Help!
by The Beatles

Overall rank: 233rd | 1960s rank: 37th | 1965 rank: 5th
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100/100

From Michael S. Hansen 07/02/2007 16:50 | #448 | TOP COMMENT

Help! is just packed with the most fantastic 2:30 minute songs ever written, let me refresh your memory:

"Help!" - abso-bloody-lutely rockin' - the whole world knows what's coming when they strike that first chord...
"The Night Before" - great hit...
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" - John doing Bob Dylan, and he's better at it than mr. Zimmerman!
"I Need You" - No, You need to get this album!
"Another Girl" - They just keep 'em coming!
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" - Not amazing lyrics, hehe, but the tunes are fantastic...
"Ticket to Ride" - Ringo at his best...
"Act Naturally" - Every rose has it's thorns :-)
"It's Only Love" - Well, that's how I feel about "Help!"
"You Like Me Too Much" - It's a great, happy album free of suicide wishes and self-destruction!
"Tell Me What You See" - Even the greatest album has a filler!
"I've Just Seen a Face" - Or two!
"Yesterday" - Yes, here we find the world's most recorded song - right here on "Help!"
"Dizzy Miss Lizzy" - Rock'n'Roll, baby!

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From galileo1957 05/04/2010 06:59 | #11379 | TOP COMMENT

With emotionally mature songs like "You've got to hide your Love Away", "Yesterday" and "Ive Just seen a face" featured on this album , there were indications that the Beatles were growing as songwriters and the best was yet to come. It lays the ground work for the next two albums, and the rest is history.

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70/100

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pranafilms 12/01/2014 17:24 | #128427 | TOP COMMENT

This album lies between the pop of early Beatles and the later more experimental and more ambitious albums of later Beatles. This album shows the first hints of their maturity, what with their big hit "Yesterday" and with the underrated "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away". We still get song great pop tunes like "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride" as well as McCartney's folkish "I've Just Seen a Face".

Side 1 which was the soundtrack to their film is one of the best album sides on a Beatles album, well constructed for a great relisten with the songs I mentioned above as well as "The Night Before" and "Another Girl".

Side 2 does not fare as well. Containing the lyric bomb "It's Only Love" and the meh "Tell Me What You See". "Act Naturally" gives Ringo a good country romp, but is weird to see at the beginning of the side. George does deliver well with "You Like Me Too Much". The album ends with "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" which somewhat ruins the moment that comes after "Yesterday".

These nitpicks do not divert from what is good about the album, showing a band maturing and becoming one of the most influential bands of all time.

Favs: Help!, I've Just Seen a Face, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Yesterday, Another Girl (Edited)

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90/100

From migglemo 08/15/2013 05:31 | #83957 | TOP COMMENT

This is actually a terrific record. I avoided it for years, thinking it was an "early period" Beatles album. Now I know it is a "middle period" Beatles album. In fact, it's their best album before Sgt. Pepper. Listen carefully, and you'll hear a record that coheres better than either Rubber Soul or Revolver. You'll hear a couple of Harrison's best songs ("I need You", "You Like Me Too Much"). Besides "Taxman", these are Harrison's best songs that I can think of until "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" three years later. Better than "Think For Yourself", "If I needed Someone", "Love You To", "I Want to Tell You." "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is better than "Norwegian Wood." Every song is superb except "Another Girl" and "It's Only Love," which don't hurt the album. Lyrics and chords are sad, reflective. "Act Naturally" is perfect Starkey vehicle. You're Going to Lose that Girl is a joy. Excellent finishing touch allowing ultimate beauty, classic "Yesterday" (really the summation of the album's melancholy ethos) give way to Lennon's unhinged rock and roll passion to close the record.

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Daydreamer 12/06/2017 00:31 | #202695 | TOP COMMENT

Even though it's very chaotic and not really cohesive, I find this album a bit underrated.
Sure, Rubber Soul is the first absolute classic Beatles album, but the artistic leap from Beatles for Sale to Help! is even greater than the one from Help! to Rubber Soul. Sure it has a lot of filler or average songs, but they created some of the absolute best songs of all time here.

P. S. The album wouldn't be even better without the obnoxious Dizzy Miss Lizzy at the end. Closing with Yesterday would've been perfect.

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