My new album review below. Thank you all for reading my stuff throughout this year, and hope you have a great new one! Why “Beatles for Sale” Has Gone Up In Value
The Beatles
3 Songs That Changed My Life
The first full album I ever listened to on my own was The Beatles’ White Album. It was the next natural step in my Fab 4 fandom at the time, having already obsessed over their most familiar hits. “It is… Read More ›
The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko (Song Review)
What is generally considered to be the last true Lennon-McCartney collaboration turned out to be…an account of the former’s adventures in getting married? Quite a strange chapter in the Beatles’ recorded history indeed. Lyrically, each verse of The Ballad of… Read More ›
Top 10 Paul McCartney Vocal Performances
Maybe it doesn’t have the same way of resonating with the listener like Lennon’s, but McCartney’s voice is just as instantly recognizable. By tackling both ballads and rockers, he’s proved his incredible range as early as The Beatles’ first albums…. Read More ›
Album Review: The Beatles – Beatles for Sale (1964)
Rating: 8/10 The Beatles’ 4th release is a concept album about love and the male ego standing in the way of that. Sung from the masculine perspective, it starts out with the protagonist lashing out with paranoia and suspicion at… Read More ›
Mini Album Reviews, Part 3
The Beatles – Beatles for Sale The black sheep in Beatles’ discography…or is it? In terms of consistency, it definitely loses to A Hard Day’s Night, which featured a non-stop, high-energy pop attack on the ears unmatched at the time…. Read More ›
Mini Album Reviews, Part 1
Mini Album Reviews is a collection of random thoughts on albums that I’ve listened to in the past week. It started out as a Facebook thing, but I decided to move it here and keep it updated besides the full-fledged posts. David… Read More ›
Stories Behind Classic Songs, Part 1
1) The melody of Yesterday came to McCartney in a dream Yesterday needs no introduction; the fact that it holds the Guinness World Record for the most covered song of all-time should speak for itself. As of 1986, 1.600 versions… Read More ›
Top 15 On The 15th
Top 15 on the 15th is a challenge that many fellow music bloggers partake in and that I was invited in by KeepsMeAlive. According to him, the challenge consists of each individual blogger posting his own Top 15 Albums of All-Time without… Read More ›
Top 7 Most Underrated Beatles Songs
7) Two of Us Although far from the most popular, I find ‘Two of Us’ to be the most representative song of what The Beatles were trying to say and do on the ‘Let It Be’ album – it’s nostalgic… Read More ›
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