It's My Way!
by Buffy Sainte-Marie

It's My Way! by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Year: 1964
Overall rank: 7,139th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 50 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1964 (34th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (543rd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,139th)

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Buffy Sainte-Marie bestography

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 3407 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 436.

Buffy Sainte-Marie album bestography « Higher ranked (3,407th)
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This album (7,139th)
It's My Way!
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It's My Way!

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

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Overall rank: 7,139th | 1960s rank: 543rd | 1964 rank: 34th

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75/100 (from 50 votes)
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02/24/2025 15:37 fabm0  Ratings distribution  6,86159/100
 
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01/18/2025 00:05 henrygreen0203  Ratings distribution  86574/100
 
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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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80/100
From 10/19/2017 20:40 | #199817
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
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Best Albums of 1964
1. A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles
2. Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz & João Gilberto
3. The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan
4. Beatles For Sale by The Beatles
5. Out To Lunch! by Eric Dolphy
6. Another Side Of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
7. Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica by The Ronettes
8. Ain't That Good News by Sam Cooke
9. Where Did Our Love Go by The Supremes
10. Kinks by The Kinks
11. The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan
12. Empyrean Isles by Herbie Hancock
13. Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus by Charles Mingus
14. Folk Singer by Muddy Waters
15. The Animals by The Animals
16. Meet The Beatles! by The Beatles
17. Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai) by Horace Silver Quintet
18. "Live" At The Star-Club, Hamburg by Jerry Lee Lewis
19. Wednesday Morning, 3AM by Simon & Garfunkel
20. The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones
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