A Hard Day's Night

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.

Uhhhh it was okay.

Люблю переслушивать.

likeit

summery vibes j’ai envie de faire du vélo et avoir un panier de fleur sur le guidon

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.

Classic again.

A beautiful folksy love record, would be a great way to start a Sunday morning

I really enjoyed listening to this album while cooking something new and sort of hectic for the first time in a new kitchen I’m not used to cooking in. The food tasted like shit but I had a good time and the essence of the album probably made it taste better than it did.

ИМБА ИМБА 5/5

Great album. Even before there most creative & experimental phase, the lads could write and execute a tight song and album. I’m noticing more & more how stalkerish some of their love songs were — sign of their time & place, I guess. A 4.

It only took 35 albums to hit my first Beatles album. I think this is one of their better early-Beatles albums.

Understanding these guys pop roots goes a long way in appreciating their full body of work. That being said, the songs are catchy, the harmonies great and the smile’s everlasting

i didnt listened

only bc they set their bar too high.

Obviously

Far from their best but still a nice collection of early tracks in their career. Standouts are the title track, and i love her and can’t buy me love.

Look I don’t like these guys but this album is just… fine.

I very rarely listen to early Beatles stuff, so I wasn’t too excited going in, but A Hard Day’s Night was genuinely enjoyable. It’s only 30 minutes long with 13 songs, full of Paul and John collaborations and lots of love—literally every other word. The album runs fast, and it’s hard to believe it was made in 1963. The recording is impressive, and its influence on music is undeniable. It’s fun, light-hearted pop, and while some songs get lost among the famous singles, the album itself is never boring. Vinyl? I already own it. Wine pairing? A cheap but solid Italian bottle works, or just an English lager. Food pairing? Give me an English breakfast, pudding, or maybe Shepherd’s pie. Overall, I’d give it 4 out of 5.

Un muy buen album con momentos muy disfrutables

The early Beatles have been etched in my brain since I was 6 years old in 1964 so obviously 5 stars or A.

I had this record growing up so its the soundtrack of my childhood - i cant help but think- has the over-commercialization of their music has gone too far?

Great album

Hard to put a Beatle under 4 brah

Hvis ikke det var for Beatles havde vi ikke haft One Direction, så tak for jer

I really like all the songs on this album but I don’t think they’re meant to be listened to all in a row

I enjoyed this much more than I expected / remembered cus I think I listened to it a couple years ago but cant remember. the vocal rasp on this record is honestly great and a couple songs are just stun and I love her dude any time at all banger but ill be back incredible the acoustic guitars here sound excellent I didn't expect to enjoy an early Beatles record this much and like a couple songs are just like silly songs for teenagers like im happy just to dance with you but I had a wonderful listening experience !!!

3.75

7 / 10

It's the Beatles. Good harmonies, short poppy songs. 3.33 rounded down to 3. Nothing bad, just nothing great either.

Les Beatles

Oui

C'est les Beatles

I DONT LIKE THE BEATLES THEY HAVE 4 GOOD SONGS IN TOTAL AND TAHTS BEAING GENEROUS WTF

Album sucks sound like 60s Disney music

me gusto mucho. ideal para poner mientras laburo 10/10

good classic

Classic for a reason

me gusto bastante, y lo que mas me gusto fue escuchar un album completo de ellos, por que a pesar de conocerlos obviamente, nunca habia escuchado mas de 3 o 4 canciones. aprobadisimo! me da buenas vibes :)

Pedazo de album, me encanto, son de mis bandas favoritas asi que dificil que no me guste, pero espectacular. No es lento como me paso con otros albumes, un caño. 4/5 estrellas

I almost hate to say it but I liked this album. don't always like the lyrics and how they talk to women but it definitely has bops. would listen again

Not a Beatles fan in particular, the album does have some good songs, although one of the classic Beatles album.

Great

It is a Beatles album.

no me gusta el ritmo de las canciones, pero algunas tienen buenas letras, aunque basicas para mi gusto.

Bueno

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

love <333

5.62/10

I thought I wasn't gonna like this album upon hearing the first couple of songs, but there are ones I like more, so overall, it's alright.

Álbum fantástico!

Very enjoyable listen and extremely short & sweet, the way I usually like an album to be. The poppy, no nonsense tracks all have a pleasant vibe to them and I can imagine it was a hit at the time of release. I'm not usually one to praise the Beatles - to me their music doesn't usually hold up in the modern day, but this album was still enjoyable, upbeat & interesting throughout. 8/10.

Really just a cute pop album overall. It was a pleasure to revisit early Beatles. Each song is short and sweet. We hear lovely vocal harmonies, fun chord progressions, and a strong foundation for their evolution.

Even before the drugs kicked in, you couldn’t deny the chops this band had, with harmonies, chord voices, and a sense of pop brevity that leaves you hungry for more.

😍😍🤤🤤

Catchy songs. I think Can't Buy Me Love was my favorite. The harmonizing and music was good. The overall theme was very repetitive and simple. 2 or 3 stars

Kann man immer hören. Wobei mich überrascht hat, wie schrabbelig und alt die Instrumente klingen.

Hard to rate the Beatles anything but a 5. Even their less memorable songs are really catchy.

some classic from them are into this album, some others not so popular too that are okay. However, its sounds very very repetitive. Not their best.

Oh boy! Can’t wait to see what the first album I get is! I hope it’s really cool and fun! Yeah, its music, I guess

🤨

Real good album, but feels more like a collection of songs than a cohesive listening experience.

- 1 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummers al toegevoegd aan MMMM 3*

¿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?

