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They sound so young on this album, it's hard to take it seriously knowing where they go from here. Still got some bops, though.
You can hear something special trying to break out of the cliche' pop ditties they were pumpin' out in those days. Surprising to hear just how mid the filler tracks on this album are. What more can be said about a band studied to death?!
A good album but they hadn't hit their creative stride quite yet
It was better than I thought. Sometimes the simplicity in the music just makes you feel good and it made the vocals stronger
This record couldn’t have been recommended on a better day. The Best Show is doing a 24 hour marathon show, and I am way more interested in that than hearing The Beatles for the 100,000th time in my 42 years. I know this record, grew up with it thanks to my Mom. So I don’t have to listen again to have an opinion on this one. If you love the Beatles, you’re gonna like this record. Hell, if the Beatles walked in to your house and dropped a deuce in your cereal bowl, you’d probably like that, too. If you don’t like the Beatles, you’re probably not gonna like this one either. Like most everything else, the truth is somewhere in between…it’s an ok record. Now if you’ll excuse that gross over-simplification masquerading as a review of an album by a band most people think can do no wrong, the last three hours of the Best Show 24 hour show are calling my name.
i don’t like the beatles. i didn’t really like this. they’ve only got like 3 songs i like so this gets a 2.
Two good songs. The rest is rubbish
Bonus points for not being too long, at least.
Yesterday I got a Rolling Stones album and wrote about not having nostalgia for the band and apart from a few songs I don't really listen to the band. I can still agree with their contribution to music and bands that came after. The Beatles are the same to me, their music contribution might be even greater but I don't really enjoy them enough to come back an listen again. Listening through the album today didn't change that.
Mid af, lovey dovey love dove "I love you more than a mare could love a bear and I sit beside your chair, looking at your hair" - George Harrison
I never used to like the early Beatles albums pre-Revolver. And now I still don't.
Every song is the fucking same. It’s either I’ll break your heart, you’ll break my heart or I’m gonna finger ol’ Peggy Sue when we get back from the movies. Give me my 30 minutes back.
Is the Beatles .... Most Beatles I find to be the definition of middle of the road... This album sucks and absolutely did not need to be on the list... Granted I feel they should only have one or two albums on here
10/10 Excelente, un album hermoso por dondo lo mires
The Beatles are my boys! Love this album
No words… just pure genius. While listening I felt a rush of emotions and energy from start to finish. It’s not their absolute best album, but it’s still a work of pure genius. The songs are simple yet absolutely gorgeous — catchy, melodic, and full of life. The rhythms are tight and infectious, and you can feel the joy, excitement, and youthful spark pouring out of every track. This is The Beatles in their prime as a pop-rock machine: tight harmonies, perfect songwriting, and that unmistakable chemistry. Even the more emotional and reflective moments feel fresh and honest. A Hard Day’s Night is a classic through and through. Simple on the surface, but brilliantly executed. One of those albums that just makes you smile.
For my money, the lads didn’t better this album until ‘Revolver’. ‘Rubber Soul’ comes close, but my opinion on it has waned slightly over the years whereas on ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ it has improved significantly over time. There’s nothing conceptual going on (despite the movie tie-in) just 13 new self-penned bangers during which the quality never drops. The increase in the sophistication of the writing is glaringly obvious and it pays dividends again and again.
First Impression: Genuinely may be my favourite Beatles album. The compositions all throughout are just lovely. I'm so in love with the sound of this album, hands down the Rickenbacker 360/12 exudes the most breathtaking and majestic tone. Shorter than most albums but I think it's the ideal length for this one. Nearly every song is sososo catchy, and the cherry on top, the cover is just iconic. Favourite Track: I genuinely couldn't pick one, that's an impossible task. Instrumentally: I'll Be Back. As a whole package, instruments & lyrics: And I Love Her. One Sentence: Heaven in a record. Will I Revisit? A million times YES
This was once the greatest rock album ever, and it remained so until the Beatle’s next record. Whether this album has aged well is a matter of taste, but we should pause and consider how well written these songs are, and how great they sound to have been recorded in ‘63. This is an exceptional album.
Lots of fun. Great album.
There's something very special about this album. It perfectly captures the band's youthful optimism, raw energy, and brimming creativity. There is so much joy and hope here. One of my all-time favorites.
Great album.
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A classic for a reason
IT'S BEEN A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. AND I'VE BEEN WORKIN' LIKE A DOG. I freaking love that song.
There are Beatles albums I might call deeper, stranger, richer, or more adventurous. But I’m not sure there is a purer Beatles album than A Hard Day’s Night. This is the Beatles as a fully functioning pop organism: film, album, singles, press, radio, television, touring, image, management, studio discipline, and songwriting all moving in the same direction. It is Beatlemania under instruction. United Artists need songs for a film. Brian Epstein handles the logistics. George Martin frames the sound. John Lennon and Paul McCartney write the lot. No covers. No George Harrison original. No Ringo feature. No padding disguised as repertoire. Just Lennon-McCartney operating at terrifying speed while the world changes shape around them. That is why the leap from With The Beatles is so astonishing. That earlier album is superb, but it still broadly fits an existing format: originals, covers, feature spots, stage repertoire, Motown, girl groups, Chuck Berry, R&B, all filtered through the Beatles’ own force. Eight months later, A Hard Day’s Night says something very different. The Beatles are no longer fitting the format. They are the format. The title track begins with a chord that does not introduce Beatlemania so much as assume you are already inside it. I Want to Hold Your Hand had already pushed pop excitement about as far as it could go without actually setting fire to the studio. A Hard Day’s Night starts beyond that point. Lennon gives it complaint and exhaustion; McCartney gives it gratitude and lift. Ringo drives it forward, with the percussion rattling away over the beat until the whole track feels like a moving train with no spare seats. Then the album simply refuses to drop its standard. I Should Have Known Better is a pinup song, but chunkier than that makes it sound. The harmonica is blocky and forceful, not just wistful Merseybeat colour. If I Fell follows it and suddenly the harmonies are so sophisticated they almost outrun the singers. The parts are not intuitive; they have to be learned. You can hear tiny cracks where the voices are stretched at opposite ends of their range, and that makes the song more moving, not less. It is the sound of a band writing something they can only just perform. I’m Happy Just to Dance with You is a beautifully tailored George song. Modest, perfectly pitched for his voice, simple on paper, but gorgeous in arrangement. When the backing vocals arrive, the whole thing lights up behind him. The Beatles’ close harmony work is one of their great underrated strengths: not just sweet, but precise, functional, and emotionally intelligent. And I Love Her is where Paul proves they no longer need Till There Was You to access elegance. Nylon guitar, claves, restraint, clipped English consonants, that slight modulation around the solo: it is sophistication written from inside the group rather than