SADDER FOLK (An Alternate Beatles For Sale)
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:41 pm
The original songs on Beatles For Sale are perhaps my favourite set of originals the band ever did. Great songs, great performances, great recordings and great mixes.
If only they had written enough songs for the whole album! I like the cover versions on their own merits, but the Beatles For Sale album almost feels like two different albums.
Presented here are the eight original songs from the album plus 3 other originals. Or if you're American, 5 songs from Beatles '65 and 6 songs from Beatles VI. Some of those 'extra' songs from the US albums fit in with the BFS originals much better than most of the covers. I'll Be Back (Beatles '65) is very prescient of the BFS sound, while Yes It Is (Beatles VI) is almost a sister song to Baby's In Black, sharing its 'colours' theme and waltz-time. You Like Me Too Much (also Beatles VI) gives George a song, and is very much in the C&W style of I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (and the intro and outro is very similar to that song).
This started life as a simple compilation of the stereo masters (which are great), but eventually mophed into a more stripped down version of the songs, eliminating some of the 'icing on the cake'. Though the songs were hardly over-produced, the folky and introspective nature of them also works well with 'less'. Some are subtly different, others more so.
All tracks are mixed to mono, with no demixing involved. Sadder Folk* is Rubber Soul before its time.
(* if my artwork skills were up to it I would have put the title, Rubber Soul-style, on the cover)
LINK: hxxps://1drv.ms/u/s!ApnBxRqYwftnk0uS9Pn1yarIXWEh?e=Cyk81J
If only they had written enough songs for the whole album! I like the cover versions on their own merits, but the Beatles For Sale album almost feels like two different albums.
Presented here are the eight original songs from the album plus 3 other originals. Or if you're American, 5 songs from Beatles '65 and 6 songs from Beatles VI. Some of those 'extra' songs from the US albums fit in with the BFS originals much better than most of the covers. I'll Be Back (Beatles '65) is very prescient of the BFS sound, while Yes It Is (Beatles VI) is almost a sister song to Baby's In Black, sharing its 'colours' theme and waltz-time. You Like Me Too Much (also Beatles VI) gives George a song, and is very much in the C&W style of I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (and the intro and outro is very similar to that song).
This started life as a simple compilation of the stereo masters (which are great), but eventually mophed into a more stripped down version of the songs, eliminating some of the 'icing on the cake'. Though the songs were hardly over-produced, the folky and introspective nature of them also works well with 'less'. Some are subtly different, others more so.
All tracks are mixed to mono, with no demixing involved. Sadder Folk* is Rubber Soul before its time.
(* if my artwork skills were up to it I would have put the title, Rubber Soul-style, on the cover)
LINK: hxxps://1drv.ms/u/s!ApnBxRqYwftnk0uS9Pn1yarIXWEh?e=Cyk81J