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- The Beatles' second studio album has just turned 60. But apart from being their 3rd biggest selling album in the 1960's, it is one of today's fans least loved albums. So in this video with the help of contemporary reviews and analysis, we look at what made this album so special for a generation and why John Lennon called it the true sound of The Beatles.
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I'm 39 and have loved the Beatles all my life...I think later gen Beatles fans realize at a certain point that early Beatles are underrated...they are happy, they all sing together, they play great and it's pure joy...while later Beatles are great for obvious reasons, in the end you begin to wish they could have just been young and happy forever vs. the growing apart years and early Beatles gives you that fantasy.
You've accurately described The Beatles experience for many of us. The pure joy of the early records is precious while the progressive song writing of the mid to later period speaks for itself. It's funny they named their pivotal album Revolver as it's the album that ends the early period and begins the second half of their careers. Revolving out of the early into Pepper and so on.
@@ponzo1967 I'm the biggest Beatle genius there is! (deep cut ref - lol)
Well said
I think life is a voyage of discovery and discovering The Beatles is a happy path to be on. Happiness is where you find it.
I agree. Too many Beatles fans seem to be embarrassed by their first 4 albums. I love them all
This was an excellent video. I saw the Beatles in 64 in Milwaukee. I was dragged there because my older sister had to watch me. My dad said to my sister he goes or you don’t go. It was 2 hours of screaming but since then I have listen to Beatles at least every week. I am now 70. Beatles are the best ever.
Thank you for watching. Great memories!
September 4th, 1964 - My mom was there too.
You were ' dragged ' ? 🤣
Two hours of screaming? Beatles only played 30 minute concerts from 1964-66. What was the other 1:30 min of screaming about?
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I bought this album in 1964 and all the rest. WHAT A GROUP!
THE BEATLES just got better and better.
Rubber Soul is the most perfect Beatles album. Song by song, each one a mini masterpiece of simplity. It’s the pinnacle of the first era, then Revolver is a shift up in gears with complexity and maturity. It has some of their best songs on it and paved the way for the second era to the end which was an incredibly artistic and creative period.
rubber soul has aged like ass and sucks. beatles never made a great album top to bottom
@@mavenofmacau6391good to know.
@@mavenofmacau6391Nice Try at Trolling 🧌 but you failed. You gave me a good laugh though.
Kelp, Rubber Ball, Revolve Me, Lieutenant Lepers Homely Heads Club Band, the Grey Album and Abbey Toad are still the greatest Albums of all time.
@@mavenofmacau6391 then why are you here?
I agree.....I was in 8th grade when I got a copy of that on cassette. I think my uncle gave it to me for Christmas. "Being a guitar player I just love the acoustic guitar on "I'm looking thru you". Hard to believe John didn't write the lyrics....sounds like his mind. Not many bands I've ever liked and had their releases I could listen to without skipping songs.
As a 2023 new Beatles fan who has now consumed basically every single piece of media available from the four lads I've got to say that With The Beatles was the perfect way to introduce me to their music and still remains as one of their finest albums for me, certainly the most underrated one out there
welcome to the beatles club! good to have you aboard. now its up to you to pass on your love of the beatles to others at every opportunity. i did this decades ago. and for years people thanked me for turning them onto this remarkable phenomenon known as the beatles!
@@cjmacq-vg8um well said
I am gradually introducing my 7 year old slowly slowly to the Beatles, via the red and blue albums to be followed up by the extended versions in due course.
Spread the word and keep the spirit of the music and the 60s alive.
An electrifying sound and you get to know their dynamic, energetic music style and their vocals are crystal I know I was a Beatlemania boy and loved this band. No wonder they were already selling millions early on.. the fantastic 🪲🪲🪲🪲= Beatles+🪲 Mal Evans 🍏❤
And you or your kids, if you have any, can enjoy The Beatles movies together. I saw my first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night, in 1964 at a movie theater near where I lived in lower state New York. We were screaming! I know it would still be fun to watch and suitable for almost all ages.❤🎉❤
@@v.2080 ... i sure wish they'd rerelease the original "let it be." i bought a copy when it was first released on video tape. i bought the beta-max version. i bought MMT on beta at the same time.
i remember turning my wife's neice onto "yellow submarine." she just loved it. for years the release of "hard day's night" and "help" were tied up in litigation and weren't available to the public. "help" is a really fun movie and "a hard day's night" is a veritable classic. i have them both on dvd. along with a new version of MMT. but i sure miss the original "let it be" movie.
As a kid in '63-'64, I remember "Two Way Family Favourites" with Cliff Michelmore and Jean Metcalfe at Sunday lunch time. Families would always request "It Won't Be Long" for their loved ones, soldiers posted overseas in Germany or wherever. Very poignant. That song could easily have been a single, but then again so could loads of others. Memories...thanks once again Andrew.
Great memories, Steve!
Amazing! I taped an episode of Fanily Facourites circa 1978 - and It Won't Be Long - all thise years later - was still one of the requests on the show!
What was that program about? I'm not familiar with it being from the U.S.
@@lamper2 It was a popular and long-running radio show here where you could send a message and appropriate song to a friend or loved one (in the days long before emails and Zoom). It was most usually sent by a family to a member of the armed forces based overseas.
My Dad was serving in Hong Kong in the early 60s and mum & me listened to the show. My Dad requested ‘All My Loving’ for mum. All these years later it’s still a great memory to have.
With The Beatles was the first Beatles album to move me to tears. It was a Sunday, I was slightly hung over from a very raucous party the previous night and by the time You Really Got A Hold On Me came on I started crying over how much someone could love something so seemingly trivial as a silly little piece of music. There is something about the exuberant, unleashed joy captured on this album that makes it special to me.
