We Will Rank You

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! chim...

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 th...

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 Cry...

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 wh...

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 b...

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 slowl...

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 t...

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 a...

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...

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-pres...

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 Tre...

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 po...

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 Rose...

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 bi...

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...

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...

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, newbie...

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. Li...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Jellyfish's Spilt Milk?!  Jim picked the 1993 favorite by the band that Dan says unites us the most. Between the four of us, we saw the band close to 30 times in just three years but it was Adam that started a website about the band, helped write their boxed set liner notes and....it's complicated. As a result of a whole lotta fun stories,...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Shake It Up?! Sam picked The Cars' fourth album to rank, group-average style. He even (again!) held up his old copy for all of our podcast listeners to see. The boys had different experiences with the Cars but all were fans of varying degrees. Adam got his bandmate, Cars mega-fan, and Smash Mouth lead singer Zach Goode to weigh in with his favorite...

Ah, the bizarre love/hate life of the New Order fan. What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Low-Life?! For our fourth Request Episode Election, we went through dozens of listener suggestions to nominate Joe Jackson's Look Sharp, Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual and this 1985 Manchester classic, which won in a landslide election. While half of us moaned about the album choice fro...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Guided By Voices' 492nd album Bee Thousand?! Adam overcame his fear of assigning a 20 song record because he felt we needed to do more indie classics. Fun to hear his three co-hosts' take on a challenging 1994 lo-fi listen that was once named by Amazon music writers as the #1 indie album of all-time. We get a surprise Zoom visit from longti...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Lana Del Rey's Born To Die?! When Dan said "This is going to be a long night," he wasn't kidding. The Coachella lover's pick wasn't a huge surprise but it led to one of the most entertaining episodes we've ever done for sure. There's a whole lot of old men apologizing and yelling at clouds. Love or hate her, it&#39...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on the La's self-titled debut album?! Jim follows up our 1990 Matthew Sweet episode with....a 1990 classic from his beloved Liverpool. A ton of fun talking about our favorite one album wonders. One pandemic day, Adam's roommate Mike Dalke confessed that he tour managed Straightjacket Fits on the La's lone US tour in 1991. Makes him a perfe...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Matthew Sweet's third album, Girlfriend?! We finally get back into power pop territory as Sam picks one of his big 90s favorites and we all tell tales of seeing Matthew live in California during the glory days. Extreme differing opinions abound and there's a first-ever in rank math history. Longtime Matthew Sweet Band member Paul Chastain,...