The cover songs on this album were chosen because their original performers were admired by the Beatles as they were growing up, in some cases before they even knew each other. They included songs by rock/pop immortals like Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Little Richard (R. Penniman) as well as country great Carl Perkins, (whose funeral was attended by George Harrison.) John was the lead vocalist on "Every Little Thing', a McCartney-written tune, one of the few times that the lead singer was not the principal songwriter. 'Eight Days a Week' is notable for the 'fade-in' at the beginning of the song, (in contrast to the 'fade-out' at the end of many pop songs.) This was a first in pop music history. It was not released as a single in the UK but reached #1 as a single in the US. 'I Don't Want to Spoil the Party' was covered by Johnny Cash's daughter Rosanne. It was #1 for 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Country Singles chart in 1985.
George became fairly good friends with Carl Perkins (one of his guitar idols). I love that moment in that big show Perkins did with all his friends where he and George talk about Les Paul and Perkins plays "The World Is Waiting On The Sunrise" and George sings along.
I love that you’re starting to see that Paul isn’t a one trick pony. He can sing in many different styles and do all sorts of things with his voice. It’s a what sets him apart. Going more into the album, they didn’t just feel like they were for sale, they were also really tired physically and mentally. The cover songs were mostly songs that they’d been performing in concerts and gigs before they’d even recorded their first album. With the next album, Help!, they started to have more artistic and creative control in the studio, and Paul starts to take over as artistic director (including playing a few lead guitar parts). But you do need to listen to volume 1 of Past Masters (either before or after Help. It doesn’t really matter because the last track was the B Side to Help).
Somehow I missed this video last month. Side one is so much better than side two. I've got a soft spot for "Honey Don't". I think it is the silly quips and Ringo asking George to "Rock on George for Ringo one time". "No Reply" & "I'm A Loser" are big leaps in songwriting. Definitely NOT the worst Beatles album.
Before Help, for your next album do Past Masters, Volume 1. It contains the hit singles and B sides which weren't on the albums. These songs were recorded before Help. Contains some great songs on it you don't want to miss, along with some filler; slightly different single versions of songs on albums, and German language versions of I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You.
Past Masters is definitely a must-listen. It's all the singles so it's mostly bangers. Maybe he should do Past Masters Disc 1 now and save Disc 2 for later, since Disc 2 is from later in their discography. But yes I can't stress enough how important Past Masters is.
@@ricardo_miguel13 Yes, but every other song on Past Masters Vol 1 was released before Help, so the vast majority of the songs come chronologically before Help.
I believe you should listen to the album without all the history notes. That way you will experience the album as we did in the 60s. After hearing the album, go to info page.
Harrison was very enamored of Carl Perkins' Rockabilly guitar picking style. In the Beatles early days George worked hard to learn and master it. In a couple of early Beatles George played in a straight-up Carl Perkins style, but he soon was familiar enough in it to work his own stylings over the basic techniques. This he evolved into his own identifiable "George Harrison" style.
I just found your channel today and now find you've put up the fourth album! Keep going! Your reactions are great! I recommend after the NEXT album; you do Past Masters vol 1. You'll hear the singles they released that are not on the albums.
Three of my favorite songs are on this album: baby’s in black, Mr. Moonlight, and I’ll follow the Sun. Siri is having capitalization problems, but I don’t feel like going back in and correcting them. 😊. I was 20 in 1964, when the Beatles invaded the US. They have been my boys ever since.
I've been following your Beatles albums journey, and noticed that you've been joking about their consistent lyrics of "holding me tight" or "hold my hand". In those days, they couldn't get away with risque lyrics (or at least the Beatles couldn't!), so they had to settle for more subtle physicality!
I think your ranking of these four albums is about right - mine varies but certainly it would frequently match yours. The weird thing about this album is that while the covers on the first two albums were fairly contemporary - most being from the sixties, most of the covers here are songs from the fifties. It makes the feel of the album very uneven. One thing to note is that both this and With The Beatles were intended for the Christmas market, and that's why there was a definite delivery date they had to meet. The same is true of the next-but-one album, Rubber Soul, which is generally very well regarded and certainly has some great songs on it, but for me you can hear they were short of material again (and even recorded another one of Paul's old songs). Help! does include a couple of covers but, well, I suspect it will be topping your next ranking.
