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Music CD - The Beatles: Beatles for Sale
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Music CD: Beatles for Sale
Artist: The Beatles
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $8.41
Your Save: $ 10.57 ( 56% )
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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1. No Reply
2. I'm A Loser
3. Baby's In Black
4. Rock and Roll Music
5. I'll Follow The Sun
6. Mr. Moonlight
7. Medley: Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
8. Eight Days A Week
9. Words Of Love
10. Honey Don't
11. Every Little Thing
12. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
13. What You're Doing
14. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Beatles
EAN: 0077774643825
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best ever
Comment: This album is the best ever in my opinion. Wonderful to sing along to in the car...All my Beatle Albums are played over and over again....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beatles for Sale
Comment: This is an album I first bought when it came out in 1964. Today it again shows the fine musicianship and arrangements of the songs, and shows what a great band the Beatles were. Tracks like No Reply, Every Little Thing, Eight Days a Week are rarely featured songs in Beatles flashbacks, but are worthy of any reprise. This is a very good album indeed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Remakes and Musical Progression, AWESOME!
Comment: Most do not like this one as much because it is mostly remakes but the beatles always did the best remakes and this album is amazing because they did that and because johns trio at the beginning is such a leap in his musical style and they are so good and paul also has some really good songs on here too. One of my favorites from them .
Highlights
No Reply
I'm a Loser
Rock 'n' Roll Music
I'll Follow the Sun
Mr. Moonlight
Customer Rating:
Summary: All Good
Comment: Ok, this may not be the best Beatles album but it is still better than 90 percent of what was out there then and now. Filled with great songs, maybe a weak point or two. The problem with judging Beatles albums is that they set their own bar so high that it is almost imposible to get over it. I will say this about "For Sale"...it has got to be one of the best album covers ever with about the only rival being the Stones "Between the Buttons".
Customer Rating:
Summary: Weak, but only by their standards
Comment: By this point, it honestly didn't matter what the Beatles put out to the public. They had the world's entire teenage girl population behind them at the end of 1964 and the album and ensuing world tour was sure to be a smash. Course, you wouldn't be able to HEAR any of the ensuing world tour, but for those who attended, it was a minor detail. But, as is evidenced by the not-so-sprightly looking boys on the cover, they were having an awful hard time keeping up with Beatlemania and the music suffers accordingly. I hate calling this the weakest Beatle album (well, I also don't really consider Yellow Submarine a Beatle album) because it's better than a lot from the epoch, but you know, they never really made anything worse than this. Shame too, cause it was quite possibly their commercial peak. What am I saying? The Beatles didn't HAVE a commercial peak.
Ah, but to say this album is useless is a horrible nasty misnomer - no, this is far from useless, it just has more weak tracks than A Hard Day's Night and Help!, the two albums that bookend this one. In this case here, "Mr. Moonlight," the "Kansas City" medley, "Honey Don't", and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" are serious disappointments, and one thing all four songs have in common is that they're covers, which is even more disappointing, because the songwriting talent of Lennon and McCartney was already top notch (not a single Harrisong here, for that matter......but there wasn't one on A Hard Day's Night so that's not really a valid gripe.) I mean, I know the boys were incredibly busy at this point, but they managed to fill A Hard Day's Night with originals. Heck, Paul only has 3 songs on here, and one of those had apparently been written long before 1964 ("I'll Follow the Sun.") Wonder what Paul was doing in the 3 months between A Hard Day's Night and this album....oh, right. Touring.
Yeah, you can blame most of the troubles on this album for that. But they're performed very well. "No Reply," "I'm a Loser," and "Baby's in Black" are incredible Lennon songs that were really quite far ahead of their time, and "Eight Days a Week" and "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" on side two aren't much worse. First examples of the negative John vibe that would come up again many times later ("It's getting better all the time - can't get much worse!") As for Paul, "I'll Follow the Sun" is pretty good, if a bit repetitive, and "Every Little Thing" and its crashing piano chords always intrigued me. "What You're Doing" is a bit slight, but it has a decent riff. Paul would write much better than all three though. And as for the covers, "Honey Don't" is the obligatory Ringo tune, and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" was a very appropriate choice for a cover and sung by George. I was never big on "Rock and Roll Music" as a cover, although it does rock, with a great John vocal. "Kansas City" always bored me, and you'll hear a lot of bad things said about "Mr. Moonlight" but it really isn't THAT bad. Well, by the Beatles standards, maybe it is a bit.
The lack of originals is understandable but still disappointing, and some of the covers are just bland. It makes for a very good 1964 album but a weak Beatles album. Still some very worthwhile moments around here. But a bit slight.
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Editorial Reviews:
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No Description Available
Track: 10: Honey Don't,Track: 11: Every Little Thing,Track: 12: I Don't Want To Spoil The Party,Track: 13: What You're Doing,Track: 14: Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby,Track: 1: No Reply,Track: 2: I'm A Loser,Track: 3: Baby's In Black,Track: 4: Rock And Roll Music,Track: 5: I'll Follow The Sun,Track: 6: Mr. Moonlight,Track: 7: Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!,Track: 8: Eight Days A Week,Track: 9: Words Of Love
Media Type: CD
Artist: BEATLES
Title: BEATLES FOR SALE
Street Release Date: 07/03/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
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