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Their second studio album is a far more edgy album than both Please Me and Beatles For Sale, the only other The Beatles albums I have so far heard from their pre-prog era. Ahhh... This album has some rhythm and blues covers in addition to their pretty OK version of the Chuck Berry anthem Roll Over Beethoven. But The Beatles is more edgy on this album.

More edgy and more naive too. Some of the songs are almost like children lullabies or even nursery rhymes. Children like pop songs, in other words. Teenybopper music, in other words. Only All My Loving is the song I will remember from this album. This is an excellent song with some good guitars and excellent drumming. The vocal harmonies are the best one on All My Loving. A true classic The Beatles song. The rest of the material here is not good at all and I rank it even worse than Beatles For Sale. This is collectors only, I am afraid.

2 stars (barely)

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