Yeah, it's awesome. I'm starting Help! 'cause I can't bring myself to sit through much more of their pop era and hate what little I heard of Beatles for Sale as much as I remember.
Beatles for Sale is the best of the pre-Rubber Soul albums second to A Hard Day's Night IMO. The covers are weak (the only good cover of the year is on Past Masters: "Slow Down") but the original tracks are all interesting as a transition from the energetic pop of A Hard Day's Night to the more serious tracks on Help and Rubber Soul. Actually, the three originals from 1964 on Past Masters are also surprisingly good: combining the eight originals on For Sale with those three would make a better album than A Hard Day's Night.
Though there are a few songs I like here a lot: It Won't Be Long, All My Loving and George's first song written for the band, Don't Bother Me which is really different from the Lennon-McCartney songs. I liked that it was included in the Hard Day's Night movie, in the club scene, along with All My Loving.
Agreed, I like I Wanna Be Your Man as well. Funny how my four favourites have vocals from all the Beatles.
Edit: "Though the cliché about punk rock was that the bands couldn't play, the key to the Clash is that although they gave that illusion, they really could play -- hard." (allmusic) _________________ "And can’t you see you’re in on it?
You were born though you need not
And is that not some cause
For worship, being born among these trees?"
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