Product Details
Artist : Beatles
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0077774643726
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1990-01-01
UPC : 077774643726
ASIN : B000002UAF
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
8. Any Time at All
9. I'll Cry Instead
10. Things We Said Today
11. When I Get Home
12. You Can't Do That
13. I'll Be Back
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Editorial Reviews
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Strummmmm! That dramatic guitar chord that kicks of A Hard Day's Night (album, song, movie) still jumps right out at you, slaps you in the face, and jump-starts your heart. And you know what? Both the music and the film are still as crisp and lively as they were in 1964. Of course, only the first seven songs are actually in the movie (and they are the strongest of the bunch, from the rousing rock & roll of title track and the hit single "Can't Buy Me Love", to the beautiful ballads "If I Fell" and "And I Love Her"). But nobody's going to complain about having songs like "I'll Cry Instead" and "Things We Said Today" in the second half of the record; they certainly don't feel like leftovers. Yet another high-point for John, Paul, George, and Ringo--four fab fellows who hit the highest heights imaginable. --Jim Emerson
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Dès que l'accord de guitare sonne au début de A Hard Day's Night (l'album, la chanson, le film), on reçoit une baffe et notre coeur s'arrête de battre. Et vous savez quoi ? La musique ET le film sont toujours aussi délicieux et vivants qu'ils l'étaient en 1964. Bien sûr, on n'entend effectivement que les sept premières chansons dans le film (et ce sont les meilleures du lot, que ce soit le rock'n'roll de la chanson titre ou le tube "Can't Buy Me Love", les magnifiques ballades "If I Fell" et "And I Love Her"). Mais personne ne se plaindra aujourd'hui d'avoir des chansons comme "I'll Cry Instead" et "Things We Said Today" dans la deuxième moitié du disque ; elles n'ont vraiment rien à voir avec des restes. Encore un sommet pour John, Paul, George et Ringo, quatre garçons dans le vent qui ont atteint les plus hautes cimes imaginables. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Beatlemania, part 2 (2005-05-24)  If With The Beatles launched Beatlemania, then A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (the movie and this soundtrack) sealed it worldwide. The first album featuring entirely original songs, AHDN marks a big step forward for The Beatles and rock and roll in a time when singers and bands sang other people's compositions. This is the pinnacle of mid-60s British pop before the psychedelic era. John Lennon dominates this album, starting with the strong opener, the self-titled AHDN, I Should Have Known Better featuring a jaunty harmonica, If I Fell and I'll Be Back (two of his sweetest ballads), the rockers Anytime At All and When I Get Home, the Wilson Pickett-inspired You Can't Do That and I'll Cry Instead, which features John's first confessional lyric (a la Dylan) expressing self-doubt. Paul offers the million-selling hit, Can't Buy Me Love, and the strong ballads, And I Love Her and the underrated Things We Said Today. Otherwise, Paul takes a low profile. The only weakness are the boy-meets-girl lyrics which were the standard of the day. Only I'll Cry Instead suggests any maturity in the songwriting, as Dylan's full influence hadn't yet touched the band. Musically, the album's one great advance is George's introduction of the 12-string Rickbacker, whose jangly sound would be picked up by a folk quartet from L.A. later known as The Byrds. The Their success in turn would help push The Beatles in a different direction. A final note: I still prefer listening to my Parlophone vinyl in stereo than to this mono CD. The stereo mixes are no better or worse than Help! and Rubber Soul, yet they remain officially locked in the EMI vaults. George Martin mistakenly believed that stereo mixes were never made in 1964, but this is not so. Perhaps one day Apple will have the good sense to re-issue this great album in stereo.
A Hard Day's Night is GREAT to find! Not to be missed! (2004-07-05) The strong opening note of the CD album grabs the listener's attention-although it doesn't take much extra effort to KEEP the listener's attention as this CD is one of The Beatles' finest outputs of music. The first seven songs are from the movie (now on DVD) of the same name; the collection of songs and ballads on this album is striking and reflects the youthful excitement and optimistic energy of the early Beatles' work. A Hard Day's Night is the first song and this is a phrase coined by Ringo as he reflected on a previous all-nighter pulled by the band when they were under great pressure to turn out some hits. He is known to have said that the foursome had worked through "a hard day's night;" and thus the main line of the title song (as well as the title itself) was born! Of particular note is the moving ballad "If I Fell." The ballad is beautiful and shows a man's (not just a woman's) vulnerability in a romantic relationship. The sound quality is excellent and the cover pictures are photographic stills from the end of the movie of the same name. This Beatles CD is indeed full of the "classic songs" another reviewer refers to and I highly recommend it as a must-have for any Beatles fan as well as lovers of this type of music. Moreover, this is an excellent starting point for those of us who are more accustomed to the "traditional" sound of the crooners or other music genres if these listeners want to get a first class introduction to early 1960s rock.
So good, it's hard to believe (2004-07-04) Although they were gigging, recording singles, writing, *and* filming a movie, the "Fab Four" were able to put out what was undoubtedly their absolute best record yet - "A Hard Day's Night". Their first two LPs left them with quite a track record, but this release takes everything that was good about them and amplifies it ten-fold, while taking anything that was remotely sub-par about them and obliterating it entirely. All the Beatles albums are five-star classics, but this one is the first of five albums that I call the "Platinum Series" of Beatles albums. To qualify for a Platinum Series album, the album has to be a straight-through perfect listen. Not one track can be even ever-so-slightly sub par. Every song not only has to be brilliant, but it has to be just as good as the song before and after it. That is what happens here - the whole record flows like honey and not a solitary note is out of place. A big part of the reason why this album achieves that title is because every song on here is an original. The covers were the only thing dragging "With the Beatles" down, so they just got rid of them. And, remarkably, every track is a masterpiece. Even so, I suppose I could pick "the best" songs. The title track is excellent, as is the impressively sophisticated "If I Fell". "I'll Cry Instead" features some of their best lyrics to date, and "I'll Be Back" is a masterpiece in every possible aspect. From that list, it's clear that this is obviously John's album (unlike the McCartney-driven later works), but Paul lets loose with his own excellent tracks. "And I Love Her" is wonderful (with an incredibly infectious bridge) and "Can't Buy Me Love" features some great and original chord changes. I suppose if I absolutely *had* to gripe about something, it's that Ringo doesn't get to sing anything. But that doesn't stop the album from earning my "Platinum Series" title. Overall, "A Hard Day's Night" is the best Beatles album to date, and one of the best Beatles albums in general.~ John Ballantyne
First all original Beatles album (2004-07-02)  I'm not as keen on this one as their first two! But then there are many songs I love, like If I fell, And I love Her, I should have known better, Can't buy me love and the title track! I have always loved If I fell, it has such a beautiful melody and harmony. And I love her is a really sweet sort of song. Also a fantastic melody. The same can be said of I should have known better. Can't buy me love and Hard days night are spirited and fun. I personally don't dig the rest, but a must have as The Beatles were moving away from pop and into more unusual territory.
The First All-Original Beatles Album (2004-06-25) A HARD DAY'S NIGHT is the first Beatles album to contain nothing but original songs, all of which are great. This, the other 12 British Beatles albums (except YELLOW SUBMARINE), LET IT BE...NAKED, and PAST MASTERS, VOLS. 1 & 2 are the essential Beatles library.
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