I really enjoy this album. (I’m a Loser is also my favorite track from it.) Please Please Me and Hard Day’s Night blend into each other a lot for me, and With the Beatles has more forgettable songs than this one for me (tho also possibly ones I like more). While it’s not the best thing the Beatles have to offer, if I’m going to listen to any early Beatles album (which for me is anything from Please Please me through Rubber Soul) all the way through for fun, it’s going to be Beatles for Sale.
I agree with a lot of what you said here. Despite this being one of their worst, it's still a really good album. Most people dislike it due to how lazy the covers feel, Words Of Love being super similar to the original and Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby just being considered a lazy way to end the album. Help! Has the last 2 Beatles cover songs. It's also a more liked album, tons of hit songs were on it.
Different people, different tastes. This is my fave Beatles' album. They've never got to the country music so close. Lazy covers? Did you listen to the original Berry's "Rock And Roll Music"? Comparing to Lennon Chuck sounds like a dying man.
Yeah, I agree with your review. The original songs are pretty good, but the covers bring it down so much. Nothing really was bad, but it gets pretty boring.
Super underrated album. A helpful tip is to try to not listen on headphones until you get to their later albums. Back then, stereo (2-sided audio) was new and the Beatles actually didn't have anything to do with their stereo mixes; they were involved in the mono mixes. The early album stereo mixes are very imbalanced, all the way to Sgt. Pepper. On some songs you'll have all the voices in one ear and all the instruments in the other. The bass and drums sound very weak through headphones and some songs can be hard to listen to when Paul or John is screaming in one ear. It's especially annoying on this album, Help and Rubber Soul. It's better to listen to the early albums with speakers and once you get to Revolver start listening to the deluxe editions on Spotify because those have the better stereo mixes. They are in the process of remixing the earlier albums to have better stereo mixes but so far they've only done the later albums (Revolver-Abbey Road). One other note, The Beatles have released the mono mixes of their albums, but they are only available on physical media (CD, vinyl) and not on streaming. It's too bad because some of the mono mixes are far, far superior to stereo, especially on some of the singles like Paperback Writer and Revolution. Those are absolute bangers in mono but in stereo they sound wimpy.
The cover songs on this album were chosen because their original performers were admired by the Beatles as they were growing up, in some cases before they even knew each other. They included songs by rock/pop immortals like Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Little Richard (R. Penniman) as well as country great Carl Perkins, (whose funeral was attended by George Harrison.)
John was the lead vocalist on "Every Little Thing', a McCartney-written tune, one of the few times that the lead singer was not the principal songwriter. 'Eight Days a Week' is notable for the 'fade-in' at the beginning of the song, (in contrast to the 'fade-out' at the end of many pop songs.) This was a first in pop music history. It was not released as a single in the UK but reached #1 as a single in the US. 'I Don't Want to Spoil the Party' was covered by Johnny Cash's daughter Rosanne. It was #1 for 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Country Singles chart in 1985.
George became fairly good friends with Carl Perkins (one of his guitar idols). I love that moment in that big show Perkins did with all his friends where he and George talk about Les Paul and Perkins plays "The World Is Waiting On The Sunrise" and George sings along.
SOOOOOO underrated. Overhated
I love that you’re starting to see that Paul isn’t a one trick pony. He can sing in many different styles and do all sorts of things with his voice. It’s a what sets him apart.
Going more into the album, they didn’t just feel like they were for sale, they were also really tired physically and mentally. The cover songs were mostly songs that they’d been performing in concerts and gigs before they’d even recorded their first album. With the next album, Help!, they started to have more artistic and creative control in the studio, and Paul starts to take over as artistic director (including playing a few lead guitar parts). But you do need to listen to volume 1 of Past Masters (either before or after Help. It doesn’t really matter because the last track was the B Side to Help).
Somehow I missed this video last month. Side one is so much better than side two. I've got a soft spot for "Honey Don't". I think it is the silly quips and Ringo asking George to "Rock on George for Ringo one time". "No Reply" & "I'm A Loser" are big leaps in songwriting. Definitely NOT the worst Beatles album.
Before Help, for your next album do Past Masters, Volume 1. It contains the hit singles and B sides which weren't on the albums. These songs were recorded before Help. Contains some great songs on it you don't want to miss, along with some filler; slightly different single versions of songs on albums, and German language versions of I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You.
Past Masters is definitely a must-listen. It's all the singles so it's mostly bangers. Maybe he should do Past Masters Disc 1 now and save Disc 2 for later, since Disc 2 is from later in their discography. But yes I can't stress enough how important Past Masters is.
It's coming!
why not after help? Yes It Is and I'm Down were B sides of songs of Help.
