We Will Rank You

Adam, Dan n' Jim

The songs from the best albums ever made, ranked from awful to awfully good by longtime music and list-making friends. Everything from new wave & indiepop to classic rock & bygone oldies from the early 00s and beyond. Recorded in exotic California locales, the hosts and allstar guests rank and rile each other up with sarcasm, fanboy fervor, indie-snobbery and fascinating facts. Please stalk us and share YOUR rankings on F-book, Intagramps and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !

  1. 48. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas ranked

    12/24/2025

    48. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas ranked

    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 !FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: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.US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com wewillrankyoupod@gmail.comNEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupodhttp://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttps://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page)https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists)http://www.instagram.com/MocteauTwins http://www.alwaysontherun.net/cocteau.htm (Cocteau Twins lyrics site) https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-fake-my-bloody-valentine-and-cocteau-twins-lyrics-ended-up-on-spotify/

    1h 44m
  2. 27. Madonna - Immaculate Collection ranked (musicless reupload, original episode now on Youtube)

    11/05/2025

    27. Madonna - Immaculate Collection ranked (musicless reupload, original episode now on Youtube)

    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. This was recently removed for third-party copyright for reasons we can't figure out. Still fun without the Madonna tunes or you can listen with the Music on Youtube. Listen at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your local dancefloor.  Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram and Threads @wewillrankyoupod . FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: 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.         US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com wewillrankyoupod@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.Threads.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.YourOlderBrother.com (Sam's music page) http://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page) https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists)

    2h 15m
  3. 47. U2 - The Joshua Tree ranked

    10/27/2025

    47. U2 - The Joshua Tree ranked

    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 ! FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: 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. US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com wewillrankyoupod@gmail.com NEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupod http://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPod https://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPod http://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page) https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists) Pavel Sfera http://www.BonoDouble.com

    2h 24m
  4. 46. Everything But The Girl - Eden ranked

    09/29/2025

    46. Everything But The Girl - Eden ranked

    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 ! FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: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. US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com wewillrankyoupod@gmail.comNEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupodhttp://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttps://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page)https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists)

    1h 36m
  5. The Quarrelmen Beatles podcast debut! Please Please Me ranked at Abbey Road Studios

    09/17/2025 · BONUS

    The Quarrelmen Beatles podcast debut! Please Please Me ranked at Abbey Road Studios

    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.Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram & Threads @quarrelmenpod.SPOILERS/FILE UNDER: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.US: http://www.QuarrelmenPod.comhttp://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com wewillrankyoupod@gmail.comNEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupodhttp://www.facebook.com/QuarrelmenPodhttp://www.instagram.com/QuarrelmenPodhttps://www.threads.net/@QuarrelmenPodhttp://www.StonesnRoses.comhttp://www.AbbeyRoad.com

    1h 4m
  6. 45. 1971 Billboard Hot 100 ranked - Wildcard Episode

    08/11/2025

    45. 1971 Billboard Hot 100 ranked - Wildcard Episode

    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. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram & Threads and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod. SPOILERS/FILE UNDER: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 US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com wewillrankyoupod@gmail.comNEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupodhttp://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttps://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page)https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists)

    2h 2m
  7. 44. The Replacements - Shit, Shower and Shave bootleg ranked

    07/02/2025

    44. The Replacements - Shit, Shower and Shave bootleg ranked

    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.    US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.comwewillrankyoupod@gmail.comhttp://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPodhttp://www.twitter.com/WeWillRankYouPohttp://www.YourOlderBrother.com (Sam's music page)http://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page)https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists)

    2h 3m
4.9
out of 5
32 Ratings

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The songs from the best albums ever made, ranked from awful to awfully good by longtime music and list-making friends. Everything from new wave & indiepop to classic rock & bygone oldies from the early 00s and beyond. Recorded in exotic California locales, the hosts and allstar guests rank and rile each other up with sarcasm, fanboy fervor, indie-snobbery and fascinating facts. Please stalk us and share YOUR rankings on F-book, Intagramps and Threads @wewillrankyoupod !

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