The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night


3.5
great

Review

by crandynewman USER (38 Reviews)
February 28th, 2012 | 29 replies


Release Date: 1964 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Listen to this album and you won't have a hard day's night.

With two albums under their belt, one good and one, not so good, the Beatles finally start to become their own band in layman's terms finding their stride. With their third album called A Hard Day's Night, they finally started to get into their own swing and started to make some truly good music. And what's more, they finally released an album with no covers on it! Thank goodness! The whole half an album being covers thing was starting to get a little old so this time Paul Ringo and and George are here to dazzle us with an album that is completely their very own!

You might find upon starting this album a cacaphony of a chord at the beginning of the self titled song, A Hard Day's Night. What is interesting to note is that this chord was actually a mystery to all from when it was first released all the way until a mathmatics professor decoded it using math to unscramble the musical frequencies. It turns out that everybody had the basics right, a simple Cadd9 chord but apparently they played it on several instruments and looped it over and over, and there was a piano hidden back there in that mix that nobody could figure out for decades. Chalk it up to one of the great Beatles' mysteries!

After that is one of my personal favorite Beatles' songs titled I Should Have Known Better featuring a harmonica and a great catchy chorus/bridge. The only thing that they need to work on is their soloing because it hasn't quite gotten good enough yet but this will be fixed it in later albums. Another highlight includes Can't Buy Me Love and Happy Just to Dance With You, and last but not least, Any Time At All. Overall it isn't the best pop Beatles album but it is definitely one of the best and certainly better than the first two albums, especially Please Please Me. But they can only go up from here.



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crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

part 3 of the beatles discograhy

crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

sorry you feel that way system



i like puns!

Tyrannic
February 28th 2012


3296 Comments


"You might find upon starting this album a cacaphony of a chord at the beginning of the self titled song, A Hard Day's Night. What is interesting to note is that this chord was actually a mystery to all from when it was first released all the way until a mathmatics professor decoded it using math to unscramble the musical frequencies. It turns out that everybody had the basics right, a simple Cadd9 chord but apparently they played it on several instruments and looped it over and over, and there was a piano hidden back there in that mix that nobody could figure out for decades. Chalk it up to one of the great Beatles' mysteries!"

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crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

whats the quote for tyr?

Tyrannic
February 28th 2012


3296 Comments


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Recspecs
February 28th 2012


9911 Comments


Fuck I thought crandy was gone. I'll be damned.

Tyrannic
February 28th 2012


3296 Comments


cacaphony - (n.) a fake or otherwise mistrustful person who is coincidentally covered in poo

crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

thats not what it means tyrannic





n. A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

Recspecs
February 28th 2012


9911 Comments


Crandy is a cunt.

That is what we are getting at. Crandy is a cunt.

crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

sorry you feel that way respecs



and maybe one day snide

SCREAMorphine
February 28th 2012


1849 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Good fun album, are you really going to review all of their albums?

crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i think so scream ive been really in to the beatles lately

SCREAMorphine
February 28th 2012


1849 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Gotta love the Beatles

Wombat988
February 28th 2012


411 Comments


To back up tyr, you spelt cacophony wrong. You spelt it 'Cacaphony'. Also, please stop reviewing. Your second paragraph was terrible. You just found a fact online and wrote a paragraph about it, without relating it to the review at all.

Tyrannic
February 28th 2012


3296 Comments


wombat i'm only typing this because your avatar brings mighty giggles:


i need no backing up. crandy is an alt. this was funny before. now it's not.


i expect better from laser breath.

starry
February 28th 2012


552 Comments


I'm not too bothered with covers as long as they are good.

jdennis31
February 28th 2012


6511 Comments


crandyman is my favorite user. always there for a good laugh

jdennis31
February 28th 2012


6511 Comments


lol o god, i never even read the summaries i don't think. bout to go back through each of his reviews.

crandynewman
February 28th 2012


799 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

sorry you feel that way wombat, ill get better at reviewing, sorry



thanks snide and dennis!

KILL
February 28th 2012


81580 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

sweet view!



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