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Track Listings
| 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. 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 Documentary |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Banged out in a hurry for the 1964 Christmas market, Beatles for Sale sometimes sounds it, loaded with ill-conceived covers and some of John Lennon's most self-loathing lyrics. On the other hand, the people doing the banging-out were the Beatles, whose instincts for what worked musically were so strong that they could basically do no wrong--any record that has "Baby's in Black", "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" and the delectable "Eight Days a Week" on it is only "minor" in the most relative sense. And, though their voices had been frazzled a bit by constant touring, they revved them up for some joyous shouting, and indulged their fondness for American country in subtle, playful ways. --Douglas Wolk
Chronique amazon.fr
Comme l'indiquent les visages moroses des Fab Four sur la pochette, Beatles For Sale est un disque en demi-teinte. En fait les reprises basculent volontiers du coté de l'insouciance ("Words Of Love" de Buddy Holly) voire de l'allégresse débridée ("Rock'n'Roll Music" de Chuck Berry ou "Kansas City" de Lieber et Stoller) ;ce sont les originaux, à peine majoritaires sur ce disque, qui donnent dans la mélancolie. "Baby's In Black", "I'm A Loser", "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party", "No Reply" offrent des mélodies imparables mais déclinent des thèmes romantiques : échec, désamour, solitude... Les rocks traditionnels pour les garçons, les ballades tristes pour les filles et leurs mères : ils étaient malins, ces Beatles ! --Hubert Deshouse
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very under-appreciated album of maturity,
By John Ballantyne (Cary, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: For Sale (Audio CD)
By the time that the Beatles recorded "Beatles For Sale", they were fed up. They had been constantly touring and they had just starred a feature film, and yet they were still under the demands of the record company for a new single every three months and a new album every six months. They could cope with this pressure for their previous two albums, but everyone has a breaking point, and so it's no surprise that it came right after the exhaustive "A Hard Day's Night", which they had filled with fourteen new originals as well as having made a movie. Having to follow that up would make any group, even the Beatles, falter slightly. Critics and audiences alike have already noted the downsides to this pressure. Instead of giving us fourteen new originals like they did on "A Hard Day's Night", they "fill out" the album with covers of their favorite 50s artists. With the exception of particularly energetic performances of "Kansas City" and "Rock and Roll Music", these covers are stale and uninspired. They stick with the arrangement of the original recordings. (Indeed, their cover of "Words of Love" sounds so remarkably like Buddy Holly's original that some casual listeners may confuse the two!). It also must be noted that "Mr. Moonlight" is one of the Beatles most disliked tracks. So, it's no wonder that "Beatles For Sale" is one of their most disliked LP's. Now, having said all that, this album is extraordinarily under-rated and under-appreciated. The pressure and stress had its benefits, too. John Lennon (and Paul, to be fair, but especially John) had been studying the weary songwriting of Bob Dylan and his strong use of lyrical value. The stress and pressure John was under gave him a perfect excuse to exercise his knowledge of this kind of songwriting. The result: fantastic songs. "No Reply", "I'm A Loser", "Baby's In Black", "Every Little Thing", "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", and "What You're Doing" are all great songs. True, they are all dark, somber, and sad, but they represent a quantum leap in the songwriting of the Beatles. Musically, they were getting more adventurous with arrangements and were using more interesting chords ("No Relply" utilizes an Fmaj7 and a G6 [often mistaken for a G7] to great effect). Lyrically, their lyrics were more deep and introspective. They (again, mostly John) were no longer singing about the joys of love - they were now singing about its pains (they had done this before, but not so often, and not with such fitting musical accompaniment). All in all, "Beatles For Sale" is still a five-star album despite its shortcomings. It features great songs and it represents a new level of maturity from the Beatles. Although it doesn't reach my "Platinum Series" status, "Beatles For Sale" is still one of my favorites. (On a side note - sorry for the long review, but I had a lot to say!)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Comparison of 2009 Remastered Stereo CD With 1987 Mono CD,
