Viva Last Blues (studio album)
by Palace Music

Viva Last Blues by Palace Music
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 7,322nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 72 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (127th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,188th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,322nd)

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Palace Music bestography

Viva Last Blues is ranked 5th best out of 36 albums by Will Oldham on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Will Oldham is I See A Darkness which is ranked number 992 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,751.

Palace Music album bestography « Higher ranked (5,758th)
There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You
This album (7,322nd)
Viva Last Blues
Lower ranked (10,713th) »
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(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 72 votes)
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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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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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