Originally released : 12-04-1964
Release date        : 08-02-2004
Album name          : Beatles For Sale
Artist              : The Beatles

Ripped by           : joelimite
Genre               : Rock
Label               : Capitol

Encoding Software   : Lame EOS
Quality             : --alt-preset standard

Tracks              : 14
Size of Files       : 31,9 MB

01  02:18  No Reply
02  02:34  I'm A Loser
03  02:08  Baby's In Black
04  02:34  Rock And Roll Music
05  01:51  I'll Follow The Sun
06  02:37  Mr. Moonlight
07  02:34  Kansas City - Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
08  02:45  Eight Days A Week
09  02:15  Words Of Love
10  03:00  Honey Don't
11  02:05  Every Little Thing
12  02:36  I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
13  02:35  What You're Doing
14  02:24  Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

Total time: 34:16 min

It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring,
writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the
Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as
something of a shock. Only five months before, the
group released the joyous A Hard Day's Night. Now, they
sound beaten, worn, and, in Lennon's case, bitter and
self-loathing. His opening trilogy ("No Reply," "I'm a
Loser," "Baby's in Black") is the darkest sequence on
any Beatles record, setting the tone for the album.
Moments of joy pop up now and again, mainly in the
forms of covers and the dynamic "Eight Days a Week,"
but the very presence of six covers after the
triumphant all-original A Hard Day's Night feels like
an admission of defeat or at least a regression. (It
doesn't help that Lennon's cover of his beloved
obscurity "Mr. Moonlight" winds up as arguably the
worst thing the group ever recorded.) Beneath those
surface suspicions, however, there are some important
changes on Beatles for Sale, most notably Lennon's
discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock. The opening three
songs, along with "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party,"
are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which
is a new development. This spirit winds up
overshadowing McCartney's cheery "I'll Follow the Sun"
or the thundering covers of "Rock & Roll Music," "Honey
Don't," and "Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey Hey," and the
weariness creeps up in unexpected places -- "Every
Little Thing," "What You're Doing," even George's cover
of Carl Perkins' "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" --
leaving the impression that Beatlemania may have been
fun but now the group is exhausted. That exhaustion
results in the group's most uneven album, but its best
moments find them moving from Merseybeat to the
sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career.

-Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)

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