You've hit my heart-strings with your emotive words. Thank you!
I had no idea a Beatles album Wes released the exact same day as the November 22nd 1963 assassination of President Kennedy.
“You really got a hold on me” - brilliant.
I'm convinced that certain people's voices, when harmonized, do something truly special. There's just a tone that sometimes comes out of two particular voices that just becomes magical. Lennon & McCartney had it. Simon & Garfunkel had it. But very few others.
The Canadian version "Beatlemania! With The Beatles" was released on November 25, 1963, making it the first Beatles album released in North America. That gives it huge historic significance IMHO. Beatlemania! was made from the original EMI master tapes. It was pressed by RCA at their Smith Falls pressing plant, and sounds as good as the original UK pressings. A handful of copies were pressed on the "Green Target" label in the early 70's making it one of the rarest Canadian Beatles albums.
Spot on!
Yeah, but it's Canada...
@@mikeymutual5489 Best country in North America, BY FAR!
@@fittobetiedyed5315 Very true….
That was the version I had (in Toronto) at the age of 11. Played it to death!!! Sadly, it got left behind when my family moved to California in 1965.
Rosemary Wilson has stated that Meredith Wilson's estate received more royalties from The Beatles' recording of "Till There Was You" than they did from the stage production. It's one of my favorite Paul ballads and they do it beautifully.
George's chords and fills certainly got jazzier over the years. I was playing in a park late one night, few cans of beer, minding my own business when a guy came by, younger than me, asking if he could have a play. He was playing jazz runs that would've tied my fingers in knots. I did my portmanteau "Till There Was You" and he said "I like your style." and he WASN'T fishing for a beer!
I think it's the best song on the album. The guitar is exquisite.
At 70, I’m a first generation Beatles enthusiast. I honestly enjoy your commentary on the early work of the Beatles. Your research is quite thorough and the overall presentation is impressive.
i agree. this album isn't only a very important beatle album, it launched beatlemania around the world, its a damned good album as well. in the states it was called "meet the beatles" and it included "i want to hold your hand" and "i saw her standing there." the beatles' first u. s. single. but it left off some really good covers like "You Really Got a Hold on Me," "money" and "roll over beethoven," my favorite beatle cover. and other singles and b-sides that were included on capitol's "the beatles 2nd album."
my older brother bought "meet the beatles" when it first came out and was quickly passed down to my possession. i had that album and my buddy, across the street, had "the 2nd album" so it was all good! at that time i didn't now the official english releases were different. i still consider "meet the beatles" ("with the beatles") the quintessential original beatles sound. i definately still listen to it today. in fact, i usually listen to beatles music in chronological order. its much more fun that way.
I won't forget that album! Here in the USA it was called Meet the Beatles and yes! it is the true Beatles sound. I still have my original album from 1964. Love the songs as I did as a 13 yo then.
Nov 22 1963 is the date of my Presidents murder, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in Texas America. Our lives in this country forever changed that day. No one was thinking about an album release of, to us, unknowns in England. We were devastatingly crushed and sad that day, weeks, months, years after;still actually.
But in the spring of 64, traumatized by the murder, the excitement of Beatles finally reaching us here, was a therapy you can not imagine.
Love Please Mr Postman-what a classic❤
To receive broadcast-quality documentary content on a weekly basis is a true gift. Thank you for your efforts in keeping the flame burning!
Also, I love hearing actual clips from the records you discuss! A needed touch!
Here here!!
Thank you, Richard!
Very well said, Richard. These videos are incredible, Andrew.
I was always proud that as a canadian, Capital Records here released this fine album first before America did a month earlier. I still have my copy, as it was called "Beatlemania with the Beatles". It was the only Beatle record on Capital Records Canada to release it the same way it was released in the UK. America's version "Meet The Beatles" only had 12 tracks along with adding the Hit "I Want To Hold Your Hand" with I Saw Her Standing There and This Boy. ... 3 songs that would be on Canada's 3rd release ... the Long Tall Sally album.
Yes...I had the original "Meet The Beatles" album...I played it so much that I wore it out...
Here in Mexico the songs from With The Beatles are displaced in three albums, Meet The Beatles (different from the US version) Vol. 2 and Vol. 3
This has always been my favourite Beatles album. I may have liked their later stuff when I was younger, but at some point, I started appreciating
the early albums more and more. And today, I much prefer them, not only because they contain great songs, but perhaps even more because
the Beatles were still playing together as a unit, and the sheer energy and camaraderie on display is awe-inspiring!
They lost that later on. The giddy excitement had been replaced with cynicism and exhaustion.
Anyway, all the originals are great on this album, and the covers are arguably the best they ever did. Especially John peaked here as a singer, I feel.
His take on "You Really Got a Hold on Me" is superior to the original, in my opinion, and "It Won't Be Long" is my favourite Beatles song of them all.
It's just insanely good! Hell, I even love George's song. A lot of people don't think it was that special, this early on, but it's both musically and
lyrically really interesting. A very grumpy lyric set to a very unusual melody. What's not to love?
My personal experience is that the older I get I prefer the Revolver-and-before than Peppers-and-after Beatles
Im 33, a second gen Beatles fan in my family, but the age of a 3rd gen. “With the Beatles” is among my favorite records of all time. I believe it is the purest British Rock n Roll record ever recorded. ✌️❤️
I remember laying on the living room floor and staring at the front & back covers. I think that front shot is a classic. Of course, I was looking at the Capitol release, but it meant the world to me. Later on, when I saw the British release, With The Beatles, I was surprised by all the extra songs. I still have a soft spot for Meet The Beatles. This is a joyous album full of life and energy. I love it. Pure Beatle joy. Have to go with mono on this one. Thx Andrew...
