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Originally Posted by Molecules
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 |
I love most the originals off
Beatles For Sale. I'm A Loser is one of my favourite Lennon songs.
On HDN, the two main ballads are great. The two major singles are great. "I Should Have Known Better" is great. I even love "You Can't Do That". Much of the rest suffers by comparison.
I never associated HDN with particularly unusual structures or freaky chords. If the chords are more adventurous than those of many other Beat bands, then they were no more adventurous than earlier pop music in different genres like rhythm and blues, the stuff coming out of Motown records, the vocal groups and popular jazz. As for the song structures, they are by all means quite conventional by the standards of late-50s/early-60s pop.