Beware
by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy bestography
Beware is ranked 13th best out of 37 albums by Will Oldham on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Will Oldham is I See A Darkness which is ranked number 972 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,794.
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Beware track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 03/05/2026 18:03 | Juneof44 | 2,607 | 69/100 | |
| 11/23/2024 15:52 | cicadelic | 12,989 | 73/100 | |
| 11/15/2022 04:38 |  Arthurknight | 9,591 | 72/100 | |
| 09/17/2022 14:25 | replacementlevel | 7,734 | 70/100 | |
| 08/28/2022 05:27 |  zags7000 | 20,468 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.8.
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zdwyatt 10/24/2013 20:35 | #89136
Beware is sometimes brighter and more adventurous than his previous work. But Oldham is still at his best when he whispers spare songs about loss and longing.
paladisiac 12/09/2011 17:40 | #32474
Often on beware, bonnie "prince" billy sounds like the harbinger of both the comedy and tragedy of a coen brothers movie filtered through hee-haw. "beware your only friend" who will become angry and defend you when times are tough. And when self-inflected, "you can't hurt me now". My favorite tracks are "you don't love me" where the singer isn't necessarily looking for love but a companion who simply accepts him for him, admiring "you say you like my eyes only or just the way I giggle / sometimes you like the smell of me or how my stomach jiggles / but you
don't love me, and that's alright", and "I am goodbye", celebrating the end of existence saying "I'll likely never know the reasons why / you are hello, I am goodbye" "like the end of something wonderful sometimes / like the way a wound up toy top unwinds".
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