Back To The Egg (studio album)
by Wings (UK)
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Wings (UK) bestography
Back To The Egg is ranked 19th best out of 48 albums by Paul McCartney on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Paul McCartney is Band On The Run which is ranked number 255 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,387.
(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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 05/31/2025 13:58 |  AAL2014 | 3,482 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/15/2025 19:52 | Garyf1972 | 747 | 68/100 |
| ! | 01/27/2025 04:20 | Kinkyluis66 | 107 | 62/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2025 06:25 | Pienk | 657 | 82/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2025 16:09 | mids | 920 | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.7/100, a mean average of 68.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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A mixed bag sums this up, some real good tracks here I'd rate higher than on 'London Town' album although there are some poor no.s on here which let's this down as an album, better than 'Wild Life'.
Jboy56 12/03/2023 16:10 | #300282
Kinda okay
indieshins 05/15/2023 09:51 | #296967
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!
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.
UofTBlues 06/02/2017 15:09 | #191861
I'm a Macca Fan however; this is his weakest Wings album.
Tamthebam 03/07/2017 20:38 | #187104
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.
junodog4 07/01/2016 02:26 | #170239
Kinda deserves the reputation it has.
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.
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...
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