borrowed from an older songbook. Then Tell Me Why kicks the doors open again. The lyric is accusation, but the record sounds ecstatic. Ringo’s kit explodes, Lennon turns grievance into exhilaration, and the daft falsetto near the end stops the whole thing becoming sour. It is pain with a funny voice attached. Side one ends with Can’t Buy Me Love, which is remembered as a bright pop detonation but is really a strange, jazzy, bluesy thing underneath. You can hear why Ella Fitzgerald could take it on. You can hear older dance-band bones under the Beatlemania surface. Teenagers could scream at it, but jazz musicians could understand it. And that is only side one. Side two is supposedly the “remaining material” side. The contractual obligation side. Which is ridiculous, because it opens with Any Time at All, a song many groups would have built an album around. It is muscular as hell, but oddly tender. Lennon does not sing emotional availability as softness. He sings it as readiness: call me and I’ll be there. George Martin’s piano is perfectly placed, adding hard bright accents without taking over. Then that ringing final chord lands like a wink. Still got it. I’ll Cry Instead is a cheeky country number with the damage showing. It has a settled Elvis feel: clipped, countryish, curled lip, wounded pride made stylish. Under the bounce, though, there is something darker: humiliation, revenge fantasy, the abandoned little boy trying to turn hurt into power. It points toward later, uglier Lennon songs without yet losing its comic skip. Things We Said Today is one of Paul’s great early songs. Odd, trundling, shadowed, almost practical in its movement. George keeps chiming in with unresolved dominant-seventh colours, like an insistent nagging presence. Then the bridge blooms into a muscular quasi-major moment and threatens to explode before the song hushes back down. It is a showstopper hiding in plain sight. I also think When I Get Home is badly underrated. It may be the most rock track on the album. You can hear Stax and soul pressure in it, even though it is still being forced through a Beatles beat-group body. The opening “whoa-I” is basically a soul shout, and the block harmonies on “I got a whole lot of things to tell her” are remarkable. This is not filler. This is a song with shoulders. Give it a horn section and everyone would hear what is already there. Then You Can’t Do That arrives as Lennon’s dark counterclaim after McCartney’s Can’t Buy Me Love has taken the A-side glory. Paul gives you breezy blues-pop world conquest. John gives you jealousy, cowbell, stabs, discipline, possessiveness, and one of the great chordal guitar moments in early Beatles. The way the open C7 shape slides up and leaves the top E ringing feels almost like a seed of Wilko Johnson logic: rhythm guitar becoming lead by force of attack. It is nasty, bright, physical, and hugely influential. And then comes I’ll Be Back. What a closer. After all the public victory, the film business, the global explosion, the A-side glory, and the muscular second side, they do not end with triumph. They end with recurrence. “I’ll be back” works almost like one of those end-title promises: the Beatles will return. But because it is Lennon, it is not just a franchise tag. It is also an emotional loop. Is he leaving? Is he promising? Is he threatening? Is he unable to stay away? The public meaning and the private wound sit inside the same phrase. That is the album’s final act of sensitivity. A Hard Day’s Night starts with the world bursting into the room. It ends with Lennon standing in a doorway. The album is wrapped in showbiz: trains, television studios, press calls, managers, jokes, film obligations, radio charm, clean suits, “the boys”. But inside that wrapper, the modern pop group is being invented. Not through psychedelia. Not through studio collage. Not through grand statements about Art. Through guitars, voices, close harmony, pressure, speed, humour, English consonants, and Lennon-McCartney writing the lot. As a refinement of the pop group format, it is revolutionary. It perfects the existing form so completely that the older model suddenly looks provisional. It is not my argument that this is necessarily the best Beatles album in every possible sense. But as the purest album incarnation of the Beatles - the band as a functioning pop organism, Beatlemania under instruction, the world being conquered while the machine still works - it may be perfect. Easy five.
Been listening to this album my whole life. Essentially all classic songs. If I Fell is one of my favorite songs of all time. Harmonies are absolutely insane. No bad tracks.
Second album of theirs on my run, the 1st being the White Album. I suppose that with Beatles you might try bringing some skepticism not to rate every single thing five. However, A Hard Day's Night really offers little to lower the rating. Here we have got a dozen love songs, major key, minor key, great harmony with the vocals and back vocals, nice solo parts, really an emotional rollercoaster. The brevity of just half an hour in general and of the songs, each one a couple of minutes long or even shorten, makes this especially great. Fab Four manage to make them feel complete, while the sheer fact of such duration is a major plus to me. The record is highly rewarding. Perhaps much simpler than "the Beatles" with Rev. 9 and stuff, this is almost perfect pop music that you easily recognize. Were it not for the band name, could be a four perphaps, but come on, these are the super stars of modern music as we know itz and this album is a great snapshot of their abilities and style. As many, I have know the two hits, Can't Buy Me Love and I'll Be Back for the most of my life, but put aside, this project has quite a lot discoveries to offer. I'd highlight I'm Happy Just To Dance With You. Loved it from the very first seconds. Also gotta note I'll Cry Instead feels as a peculiar addition to the closer song (though not one of my favs on the record). Perhaps an A–, but still an outstanding record that I will listen again. Long live Paul, long live Ringo, and thank you the Beatles for this outstanding record and your art as a whole.
I tried so hard to hate this. It’s early beatles and all, before their primee. There are many solid bands in this eraa. These people are absolutely geniuses. How?
Que belleza fingir que no escuché nunca este disco, aguanten los beatles
You know I was gonna give this album a hard time and be like damn is every Beatles album gonna be on this list and the answer is probably true. Yes every album will be on this list but hard days night surprise me on how well this album just coexist a lot of love songs so I mean if you’re in a love song mood, you’re gonna really enjoy this album but even if I wasn’t, it, just flowed solid work from the boys gotta put it up there with my favorite beetle album Sergeant Pepper‘s lonely heart club band every song had a purpose. They were all pretty damn good. Gotta give them five out of five.
Beatles at their best
Its the fucking Beatles pretty much everything they made is amazing, this album has at least four stone cold classics that pretty much everyone would recognise. Great film too.
It’s the Beatles. Not much more needs to be said.
I should have known better
Wie, beste Musik
I love The Beatles. Always have and always will. I’ve listened to this a million times and I was super happy to listen to it again while I went for a walk in the middle of the night. I probably looked odd to people driving by because I was singing out loud to every song into the night. Brilliance. Absolute magic. Euphoria. What an album. What a band. A billion out of ten!
I love The Beatles. I once dated a guitar-playin, aging hipster in Austin Texas who claimed to hate The Beatles and made a point to mansplain Lennon's abusive lyrics towards women, making sure to reference "You Can't Do That" from this album. Yeah, yeah, yeah we know and I don't care. Later on in that same date, he took me to a hipster house party where we celebrated Notorious B.I.G. and he sang along about all the hoes. I know hipsters are "cool" and "ironic", but I don't think he saw any irony in that. Anywho, I have a lot of dating gems from Austin. I love The Beatles.
