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What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on World Party's second album Goodbye Jumbo? Dan chose this old college fave but Jim and Adam recall seeing them on this tour before playing spot the references on this fun episode. We received not one but TWO amazing late guest ranker responses. Stay to the very end to hear Ian McNabb from Icicle Works and Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde's sweet soul remembrances. Hear our latest rankin' at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube and on Love Street. To hear Johnette talk about World Party for more than one sentence, we recommend this 2024 episode of Songs You Forgot https://open.spotify.com/episode/3b6fgzq3OX7cAfUun6ncSK.
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Ain't Gonna Come Till I'm Ready, And I Fell Back Alone, Baby Please Don’t Go, the Beatles, Be Bop A Lula, Joe Blaney, Concrete Blonde, Sheryl Crow, fake flutes, Peter Garrett, God on My Side, grow the beard, hippy, Icicle Works, Is It Too Late?, Jellyfish, KPRI cruise, Lenny Kravitz, Love Street, Paul McCartney, Ian McNabb, Mister Postman, Johnette Napolitano, New Kids on the Block, Sinead O'Connor, the planet, Prince, Put the Message in the Box, rare '61 Beatles, rats are on their way, San Diego Street Scene, Chris Sharrock, Ship of Fools, Show Me to the Top, Sly and the Family Stone, Supertramp, Sweet Soul Dream, Take It Up, Thank You World, TV Eye, Karl Wallinger, the Waterboys, Way Down Now, When the Rainbow Comes, Wings, Chris Witten, World Party, 1990
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What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' debut classic Rattlesnakes? Jim chose this one for a full-on lovefest unifier. We've all dug Lloyd since last century, even seeing him together with Michael Penn in 1990. Mister Cole politely declined to rank his own record but you can hear him kindly chime in on our Highway 61 Revisited episode. Even better, we got Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell to tell us her favorites along with Mike Remoll, the Cool Brother Hall of Famer that introduced Jim to the Commotions 40 years ago (stay tuned & listen post-credits!). Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube and on Charlotte Street.
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Tori Amos, Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken, Athens Georgia, Camera Obscura, Tracyanne Campbell, Truman Capote, Charlotte Street, Neil Clark, Leonard Cohen, Lloyd Cole, college rock, the Commotions, Cosmopolitan, Blair Cowan, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Lawrence Donegan, Lonnie Donegan, Down At The Mission, Down on Mission Street, Anne Dudley, Bob Dylan, Faces, folk rock, Forest Fire, Four Flights Up, Greta Garbo, Glasgow, golf, hair, Paul Hardiman, Stephen Irvine, Jangle pop, Jim, Jodie, Julie, Grace Kelly, lead acoustic, Arthur Lee, library girl, Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken, Louise, Love, Norman Mailer, Mainstream, one note solo, Patience, Michael Penn, Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes, REM, Mike Remoll, Ronald, Eva Marie Saint, Scotland, sexual enlightenment, the Smiths, Speedboat, Strava, strings, Tracy Thorn, 2CV, Velvet Underground, 1984
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What're your most favorite and least-loved songs on this first collection of Bee Gees hits from 1969? Adam chose this childhood favorite from his parents' shelves, pulling one of the most annoying music snob cards: I prefer their earlier work. Sorry, disco fans. We're talking about the super sad orchestra classics from the Brothers Gibb. Australia's own Angie Hart from Frente! chimes in from down under with her favorites. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube and Massachusetts (one place I have seen).

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Australia, baroque pop, the Beatles, Bee Gees, Best of Bee Gees, Jon Brion, chamber pop, Coca Cola, covers, disco, Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You, falsetto, 1st, First of May, Frente!, Noel Gallagher, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, greatest hits, harmonies, Angie Hart, Holiday, I Can't See Nobody, I Started a Joke, I've Gotta Get a Message to You, Jumbo, Manchester, Massachusetts, Melody, Vince Melouney, New York Mining Disaster 1941, Colin Petersen, Otis Redding, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, singles, Percy Sledge, Spicks and Specks, To Love Somebody, Tomorrow Tomorrow, t-shirt, vibrato, volume one, Words, World, 1969.

