Sunday Music: Beatles for Sale
Mar. 11th, 2012 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowAlbum Title: Beatles for Sale
Why I Bought It: Completism.
What I Like (Toe-Tapping): "I'll Follow the Sun". The tune is surprisingly bouncy for a goodbye song.... Honorable mention: their cover of Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music".
What I Like (Melancholy): "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party". I knew this song previously as sung by Rosanne Cash; her cover is pretty good too.
What I Like (Nostalgic): "Eight Days a Week". I'm not sure what the first Beatles song I was consciously aware of was; it might have been "Help" or "A Hard Day's Night", but I think it was this one.
What I Don't Like (Conceit): "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby". A fair number of the Beatles' songs fall in this self-absorbed category; I have no truck with those.
Overall: This is a pretty weak album for the Beatles, all things considered. "I'm a Loser", "Every Little Thing", and "No Reply" are comfortable songs, but there isn't really anything to get excited about on this one.
Why I Bought It: Completism.
What I Like (Toe-Tapping): "I'll Follow the Sun". The tune is surprisingly bouncy for a goodbye song.... Honorable mention: their cover of Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music".
What I Like (Melancholy): "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party". I knew this song previously as sung by Rosanne Cash; her cover is pretty good too.
What I Like (Nostalgic): "Eight Days a Week". I'm not sure what the first Beatles song I was consciously aware of was; it might have been "Help" or "A Hard Day's Night", but I think it was this one.
What I Don't Like (Conceit): "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby". A fair number of the Beatles' songs fall in this self-absorbed category; I have no truck with those.
Overall: This is a pretty weak album for the Beatles, all things considered. "I'm a Loser", "Every Little Thing", and "No Reply" are comfortable songs, but there isn't really anything to get excited about on this one.
