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?  .




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bob Dylan-Blood On The Tracks (1975)

Image
  Artist:  Bob Dylan Title: Blood On The Tracks Label: Columbia Format: SACD Cat: CH 90323 Year of Release: 1975 Country and Year of Edition: US 2003 SACD Promo sticker over barcode Sell Price: $12.20 VG+/VG+ 7/15/24 Discogs Last Sold: 7/7/24 NM/VG+ $8.99 Low: $3.00 Median: $11.63 Average: $12.38 High: $27.00 Current low price: $1.99 F/G+, $9.98 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 27 Have/Want: 334/242 Where Sold: Ypsilanti, MI Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Purchased: promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No "I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form..." "And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn..." Bob's public precursor to his own divorce has taken a strange turn in the public narrative over the years, whether reflecting domestic tranquility or turbulence.   Beyonc é  might tell you she flips pancakes or boils an egg to Blood On The Tracks on a Sunday morning.  Jakob Dylan might rail that these lyri
Read more

The Byrds-Live At The Fillmore-February 1969 (2000)

Image
  Artist: The Byrds Title: Live At The Fillmore February 1969 Label: Columbia/Legacy Format: CD Cat #: CK 65910 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000 Listed Condition VG+/VG+: hole punch in UPC Sell Date: 5/6/24 Sell Price:$3.75 Discogs Last Sold: 4/25/24 $7.87 VG/VG Low: $1.75 Median: $4.24 Average: $4.28 High: $7.87 Current low price: $2.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 30 Have/Want: 524/45 Where Sold:Charlotte, NC Time it took to sell: 12 years Where and When Bought: early aughts not sure where in NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No One of those releases that looks great on a shelf, but it took me 24 years after buying it to get around to paying any attention to this excellent live recording.  I guess that means I should force myself to read David Fricke's liner notes as well.  Sweetheart Of The Rodeo came out August 30, 1968 only 8 months after The Notorious Byrd Brothers and Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde came out a week before these show
Read more

Bob Dylan-Bob Dylan (1962)

Image
  Artist: Bob Dylan Title: Bob Dylan Label: Columbia Format: LP Cat #: PC 8579 Year of Release: 1962 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1970's reissue Listed Condition VG/VG+ Sell Date: 5/2/24 Sell Price:$8.93 Discogs Last Sold: 3/5/24 NM/VG+ $9.00 Low: $3.98 M/VG+ Median: $12.49 Average: $12.81 High: $24.99 M/NM Current low price: $12.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16 Have/Want: 285/176 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: Worcester used That's Entertainment mid 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "You're No Good!" the 3 year old Reverse Collector proclaimed to his mother.  "David! That's an awful thing to say!  Go to your room!"  I was just saying what was on the cover of the Bob Dylan song list on the album I had.  I was a fluent reader by age 3, as opposed to simply memorizing text my parents read to me when I was 2.  I understood the concept of "Good" and "Ba
Read more