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Adam picked the soundtrack of his childhood for his first rerun episode. Jim wrote three sentences for his rerun episode. Dan's intro was 90 seconds. Adam's Behind The Scenes Ted Talk goes on for over three unbearable minutes but the good news is that two members of Schoolhouse Rock creator Bob Dorough's 1996 band, Paul Gutierrez and Frank Meyer, who couldn't make it when we originally recorded this episode kindly sent us their picks for favorite SHR toon!
Originally released July 28, 2022
HEY! What's your most-loved and least favorite Schoolhouse Rock song!? The gang takes a look at their five favorite tunes from the iconic 1970s educational television cartoons of their youth. Adam dreamed up the idea to do our first top five episode, focusing on Multiplication, Grammar and America from the series' Golden Era, 1973-1976. Our first-ever 1970s-era show is crammed with fun facts, interjections, bootlegs and contests SHR royalty Aralee Dorough (voice on "My Hero Zero" and daughter of creator Bob Dorough) even kindly weighs in with her favorite! Please tell us in the comments how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky @wewillrankyoupod !
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ABC, American Rock, animation, Blind Melon, Jeff Buckley, cartoons, Conjunction Junction, darn that's the end, Blossom Dearie, Bob Dorough, De La Soul, education, Elbow Room, Figure Eight, Fireworks, flute, Grammar Rock, The Great American Melting Pot, Hamilton, I'm Just a Bill, Interjections!, jazz, Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here, manifest destiny, Essra Mohawk, Mother Necessity, Multiplication Rock, No More Kings, A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing, Preamble, rats, Ready or Not, Here I Come, Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, Saturday morning cartoons, Schoolhouse Rock, Jack Sheldon, The Shot Heard Round the World, Sufferin' Till Suffrage, Three is a Magic Number, Unpack Your Adjectives, Verb: That's What's Happening, WOW, 1970s.
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What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on Soul Coughing's debut album? Dan chose this crazy bit of 1994 word salad jazz hiphop fusion for us to rank. He and Adam share stories of seeing the band, their kind submission for the Songs For Summer memorial album and witnessing their first time playing together in 25 years while Jim struggles to find nice things to say. FIGHT! Black Crystal Wolf Kids' Jeff Miller chimes in via video from Mexico. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Reseda, Wichita but not Chicago.
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Alternative hiphop, Tori Amos, the Andrews Sisters, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds Five, Black Crystal Wolf Kids, Tchad Blake, Blueeyed Devil, Summer Brannin, Bus to Beelzebub, cartoon music, Casiotone Nation, Ray Charles, City of Motors, Courageous Cat Minute Mouse, Mark de Gli Antoni, Digable Planets, Mike Doughty, Down to This, the five percent nation, Mitchell Froom, Ruby Froom, Fu Schnickens, Fugazi, funky, Yuval Gabay, HFStival, hiphop, Howlin' Wolf, I'll get the wrists, Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago, Janine, jazz, Knitting Factory, Jeff Miller, Mr. Bitterness, Mister Roger's Neighborhood, the Modern Lovers, Moon Sammy, New York, noir, rap, reunion, Ruby Vroom, sampling, Schoolhouse Rock, Raymond Scott, Screenwriter's Blues, Solid Steel Radio Show, Songs For Summer, Soul Coughing, spoken word, standup bass, Sebastian Steinberg, Igor Stravinzsky, Sugar Free Jazz, Supra Genius, television themes, Toots and the Maytals, A Tribe Called Quest, True Dreams of Wichita, Uh, Zoom Zip, upright bass, Suzanne Vega, velvet crush, voulez-vous the bus, yellow number five, Yor, you get the ankles, John Zorn, 1994.
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RERUN: Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Blood & Chocolate ranked (2022)

Hey everybody. Dan here. So it’s my turn to choose a ReRun Episode we recorded earlier and are bringing back and I chose Elvis Costello’s “Blood & Chocolate”. You may know that sometimes I go for an album that is going to be a surefire crowdpleaser with my cohosts. But most of the time, I like picking an album where I genuinely don’t know how at least one of them is going to react. It doesn’t always work out. Please see the episode where we discuss Lana Del Rey’s “Born To Die” if you want to see 90 minutes that left me scarred for life. BUT, the seemingly impossible dream for me was always to introduce an album to all my co-hosts that they didn’t know previously and have not one, not two, but ALL THREE of them fall in love with it.

