SOMETHING NEW

Looking back close to half a century, Capitol Records was way ahead of their time with their marketing of The Beatles in the United States. Cynically releasing circumcized versions of the original British versions of the albums, selling these records for full album prices, and collecting the left over songs, along with some unreleased tracks, in order to sell these as additional albums to a public hungry for anything by this group was an act worthy of the soulless whores who have run the major labels down into near irrelevance in the last three decades.

Nevertheless, I have a bunch of these ripoff albums, thanks to Mrs. Evolver's record collection. I listen to these albums searching for traces of the innovation that will shortly become prominent in their albums. But at this stage, there is very little. Sure, for the early sixties, these are very well written songs, but aside from the occasional minor chord, there really isn't much for the prog fan.

By A Hard Day's Night if you must have these songs. You'll get the best songs on the album, plus a few more good tracks.

For those reasons, 1 star.