The Last Time I Saw Richard (track)
by Joni Mitchell
Year: 1971
From the album Blue (track #10)
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The Last Time I Saw Richard appears on the following album(s) by Joni Mitchell:
- Blue (track #10) (this album) (1971)
- Travelogue (track #20) (2002)
- The Studio Albums 1968-1979 (track #42) (compilation) (2012)
- Miles Of Aisles (track #16) (1974)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 02/01/2026 20:58 | alexandermause | 15,341 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/13/2025 08:17 |  Rockdrigo | 764 | 82/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 05:11 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2025 17:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 78,942 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/25/2025 09:14 | acematt51090 | 3,931 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.5/100, a mean average of 82.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.4.
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AAL2014 04/22/2023 16:59 | #296307
This song has always struck me as such a unique closer, and especially so on an album with acclaim on the level of Blue. It’s not a mainstream hit, it doesn’t even have much of a hook to send the listener out on and I think that works for, once again, this album in particular.
We were mostly all way too young for a song this old, and the stress of understanding what we had not yet been through ourselves through her lyrics was intense.
Onater 04/08/2017 03:02 | #188882
This is my favourite on the whole album, I have no idea how it's one of the lowest rated tracks on it.
Space-Dementia 02/13/2016 20:18 | #159570
I like the lyrics to this song. They're really intelligent.
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