They can do no wrong!!!!! And I love her, ughhh
Classic!
I am very biased as far as this album goes. I've watched the film and listened to the album so many times, I know every single note and word. This is the pinnacle of 60s pop/rock'n'roll, with songs that stand the test of time. Sure, The Beatles later had better and groundbraking albums, but this is still the best album of the Beatlemania area and still a 5/5.
Perfect album
Added to likes And I Love Her The rest of the songs were also very good. My first 5/5 album.
Ah yes, here we go. When the seas rise, the AI drones overtake us and fire rages from the skies, if the opening chord of A Hard Day's Night plays, I'll still get a little shiver of joy to see me on my way. This album man, honestly it's great. It's impossible to think about it without thinking about the film, of the lads having the absolute time of their lives - the happiest they ever are as The Beatles? - racing about and Ringo doing that weird jumping dance in the club. And yet. And yet. If I Fell is probably one of the most devastatingly delicate and insecure songs of the era, slap bang in the middle of side one's overall bop. I love that song so much. I'm all over the place here, because I'm basically tired from smiling so much and flipping this record over again and again and again.
What’s better: the album or the movie?
There's nothing I can say that the album itself doesn't.
pure excellence
Hittills har varje Beatles-album haft några låtar som helt enkelt inte låter mig sätta lägre än en 5:a.
Riktig favorit från barndomen! Inte riktigt lika bra som jag minns den kanske, men svängiga, korta låtar räcker väldigt långt.
13 songs in 30 minutes. This wasn't an album that I had paid much attention to. I tend to prefer the post Rubber Soul era. The thing that struck me was the styles of music on the album. It was 60's pop, sure, but there was a depth to their craft that made the album a joy to listen to.
Okay I love this album
beatles first wow
:)
I love this album and I think the associated movie is one of the great, nonsensical movies of all time. What’s going on at any point? Who cares!
all bangers
Awesome!
Well It IS the Beatles after all.
I was tempted to rate this a 4 as I thought this was quite simplistic to what they put out later in their career, but that's selling this record short. Their first record to feature zero cover songs showcases their ability to effortlessly churn out 13 catchy pop songs. The melodies on this thing are so infectious and the harmonies are glorious. The title track and 'Can't Buy Me Love' are the most celebrated songs here, but I'll argue that the 'I'll Be Back' is one of the most underrated songs from their catalogue and George composition 'I'm Happy Just To Dance With You' doesn't even clock past 2 minutes but still manages to be a delight. Not a single song on here passes the 3 minute mark. Sometimes all you need is cute little love songs and you are going to struggle to find a better collection of them that what you can find on here.
Puede que no sea el mejor de The Beatles, pero darle una calificación menor a 5? imposible para mi
Après des album à rallonge il est agréable d'en avoir un plus court Super album des chansons d'amour entraînante qui donnent le sourire (un certain Sinatra gagnerai a prendre exemple) Je suis sûrement biaisé par ce que je pense d'eux, mais c'est un 5 pour moi
Donc vous me dites que ça c'est sorti 2 ans avant Pet Sounds ? Playlist pick : And I Love Her
Enjoyed this a lot. The mix is really clear, not like some of the original Beatles monos I’d previously heard back in the day. Some great songs and lovely harmonies. These boys will go far.
A classic!
Superb. One of the best early period albums by the Beatles. Full of wonderful original songs. Classic.
I have never been a Beatles fan. Their music just does nothing for me however they are the most influential group of musicians ever to come together undeniable talent, undeniable ability.
Great album solid and is a timeless classic
Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles! My older brother is a Beatles fan, so I can't remember a time in my life that I didn't know of them or their music. Over the years I have heard naysayers who dismiss the Beatles as being overrated. Though I am a fan, having pursued music in my career, I feel that I can objectively say that the Beatles are the real deal. Lucky breaks and coincidences may have contributed to their meteoric success, but underneath that they are some of the finest songwriters in recent history. You can hear innovations in their earliest recordings that set the stage for them to transform pop music into a critically and artistically respected medium. Though their later albums would achieve greater heights, this was their finest album at release. Whereas their first two albums included R&B covers, this album is solely Lennon/McCartney originals. This is a no-skip album for me with too many highlights to name them all. Here are a few: A Hard Day's Night -- from the opening Fadd9 chord to the jangly outro this rocker sets the stage for an incredible experience. I Should Have Known Better -- features a unique chord progression that supports a well crafted melody. Great guitar solo from George If I Fell -- gorgeous vocal harmonies from John and Paul -- I learned to sing harmony from this song I'm Happy -- this George vocal features one of my favorite rhythm guitar parts on the album Tell Me Why -- often overlooked because of bigger hits on the album, I feel like this would have been a standout hit on an album from any other artist -- great harmonies and effective use of falsetto Plus many others...
The first great Beatles album.
They might almost all just by "I love you" songs but my god they are good ones.
It's probably not their best album, but it is easily their most charming. The energy is infectious, and almost makes me wish they had remained a straight ahead rock and roll band. Lennon and McCartney came into their own as songwriters on this one, it's all original material and all of it is good or great. You could put this album on at any time and it will be an enjoyable listen. I'd say it's a perfect example of a mid sixties rock album. All their contemporaries spent the next few years trying to reproduce this, before they completely changed the game once again with their evolving sound.
10/10 no notes
It really is the first classic Beatles album.
Love them.
Perfect
nice calm luh chill album
It's the bloody Beatles. In just their third album in two years, the Beatles got better and better. The movie is okay, but the album is fantastic (but that's redundant because all true Beatles albums are fantastic). Top tracks: "If I Fell," "A Hard Day's Night," "I Should Have Known Better," "Any Time at All," "Tell Me Why"
Classic.absolute classic.
Lo amo por siempre y desde la primera vez que lo escuché
That’s a fun half hour! Knew all the words to every song. L = (5.0*s) I remember hearing these songs on the radio. You can tell why these long hair mop tops from across the pond made it big. Every song is a catchy, toe-tapping hit. Renzo had the album, always loved the song If I Fell. J = (4.4*s) A Hard Days Night is short and sweet. They get better!
Greatest of the early Beatles records. Alternating a freight-train rhythm section against the tender numbers like "If I Fell" and "And I Love Her." Some corny moments like "Tell Me Why" take me out of it but the title track and "Any Time at All" drag me back in.
Things get off to a rollicking start on A Hard Day’s Night, first with that slightly dissonant chord to kick off the title track, one of the greatest album/song intros in all of rock, and then with the bongos working overtime to set the pace. Perhaps because I’m listening to a remastered version in headphones, I’d never before noticed them before; they add a fascinating element to the song, and they make welcome appearances elsewhere, as do tambourines and other percussion elements. The band’s first LP of all-original material simply glides by on a sheen of chiming guitars, effortless harmonies and economical, urgent and catchy songs. It’s great.
