Wow, 1965 was obviously a decent year for music (not like smelly old 1961), including as it does, this... contender for best Beatles album?
It manages somehow to be hugely varied, yet it still feels like it has a kind of uniform sound. Possibly the only weak song is the country cover with Ringo on vocals. Even that's not 'bad', and kind of makes a nice counterpoint to the baroque pop and increasingly psychedelic mod rock that makes up much of the rest of the album. So many brilliant songs, I was going to list the great ones but it's pretty much all of them. My one gripe (and it's only a small one) is around sequencing: "In my life" would have made a great album closer, rather than being jammed in the middle of the second side.
Apparently this was one of the first albums released in the US to not feature the artist's name on the cover... I guess at this point, they didn't have to. It also adds to the enigmatic vibe of the album.
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