J'ai pas aimé, j'aime pas les beatles. Mais ça reste un classique donc 2*

It's been a hard day's night And I've been working like a dog

Love the Beatles, liked the album

All the songs sound the same sorry

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

Has some strong songs. Sound starts to be repetitive.

Classic songs

It’s the Beatles, they don’t make bad albums

It’s the height of Beatlemania and Ringo has a scripted answer for a fictitious reporter that truly sums up the youthful pulse of the Fab Four; “Are you a mod, or a rocker? —Um, no. I'm a mocker.”

Definitely the best Beatles album we've had, very much 'of it's time' without any experimental turns but they are actually good at this sort of music. The pop rock here is ahead of any of the copycats that would follow. I'm the right mood I could listen to this again but it's not a genre I'm particularly keen on. Still, nice to find that it's quite good as well as hugely influential. 3.5.

Classic, straightforward Beatles. Still not a fan, but this blitzed through. The title track and the last track, I'll Be Back, were the best. I never know where I land on them - they covered such a range of styles and genres in just 10 (or fewer) years. Sometimes Revolver, sometimes Rubber Soul, sometimes the White album. Very rarely With the Beatles.

The Beatles hey, it's been a while, was starting to think that we had heard the last of them on the list..... But alas, here they are again. This was more maudlin then most of their offerings we've had. Scousers are great at being maudlin. Most of it does nothing for me. Hard days night and can't buy me love are pretty iconic, but it's so dated....

Not a huge Beatles fan but I didn’t hate this album. It was fun, short, and an easy listen

Likes: First half is just classic after classic; Lennon-McCartney in one of their most focused efforts; sonically cohesive, but musically distinct Dislikes: great tracks are front-loaded, which leaves the back half feeling flat by comparison; Lennon-McCartney at their poppiest Overall, a great record. Not my preferred era of Beatles, but so many of the tracks are undeniable classics that it doesn’t matter

great album, not my fave beatles but solid

Good, classic pop music.

Classic Beatles, very listenable, all very well-known but still quite nice!

Was never a fan of the beatles and this album didn't make me one. Good start and bad finish.

a good classic

Now this is what I would have thought an early Beatles album sounds like.

not surprising it's a good album - hard to find a bad one in Beatles catalogue. Songs to dance to, songs to say I love you for the millionth time to and one weird jealousy song. I guess it's an artifact of an era, but still threw me off guard. Definitely will be coming back to this one on certain occasions, however I know those occasions will be rare.

It has a lot of good songs, but now listening to it as a full album I got tired quickly from literally every track being a lovesong

the instrument of the 60s was the harmonica

So good!

Great

3/5

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.

A good album very much of the time

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....

classic album great tunes

Yeah, maybe not as ambitious or boundary pushing as some of the 'core' Beatles albums but damn is it fun and consistent.

Not my favourite Beatles record, but still very solid. Favourite tracks: A Hard Day's Night, I Should Have Known Better, If I Fell, Tell Me Why, Can't Buy Me Love.

Might be peak moptop era Beatles. And that's saying something.

An expertly crafted pop album... But when you're a band who raised the bar so high, it's not quite a perfect Beatles album.

Another iconic Beatles album, even heard a song or 2 that I liked and hadn’t heard before.

Not one of my favourite Beatles albums but nevertheless still a classic!! (I already knew the songs)

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.

A hard day's night - 5/5 I should have known better - 5/5 If I fell - 5/5 I'm happy just to dance with you - 4/5 And I love her - 5/5 Tell me why - 3/5 Cant buy me love - 5/5 Any time at all - 5/5 I'll cry instead - 4/5 Things we said today - 5/5 When I get home - 3/5 You cant do that - 3/5 I'll be back - 4/5

Who is the Secret Beatle in the middle square? Could it be .... YOU!? There are better Beatle albums to come I think

This album evoked no real strong feelings from me. There are some good songs and there were also some forgettable ones. Incidentally my favorite song off this album was I'll Cry Instead, which seems to have the second-least listens on Spotify among the tracklist, so idk what other people are doing.

Hard to rate, there were some catchy songs but most of the album felt pointless. So far not seeing my opinion about the Beatles change after this.

Pop era Beatles is sometimes hard to put in right perspective. These are. Simple pop songs but all as catchy as hell...

I respect the classic value of this album but this is too pop for my taste. Easy listening with familiar songs but still not hitting me.

I don't really care for the old Beatles and struggle with most of the later stuff as well.

I gravitate toward their later stuff, but as an album its good throughout.

Beatles , wer mag das nicht..

Gran disco. Temas cortos y rapidos, la voz de ellos es simplemente increible y las melodias tambien. Los primeros años de ellos son excelentes.

Classic

Nothing crazy imo

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!

Nice gentle music

I think these 4 lads might be onto something.

Echt geen fan van beatles

my favorite early beatles album. Almost every song could've been a single, actually the singles are the ones i like the least. Just like people have favorite beatle eras, i've had favorite song eras. One of the first was Things We Said Today, later Happy to dance with you, If I fell, I'll be back. Never seen the movie, but i always remember the animated series with several of these songs. Great, fun, memorable album

Early Beatles pop - brilliant melodies , groundbreaking at the time . Playing with structure with a supper tight precision. Love the interplay of John and Paul’s voices . Somewhat quaint and naive lyrics about love but pleasant none the less. Has dated a little but still worth listening to.

