In this exploration of their early work that I’m doing, “If I Fell” is the first Beatles’ song I had never heard before that I was dazzled by. Beautiful! “And I Love Her” is just an all-time banger. This album is a step up from the previous ones, for me.

You actually can’t have an original thought in this age bc two clicks later you see 75,000 other humans have already had that same thought and uploaded a video about it.

Oh yeah. It seems like many are on board with this.

Bill Kristol’s inner social democrat? What a strange timeline.

Harmonies are off the chain. The hooks go on for days. These both are very hard to do and extremely impressive to me, but it’s all pretty surface-y otherwise, when you think of their later work.

So. I would say that,like anthropologically, I can definitely understand how these albums propelled them into the stratosphere in the 1960s. I also, thus far, agree with myself in ignoring most of their music pre-Rubber Soul.

2 more to go. I have already heard, and don’t love, Help.

I did fall asleep (possibly non-derogatory). Will finish it tonight.

The lyrics in Little Child sound crazy in the year of our lord 2025, but I am pretty sure we are encountering some 1960s slang

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Remarkably I’ve never heard 70-80% of these songs. They write great hooks. Overall, really, really good for what it was.