BEATLES FOR SALE
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BEATLES FOR SALE
Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 4 December 1964 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label. Eight of the album's fourteen tracks appeared on Capitol Records' concurrent release, Beatles '65, issued in North America only. The album marked a departure from the upbeat tone that had characterised the Beatles' previous work, partly due to the band's exhaustion after a series of tours that had established them as a worldwide phenomenon in 1964. The songs introduced darker musical moods and more introspective lyrics, with John Lennon adopting an autobiographical perspective in compositions such as "I'm a Loser" and "No Reply". The album also reflected the twin influences of country music and Bob Dylan, whom the Beatles met in New York in August 1964. -wikipedia
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Pitchfork
2009 - The angriest, most aggressive record in the Beatles catalogue, For Sale finds them reaching back to their Hamburg club days in both attitude and sound.
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Consequence of Sound
2009 - Although I wouldn’t classify Beatles for Sale as one of the band’s most noteworthy LPs, it’s definitely one of the most interesting.
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BBC
2010 - A transitional record, but still joyous, inventive and exciting.
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The Telegraph
2009 - Beatles For Sale is a low point in The Beatles' career but still sounds fantastic
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All Music
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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Neon Modern Times
The Lennon/McCartney songs on this album are fantastic, but the cover versions do bog it down slightly.
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Only Solitaire
you'll actually find quite a few nifty little tidbits about BfS that certainly weren't present earlier
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Mark's Music Reviews
Hearing all these songs together on the correct spot, this feels like much more of an artistic step forward for the band than I'd ever realized.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
It's well-performed ("Words of Love") but the covers are redundant and the originals are mostly lackluster ("What You're Doing").
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
The Beatles stumbled here despite some experimentation with recording effects and instrumentation, having failed to come up with more than a handful of solid songs.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
an album including too many old style Beatles Rock N Roll covers and a general lack of sparkle
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Tangled Up In Music
2016 - Beatles for Sale has always felt to me like a step up in many ways, with the song-writing themes more varied and the personalities of Paul and especially John more involved in the process.
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Hokey Blog!
2012 - the good songs on this album are GREAT, of such an impeccable quality that I feel this rates as one of the Fab Four’s best albums of their early period
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The Young Folks
2014 - My point is, if you’re going to include ten Beatles albums on your list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, this should be one of them.
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Alt Rock Chick
2012 - It’s a running-in-place album. Considering the great leap they made in the astonishingly short period between Please Please Me and A Hard Day’s Night, an album stuck in neutral should have been expected.
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