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!

its been a hard days night -first song starts immediately with the energy. -COWBELL. -decent start i should have known better -left ear guitar is a bit jarring -little boring -the electric in the right is so plucky if i fell -nice little arpeggiated guitar or is it flanged idk -cheeky bit of harmony -its kind of dissonant -use of minor chords in the harmony is nice im happy just to dance with you -weird off beat low pitch drum -the guitar is so quiet in my right ear -the drums are so over powering and i love her -i think ive heard this song -oh yeah i have this is great -ooh lovely little arpeggiated guitar in the right -drums not needed for this track -ooh little solo nicee -click in the back is piercing tell me why -honky tonk dance track -its a bit much -tell me why they are kind of scary -not a fan of that high bit cant buy me love -yeah its a song -there was no need to scream sir -guitar solo was mid any time at all -like the bass line -the hook is nice -ooh nice piano -no clue who is singing ill cry instead -sad lyrics but the music is happy -heart breaker is no things we said today -all the drums sound electronic even though i know they aren't -Paul has had an easy time -cheeky change up with the tambourine -tambourine really just comes out of nowhere and attacks you when i get home -not a fan -whiney ah lyrics you cant do that -groovy -MORE COWBELL -god they are really hitting that cowbell -nicer harmonies for this song -i like the chorus -good guitar solo ill be back -back to the dissonance -kind of like the guitar riff every now and then Summary Overall yeah its good, its a Beatles album course its gonna be decent although a bit rough in spots. which makes sense as its one of their earlier albums coming out in 1964. some great songs in here but there isnt really a cohesive feel to it. fav song of the album would have to be and i love her, and least fav is when i get home or i should have known better.

Ok

Carried by the title track

pretty middle of the road Beatles album. Not my favourite ever but a couple bangers

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.

A couple of bangers but mostly just ok

Easy listening, surprisingly good. Not much of a Beatles fan 6.5-7/10, pleasantly surprised but nothing groundbreaking for me

Love the album only great songs

I love a bit of pop and who doesn't like the Beatles? Having said that, this is one of the most simplistic and least satisfying examples of the Beatles, it's got some stone cold classics, it's got hints at innovation but overall it has more filler than not.

No.

fun album, not as interesting as stuff to come

I don’t like the beetles

I knew it was coming. While I respect their place and influence on the music world, I’m not a fan.

Lots of songs about love and scoring dates and all that teenage tripe. Mercifully, it's short and catchy.

Historically significant for the boomers? Sure. Sophisticated? No. Different from what was normal at the time? True. Impresses me? Sorry, I'm spoiled by 60 years of pop music evolution.

Ehhhh… not a big fan of the early Beatles

5 out of 5 All bangers. The early years.

An uplifting pop-rock album. It's great to know the Beatles better.

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

Just as I emerge from a recent Beatles rabbithole, this list goes and tries to pull me back in. Only my second Fab Four record from the list, and I’m glad we’re staying toward the beginning of the discography. I’m actually about half way through watching the Beatles 64 documentary right now, so this feels well timed. Is this as good as “the later stuff”, of course not. At least not good on the same way. This is album 3 of 13 (13! in 7 years) an it’s the first one they made after starting to get famous. It’s the first 100% Lennon/McCartney album without covers or standards or anything… and I won’t even talk about the movie stuff. My point is: even if it still kinda sounds like average 60s pop music, this album represents a lot of big steps on the Beatles journey. Before you can swim you have to tread water, and this record is the Beatles proving they can do that all on their own. It still blows my mind that in just a years time we’ll get Rubber Soul and everything after that is the stuff that the “later album” nerds always talk about. Yes, I’ll probably give a few of those records 5 stars, but we aren there yet. I’ve said before that it’s not fair to judge albums based on later albums, so I’ll rate this one in its own. I think it holds up against any other mid-60s records on this list and deserves to be required listening.

Favorite Track: You Can't Do That

This album is my childhood. So many good ones - dated in terms of some gender issues but still so fun.

For ever!!!

It is hard as my 5 points.

As a big fan of The Beatles later work, I can say that this album is fine. That’s not compared to other Beatles albums, that’s just compared to other music in general. McCartney and Lennon are obviously very talented songwriters, and there are some really good songs on here (See the title track and “And I Love Her”), but a lot of it is just decent 60s pop. Better than a lot of 60s pop, but just okay nonetheless.

Interesting to listen to their stuff so many years after the height in popularity

Feels empowering to rate a Beatles album at less than a 5 and less than a 4 at that.

Good old Beatles

own

4.7 egentligen

Some songs were good just not my taste of music

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!

I discovered this website yesterday. And since I basically listen to the same songs every day I was in desperate need of this. As someone who's never listened to a Beatles song in their life I was more than pleasantly surprised at this. The temptation to give it 5/5 was very much there but I found that I enjoyed the first half of the album more than the last. Probably because I prefer the snappier, fast paced ones but even songs like "And I Love Her" or "I'm Happy To Just Dance With You" really appealed to me. This is definitely a top notch album, with my favourites being "Can't Buy Me Love" or "A Hard Day's Night" (or maybe "I'm Happy To Just Dance With You"). Either way I'll listen to this a lot more for sure.

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 .

their pop period, I'm on sgt. Pepper era

I don't have the energy to write a review of the Beatles. Listen, they're just not my #1 thing. But they're the Beatles. Nothing I can say here really matters.

There is nothing left to say about this album or the Beatles. For me personally, it's... musically: expertly crafted '60s guitar pop thematically: tediously repetitive

5/10 good but too old

It's the Beatles, man! How can you not enjoy them? Side 1 is much better than side 2 though.

