Please Please Me.
| The Beatles
Please Please Me.
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin, it was released on EMI's Parlophone label on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom, following the success of the band's first two singles "Love Me Do", which reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Please Please Me" which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts. The album topped Record Retailer's LP chart for 30 weeks, an unprecedented achievement for a pop album at that time. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
A raw, high-energy run-through of their early live set, the Beatles' debut is also the sound of rock'n'roll finding a suddenly large, new audience.
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BBC
The beginning of a career that would effectively define pop itself.
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Consequence
The murk is cleared from the recording, activating not just your feet but, 45+ years later, your mind. This record that is seen as the most representative of their pretty boy period finally reveals that in addition to the bright smile is a knowing wink and a sly grin — and fucking way before The Velvet Underground & Nico. Fuck that shit.
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NME
A hastily arranged beginning to their catalogue, hampered slightly by inexperience, but ultimately defined by the charm that would soon conquer the world.
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AllMusic
The Beatles may have played notoriously rough dives in Hamburg, but the only way you could tell that on their first album was how the constant gigging turned the group into a tight, professional band that could run through their set list at the drop of a hat with boundless energy. It's no surprise that Lennon had shouted himself hoarse by the end of the session, barely getting through "Twist and Shout," the most famous single take in rock history. He simply got caught up in the music, just like generations of listeners did.
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Sputnik Music
Of course, The Beatles were unbelievably influential and important and demand a sort of scholarly approach in some respects, but the best thing about them is right on this here album: just listening to them for the fun of it, singing wildly along to “Twist and Shout,” joining a new generation of listeners brought together by the revelation that hey, maybe the Best Band Ever were pretty good after all.
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Analog Planet
"Please Please Me" Still Jolts Almost Fifty Years Later!
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altrockchick
The importance of Please Please Me is that it gave the Beatles more experience in the studio and more awareness of the possibilities of recording (as opposed to preparing songs for the stage). Lennon and McCartney still had a lot to learn about songwriting, but they would prove to be quick studies. And though I don’t think Please Please Me is a great album in its own right, I appreciate it as the first chapter in a long novel. The characters have piqued my interest and I’m very curious to see where these boys will wind up.
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Neonmoderntimes
One of the best debut albums of all time. A sound of the Beatles reaching for the mainstream and successfully grabbing it. It remains one of the easiest and most accessible Beatles albums to listen to which has aided in its constant ‘on repeat’ status at my house.
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Andrew Hickey
This is the Beatles album recorded before ‘Beatles album’ meant something, and as such is effectively the work of a different band from all the rest of them. And much as I love Revolver and Rubber Soul and Abbey Road and Help!, while I’m listening to this I can’t help but wish that this band had made a few more albums, too…
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Roots Rock Review
However, this 1963 debut studio album is a gem in that it captures the band at the point of their transition from roots rock novices to the original artists who would soon change the face of music forever. In that sense, this collection of 14 songs is nearly equally split between Lennon-McCartney originals and rockabilly/doo-wop covers as well as the memorable classics and the forgettable fillers.
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Record Collector Magazine
All told, it adds up to a respectable debut long-player, though whether we’ll still remember them come Christmas is anyone’s guess.
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