Post by rdnzl on Jun 12, 2013 6:52:20 GMT
As a youngster I knew the songs on "With The Beatles" by way of the U.S. releases "Meet The Beatles" and "The Beatles' Second Album". I was still being brainwashed by Capitol Records, and at the time I really believed that these albums were The Beatles' creations. As with the rest of their catalog, I didn't know much about the UK releaees until I was in my teens.
One song that always stood out for me was "Not A Second Time". I love John Lennon's vocal on that one. But the rest of the album is just as astounding. Like "Please Please Me", the album had quite a few cover songs as filler in between the originals. But there is a huge leap forward in the quality of the original songs here. The originals on "Please Please Me" were for the most part, decent songs. On "With The Beatles" the originals are cleverly written, and a slight bit more mature sounding. "All I've Got To Do", "All My Loving", "It Won't Be Long" and "Don't Bother Me" (Harrison's first composition on an EMI Record) are examples of their ever improving songwriting prowess. Most of the cover tunes, again, hark back to their hot sweaty gigs in the Cavern Club.
As a second album, "With The Beatles" is a winner. It's a good representation of where rock and roll was in 1963, and where it would go in the future.
In the United States, the album's not so identical twin, "Meet The Beatles", is the album that catapulted them into world wide fame. This was the start of what was called Beatlemania. Only a few months later they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Hour". I believe that this was when they became superstars. But would superstardom be all it's cracked up to be?
One song that always stood out for me was "Not A Second Time". I love John Lennon's vocal on that one. But the rest of the album is just as astounding. Like "Please Please Me", the album had quite a few cover songs as filler in between the originals. But there is a huge leap forward in the quality of the original songs here. The originals on "Please Please Me" were for the most part, decent songs. On "With The Beatles" the originals are cleverly written, and a slight bit more mature sounding. "All I've Got To Do", "All My Loving", "It Won't Be Long" and "Don't Bother Me" (Harrison's first composition on an EMI Record) are examples of their ever improving songwriting prowess. Most of the cover tunes, again, hark back to their hot sweaty gigs in the Cavern Club.
As a second album, "With The Beatles" is a winner. It's a good representation of where rock and roll was in 1963, and where it would go in the future.
In the United States, the album's not so identical twin, "Meet The Beatles", is the album that catapulted them into world wide fame. This was the start of what was called Beatlemania. Only a few months later they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Hour". I believe that this was when they became superstars. But would superstardom be all it's cracked up to be?