Ladies and gentlement; The Bungles!!! Almost every album they did after this, is better (I say almost because of Beatles for Sale, always forget about that one), but it's hard to dismiss it nonetheless. People love A Hard Day's Night and And I Love Her with it's sweet guitar solo, they're classic! Can't Buy me Love is also quite liked I think! And I personally have a thing for I Should Have Known Better and Any Time At All! Love those two! Then I forgot about I'm Just Happy to Dance With You before listening for this for the 1001 exercise and it's catchy as heck! The last few songs are a bit weak and nothing on the album is ground breaking per se but I'd feel bad giving just a 3 for an album full of good fun bungles classic track! It's a-bang for your Bung (les)! God, I'm tired...

Not my favorite Beatles album

disco de la cancion "it's been aaa haaaaard daaaay's night" tiririririiii-like a doog. tipico beatles, sin mas, 2 o 3 de 5

Some songs are great, And I Love Her especially. Pretty ok for most of it though

One of my favorite Beatles albums

it was a very good album but it's not truly me cup of tea

Good albums! Good jams! I have no critical thoughts I just had a nice time!

Once again I find myself giving the Beatles a 3. Crazy, I know. Much like Revolver, I'm finding there's a couple of great songs and the rest is pretty average. (And yes, it hurt me deeply to give Eleanor Rigby a 3) I'm pretty confident there will be other Beatles albums that get higher ratings from me when I get to them (Abbey Road and Sgt. Peppers for example) but this one was just okay. I get why this was so big at the time, but there's so much better music still to come even just for The Beatles, let alone all of the music that is out there.

I listened to this about 3 times in the course of a couple days and at first some of it felt overplayed and very for radio (such short songs) but I grew to love it more and more. My favorite is Any Time at All, most gritty

A Hard Day’s Delight I’d give this one a 4.25 out of 5. There are a few absolute classics here, and I’ve always had a soft spot for Can’t Buy Me Love and A Hard Day’s Night. Safe to say I’ll be adding a few more to that favourites list now. The production still sounds surprisingly fresh, and the songwriting is just sharp. Tight, catchy, and full of charm without feeling overdone. You can hear how locked in they are as a band, and it’s hard not to admire how effortlessly they make it all sound. I sometimes feel like people either want to knock The Beatles because they’re so famous, or hand them five stars automatically because of the name alone. But stripping all that away, they’re just great musicians writing great songs. Simple as that. Had a genuinely good time with this one. It’s fun, confident, and packed with songs that you can just listen to again and again.

I liked the darker ballad-type songs. Not really a fan of the other stuff even if I get why it was important for popular music as a whole.

Goes by in a flash and is pleasant throughout with a handful of standout tracks (the ones you know already). Lyrics are pretty awful throughout - I, sky, why, etc. Some nice guitar work from George Harrison. It’s a decent record but nothing on what came 3 years later.

Had low expectations but surprisingly enjoyed it. I love this band for the record but have always just kind of brushed off half the first of their career similar to many of the british invasion bands. I guess that means I'm more inclined to their songwriting capability? Or that it's more likely to stand the test of time? Still very embedded in the late 50's/early 60's styles but just a nice listen and doesn't overstay its welcome.

82. ok

The songs are pretty good, but inconsistent in quality where the title track and "And I Love Her" stand far above the rest. Not my favorite Beatles album

Love this album reminds me of roadtrips w/ my grandmother

Fast and focused. Like a lot of early Beatles, it's quick and down to business putting out little songs, but with a little more bite in this one. Not all the songs are memorable but there are hits on here and a consistent tone. Highlights: And I Love Her, Can't Buy Me Love, I'll Be Back, Things We Said Today

Incredibly excited, I really love The Beatles !! This album is so high energy, you can really dance to every song. Fav song is ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’.

A model album for me. Short and to the point with its songs. Songs are well put together and great individually as well as collectively. Just lacking the exclamation mark and the variety for the highest score. 4/5

Muy bueno muy cursi muy bueno

GENIOS

Quite a few songs I didn't reconise which was unexpected. I've never been a huge fan of The Beatles though.

Most songs made me angry. Has aged terribly. I get it was probably super progressive for boys to say they were crying back then but this whole album just read as one big immature whine to me. The lyrics (in terms on depth of content and the rhythm produced) is so basic and uninventive it sounds like it's been churned out by ai or a 7 year old. Woooo, I love you,  yes I do. It's true, don't make me tell you, I doooo Wooo woo woo Musically unimpressive, repetitive and boring. The fact I've never heard this album is testament to my mother's good taste in music. Clapping in 4/4 is for church and children and shouldn't feature on a studio produced album. The one time I thought "oo this is good", the album had finished and had started playing something else

Album No. 0164 on my list. "A Hard Day's Night" is the second Beatles album on my list, and because it's a relatively early one, the one of only two on the 1001 album list (together with "With The Beatles") that is not considered an uber-album (if that is even possible for the Beatles). This may be because it's a) relatively old and b) not so much an album as one consistent work, but rather a collection of songs, so the album itself matters somewhat less than the singles on it (in contrast to everything that came with/after "Rubber Soul"). Anyways, of the early Beatles albums, it's probably my favorite. I.e. in this context, it's the one with the most good songs. Of these, "A Hard Day's Night", the title track, is probably my favorite. Love the iconic chord at the beginning, and it's a great pop rock song, too, with great shared Lennon/McCartney lyrics. Other favorites include "I Should Have Known Better" (a classic early Beatles song), "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" (great George Harrison singing), and "Can't Buy My Love" (another McCartney Classic). I'll add all these to my playlist, especially because they represent all the early Beatles singing configurations: Lennon/McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, McCartney (sorry Ringo, you did sing some of my favorite Beatles songs ever, they just came later). The rest of the album is also not bad, but again: it's more a collection of songs, and not all of them are as great - as was custom at the time, there are some fillers here. Anyway, this is still the Beatles, and the four mentioned songs are just great: 4/5 stars!

