Boys (track)
by The Beatles
Boys appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Please Please Me (track #5) (this album) (1963)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #5) (compilation) (1988)
- Rock 'N' Roll Music (track #6) (compilation) (1976)
- The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl (track #8) (1977)
- Anthology 1 (track #49) (compilation) (1995)
- The Essential Beatles (track #2) (compilation) (1972)
- On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2 (track #13) (2013)
- The Early Beatles (track #5) (compilation) (1965)
- Introducing... The Beatles (track #5) (1964)
- Twist And Shout (track #3) (1964)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 12/20/2025 09:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,819 | 70/100 | |
| 10/07/2025 17:18 | imyourman | 419 | 79/100 | |
| 10/02/2025 01:53 | mospii | 8 | 64/100 | |
| 08/05/2025 22:57 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 | |
| 08/04/2025 20:23 |  BroknsocialShawn | 1,693 | 85/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.7.
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Not bad, but ordinary.
'This is the weak track, let's give it to Ringo to sing'. A precedent is set to be repeated time and again.
This one was written for the US girl group The Shirelles, but the Beatles apparently didn’t consider the song’s lyrical connotations when they decided to cover it. I like how confidently Ringo sings these goofy lyrics, and I like the energy George provides throughout the track with his guitar, but there is no denying that this one is tied with ‘Chains’ as the worst track on the album.
The campest song the Beatles ever recorded. Originally a hit for girl group The Shirelles, the fab four decided to record it for their debut album, please, please me. Usually when bands covered songs that dealt with a certain gender, they tended to change the lyrics to accommodate the sex of the vocalist, as the Beach boys did when they covered, then I kissed him(changing it to, then I kissed her). The Beatles do no such thing, and Ringo quite happily sings about boys being such, 'a bundle of joy'. Enjoyable track all the same.
Just plain great!
Jasonconfused 01/26/2013 09:37 | #62826
Finally a solo of some kind!
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