@@ricardo_miguel13 Yes, but every other song on Past Masters Vol 1 was released before Help, so the vast majority of the songs come chronologically before Help.
Not their best 😢
I believe you should listen to the album without all the history notes. That way you will experience the album as we did in the 60s. After hearing the album, go to info page.
Harrison was very enamored of Carl Perkins' Rockabilly guitar picking style. In the Beatles early days George worked hard to learn and master it. In a couple of early Beatles George played in a straight-up Carl Perkins style, but he soon was familiar enough in it to work his own stylings over the basic techniques. This he evolved into his own identifiable "George Harrison" style.
I just found your channel today and now find you've put up the fourth album! Keep going! Your reactions are great! I recommend after the NEXT album; you do Past Masters vol 1. You'll hear the singles they released that are not on the albums.
Three of my favorite songs are on this album: baby’s in black, Mr. Moonlight, and I’ll follow the Sun. Siri is having capitalization problems, but I don’t feel like going back in and correcting them. 😊. I was 20 in 1964, when the Beatles invaded the US. They have been my boys ever since.
Fun fact: Did you know that Eight Days A Week is the first song that ever had a fade-in?
Very interesting
I've been following your Beatles albums journey, and noticed that you've been joking about their consistent lyrics of "holding me tight" or "hold my hand". In those days, they couldn't get away with risque lyrics (or at least the Beatles couldn't!), so they had to settle for more subtle physicality!
I know I just think it's kinda funny sometimes
I think your ranking of these four albums is about right - mine varies but certainly it would frequently match yours. The weird thing about this album is that while the covers on the first two albums were fairly contemporary - most being from the sixties, most of the covers here are songs from the fifties. It makes the feel of the album very uneven. One thing to note is that both this and With The Beatles were intended for the Christmas market, and that's why there was a definite delivery date they had to meet. The same is true of the next-but-one album, Rubber Soul, which is generally very well regarded and certainly has some great songs on it, but for me you can hear they were short of material again (and even recorded another one of Paul's old songs). Help! does include a couple of covers but, well, I suspect it will be topping your next ranking.
I really enjoy this album. (I’m a Loser is also my favorite track from it.) Please Please Me and Hard Day’s Night blend into each other a lot for me, and With the Beatles has more forgettable songs than this one for me (tho also possibly ones I like more). While it’s not the best thing the Beatles have to offer, if I’m going to listen to any early Beatles album (which for me is anything from Please Please me through Rubber Soul) all the way through for fun, it’s going to be Beatles for Sale.
This was the first of their four "dark albums".
I agree with a lot of what you said here. Despite this being one of their worst, it's still a really good album. Most people dislike it due to how lazy the covers feel, Words Of Love being super similar to the original and Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby just being considered a lazy way to end the album.
Help! Has the last 2 Beatles cover songs. It's also a more liked album, tons of hit songs were on it.
Different people, different tastes. This is my fave Beatles' album. They've never got to the country music so close.
Lazy covers? Did you listen to the original Berry's "Rock And Roll Music"? Comparing to Lennon Chuck sounds like a dying man.
@@saboteur1001 I guess that is the exception, it's a very great cover.
Yeah, I agree with your review. The original songs are pretty good, but the covers bring it down so much. Nothing really was bad, but it gets pretty boring.
nah
The next album Help has the most covered song of all time, Yesterday
why are you playing the music so slow
Brug did you not watch the beginning
Super underrated album.
A helpful tip is to try to not listen on headphones until you get to their later albums. Back then, stereo (2-sided audio) was new and the Beatles actually didn't have anything to do with their stereo mixes; they were involved in the mono mixes. The early album stereo mixes are very imbalanced, all the way to Sgt. Pepper. On some songs you'll have all the voices in one ear and all the instruments in the other. The bass and drums sound very weak through headphones and some songs can be hard to listen to when Paul or John is screaming in one ear. It's especially annoying on this album, Help and Rubber Soul. It's better to listen to the early albums with speakers and once you get to Revolver start listening to the deluxe editions on Spotify because those have the better stereo mixes.
They are in the process of remixing the earlier albums to have better stereo mixes but so far they've only done the later albums (Revolver-Abbey Road).
One other note, The Beatles have released the mono mixes of their albums, but they are only available on physical media (CD, vinyl) and not on streaming. It's too bad because some of the mono mixes are far, far superior to stereo, especially on some of the singles like Paperback Writer and Revolution. Those are absolute bangers in mono but in stereo they sound wimpy.
That's all opinion based..n I disagree