The very best of the Early-Beatles era.

Two good songs. The rest is rubbish

I did not expect to be this entertained by the Beatles, but I had a good time listening to this album. They sound so old, but is so entertaining, I like this album even tho is not my style.

6/10 Best songs: A Hard Day's Night, Can't Buy Me Love This album takes me back to those halcyon days of youth in the 60s: riding bicycles on sidewalks under clear blue skies, fathers going to work to have affairs with their secretaries while mothers day-drank to stave off their existential angst and depression. Now, I never said that was my youth, ofc. This album is the exact music that has played in the background of period pieces for decades now. It's very much of the time, building the archetype of 60s rock music, but as a whole it's kinda boring. Sorry, but like, not really.

not my favourite Beatles album, but I still really like it

it's the beatles, but my least fave period

Such a great album!

Feels like a 5 coming on the heels of a Stones album

it's cute, i feel like only about half the tracks still hold up but it's a great marker for when songwriting for rock pop takes off

This is better than the last Beatles album I got, but still not amazing. It's fine music for 1964 though, I'll give them that, but just 5 years later we were getting much stronger bangers.

Much better than the White Album! Pretty good songs all around. I'm always surprised by how many Beatles songs I _don't_ know.

Some repetitive beats... Not bad overall.

We played a bunch of these songs in the Michigan Marching Band, and I dated a drummer for a while who was obsessed with the Beatles, so it really brought me back to the mid 90s, despite being an album from 12 years before I was born. The songs are catchy, but not stand-out.

Precious, sweet and easy to listen to! I am partial to the first half of the album, I felt myself getting lost in the second half. I enjoyed the closer and would play the full album through on a lovely spring/summer day.

I Should Be Sleeping Like A Log 1001 Albums Generator 233 (2/23/2026) I've never seen the film that this album accompanies, but I hear it's pretty good. Honestly, I wish I had more of a hot take about this album, but it's so clearly the best pre-Rubber Soul Beatles album that I can't have any other opinion about it. There aren't any covers and there aren't any Ringo-led songs. As a result, this is perhaps the first Beatles album where the genius of MCartney-Lennon was on full display. From that famous chord that opens A Hard Day's Night, which features George on a 12-string, John on an acoustic guitar, Paul on bass, and producer George Martin on piano, it's clear that the boys had leveled up. I'm such a sucker for these early Beatles folk pop songs like If I Fell and And I Love Her. They're just so cute man. And the latter has some amazing guitar work from George Harrison. The other side of this album is the stuff that make you just want to get out onto an old dancefloor after drinking a milkshake and just start movin. Stuff like I Should Have Known Better and the criminally underrated Tell Me Why. Now unfortunately, the second half of this album is just ever so slightly weaker, with I'll Cry Instead and When I Get Home being the weakest songs on the record, but it still has some great moments like Any Time At All and I'll Be Back. Honestly, I love this album. 4.5/5, rounded down to 4. Oh I forgot to mention Can't Buy Me Love whoops. Pretty good song. Favs: A Hard Day's Night And I Love Her Tell Me Why Least Fav: I'll Cry Instead

Very short but still super sweet. A hard days night, if i fell, cant buy me love and any time at all are my favorites on this lp.

fun n catchy music

its good but slightly repetitive

A good album. Not one for my regular rotation, but it's still good.

full of classics

Amazing offcorse it's the beatles I love her has always been a fav

Icônico. Filme bom também. Mas prefiro os Beatles dos últimos álbums.

Excellent music and vocals. Simply incredible for its time.

I’m never really going to give the Beatles less than a 3 purely out of respect anyways, but this wouldn’t deserve anything less. I think there’s a fair few better albums, probably just because the lyrics are a little dated with this one. Love and relationships just feel like they’ve evolved to the point where we’re allowed to voice the complications in the modern era, rather than being like I just love you in every way and that’s that, and I just think that it makes these lyrics seem a little dated. Ironically ‘and I love her’ is my fave here, and yes I’ve gone basic with the most popular. But the mix of guitars there is too good to ignore. Love a half hour listen also. Good innings all round.

This album is difficult for me to rate. It is very good. And there are more than a few pop classics that are enjoyable and easy listens. But I’ve never been a big Beatles fan. And this album is the epitome of their “early sound”; which is a dated sound that I can, and do, “appreciate” but it’s a sound that gets old very quickly for me…..unless it’s the Stones… 😉

Call me crazy but this album is kind of average as far as the Beatles go if you take out I Love Her and Can't Buy Me Love

Timeless pieces of music

Solid enough. It’s consistent, but it’s not The Beatles™️ just yet.

The start of the greatest thing ever

Bonus points for not being too long, at least.

Not many bands rival the revolutionary arc that the Beatles went on, and I feel like A Hard Day's Night is the right place to start that story. While there is not a ton of foreshadowing on this album in terms of where their music would go, I feel like you can hear how talented, tight and capable they already were in the early days. You can hear the influences that Paul, John and George all had on this album - different vocal and songwriting styles they were each developing. I do think I need the context of their whole career to appreciate this as much as I do. At face value, 10 songs about holding hands is a little much. I still got lots of enjoyment out of this but probably wont go back to there really early Beatles songs anytime soon.

