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| ARTIST: | Beatles |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Toshiba Emi |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| TYPE: | Pop, Rock |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Help!, Night Before, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, I Need You, Another Girl, You're Gonna Lose That Girl, Ticket to Ride, Act Naturally, It's Only Love, You Like Me Too Much, Tell Me What You See, I've Just Seen a Face, Yesterday, Dizzy Miss Lizzy |
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A masterpiece Help!. The Beatles fifth studio album, and the soundtrack to the film of the same name.
In 1964, if you recall correctly, The Beatles released their first full-length feature film - A Hard Day's Night. In 1965, they wanted to follow up on its success with a color film - entitled Help!. Once again, the band would release the soundtrack of the film as a full-length studio album. Accordingly, the soundtrack to Help! became their fifth studio album. Read on for my review of the album.
Help! - The title track has become one of the band's best-known songs, and with good reason. This is John at his best - no questions asked.
The Night Before - Another excellent track, this one seems like a slightly more mature version of their earlier hit, Tell Me Why. Once again, they don't fail to please.
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - One of the most underrated songs on the album. This is a slow and melodic track, but not quite a ballad. Oddly enough, a tambourine is the only source of percussion. A hidden gem of a song.
I Need You - The first of two George Harrison songs to appear on the album. For this track, George gives us an excellent ballad - which rivals the quality of those written by other members of the band.
Another Girl - A blues-based rocker. Since The Beatles were a pop-rock band, I am surprised to see how well they handled blues-oriented tracks.
You're Going To Lose That Girl - A melodic pop-rocker. This is one of John's finest songs with the band - is there anything else that needs to be said of this one?
Ticket To Ride - Another John song, this one is also (arguably) the biggest hit to come off of the album. This is sixties pop-rock at its very best. Paul's bass line is especially excellent.
Act Naturally - Though Ringo didn't write this song, he sings on it. This is a bluesy little track with some obvious country/western influence. Ringo was fascinated by the genre, and his attempt at it is nothing short of excellent.
It's Only Love - Another one of the album's hidden gems. This is a short but sweet love song with sone very inventive lyrics. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT skip this track.
You Like Me Too Much - The second of two George Harrison songs to appear on the album. This is a pop-rocker reminiscent of John's I Don't Want To Spoil The Party from the previous album, Beatles For Sale. That's a GOOD thing, making this one of Harrison's finest Beatles songs.
Tell Me What You See - One of the most underrated Beatles songs ever. It was never a popular song, but that doesn't mean it's a bad one by any means. Don't skip it!
I've Just Seen A Face - Ditto.
Yesterday - McCartney's masterpiece. This song is entirely acoustic, and it features a backing orchestra. Paul is probably my least favorite Beatle - but I think this is an excellent song nonetheless.
Dizzy Miss Lizzie - The final cover song to ever appear on a Beatles studio album (if I'm not mistaken.) This is fast-paced bluesy sixties rock at its best - a good album closer!
Help! isn't the Beatles' best album by any means, but there is no denying that it is worthy of Amazon's highest score possible - five out of five. After this album, the band would start to change itself - and in my opinion, for the better. Still, this stands as one of the strongest albums from the band's earlier era, and it's worth checking out, even if you're just a casual fan.
The last of the Beatles' albums from the "early" years
I was listening to the CDS for both "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" when I suddenly realized that once again the Beatles were probably innovators ahead of their time. "Help," as with the album from the first Beatles' movie, has songs from the film only on "Side 1." Today we take for granted that soundtrack albums are filled with songs that never appear in movies or are at best "inspired" by a film. Well, the Beatles were doing that way back in 1965. Here is a "soundtrack" where one of the leftovers only happens to be the most recorded song in the history of human existence (it would be #13 on the play list for those of you who need a look before you go "duh").
"Help!" is the final album of what in retrospect are the early Beatles. Next comes the short middle period of "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" before the "Sgt. Pepper" period. Lennon & McCartney have 10 solid songs on this collection; their least impressive songs, "Another Girl" and "Tell Me What You See," are still as good as anything else any other group was doing in the mid-Sixties. The title song and "Ticket to Ride" are biggies and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "I've Just Seen a Face" are just a step below. The album earns only four stars because George gets two tracks on this album are they are both lesser examples of his work (he does much better next time out). Then add (subtract) the fact that is the last Beatles album in which the group covers songs written by others and neither "Act Naturally" nor "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" was worth the effort. Even with those caveats this is not a Beatles album you would exclude from your music library. Actually, no such animal exists; even the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack has a couple of solid songs beyond what we have already heard elsewhere.