Not sure it would be possible to rate a Beatles album less than a 5. Will never know
Ultimate pop record, 30 minutes of short, sharp sing-a-longs. I'm going to have to give my favourite track to 'Things we said today' a slow tempo ode to lost love.
Tbh first time listening a beatles album, no wonder they’re legendary
One of the best albums of all time
Love it, it was my favourite CD as a kid, so I live it naturally.
The jangly power pop prototype that begat much of my favourite music. The Byrds, Big Star, R.E.M., The Smiths, The Replacements; you can hear their origins here.
Hey man…it’s the Beatles.
A pretty perfect pop album. Not a single song longer than 2:45. Packed a lot of brilliance in that short window. Classics all the way through.
This is the only early Beatles album better musically than any of their later period albums. There really is not a bad song on here ("I'll Cry Instead" is probably the weakest track) and it is pretty amazing how many bangers they fit into 33 minutes. Honestly any song on here could have been a single. We also hear the Beatles taking their first steps into more ambitious songwriting with the Spanish style guitar prominent in "And I Love Her", "If I Fell", and "Things We Said Today" (an underrated song imo). The harmonies are on point and the melodies are catchy. Great job fellas.
Why are they still so good after millions of time listening to this?
11/10 IG
Fantastico Favs: “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You,” “Things We Said Today,” and “When I Get Home”
A few timeless songs on this album. “And I love her” is my favorite.
Classic bangers
Much better than I remembered. It’s still their simple early stuff and the lyrics are seriously cringey, but wow they could write. Just a great fun listen.
Any Time At All and You Can't Do That are my faves on this one.
Люблю переслушивать.
The Beatles third album and first soundtrack but the first that feels like an 'album' rather than and collection of songs. A Hard Day's Night is the first LP to contain only originals, all Lennon and McCartney compositions with the exception of George's 'I'm Happy Just to Dance With You', and heavily weighted towards John. At just over 30 minutes it never wanes and from the stunning opening chord of the title song to 'I'll Be Back' it is packed with classic songs - 'I Should Have Known Better', 'If I Fell', 'And I Love Her', 'Can't Buy Me Love', 'Things We Said Today', 'I'll Be Back'. There was even greater to come but this album is the first indication that The Beatles were more than a really good pop band.
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ИМБА ИМБА 5/5
i didnt listened
Obviously
The early Beatles have been etched in my brain since I was 6 years old in 1964 so obviously 5 stars or A.
me gusto mucho. ideal para poner mientras laburo 10/10
Classic for a reason
Great
Masterpiece. I’m glad this is the third album the app recommended me
Can't help but smile listening to this! Short, easy, classic, catchy. The Beatles at their pop-y best.
one of my first loves <3
Álbum fantástico!
😍😍🤤🤤
Hard to rate the Beatles anything but a 5. Even their less memorable songs are really catchy.
¿Puede haber algún álbum de The Beatles que no sea un 10 o no lo roce? Para mí, este sería un 10 si no fuera por la horrible letra de "You Can't Do That", una machirulada, ingenua en su tiempo y casi vomitiva hoy en día. El resto, de lo mejor de la etapa en la que un álbum no era más que una colección de canciones sin más, sin mucha profundidad en las letras, todavía dirigidas a sus fans adolescentes, pero descarada y deliciosamente adictivas. La cara A representa la banda sonora de la pelicula de Richard Lester del mismo título, una frikada naïf hecha para explotar el fenómeno beat y hacer más caja. ¿No hicieron algo parecido las Spice Girls décadas despues?
It's been a hard day's night And I've been working like a dog
look. these four bitches got me through dark times and i love them. l’album pourrait juste être an hour of Ringo’s reverbed fart sounds and i’d give it five stars ça devait faire une décennie que j’avais écouté l’album and yet i just gave the shower performance of the year
By far my favourite of The Beatles' early albums, this is fantastic start to finish. Up there with some of their best overall for me. Fav tracks: A Hard Day's Night, I'll Be Back, I Should Have Known Better
It’s the Beatles, they don’t make bad albums
a good classic
Great
Was going to give it a four because it’s not a desert island album for me, but my God even the lesser songs are good. And of course the better songs are classics.
Perfect album.
high 5 its the lennon stomper era. beatlemania at its peak. is it the best beatles album? the slightly weaker tracks are mainly in the first 4. the title track has always been one of my least favourites although still a classic of course. i blame ringo for playing the same thing for the whole song, it leaves it slightly flat. aunt mimi said it was her favourite. nothing weak on "should of known better". its a great one for singing for your neighbours pleasure. is this the last hurrah for the harmonica which was such a key part of their early sound? fun as heck. "if i fell" is a bit of a plodder if we're honest although the harmonies are fun to sing. my favourite bit is when paul bottles the high note on the second B section and they leave it in ( around 1:43 ). a sentimental ballad lacking in real sentimentality. leave them to paul john! on "im happy just to dance with you" poor george has the role usually reserved for ringo - singing the track john and paul cant face singing themselves. this song is much better then "honey dont" tho so he cant complain. still, good for him for starting to write his own. if he hadn't he would of been fighting with ringo for the scraps for the rest of their career. from track 5 onwards this album is flawless. its back to back to back. "and i love her" is beautiful. great work on the bongos ringo! lovely touch with the wood block whoevers idea that was. the effect should be comical but instead its genuinely haunting and stark. is this the first timeless paul ballad? they nailed this one. "tell me why" is an all time favourite. its perhaps the least original musically but they bring insane energy to it. the harmonies sound unbelievable, such a fun track. just wants to be belted out like so many of these. the bridge is really great too "because i really cant stand it im soooo in love with YOU" ( drums )*babada babada babada babada* "cant buy me love" - who can say no. i remember paul coming out to this at glasto 2022... top george solo too. i like the choice to go with no backing vocals it makes it different. on an album of lennon stompers, paul walks away with the biggest rocknroll hit? whats he like. "anytime at all" weeew come on. that snare hit. i love to sing the "at a-a-al, all you gotta do is ca-a-all"s. its quite sentimental and he pulls it off here, touching really. "ill cry instead" always loved this quirky number. its great writing from john. in his second heyday between 1968 - 1972 john decided all art needs to be hyper personal. he shows on this album how wrong that is. its great fun pop lyrics while still being true to him. lovely bluesy accompaniment from george throughout. im not quite 100% on "things we said today". its a very slight dip, the least good paul effort here. still the contrasting sections are fun arnt they. good stuff. "when i get home" is another unforgiving lennon stomper. does george even play on this track? the whole backing seems to be john crunching out those filthy chords. maybe george is doubling. anyway it sounds great. what a banger. finishing up with the ultimate lennon stomper, "you cant do that" is john all over. a confrontational and abusive front utterly failing to cover the extremely vulnerable insides - sung over a straight rock backing, that john eh. always loved this one. think they released it as a single in america, good choice. fab solo from george too. him and paul sound beaut on the backing vocals. george says in "get back" that they should of spent more time on "ill be back". i like it how it is but i can see why he picked it out. its a stunning song and could of been done in many different ways. you could picture it as a full on big band ballad. its got a cool structure too ABACABA. great closer. really top song. ive often said its my favourite beatles album, but its hard to say its the best. some of the tracks clearly had very little time spent on them. you can tell when ringos playing the