The Beatles Bible - Topic: A Hard Day's Night -- the song http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 frankdialogue on A Hard Day's Night -- the song http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60177 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60177 Yes,, this song was the epitome of Beatlemania, and it didn't even use an Aeolian cadence or onomatopoeia.

]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:28:54 +0000 Ben Ramon on A Hard Day's Night -- the song http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60170 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60170 I agree. If you condense the Beatles down into their most primal incarnation as a pop band, then A Hard Day's Night is emblematic of their absolute finest early songwriting. A relentlessly driving, melodic, memorable tune with thunderous performances from all vocal and instrumental angles, an intelligent lyric with a title that gently prefigures the surrealism seen in their later work, and also a large step towards some unorthodox and experimental elements that bend the rules of what the 2.5 minute single should be (the opening chord, the jangling fade-out coda that comes out of nowhere). It's easy to tout She Loves You or I Want To Hold ...]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:02:03 +0000 Funny Paper on A Hard Day's Night -- the song http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60161 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60161 That repeating part where Paul sings "When I'm hoooooooome, everything seems to be rah-ight..." -- is so beautiful it almost evokes Mozart.

 

Almost.

]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:42:35 +0000 IMDeWalrus on A Hard Day's Night -- the song http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60153 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/a-hard-days-night-the-song/#p60153 Of all the amazing achievements in The Beatles' matchless career, I think this song is the most remarkable.

"A Hard Day's Night" was also proof to the world that The Beatles were bona-fide professional performers, not just the "above-average bar band" that Dick Clark and many others in the American music establishment at the time were writing them off as.

Imagine:  The Beatles were at the very apex of Beatlemania -- taking time off their grueling tour schedule to film their first movie, with Lennon & McCartney writing 12 new songs for the album (plus a 13th -- "I Call Your Name" ...]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:04:31 +0000