We Will Rank You

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 ...

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 i...

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...

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, the ranking doesn't start until...

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 track as well. Listen at WeWillRan...

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 from our mystery nominators (MIA), we ...

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 longtime 91X program director Garett Mich...

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's a really fun one! Listen at WeWi...

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 perfect expert witness/guest ranker alon...

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, from the Velvet Crush & the Sma...

Best. Covers. Ever. Wildcard Episode
What're your favorite cover songs!? A great man once sang "It's like he's tracing Picasso and calling it art." On this wildcard episode, we each rank and celebrate the five greatest and single worst covers ever recorded, talk about the fascinatin' history of covers vs standards and reunite legendary trombone-fronted NYC band Cover Me Badd as guest rankers! Listen at ...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Little Richard's debut album, 1957's Here's Little Richard?! We finally delve into the 1950s by talking about the oldest album we've ranked yet. Adam repeatedly circles back to himself, talking about his short European tour with the red-hot Little Richards and interviews two of its main creators: Sparkle Gail Higgins, longtime London/NY/California vintage clothing qu...

NEW EPISODE UP! What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Squeeze's Sweets From A Stranger album?! Dan picked another non-obvious record by a band we all love for this episode. Whole lotta praise heaped on the masters of UK song styling and we get a surprise text guest ranking from our high school friend Dan Evans before fading back into hiatusland. Listen at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your favorite black ...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on XTC's Oranges & Lemons album?! In the middle of our so-called hiatus, Jim again chose to rank Swindon's finest by selecting their fine 11th export. We were graced by not one but two guest rankers who witnessed the band recording the album in Los Angeles: Mike Keneally, a former Frank Zappa guitarist who played guitar on one of the album's outtakes and Gary Helsinger,...

NEW EPISODE UP! What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Depeche Mode's Memento Mori album?! We were prepping to take a year off but Sam's suggestion to rank DM's latest before it was even released was too tempting to not do ASAP. It still took us weeks to record and almost a year to release but it's fun to hear our fresh reactions. Even more fun is finally recording recollections of decades of memories of ...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours?! For our third request episode, Dan's teenage nephew Esher suggested the 1977 classic and it won our public election. This second season finale turned out as epic as the album itself, with several rankings the likes of which we've never seen in our 30 episodes. Lots of fun facts and opinions and tales about the album producer getting you fi...

NEW EPISODE UP! What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Alvvays' debut 2014 album?! Adam picked the most recent and most Canadian album we've ever ranked, knowing the others probably hadn't heard it. He first learned about it after hearing Ben Gibbard and Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub raving about the band in an interview. Fun to hear rookie impressions of this dreamy masterpiece. Listen at WeWillRankYouPo...

What’s your most loved and least favorite song on 91X-FM's 1983 Top 91 countdown?! For our third wildcard episode, we celebrated the San Diego station's 40th anniversary by talking about the songs from their very first year-end listener poll. The result is an EPIC three-hour dive into the station's history with a ton of childhood memories plus interviews with first year DJs Billy Bones and Pam Wolf. Learn how San Diego ...

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 WeW...