It's My Way!
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
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It's My Way! is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Buffy Sainte-Marie on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Buffy Sainte-Marie is Illuminations which is ranked number 3530 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 425.
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It's My Way! track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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| ! | 02/24/2025 15:37 | fabm0 | 7,009 | 58/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2025 00:05 | henrygreen0203 | 873 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2024 11:48 | habibi333 | 961 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2024 13:00 | Pluto11 | 12,259 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2023 03:46 | Skerns | 5,165 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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Mercury 10/19/2017 20:40 | #199817 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is fire! There is just such an overwhelming conviction and passion and commitment in the vocals and the acoustic guitar playing throughout this classic. Outside of Dylan's early 60s albums, this may be the best protest folk album of the era. And its all so down and dirty and ugly. Compare the sheer intensity of masterpieces on this album like "Universal Soldier", "Codine" and "Now That The Buffalo's Gone" to the angellic sounds of Joan Baez in songs with similar protest messages, and I think you'll see Buffy was on a different level, sheer intensity wise.
And the whole atmosphere of this album is engaging and tight, her vocal performances are all top notch, and some of the songs, again, are all time classics. I consider "Universal Soldier" to be one of the best songs of the decade. And other unabashed masterpieces like "The Incest Song" and "Ananias" and the quirky and fun "Cripple Creek", aren't too far down that list either. The whole album may not live up to those intense highs, buit they don't utterly destroy the momentum of force of the album either.
All in all this is a really solid album.
Grade: 7.9/10 (Edited)
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