Loose
by Victoria Williams
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Loose is ranked as the best album by Victoria Williams.
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Loose track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Loose rankings
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Loose ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/21/2025 03:22 |  Repo | 2,211 | 85/100 |
| ! | 01/16/2025 12:37 | TonySayers61 | 25,146 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2023 15:16 |  Norman Bates | 10,131 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2023 17:40 |  Igtonumama | 10,786 | 63/100 |
| ! | 08/30/2022 21:19 | LosWochos | 47,361 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.
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buzzdainer 08/29/2021 18:11 | #273026
I saw Victoria Williams play live once. The show was at a small club in Asheville, North Carolina, and it was after she'd been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and after multiple tribute albums had been recorded to help her pay for her medical bills. She and then-husband Mark Olson were then touring whenever Williams's symptoms went into remission, a period when they called themselves the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers. Their gigs were charming if shambolic affairs, with Williams's dogs often sleeping on the edge of the stage. Williams came to rely on Olson for getting on and off the stage and even, at times, putting her guitar over her head. Something similar could be said of most of Victoria Williams's records: often brilliant songwriting, with a recording process that was often scattered, messy, and uneven. Loose is a great word to describe it, although this one is ironically her tightest solo record, with some of the most haunting songwriting, best exemplified by the incredible and schizophrenic "Crazy Mary," a song that explores the mysterious world of mental illness and human darkness.
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