Album · Cocteau Twins
Four-Calendar Café by Cocteau Twins
Four-Calendar Café is an album by Cocteau Twins, released in 1993. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 16 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Bluebeard”, on 15 lists with a best position of #1054.
Four-Calendar Café, the seventh studio album from Scotland's Cocteau Twins, came out on 18 October 1993, their first record after leaving 4AD for Fontana. The trio of Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde still deal in dream pop of the most intoxicating kind: Guthrie's guitars shimmer and smear, Raymonde fills out the bottom end and the keyboards, and Fraser's soprano swoops and flutters over the top in a language that often seems to be her own.
"Evangeline" went out as the first single that September, and "Bluebeard" followed in February 1994, earning the band its first-ever American TV spot on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The album became their highest-charting release on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 78. Only one more album, Milk & Kisses, would follow before they called it a day.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Four-Calendar Café on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bluebeard | 15 | #1054 | – | 1999–2014 | |
| 2 | Evangeline | 1 | #75 | – | 1993 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.