Now don’t get the wrong idea - that was never the goal of my picks. I’m far too obsessive to make it that simple. It’s a complicated algorithm that tries to counterprogram against my past five picks across year of release, genre, and artist characteristics combined with whatever’s in my gut at that moment. It’s mostly the gut thing actually. But that “what if” idea was always in the back of my head in general. And with this pick, I passed up the typical Costello albums you’d expect to be the go-to pick here because I’ve always felt Blood & Chocolate was the underappreciated underdog. And I love a good underdog.
I’m sure you know that feeling of introducing someone you love to music they also decide to love. There’s nothing better. I hope you’re listening either because you already dig this album or because you’re looking to fall in love with something new. And I hope you’re happy now. If you don’t get that yet, you’ll get it after this episode. Enjoy.
What are your most favorite and least-loved songs on Elvis Costello & The Attractions' 1986 album Blood & Chocolate? Dan chose to bring back this raw/ragged fan favorite instead of a more well-known record to get three fresh opinions from casual admirers of Mr. McManus. Contains lots of praise and the best story you will ever hear about his stage name. Be sure to stick around to the end for a historic announcement about our next few episodes. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your local bloodbank. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod .
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Battered Old Bird, The Beatles, Blood & Chocolate, Blue Chair, Elvis Costello, Lou Costello, Crimes of Paris, Bob Dylan, Napoleon Dynamite, Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head, Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind, I Hope You're Happy Now, I Want You, Penn Jillette, Leave My Kitten Alone, Live Aid, Los Lobos, lyrics, Declan McManus, Next Time Round, Steve Nieve, Cait O'Riordan, Poor Napoleon, Elvis Presley, The Rutles, searing, Bruce Thomas, Pete Thomas, Tokyo Storm Warning, Uncomplicated, 1986.
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New episode up! What's your most loved and least favourite song on Pixies' 1989 album Doolittle!? Our big 50th anniversary AND our fifth request episode, kindly nominated by @Keefrow1 (MIA) and Zachary Goode from Smash Mouth, who shows up for his record-breaking second guest ranker spot. We give thanks and reveal our most and least listened to episodes to date then take some listeners' questions before getting into one of alternative rock's biggest building blocks. Early Youtube star/Pixies video director Alex Maizel weighs in from Vietnam about her famous "Hey" lipsync fame. Available at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Youtube, Spotify and heaven. Please tell us how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !
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Alternative rock, Amherst, Bailey's Walk, Frank Black, Boston, b-sides, Crackity Jones, Dead, Kim Deal, Debaser, Doolittle, Downtown Recorders, 4AD, Black Francis, Zachary Goode, Gouge Away, Here Comes Your Man, Hey, Hey Clip, I Bleed, Israel, La La Love You, lipsync, Loudquietloud, David Lovering, Alex Maizel, Manta Ray, Massachusetts, Mr. Grieves, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Nirvana, Gil Norton, No. 13 Baby, Pixies, Joey Santiago, screaming, Silver, slicing up eyeballs, Smash Mouth, spanish, Tasha, Tame, There Goes My Gun, Charles Thompson, Wave of Mutilation, Youtuber, 1989.
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Hello and welcome to our first official We Will Rank You rerun. You may have noticed that we've had to reupload some old episodes recently that were mistakenly taken down for copyright reasons. I looked at our analytics for the first time in ages and noticed that we had the biggest month we've ever had just because of one extra old episode I'd put back up. I mean, I'm already slowly putting up all of the old episodes on Youtube with fun visuals. I guess I can put up an oldie here too.
Jim chose the first one to bring back and he picked episode seven on the self-titled debut of the Stone Roses from 2021. He chose to rank each song in the order that they're on the album, which we only did one other time, for Blur's Parklife, before the others agreed that it was anticlimactic when we named our favorite song in the first few minutes. I told ya. At an hour and 57 minutes, it was our longest episode to date but a couple of episodes later, Sinead passed it by one minute and eventually our 1983 wildcard episode was our longest at nearly three hours. For years, this was our most listened to episode until it was recently taken over by our Wildcard Live Album show.
Jim writes: "The hosts agree (I think) that this is the group’s favorite album they’ve ever ranked. I maintain my album picks are the best. No one comes close." He's not right about his picks being the best but this episode probably is in a very close race with Violent Femmes for our biggest surefire lovefest, except for, spoiler alert, Dan's take on Adored, which became an oft-repeated anecdote. Here it tis.

