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A Hard Day's Night

	A Hard Day's Night The Beatles, Paul McCartney, ... Capitol, 1990 average customer review:based on 253 reviews view larger image
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A Hard Day's Night was the first Beatles album of all-original material, and the first to feature George Harrison playing his Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar (on the opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night," for instance). The distinctive sound of the 12-string inspired countless guitarists including Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds. The film from which these songs hail remains a classic combination of happy 1960s naivete and nascent hipster wit. Many of the most important rock bands to emerge in the latter half of the '60s came into being because of A Hard Day's Night's irresistible vibrancy. The tunes flow like the finest red wine, as the title track leads to the glorious harmonica of "I Should Have Known Better" and the powerfully poignant "If I Fell." EMI. 2005.

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Gold

Turning vinyl into compact discs - Thank you! All Beatles Albums are classics. A Hard Days Night is a listening pleasure!

A Musical Supernova

I have listened to every Beatles album over and over and over again. I have had times where each of the albums have been my favorite and where each album I have been sick of. I have endlessly played and replayed passages from nearly all the songs to grok on what makes them tick.

After such a thorough "wringing out" of each album, it is my opinion that a Hard Day's Night is the greatest Beatle album in that it had the greatest intensity of creativity in the shortest time span. It was an blindingly awesome roman candle of musical output. Any one of the songs on this album could've been a crown jewel for any band or artist; any of these tunes had the potential to be the one hit that could make their career, if properly arranged and promoted.

With Hard Day's Night, in an amazingly short time span, the Beatles made an entire album of crown jewels.

Wow.

What was even more mind-blowing was that this wasn't their first album.

Lots of groups come off gangbusters on their first album, because they've had a long time to incubate the songs. A Hard Day's Night was the Beatles' third album, the one after the long-accumulated initial musical cream was skimmed off. This was the "Omigod!" album, the album that bespoke of a veritable North Sea oilfield of yet-untapped talent.

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Milestone For The British Invasion

Usually when some one asks me about the British Invasion, the first thing that comes to mind is this album as well as the movie of the same name. Being the Beatles first album in which all tracks were written by them, this is the album that best represents everything the Beatles early work as well as the early British invasion was about.

The title track is pure pop rock with it's simple and playful lyrics set to a hard rockin' but catchy melody. After having seen the movie, one cannot hear this song without seeing, in their mind, the fab four racing down the street chased by tons of wild fans. It was obvious from the success of both this album and the movie that the British Invasion had completely blown open the doors as the biggest movement in rock history. No longer just a skiffle group from Liverpool, the Beatles had made it in America and were beginning to broaden their skills as songwritingers.

"If I Fell" is one of their first and best ballads. "Can't Buy Me Love" was their most advanced song to date as far as it's simple but universal message goes. While the youthful "I Should Have Known Better" reminds one of "Love Me Do", "I'll Be Back Again" is unlike anything they had done at that time. An acoustic number , it's lyrics seem almost unfinished and it's melody is notably haunting. It's songs like that that make, "A Hard Day's Night" really stand out. Clearly, this album, while not on the level of "Rubber Soul" or "Revolver", saw the group advancing with their musical ambitions.

In a way, this is the group's best early album. While, "Help" saw the band increasing even more in popularity and skill, nothing else best represents the peak of their "pop" days as much as this one.

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Long live the Beatles!