This is the Beatles really coming into their own as songwriters with all original compositions and some all-time great songs like A Hard Day's Night and Can't Buy My Love. That said, other than the hits, I don't really love the dated pop sound. They are starting to sound like the band I love here, and I do appreciate the incredible influence they had on music, but they just haven't quite gotten there yet. Overall, it is a good album, just not one I reach for too frequently.

Still enjoyed it as a Beatles fan, but definitely not their best work.

I love the early Beatles stuff! Not quite a 5 but almost!

Rounding out an excellent week of music with another 4 - Beatles and not my go-to music, but I really enjoyed this album today

I love the Beatles, but the earlier bubblegum pop is not my favorite. A few standouts, but overall, it doesn’t hit me like the later catalog.

Favorite Song: A Hard Day's Night

Favorite Track: If I Fell

Classic Beatles 4.5/5

It’s the Beatles, need i say more

“Bright are the stars that shine Dark is the sky I know this love of mine Will never die And I love her” One of my least revisited Beatles records but at a tight 30 minutes it’s always worth a quick spin. The highlights are unsurprisingly the title track and “Can’t Buy Me Love” but “And I Love Her” is a really beautiful song. In the context of their whole discography you can probably call this a bit of a filler album which was mostly designed to accompany the film (if it were practical I would have rewatched that as well). Still, there are few bands that could piece together a “filler” album that contains so many excellent songs. “A Hard Day’s Night” would for most other bands constitute their greatest ever work. For The Beatles it was just another small step in the journey.

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A significant album historically, and with a few interesting signatures that would influence many bands and evolve into The Beatles' mastery of so many layered musical techniques. For me, listening to it on its own merits now, most of the album is an unremarkable string of jangle pop songs that sound largely the same. As an album, on the whole, I do not feel it's that remarkable. The sensation it caused was a zeitgeist of The Beatles' popular ascension at the time. History has its quirks. Were circumstances different, The Beatles' fame may have come later or not at all.

10/10 have heard this

Een aantal klassiekers, prima plaat

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

Continually better than their previous, inching ever closer to the exceptional band they would become, but not quite arriving. The songwriting is strong, the music is fun, and the album is enjoyable to listen to top to bottom. We're still in this world of 50s/60s pop, but you can already see that they're pushing it...beyond, in some inexplicable way. Solid album.

The Beatles’ third album was a landmark achievement: their first to consist entirely of original material and the soundtrack to their iconic debut film. It is an optimistic, sharp, and melodic record. Here, you can truly hear the evolution of their song writing, moving beyond simple "boy meets girl" pop tropes. This growth is evident from the "big bang" opening of the title track to the wonderful "Can't Buy Me Love," which features a superb guitar solo from George Harrison. The ballads also reach new heights; "If I Fell" is a stunning composition with intricate vocal harmonies and tasteful instrumentation, a standard of excellence matched by the timeless "And I Love Her." While The Beatles are my favourite recording artists, I have tried to remain objective. Musically, "A Hard Day's Night" is a very strong 4-star album, with eight of the thirteen tracks being five star tracks. But for me, it just misses out on that fifth star. This is primarily due to three tracks on the album: "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", "I'll Cry Instead" and "When I Get Home". There's nothing wrong with those tunes other than they lack the quality of their counterparts. I certainly understand why many grant the album a perfect score given its immense cultural impact, but looking strictly at the music, it is a formidable "near-perfect" collection. The sessions for this album were incredibly prolific, also producing the tracks for the "Long Tall Sally EP". This EP included: "Long Tall Sally" (a blistering version), "I Call Your Name" (which arguably deserved a spot on the main album), "Slow Down" and "Matchbox". I mention these because if some of these tracks replaced the 'weaker' three star tracks on the album we would be talking a five star album! Before this release, many critics dismissed The Beatles as a "flash in the pan" or a fad that would vanish by Christmas 1963. By delivering 13 high-quality original songs and a critically acclaimed film, The Beatles proved they were far more than a pop fad - they were serious artists. Side One 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" (3/5) 5 "And I Love Her" (5/5) 6 "Tell Me Why" (4/5) 7 "Can't Buy Me Love" (5/5) Side Two 1 "Any Time at All" (4/5) 2 "I'll Cry Instead" (3/5) 3 "Things We Said Today" (5/5) 4 "When I Get Home" (3/5) 5 "You Can't Do That" (5/5) 6 "I'll Be Back" (5/5) Total - 57 Average - 4.38 245/1001 135/245 albums reviewed were new to me

Ahh, the Beatles. I last had them with Abbey Road at album #49. This sounds nothing like that; while it's still the Beatles, it's more of a standard pop record of the era and less of an innovative rock record like many later Beatles albums. Lyrics are standard Beatles fate, and most songs are very simple and poppy. Therefore, despite being all-original songs at a time when many pop records would put out covers, it is a basic pop album. And I don't consider any basic pop albums to have nearly the same influence as later Beatles. So I guess it stays a four.

An early example of the Beatles' songwriting prowess. Nothing groundbreaking by today's standards for sure, but in 1964 this was still revolutionary! It doesn't age quite as well as some of their later fare, but this is still an excellent collection of songs.

Obviously nothing special musically by later Beatles standards, considering it’s a lot of short poppy love songs, but overall everything is still super fun and catchy so I can’t complain!

The Rubber Soul prequel! Fun to hear the band at the turning point, right before they reach their full power. Also just a great, catchy album, period! Standouts: I Should Have Known Better • Tell Me Why • Can’t Buy Me Love • Any Time At All

So solid. A 5 for anyone else but damn, it's The Beatles. Crazy that they could make an album for a movie solely capitalizing on their popularity and both the film and the album are really good. The humor on songs like I'll Cry instead really sets this apart from other albums of this time and the songwriting is very solid. Things We Said Today is peak McCartney before he discovered carnival instruments.