Jim's lemony-fresh pick is by FAR the album that the four of us have all loved the most. That combined with Adam being the singer for a ridiculous Stone Roses coverband means that there was a LOT for us to say, resulting in our longest episode yet. However, it's a FUN one. For fans of podcasts that go track-by-track instead of our usual countdown, today is your lucky day for a special episode on this 1989 classic. Special guests include 33 1/3 Stone Roses author Alex Green from Stereo Embers podcast and F#!kin' In The Bushes DJ Daniel Sant! Please tell us how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod !
FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: backwards stuff, baggy, Ian Brown, "Bye Bye Badman", dance-rock, "Don't Stop", "Elephant Stone", "Elizabeth My Dear", "Fool's Gold", guitar gods, "I Am the Resurrection", "I Wanna Be Adored", John Leckie, lemons, "Made of Stone", Madchester, Manchester, Mani, murder, neo-psychedelia, Reni, "She Bangs the Drums", "Shoot You Down", "(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister", Spike Island, John Squire, "This Is the One", "Waterfall", 1989.
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BAND HISTORY: Alex Green, Stereo Embers podcast
END CREDITS SONG: Made of Stone (808 State Remix) by the Stone Roses END CREDITS TALENT: Daniel Sant, F#!kin' In The Bushes

What's your most loved and least favourite song on the Oasis b-sides collection the Masterplan? FINALLY, our long awaited Oasis episode and Jim threw us a curveball choosing this collection with some of his favorite Gallagher tunes. SHIELDS UP as he takes on two non-fans for a fookin' Brit battle. Adam was the singer of North America's first(?) Oasis coverband, the short-lived parody the Fookin' Wankers, but he loves taking the piss, so he and Dan cranked up the willpower trying not to buzzkill Jim's superfandom TOO badly. Lots of fun show tales from San Francisco's tiny, infamous Britpop royalty/meth supply show to their biblical Rose Bowl reunion gathering. Legendary Denver Britpop/soul DJ Tyler Jacobson reads our closing credits and weighs in as our guest ranker and...more. Available at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Youtube, Spotify and everywhere underneath the sky. Please tell us how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !

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acoustic guitar, Acquiesce, Ryan Adams, Gem Archer, Burt Bacharach, because we need each other, the Beatles, Andy Bell, Blur, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Britpop, b-sides, Canned Heat, Creation Records, does it matter if it's out of tune, England, Fade Away, fauxasis, fookin' wankers, the Fookin' Wankers, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Going Nowhere, Half the World Away, harmonica, Headshrinker, horns, I Am the Walrus, (It's Good) To Be Free, Tyler Jacobson, the Jam, the Kinks, Lipgloss, Listen Up, Manchester, The Masterplan, The Masterplan Conspiracy, Oasis, Oasis25, Oasiz (the mentioned San Diego Oasis tribute), organ, Ride, rock and roll, Rockin' Chair, Rose Bowl, rude, see how we are, Sex Pistols, singles, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Stay Young, Rod Stewart, The Swamp Song, Talk Tonight, Underneath the Sky, Paul Weller, Wham!, 1994-97.

