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Aw, thanks for the shoutout man. Glad I could help you add such a special record to your collection. Great haul overall!

Brilliant review

Read it three(coincidence?). Love it!

So solid list, but I disagree with a lot. Out of around 18 Sinatra albums I’ve listened to, Only The Lonely is probably my least favorite. It struck me as incredibly mediocre and on first listen no songs even stuck out to me enough for me to add them. Now I did give it a relisten a couple months ago and while I still thought it was terribly mediocre, I did end up adding the title song, What’s New, and Ebb Tide. I do find those tracks to be great songs but the rest of the album is just so devoid of feeling for me that it ends up being my least favorite out of the ones I’ve listened to. I agree with your placement of Where Are You?, I think that is a phenomenal album, as well as I would put In The Wee Small Hours fairly high around #4 probably, but my other personal favorites are September Of My Years at #5, I think this album is just some of Frank’s best, both lyrically and vocally, and I like how the theme basically centers around aging and it feels very mature. At #3 I would put All Alone, this is just a fantastic album for me and the entire sound of it just sticks out for me in a way that other Frank albums don’t. And with the somber tone it has, I would also consider it a sequel to the suicide albums, which I think Frank’s suicide albums are him at his best. But surprisingly at #1 I would put Sinatra & Strings, this album just has some phenomenal songs for me and while I don’t consider any album perfect, this album has a multitude of perfect songs for me. I would say 60% of the songs are perfect for me which is huge because I barely say any songs are perfect let alone 6 of them on an album with 10 songs. This album just stands out to me and I think it’s simply brilliant and my personal favorite. Also, one more side note, you ranked Cycles rather low, and I have to say that while it’s not super high on my list, I still enjoyed quite a few songs on it and I overall really liked the pleasant/dramatic tone on it.

What the hell is all of this

Have you read "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas?

Great video! Any more jazz discography rankings coming?

Tbh I think the 1948 album Christmas songs by Sinatra is better than the 1957 jolly Christmas one

This video was made for me. 😊

Thanks heaps for sharing!

There's a very good single album lurking in 'Trilogy'.

best album of all time that or in rainbows for me

I really think this person doesn't know anything about SINATRA n he also doesn't know that every mood anyone is in there is a SINATRA song n also how SINATRA puts himself in every note he sings, so he really should do his homework on SINATRA 😢

Pal you have a right to your opinion but you really don't know what your talking about, your should try doing your homework!!!😢

Thanks for this review, helped out for sure. Cheers.

Again as all of you know, l am a SINATRA PERSON n in my opinion OL BLUE EYES IS BACK is one of his best but , like l said in my opinion WEE SMALL HOURS is by far the best he put out, n there is a lot, lot more on CAPITOL ❤😂😅

Was Solitude on am I trippin??

I'm really interested in Billie Holiday Sings. I also like Oscar Peterson. I recommend The Astaire Story from Fred Astaire. It features Oscar Peterson and Barney Kessel it's a wonderful album. My favourite Billie Holiday record is Lady In Satin.

I recently delivered a presentation based on Harriet Jacobs' story. One of the most compelling narratives in American history.

I think that Sinatra and Jobim was Frank’s best studio work…

I do like Sr and Jr with Chicago on Duets 2

Don’t agree but nice effort.

Second rate translation, despite H Bloom endorsement.translated by Walter Arndt (Norton Edition,) parts of Faust Part 2, Act 5 rise to Shakespeare's levels and maybe exceed.

Good review. Between copperfield, b house, our M friend (my Dickens to date) I'm thinking Dombey might be the strongest of the bunch.

Thank you so much for this review !

I find it interesting that so many people loved Watertown. I found it and his voice dull and uninteresting on my first listen years ago and never went back to it, but I will now with fingers crossed.

An impossible task. I love everything from the Capital years and most things from the Reprise years. I was pleasantly surprised by a recent listen to Sinatra’s 80th live. He was in good voice and the arrangements and sound were great with a nice selection of songs. I agree that Christmas music was not his thing particularly but I do like A Christmas Waltz . I love Sinatra and Strings even though one of his biographers called it elevator music. Thanks for your opinion, it was a fun listen .

