Flowers In The Dirt
by Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney bestography
Flowers In The Dirt is ranked 10th 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 6,109.
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Flowers In The Dirt track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Flowers In The Dirt rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Fritz | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 95/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Beatles Solo Works - RANKED | 33/52 | - |
| 2026 | craab | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 54/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1989 | 21/50 | - |
| 2026 |  serpico | Top 23 Music Albums of 1989 | 9/23 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 86 Music Albums of 1989 | 68/86 | 1 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 20/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 87/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 38/50 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 116 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 377 | |||
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| ! | 07/25/2026 17:30 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,684 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2026 12:16 | Chamita78 | 25 | 96/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2026 21:50 | mostlymor | 7,021 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Flowers In The Dirt forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 06/27/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5356): By marco17
CharlieBarley 03/01/2026 05:59 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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Some solid No.s on here although 'Press to Play' being as underrated as it is, this is clearly an overrated offering, it is steady and variable for some good points. (Edited)
indieshins 07/03/2023 23:56 | #297932 | TOP COMMENT
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Yeah - sadly this is my least favourite period of Paul's work. This isn't my least favourite album of his, though. This has a few songs I really like - My Brave Face, We Got Married, That Day is Done, and even the modest little ditties Put It There and This One. Two of those songs I just mentioned were collaborations with Elvis Costello, perhaps my all-time favourite songwriter. But some of the songs they wrote together are not very good - see Pads, Paws and Claws from Costello's Spike album, released this same year, or Playboy to a Man, released on the follow up to that album, Mighty Like A Rose. On the whole, though, they produced a great batch of songs, some of which you can hear on this album and Off The Ground, and some on Costello's albums from around this time.
I just wish that Paul had taken Elvis's advice and produced this in a rawer fashion, rather than insisting on in-vogue '80s production. It doesn't sound *as* of its time as Press to Play, but I think some of the production choices here really do the songs a disservice. It's also not as weird as I usually like my Paul. I don't necessarily need a whole album of weird, but some songs here and there would be nice - like Pretty Little Head and Footprints on Press to Play, for example, or Arrow Through Me off Back to the Egg. This doesn't really have any of those, so for me, it's one of my least favourite Macca albums despite the presence of those Costello cowrites. I understand why it was seen as a return to form for him, though.
Resurgir de McCartney tral el que, posiblemente, fue su periodo más bajo.
We need a separate entry for the deluxe edition with the Elvis Costello demos. If those demos had been released as a separate album accredited to the two artists as a joint effort, it really would have been something, maybe one of the best albums of the 80s.
arturguerra 04/11/2020 23:34 | #249814
It does have some good songs, but the production is cheesy.
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