Buddy HollyBest Buddy Holly Albums Ranked
8.7
Avg Score
11
Opinions
14
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Buddy Holly’s catalog across 14 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 8.7/10. The top-rated Buddy Holly album is Memorial Collection (2009) with a 8.8/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by For the First Time Anywhere and Buddy Holly. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1958 to 2009. Rave On ranks as the highest-rated Buddy Holly song on Rate.fm with a 10.0/10 average.
Memorial Collection
“Commemorating the 50th anniversary of 22-year-old Buddy Holly’s death in a plane crash, this 60-track anthology offers monster hits and raw early versions from rock’s hiccup-voiced auteur. Holly’s "That’ll Be the Day" offers DIY Elvis swagger, and his soothing single "Words of Love" features not only one of rock’s earliest overdubbed harmony vocals but also […]”
For the First Time Anywhere
“Last September, while rummaging in the mustier reaches of the MCA tape archives in Los Angeles, Steve Hoffman, head of the company’s catalog-research-and-development department, came across a long-forgotten box marked "Do Not Use." Inside were some ancient tapes and another label: HOLLY. Rockets went off in Hoffman’s head. He realized immediately that these were the […]”
Memorial Collection
“There's no question Buddy Holly deserves the big reissue treatment. For less than two years during the late 1950s, he helped revolutionize rock'n'roll with his hiccupping vocal style, inventive arrangements, tenderly exuberant songwriting, and gut-wringing guitar-slinging. He has been exalted in the dead-rock-star pantheon and overly romanticized in the process, but his music still encourages star”