The second track of the album "Help!" is Paul McCartney’s upbeat bluesy tune "The Night Before". The lyrics deal with a breakup that happened in the last 24 hours, much like another, far more famous Paul track off "Help!", "Yesterday". Stylistically though, the songs are very different.
The instrumentation features a Pianet electric piano and bass […]
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While John often wrote songs about pain and relationship trouble, this time it’s Paul doing it. "What You’re Doing" closes "Beatles for Sale" in much the same mood that John opened it. Seemingly Paul’s relationship with Jane Asher wasn’t doing so well.
The track is musically notable for beginning with a solo drum, and for featuring […]
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The next track on "Beatles For Sale" is yet another miserable John song. This time it’s about a date who never shows up at a party. The song shows heavy country influences in its structure, themes and sound.
Left off of the US album "Beatles ‘65", it was the B-side of the US-only #1 single "Eight […]
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The fourth track on side two of "Beatles for Sale" is unusual in two respects. While Paul wrote the song, John sings lead (with Paul on harmony). It features an instrument rarely used in rock ‘n roll: Ringo plays timpani to accentuate the chorus.
The song was written for Jane Asher while Paul was living in […]
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"Eight Days a Week" is a true John/Paul collaboration which is notable for the amount of studio work it involved. By now The Beatles were quite comfortable with the studio and could afford to play around a bit and try different things. The first six takes were all strikingly different arrangements, with focus centred on […]
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The Beatles chose Chuck Berry’s "Rock and Roll Music" to change things up after three sad John songs. But then they went right back to sombre, this time with a beautiful little Paul tune about leaving an unappreciative woman.
"I’ll Follow the Sun" is The Beatles at their folksiest. The sound is soft and sparse, based […]
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John supposedly constantly felt like a loser in life. "I’m a Loser" features a style heavily influenced by Bob Dylan to tell of love lost. The song is notable for its low notes, including a low G. While John usually sang with a tenor range, this is squarely in the territory of bass singers.
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The opening track of “Beatles for Sale” is John’s “No Reply”. The lyrics describe a girlfriend who has been unfaithful and now won’t come to the door or answer the phone.
A giggle-riddled demo recorded on 3 June 1964 can be heard on “The Beatles Anthology”. With Ringo sick, a session drummer named Jimmy Nicol […]
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With track 12 "You Can’t Do That" already covered in the "Can’t Buy Me Love" single post, we now reach the final track of "A Hard Day’s Night", entitled "I’ll Be Back".
John originally envisioned the song as a 3/4 waltz, but the idea was scrapped during recording when, on take two, John fumbled the words, […]
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"When I Get Home" is another John tune with Rythm and Blues influences. The key switches back and forth from major to minor, one of John’s favourite devices. A prominent feature is the "whoa-oh-oh-hiiiii" jumping into the boys’ upper vocal ranges between sections.
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