YOU THINK YOU LOST YOUR LOVE
WELL I SAW HER YESTERDAY
IT'S YOU SHE'S THINKING OF
AND SHE TOLD ME
WHAT TO SAY
The Beatles'
Second Album
is the second
Capitol Records album
by the English
rock band
and their third album
released in
the United States
including
Introducing... The Beatles,
which was issued
three months earlier
by Vee-Jay Records.
Following its release in
April 1964,
The Beatles' Second Album
replaced
Meet the Beatles!
at number 1
on the
Billboard Top LPs chart
in the US.
The album was compiled
mostly from leftover tracks
from the UK album
With the Beatles
and the forthcoming
UK Long Tall Sally EP,
which are predominantly
rock and roll
and
R&B covers,
and rounded out with
several
Lennon-McCartney-penned
non-album
b-sides
and the
hit single
"She Loves You".
Among critics
, it is considered the band's
purest rock and roll album
and praised for its
soulful takes on
both contemporary
black music hits
and original material
.According to
Bruce Eder
of AllMusic,
The Beatles' Second Album
"stands as probably the best
pure rock & roll album
ever issued of
the group's music"
because it
"avoid[s] any trace of
the pop ballads
favored by
Paul McCartney
that usually slowed down
the group's other
early albums,
and the result was
the longest uninterrupted
body of hard rock & roll
and
R&B in their
entire output."
In his 2014
review of
the Beatles'
Capitol albums,
for Guitar World
, Jeff Slate
commented that
"the oomph of the
over-compressed
Dexter tracks"
had since been removed,
but the album was
arguably their
"first great rock and roll record".
Referring to the assortment
of tracks assembled by Capitol,
Darryl Sterdan
of the
Toronto Sun wrote:
"The hodge-podgery begins [here] ...
Surprisingly enough,
it holds together OK,
thanks to a strong string of rockers
like
Money,
Roll Over Beethoven
and
Long Tall Sally
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