Meet The Beatles came out when I was 3 1/2 and I was hooked immediately! I had six older siblings. As a kid I loved looking at the album covers and even the albums themselves, especially the labels. The labels and the covers were like little pieces of art to me. And back then there was usually a short little 'story' on the back. I must have read that blurb on 'Meet...' hundreds of times.
I'm all about the group's raw enthusiasm and high youthful energy of their early music. So talented at such a young age. Nothing like it
In the U.S. the album called “Meet The Beatles” was released in January 1964, 3 months shy of my 5th birthday. My brother is 10 years older than me and everything he listened to I listened to. At this young age I fell in love with the Beatles. And yes, I still love this album as well.
Not the same album though.
right you are
I was about your age and we had “Meet The Beatles,” and I fell in love with Paul! I guess we all did 💕
@@peteterry2877 what is the difference ?
With the Beatles. My older sister got it for Christmas 1963 and a 9 year old me just loved it. I had a Hornby Dublo trainset for Christmas that year. The sound of my new Golden Fleece loco engine rattling round the track, combined with the music from this brilliant album, are combined in my head as the sound of that happy family Christmas. I have my own vinyl copy of the album now and, yes, I still have the loco which I'll keep till the day I die.
What gets me I'd that when they talk about the best Beatles albums no one ever mentioned With the Beatles. It's perfect and it captures the best essence of the group before they began to "mature" as artists
I have never understood why 'Not A Second Time' doesn't get a lot of love for the most part. That was one of the songs from Meet The Beatles that such a profound impact on me as a kid, especially effective as the album's closer. The same goes for 'I'll Be Back' (another early Lennon fave of mine) as the last track on Beatles '65. Quite moving. 'Little Child is pure zesty fun.
"Not a second time" is a great song!
Couldn’t agree with you more! “Not A Second Time” is an awesome but underrated song! The instrumental bridge early in the track is unique featuring the drum solo leading into the piano sets this song up for success. I wonder how often it was played in concerts?
That's my story too. I listened that album to death as a kid. My parents were in R & R bands from 1959-1965, so they bought that album to learn some of the songs. "Not a Second Time" is my favorite on that album too, and works perfectly as the last track, much better than "Money" on the UK album.
Me too. "Not a second time" I always loved. There's something about the unique melody , seemingly befitting of some lush arrangement, but they just rock it , as if they didn't think about it or rehearse it but there was only 5 minutes for one take. Maybe I'm a little odd, but I also have always loved "Little Child".
My favorite Beatles song.
A never leave it off of my playlists.
To me this album captured the “raw-ness” of the Beatles. I’m in Western Canada 🇨🇦 and purchased “Beatlemania” in early 1977. I was 15 and played this album quite often to the point that it annoyed my Mother and two siblings immensely. I loved all of the tracks. “Money” had me hooked right from the intro. “Please Mr. Postman” is probably one of many underrated Beatles songs of all time even if it is a cover. I recently turned 62 and will never stop listening to Beatles music. Thank you so much for a very interesting and thorough review of this album!
I'm also in Western Canada, and like you, I was listening to the 'back catalogue' of the Beatles in high school. By 1980, on a trip to NYC, I managed to get them all on Japanese vinyl. Which sounded 'cleaner' in those days. The few I didn't find (Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour) I picked up as German pressings 2 years later. It never crossed my mind to get a few UK titles (though I bought the Long Tall Sally EP in London). I always listen to the first four albums 'together'. And 'For Sale' (not released in North America) is probably my favorite because it has more obscure tracks (Lennon on 'Mr Moonlight', for example). "Hard Days Night" is hard to beat. And what I admire most about "Please Please Me" was the length of time spent recording it in the studio. It is for all practical matters a 'live album'. So, I have a Japanese pressing of 'Beatlemania', as it happens. In either version, I have to agree with you- the sound is raw and fresh.
Also in Western Canada. Born in 1960. One of my first memories is watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in Feb, 1964. I was 4. I can still remember what it felt like to hear new Beatles songs for the first time. They were magical.
Oh yeah...the "Beatlemania With The Beatles" album...! Outside of Canada, a most fascinating little variation to all things this album. Especially from a European perspective...I am from Germany, and we had a very interesting variant as well: our Beatle cover photo was black and blue (as with the US Meet The Beatles) instead of black and white, while the stripe alongside the upper edge was green, not white. That's how I prefer it 😉
In the early days of the Beatles' UK journey, they were almost universally adored for their loud, harmonious, fresh & spine-tingling sound. Their second single, Please Please Me, hit the UK #1 spot in January of 1963. It didn't hit the US until a year later, as the band had not yet had US exposure in '63.
Personally, I think the greatest thing about that album was Paul's and John's harmonies. That must be the sweetest sounds on earth.
WTB was a Christmas present in 1963 when I was 7. I thought at the time that it was a sensational record compared to another record I received 'Ready Steady Go' on Decca that Christmas. It was never off the record player back in the day, oh that sound. When I was older and got the stereo version I thought that it was cool to unplug one of the speakers and sing to the instrumental track or just listen to the vocals, brilliant times. Every track for me is a gem and I'd go as far to say that it must be the most played LP that I've ever owned. Thanks for yet another great video, keep up the good work.
Thanks Chris. Will do!
Exactly. I was 8 at that Christmas and my feelings are the same as yours. Mine was the mono version and, despite having all the subsequent versions in mono and stereo, that original pressing still gets played the most. It, and the original mono Rubber Soul, are clearly at the top of my all-time, most played list.
For me in the US, it was Meet the Beatles! I was introduced to it by a neighbor friend, summer, 1974. That December I received my own copy for my birthday. It was the album which started my lifelong love of the Beatles and their music.
