The Beatles-Beatles '65 (1964)


 

Artist:The Beatles


Label: Apple

Format: LP

Cat: ST 2228

Year of Release: 1964

Country and Year of Edition: US 1971 Reissue Winchester Pressing

Sell Price: $8.54 G+/VG

Discogs Last Sold: 5/19/23 $6.00  G+/G

Low:$5.00 G+/G+

Median: $12.00

Average: $13.60

High: $30.00 M/NM

Current low price: $5.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 31

Have/Want:  709/111

Where Sold:  Poplar Grove, IL

Time It Took To Sell: 8 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester Early 80's used Al Bums $5.99 range

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go: No

"I wish it could be 1965 again"-The Barracudas

The end of 1964 meant new Christmas product was for a new year, 1965.  The US truncated editions are often held in a lesser light since "they are not as God intended."  As for Beatles '65 there may very well be a superior version within.  Although Revolver and Abbey Road are my 1-2, Beatles For Sale has always been up there for me.

Why?  Well Beatles '65 side 1 replicated Beatles For Sale faithfully except deleting the final side 1 track "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey."  Side two is where the album blows it's UK companion out of the water in terms of hits.  Only the closing Carl Perkins cover of 1936 Rex Griffin, "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" matches, wrapping up both albums Side Two.

Another Carl Perkins made both: "Honey Don't," here it opens side 2, across the pond it gets buried on track 3 of the second side.  On Beatles '65 one can get the feel of the future with the single "She's A Woman" and the A-side "I Feel Fine" in distorted feedbacking frenzy.  "I Feel Fine" seems more disturbing and sarcastic for a Billboard #1 Record.  Fine is in the eye of the beholder.

For me almost everything on the opening sides are perfect.  "No Reply" into "I'm A Loser" into the tragic "Baby's In Black"  they  mocked in  Japan, into a revved up Chuck Berry "Rock 'n' Roll Music."  Lennon is paranoid and possibly dysfunctional and damn it, we liked him that way!

Joining "Kansas City" to not make the US cut are the single “Eight Days A Week," the Buddy Holly song "Words of Love,' and a few Lennon-McCartney's "Every Little Thing," "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" and "What You're Doing" all clustered at the end of side 2.  

What are my favorites of Beatles '65, except all of it?  .




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