Review Summary: The Beatles don't need any Help! they are doing just fine on their own!
After the rip roaring success of Hard Day's Night, some peoples' personal favorite Beatles' record, the quartet decided they had to top it with the ultimate pop album, and they did! Help! is one of the best albums in the entire collection of the Beatles' discography and it does so with great songs, a fun structure, and even a movie to promote it! The gang Paul, Paul Ringo, and George were running on all cylinders when they made this one and it is one of the last albums before their big forey into folk and eventually psycho rock.
Like a Hard Day's Night, this album starts out with Help!, the title track from the album. It is one of the best songs that the band ever wrote, and certainly one of the most recognizable as it's been in countless movies (like Cheaper By the Dozen most recently). After that comes (Hey) You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, another one of the great Beatles waltzes. It shows a slightly folkish influence that would be later explored in the next album, entitled Rubber Soul, a lot of peoples' personal favorite album by the Beatles. One thing I don't like is that Another Girl and You're Going to Lose that Girl are right next to each other in the tracklist so it makes it difficult to differentiate the two between each other.
After that comes the great Ticket to Ride which I'm sure everyone in the world has heard before. Then Act Naturally is a funny Ringo song which are always the pleasure. Before the hit ballad (and most covered song of all time Yesterday) we get one of my personal favorite Beatles' songs, I've Just Seen a Face. It has such a nice flow and pretty sound it's greatly hard to resist most of the time. Overall this is one of the best Beatles' albums barnone, and definitely the best out of the Beatles poppy phase before delving into darker more sinister and drug induced rock. But for now the Beatle's don't need any Help! at all.