A swingin' affair is SO GOOD!

In Germany Spanish and Portuguese is not used in that way, but if you learned it in your studies it is common place. We might use Dutch and German. Or Italian Slovenian. Polish and any other Slavic language... I understand neely not reacting. Even if you see his point, everything he coul have said makes it worse. Thank you

Point 2 seems like good practice. You should cite primary sources, not the secondary source. He could have mentioned that sideways is also of his opinion... but why should he have.

I very much enjoyed and agree with your assessments of each album. Alot of work went into this! My only disagreement is with order of rankings of the top 3 albums. Those LPs are all very sad like you had stated. The body of work Frank produced was weighted way more toward the swinging side, wouldn't you say.? All of his uptempo charts blew everyone away in the late 50's and 60s. I think people know him for his swagger and energy on stage when he swings. You could have at least put Songs For Swingin' Lovers at #2.

Watertown is the best, it paved the way for artists to become characters like MF DOOM.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Loved your review. Can you recommend some similar theme books or any good textbooks on that topic ?

hi Alex

It's funny 'cause you shouted out Fantano which got me thinking about the one video of his I watched-his 22, A Million review, which so spectacularly missed the point that I couldn't take him seriously as a critic after that. Did I judge him too harshly? (I did just go back to rewatch that review and the answer is no but I'm curious what you think.)

Really appreciate your deep dive here. My order may be a bit different but I thank you for taking the time to make this content! Awesome.

McDonald and Giles self titled breakaway album has always seemed like pt.2 of this album tomy ears, and jazzier. A must hear.

Excellent review. I have not read the book , but i just picked up a copy at the local book drop. Thank you!

Think Sinatra peaked between 1956 (Songs for Swingin' Lovers) and 1967 (Sinatra & Jobim). His voice was in the zone, and many of the arrangements stand the test of time.

You should create a ranking of the Simon & Garfunkel / Paul Simon albums; you’ve got an excellent way of articulating what is valuable about the albums you speak of.

I like to include “with the lights out” with the other albums; it’s better than Incesticide in my eyes even though its uneven, but it feels like the closest thing we have to new unreleased nirvana music; although I really wish they put the studio version of “you know you’re right” on there

Excited to see this unfold and come together!

Editor's note: because some people are leaving the same comments over and over again as if they're the first ones to point these things out, I want to pin this comment and acknowledge two errors from the video (both the products of incomplete notes and memory lapses, forgivable offenses for a discography that is 55 albums long): - 1961's I Remember Tommy is arranged by Sy Oliver, not Axel Stordahl. This does not change my evaluation of the record as a piece of effective '40s-era nostalgia nor does it change its place in my ranking. - Nice 'n' Easy is not really a mixture of fast and slow songs but rather is full of slow-tempo songs for the most part. This does not change my evaluation of the record as a slightly lesser release from Sinatra's Capitol years nor does it change its place in my ranking.

43:35 Nice and Easy is slow EXCEPT for the title track.

37:02 I remember Tammy is not arranged by Axel Stordahl. It’s arranged by Sy Oliver.

This book was widely read and a huge deal when came out in the 90s. The definitive biography. In many ways it still is. I still remember how impressed I was reading it. Felt like you were there like a fly on the wall. You could feel the tension as each side made their machiavellian moves against the other--even though you knew how it would all eventually end. And how could you not wet your eyes a little when the great sage of Down finally passed, with his ever faithful Emma by his side.

I'm a little confused about your comment about Nice N' Easy. You say it has both slow and fast songs on it. It makes me wonder if you actually listened to it. The title track, which is considered a "slow swing", is the fastest song on the LP. Everything else is a slow ballad. Please clarify.

Just randomly ran unto this topic. Holly fuck! What an ego to gatekeep what can one talk about. If a creator has his own take on the exactly the same thing, where's the problem?

Only the Lonely I favor better than Wee Small Hours.