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This review is from: Beatles for Sale (Audio CD)
I bought both the remastered stereo and mono box sets and am slowly comparing them, song by song, to the original 1987 CD releases. To read my other reviews, search the titles of other Beatles CDs.The new pics and booklet and cool to see, but the paper cover will wear out eventually and won't be replaceable, like the old plastic CD covers were. The pictures have a different tinting compared to the original CD cover, and some older and some newer pictures are clearer to see. The new CD itself looks far cooler, with the Parlophone logo, etc. The original 1987 CDs were very "bare-bones" compared to these remastered releases. However, it was easy to copy songs from the older CDs, to create my own Beatles mixed CDs. The new stereo CDs have a documentary, which prevents me from getting at the song tracks to copy them. While I hate people "stealing" this music for free, I have paid for my copies and feel I should be able to make copies for myself, especially since this sounds so much better than the 1987 version. I had never realized that the 1987 CD was in mono until I did this comparison. I had thought that CD sounded good, but the remastering sounds so much better. The music is now louder, crisper, cleaner, punchier and clearer, etc. In creating new stereo mixes, instrumental parts are now panned left or right, usually keeping rhythm section together and lead parts in the opposite speaker. There is more bleeding of parts heard in the opposite speaker with reverb. It sounds like the vocals were originally double-tracked, so one set of vocals is panned left or right (but it bleeds clearly to the opposite speaker with reverb) and the main vocal track is centered. Everything sounds great on the stereo CD. However, there is one flaw, found at the very beginning of Kansas City, in the left speaker where the rhythm section is mixed to. The attack of the very first note played together by Ringo's drums, John's rhythm guitar, and Paul's bass is cut off slightly... it's an obvious mistake once you recognize it's presence. I can't believe this wasn't corrected! No such problem exists in the right speaker where George's lead guitar is heard, and no such problem is heard on the 1987 CD. Most people won't notice it, but it annoys the heck out of me.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Some Losers,
By Charles Foster Kane (Who knows?) - See all my reviews
This review is from: For Sale (Audio CD)
They were on top of the world, but Beatlemania was taking its toll, as you can see on the cover, detect in the slightly cynical title, and hear in the songs...but you probably know that already. What's most amazing about this album is not the Beatles' decline (producer George Martin felt it was weak, as did some of the group) but their growth. This is a growing-up album if there every was one, and it's the closest the Beatles ever came to a breakup album too (well, maybe Abbey Road for obvious reasons). After the uncertain, depressed Lennon triumvirate of No Reply, I'm a Loser, and Baby's in Black (all great songs) the bouncy pep of Rock and Roll Music sounds less like the covers on their other LPs and more like nostalgia. And indeed, the overall mood here is bittersweet, a mixture of weariness, uncertainty, nostalgia, and romance, not the gleeful love or even the idealized angst of past Beatles songs, but a deeply romanticized, and also painful, yearning. Yesterday appeared on their next release, but it wouldn't have been so out of place here (though this time it's John not Paul who expresses loss). But when they're happy, they're happy, and Eight Days a Week is as joyful as any early Beatles song, but more sophisticated and stylized (dig the fade-in). And I'll Follow the Sun is the perfect song about yearning and dreaming, no less because it was written by a teenage Paul before he became famous; it may be the best song on the album. Beatles for Sale is melancholy but not bleak, musically sophisticated, with lots and lots of underrated songs. Listening to Mr. Moonlight again, I was surprised at the soul John pours into his singing; the song might be dismissed as filler, but there's something there. And the final trio of songs (before the closer, a Perkins cover) expresses more self-doubt and ambivalence, Every Little Thing tender its its recognition of love's delicacy, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party an revelation of painful insecurity, while What You're Doing is suspicious and doubtful. The moptops get serious? You decide; pick up this album right away.5/6
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