HELP!

This fifth album by The Beatles remarked the band's departure - or you might say it "revolution" - in terms of sounds, not the music. Later the band would find themselves in music revolution but for this time it's just the sound which I can summarize it as being matured. It laid the foundation on future albums of the band. Musically, this album still revolves around the band's competence in songwriting especially in making pop music so much cheerful and it looks like rock music. You can taste right away right in the beginning of the album which starts with album title track "Help" (2:20). This indicates the situation that arose when the album was released in political and social turmoil. Through this opening track John Lennon made it clear how he contributed to the song with Paul McCartney backed him up, George Harrison and Ringo Star made it happen.

From this album, it came out great track like "Ticket To Ride" with its pondering chorus and stunning guitar work. And as usual, the arrangement has been made simple enriched with tasteful vocal harmonies which have become The Beatles music characteristics. Everyone knows that "Yesterday" was something that made this album experienced tremendous success as "A Hard Day's Night" album as well.

As an album, this one is cohesive in terms of music presentation as well as sound recording. The band embarked into new era of their sound and this album as foundation for them to move forward.

Peace on earth and mercy mild - GW