The singer from StonesnRoses hosts my former singer and band leader James Partridge and the mercurial John Craigie in a meandering journey through The Beatles, calling in at Abbey Road, full show album covers, Revolution 9 in the style of Please Please Me, a first hand anecdote about Giles Martin and the trauma of liking Paul McCartney during the punk wars, before a track by track rundown of Beatles for Sale. Trigger warning, ‘Honey Don’t’ doesn’t come out of this well, although there’s an interesting twist** on ‘Baby’s in Black’. Audio, with slide illustration accompaniment, link in comments.
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**As it were.
Listened for 45 seconds utter drivel from never heard of gobs
You sound like fun.
I have to agree about BFS. Let’s face it, the Beatles’ records before AHDN were basically just superior pub rock.
Had pub rock been invented? More of a cafe scene in the early 60s I think. Haven’t watched the video, but for me BFS is a step down from AHDN. That was an all Lennon/McCartney album (the only one), here they reverted to 8 originals and 6 covers like the first 2 albums. The originals are not bad but the covers are the worst they put out for me, not only Honey Don’t, but Mr Moonlight being arguably the worst track they ever recorded and also a totally lacklustre Everybody’s Trying to be my Baby. About half the originals are really good. If we discount Yellow Submarine it could be their worst album, Let it Be is also a candidate.
Avoiding any ‘imperial’ phase by any act is my mission in life, and so ‘Beatles For Sale’, alongside ‘Please Please Me’, ‘With The Beatles’ and ‘Yellow Submarine”, are my current go-to Fabs’ albums.
They’re more fun and there are a considerably smaller number of size 10 (male) boots trampling all over them.
I might be wrong – I’m not an expert – but doesn’t Yellow Submarine fall within the Fabs’ generally accepted “imperial phase”? If such exists?
Imperial phase about 1962 to 1970
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How can albums that are considered lesser be within the imperial phase? Surely an imperial phase is an unbroken period of triumph? Imperial would therefore be 65-69. Fortunately for them Let It Be was delayed.
Because it’s the Beatles