Escape
by Journey
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Escape is ranked as the best album by Journey.
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Escape track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| 03/31/2026 07:42 | Strixen | 46 | 89/100 | |
| 03/29/2026 21:54 | newt | 805 | 66/100 | |
| 03/29/2026 18:52 | heavensin | 84 | 94/100 | |
| 03/29/2026 17:50 |  ExTeaSea | 5,195 | 83/100 | |
| 03/28/2026 14:30 | cicadelic | 12,627 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.9/100, a mean average of 70.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.0.
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First three tracks are superb, then it does drop in quality unfortunately. Third track, Who's Crying Now, is a little gem
Jboy56 02/08/2024 14:43 | #301801
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.
VictorVale 10/21/2022 00:45 | #290638
Viagem no tempo, grande álbum de arena!
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.
llibnanoon 08/17/2020 19:08 | #257132
An amazing collection of songs! Rating (87.00)
hereforashortime 03/23/2018 03:56 | #211536
100% pure 80's cheese.
Daydreamer 06/25/2017 17:48 | #193196
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.
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!
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.
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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