Nobody was writing songs like the Beatles when they did
Hard Day's Night, it was the unusual structures and freaky chords that makes those songs so memorable. And up to that time how many flagship acts had released a record of entirely original compositions?
Half of
Help! is waste and I see your point about the singles on that one boo boo...
but I say forget all that and step back an album to
Beatles For Sale - the sloppy covers are still there but it's so ****ing disillusioned and just
minor for the time and surely the true forerunner to
Rubber Soul (no small thanks to a Mr. Zimmerman). I love that album. Well, most of it.
How is
this not groundbreaking for pop music at the time? And it deflates the 'everything before Rubber Soul was chirpy and crap' argument