In my opinion, out of the first four albums, With The Beatles is the best as a whole album. While there are some great songs on Please Please Me, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale, the energy, tightness and sheer joy of With The Beatles cannot be matched for that period.
❤well done... I wish we had gotten this album in the USA but believe me we had no idea and we were very happy obviously with what we had. I love listening to the UK early Beatles albums. I can't choose a favorite... I do love Beatles For Sale and play it a lot!!! Thanks for this great rewind!
As a die hard Beatles fan this IS the true sound of the Beatles. The early records are where my heart lives. I like the later ones too but I grew up with my dad going to cruise ins and car shows and him playing this album, along with Beatles for Sale, Please Please Me and Past Masters 1 in his hot rod. I love the first 5 albums more than anything and this one might be my all time favorite album. Thanks for defending this underrated album. We need a video on Beatles for Sale! Cheers!
Indeed...."With The Beatles" was and remains an ASTONISHING album...!! 😃
My mum (no longer with us) was a member of the Cavern Club just before and as the Beatles (and Gerry and the Pacemakers) were becoming famous. She bought With The Beatles as soon as it came out. My dad still has that copy. I’ve always considered With The Beatles as one of my lesser favourite albums but Andrew’s video has given me new appreciation for this album and the magical time that was 1963. Time for me to show this album some love.
Precious memories, Kevin.
Hello Andrew,
another great video. The sound of the 1963 first Mono pressing is unbelievable. For me it sounds so much better then the stereo version.
My first copy was an early 1970s German Stereo Pressing and it was one of my first records. With the Beatles was always one of my favourite Beatles records.
Greetings
Stefan
My dad is 76, 16 when this was released and it’s still his favourite Beatle record to this day. Like you said if you were there at the time it holds a special place in your heart as opposed to comparing it to their whole body of work.
When I was a kid in the 90s, My dad always used to play this album in car rides. I don’t listen to this as much as an adult preferring other Beatles albums but all these songs are nostalgic for me, they remind me of my childhood
I'm more for Rubber Soul onwards but the early era of The Beatles is very good
Yes it does capture that early Beatles sound, and the vocals and harmonies are great. Iconic cover. Some great tunes, yet patchy IMO by their forthcoming unreal standards. Great video as always, Andrew.
American millennial here and this was the first Beatles album I heard and was obsessed with both it and A Hard Day's Night when my parents had them on the '87 CD issues that favored the original UK track listings.
When I was 15 in 1964, I had a friend that played the mono "Meet the Beatles" album on his amateur radio station that broadcast only several blocks. It was soon my favorite record. These songs were full of fantasy and emotionally gripping. To me, the mono has incredible appeal and transports me back 60 years with the excitement it generates. The way these songs were mixed takes me on an emotional fantasy trip. The group changed so much after 1965, I lost track of them until 1970 when a girl in college reintroduced me to their more recent albums, and I began to buy all their albums.
Agree, this album is currently my favourite one at this point. Thanks to their cover of The Miracle's You Really Got A Hold On Me.
The addition of bits of actual Beatles songs is FAB and really works well with the videos.
From the cover to George's first song and the great Lennon and McCartney originals makes this disc all killer, no filler!
In stereo, I always felt the singer was there, and the drums there, and it seemed to work as if I was in the middle of them.
Not a second time is so good, I couldn't stop playing it over and over. Aeolian cadences gone wild!
Oh, Andrew: thank you! I bought the Canadian pressing in 1979. I used to rush home at lunch, and to my mum’s bemusement , put this on in the listening room whilst eating.
It’s easily the most exciting record The Beatles have ever released, bar none. The song craft, however, is so staggering that one wonders where to begin! “It Won’t be Long” is still in my top five songs of theirs because (apart from the sheer excitement and joy of it) the chord structure and harmonics are just killer!!!
I won’t bore with the rest of my assessment save for the fact that Lennon’s vocal on “Money…” is possibly the most riveting rock vocal I have ever heard. Its only competitor to my ear is “Bad Boy” and “Great Balls of Fire.”
This record not only proved that the Beatles were superb craftsmen in their own right, but were also capable at beating the original artists on songs they covered (Smokey was equaled to be fair). See? I’m second Gen and cannot say enough good about one of the very best records.
No, I would say that "Please Please Me" was a much more exciting album (and why it is usually rated higher), but this is a better quality album, with better sound and better songs.
In 1976, I was 14 years old when I first listened to "Meet the Beatles" and was hooked for life. My favorite songs from the album were, and still are: "It Won't Be Long," "Hold Me Tight," "Don't Bother Me," and "I Saw Her Standing There."
I’ve been a fan of The Beatles since 1963. My aunt, who was a McCartney family nanny in her hometown of Liverpool, had British copies of The Beatles albums sent to her by the McCartney’s. She saw how I reacted to listening to them so she gave me The Beatles and With The Beatles. And, sent me all of the other albums shortly after she received them. My Aunt Joyce came to the States when she married my mom’s brother, Paul. He was a Merchant Marine ships Captain, who she met when he was ferrying loads to Liverpool. My aunt’s family lived across the street from the McCartney’s. Each one of my albums has its original jacket and liner sleeve. No one other than myself has ever been allowed to play the records. One other thing, I’m a bigger fan of the pre-India recordings than after. Oh, and this was an excellent video you put together. I’ve subscribed.
Great story, Thomas and welcome aboard!
Magnificent album. One of my most favorite album from The Beatles ever
Love this album! Bought it as a kid in the 80's, a stereo release from Odeon that had a green background for the top area of the cover. I loved the sound of it, compressed and hyped, lots of energy. It also had the hihat count-in on All my loving.
i'm 50, and i just discovered recently that all first albums sounds abolutely terrific in MONO, and that was the real Beatles sound! Took me ages to realize that. Geeeee... It perturbates me that i listened to those records in stereo all my life... anyway, it's just the way to go. MONO !!! IS !!!!!! GOOOD !!!!