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End mashup by Audio Ammunition https://youtu.be/Ll39IOf4d6c
Tyler Jacobson https://www.facebook.com/tylerdjacobson
The Casual Sound Brit-Pop Podcast https://thecasualsound.com/

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POD STEWART! What are your most favorite and least-loved songs on Rod Stewart's classic album Every Picture Tells A Story? Since three of us hail from 1971, Dan chose this Rodrecord that divided the hosts with its boozy, bluesy goodness and raspy crooning. A must-listen for fans of the phrase “a long time”. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your local donut shop. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod . ***THIS IS A REPOST. This episode was taken down for third-party copyright strikes but think we might've submitted our "critic" loophole incorrectly so here it is again.

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Amazing Grace, Theodore Anderson, Arthur Crudup, donuts, Bob Dylan, Every Picture Tells a Story, Faces, (Find a) Reason to Believe, Cornelius Grant, Tim Hardin, Henry, Eddie Holland, (I Know) I'm Losing You, Maggie May, mandolin Mandolin Wind, Martin Quittenton, Seems Like a Long Time, solo album, Rod Stewart, That's All Right, Tomorrow Is a Long Time, Norman Whitfield, Ronnie Wood, 1971.

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What's your most loved and least favourite song on Cocteau Twins' 1990 album Heaven or Las Vegas? Ranking such a semi-wordless shimmery masterpiece was a strange, wonderful experience. TMI abounds. San Diego's Cocteau coverband, the Mocteau Twins inspired Adam to choose it and the whole band was kind enough to send us their story and favorites! Available at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and Las Vegas. Please tell us how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !
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Ambient, baby, Blue Bell Knoll, Kate Bush, Capitol Records, Cherry Coke, Cherry-Coloured Funk, Christmas lights, Cocteau Twins, the Cure, Miley Cyrus, dream pop, electronic, experimental, Fifty-Fifty Clown, Fotzepolitic, 4AD, Elizabeth Fraser, Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires, GARLIC FONDUE, harmonies, Robin Guthrie, Heaven For Last Vegans, Heaven or Las Vegas, Iceblink Luck, Jericho, Johnny and the Self Abusers, Las Bagels, London, Lucy Belle, Massive Attack, misheard lyrics, Mocteau Twins, Alanis Morrissette, newborn, pedals, Pitch the Baby, Matt Pond PA, psychedelia, Simon Raymonde, reverb, Ride, Road River and Rail, Chappell Roan, Scotland, September Sound, shoegaze, Simple Minds, the Sundays, swirling, Twickenham, Wolf in the Breast, 1990.
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What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Madonna's Immaculate Collection?! For the last of our four-episode series of Greatest Hits episodes, Dan chose the best-selling solo artist collection of all-time. Good times ranking songs we're all familiar with but not huge fans of. Unsurprisingly, these four straight white males still had lots of fun things to say and recall about the ever-present queen.Listen at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your local dancefloor. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram and Threads @wewillrankyoupod .

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Blonde, bops, Borderline, brunette, Burning Up, Causing a Commotion, Cherish, cone bra, Crazy for You, dance music, Deee-Lite, Joe DiMaggio, Express Yourself, Holiday, Holiday Rap, Into the Groove, Justify My Love, Lenny Kravitz, La Isla Bonita, lace top, Like a Prayer, Like a Virgin, Live to Tell, Lucky Star, Material Girl, MC Miker & DJ Sven, Marilyn Monroe, Open Your Heart, Papa Don't Preach, Sean Penn, Shep Pettibone, pop, Iggy Pop, Possum Dixon, Prince, queen, Rescue Me, Leon Robinson, Salsoul Orchestra, sexy whispering, talking, too many hits, True Blue, Truth or Dare, Vision Quest, Vogue, Wayne's World, Weird Al Yankovic, 1990.
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What's your most loved and least favourite song on U2's 1987 album, the Joshua Tree? Dan decided to pick The Big One™ by the biggest 80s alt band we surprisingly haven't dedicated an episode to, despite being one of our favorites. Lots of fun opinions, concert tales and a surprise visit from famed Bono impersonator Pavel Sfera. Available at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube, Joshua Tree CA and everywhere else you get podcasts. Please tell us how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !
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America, Beck, Bono, buggin ya, Bullet the Blue Sky, Greg Carroll, Adam Clayton, Dublin, The Edge, Brian Eno, Exit, God complex, gospel, harmonica, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, In God's Country, Ireland, Island Records, Joshua Tree, Daniel Lanois, leather vest, Mothers of the Disappeared, Larry Mullen Jr., 91X, One Tree Hill, Passover, play the blues, ponytail, Rattle and Hum, Red Hill Mining Town, Running to Stand Still, Pavel Sfera, Slane Castle, stadiums, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Super Bowl, ticking guitars, Trip Through Your Wires, the Waterboys, Wembley Stadium, Where the Streets Have No Name, With or Without You, Zoo TV, 1987.
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What's your most loved and least favourite song on Everything But The Girl's debut 1984 album, Eden? Jim picked this purdy teen fave so we got to talk about our young twee/jazzy leanings. Quietest album we've ever ranked? Shhh. Maybe. Love Jones singer Jonathan Palmer swings in with his thoughts and opinions! Available at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and everywhere you get podcasts but...there. Please tell us how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !

