With A Little Help From My Friends
by Joe Cocker

With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker
Year: 1969
Release date: 1969-04-23
Overall rank: 2,483rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 148 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (62nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (220th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,483rd)

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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With A Little Help From My Friends rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,483rd | 1960s rank: 220th | 1969 rank: 62nd  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).
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2026 RomanelliMy Overall Chart: 601-70012/100 -
2026matterhornriderTop 81 Music Albums of 196954/812
2026 CharlieBarleyMy Next 100 Favourite Songs 101-20031/100 -
2026Rm12398Top 100 Music Albums of 196931/1004
2026 RomanelliTop 40 Music Albums of 196915/403
2026MoondanceDylan covers 5: England (Major Artists)9/90 -
2026 ERadioTop 45 Music Albums of 196919/453
2026 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 196956/1002
2026 neilgeeTop 100 Music Albums of 196952/1002
2026Rm12398Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s86/1003
2026 videoheadcleanerTop 50 Music Albums of 196933/502
2026JoshN125Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s89/1002
2026 RomanelliTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s53/10010
2026BorderFreeAndrewTop 100 Music Albums of 196935/1003
2026 imacgillTop 62 Music Albums of 196951/621
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 196983/1001
2026 sssvnnnTop 69 Music Albums of 196927/693
2026 dihansseTop 44 Music Albums of 196934/441
2026JohnnyoTop albums of 1969 (101 - 200)34/44 -
2026blueandthemoonTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s22/10016
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 146
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 644
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78/100 (from 148 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.


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90/100
A Very strong album overall, with many bangers and one absolute classic WLHFMF.. Stunning stuff.
Soulful and mindblowing.
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80/100
Fantastic song selection, great organ, thick soulful voice, and some great guitar playing from Jimmy Page. Great album
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95/100
Joe Cocker bursts into the late 60s with a soulful collection, channeling Ray Charles and baring his Soul with a Capital "S". In listening to this album for the first time there were times when I thought I had mistakenly put on a Brother Ray disc. "Bye Bye Blackbird" sounds like Charles could have cut it himself. The album is also sprinkled with guest appearances (most notably Jimmy Page soloing on the aforementioned "Bye Bye Blackbird', and Stevie Winwood contributing to "Do I still Figure In Your Life?" and "I Shall Be Released".) English guitar hero, Albert Lee, duets with Page on 3 tunes. But what keeps it all together is the man himself, Joe Cocker!

Edit to add, that the album I reviewed is the 1999 re-release with two additional tracks - the two B-sides "The New Age Of Lily" and "Something's Coming On" - both featuring Jimmy Page and Albert Lee.
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80/100
A good record from a man with soul.
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