It Won't Be Long (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1963
From the album With The Beatles (track #1)
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It Won't Be Long appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Meet The Beatles! (track #4) (1964)
- With The Beatles (track #1) (this album) (1963)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #16) (compilation) (1988)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #15) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #15) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #15) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #15) (compilation) (1982)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/16/2026 17:14 | wizardalien | 10,319 | 60/100 |
| ! | 07/24/2026 09:46 |  MetalMan67 | 1,756 | 83/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2026 05:06 | beausteg | 138 | 60/100 |
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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 83.7/100, a mean average of 83.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.0.
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revolver94 03/14/2015 17:21 in Your MP3 player on shuffle: first 30 songs to come upIt Won't Be Long comments
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One of the best opening tracks on any Beatles album. It's a brilliant song, completely infectious and delivered with passion and urgency, it has a real energy about it. A blistering start to a thoroughly enjoyable album. (Edited)
A punchy opener with call and response vocals. Full of urgent energy and classic early Lennon optimism. A song with a broader audience in mind then their younger teenage girl fan base. As good as if not better than anything they did on their first album. (Edited)
Grzywa 02/27/2016 14:32 | #160873
Should have been a single. Catchy as hell, IMHO better than "She Loves You". (Edited)
Maybe not the best way to start an album, but that saves the good stuff for later.
Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/26/2013 10:02 | #62837
It's a decent song.
