Escape (studio album) by Journey

Escape by Journey
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 1,766th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 249 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1981 (23rd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (275th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,766th)
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Escape is ranked as the best album by Journey.

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Escape track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 249 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.2/100, a mean average of 69.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.8.

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80/100
From 02/08/2024 14:43
This album is definitely well excuted, but overprodudec and the songs are too large and pompous to be taken seriously. But this album defines the AOR genre. Perry has a great voice and Neal Schon can master his axe superbly.
For most people young in 1980 this was perhaps too clean stuff.
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85/100
From 10/21/2022 00:45
Viagem no tempo, grande álbum de arena!
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55/100
From 11/25/2020 17:51
I have a special bond with "Don't Stop Believing". The rest of the album is rather forgetable, but it is nonetheless worth listening just to appreciate the voice of Perry, which is quite outstanding. Overall, 55/100.
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85/100
From 08/17/2020 19:08
An amazing collection of songs! Rating (87.00)
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75/100
From 03/23/2018 03:56
100% pure 80's cheese.
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85/100
From 06/25/2017 17:48
Quite easily the best album of 1981 and second best Journey album. They were so full of confidence here and the songs just explode with energy. Steve Perry is one of the best ever rock singers and he is absolutely on fire here. The last two songs will give you goosebumps since Steve's singing is out of this world.
Oh and the opener is one of the greatest songs of the 80's.
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From 11/03/2016 20:26
great vocals and guitar, f*&^ these haters. they just think they're cool to hate on w/e is/was the billboard #1 album. oh and I remember liking the atari game, and I first played it in the mid-90's, so f*&^ that guy too!
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70/100
From 05/31/2016 15:06
Irritating but addictive. You could not escape this album in 1981. I gave it ten extra points for spawning a rather crappy Atari 2600 game of the same name.
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70/100
From 06/03/2015 12:53
For critical reasons, I can only give this album a 70, and even that's being generous, but you don't have to be an ironic, hipster-type to let go of your critical prejudices and just enjoy what Journey did here. Keyboardist Gregg Rollie left and was replaced by Jonathan Cain, and the songs show a marked change in direction. It was Cain who brought "Open Arms" with him and would later write "Faithfully". Any pretensions of being strictly hard rockers were dropped. But so what? When you've got a vocalist like Steve Perry, you need to play to your strengths and for the next three albums they would do just that. Check out Perry's performance of "Mother Father" live from this tour (Houston), then tell me Journey wasn't clicking on all cylinders at this point.
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt [Computer World] by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Time by Electric Light Orchestra
7. Faith by The Cure
8. Dare by The Human League
9. Damaged by Black Flag
10. Deceit by This Heat
11. Youth Of America by Wipers
12. Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
13. Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones
14. Ghost In The Machine by The Police
15. The Ascension by Glenn Branca
16. Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen
17. Face Value by Phil Collins
18. Killers by Iron Maiden
19. Movement by New Order
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