THE BEATLES-BEATLES FOR SALE-PARLOPHONE 1ST PRESS 3N/3N MONO PMC.1240 1964
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THE BEATLES-BEATLES FOR SALE TYPE SINGLE LP-MONO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
PARLOPHONE 1ST PRESS YELLOW & BLACK WITH MATRIX NUMBERS: XEX 503-3N and XEX 504-3N
CATALOGUE NUMBER PMC 1240 YEAR OF RELEASE 1964 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE FLAPPED GATEFOLD-GARROD & LOFTHOUSE LAMINATED OUTERS WITH INTERNAL FLIPBACKS AND OPENING AND OUTLINE mono ON FRONT FLAP INSERTS/EXTRAS ORIGINAL LINED EMITEX INNER. GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s) EXCELLENT ( NICE CLEAN RECORD with VERY LIGHT playwear and a few LIGHT surface handling marking.PLAYS GREAT THROUGHOUT) LABELSEXCELLENT ( CLEAN with NO writing rips tears stickers or remains with some spindleusage and LIGHT handling and play wear)
SLEEVEFront board.Inner gatefold EX CLEAN with NO writing rips or tears user stickers or removal marks,the front laminate is nice and shiny with minimal rubbing wear a few light creases.INNER GATEFOLD is unmarked with some light ageing and handling spots Rear board EX REAR board is clean and shiny with very light rubbing wear and a light pressure mark at the bottom Flipbacks EX+ CLEAN and complete Spine EX- Complete with some cracking and most of the lettering - see below for ends Top & bottom edge EX+ TOP AND BOTTOM edges have light wear Opening EX+ THE opening has light wear and light usage Corners VG- Right side corners have a bit of light wear and rounding, spine ends have the all to common knackered look to them with splitting for about half inch either end and bare worn card, just did'nt get that right did they !! INNER /EXTRAS
EMITEX INNER: EXCELLENT+ (NICE CLEAN EXAMPLE with NO rips tears writing or edge splits.Inner bag is clean and unworn and firmly attached to body.
DETAILSIt was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something of a shock. Only five months before, the group released the joyous A Hard Day's Night. Now, they sound beaten, worn, and, in Lennon's case, bitter and self-loathing.
His opening trilogy ("No Reply," "I'm a Loser," "Baby's in Black") is the darkest sequence on any Beatles record, setting the tone for the album. Moments of joy pop up now and again, mainly in the forms of covers and the dynamic "Eight Days a Week," but the very presence of six covers after the triumphant all-original A Hard Day's Night feels like an admission of defeat or at least a regression. (It doesn't help that Lennon's cover of his beloved obscurity "Mr. Moonlight" winds up as arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded.)
Beneath those surface suspicions, however, there are some important changes on Beatles for Sale, most notably Lennon's discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock. The opening three songs, along with "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which is a new development.
This spirit winds up overshadowing McCartney's cheery "I'll Follow the Sun" or the thundering covers of "Rock & Roll Music," "Honey Don't," and "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!," and the weariness creeps up in unexpected places -- "Every Little Thing," "What You're Doing," even George's cover of Carl Perkins' "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" -- leaving the impression that Beatlemania may have been fun but now the group is exhausted.
That exhaustion results in the group's most uneven album, but its best moments find them moving from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career.
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