Back To The Egg
by Wings
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Back To The Egg is ranked 20th best out of 50 albums by Paul McCartney on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Paul McCartney is Band On The Run which is ranked number 261 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,091.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Back To The Egg track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Back To The Egg rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 87 Music Albums of 1979 | 28/87 | 3 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Ranking: Paul McCartney's albums (excluding his classical works) | 18/32 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 99 Music Albums of 1979 | 98/99 | 0 |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Paul McCartney/Wings/The Fireman/Twin Freaks: RANKED | 20/33 | - |
| 2026 |  AwaitingAndrew | Top 22 Music Albums of 1979 | 6/22 | 4 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Top 26 Music Albums of 1979 | 19/26 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 100 Music Albums of 1979 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 31 Music Albums of 1979 | 6/31 | 4 |
| 2026 | NowhereMan | Beatles Solo Works - RANKED | 28/52 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1979 | 30/75 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 69 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 202 | |||
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Back To The Egg ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/09/2026 19:08 |  Leonard | 6,647 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 17:02 |  UofTBlues | 3,636 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/20/2026 19:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,244 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.6/100, a mean average of 68.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Back To The Egg forum mentions
pedro1976 12/30/2025 18:40 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 04/23/2024 20:10 in What album are you listening to right now? Liedzeit 10/03/2018 14:52 in Albums You Added To Your Collection TodayBack To The Egg comments
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Tamthebam TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/07/2017 20:38 | #187104 | TOP COMMENT
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A good solid album more cohesive than London Town. Old Siam Sir, Getting Closer, Arrow Thru Me, Spin It On, To You & Rockestra are all good songs but I especially like the last few tracks After The Ball...... Love Awake. Underrated and on top of that it was Wings final album. (Edited)
indieshins 05/15/2023 09:51 | #296967 | TOP COMMENT
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Definitely messy, and one of Paul's weakest of this period (I'd still take it over Wild Life and possibly also Red Rose Speedway, though). As usual, even on a weaker Macca album like this one, there are still some great individual tracks. Getting Closer is a fun power pop tune, Denny Laine's Again and Again and Again is melodic heaven, and the skeletal synth-funk tune Arrow Through Me is some of McCartney's weirdest and most alluring work. I also like After the Ball through Love Awake. Not many songs I outright hate here, but definitely the lowest hit rate of any of the '70s bar those aforementioned '71 and '73 albums. It's worth mentioning, there was a great song from this period that was not included here - the B-side Daytime Nighttime Suffering which has an amazing melody, creative arrangement and a great vocal performance from Paul. Seek it out if you've not heard it! (Edited)
Kind of a clunker. Arrow Through Me is a classic, but geez, After the Ball and Spin It On have got to be two of the worst songs Paul ever wrote... (Edited)
Good album!! Some of the songs are great (Getting closer, Arrow through me) some weaker, but still not an average album just a bit inconsistent. (Edited)
This álbum has its mertits, but overall It shows how The Wings were dying as a project at the time, they would soon split-up.
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