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

'A Hard Day's Night' is a more sophisticated album in its writing and arrangement than the Beatles' first two albums, but also lacks some of their simple, infectious charm.

It’s the Beatles. The songs are good. They are good. The hits are good but I don’t care for the rest of it. The lyrics are dated. I think they are better as they get into later albums.

Never really got into the beatles. this doesn't change things.

It's a very innocent and sweet love album. McCartney and Lennon shine through a lot with their energetic performance of the songs. It's not terribly profound. It only really scratches the surface of love, but doesn't go any deeper. The limitation probably arises in connection with contemporary customs for song length for commercial and partly technological reasons. A Hard Days Night would really benefit from longer verses, 3 verses or c-sections, so you can really dive into the material and sing more directly to the listener.

It's The Beatles, not exactly my preferred era but hard to truly go wrong.

Pretty solid little 60s pop album. Nothing really all that amazing here, but you can see why the songs caught on. Overall: 3.2/5

A hard days night, tell me why, and can’t buy me love are amazing, and the rest of the album sucks. Can’t remember thing from any of the other songs it might be at three, but I’m rounding down to two because the Beatles are overrepresented in these kinds of things.

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

I know it's sacrilege but I didn't grow up listening to the Beatles and I didn't like this

حتى أنني لست معجبا او متابعا لفرقة البيتلز، ولست حقا من محنكي موسيقى الروك على عكس موسيقى الهيب هوب/الراب التي يمكنني وصف نفسي فيها على أنني أمتلك ادن موسيقية جيدة، فأنا بالنسبة للروك و أغلبية الأنواع الأخرى إلا ادن تبحث عن الجديد و تريد تحسين دوقها...، استمتعت بهدا الألبوم، و طالما كانت عادتي مع ألبومات البيتلز الأقل شهرة، أحسست بنفسي أتجول شوارع إنجلترا في سبعينات القرن الماضي بسيارتي المرسيدس القديمة، بشاربي و شعري الغفير. كانت تجربة رائعة، خاصة مع قصر مدة الألبوم التي جعلته كرحلة قصيرة إلى زمن صدور الألبوم. عموما أقيمه 6.75/10

luv listening to the bugs

Have I listened to this album before? No How familiar am I with this album? I know a few songs but most early Beatles is pretty unknown to me 
How do I feel about this artist? I enjoy the Beatles, they’re not my favorite band ever but I definitely recognize their contribution to rock music. I generally prefer their later stuff. Favorite song(s)? Can’t Buy Me Love, Things We Said Today Overall Thoughts: Quality album, but some of the songs are pretty forgettable. I feel like I shouldn’t rate this against later Beatles albums but I can’t help it. There was a lot of poppy-rock music like this in the early 60s and I think it’s just not my thing. It was before 60s music got interesting and The Beatles were a big part of that, just not with this album.

All Beatles albums are enjoyable but only a couple make my 5 star level. This isn’t one of them.

"The Beatles didn't really make anything interesting until Rubber Soul" is like the least interesting or provocative thing you can say about The Beatles. Although, trying to say anything provocative about The Beatles at all is like an extremely midwit thing to do. So yeah, some people like this stuff, some people don't. Whatever man. Listen to stuff you like and don't listen to stuff you don't like. I don't really have strong opinions about early Beatles records one way or the other. This is certainly one of them. I had never noticed A Hard Day's Night had bongos before. DEAR LORD though, why are the stereo versions canon? Go into your accessibility settings and force mono if you're listening to them through headphones. Or seek out the mono versions (so they can sit in your collection and you can be smug about it while pulling out a different Beatles record than this this like 99 times out of 100).

The Beatles did make plenty of good music before Rubber Soul, but lots of it was singles-based. This is the most *historically* important of their early albums because of the movie tie-in and the fact all of the songs are original, but I prefer some of the rawness of With the Beatles/Please Please Me, and there's nothing here in my Top 30 Beatles Songs, so...am I giving this a 3? I think I'm giving it a 3.

It was cute! I can see why women in the 60s would become feral to this, but listening many years into the future, a lot of the songs are pretty samey

I don't know, man, ask me to give a 5 star rating to the concept that fried eggs are a breakfast food item. Technically this seems pretty good, even if generally I'd be more in the mood for Huevos Rancheros over just like normal sunny side up eggs with white buttered toast.

Solid Beatles album for sure. Not my fave, but solid.

Enjoyable record. Songwriting was noice. Classic Beatles tunes. I dig it

Fascinating to hear more early stuff, such a tight band

it's literally just another Beatles album.

ok albumn 3

Just amazing!!

Loistavaa Beatlesia mutta ei parasta kumminkaan. Mutta tästä sitä mentiin siihen suuntaan varmoin askelin

Not their best, but some classics in there. Enjoyed it as would do with any Beatles. Got better as it went on

At this distance, many of these songs sound like relatively generic, almost throwaway, beat-group pop. It’s hard to put yourself into the world for which a new release by the Beatles was a thing of high excitement. The fascinating thing is how they were so close to going into a much higher realm of music and songwriting. You just get glimpses of it here. Hard Day’s Night and Can’t Buy Me Love stand out by miles from most of the material here. And I Love Her fares less well when heard in its original context, but provides a template for the kind of song that Paul McCartney later excelled at. Lyrically, the phrase “hard day’s night” is itself strikingly clever and presages the greater sophistication to come. It’s interesting though to hear some rather controlling boy-girl relationship lyrics from (presumably) John Lennon in songs like I’ll Cry Instead and You Can’t Do That. These sound like an early manifestation of instincts that he later acknowledged in Jealous Guy.