Perhaps I’m alone in this, but I truly enjoy the 1963 STEREO mix of this album. I first heard it when the 2009 remasters came out, and I remember being taken aback at how lifelike it sounded! And who’s to say everything has to be mixed the same way, with vocals, drums and bass in the middle? I have no problems with voices coming out of one side, and I’m a headphone listener primarily. Thanks for another well-made video! ❤
I grew up with the 2009 stereo version, and even then I enjoyed the album! The backing tracks are so tight and energetic and clean too.
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Growing with the bad sounding mono CD from 1987, the 2009 stereo remaster for me was a revelation, more clearer vocals and instruments, i don't understand the "hate" from Steve Hoffman's forum audiophiles for the stereo mixes
@@alancruzdominguez5074 Have you listened lately to the 1987 CD on a good system? It sounds pretty good actually, not that different from the 2009 mono…
@@vinylarchaeologisti don't have the 1987 CD anymore
My favorite album of theirs because of the second opening track.. “All I’ve Got To Do”
John’s vocals are loud and rich.
Paul’s bass is deep & heavy toned.
George’s guitar sounds like charms sparking in the background.
Ringo’s drums specifically those hi-hat hits holds it all together.
then the record goes right into “All My Loving” perfectly executed.
I went thru 8 copies of this album on wax until getting ahold of a XEX -1N cut it really is perfect sounding and prefer it over the 2014 mono,
So warm but loud!
side note: I was interested about side 2’s “Roll Over Beethoven” going to have the that rumored skip on -1N but it played all the way through on my LP120, rocked the speakers.
Just that opening chord alone is fantastic! Another of their many, many underappreciated songs.
Great video as always, Andrew. You mentioned that Beatles fans of the time - especially younger ones - would likely choose With the Beatles or another early album as their favorite. That's my own personal experience too. I grew up listening to my parents' Beatles records and, as a child, all my favs were the earlier albums. I found them to be far more accessible up and including Revolver. Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road and Let it Be were all albums my parents had but I had a much harder time getting into them. I suppose that makes sense...they are, in a way, more sophisticated albums. Much too good for children. ;) It was only when I was older that I completely flipped and now prefer the Beatles' later work, though the early stuff is still brilliant of course.
I was born in April of’61 with older siblings. MEET THE BEATLES was a constant staple in our home. I loved listening to this album all my life and still do. Along with my mother’s Elvis & Herb Alpert records, dad’s Johnny Cash and our hundreds is 45s, music was spectacular. This album was the linchpin of my early musical education. Remember…”Well she was just 17, and you know what I mean!”
It’s what brought me to them in the first place.
In it, you hear exactly what drew everyone to the magic.
It revealed the raw talent that had been forged by months of performing.
My favorite Beatles album, hands down. I suppose much of my love for this record is due to unabashed nostalgia as I was 6 years old when I received a copy (my first LP) for Christmas, 1963. I remember how the music exploded from the family record player on Christmas morning. It just seemed so exciting and fresh.
Well, I am an old Beatles fan from Greece and i was in my mid teens when i bought my first Beatles record which was HELP. I loved it and i bought all the previous albums which i also loved. But then RUBBER SOUL, REVOLVER and Sgt PEPPER'S and the rest came out and i realised that this was the music i wanted to listen to. The early albums are just fine for what they are, but not the Beatles i so much love even to this day.
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Nontheless, there are several songs in the before RUBBER SOUL albums, which i really like. One of them is YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY which is the first song i learned to play (not very well then) on my cheap guitar and sing.. without knowing the lyrics (lol). But my dear cousin Katerina who sadly passed away a couple of years ago, loved it and always asked me to play it everytime she was around. RIP Katerina😔Who knows, one day we might meet again and then i will play your song better than i did back then😔
The Canadian ''Beatlemania ! With The Beatles'' was one of the first Beatles albums I have bought back in 1981, and it's still on my top 3 favorite albums. I could not stop listening to it ! it's a fantastic Rock and Roll album. I much prefer the stereo mix, and it's one of the few albums I play from start to finish !
I can’t listen to this album without smiling. Just like I can’t watch A Hard Day’s Night without smiling.
In the USA Meet the Beatles was what we bought. As soon as it came out. And played a million times.
Being a 7yr old Yank, I first heard the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in Feb '64. I went bonkers for them and became a musician. Yes, times were simpler, but not less complicated. My house was a black cloud during Christmas and afterward losing my beloved hero John Kennedy. My tears turned to rejoicing. I imitated John and my friend imitated Paul Beatles every recess. The energy and joy from this album and their comraderie is unmatched in my opinion.
It has become my fav album since I've bought it and heard it for the first time.
It's IMHO the album which defines The Beatles' style.
English isn't my mother tongue and All My Loving was their first song I could fully understand.
All I've Got to Do is criminally underrated, it's a great song.
I'm 54 years old. I was born in 1969 and started listening to the Beatles when I was 6 years old in 1975. I love music from their entire career as a group, but I would have to say that I prefer their earlier music. This is a great album. I also love their first album, Please, Please Me, and A Hard Days Night. Beatles For Sale, Help, and Rubber Soul. As I said I love their later music as well, but I'm more of a fan of these early years.
Same here, born in 1969 and my favourites are all those you have listed. While I was never a Beatles fan, and only knew the more famous songs, during Covid, when I hit my 50's I bought the entire album collection on itunes and am a huge fan now! Sae Paul McArtney in concert just a couple of months ago. It was awesome!