same thing for the whole song and theres next to nothing from george - theyve probably heard the song for the first time about 40mins ago. its obviously nowhere near their later albums production wise. its also so john heavy. paul does well on his tracks but its only 3 / 14 ( although he no doubt had a large hand it all of johns songs, they still collaborated at this point ). just one for george and no ringo song means it cant be the perfect beatles album. that being said there are no utter duds. its high quality all their way through. most of their early albums have a few completely forgettable numbers in the second half. the second half here is completely UNforgettable. they were an unbelievable rock and roll band and they just crack on with it. full of energy. a lot of it comes down to john lennons voice. musics all about the human voice really, and hes singing the perfect songs for him. crunchy blues chords and vocals, rock and roll with some more interesting chords. what else do you want from the beatles? people know john these days for his double denim round glasses era 1968 - 1972. he'd returned to rock n roll by then and had a very focused public persona and world view, but he always seems so brittle. for someone constantly banging on about peace hes always a second from lashing out or biting back. have you ever seen him smile in that period? the beatles still cracked jokes in 1964. this is johns real peak for me. beatlemania - just knocking out pop songs, full of confidence, the new elvis, "topper most of the popper most". he still gets to be a edgy in interviews but at least its in a funny way. and its before their beatle hair cuts get a bit stupidly long, before they get completely sick of the touring. you can sadly plot the beatles career through what substance they're abusing at the time and john was always the most susceptible. its no surprise that his real peak in creativity and energy is the "rum and coke" era. the harder stuff did him no favours at all. here despite the touring he write all these classics and still finds time for his books of nonsense poems. these books help complete his image as the intellectual beatle, a real writer and artist. sitting in his new mansion kenwood in front of the telly typing away on his type writer, king of the world....
Might be peak moptop era Beatles. And that's saying something.
I gravitate toward their later stuff, but as an album its good throughout.
Not a top five Beatles album, but still a five star album
Easily the best mop top album. The peak of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership (as a team). This is the album that showed that the Beatles weren’t going away, although “best band ever” was still a few years out. It’s very easy to understand why girls were chasing them to the train.
These kids are gonna be stars!
I think these 4 lads might be onto something.
Favorite tracks: I'm Happy Just to Dance With You, Any Time At All, Things We Said Today, Can't Buy Me Love All songs under 3 minutes with a great beat - this was a fun album from start to finish!
What a great collection of pop songs. A great transition album from the previous 2. All songs written by Lennon-McCartney. They would go on to bigger and more adventurous musical interludes.
Love the album only great songs
5 out of 5 All bangers. The early years.
A hard time not recognizing perfection.
One of my favorite Beatles albums that many would argue I favorite too much. But I like how condensed and punchy this is. I like it a lot so I’m going to put it 5 stars but I might bring it down to four
For ever!!!
It is hard as my 5 points.
The first Beatles album to include original songs only! This was a sign of things to come. Extremely catchy and probably underrated within their discography. Nothing but a 5 from me!
One of my favorite albums of all time , The Beatles find their step with a consistently clean track list of bangers on their first album of all original material .
One of my favorite Beatles albums
Love this album reminds me of roadtrips w/ my grandmother
GENIOS
The very best of the Early-Beatles era.
Such a great album!
Amazing offcorse it's the beatles I love her has always been a fav
Favorite Track: If I Fell
Classic Beatles 4.5/5
10/10 have heard this
I think, more than pretty much any other Beatles project, I grew up on this album. I watched the movie when I was a kid, and the title track was always one of my favorites from them. So it makes sense that I really loved this. But I think its still saying something that this is so consistently enjoyable, it takes a lot of effort to make an album like this. Favorites: A Hard Day's Night, If I Fell, Can't Buy Me Love
This and Help! are my least listened to Beatles albums, but it doesn't matter. It still gets 5 stars. Question: Did they ever release a bad album? Answer: Not even close World's greatest band.
A hard days night, buy me love, any time at all
Easy listening
It’s easy to dismiss this as just “pop” Beatles or the distilled essence of Beatlemania. But at some point I realized that every element that makes up the later more adventurous Beatles albums is there in the early ones, and sometimes even in a purer form. This time I noticed it in a kind of dark wistfulness of the ballads, best exemplified by Paul's "Things We Said Today." Paul's ruminations temper some of the violence of John’s lyrics, which I always notice and try to look past. Both must have been necessary to make Lennon-McCartney. How might it have looked if the darkness was the centerpiece of the album? Here’s a hint. Listen to Dylan singing “Things We Said Today” in 2017: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YV2k-GAfT0w I bet he knew how dark it was in 1964. I read elsewhere that he first thought the countdown at the beginning of "I Saw Her Standing There" was "One two three fuck" which is an incredibly punk rock thing to think at the time. Now imagine the album is called THINGS WE SAID and it’s all about the gap between public image and immediate desires. The Beatles were very much dealing with that at the time. For an appropriate core sample see this laudable collection or anecdotes involving Paul’s girlfriend Jane Asher: https://withthebeatlesgirls.tumblr.com/post/629985790874746880/pauljane-excerpts-within-the-context-of-beatles/amp Before Yoko, before LSD, John is trying to get Paul’s girlfriend to talk about masturbation very much against her will. Paul says “You can’t do that!” So perhaps that song, always heard as a possessive boyfriend, is actually John's memory of Paul reining him in. Certainly the song isn't just about cheating, but the IMAGE of cheating. "Everybody's green / 'cause I'm the one who won your love / But if they'd seen / You're talking that way they'd laugh in my face." Don't think this is about the girl, John -- and aren't you married? The next line in "You Can't Do That" is "Please listen to me if you wanna stay mine." IF. And IF does even more work in "If I Fell." An incredibly beautiful song in melody and harmony, one I sing when I'm rocking my kid trying to get him back to sleep, but doing that also makes you realize how weird the lyrics are. The conclusion of the song is about making a former lover cry out of jealousy, presenting this new love as an act of revenge -- red flag much? But also the entire thing is happening in the singer's head because of "If." And he isn't in love with her -- he is contemplating what it MIGHT be like if he fell in love with her. To be clear I'm not trying to ruin anyone's rah-rah Beatles experience -- these songs are all the more profound for all this emotional turmoil and subtlety. I'm just trying to argue that they aren't straight up love songs, they're the lads seriously struggling with themselves and their relationships with others. In that context, the happy songs hit different. In "When I Get Home" could be John rehearsing the talk he needs to give his main chick while he's still with his side chick. "Can't Buy Me Love" is a pleading negotiation. "A Hard Day's Night" offers the usual patriarchal transaction -- I work so hard that you should "give me everything." Do I even need to explain that "I'll Be Back" is a threat? What exactly is the emotional tenor of "You could find better things to do than to break my heart again" ... because I think it's just devastating. But it's something peppy, something happy, something up-tempo, something snappy, as Tom Hanks says in "That Thing You Do." There's nothing dark to see here, no contradictions, nothing to make you want to cry "Help!"
