I Hate Please, Please Me

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Is it just me or does this album suck donkey quief's?
I like "Do You Wanna Know A Secret". But Everything Else Just Seems To....Not Be So Good. Does Anyone else think this?

In Fact I think that they pretty much sucked until rubber soul....and that albums not really so hot either

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Just for the record i'm talking about The Beatles.

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer the thread title as a cryptic pronouncement

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! Thats great Ned. I still haven't gotten into anything before '71.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I do love Strawberry Fields Forever though. I know I'm not really at liberty to discuss since I'm openly not-that-into the Beatles but I think Please, Please Me is pretty obviously overrated because of who dunnit.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

there are some dodgy tracks on it, but there's also "there's a place," "misery," "do you want to know a secret" (which even you like!), the title song for crissake, and totally ace covers of "anna" and "twist and shout." for starters.

i also love the way the vocals and the guitars *sound*. it's an incredibly punchy album.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

this is like the first great pop record ever. there's a place for god's sake!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 15 January 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That song's still as good as like ANYTHING EVER by ANYONE

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 15 January 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Better than the STROKES even

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 15 January 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

lol you must have read my other message. i never said the stokes were better than the beatles. i just wanted to know why so many people say they hate them and than go pray to a picture of fred durst. it's idiotic

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Thursday, 15 January 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh pay no attention to me, I'm just a bit shocked at how much I like "Room on Fire".

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 15 January 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Please Please Me. I even like A Taste of Honey, which no-one else does. I like it cos of the daftly loud "doo-doo doo-doo"s which define 'singalong' for me and also the briskly serious bit ("I will return...") is very cool.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 15 January 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, "There's A Place" is fantastic. "Ask Me Why," "Baby It's You," there's some great songs on there. It's possibly their least consistant record, but I can't bring myself to dismiss it with highlights like those.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 15 January 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

famously the recording of the lp was done in one day, begun early in the morning with track one, and finished late night with just one (yep, one) take of the final track 'twist and shout'. fck the rest of the noise, *there's* the first proper fckng rock and roll song ever made in britain right there. as the late ian mcdonald points out in 'revolution in the head' it was the first time anything remotely like that had ever been recorded in a british studio. they really had to psyche themselves up too. they were exhausted (having laid down all the lp's other tracks during that same day) but gave the track 'a go' despite a) the late hour and b) lennon's wrecked throat (they went for a second take but he just wasn't up to it). have you *heard* this fckng song lately ?!

despite being laid down as a last resort (it was a fave in the live set but they hadnt planned to record it) the fabs, a knackered george martin and a couple of weary engineers managed to make it sound electrifying enough to be the soundtrack for an entire city centre street parade in the middle of 'ferris bueller's day off'.
it didn't sound out of place in that context at all.

you *hate* 'please please me' ?

"ahhhhhhhh-ahhhhhhhh-ahhhhhhh-aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
waaaaaggggh hey yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh1!!!!!
shake it up BAYbee now !"

aw come on, you do not.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

what piscesboy said. i was going to say the same, only he said it better.

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Better than the STROKES even
that's like saying, "better than watching paint dry" or, "better than assembling a bookshelt from IKEA".

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

no, it's great. and no one's even mentioned 'i saw her standing there'* yet - the "one two three FUH!" is definitely the start of something in the UK.

*or is this one of those 'song not on the US version' things?

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Do You Wanna Know A Secret". But Everything Else Just Seems To....Not Be So Good. Does Anyone else think this?

"Do You Wanna Know A Secret" is fucking SHITE! God I hate that all that yakky-dakky Merseybeat mindrot.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't much like 'do you want to no a secret' though i do like the the du-du-du-du-du-du guitar picking bit that (george?) can't play properly

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i also like that he sings 'want to' not 'wanna'

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

no, it's great. and no one's even mentioned 'i saw her standing there'* yet - the "one two three FUH!" is definitely the start of something in the UK.
*or is this one of those 'song not on the US version' things?

The song is, it's the intro that is not..

(If you have the original Vee-Jay version, that is...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i might get myself beat up for this one but i think Sgt. Peppers Is Very over rated. Even though my favorite beatles song is probably "A Day In The Life" it's either that or the 8 minute version of "Dig It"

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And has no one yet given props to the better-than-the-original cover of "Boys?" "Please Please Me" is great. As with John Coltrane, for instance, I find it impossible to dismiss any Beatles album, even the ones ("Let It Be," "Yellow Submarine") that I'd call less than classic. My perhaps reductive take is that either one likes rock music, and as a result derives varying degrees of pleasure from every Beatles album (save post-breakup collections), or one only likes rock music to a point, which of course is fine.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe my third or fourth favorite of theirs.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Piscesboy is exactly right. If you don't like Please Please Me you are incapable of liking anything.

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's teriffic. This is how they sounded before they got jaded.

― pete s, Friday, 16 January 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, have you listened to Rubber Soul recently? Every (well...) song on that LP slows down half way through.

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the Beatles 1962-66 (the 'red' alb) the only record of theirs that you need?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Please Please Me has always been my favorite Beatles record, but only because it has the Beatles' two greatest songs ("I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout").

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

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― Mark G, Friday, 14 June 2013 13:14 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

In light of the catalog finally being on Spotify, realized I had never spent a lot of time with this one. It's actually so fucking good!

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:14 (ten years ago)

Also interesting as a document of early influences, e.g. I hear a lot of Everly Bros and Orbison

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:15 (ten years ago)

This is probably my favourite Beatles album tbh

― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:38 (ten years ago)

It's one of their most straight up fun ones

― albvivertine, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:41 (ten years ago)

Kinda like their Wild Honey

― albvivertine, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:41 (ten years ago)

i like this song. but the album definitely sounds early 60's as hell. this is before kennedy was shot. so much optimism.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:56 (ten years ago)

yeah it definitely doesn't have the dark despair Hard Day's Night

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:59 (ten years ago)

*of

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:59 (ten years ago)

Great album

― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:59 (ten years ago)

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