Wings Over America
by Wings (UK)

Wings Over America by Wings (UK)
(Live album)
Year: 1976
Overall rank: 4,751st   
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 109 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1976 (73rd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (787th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,751st)

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Wings (UK) bestography

Wings Over America is ranked 15th best out of 49 albums by Paul McCartney on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Paul McCartney is Band On The Run which is ranked number 251 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,440.

Wings (UK) album bestography « Higher ranked (4,477th)
Egypt Station
This album (4,751st)
Wings Over America
Lower ranked (5,418th) »
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Wings Over America track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Wings Over America rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,751st | 1970s rank: 787th | 1976 rank: 73rd

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Wings Over America ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 109 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.

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95/100
From 12/27/2021 10:02 | #278039
Tras haber publicado sus mejores trabajos, este álbum refleja el mejor momento de McCartney y Wings. Magnífico.
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From 07/29/2020 12:07 | #256408
Most live albums on this site have low ratings because it does not contain new material. Often a live album is nothing more than a greatest hits collection. However, this is not the case for this album. In my opinion most of the Wings songs are live much better than the recorded version in the studio. This is really a must have for all music collections!
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From 07/13/2016 20:06 | #171241
An enjoyable live album from Paul McCartney's successful U.S. tour. It features a few Beatles classics, amongst wings and solo songs. The acoustic sit down is my favourite part of the show, featuring, bluebird, the fab four's, I've just seen a face, and Paul Simon's, Richard Cory. It's not essential, like most live albums, but it is a lot of fun.
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From 11/09/2014 11:59 | #126565
This was originally a triple album now on 2 CD's. A really good live album a band at the height of their Powers/popularity, they sound like a well oiled band not just a backing band for Paul McCartney. As sometimes happens with live albums, some of these songs sound better live than they did on the original albums.
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From 01/11/2014 21:16 | #100427
With Frampton Comes Alive, one of the best live album you can find. Paul took some songs, like Venus and Mars/Rock Show, Maybe I'm Amazed, and gave them new life here. Long and Winding Road is so good on here. Actually all the songs he does from the Venus and Mars album, sound so much better on this album....Letting Go, Venus and Mars/ Rock Show, Magneto and Titanium Man, Medicine Jar, Spirits of Ancient Egypt, and even You Gave Me the Answer. The only 1 I prefer the studio version of is Listen to what the Man Said. Soily, Hi Hi Hi, Letting Go, Live and Let Die, all sound so good. Just wish he would have done Juniors Farm and left out Richard Cory or Call Me Back Again.
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From 05/14/2013 12:20 | #76086
Never really got into Wings but this is a pretty good live album. So nice covers of Beatles songs as well as solo McCartney.
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