"With The Beatles" was the first Beatles record I ever heard. "It Won't Be Long" just knocked me out when I first heard the song- the first track on side 1. Also, because of the credits on the back cover, I learned to distinguish the "lead" guitar from the "rhythm" guitar, from the bass guitar from the drums- it was excellent ear-training for me.
I was nine when this album came out and an uncle of mine, who was a sailor on a submarine based in England, brought me a copy. I lived in a ghetto and was the only kid with this album. To this day I've never been more famous or liked.
I adore this album. I have an old mono copy. To me, the early albums showcase Lennon’s voice at his best. The energy bursts off this. I love the later stuff but this, to me, is unbeatable!
Yep.....this is my 'go to' Beatles album when i'm in a 'Beatles' mood ❤️
Me too Buster 👍🏻
It's a great hybrid of their sound. Covers and originals performed nicely and tight. The group was learning the studio, but still keeping their "Cavern" sound.
I am a first generation Beatles beneficiary. An unique journey that cannot be replicated. It was the very freshness of the sound that was unlike anything ever heard before. (There was also Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys and early Tamala in those early 60's years, all had that freshness to the ears. 'Never heard anything like it in my life' quality.) It was the production values that were new. Especially in the non Beatles tune 'Till There was You'. The up-close vocals, guitars and congas on 'Till there was you' was the most intimate, clean, instrumentally distinct thing ever. Music now had seperate elements, wasn't soup, however delicious. I just played it again to check, that freshness, those production values, the clarity of each part, the separation, the up front sound of each part had never been brought out to the ears in quite that way before.
Were they congas, or was this when Ringo p[ayed on packing cases? Maybe someone can correct me.
I’m American almost 73 and I could never pick a favorite Beatles song but I can say the White Album is my favorite. Meet The Beatles was like all their albums meaning it was fantastic. The first album where you didn’t have to move the needle to skip a song.
It's a magically brilliant album ... that's why ...
When I was growing up in the 80's, I went through my mom's old LP's and found "With the Beatles". It was the first Beatles album I'd ever heard. The first songs. The first hit. When I first heard them, they sounded dirtier, more alive and immediate and more furiously brilliant than any other band at the time to me. It was like an alien ship landing on my brain and waking it up. Everything else on the radio sounded dull to me after that. It started my whole dive into "classic rock" as a kid in the 80's, which made making friends a bit tough lol. While everyone else was listening to The Cure or Cindy Lauper, I was listening to "Rubber Soul" and "Pet Sounds". But I'll never forget hearing "I Saw Her Standing There" for the first time on the "Hard Day's Night" LP and wondering why nothing else on the radio sounded THAT good.
Well done,again, Andrew! I so look forward to Sunday mornings to see your entertaining Beatles analyses.
I was 6 years old when I found my love for music. I’m 23 now but the kickstart to my love of music was at 6 when I found “Help!” I still find that once a year I’m crawling back to the Beatles catalogue finding new songs I cherish and love as much as the ones I loved before. This alone proves to me that the Beatles are timeless. With music almost 3x my age I can relate and love their music and grow with it. It’s insane to me how timeless their music is and I truly believe they will stand unbeaten as the greatest group of all time.
Thanks for sharing! I was 7 years old and discovered them when John was murdered in 1980. "Mr Postman" and "Please Please Me" were my favourites in the beginning.
With the Please Please Me album, it was a case of " Whooh ! Can you believe this ! How advanced is this ? ", and from then on it was a recurring process of hanging out for their next album. And, With The Beatles did not disappoint. Nor any other of their LPs [ long plays ] for the rest of that decade. But the Please Please Me album is vastly superior to With The Beatles. Although With The Beatles does feature some masterclass, such as the first two tracks as well as Hold Me Tight.
Amazing show as always, thanks Andrew! And can't wait for the BOTR episode, LOVE that album!
Another great video. It's a bonus how you always change the background to match the records you are talking about. I have over 500 vinyl lps in my Beatles collection, not counting cds as well as cassettes. Can't wait for next week.
Often overlooked, With the Beatles has some of my favourite early John songs: It Won’t Be Long, All I’ve Gotta Do, and Not A Second Time. Their cover of Please Mister Postman is also a triumph, and tops the original.
I remember listening to my dad’s stereo copy for the first time, and being fascinated moving back and forth to hear the instruments on one side and their voices on the other. As for today, I was lucky enough to find a nice conditioned -1 pressing for a good price. I’ve noticed how the cover also appears much darker and their faces more detailed. Anyone know the reason for this?
Not a second time has to be one of the most boring beatles songs of all time..top 5 most boring lol
@@jadebel7006 I have to disagree - it is an odd song to be sure, more like a modal folk ballad in form. But I like traditional folk, so I suppose that's why it appeals to me. 😄 "Don't Bother Me" is a similar vibe in that regard.
@@jadebel7006That’s not you spell Hold Me Tight 😂
@@jadebel7006If anything, Ringo's songs have that honour!
Hi Andrew:
This is Mick in San Diego.
Just caught your video on With The Beatles. Your work is OUTSTANDING! Thank you for the time and energy you put into constructing this video essay perfectly. Your style of producing is excellent and your photography is superb. You obviously do a fair amount of research before going in front of the camera. What's especially nice is that you break down the album history in terms of the time when it was produced and recorded as well as technical facts and critical reviews during that period. Absolutely excellent!
As a long time Beatles fan, student, collector and scholar (maybe!) I'm learning things in your video that I didn't know before and that.. is your own personal legacy here Andrew.. Your ability to inform and your keen insight is amazing!
Thank you again for your brilliant analysis of With The Beatles. Will look for your Band On The Run review in the new year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Mick 👉
👍👍
Thank you so much, Mick. Wishing you the same too! 👍😎
Loved the video as usual. Thanks much Andrew !
