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Feast your ears on this extraordinary 63 minute celebration of The Beatles best tracks during the 1962-1966 period. The production by George Martin of these tracks only enhanced what was already a group destined for greatness.
The album starts with the happy love pop song innocence of that era with tracks such as "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "From Me To You", "She Loves You", and "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Then we move on to "All My Loving" which starts to show a more complex musical composition and lyrical abilty and is my favourite amongst the first 6 tracks.
"Can't Buy Me Love" and "Hard Day's Night" have more of a skiffle sound to them and are more edgier songs.
"I Feel Fine" is perhaps not the best known of their songs but one of their very
finest as it moves up another level in terms of its musical complexity and appeal.
In "Ticket To Ride" you have a real classic that perfectly matches great music with great lyrics. It was memorably later covered by The Carpenters who brought a new dimension to it.
"Yesterday" truly is one of the greatest compositions of all time. Almost simplistic by nature, yet very beautiful and perfectly expressing what most of us feel when a relationship is lost. So great is this song that it is in The Guinness Book Of Records for the most covered by other artists song of all time.
"Help" is a real work of genius and ranked 29th best song of all time in Rolling Stone's 2004 list. It has some fantastic harmonies and was both the title track of the Album "Help!" and of the film "Help!"
"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" and "We Can Work It Out" start to show The Beatles move towards more angst ridden love songs.
"Nowhere Man" in my opinion is one of the best tracks on this album and has a similar style to it of much of John Lennon's later solo work.
"Michelle" is a true work of beauty. It has periodic French lyrics in it and is a Beatles take on folk music only 5 times better than most other folk music you'll ever hear. It is poetic and sounds like a tune that must have been around for centuries. Interestingly it is said that George Martin wrote the lead guitar melody for the song.
"In My Life", "Girl" and "Paperback Writer" are maybe the weakest tracks on this album. "Girl" is a very sweet song but not as memorable as some others.
"Eleanor Rigby" really is all out on its own. It features a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin and is a song about loneliness. It is a true storytelling masterpiece and worthy of Classical Music status. Indeed it's worth listening to Paul McCartney's solo version which features on his Give My Regards To Broad Street Album which is a much longer version of the song and greatly expands on the string quartet and classical elements of the song, showing them off brilliantly.
Finally. "Yellow Submarine" is a track that is very catchy and that most of us know and love. Of course it was featured in the animated film of the same title. had Ringo Starr as the lead vocalist and was the first sign of The Beatles trip into Psychedelic pop.
All in all this a mind blowingly brilliant group of 26 songs that you will enjoy on many levels.
Full listing of tracks.
Disc: 1 1. Love Me Do 2. Please Please Me 3. From Me To You 4. She Loves You 5. I Want To Hold Your Hand 6. All My Loving 7. Can't Buy Me Love 8. Hard Day's Night 9. And I Love Her 10. Eight Days A Week 11. I Feel Fine 12. Ticket To Ride 13. Yesterday 14. Help 15. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 16. We Can Work It Out 17. Day Tripper 18. Drive My Car 19. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 20. Nowhere Man 21. Michelle 22. In My Life 23. Girl 24. Paperback Writer 25. Eleanor Rigby 26. Yellow Submarine
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