The Beatles - Beatles for Sale [Digipak]

Artist:

Beatles (The)

UPC:

094638241423

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Description:

The Beatles: John Lennon (vocals, guitar, harmonica); George Harrison (vocals, 6- & 12-string guitars); Paul McCartney (vocals, bass); Ringo Starr (drums).
Additional personnel: George Martin (piano).
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England and EMI Pathe Studios, Paris, France.
The Beatles: John Lennon (vocals, guitar, piano); George Harrison (vocals, guitar, African drum); Paul McCartney (vocals, piano, Hammond organ, bass); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums, timpani, percussion).
Additional personnel: George Martin (piano).
Includes liner notes by Derek Taylor.
This reissue of BEATLES FOR SALE has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original U.K. album art, an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD are embedded with a brief documentary film about the album.
Audio Remasterers: Sam Okell; Sean Magee; Steve Rooke; Guy Massey; Paul Hicks.
Liner Note Authors: Mike Heatley; Derek Taylor; Kevin Howlett.
Photographer: Robert Freeman.
It 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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. No Reply
2. I`m a Loser
3. Baby`s in Black
4. Rock & Roll Music
5. I`ll Follow the Sun
6. Mr. Moonlight
7. 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
15. Beatles for Sale Mini-Documentary

Album Information

Release Date:

01/01/2009

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Oldies

Subgenre:

British Invasion

Label:

Apple Corps

Producer:

George Martin

Catalog Number:

82414

Original Release Year:

1964

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

33 : 26

Guest Artist:

George Martin

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