Incorporating the style that made The Beatles who they were, A Hard Day’s Night is one of their best albums, by combining the whimsical and wistful with the upbeat and poppy.
This album seems to get overlooked a bit in The Beatles catalogue, but not only does it have the well known singles that came from it, but the other songs that make up the album are all more than just filler as well.
As with most of their albums the songs are all shortish – radio bite-sized pieces for maximum exposure. The great benefit of this is that the album seems to flow along swiftly without getting bogged down anywhere. Of course, this doubles as the soundtrack to the movie of the same name that starred the band, but having not seen the film I couldn’t tell you whether it works well in that environment or not.
Favourites here include “A Hard Day’s Night”, “I Should Have Known Better”, “If I Fell”, “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “I’ll Be Back”.
Rating: One of my favourite Beatles albums. 3.5/5.
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