For me the early Beatles captured an energy and sound that still gets me jumping around and trying to sing like they do! The voices.... oh the voices that blend together to create an excitement that is just pure and uninhibited!
1, 2, 3, 4!!!!! and CRACK!!! Off we go to the sound of 'I saw her standing there'. Can you actually believe the very first Beatle album starts of with '1, 2, 3, 4!'??? It's almost like the '1, 2, 3, 4' was inserted by a movie director AFTER he found out how great The Beatle story is!
'Yes... how to get this story off to a flyer' ... amazing to think they chose the '1, 2, 3, 4' intro... as if they KNEW how GREAT they were going to become!
I love the early excitement of this album, famously recorded in ONE day (well 10 of the songs were as 'Love Me Do', 'Ask Me Why', 'Please Please Me' and 'P.S. I Love You' were the first two singles released by The Beatles and this album was made on the back of that success).
ONE DAY to make an album!!!! In just four short years from this they come out with Sgt. Pepper which took something like 700 HOURS to make!!!!
The covers including 'Anna', 'Chains', 'Boys' capture the Cavern excitement but it was the originals that made the public stand up and take note. Bands DON'T write their own songs!!!!! EVER!!! But this being probably the first of MANY barriers and conventions that The Beatles smashed down in their pursuit of genius. Also of note was this album didn't have a LEAD singer... They ALL sang!!! Again this for the day was rare and I guess even today's great bands only have the one singer!!!
However, as great as this album is and as well sequenced it is (the concept of an album as ONE piece being born) it was the closer that stole the show. The John sang 'Twist and Shout' is the GREATEST cover version ever recored surely!!! And to think that what you hear today WAS the 1st take AFTER a 13 hour day of recording goes beyond comprehension!!!! Thankfully the recent digital remastering of the Beatle's catalogue brilliantly shows up a hilarious but telling factor right at the last second of this song where you can here John's ravaged voice completely give out!!!!
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