When I saw this week's album, I thought that track would be one of the "standard Beatles tracks" but the vocals were so much better than I remembered, much more powerful.Love the Help! album, and the title track is still one of my favourite songs.
Slight confession on my behalf.When I saw this week's album, I thought that track would be one of the "standard Beatles tracks" but the vocals were so much better than I remembered, much more powerful.
Sheer fucking madness isn't it...........Far from my favourite Beatles album, but when all’s said and done it’s still got ‘Help’, ‘You’ve got to hide your love away’, ‘Ticket to ride‘ and ‘Yesterday’ on it, plus ‘The night before’, ‘You’re gonna lose that girl’ and ‘I’ve just seen a face’ are the kind of standard Beatles album tracks that other bands would have sold their grannies for. And even ‘I need you’, ‘It’s only love‘ and ‘Tell me what you see’ are catchy if nothing else.
The only two screaming duffers on there for me are ‘Act Naturally’ (why they wasted a track on virtually every album just to let Ringo have a sing I’ll never know, cos apart from ‘Boys’ on Please please me and ‘With a little help from my friends’ on Pepper, his vocal leads were always the worst contributions) and that really tinny version of ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’ (by contrast the live version on Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl kicks arse).
All told I’d probably give it a 7/10, which, as others have said, is still pretty impressive given that they were churning out somewhere between 30 and 40 new songs a year at that point
Fair point actually, mine is the same. Wonder how much it differs from the original?Slight confession on my behalf.
I was listening to it whilst driving back from work and noticed how clean, balanced and sharp it sounded - it was the 2009 remastered version.
It is what it is..............
A few classics on there, good album but not their best. 6.5/10
How does everyone else rank their albums?
For me it'd probably be:
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. Rubber Soul
4. The White Album
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. Let It Be
8. Help!
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. Please Please Me
Sheer fucking madness isn't it...........
I think the fact that Rubenstein , Bernstein and Sinatra were all devotees says it all.Completely agree.
I read a description of the Revolver album.
40 minutes, 14 songs, non like any other and yet you knew it was them.
In other words, a masterpiece.
I go frequently on another forum about music generally.
There are some very serious music fans who spend thousands on equipment LoL..
Anyway their are tons of Beatles threads, far outweighing other artists.
Amazing, considering they split up 51 years ago
Your point about time span I think is valid, because I’ve overlistened to them over the years too, where I virtually never play their music anymore. But that doesn’t stop me acknowledging the power of their music. However, if your post reaches a point where you’re comparing The Beatles to, er, Tommy Dorsey, then all hope is lost.
Anyway, good call re the Foos - think I’ll go and listen to some Learning To Fly ;-)