Thanks Scott. Glad you enjoyed it!
I was fortunate to be 13 yrs old in October 1963 in the USA at that time taking music lessons. I grew up and musically inspired by the Beatles. I got to hear all these songs when they were new into the world and my generation at the time. The first few albums are the foundation of what the Beatles were. Since money was no longer a necessity for them their later albums became what I refer to as there is music and then there is the music business. The later albums were because of music business. Beach Boys and Beatles business like Pet Sounds and Sgt Pepper. Most and I repeat most performers stay in a groove through out their careers. Paul McCartney has stayed in a groove for a long time since the dismantling of The Beatles. The later albums of the Beatles was so much of music business that I think it dissolved the heart of The Beatles. As far as the music critics and reviews go about the album Meet The Beatles, those critics mean nothing. The real evidence is in who bought and listen and loved to hear the Beatles as performers. When The Beatles left their grooves was about the time of The Revolver album. Those performers from the USA that gained the attention of John, Paul, George and Ringo such as the Crickets, Crystals, and a bunch of the Phil Spector’s productions stayed in their performing grooves for many decades. In fact before the Beatles came to the USA they wanted to work with Phil Spector, The Wall of Sound, later called The Wrecking Crew. Yet because of music business and contracts could not. Not until the dismantling of the Beatles did they get to work with Phil Spector. There are two “ Let It Be” Albums, Phil Spector and Paul McCartney remastered Let It Be album. John George and Ringo worked with Phil Spector in their post Beatles, individual albums. Paul did not and that was most likely the best thing Paul did was distance himself from Phil Spector. The four stayed in their own individuality performing grooves. Those later albums of the Beatles,especially are great but not who they truly were as evidence in their earlier albums. There is music and there is the music business and they go together like oil and water goes together. It’s all good, just the early albums are the heart of the true Beatles sound. Finally a live performance is always in mono, there is no stereo in a live performance. Where one is sitting, standing has an effect like stereo be closer to one part of the performers and distant from the other’s. Live is mono, synthetic is stereo. Modern music today is tracked where albums are made with performers don’t see each other and or record on days apart from the other performers. Not until tour time. The early Beatles productions like Phil Spector productions did mostly everything in one big room, not separated sound booths. The sound was different because the other recording mikes picked up the other sounds bleeding into the recording. Just like a live concert. Today’s music is spliced, tracked, layered with synthetic editing.
When I bought all the CDs of the British releases, I quickly recognized how good this album was. It is THE BEATLES.
It's definitely in my top 4:
1. Rubber Soul & Revolver (tie)
3. Abbey Road
4. With the Beatles
5. Help!
I taught Guitar in universities for 32 years, and the most impressive guitar part, HANDS DOWN, is John triplet rhythm part in All My Lovin'!
No contest!
You have to be a guitarist to understand.
Agree with you about Revolver and Rubber Soul. Personally I never really liked Abbey Road - although another 'early' album which is much underrated is the soundtrack to A Hard Days Night. Play the CD on a good well set-up separates hi-fi and it's superb. Best track is Paul McCartney singing 'Things We Said Today' imo. As one critic has pointed out about this album - these are classic guitar-driven love songs from a boy-band. Yet they were released back in 1964 !
1964 1964
To really understand the Beatles, one must go back in time before Epstein invented the Fabs.
They were working class rockers who played the toughest bars in the world, while performing all night gigs fueled by drugs and alcohol.
Epstein cleaned & dressed them up, crafted a new image and literally packaged them for sale.
But the talent, drive and utter fluency as a band always remained if one looks past the hype and simply focuses on the what, 200 songs they produced?
So enjoyed this. Thank you
I love this album too. My copy is an ‘82 Japanese mono. It sounds fantastic.
I’ve come to love your channel and videos with so much great Beatles data and nuggets! I bought my stereo version of WTB in the mid to late 1980s and just couldn’t get enough of it, the energy and their interpretation of some great rock ‘n’ roll/ R&B style hits!
Glad you're enjoying the channel and thanks for posting!
Thanks again, Andrew. I have all the Beatles 1982 mono vinyl re-issues. I must checkout With the Beatles. I look forward to every Monday when I can view your highly informative posts.
Hi Andrew, and thanks for another wonderful and comprehensive review. I can still remember how fascinating the UK "With The Beatles" looked to me when I first purchased it around 1980 at a local record store in my hometown of New Orleans. Up to that point, nearly all of my Beatles records were the dreaded Capital "cash grab" pressings and I already owned an older copy of "Meet The Beatles" that had been given to me by an uncle of mine. Now however, I was educating myself and seeking the "real" early Beatles albums and I was really taken with the dramatic monochrome of the UK import. I lost this copy along with my entire collection due to the flooding of Hurricane Katrina, but as you are aware ... I've been collecting again for years since. I have the UK BC13 and German BC13 stereo pressings and the 2014 Mono box as well, so I'm quite satisfied, but I really wish I still had that first one I purchased back in 1980.
Another fine Beatles video, as always! Very interesting to hear the contemporary reviews. They sound very formal!
With the Beatles was one of three Beatles albums that my mum gave to me. She bought them as a teenage fan at the time and looked after them well. I listened to them as a teenager in the 90s and the band's youthful energy leapt out of the speakers. I suddenly 'got' what Beatlemania must have been all about and why the Cavern Club and Hamburg gigs must have been so exciting.
I’m a second generation fan. I got into the Beatles by my mom who saw them in Philadelphia ten days before the last show in Candlestick Park. She knew of the songs on this album from the American counterparts. This was her favorite time period of the Beatles. I too enjoy this album and this time period of the band. They were getting along and the hard drugs had not shown up yet. Nothing against their later material. I love that as well. This album holds a special place in my heart.
