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Beatles for Sale | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £9.98
You Save: £7.01 (41%)
New (55) Used (9) Collectible (1) from £5.78
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1144
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 077774643825
UPC: 077774643825
EAN: 0077774643825
ASIN: B000002UAI
Release Date: November 1, 1988
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Tracks:
| • | No Reply | | • | I'm A Loser | | • | Baby's In Black | | • | Rock 'n' Roll Music | | • | I'll Follow The Sun | | • | Mr Moonlight | | • | Kansas City | | • | Eight Days A Week | | • | Words Of Love | | • | Honey Don't | | • | Don't Want To Spoil The Party | | • | What You're Doing | | • | Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Banged out in a hurry for the 1964 Christmas market, Beatles for Sale sometimes sounds it, loaded with ill-conceived covers and some of John Lennon's most self-loathing lyrics. On the other hand, the people doing the banging-out were the Beatles, whose instincts for what worked musically were so strong that they could basically do no wrong--any record that has "Baby's in Black", "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" and the delectable "Eight Days a Week" on it is only "minor" in the most relative sense. And, though their voices had been frazzled a bit by constant touring, they revved them up for some joyous shouting, and indulged their fondness for American country in subtle, playful ways. --Douglas Wolk
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
THE BEATLES'"COVERS" ALBUM June 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Este disco talvez ha sido uno de los mas duramente criticados de los fab Four, por la razon principal de que casi la mitad de sus canciones son "versiones" (covers) que otros clasicos del Rock lanzaron al mercado con anterioridad (HONEY DON'T, ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC, WORDS OF LOVE)y todas tuvieron éxito con otros artistas; es de considerar el periodo en el que los Beatles estaban pasando: estaban saturados de giras, entrevistas, entregas de premios y toda clase de eventos sociales que requerian de su presencia; tal cuestion implica que apenas tenian tiempo para componer musica,y si agregamos a esto que acababan de lanzar el poderoso "A Hard Day's Night" (donde todo el album es de canciones de Lennon y McCartney) solo unos meses antes, era de esperar que el publico talvez esperaba una publicacion igual de rica en composiciones propias; logicamente se decepcionaron al ver un disco lleno de "versiones" de canciones de otros artistas, aunque no por eso deja de ser un GRAN DISCO.
De hecho, muchas de las "covers" son incluso MEJORES que las versiones originales (MR. MOONLIGHT y KANSAS CITY son retocadas y elaboradas muy excelentemente) y nos encontramos con 8 temas nuevos como la gran balada NO REPLY, la introspectiva I'M A LOSER (de John), el tremendo hit EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, el country I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY y una gran joya de Paul I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN.
Talvez otro aspecto que esta obra tenga en contra es que al parecer debieron cuidar mejor la ingenieria de sonido y los efectos en el estudio, pues algunas canciones suenan mal grabadas y carecen de nitidez al escucharlas (se oye mas nitido el Please Please me, que es mas viejo que este).
Con todo y todo, no deja de ser un muy buen disco.
Beatles For Sale - grab this item while you can!! January 17, 2008
This is actually one of my favourite Beatles albums. And definitely the best one of their early period. Yes, okay, they have gone back to playing some covers again, but it was at the height of Beatlemania, and they didn't have all that much time to record this album. But, nevertheless, the songs on here have a certain something that just make you want to listen again and again. The opening track 'No Reply' is a typical Beatles song from that period, followed by 'I'm a Loser', which is a cleverly-penned song that would certainly have not done any harm with the female fans at the time! 'Baby's In Black', 'Rock And Roll Music' and 'I'll Follow The Sun' follow on, and these 3 strong songs pretty much stand out to me from the rest of the songs. 'Mr. Moonlight' is an unusual style for the Beatles to have covered really, its not really like anything else they've sang, or wrote themselves since, but they do it well. The 'Kansas City / Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey' medley works well also. 'Eight Days A Week' is probably the most well-known song on the album, yet it doesn't stand out on this album, because the other songs are all on that same level, or standard. Buddy Holly's 'Words Of Love' is beautifully performed, and is a fantastic tribute to the great, late, singer/songwriter. 'Honey Don't' fits Ringo's voice perfectly and 'Every Little Thing' is another cleverly-penned Lennon-McCartney tune, in a similar style to the earlier 'I'm A Loser'. The last 3 songs are a little disappointing to me, really. 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' is the better song of the 3 and shows-off the vocal talents of both John and Paul, but 'What You're Doing' just seems, well, average really - there's not really anything particularly 'special' about the song, which stand-out. The last song is my least favourite on the album. I don't know if its because of George's vocals, or because its just the choice of cover or what, but it just doesn't really fit-in to the rest of the album as such, to me. Its just like an old style rock 'n' roll song, which I think The Beatles can write songs so much better themselves!
Generally, then, it is an excellent album and well worth purchasing. Once you listen to it, you'll find you won't need to skip through any songs, and you'll probably be left humming to the tunes once you've heard them a few times. Which suggests they are good tunes!
In my opinion:
Best Song = "Baby's In Black"
Weakest Song = "Everybody's Trying To Be My baby"
Hindsight is such an exacting science !! January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read a lot of the reviews of this album by astro-physicists and marine biologists studying the ancient history of 1960's music, and noted their quaintly officious tones about this being the worst Beatles Album ever.
Well, it may not be their best, but it was recorded when such luminary critics were probably not even born !!
I was part of that era, and bought it when it was still only available on vinyl (remember, all those grooves revolving around at 33 r.p.m. ??), and I still listen to that music with an 18 year old's excitement & wonderment !!
The music wasn't contemporary rocket science, but the performances were, and that's what made them great.
better album than london says October 26, 2007
although beatles for sale is clearly nowhere near the beatles greatest album, it is nowhere near as bad as london writes. im also not fond of mr moonlight but that is the exception on this album not the rule. i give it 4 stars.
 The best October 11, 2007
I agree with other contributers, this is a very uderrated album, probably the most underrated of all. In fact it ranks as my favourite Beatles release.
Why do people pan Mr.Moonlight? It has a great vocal a la Mr. Lennon and good lyrics. Also 'What you're doing', 'No Reply', 'Eight days a week', Ringo's 'Honey Don't', and you can't get a more enjoyable set.
Buy and enjoy.
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