THE BEATLES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This old stuff is fun to hear, you can hear them grow from one Lp or Cd to the other very raw.

Classic early Beatles
I love the Beatles. They can do no harm. No matter what phase of music they were in, they did it well. This is classic, bee bop, love song Beatles and I love every song.

The Legacy Begins.
After doing gigs in Hamburg for a while The Beatles finally decided to record their first album titled Please Please Me. The group presents a collection of raw 50's style rockers as well some of the sweetest, harmonious pop songs ever put on record. Given, this is not a cohesive LP or semi-concept album such as Sgt Pepper or Abbey Road. Like nearly all LPs of the time, it is a collection of singles as well as "filler" tracks. Also, alot of the material consists of covers rather than original songs.

This is The Beatles early in their career. Long before they cared about making grandiose artistic statements, the fab four simply wanted to make fun Rock-n-Roll numbers. And that they did, with the shout 1.2.3.4 and the driving rhythms of, "I Saw Her Standing There" they rocked harder than few groups did at the time. Aside from rock-n-roll, The Beatles knew how to make soft lush pop on such tracks as, "Ask Me Why", and the girl group covers of, "Chains", and, "Baby It's You". Indeed the Beatles took cues from all of their influences including Chuck Berry, Goffin and King, 60's girl groups, and even R&B artists.

The group had been perfroming as a skiffle group prior to this recording. Like all other skiffle groups, they simply wanted to follow in their heroes (50's rockers) footsteps and make good raw, rock-n-roll. The Beatles were one of the few such groups to make it big. Probably because they had the most talent. Though the songwriting on this album is definitley not as amazing as it would shortly become, the group shows some innovation on the pop rocker, "Please Please Me", and the shout fest, "Twist and Shout". "Love Me Do" shows up here: an early single featuring just drums, bass, acoustic guitar and, of course, John Lennon's harmonica.

Though, in the long run, Please Please Me, may just be a prelude for better things to come, it's still a wonderful piece of rock-n-roll and pop. The Beatles never would never make anything that sounded as simple or striped down again.

Big Fan
There is really not much to say. Everyone knows the beatles and their music. There is very little that I would not like. There is always a song or two that don't particularily empress but for the most part it's a good album or should I say CD.

Poo on YOU! you know who i mean...i was there! HA!
hey, this album is special for those of us who lived this era - it is not meant to be evaluated for anyone else except as a passing fancey - those of us who lived this era have a special place for this album. this was one of my first albums, released a few days after my 10th birthday and i played it to death.........PLAYED IT TO DEATH!!! and thank god my mom loved the beatles, too! i DO NOT CARE if you think this is not up to your standards because, in most cases, you were not a part of this fantastic new experience starting at that time, so you are clueless about this whole thing here. just like i was clueless at ten, but i know there was something cool, fun and fascinating here...and it blossomed in time just like i did! so if you did not grow up while the BEATLES grew, then you have no clue as to why this is near and dear to those of us who have a fondness and gratefulness to have been there at the beginning of this era! Thank you Sweet Lord, for letting me grow up when i did as life from the 70's forward just wanked out and been going down ever since!!! thank you, thank you, thank you! btw, i have the Japanese release and am so pleased with this in my collection! Enjoy, for those who know what i mean from living those times!