Hi Andrew. Great video, shining a light on a Beatle album often overlooked and underrated, in my opinion. In October 1978, on the Friday before breaking up for half term at school, me and a friend popped off to the original Penny Lane Records to see what we could find. I'd been into the Beatles since 1974 so I was still building up my collect at that point. I can't remember which LP my friend got but I plummed for "With The Beatles", possible taken with Freeman's exotic cover. We then walked to Mossley Hill train station, which took about half an hour, and we then met some more school friends on the platform. We were showing them what we had bought when one of the lads told a rather scary story : he told us that he had bought an LP in town (Liverpool), took it home where he took the record out of its sleeve and gasped when he noticed it was not the LP he had just bought but some completely unrelated artist. He said he had to wait til the following week before his parents could take him back into town and change the disc to the correct album. I quickly glanced at my mate and we both had the same thought : he immediately took out his record and checked it ! "Phew!!" he said, "it's OK. Your turn Tim !" I popped mine out of the bag, then carefully removed the sleeve and took out the vinyl. "Argh !!! It's "Revolver !! Blast ! I already have that, and, funnily enough I had to wait a week before I could take it back and change it as it stuck on "Here, There and Everywhere" !!! Now I looked up at the clock on the platform and realised that my train was due to arrive in the next 10 minutes. I faced a dilemma - do I go home or do I go back to the record shop and get it changed now; that would mean an hour round trip to the shop and then I'd be on my own on the train ? To be honest, I knew almost immediately that I would return to the shop there and then as it was not too late. So, I told my friends goodbye and said I would see them after the half term break and went back to Penny Lane Records. It was worth it because, once I got home, I played "With The Beatles" non-stop all week because it was FAB !! I bought a stereo copy and, to my ears, it was perfect ! When I compare my top 10 Beatles LPs with Beatle fans, I am always puzzled by their rather negative reaction to this album. I mean, the first 3 tracks are just classics ! And my all time favourite Beatles cover is "You Really Got A Hold On Me" which features one of Lennon's finest vocal performances ever ! I would say that "Hold Me Tight" and "Little Child" ate the weakest cuts but otherwise you can hear their energy and enthusiasm on every track. And the iconic cover just seals the deal. For me it is better that The White album, Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road and Let It Be !! Cheers Tim
Cheers Tim. Great memories!
And I'll say that I appreciate the fascinating historic details you've given us here. I'm a new subscriber. Thanks.
Thank you, Bret and welcome aboard!
I've always loved this album. For me the Beatles became the Beatles in 1963 and 1964 when Beatlemania was at its highest - the excitement of the music, and their image. The first five albums represent to me what made them truly great - before the drugs, the fallings out, and the rudderlessness following the death of Brian Epstein.
Quality video again as we've come to expect!
Thank you!
Hello Andrew, look forward to your latest video every Sunday. They’re always well researched, informative & provide me with new perspectives. What I love about this particular album is Lennon’s uninhibited emotions which transpires in his singing. In my case I first noticed discovered this on the last track, Twist and Shout from their first album. Throughout his career, Lennon always came up with the exact tinge of emotion to fit the song’s mood. He was the best at it in my humble opinion. I’ll never forget playing “I’m so tired” from The Beatles’ album to my mother who was at the time in her late sixties. She looked at me and said “My God, he really does sound tired”. 👍 🇨🇦
Hold Me Tight SO underrated.
Another great piece of content from a foremost Beatles expert! I appreciate that you did a deep dive into the reviews of the time, they really add context, thank you sir, cheers!
Thank you, Sir!
Brilliant approach to the context and details of this iconic album of the Beatles.
Thank you!
A wonderful overview of one my favorite albums. I enjoyed the track by track of two important period reviews for context, as well as ‘it must’ve taken you forever to find these clips!’ footage from the vinyl manufacturers and period Cavern footage. Thank you, Andrew😊!
Thanks Scott. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Don't bother me is one of my favourite Beatles songs. I am now 58 and as a toddler my brother bought Beatles albums which I remember dancing to while hanging on the edge of our console stereo watching the Capital Records rainbow colours going round and round. I remember like it was yesterday all my troubles seem so far away.
My sister and I got this album in I think 1964. It was our introduction to the Beatles beyond what was on the radio. My parents were divorced and we had two stereos -- yes, stereos -- to play it on. Dad was 35 and Mom was 32, practically middle-aged as you say. Our copy was stereo. The instruments were on one side and the vocals were on the other. Mom's stereo didn't have a balance knob but Dad's did. We took the album to his apartment on Sunday visits and would turn the balance knob to the instrument side and then my sister and I sang along. I think that was the only album I ever had with that kind of mix. Later of course I got an electric guitar and my buddies and I started a moderately famous (in our neighborhood) garage band. It was great fun. Even later I got an acoustic guitar and started playing folk songs and the singer-songwriter music of the 60s and 70s. This was a great time to come of age.
yeah, they were really ancient. weren't they.....that is pretty wild about the stereo mix..... very creative of you to do that...
Just watched your lasted video Andrew. I’ve subscribed & liked it. Very smooth & fantastic review. Thank you from Houston TX 🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️🎼🎸🎶🎵🕺
Thank you and welcome aboard! ✌️😎
Another great review!
My respect
Thank you, Romi. Glad you enjoyed it
A good review of the reviews. Certainly my fav fab four LP
A great video for a classic LP. I especially enjoyed those two contrasting reviews, Andrew. I love the word 'urgy' and the expression 'mitt-pounding', both of which are new to me. I'm always very struck how this LP's release coincided with both the assassination of President Kennedy and Doctor Who's first episode. It's certainly a great selection of tunes and compares very favourably with most other beat group LPs that were issued that winter.