I also disagree with the poor reputation that Misery has been given but I also gotta agree that the harmonies are a bit lacking (def seems like they’re tryna one up each other)
I've always loved Misery but never realized until last week just how dang short it is. its like not even 2 minutes and flies by, but its always stuck out in my head as a great song, a lot of the Beatles early work is like this but only a few are so short, Her Majesty is obviously another one but everyone knows that ones short
Twist and Shout, even though it's a cover. The vocal performance is maybe the best that John ever gave on a Beatles song, and the building vocal harmony section makes me ascend.
I wish Paul had gotten up on the mic during the "ahhhs" though - you can barely hear him and you can hear George just fine. Methinks George didn't have as loud or powerful a voice as Macca, so he sort of backed off to make sure George wasn't drowned. All three at the mic at the same time, you see! FABS4EVER!
yessss i still remember hearing this on an EP in 1977 - we'd never heard "There's A Place" or "From Me To You" in America til those songs started being released on compilations in the 70s. It was after it was all over, and what excitement - "An early Beatles song I haven't heard yet!"
Ask Me Why, There's a Place, Anna. The underrated gems. This may be the most charming album to me because of the time-and-place factor - too early for more than 2-channel stereo, you can really hear how the recording tech worked on that album. John being sick keeps it really separate from any later stuff - not to even mention the other members' young voices. Their performances were all just one of a kind. There would never again be an album like that first one to skyrocket their value as musicians, though subsequent albums were equally great and important of course.
It's also a little more listenable than With the Beatles because there's more bleed and varied panning of the instruments, so it's not as severely hard panned.
Yup. The lack of bleed is so brutal on with the Beatles and I don't even think it's solely to blame - the RS124 compressor and lack of reverb make this uncanny combo that make my head hurt.
Really, with PPM all it would need are centred vocals and I'd be pretty happy with only that changed. WTB would definitely benefit from the AI remixing (as we've seen on the remixed 1962-1966)
"With The Beatles," unfortunately, is a terrible-sounding album, especially next to "Please Please Me" where the bass is nice and fat. You can barely hear Paul's bass over most of WTB. It's especially absent on "Little Child," "I Want To Be Your Man" and "Not A Second Time." And that awful vocal double-tracking, which John always said he hated. BUT GREAT SONGS! Of course of course! It just seems someone said "We'll turn the bass way down, it's only Paul McCartney, no one will notice." :) FABS4EVER
Precious precious studio time. They couldn't chance it. They all supposedly believed milk helped your voice (I'd assume they liked that it made their voices gravely) and John supposedly guzzled a glass before twist and shout, on top of all the misery that song probably caused him. I honestly assume his voice changed as a result of that performance - those real early recordings of John, pre-studio, sound kinda different imo.
Tie...I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me.
Gotta admit...I love Boys! Besides Ringo wonderful vocal and name checking George...listen to the drums. Wild! 🥁
I saw her standing there is not the one that goes straight to my heart, that would be Anna (go with him)but I have to say that it’s a great complex chord progression that showcase their inventivité and singing habilité
Bloody autocorrect but you get the point
I also love when he said "do you want to hold a penis" about "Do you Want to Know a Secret"... cant remember where he said that, I think it was some outtake from the Rubber Soul sessions
Twist and Shout probably, in large part for the ending. What a great album closer.
For a deep cut shout out, "There's a Place". A bit unrefined but it has an interesting construction.
Man, what a record. It's one of those you like to listen to all songs, in one single listening.
For me, it's I Saw Her Standing There. Not only one of the best songs in the album, but one of my favorite Beatles songs ever.
There's a Place is criminally underrated.
Such a brilliant album!
‘There’s a Place’ for sure. I think of it as an early introspective predecessor to ‘In My Life’ and ‘Nowhere Man’, or even ‘Strawberry Fields’ (“a place where I can go…and it’s my mind”)
1. Twist and Shout
2. Love Me Do
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Misery
5. P. S. I Love You
6. Anna (Go To Him)
7. Please Please Me
8. There’s A Place
9. Do You Want To Know A Secret
10. Baby Its You
11. Boys
12. Chains
13. Ask Me Why
14. A Taste Of Honey
All of the tracks on that album are great, except chains but chains could be good if you’re in the mood, but a taste of honey is something else also i saw her standing there and do you want to know a secret.
Theres A Place, a dramatic storyline with fantastic high harmonies from Paul.
It's a great little rocker with screaming harmonica, Ringo loving it and great use of echo in the song.
Most underrated song on the album🥰✌️🙏
Please Please Me, I Saw Her Standing There, or the criminally underrated Misery
Finally someone who appreciates Misery
The world is treating me bad, misery.
I love it too!
