The Beatles - Something New (Mono)
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COMPILATION
The Beatles [click here to see more vinyl featuring The Beatles]:
- Rhythm guitar, vocals, piano - John Lennon
- Bass guitar, vocals - Paul McCartney
- Lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals - George Harrison [click here to see more vinyl featuring George Harrison]
- Drums, tambourine, bongos and claves - Ringo Starr [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ringo Starr]
Piano - George Martin
Written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney (A1-4, B1-5), Larry Williams (A5), Carl Perkins (A6)
1LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Studio
Record Press : RCA Records Pressing Plant, Smiths Falls, Ontario
Label : Capitol
Original Label : Capitol
Recorded 29 January – 4 June 1964 - studio EMI, London
Produced by George Martin
Lacqued and mastered by Kevin Reeves at Nashville's East Iris Studios
Liner note by Bruce Spizer
Originally released in July 1964
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
Side A:
1. I'll Cry Instead
2. Things We Said Today
3. Any Time At All
4. When I Get Home
5. Slow Down
6. Matchbox
Side B:
1. Tell Me Why
2. And I Love Her
3. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
4. If I Fell
5. Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand
Reviews :
"It was the summer of 1964, and it had been a whole three months (!!!) since a new Beatles album from Capitol Records -- The Beatles' Second Album, assembled from various sources -- had been released to eager U.S. fans (and topped the charts). In the meantime, in addition to doing a tour of the U.S., the group had released their debut movie, A Hard Day's Night -- but the U.S. rights to the soundtrack were owned by United Artists Records (that was, in fact, the basis for United Artists' original interest in producing the movie), which had duly released its soundtrack in late June (and saw it top the charts). Capitol didn't have the soundtrack rights, but it was allowed to use most of the songs from the film; and as it turned out, the Beatles had delivered as fine a body of songs for the movie as they had for any of their albums up to that point -- songs that, as Capitol executives soon discovered, worked just as well in their combination. And so Something New was released about a month after UA's soundtrack, and if it wasn't as strong as the two preceding U.S. albums, in any other context and circumstance it would have been a contender for best rock & roll album of the year.Grouped alongside the band's hard-rocking, first-rate covers of Carl Perkins' "Matchbox" and Larry Williams' "Slow Down," and topped out with their German-language rendition of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" ("Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand"), which probably couldn't fit anywhere else, the Hard Day's Night material sounded fine, and few fans seemed to mind paying twice for the songs that overlapped between the two albums. And no one seemed to notice that this is where the 11-song Beatles' album comes into being, Capitol reasoning out that their material was so strong that they could get away with shaving off one track from the standard dozen, which became routine in the two years of U.S.-created releases that followed.Actually, outside of the context of the film for which they were written and recorded, the Hard Day's Night material showed a remarkable growth in the band's range and sound in just a few months. George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar, which was the group's biggest sonic innovation in the movie score, was a little reduced in profile without the movie's title track on hand, but it was still present, as was an unprecedented (for a rock & roll group) reliance on acoustic guitar sounds ("And I Love Her," "If I Fell"), and a range of ballads that showed greater emotional depth and seriousness than had been heard from too many rock & roll bands in 1964. And then there were the songs -- "Anytime at All," "Things We Said Today" -- that melded rock & roll with acoustic and low-wattage electric music into something uniquely exciting, although the better-represented showcase movie title track wasn't here, With the rocking "Matchbox" and the exuberant "Slow Down" punching up the middle, Something New gave fans their money's worth and then some, even if it was just a transitional collection in the history that followed." AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 3.83 / 5 ; The Encyclopedia of Popular Music : 3 / 5 ; The Rolling Stone Record Guide : 5 / 5