The six hundred and twenty-second album: #622 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman's first, self-titled album starts so strong - Talking 'bout a Revolution has an impact that hits you, while Fast Car possibly hit harder than it did before. The songs that follow don't feel as familiar, but the message is incredibly strong, the vocals on point, and the folk instrumentation underlying it drawn back enough that it never dominates. Behind the Wall demonstrates this especially - it's a capella and yet the sound fills you and really tells its story stronger than any other arrangement would. Even that sparseness gives a lot of different influences to the music - the panpipe dominated arrangement of Mountain o' Things stands out as something special as well.