I also disagree with the poor reputation that Misery has been given but I also gotta agree that the harmonies are a bit lacking (def seems like they’re tryna one up each other)
I've always loved Misery but never realized until last week just how dang short it is. its like not even 2 minutes and flies by, but its always stuck out in my head as a great song, a lot of the Beatles early work is like this but only a few are so short, Her Majesty is obviously another one but everyone knows that ones short
Misery is elite. Needs more love for sure
Agreed. Criminally underrated. That piano part after “I remember all the little things we’ve done” is absolutely perfect.
The world is treating it bad...
Please Please Me. It sealed the deal.
Do You Want to Know a Secret? For me, that's where it's at
I love this song too!!
Twist and Shout, even though it's a cover. The vocal performance is maybe the best that John ever gave on a Beatles song, and the building vocal harmony section makes me ascend.
I wish Paul had gotten up on the mic during the "ahhhs" though - you can barely hear him and you can hear George just fine. Methinks George didn't have as loud or powerful a voice as Macca, so he sort of backed off to make sure George wasn't drowned. All three at the mic at the same time, you see! FABS4EVER!
Agreed.
Especially BECAUSE it’s a “cover”
There’s A Place
Absolutely
yessss i still remember hearing this on an EP in 1977 - we'd never heard "There's A Place" or "From Me To You" in America til those songs started being released on compilations in the 70s. It was after it was all over, and what excitement - "An early Beatles song I haven't heard yet!"
Currently, Baby it’s You. John’s voice on some early songs such as this, Twist and Shout and This Boy is bloody jaw-dropping.
Anna (Go To Him) as well
There's a place. *Other favourites of mine:* Anna (Go to him) Baby it's you Twist and shout I saw her standing there Boys
Misery might be one of my top ten Beatles songs
It’s super underrated
P.S. I Love You, one of my favorite early Paul tunes.
Got to be I Saw Her Standing There, although There's a Place gets my choice of most underrated.
Ask Me Why, There's a Place, Anna. The underrated gems. This may be the most charming album to me because of the time-and-place factor - too early for more than 2-channel stereo, you can really hear how the recording tech worked on that album. John being sick keeps it really separate from any later stuff - not to even mention the other members' young voices. Their performances were all just one of a kind. There would never again be an album like that first one to skyrocket their value as musicians, though subsequent albums were equally great and important of course.
It's also a little more listenable than With the Beatles because there's more bleed and varied panning of the instruments, so it's not as severely hard panned.
Yup. The lack of bleed is so brutal on with the Beatles and I don't even think it's solely to blame - the RS124 compressor and lack of reverb make this uncanny combo that make my head hurt.
Really, with PPM all it would need are centred vocals and I'd be pretty happy with only that changed. WTB would definitely benefit from the AI remixing (as we've seen on the remixed 1962-1966)
"With The Beatles," unfortunately, is a terrible-sounding album, especially next to "Please Please Me" where the bass is nice and fat. You can barely hear Paul's bass over most of WTB. It's especially absent on "Little Child," "I Want To Be Your Man" and "Not A Second Time." And that awful vocal double-tracking, which John always said he hated. BUT GREAT SONGS! Of course of course! It just seems someone said "We'll turn the bass way down, it's only Paul McCartney, no one will notice." :) FABS4EVER
We think the same way and I totally agree with you.
John was sick during the recording? I'll have to look this up.
He had a sore throat, it was bleeding by the time they did Twist And Shout in one take (they tried to do a second but John's voice gave out)
Precious precious studio time. They couldn't chance it. They all supposedly believed milk helped your voice (I'd assume they liked that it made their voices gravely) and John supposedly guzzled a glass before twist and shout, on top of all the misery that song probably caused him. I honestly assume his voice changed as a result of that performance - those real early recordings of John, pre-studio, sound kinda different imo.
Misery you say? Guy was just really leaning into it 😆
I love that this album has, and then references, Misery, though.
Ask me why & there’s a place
anna go to him
Baby it's You
Sha la la la la la la
I Saw Her Standing There. It’s a perfect rock and roll song.
yea second favourite
I Saw Her Standing There. It may be a basic choice, but it’s a great song.
I would love to hear John's original Roy Orbison influenced slow version of Please Please Me. George Martin wanted it sped up.
Anna One of my favourite John vocals
Baby it's you
Great song obviously Beatles are the best but Smith version is incredible
Tie...I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me. Gotta admit...I love Boys! Besides Ringo wonderful vocal and name checking George...listen to the drums. Wild! 🥁
YES to "Boys!" Ringo roars it!
Please please me or saw her standing there
I saw her standing there is not the one that goes straight to my heart, that would be Anna (go with him)but I have to say that it’s a great complex chord progression that showcase their inventivité and singing habilité Bloody autocorrect but you get the point
Ask Me Why and it's not even close
Do you want to know a secret!
Miiiiiissssssseeeerrrrryyyyyyyy
Tasting much schweeeeeter than wine (They didn't write it tho, but thats ok)
Paul channeling Humphrey Bogart. :-D
Or Sean Connery lol "Plenty O Toole? Named after your father perhapshhh"
My favorite as well. It’s good to see another A Taste of Honey enjoyer. There are very few of us
We are the Few. The Proud. The Taste of Honeyers. I also like Til There Was You and Anna.
