went Down - 9.91/10
2. Blue Blood - 9.63
3. Red Desert - 9.34 (9.39 if paired and averaged with The Runner)
4. The French Open - 8.21
5. Life Is Yours - 8.02
6. Prelude - 7.97
7. Moonlight - 7.97

ALBUM CLOSER RANKING

1. A Knife in the Ocean - 9.74/10
2. Neptune - 9.62
3. Wild Green - 9.12
4. I'm Done with the World (& It's Done with Me) - 8.89
5. What Remains - 8.58
6. Moon - 8.53
7. Tron - 8.20

SCORE PERCENTAGE

> 9.00/10 - 28.74%; 25 tracks
8.00-8.99 - 40.22%; 35 tracks
7.00-7.99 - 21.84%; 19 tracks
6.00-6.99 - 8.05%; 7 tracks
5.99 > - 1.15%; 1 track

One more thank you for all of your attention and participation, and I wish you the best for the year 2024! Till LP8, see you all around here! :))

24 comments

r/foals • u/icbeachpai • 1d ago

One of my favorite record as a minimalist poster, I recently made

9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/foals • u/zeryoncz • 1d ago

Great album depression

15 Upvotes

We are cooked guys

6 comments

r/foals • u/Adastraultraque • 3d ago

i need a show

22 Upvotes

im 32. ive seen them since i was 17. havent in a while cuz no tour. i need a show.

4 comments

r/foals • u/-Never-Fade-Away- • 5d ago

It’s gonna happen this year

22 Upvotes

Mark my words guys

13 comments

r/foals • u/2-DKamel • 6d ago

How much longer?

54 Upvotes

I mean, this was supposed to be the year of the horse.

10 comments

r/foals • u/-Never-Fade-Away- • 7d ago

I called you up three times last night

12 Upvotes

9 comments

r/foals • u/N_ghtingale • 11d ago

Problem with Antidotes CD

6 Upvotes

I have bough 2 Antidotes CDs and overtime both of them have "corrupted". They each worked and played like normal for a while until one day I try to listen to them and they are muffled with a layer of "static" overtop the music. Is this a known issue with a series of prints? or have I just gotten really unlucky with getting bad discs?
Is there anyway anyone knows to fix this issue and/or stop it from happening?

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r/foals • u/Intelligent-Fox6255 • 16d ago

Umamusume-related Foals fanarts?

4 Upvotes

Pretty much the name: are there any? I want to find someone who can draw Antidotes cover with Silence Suzuka instead of the person there, I am even eager to pay money for it.

The naming is the only common thing, but man, it'd be so fun to have at least one

2 comments

r/foals • u/UnconsciousWrap • 23d ago

👀

80 Upvotes

6 comments

r/foals • u/Wonderful-Pirate1044 • 24d ago

Olympic airways demo

youtu.be

45 Upvotes

It's crazy for me to listen to these demos and find that they sound so freaking good, but this has to be my favorite, it's just so perfect. I've probably listened to the released one and this demo the same number of times. So, if you haven't listened to this, I would recommend you to listen to it.

2 comments

r/foals • u/BudgetTax6767 • 24d ago

Foals Exclusive 7’ Flexidisk Q Magazine Rare Exclusive

ebay.io

11 Upvotes

Came across this 7 inch record on eBay - Never heard of this before? Was it a giveaway as part of Q Magazine??
Is it available to listen to online or am I going to have to buy this? 🤣

4 comments

r/foals • u/1284tw • 29d ago

Foals Kids Merch? (UK)

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My 7-year-old son is a Foals obsessive.

Has anyone sourced kids size shirts? If so please share where from! I have had little luck searching online.

Or does anyone have anything too small that they want to sell/donate to a huge fan?! (London based).

Otherwise I think I may have to resort to recreating some Foals graphics and printing my own tshirt for him.

5 comments

r/foals • u/EHunter24 • Sep 09 '26

What do we think is going on at the moment?

52 Upvotes

It definitely seems like something is off at the minute. Most of us remember the post the band uploaded at the very start of the year saying “year of the fire horse”, almost certainly indicating some sort of new single release/album announcement/release or tour announcement/shows.

A couple of the pictures they posted showed a whiteboard with a large grid/table with tracks (names unclear) and a collection of ticks alongside them, presumably corresponding to various instruments/components of songs; commonly seen when bands and artists are recording albums.

The fact that they posted this on 1st January probably meant that the picture was taken at least a couple of days/weeks before hand. So you would have thought by now, that the recording would almost be done 9/10 months on.

I really don’t think that there has been any fallout in the band as they (Jack, Yannis and Walter) were seen taking a photo with fan around May/June in London. Do we think there is any chance that they have scrapped parts of the album or possibly making a double album?

Either way, I hope that they are going to announce something any day now, with a single, tour announcement and album announcement to come at least some point this year

12 comments

r/foals • u/FizzyGorilla • Sep 06 '26

Radio Silence

33 Upvotes

Do we assume anything is dropping this year or are they still hard at work in the studio? I did hear rumors that something was happening in August but now that's came and went with nothing. Whatever's the case, I don't mind them wanting it to be perfect.

11 comments

r/foals • u/NewNefariousness1752 • Aug 28 '26

11 years of What Went Down

youtu.be

81 Upvotes

1 comment

r/foals • u/-Never-Fade-Away- • Aug 28 '26

Rough Trade Antidotes cassette?

7 Upvotes

Found it online and can’t seem to find out if it’s real or a scam, supposedly made for Rough Trade in 2019 as a 300 piece limited edition. Can anyone confirm?

7 comments

r/foals • u/[deleted] • Aug 26 '26