HELP!

"Help!" shows Lennon phobia of lack of confidence. He was rather stressed with the huge and fast success of the band. It is one of their greatest songs (but I admit that there are so many to choose from). The whole of side one from this album is comprised of songs featured in the movie.

Even if some will be melodic jewels like "I Need You" written by Georges and including some interesting guitar effects as well as "You're Going to Lose that Girl" with good percussions while you pay attention on this. "It's Only Love" is just behind but is an example of a good song from the Fab Four repertoire.

My sthird favourite song from "Help!" is "Ticket To Ride". According to Paul, it was recorded in three hours!

Still this album holds more average to good tracks than really great ones. "Another Girl" for instance but compared to "Act Naturally" (which is a cover) it stands out as a masterpiece. The latter is sung by Ringo and will be their last cover song until much later (1969).

B-side of the original album holds the weakest songs of the whole. In this respect, I guess that "You Like Me Too Much" which is the second song from Georges here won't be remembered for the decades to come. Nor will "Tell Me What You See". According Paul himself "I seem to remember it as mine but it was not awfully memorable". That's really great to recognize this (and I fully agree with his analysis of course).

This album is saved by three or four fantastic songs of which "Yesterday" does belong. It sits in my top five from the band. A few records for this song : there are some three thousands covers, it was voted the song of the century in a BBC poll, and it has been played over seven MILLION times in the previous century.What else to say about this marvel of harmony ??? Nothing I guess. Just the deepest respect.

Three stars thanks to some songs, but this rating is seen on the higher end.

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