Every Beatles Album's Opening Track Ranked From Worst To Best

13. It Won’t Be Long - With The Beatles

As with all Beatles lists, it’s unfortunate, but something has to come last.

For that distinction, we turn to the opening track on the band’s second album, With the Beatles, a record most famous for being the one that came after the first one.

Sorry With the Beatles, but you’re just not very exciting.

It Won’t Be Long was written by John Lennon and was the first song recorded for the album. According to Johnny boy, this was the song that first introduced the middle classes to The Beatles.

That's something!

Lennon also sings on this tale of a man waiting for his beloved to return. It’s got all the trademarks of an early Beatles song; George and Paul providing increasingly ridiculous backing vocals; Ringo keeping a steady beat; some guitar licks that would have made people’s heads explode in 1963.

It Won’t Be Long isn’t bad by any stretch, but there’s not much to differentiate it from anything else on the record. Considering the second song on this album is the almighty All My Loving, you do have to wonder if a swap wouldn’t have been a better idea.