Cry, Baby, Cry (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1968
From the album The Beatles (The White Album) (track #28)
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Cry, Baby, Cry appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- The Beatles (The White Album) (track #28) (this album) (1968)
- Mono Collection (track #149) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #149) (compilation) (2009)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/17/2025 11:13 |  swed | 3,619 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/03/2025 09:01 | ItNrok | 452 | 89/100 |
| ! | 10/25/2025 12:53 | Garyf1972 | 8,018 | 62/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2025 17:48 | FlapJackJoey | 1,064 | 89/100 |
| ! | 08/28/2025 06:27 | jtc91 | 13,888 | 82/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.7/100, a mean average of 83.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.8.
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Great track. I'm an Aimee Mann fan, and I reckon she and her band got some inspiration from this track.
lleon79 11/23/2022 05:00 | #291507
One of my all time Beatles favorites.
The calm before the storm that is Revolution 9. That's what made the song eerie and unsettling.
A fantastic example of John's ability to combine things he saw or remembered from daily life. The original lyrics, "Cry baby cry, make your mother buy", were inspired by an advertisement, while some of the other lyrics are taken from a nursery rhyme called "Sing a Song of Sixpence". The song is followed by a short unlisted piece of music by Paul, which became known as "Can You Take Me Back".
Haha ignore my last comment, this track is actually awesome
This song perhaps suffers from its Revolution 9 adjacency
Quite baffling how this has an 85/100, it really is not a very special song - the chords are nice but it feels poorly recorded, and the song could have been much grander.
Decent Lennon track, though not my favorite!
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GandalfORiley345 05/18/2014 16:08 | #112183
tan tan tan tan, I Love the organ here, and the drums and rhythm puff, the lyrics are surely one of the bests, cry the people who doesn´t like this
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