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Another Bridge, Aztec Camera, Bittersweet, Blanco y Negro, Simon Booth, bossa nova, Crabwalk (Instrumental), Joao Bosco De Oliveira, the Doors, The Dustbowl, Each and Every One, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eden, England, Even So, Everything But The Girl, Fascination, Jane Fox, Frost and Fire, Hammond organ, Happy Mondays, Charles Hayward, Hull, I Must Confess, indie pop, jazz, Pete King, Love Jones, Marine Girls, Chucho Merchán, Robin Millar, Missing, Nigel Nash, new wave, Night and Day, Jonathan Palmer, Dick Pearce, Mike Pela, Sade, samba, saxophone, the Smiths, Soft Touch, The Spice of Life, the Style Council, Tender Blue, there's a, Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt, Paul Weller, 1984.

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Adam: You may have heard me talking here a couple of weeks ago about the Quarrelmen Beatles miniseries I’m doing. It's my birthday so I’m birthing it everywhere you get your podcasts plus I’m putting the first episode here too to tempt you into subscribing. You’re not gonna be able to resist after hearing this episode that we did at none other than Abbey Road Studios when my band Stones n Roses was on tour there back in 2021. I told the other We Will Rank You hosts I’d have all the Beatles albums ranked within a year. Four years later, I’ve only recorded about half of them but here they come! You’re not going to see any more episodes here until the one where all four OG hosts ranked- Well I’m not telling you which one. You’ll have to wait and see and if you want to hear Jim and I rank an album in Liverpool, you’ll just have to figure out how to spell Quarrelmen and go subscribe, won’t you? WON’T you? We’re on Facebook, Instagram and Threads too so do the thing. Breaking up the band to start a solo career? Nah but, for now, here’s the Fab Four….

