Re: Official Album SURVIVOR (Round 3)
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:03 am
I like the way John Lennon had put it regarding Let It Be. He said Phil Spector had been overly eager to produce The Beatles. Practically champing at the bit. So they took the Get Back sessions, which had been sitting on the shelf for nearly a year, and, according to Lennon, gave Phil the absolute worst pile of shit to work with and make an album out of. Certainly it was Klein that was the driving force. He'd been tasked with getting money in the bank for the band; especially after the failure that was Apple and the boutique. Paul was wise to Klein from the get-go. He had to break up the band to prove it. But quite the visionary move, eh?Kwai Chang wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:34 pm
I wanted Let It Be to be eliminated first... They never decided to put it out...Allen Klein did that.
...I've listened to side 2 many more times than side 1. And, that effectively means that the movie carried the album. Let It Be was just the opposite...the album carried the movie!
I used to listen to YS all the way through back when I first got it. These days, I think it'd be cool to call in to CC's Breakfast With The Beatles and request Sea Of Time, Sea Of Holes, and Sea Of Monsters. The cool thing is that CC is a huge Beatles fan, and would probably play it if it were requested, and the reason was sincere. Hey, I'm just a bit nostalgic for my childhood and it'd be a gas to hear it on a broadcast.
The thing that separates Beatles For Sale from Beatles '65 (and what elevates '65 for me, anyway,) is the inclusion of I Feel Fine and She's A Woman. Without those two tracks,....it shows the Beatles faltering a little. But it still shines over the other albums released by their contemporaries at the end of '64 and early '65. It blows away Rolling Stones No. 2. It's still better than Kinda Kinks, The Honeycombs, The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann, The Animals, etc; many of which were still mining old American blues for their hits. The Beatles were faltering, yeah,....but their very next album, Help!, put them right back on track. Speaking of which, Bob Dylan had a couple albums at the time which certainly would stand up to the Beatles: Another Side Of Bob Dylan, and Bringing It All Back Home.
I'm tempted to equate Beatles For Sale with their rivals, The Beach Boys, offerings at that time: Little Deuce Coupe and Shut Down Vol. 2. The Beach Boys had a few hits on those albums. But they seemed as if they were coasting, too. Incubating whatever embryonic music hatchling into the next monster of a record, frothing, naked (figuratively,) and ready to take down the world.