History Music / BeatlesForSale

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[[caption-width-right:320:The standard album cover for ''Beatles for Sale''.]]

''Beatles for Sale'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. This is also reflected by the presence of six [[CoverVersion cover songs]] on the record, after ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' was all originals. Many of the songs were repurposed in America by Capitol Records on the album ''Beatles '65.'' Others were heard on ''Beatles VI.''

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[[caption-width-right:350:The standard album cover for ''Beatles for Sale''.]]

* CoverVersion: "Rock And Roll Music", a Music/ChuckBerry cover, "Mr. Moonlight" a Roy Lee Johnson cover, "Kansas City" and "Hey Hey Hey" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, "Words Of Love", a Music/BuddyHolly cover and "Honey Don't" and "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby", two Music/CarlPerkins covers.

* GriefSong: "Baby's In Black".

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[[caption-width-right:341:The alternate album cover for ''Beatles for Sale'', used in Australia.]]

The album is best known for the hit song "Eight Days a Week" and fan favourites such as "No Reply", "Baby's In Black" and "Rock And Roll Music".

* SolarAndLunar: This album has a song about the sun, "I'll Follow The Sun", and one about the moon, "Mr. Moonlight".

''Beatles for Sale'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. This is also reflected by the presence of six [[CoverVersion cover songs]] on the record, after ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' was all originals.

** The rhythmic hook of "What You're Doing" resembles "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes".

* CoverSong: "Rock And Roll Music", a Music/ChuckBerry cover, "Mr. Moonlight" a Roy Lee Johnson cover, "Kansas City" and "Hey Hey Hey" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, "Words Of Love", a Music/BuddyHolly cover and "Honey Don't" and "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby", two Music/CarlPerkins covers.

[[caption-width-right:350:The standard album cover for ''Beatles For Sale''.]]

[[caption-width-right:341:The alternate album cover for ''Beatles For Sale'', used in Australia.]]

''Beatles For Sale'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. This is also reflected by the presence of six covers on the record, after ''A Hard Day's Night'' was all originals.

The album is best known for the hit song "Eight Days A Week" and fan favourites such as "No Reply", "Baby's In Black" and "Rock And Roll Music".

# "I'm A Loser"
# "Baby's In Black"
# "Rock And Roll Music"
# "I'll Follow The Sun"

# "Eight Days A Week"
# "Words Of Love"

# "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"

# "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"

'''''Beatles For Sale''''' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. This is also reflected by the presence of six covers on the record, after ''A Hard Day's Night'' was all originals.

* AlbumFiller: The album is considered to contain a lot of it, due to the fact there are six covers the band had been playing since their Quarrymen days (as well as "I'll Follow the Sun", which was one of the first songs Paul [=McCartney=] ever wrote). The covers were mostly used to save time, as the band was contractually forced to bring out a new album by Christmas 1964. [=McCartney=] himself considered "What You're Doing" "a bit of filler" and Lennon referred to "Eight Days A Week" as "lousy".

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[[caption-width-right:350:The alternate album cover for ''Beatles For Sale'', used in Australia.]]

* InTheStyleOf: Lennon wrote "I'm A Loser" in the style of Music/BobDylan.

''Beatles For Sale'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. This is also reflected by the presence of six covers on the record, after ''A Hard Day's Night'' was all originals.

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''Beatles For Sale'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. This is also reflected by the presence of six covers on the record. ''A Hard Day's Night'' was all originals, and all Beatles albums after this would be all-originals.

'''''Beatles For Sale''''' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. Most of the more reflective and insightful lyrics were inspired by Music/BobDylan of whom all the Beatles were great admirers and show how the band was gradually GrowingTheBeard as songwriters.

--> "MISTEEEEEEEEER MOONLIGHT"

--> "But tomorrow may rain/ so I'll follow the sun".

--> "Just give me some of that rock 'n' roll music/ any old way you choose it"

--> "I'm going to Kansas City/ to get my baby back home."

* {{Malapropism}}: "Eight Days A Week".

--> "Although I act and laugh like a clown/ behind this mask I'm a wearing a frown (...) I'm a loser and I'm not what I appear to be."

--> "Although I laugh and I act like a clown/ behind this mask I'm wearing a frown".

'''Beatles For Sale''' is the fourth album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1964. It was recorded at a time when the band started to get tired of all the mayhem around them, combined with endless touring and recording. This is reflected in the songs on this album, with many being about [[GriefSong feeling down]] and [[BreakupSong dealing with break-ups]] or troubled relations. Most of the more reflective and insightful lyrics were inspired by Music/BobDylan of whom all the Beatles were great admirers and show how the band was gradually GrowingTheBeard as songwriters.

The album is best known for the hit song "Eight Days A Week" and fan favorites such as "No Reply", "Baby's In Black" and "Rock 'N' Roll Music".

!! Eight Tropes A Week

* CoverSong: "Rock 'n' Roll Music", a Music/ChuckBerry cover, "Mr. Moonlight" a Roy Lee Johnson cover, "Kansas City" and "Hey Hey Hey" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, "Words Of Love", a Music/BuddyHolly cover and "Honey Don't" and "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby", two Music/CarlPerkins covers.

* LoveMartyr: The protagonist in "What You're Doing" finally realizes he's been mistreated and lied to by his partner for a long time.

* ThePowerOfRock: "Rock 'n' Roll Music" is a rollicking tune about the love for the genre.

* WritersCannotDoMath: "Eight Days A Week".

* BreakUpSong: "No Reply", "I'm A Loser" ("and I've lost someone who's near to me"), "Baby In Black", "I'll Follow The Sun", "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (So I'll Go)", "What You're Doing".