The Beatles – Help! (1965)

November 25, 2024

Jelp!

Now this is starting to shape up to sound more like what I expected from the Beatles. It helps (lol) that there’s several classic tunes here, including the massively (but understandably) overplayed “Yesterday”. Again, haven’t seen the movie of the same name, but as an album it flows very nicely, better than A Hard Days Night which was good but seemed like a series of unrelated vignettes rather than a cohesive whole. Help! flows very smoothly indeed. The production is warm and of course analogue, and in full stereo too it seems (at least on the remaster) without any bizarre panning. Tidy!