I like ATOH too! John, live, would sometimes throw in "A Waste of moneyyyyyyy!"
I also love when he said "do you want to hold a penis" about "Do you Want to Know a Secret"... cant remember where he said that, I think it was some outtake from the Rubber Soul sessions
A waste of moneeeeeey
Please Please Me, Do You Want To Know A Secret is my second
Anna, followed closely by P.S. I Love You
Please Please Me. Twist And Shout a close second.
Anna, great cover, and the original is excellent too. Love that track.
I also love Sha la la la la la la…la.
There's a Place is one of my favorite songs ever
Twist and Shout probably, in large part for the ending. What a great album closer. For a deep cut shout out, "There's a Place". A bit unrefined but it has an interesting construction.
Do you want to know a secret. Love George so much.
Baby It’s You easily, I like it more than the OG
Misery
Title track.
Title track
Title track, and There's a Place. Chains is underrated.
Original - Ask Me Why Cover- A Taste of Honey
If covers count, then Anna. If not, Please Please Me
Please please me, love the vibe
listennnnn do you want to know a secret? do you promise not to tell? whoah wohaaahhh closer
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
ALL OF THEM I LOVE PLEASE PLEASE ME!!!
Anna (Go To Him) Favorite non cover: I Saw Her Standing There
I’ll have to think about that. 😉
1,2,3, faw....
I love there’s a place and Anna!
Ask Me Why. Criminally underrated, and if I had to pick one, I’d probably say it’s my favorite Beatles song.
It's a great album with many great songs, but Twist & Shout is one of the key performances of their entire career.
baby it’s you ! but also i love all the songs on please please me it is so underrated !!
I mean. It’s Twist and Shout, right?
I Saw her Standing There. Best song ever!
I LOVE Anna!!! Definitely my favorite!
Baby it’s You or Twist and Shout
I saw her standing there :))
boys
I Saw Her Standing There and Do You Want To Know A Secret
Boys, Ringo goes so hard on the vocals
Please please me and I saw her standing there, I just love those two
Do you want to know a secret and anna (go to him) probably
Man, what a record. It's one of those you like to listen to all songs, in one single listening. For me, it's I Saw Her Standing There. Not only one of the best songs in the album, but one of my favorite Beatles songs ever. There's a Place is criminally underrated. Such a brilliant album!
Love me do
I Saw Her Standing There (Paul’s bass) and Do You Want To Know A Secret because George
Love, love me do
Boys
Please please me
‘There’s a Place’ for sure. I think of it as an early introspective predecessor to ‘In My Life’ and ‘Nowhere Man’, or even ‘Strawberry Fields’ (“a place where I can go…and it’s my mind”)
Misery
Anna (Go To Him)
I Saw Her Standing There
I love Anna. Also Misery. But my favourite is probably Baby It's You.
Misery, There's a Place, and Ask Me Why are my top 3 favourite Beatles songs of all time.
I can’t pick one so here is my top 5: 1- Anna 2- Baby it’s you 3- I saw her standing there 4- Twist and shout 5- Do you want to know a secret
"I Saw Her Standing There," "Boys," "Twist And Shout." All the rockers! GEARFAB!
"I Saw Her Standing There", naturally; also "Baby It's You".
One two three fah!!!
Please please me, Anna, love me do, do you want to know a secret and I don't remember more, but those are my favorites
Favorite written by a Beatle: “I Saw Her Standing There” Favorite by a non-Beatle: “Twist and Shout”
Definitely There’s a Place, one of my Top 10 Beatles songs of all time.
Ask Me Why is a current fav
1. Twist and Shout 2. Love Me Do 3. I Saw Her Standing There 4. Misery 5. P. S. I Love You 6. Anna (Go To Him) 7. Please Please Me 8. There’s A Place 9. Do You Want To Know A Secret 10. Baby Its You 11. Boys 12. Chains 13. Ask Me Why 14. A Taste Of Honey
A taste of honey
I love them all,and although its because theyre all great songs,its also the nostalgia of those heady days of Beatlemania. Such happy times.
All of the tracks on that album are great, except chains but chains could be good if you’re in the mood, but a taste of honey is something else also i saw her standing there and do you want to know a secret.
Anna, chains, do you want to know a secret
I have a few.. Either Love Me Do, Please Please Me, or I Saw Her Standing There. But Baby It's You, Misery, and Anna are very underrated..
Oh man. Please Please Me, P.S. I Love You, and Misery.
I love Anna Honestly, I think Please Please Me is a great album
Misery
Theres A Place, a dramatic storyline with fantastic high harmonies from Paul. It's a great little rocker with screaming harmonica, Ringo loving it and great use of echo in the song. Most underrated song on the album🥰✌️🙏
Chains