Classic Beatles
luv listening to the bugs
Just amazing!!
Infectious.
Best of the “early” Beatles. All songs written by John and Paul and all excellent!
This album collects your thoughts after a hard day's work.
I love this album. It's poppy and fun but evolved from where they started.
The Beatles may be the greatest band in the history of bands.
Is it ridiculous to say that A Hard Day's Night is underrated? Sure it's made by the Beatles, but it's never mentioned alongside their legendary 5 album run from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road. In my opinion, this album is easily of the quality of the 5, and I'd personally place it within my top 5 Beatles records. Its just so much fun, but has depth and range and genuinely clever and intricate songwriting. 5/5
A classic!!
Ahh, I have very vivid memories tied to this album. I remember driving for hours through the southern U.S.A. to get to Destin, FL with this album playing on repeat in the family car. When I hear this album, I think of white Gulf of Mexico sand, Gameboy Advance, Spongebob in the hotel room, and souvenir shops full of beach and pirates ship trinkets. Thanks Mom and Dad for that trip. For nostalgia reasons, this will get a higher rating, but it's also just a good album. There's a reason The Beatles have been so popular and so successful for so long. It's classic British pop rock, the drums are clean and precise, the bass is on point, and the lyrics are shallow, light hearted, and simple. It's everything that makes pop, pop. 10/10.
60's pop at it's peak. Can't go wrong with this one.
5 stars, loved it
Amazing harmony and composition
Great Beatles album
No one can dispute this is a classic album and the list would be incomplete without the Beatles
An absolute classic. (A reminder to me to edit this later so that I can write a more detailed review)
5 stars just for the intro chord.
A classic! I was 5 years old when this was first released and so I didn't listen to it seriously until much later, in my teen years. But it's been one of my favorites since the 70's.
Awesome catchy Rock/Pop Album
17/01/2026 Beatles really have surprised me. I won't go out of my way to listen to them... but they're not a bad listen. Spotify listeners: 34.4 million
Fav song- if I fell
Their third album. Rock / Pop. Those two opening tracks are great, If I Fell, And I Love Her and Can't Buy Me Love are all stone cold classics too. This is probably their most 'Pop' album. John bring cheeky and in your face while Paul is hitting us a little more softly. Wonderful album.
✅️
The Beatles are always incredible, but there’s something about their later-era work that is especially magical. That stretch feels like watching a band evolve in real time—pushing boundaries, experimenting fearlessly, and turning pop music into something deeper, stranger, and more ambitious. So this album is great but not my favorite Beatles work.
The perfect pop album! Always loved it, always will.
This album was perfect for it's time, and every time. The harmonies are superb.
it’s the Beatles
Not much you can say about this album that hasn’t been said a million times. This album really marked their growth and maturity into The Beatles we would all come to love. My favorite thing about this album is its ability to speak so deeply to the Universal truths we all experience. The Beatles had such a unique way of mixing joy and pain in their music and lyrics, and this is a perfect example of it. I think what made them truly great was their ability to connect both music and story very universally and relevantly to our souls.
I see Beatles. I click 5*
An excellent album from start to finish, not groundbreaking to say. Super quick listen but all bangers
I don't think there's an album in the Beatles Discography that I wouldn't give a 5 to.
I am very biased when it comes to The Beatles. I unabashedly love them. I have since my young childhood. They were my favorite band for a very long time, something I shared with my mom in my youth. Admittedly I do prefer their later albums, but I also think their earlier ones have many great tunes. This record in particular is probably my favorite of their first few, given that there are no covers and what could feel like some toss-offs. It feels like their first fully formed album. In listening today I once again tried to do so with fresh ears, and what took me a bit by surprise was my preference for songs that used to take a bit of a backseat. These included And I Love Her, Any Time At All, and You Can't Do That. The other thought is that there is only one song that did absolutely nothing for me, and that was When I Get Home. My last comment is that the movie A Hard Day's Night is awesome and adds to the enjoyment of the music immensely. It's funny and touching (at times) and shows what Beatlemania was really like.
Кращий з ранніх бітлів. Взагалі я б йому поставив 4.5. Але тут як завжди треба визначитися чітко і підвищу на 5, бо в порівнянні з більшістю біт гуртів того часу Бітли просто на голову вище.
LOVE this album! Sang it in 5th grade because we had too and I will never forget it. Can't Buy Me Love is my favorite track on the album.
Absolute quality- every tune a banger and soooo well produced for its day.
Cmon now. It’s the first Beatles album with only original material. Banger of a pop album
It’s interesting listening to the early rock music that would later influence both rock and pop genres. It’s a cohesive album with a flowing theme.
Another absolute classic
i really enjoyed this album!! definitely will be revisiting this in the future :)
It’s difficult to rate an absolute classic. Like many, I prefer the later Beatles, but acknowledge this had to come first. The early Beatles are also totally a vibe, and with tight harmonies on tracks like If I Fell, it’s easy to see what sparked the Beatlemania obsession. They were excellent. As I kid, I was only exposed to early Beatles. So in a way, I associate these youthful songs with my own youth. The lyrics carry an innocent wisdom. The guitar work is simple, but does the trick. As I grew, I ventured into the later Beatles, so I had an opportunity to experience the expansion of human experience alongside the Fab Four in a somewhat mirrored trajectory. Once I heard Rubber Soul and Revolver though, I rarely returned to A Hard Day’s Night. Occasionally I’d return to Help. But, there is a feeling that once you venture into the more complex, interesting, and mature Beatles, the early albums seem base. If I were rating all the Beatles albums, A Hard Day’s Night would be near the bottom of my personal list. When excluding obvious influence and how this album helped to form society as we know it, when one just looks at the music itself compared to the other albums on this list, it still does rank pretty high. That’s a testament to the Beatles. They’re still music’s biggest name across all listener-types for a reason. Would we still revere A Hard Day’s Night if The Beatles broke up after making it, if they hadn’t recorded anything else? It’s impossible to fathom, since the butterfly effect would gut what music became without The Beatles entirely, but I do think it’d be on this list.
Stark
5. The album begins with perhaps the most famous rattling chord in rock history to start an album. And it's the Beatles....5.
Some good classics recently
AMAZING
Classic
It's tough to give this anything less than 5 stars. It's arguably the best of the early Beatles albums, and pretty much every song is a banger.