THE QUARRELMEN PODCAST #1

Please Please Me ranked at Abbey Road

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on the first Beatles album?! One, two, three, FAH! The Quarrelmen Beatles podcast miniseries kicks off with England's own Richard Merrett (Airhead/the Wilsons) and his young sons Frank and George Merrett ranking Please Please Me in the most famous studio in the world. Recorded back in 2021 at the end of the last Stones n' Roses UK tour, the California band recorded a version of "Revolution 9" with 1960s microphones used by "the boys" and Beatles Anthology, Rock Band and Love engineer Chris Bolster with Joe Wyatt (now Giles Martin's assistant). After a quick photoshoot of the band walking across THE street, singer Adam Gimbel welcomed the Merretts into the cozy Gatehouse studio to record the very first episode of the Quarrelmen. He had no idea it would be four busy, crazy years before the world would hear it. The kids are now senior citizens. The results are, quite simply, the most endearing Beatles podcast episode ever immortalized at Abbey Road....or anywhere else. Decades of fandom and childlike wonder collide with memories and a ranking of least and most favorites on the 1963 classic debut. Listen at QuarrelmenPod.com, Apple, Spotify and...a place.
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Abbey Road, Airhead, Arthur Alexander, Anna (Go to Him), Ask Me Why, Baby It's You, Burt Bacharach, the Beatles, Chris Bolster, Boys, Cavern Club, Chains, coffee, the Cookies, debut, Do You Want to Know a Secret, EMI, England, Adam Gimbel, harmonica, George Harrison, I Saw Her Standing There, Isley Brothers, Carol King, John Lennon, Liverpool, London, Love Me Do, George Martin, Paul McCartney, Frank Merrett, George Merrett, Richard Merrett, Misery, Nirvana, Roy Orbison, piano, Please Please Me, Pretty Green, P.S. I Love You, Revolution 9, Ride, sha la la la la, The Shirelles, Ringo Starr, Stones n Roses, A Taste of Honey, There's a Place, Twist and Shout, Andy White, the Wilsons, Joe Wyatt, zoos, 1963.
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SIDE PROJECT! OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL TRAILER! Premiering September 17th: a We Will Rank You miniseries about that one band from Liverpool that isn't Echo and the Bunnymen. 13 Beatles albums ranked by a guest list as sprawling as the cover of Pepper. First episode recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. Hosted by Adam. Named by Charlotte. Subscribe now at all of your usual pod places. For podcast birth announcements, follow http://www.instagram.com/QuarrelmenPod http://www.facebook.com/QuarrelmenPod http://www.QuarrelmenPod.com

What’s your most loved and least favorite 1971 hits?! For our latest Wildcard Episode, these 1971 babies decided to rank another huge year end countdown because our 91X 1983 episode was such a blast. On wildcard episodes like these, we end up talking about dozens of bands instead of one, so this one runs about fourteen hours long. Even Adam's "producer", David Gimbel, chimes in with his favorites of the year. Listen at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Youtube, Spotify and The Way Back Machine.

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Ain't No Sunshine (blocked by copyright here), Bee Gees, The Bells, Billboard Magazine, David Bowie, James Brown, Brown Sugar, California, Changes, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, Do You Know What I Mean, Easy Loving, Fearless, Fifth Dimension, Five Man Electrical Band, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, David Gimbel, Go Away Little Girl, Groove Me, Freddie Hart, Isaac Hayes, Ben Hill, Hot 100, If You Could Read My Mind, Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian), It's Too Late, The Jackson 5, Janis Joplin, Joy to the World, Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me), Carole King, King Floyd, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Jean Knight, Led Zeppelin, Gordon Lightfoot, Lonely Days, Maggie May, Matthews Southern Comfort, Paul & Linda McCartney, Me and Bobby McGee, Melody, Melody Fair, Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Lee Michaels, Frank Mills, Mr. Big Stuff, Joni Mitchell, Music Box Dancer, One Bad Apple, One Less Bell To Answer, Donny Osmond, The Osmonds, Parliament, Pink Floyd, Proud Mary, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Rolling Stones, Signs, Stairway To Heaven, Station Man, Stay Awhile, Rod Stewart, Sweet and Innocent, James Taylor, The Temptations, Theme from Shaft, Three Dog Night,Treat Her Like a Lady, Ike & Tina Turner, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, What's Going On, When The Levee Breaks, The Who, Bill Withers, Won't Get Fooled Again, Woodstock, You've Got a Friend

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What are your most favorite and least-loved songs on the Replacements bootleg Shit, Shower and Shave? Adam chose this fan-favorite live recording by a band that Sam started steering him towards when they met in the 90s. Because they're such huge fans, there is almost an hour of fun stories about shows, corn and iconic logos plus Adam gets into the history of "Italian imports" before we even hit the ranks. Matt Tomich from the long-running Skyway mailing list joins from Switzerland to teach us about the band and share his favorites from the Connecticut stop on an infamous 1989 tour with Tom Petty. To be fittingly lofi, we "deliberately" had three separate recording issues and used our backup Zoom audio. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify or in San Francisco....definitely not LA.

