Words of love.....great cover with beautiful low notes sung by Lennon during the vocal harmonies. No reply...a favorite of mine from the early period that gets lost in the shuffle to casual fans.
It's All Too Much Fixing a Hole Rain I Call Your Name Pretty much everything else gets rated/appreciated accordingly, imo. Beatles songs tend not to get overlooked too much !
Yes it is This wonderful b side is yet another marvellous song. Its relatively unknown. I have the original single somewhere.
Yes It Is and I'll Be Back are both very emotionally powerful songs and important songs in the growth of their writing. I think both songs are very much underappreciated and overlooked, both are so beautiful.
Leading a 14 piece ensemble in a ~33 tune Beatles tribute show on 5-8 (the 50th anniversary of the LiB LP). Along with a bunch of better known Beatles tunes, I am including the following ones I feel are under recognized, at least to the extent that I feel they are more worth including than some of their 33 best known songs: It Wont Be Wrong All I've Gotta Do If I Fell You Can't Do That The Night Before You're Gonna Lose That Girl If I Needed Someone And Your Bird Can Sing For No One Dr. Robert I Will Julia Yer Blues Hey Bulldog
Let's go album-by-album: Please Please Me: "Misery" "A Taste of Honey" "There's a Place" With The Beatles: "All I've Got to Do" "Don't Bother Me" "Not a Second Time" A Hard Day's Night: "When I Get Home" Beatles for Sale: "Mr. Moonlight" "Every Little Thing" "What You're Doing" Help!: "You Like Me Too Much" "Tell Me What You See" Rubber Soul: "The Word" "What Goes On" "Wait" Revolver: "Doctor Robert" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: "Getting Better" "Fixing a Hole" Magical Mystery Tour: "Flying" "Blue Jay Way" "Your Mother Should Know" "Baby, You're a Rich Man" The Beatles: "I'm So Tired" "I Will" "Sexy Sadie" "Long, Long, Long" "Cry Baby Cry" Yellow Submarine: "Only a Northern Song" Abbey Road: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (I think it's unfairly dissed) "Oh! Darling" "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"Sun King"/"Mean Mr. Mustard"/"Polythene Pam"/"She Came in Through The Bathroom Window" (as appreciated as the Abbey Road Medley is, I find these tracks to be overlooked, with most of the praise going for "Because" and the "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End"/"Her Majesty" finale) Let It Be: "Dig a Pony" "I Me Mine" "Dig It" Past Masters: "Thank You Girl" "I'll Get You" "Bad Boy" "Yes It Is" "The Inner Light" "Old Brown Shoe" (despite being included on the Blue album, you never hear much about it) "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" And while the song itself is by no means underappreciated, I think the No One's Gonna Change Our World version of "Across the Universe" is far superior to the one on Let It Be, and should be played more. Also, I never hear the single version of "Let It Be" anywhere these days, it's always the album version.
All I’ve got to do I‘ll cry instead This Boy If I needed someone Long, long, long Only a northern song Two of us
I'll bite... Mr. Moonlight - John's vocal performance is effortlessly stunning, the band sounds like they're having a blast. Don't Pass Me By - Ringo and Paul getting silly in the studio. The lyrics are silly and seem to parody sad sack country beer-jerkers. If Ringo did write these lyrics himself, he has a good flair with meter and word play. A great one to sing along to, it swings. Revolution 9 - The cynical take on this is John's just a tourist playing with musique concrète because he thinks it's trendy and cool, but this holds its own with the works he seems to be inspired by (Stockhausen, Xenakis etc.). There's a real narrative going on here with the placement of loops and samples and voice-overs, moods and dramatic resolutions and whatnot. There's a definite story here, though I'd be hard pressed to take a guess at exactly what. It's not just a random dump of found sounds, at least not to someone who has a taste for this stuff (the early draft mono acetate circulating in boots shows the intent and pacing he had intended). The fact that it took him a few goes at it further proves to me he wasn't just joking. Anna (Go To Him) - No one ever talks about this one. John was just a young upstart limey when he did this vocal performance, and he completely owns it. The nerve of this kid, taking on the Soul giants and doing it his way. And I say that after getting to know the original, which sets a high bar. I'll Be Back - This specifically references the Capitol mono LP version, which is pitched slightly lower for some reason. A technical error, but it lends to a darker mood which enhances the melancholic fatalism lurking under the flowery verse. And George's nylon string guitar part gives me the feels, big time. I Remember You - I'm referring to the version on the first Bellaphon release from Germany, which closed the album. It's a cover of their soon-to-be label-mate Frank Ifield's hit, which I guess caught their attention with the familiar harmonica riff (see various early Beatles songs). There's such a joy in this performance, as if they somehow knew that great things were ahead. Or at least that's what I read into it.
" It won' t be wrong , yeah ( yeah ) It won't be wrong , yeah ( yeah ) It won't be wrong till I belong with you " Hmm..something amiss here.
Here are 10: There's A Place-John shows his lyrical touch early Don't Bother Me-George's best song until Taxman It Won't Be Long-the definition of a great pop single, but just an album track for the Fabs I'll Be Back-TWO separate bridges! What You're Doing-a big jump in songwriting The Word-the start of John's "message" songs For No One-might be Paul's best song, but rarely mentioned with his other classics Sgt Pepper's Reprise-this song rocks! I Will-called a "simple song", but actually quite complex guitar playing Real Love-not just nostalgia. This is a touching, heartfelt song!
'There's a Place' 'Not a Second Time' 'I'll Cry Instead' 'Every Little Thing' 'It's Only Love' 'Wait' 'And Your Bird Can Sing' 'Getting Better' 'Julia' 'It's All Too Much'
Off the top of my head, these ones are less familiar to many US listeners because they were not included on any original Capitol LP (Rain eventually was on Hey Jude, From Me To You and There's A Place not until Rarities I think). From Me To You Rain There's A Place They're all very good or excellent (Rain is probably a top 10 track for me).
"Ask Me Why", specifically the US mix bathed in Dexter's atmospheric echo. Lovely melody, sweet romantic sentiment. "I can't believe it's happened to me," "I'll say I love you, and I'm always thinking of you..." I remember listening to this late at night in my room as a teen, when I first started loving the Beatles, and being transported to another place and time. I find it very intimate and evocative, especially as night music.
Side 2 of Beatles VI is one of my favorite Beatles album sides. Every song is stellar starting with What You're Doing, one of my favorite Beatles' songs. My original mono LP is a near mint promo that sounds amazing.
Agreed on Wait. One of my favorites on Rubber Soul. I love the way the drums come barreling in before the chorus, the short choppy guitar chords that accompany the verse vocals, John and Pauls's harmonies, the somber outro, etc.
No Reply - One of John's best paranoid my girl done me wrong songs. Those harmonies and when the hand claps kick in at 1:02 or so, mwah! Love the cover of Beatles for Sale, too. A little older, a little wiser, a little tired. It's like the photo was snapped just a second before they expected it.