I mean, come on. It's the Beatles. Even their early hokey stuff is pretty damn good. Almost every song on this album is a banger and most of them were hits of which I can sing almost every word. Five stars.
classic beatles. cant go wrong, every song is great
I love the Beatles
Classic, romantic, emotional, warm!!!
I love this album and have listened to it a lot lately
Perfection
First beatles album after 150ish reviews... I wonder how many more there will be? Early Beatles, sappy, saccharine sweet.. but threatening all the same? Not to worry - like many people 40+ I was bought up on a diet of 60's music with The Beatles firmly at the centre of that universe. wont hear a bad word said about them to be honest. so many great memories growing up. My one consistent criticism is there is always something missing in the mix with the Beatles. like its just not crisp. anyway great listen
ебать ну это классика
The more I think about this album the higher I rate it. A classic of 60s pop / rock and even though that era isn't my favourite, the track list is just so consistently great. The title track is a lot of fun, and I love the harmonies on If I Fell, and Tell Me Why / Can't Buy Me Love / Any Time At All is an epic three song run on the digital version.
They shan’t be denied anything but a solid gold 5 star rating.
Pretty solid, not quite abbey road, still a winner
Masterpiece!
Packed with classic pop tracks. Not my favourite listening and they have yet to reach their creative peak in 1964, but we are unlikely to have much of the rest of the list without it.
A master piece
Banger
I love this album so much. So many great tunes. A Hard Day's Night, If I Fell (Oh, the John/Paul harmonies), And I Love Her, Can't Buy Me Love, You Can't Do That. But, it ends with Lennon's brilliant and complex I'll Be Back (for instance, he employed Picardy thirds to great effect without having any knowledge of music theory) which foreshadowed greater things to come. Sixty one years later and hearing this album still fills me with joy.
5/5, how could I not? I wasn't much of a Beatles fan growing up in the '60s/'70s, they were pretty inescapable back then. I may not always be in the mood for these tunes these days but can't deny how f-in' good this album is.
This is such an overlooked album. Everyone raves about the later releases, which are definitely amazing, but this one captures them as they are becoming "more popular than Jesus." These are short and sweet pop songs that hit perfectly.
Loved this
Their first album entirely made up of their own music and literally every single one is a banger. Arguably the strongest album from the moptop days!
A superb album. The music, vocals & arrangements are outstanding & hold up well over time.
4.5
In a lot of ways, this is the quintessential Beatles album. Better than maybe any of their other albums, it captures the sound of the Beatles as a band. They haven't become wild studio experimenters yet. It's just 13 great no frills songs. Lennon really shines on this album, contributing 9 of the songs, with George turning in his first great song and Paul limited to three all wheat, no chaff compositions. Lots of classic tunes here including the title track, "Can't Buy Me Love", "And I Love Her" and "I Should've Known Better". And while the first half contains most of the hits, I'm kind of more partial to the more rocking second side, which has two of my favorite songs from the album -- "You Can't Do That" and "I'll Cry Instead". 5 stars.
Playing when my child was born 15 years ago!
No commentary necessary
Their first album full of original tunes is one where they start to come of age. It’s a delight to listen to.
Another fantastic Friday pull! I do love me some early Beatles as I grew up listening to the Red Album compilation and this album was so good! The hits are massive but even some of the other songs don't take away from the full album experience. The three track run of "Tell Me Why," "Can't Buy Me Love," and "Any Time At All" in the middle of the album is the kind of run any band would kill to have at the back half of the album. For my first Beattles album during this experience I couldn't have asked for a better pick.
I love early Beatles. I don't know how these songs sound similar to other bands (both who tried to copy them and were also their contemporaries), but they're somehow so much better. Both lyrically and musically. So good.
Its the beatles. And at that its the boy band the beatles. Beatlemania at full blast. As always its packed with all timers. Just hit after hit after hit with a few only great tracks in between. I dont know what else to say about the freakin beatles. Its the damn old beatles. Its incredible and timeless and thats that.
ABSOLUTELY LOVELY. The beatles always make me stupidly believe in love for some reason. It's hopeful and tender.
Tell Me Why this isn’t a great album.
They were already superstars, but this feels like the launching pad for the band that would be one of the greatest the world had ever heard. They came into their own and were tearing their way out of the boy band phenomenon and stepping towards a unique musical voice.
I don’t even have to listen to know it’s gonna be 5 stars
So many great songs, loved it.
This is peak early Beatles - simple, jangly guitar pop song with tight harmonies and punchy melodies. They would go on to create much more interesting albums, and listening to this record with modern ears it can sound a bit simplistic. But the songs are so unrelentingly strong that simple can be forgiven. A template that many bands would leverage, but few if any have matched.
A Hard Day's Night has, for some reason, never been my favourite Beatles album. Maybe the lack of a Ringo song for balance. I even considered not giving it five stars. But how can I not? It's the only full Lennon/McCartney album in the world. The whole first side is masterful, it's only a couple of very slightly dodgy Lennon tunes (I'll Cry Instead, When I Get Home) that stop it from being perfect. And I mean perfect. That's why I don't consider it to be a great Beatles album. It's so close to perfection. I have to give George Harrison a mention here. His guitar playing is perfectly measured throughout the album. Most tasteful lead guitarist of all time? He's in the conversation. Great Cover Art.
Grande álbum dos Beatles, fim da era do pop mais simples para ingressar nos álbuns mais complexos. Um dos melhores álbuns de todos os tempos.
What can possibly be said about this album? Every song is an utter joy, and notably it’s their first record with no cover versions - they were really hitting their stride here. Yep, good, this.
What do you say? An album from before they "peaked" or arguably revolutionised pop music and still every track is something many bands would give their eye teeth to write something close. Glorious Pop nuggets and yet so much more. Standout track: changes with each listen Revisit?: unquestionably.
Such excellent pop rock. You could swing your hips to anything here. Title track is such a fucking banger. Of note- Even this early on, some really excellent, varied bass lines and drum parts. Every song has some nice variety to it, even the short ones. Some really funky chord progressions. John and Paul were such good singers.
When I smoked a lot of weed I thought the Beatles post-drug discoveries were the best Beatles. But now that a weed is something to be chased from my front yard instead of smoked early Beatles are starting to sound better than post-LSD Beatles. General rule of thumb, rock and roll is best when it's at its most straightforward.
Pretty short Album
Maravilla, claro
Fab
Thematisch zijn de Fab Four nog niet veel opgeschoten, maar muzikaal is dit weer prachtig. Wat konden de heren toch mooie melodieën maken en samenzang produceren. Merk op dat wat er verder in deze periode gemaakt werd (Pat Boone, Paul Anka, Dion & the Belmonts) veeeeel suffer was. Roy Orbison met Pretty Woman was al aardig wild met die dwingende drums! Voor ons klinken de vroege Beatles gezapig, maar destijds was het echt een frisse windvlaag. Het waren de jaren van gillende meiden en onverstaanbare concerten (de heren hadden een maand voor het uitkomen van deze plaat hun optreden in de veilinghal in Blokker). Lang verhaal kort: de muziek wint het van de teksten. Een nummer als I'll be back heeft zo'n mooie melodie, wat mij betreft had het ook over de productie van strokarton mogen gaan. Speelplezier en genialiteit, dan ga ik niet moeilijk doen.
