Better Than the Rest is the third album (mini-album) of songs by George Thorogood & The Destroyers

George Thorogood

George Thorogood is an American blues rock vocalist/guitarist from Wilmington, Delaware, United States, known for his hit song "Bad to the Bone" as well as for covers of blues standards such as Hank Williams' "Move It On Over" and John Lee Hooker's "House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One...

, recorded in 1974 and released in 1979. At the time the songs were recorded, Thorogood was an unknown artist who was not signed to a record label. In 1979, after Thorogood had released his first two official albums on Rounder Records

Rounder Records

Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students...

, Better Than The Rest was released by MCA

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

. In 1986, the songs from this album were released on compact disc

Compact Disc

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 with the title Nadine

Nadine (album)

Nadine is an album by George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Although it was marketed as a new release in 1986, Nadine is actually a repackaged version of the 1979 vinyl album Better Than the Rest that was reissued on compact disc...

using a different track order. The Nadine CD is currently out of print.

Track listing

1. "In The Night Time" (Michael Henderson, Sylvester Rivers) – 3:08
2. "I'm Ready
   I'm Ready (Blues song)
   "I'm Ready" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. It was a hit, spending nine weeks on the Billboard R&B chart where it reached #4...
   
   " (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) – 2:46
3. "Goodbye Baby" (Joe Josea, Jules Taub, Sam Ling) – 3:08
4. "Howlin' for My Darling" (Dixon, Howlin' Wolf
   Howlin' Wolf
   Chester Arthur Burnett , known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player....
   
   ) – 3:24
5. "My Weakness" (Vetter Smith, Wilson) – 2:26
6. "Nadine" (Alan Freed
   Alan Freed
   Albert James "Alan" Freed , also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country and rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
   
   , Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) – 4:03
7. "My Way" (Eddie Cochran
   Eddie Cochran
   Eddie Cochran , was an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the...
   
   , Jerry Capehart
   Jerry Capehart
   Jerry Capehart was a songwriter and music manager. Capehart co-wrote the famous rock 'n' roll songs "Summertime Blues" and "C'mon Everybody" with Eddie Cochran, whom he also managed. He died in Nashville, Tennessee....
   
   ) – 1:56
8. "You're Gonna Miss Me" (Eddie Jones) – 2:14
9. "Worried About My Baby" (Wolf) – 3:29
10. "Huckle Up Baby" (Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
    
    ) – 2:24

Album

Album chart positions are taken from Billboard

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magazine.

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Pop Albums Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	78