Review Of The Beatles 1964 Album Beatles For Sale
Beatles For Sale (1964) is an often dismissed Beatles album. I think that’s a real shame because while it’s undoubtedly not among The Beatles greatest studio albums, it does have it’s good qualities and I do think it’s worth taking a good listen to.
Particularly I think the 8 original Lennon/McCartney songs on the LP are quite good (even if not as great as the original songs on A Hard Day’s Night and Help!) What really stands out about these songs is that they have a certain cohesive feeling to them. I think they’d work fantastically as an EP.
The album really starts wonderfully with John’s “No Reply,” “I’m A Loser,” & “Baby’s In Black.” These are three great songs and they all have a downcast mood that connects the tracks together in a cohesive fashion.
I’m not a huge fan of the covers on this album, unfortunately. Even more unfortunately is that they make up almost half of the album (six of the fourteen songs are cover songs.) The sole covers that I’ve got any patience for are “Rock and Roll Music and “Words of Love” However even those two are not nearly as good as original Beatles songs.
The most popular of these Lennon/McCartney originals on this album is “Eight Days A Week” which is a song that both Lennon and McCartney dismissed and the band never played it live, not even once. But despite that, it is a good tune. No, it isn’t among their best songs, however it is catchy and the fade-in opening is quite cool.
All of the songs on this album sound way better on the new digitally remastered discs than they did on the old 1980s CDs. I strongly recommend that you buy The Beatles Stereo Box Set and The Beatles Remastered Mono Box Set and give both the stereo and mono versions of this album a good listen before you go about your business.
I’m definitely not claiming that Remastered version of Beatles For Sale is destined to be your new favorite Beatles album, but I do believe you’ll find that’s far better than it’s reputation says it is. I believe Beatles For Sale is better than With The Beatles, Please Please Me, and Yellow Submarine.
I definitely listen to late 60s albums like Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road a lot more often than the earlier LPs like this one, but that doesn’t mean I do not enjoy listening to the earlier ones too. I believe there’s interesting bits in all of their recordings. And I can’t wait to hear all of them on remastered vinyl when The Beatles Remastered Vinyl Box Sets are released in the spring of 2010 (rumored date.)
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