Ahhhhhh can’t go wrong really
There is no wonder that the Beatles became the sensation they were. This album is a wonderful mix of rock and doo-wop with boppy riffs and incredible pacing. The album takes you through an entire relationship from young love to bitter split, and every moment is perfectly sold by wonderful harmonies. Not my favorite of their albums, but I will never discourage anyone from giving it a listen.
One of their best.
God tier pop
An album that starts with a famous clang and continues with a fair amount of clanking and thumping. Amidst all this bumping around and jostling for space the hidden gem is Paul’s Things We Said Today. I’ll Be Back is another great song. But it’s the thud that starts the chorus of Any Time At All that I like the most. It’s the same sound my washing machine makes when it starts, and if the medium is the message a lot of the album sounds like machinery, trains and factory production lines.
It's the Beatles. Enough said....5 stars.
Muito bom, gostei.
Classic Beatles when they were at the top of their hit making fab period. Really enjoyed listening to this one again. Starting with the title song this one is a great LP all the way through.
So good!
1001 Albums Challenge (10/1001) 1. A Hard Day's Night (5/5) 2. I Should Have Known Better (5/5) 3. If I Fell (5/5) 4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (5/5) 5. And I Love Her (5/5) 6. Tell Me Why (5/5) 7. Can't Buy Me Love (5/5) 8. Any Time At All (5/5) 9. I'll Cry Instead (5/5) 10. Things We Said Today (5/5) 11. When I Get Home (5/5) 12. You Can't Do That (4/5) 13. I'll Be Back (5/5) Total (5/5)
I hadn’t listened to any of the Beatles’ older catalogue yet, although I’m a big fan of their more popular work. I didn’t know any of the songs on here, but I was pleasantly surprised!
Proper 2 minute catchy pop. None of that silly experimental shit. A joy
The beatles
Really enjoyed this, had to give it a second listen.
fun upbeat, get your day going energy
Of the time, amazing songwriting and harmonies and classic Beatles.
Day 34 Hometown heroes! The Beatles were practically a religion in my family growing up. I haven’t played this album start to finish in at least 15 years but every note is still burned into my memory. Listening again still brings back so many happy childhood memories. It’s amazing how music can do that. Easy 10/10. Highlights Tell Me Why Any Time At All When I Get Home
Great
Solid album
This album is early Beatles at their prime. It contains all of the elements that made them successful: Poppy hooks, lyrics that convey timeless emotions of love, songs written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney, and vocal trade offs between those two. The only difference between Please Please Me and A Hard Day’s Night, though, is that the band perfected a sound that they’d be known for. Songs like the title track, “I Should Have Known Better”, “And I Love Her”, and “Can’t Buy Me Love” are so iconic and have transcended the Beatles to their spot in music history. This album gets a 5/5 because it is PEAK!
One of the best ever. Top album by the greatest ever band. Some real hidden gems on here… Things we said today, Tell me why and If I fell. Only 30 minutes long but 30 minutes of pure joy
One of my favorite albums
Some absolute classics on this album. And I appreciate that some of the most famous and respected songs in history are barely 2 minutes long - no pointless filler to stretch out a song for Lennon and McCartney in the mid-60s, just perfect pop. I have always loved Tell Me Why and Can't Buy Me Love, and this era of the Beatles in general, so while I have very little to say about the record, it's clearly worth a: 5/5
A perfect pop album.
Always love the Beatles
IT'S BEEN A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, AND I'VE BEEN WORKING LIKE A DOG
Great album from start to finish, might be my fav by the Beatles
Cozy classic
JA TAK
I tried to mark down to 4 (or 4.5) to differentiate from other Beatles albums and also to not look like a complete fan boy. But, I can’t, I know it inside out… 30 minutes of pure classic early Beatles bliss.
"A Hard Day's Night" was one of my most played songs on my little childhood MP3 player. I have always loved this song and nothing has changed 20 years later. And there are so many other great songs on here as well. "And I Love Her" holds up with some of The Beatles best, "Can't Buy Me Love" certainly falls into more of their early 'kitchy' sound, but still is a great listen. Quite a nice way to spend my night!
Their first perfect album? Maybe a touch too much John for my liking, but there are so many massive songs here - and probably kicks off their most prolific pop period
So many good songs!
Obvious classic, so good
Simply lovely
Great! Loved this
I love the instrumental and the voice. It really put me in a good mood.
John is a beast on this one. His best large block of work until the White Album.
BEATLES. no es el mejor se, pero es la beatlemania pura y dura.
This is such an incredible album that came out in 1964. The Beatles were everywhere and radio stations played their music all the time. No one came close to the music these guys made and the movie was just like all those Elvis movies but 300 times better!!
I saw the movie at least twice when it came out. I saw them at Candkestick Park. Yes, I love their sound. It was a bridge from the sound of the 50's to something new.
Light years ahead of their previous stuff. Martin's production is magnificent. Near perfect album that set the stage for the next decade or so.
The 🐐🐐🐐🐐 Banger album as always.
Not one song I wanted to skip.
Thank you. The Beatles are my all-time favorite band.
I mean obviously a certified classic. I hadn't heard it in a long time, and revisiting it reminded me how good some of the little flourishes on this album are. And showed me ones I don't think I'd heard before.
I haven't listen to this in a while. It was good.
Almost not fair to have the Beatles. Albums on here, they are just classic in every sense. This one in particular really signals the move they were starting to make towards more serious music, but still has some of that early Beatles magic as well.
One of my earliest memories. I never dreamed they would become so big. Great intro album for someone checking out early Beatles
This album was playing over and over at home when I was a kid, so I literally grew up with it. I cannot review it in an impartial way – it was the very first thing people told me was "music". It will always have a special place in my heart, for it sounds like home and happy sundays. I know the Beatles will later go on producing more complex, experimental albums, but sometimes, simple is good too. A Hard Day’s Night is just that : pure, simple unadulterated fun. It’s the sound of a whole generation, and I can understand why. It may not be the pinnacle of songwriting, it’s pretty basic, shamelessly cheesy... but it’s a masterpiece of efficiency. Does it objectively deserve a 5* ? I don't know, but millions of horny teenagers seemed to think so in the 60s. Who am I to object ?
Funny, an album where you can sing along to more than half of the songs
Good!
Yep!!
This must have been crazy to experience in 1964. Not the perfect album but it’s damn good. “And I love her” is one of the best love songs ever. 9/10
Sheer musical bliss. One of the most perfect pop records ever recorded, and a heavily underrated album in The Beatles' discography.