It Won't Be Long (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1963
From the album With The Beatles (track #1)


It Won't Be Long appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Meet The Beatles! (track #4) (1964)
- With The Beatles (track #1) (this album) (1963)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #16) (compilation) (1988)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #15) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #15) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #15) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #15) (compilation) (1982)
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.8/100, a mean average of 83.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.8.
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A punchy opener with call and response vocals. Full of urgent energy and classic early Lennon optimism. A song with a broader audience in mind then their younger teenage girl fan base. As good as if not better than anything they did on their first album.
One of the best opening tracks on any Beatles album. It's a brilliant song, completely infectious and delivered with passion and urgency, it has a real energy about it. A blistering start to a thoroughly enjoyable album.

Should have been a single. Catchy as hell, IMHO better than "She Loves You".
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It's a decent song.
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