Alex Chilton, Another Girl Another Planet, Around and Around, Bastards of Young, Chuck Berry, Big Star, bootlegs, Bristol, The Bristol Stomp, Can't Hardly Wait, c'mon Grandpa, college rock, Connecticut, cornymonica, the Cure, Don't Tell A Soul, down we go boys, Slim Dunlap, the Heartbreakers, Heathers, I'll Be You, Italian imports, Kiss The Stone, Lake Compounce, The Ledge, Left of the Dial, Chris Mars, Bob Mehr, midwest, Mighty Lemon Drops, Milli Vanilli, Minnesota, Minneapolis, the Only Ones, Tom Petty, planet, punk rock, rebel without a clue, the Replacement Replacements, the Replacements, The Replacements Live Archive Project, Burt Reynolds, Keith Richards, Riot Fest, the Rolling Stones, Axl Rose, Round and Wound, Winona Ryder, Saturday Night Live, September Gurls, The Shit Hits The Fans, Shit Shower and Shave, Skyway, spotlight, Tommy Stinson, Strange Behaviour tour, Talent Show, Benmont Tench, Matt Tomich, Trouble Boys, tuna, George Wendt, we're better so fukkem, Paul Westerberg, Within Your Reach, 1989.
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RATE BUSH! What are your most favorite and least-loved songs on Kate Bush's Hounds of Love? Three months before strange things catapulted Miss Bush into a new generation's consciousness, Sam had us sit down to dissect an album that most purists wouldn't dare break into separate parts. While Adam went overboard (groan) researching the second side's epic Ninth Wave song story, newbies Dan and Jim obliviously took it in like men with children in their eyes...or something. Guest rankers include keyboard guru and Abbey Road expert Brian Kehew (Moog Cookbook, The Who, Prince and more) and San Diego Music Award winner Marie Haddad from the world's greatest coverband, Baby Bushka. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your running shoe outlet.

***This episode was recorded in February of 2022, a few months before Stranger Things made Kate Bush a hero to a whole new generation and eight months before we finally edited and released it. Three years later, we received notice that we had to remove music from a dozen episodes of ours. Because we're a music podcast, we're allowed to play clips under music criticism laws so they let us keep the episodes intact. A couple of years ago, we noticed that this episode had disappeared though. Can't get a straight answer about why this one wasn't spared so we re-uploaded it without Kate's music. We were able to reupload it again with the music recently and submit the right clearances. Enjoy!

And Dream of Sheep Under Ice, art pop, art rock, Baby Bushka, The Big Sky, Kate Bush, Cloudbusting, Fairlight CMI, the Futureheads, Peter Gabriel, Marie Haddad, Hello Earth, Hounds of Love, Jig of Life, Brian Kehew, The Morning Fog, Mother Stands for Comfort, The Ninth Wave, Outkast, progressive pop, progressive rock, Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), Donald Sutherland, Waking the Witch, Watching You Without Me, 1985.

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What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited?! Dan chose Zimmerman's acclaimed sixth album for us to rank in this fun episode about a world class wordsmith and his out-of-tune guitar. We hit the guest ranker jackpot getting singer/songwriters Lloyd Cole and the Old 97's Rhett Miller to chime in with their most and least loved songs on the album. Listen at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and Desolation Row. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram & Threads and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod.

SPOILERS/FILE UNDER: Joan Baez, bahhhhs, Ballad of a Thin Man, Beastie Boys, the Beatles, Blonde on Blonde, Mike Bloomfield, blues, Bringing It All Back Home, Johnny Cash, Champaign, Illinois, Lloyd Cole, the Commotions, Desolation Row, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, From a Buick 6, folk music, folk rock, going electric, Grateful Dead, Paul Griffin, harmonica, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Highway 61 Revisited, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry, Juarez, Mister Jones, Judas, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Al Kooper, Bruce Langhorne, Sam Lay, Gordon Lightfoot, Like a Rolling Stone, lyrics, Charlie McCoy, Meet Me In The Morning, Milk Cow Blues, Rhett Miller, Newport Folk Festival, Old 97s, out of tune guitar, Queen Jane Approximately, rap, Rolling Stone magazine, Rue Morgue Avenue, siren whistle, tack piano, Tombstone Blues, Violent Femmes, Wilco, wordsmith, 1965.

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