Viva Last Blues
by Palace Music
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Viva Last Blues is ranked 5th 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 979 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,780.
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Viva Last Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Viva Last Blues rankings
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| ! | 06/20/2026 17:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,329 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2026 09:34 |  Norman Bates | 10,131 | 75/100 |
| ! | 10/21/2025 00:06 |  seb7 | 1,520 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/22/2025 09:51 |  LedZep | 5,086 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 23:48 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.
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cestuneblague 03/19/2023 02:10 | #295161 | TOP COMMENT
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The most challenging of Oldham's Palace releases, which is surprising because of how the low-key funky folk at the beginning almost seems rather affable coming from him, but it's more than just the recorded music. Old Jerusalem really gets under the skin, what initially came across as a rather schizophrenic ending comes across as more haunted and defeated on repeat listens.
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