The Life Of The World To Come
by The Mountain Goats
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The Life Of The World To Come is ranked 8th best out of 39 albums by The Mountain Goats on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Mountain Goats is The Sunset Tree which is ranked number 1455 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,178.
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The Life Of The World To Come track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 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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| ! | 11/29/2023 14:59 | Matthew | 636 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/01/2023 17:57 | PapaShiz86 | 11,548 | 79/100 |
| ! | 02/20/2023 02:45 | Moondance | 20,715 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/11/2023 15:51 |  identifer | 974 | 82/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2023 22:40 | LosWochos | 47,315 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.0.
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Not quite JD's most creative writing, but I enjoy the idea of the project!
paladisiac 12/09/2011 17:51 | #32479
John Darnielle is probably in the top 5 of lyricist storytellers in the indie scene today. With the life of the world to come, he took 12 bible chapters and wrote songs (titled after the actual bible chapters) based on his interpretation of the Biblical events therein. It's nothing new for Darnielle, he's been weaving religious themes in his music for years, but his focus on christian themes on this album gives this album the deepest resonance in his catalog. Unfortunately, the album suffers from a sameness of down-tempo on many tracks unseen before on any other mountain goats album. If more tracks on the album had the impact and hooks of "psalms 40:2", "genesis 3:23", "isaiah 45:23" ("I'm not this body that imprisons me") or most of the rest of his back catalog, then this would've been a top 5 album of the year for me. "ezekiel 7 and the permanent efficacy of grace" could crush your heart.
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