Classic Beatles that's hard not to enjoy, probably because there are some well know tracks on the album. It's from a 'romantic' period for the band rather than some of the odd (but still good) albums of later years.

Infectious.

Classic Beatles. Seems so simple, but still lovely.

4 Stars (11/15)

Mmmm ja..

Two great songs. Resten av låtarna är bra men de skulle ju göra det så mycket bättre.

Notable for being their first album with all songs written by Lennon/McCartney. If I Fell is a top ten Beatles song for me. That said, their first two albums are better and just about every one after it eclipsed this one. Good album for sure, but middle of the road overall.

listened to before good album not in my top 3 for the beatles though

A Hard Day's Night 5/5 I Should Have Known Better 3/5 If I Fell 4/5 I'm Happy Just to Dance With You 3/5 And I Love Her 3/5 Tell Me Why 3/5 Can't Buy Me Love 5/5 Any Time At All 5/5 I'll Cry Instead 5/5 Things We Said Today 4/5 When I Get Home 3/5 You Can't Do That 2/5 I'll Be Back 3/5 Overall Album: 3.69

- i lije yhe lyrics - i really like what they did with this album - SOOO catchy - made me twist nd shout lowk - well put together album

A solid pop album, listened to it in one sitting. For its time, it was pretty high-level.

Just really don't care for the Beatles

you know, i can't believe this was my first beatles album! whatever this was a vibe

There are some very good songs here, including some tracks like “And I Love Her” and “Things We Said Today” that are early signs of the brave musical experimentation we would later hear on Rubber Soul and Revolver. I can’t help but think that in an alternate universe where the Beatles never changed their sound and just continued writing pop hits, we would probably look back at this album as a nice collection of catchy songs instead of an “important album by the greatest band in the world.” Take away the Beatles name, and this is a solid album with some solid tunes.

Best of the “early” Beatles. All songs written by John and Paul and all excellent!

I've never been a Beatles fan, they've just not done anything for me, but I tried to listen to this with an open mind. It was fine. Every song was pleasant sounding, and I bopped my head along a few times. But that was kind of it. Not much really stood out beyond just being pleasant non-offensive 60's pop. "Any Time At All" was the one song that started out with a lot of promise. John's delivery during the opening chorus suggested something fiery was coming. Then it fell back into that sing-songy mellow verse, and it just lost the momentum.

It’s good. Very catchy.

Idk, I think it's ok. It's kinda simple, but it's ok

BEATLES MANIA!!!! UGHHHH!!! I love the Beatles their suave vocals, sweet melodies and beautiful music is something that few bands/groups can do but they nailed it perfectly, this album has some of my favorite tracks. Fav is George ;) another great classic.

Bangers. It's dangerous when vocalists cover their songs. 4.2.

Personal enjoyment: 4/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5

I cannot stand the Beatles. I mostly just avoided them before but I've now had to listen to four of their albums in 60 days and it's pushed them into "visceral reaction of pure rage" when I see their name pop up. I hope this is the last one.

On continue ce carnet de bord des "1001 Albums" avec un morceau de choix, ou plutôt un gros morceau de calcaire musical : A Hard Day's Night des Beatles. Je vais être direct : je n'ai jamais été un grand fan des quatre garçons dans le vent. Pour moi, les Beatles, c'est souvent trop propre, trop brossé dans le sens du poil, comme une chambre d'ado rangée par sa mère. On est en 1964, je n'étais même pas né (rappel : je suis de 70), mais en bossant chez un disquaire indé et en radio, j'en ai bouffé du Lennon-McCartney jusqu'à l'indigestion. Alors, cet album ? C'est le sommet de la "Beatlemania", le disque qui accompagne le film. Pour la première fois, ils ne font que de l'original, pas de reprises de Motown pour boucher les trous. Le morceau titre démarre avec ce fameux accord de Rickenbacker 12 cordes qui a fait mouiller tous les futurs gratteux de la planète, de Roger McGuinn à Tom Petty. C'est efficace, ça claque, on ne peut pas leur enlever ça. Mais à part deux ou trois titres qu'on se cogne sur tous les best-of — les classiques "Can't Buy Me Love" ou "And I Love Her" — le reste, c'est d'un conformisme... C'est de la pop guillerette pour passer à la télé en costume cravate. Des trucs comme "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" ou "Tell Me Why", c'est gentil, c'est mignon, mais ça casse pas trois pattes à un canard. C'est le genre de soupe qu'on servait aux gamines en transe pendant que nous, on attendait que quelqu'un invente enfin le feedback. C'est "propre", trop propre même. Il n'y a pas cette crasse, cette urgence que j'aime chez certains groupes. Ici, tout est calibré par George Martin pour plaire à tout le monde, de la grand-mère au petit frère. C'est le triomphe de la mélodie facile. Alors oui, c'est historique, c'est le "peak" de leur première période, mais franchement, on s'ennuie un peu dans ce salon de thé musical. Ma note, un 3 sur 5. C'est honorable, c'est juste la moyenne pour l'effort de composition et l'influence indéniable que cet album aura sur la pop à venir, mais on repassera pour le frisson. C'est un album de bons élèves... et moi, les bons élèves, ils m'ont toujours un peu tapé sur le système.

Not my fav beatles album but all their stuff is good

if you're not a George stan when you're 25, you have no heart; if you're not a Paul stan by the time you're 35, you have no brain

This album collects your thoughts after a hard day's work.