THE BEATLES FOR SALE LP VINYL RECORD 12" ALBUM NO RESERVE
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Here we have a BEATLES LP ALBUM. Its in its original sleeve and is in a great condition. This belonged to my late father and was bought in Liverpool in the Beatles hayday. I believe the LP was released in 1964.
Opening tracks
All three opening tracks for Beatles for Sale have a sad or resentful emotion attached to them. This opening sequence set the sombre overall mood of the album, revisited in another Lennon tune, "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", which, "consistent in tone with ‘No Reply’, ‘I'm a Loser’, and ‘Baby's in Black’", according to Allmusic, "finds the singer showing up at a party only to find that the girl he expected to find isn't there".[7]
Other McCartney songs on the album included "What You're Doing", which implored the singer's girlfriend to "stop your lying". Although "Eight Days a Week" and "What You're Doing" are well regarded by many fans, they were regarded negatively by their creators: McCartney dismissed "What You're Doing" as "a bit of filler ... Maybe it's a better recording than it is a song ...", while Lennon referred to "Eight Days a Week" in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine as "lousy". In 1972, Lennon revealed that "Eight Days a Week" had been made with the goal of being the theme song for the film Help!:
“ I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for ‘Help!’ because there was at one time the thought of calling the film Eight Arms To Hold You. ”McCartney considered the Beatles for Sale sessions to be the beginning of a more mature phase for the band:
“ We got more and more free to get into ourselves. Our student selves rather than 'we must please the girls and make money', which is all that "From Me to You", "Thank You Girl", "P.S. I Love You" is about. "Baby's in Black" we did because we liked waltz-time ... and I think also John and I wanted to do something bluesy, a bit darker, more grown-up, rather than just straight pop. ”[edit] "No Reply"
Main article: No Reply (song)According to Lennon in 1972, The Beatles' music publisher Dick James was quite pleased with "No Reply":
“ I remember Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, 'You're getting better now—that was a complete story.' Apparently, before that, he thought my songs wandered off. ”Reviewer David Rowley found its lyrics to "read like a picture story from a girl's comic," and to depict the picture "of walking down a street and seeing a girl silhouetted in a window, not answering the telephone."[8]
[edit] "I'm a Loser"
Main article: I'm a LoserAllmusic singled out "I'm a Loser" as "one of the very first Beatles compositions with lyrics addressing more serious points than young love." (cf. "There's a Place")[4]
Rowley[vague] found it to be an "obvious copy of Bob Dylan", as where Lennon refers to the listener as a "friend", Dylan does the same on "Blowin' in the Wind". He also said its intention was to "openly subvert the simple true love themes of their earlier work".[8]
[edit] "Baby's in Black"
Main article: Baby's in BlackUnterberger said this song was "a love lament for a grieving girl that was perhaps more morose than any previous Beatles song".[9] The song features a two-part harmony sung by Lennon and McCartney, similar to that of "If I Fell" on The Beatles' previous album.
[edit] "I'll Follow the Sun"
Main article: I'll Follow the Sun"I'll Follow the Sun" was a reworking of an old song; it had originally been written when McCartney was a youth, as he related in 1988:
“ I wrote that in my front parlour in Forthlin Road. I was about 16 ... We had this hard R&B image in Liverpool, so I think songs like "I'll Follow the Sun", ballads like that, got pushed back to later. ”Unterberger argued that although the song was "sometimes described as a ballad because of its light and mild nature, it's actually taken at a pretty brisk tempo."[10]
George Martin once said that this was his favourite song from Beatles for Sale.[citation needed]
[edit] "Eight Days a Week"
Main article: Eight Days a Week"Eight Days a Week" is noteworthy as one of the first examples of the in-studio experimentation that the band would use extensively in the future; in two recording sessions totalling nearly seven hours on 6 October devoted exclusively to this song, Lennon and McCartney tried one technique after another before settling on the eventual arrangement. Each of the first six takes of the song featured a strikingly different approach to the beginning and ending sections of the song; the eventual chiming guitar-based introduction to the song would be recorded in a different session and edited in later. The final version of the song incorporated another Beatles first and pop music rarity: the song begins with a fade in as a counterpoint to pop songs which end in a fade out.[11]
[edit] "Every Little Thing"
Main article: Every Little Thing (song)The dark theme of the album was balanced by "Every Little Thing", a "celebration of what a wonderful girl the guy has", according to Unterberger,[12] that appeared later in the album and had been written as an attempt for a single, according to McCartney:
“ 'Every Little Thing', like most of the stuff I did, was my attempt at the next single ... but it became an album filler rather than the great almighty single. It didn't have quite what was required. ”The British progressive rock band Yes included an extended cover of this song on their 1969 debut album and have played their version live on many occasions.
[edit] "What You're Doing"
Main article: What You're DoingThe lyrics are generally believed to concern McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher, also considered to be the muse for future Beatles songs such as "I'm Looking Through You" and "You Won't See Me" from Rubber Soul and "For No One" from Revolver.[citation needed]
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