Help! - Side B - Round 3

[WestwayKid]

Goodbye, "Yesterday".

[Heston]

I don't really like country music or Ringo's vocals so bye bye Act Naturally.

[WestwayKid]

I agree with Wolter that "Act Naturally" is the best cover they ever did. It's a perfect Ringo song. I'm voting "You Like Me Too Much" in this round. It's a bland, limp song.

[Kory]

I agree with Wolter that "Act Naturally" is the best cover they ever did. It's a perfect Ringo song. I'm voting "You Like Me Too Much" in this round. It's a bland, limp song.

I voted "It's Only Love" for the same reason. Plus "Act Naturally" is fun.

[tepista]

I would like to tell you what i DONT see come the next round.

[Wolter]

I agree with Wolter that "Act Naturally" is the best cover they ever did. It's a perfect Ringo song. I'm voting "You Like Me Too Much" in this round. It's a bland, limp song.

Agreed. George took a while to develop as a songwriter. Act Naturally is significantly more fun to listen to and it’s definitely exactly the right song for Ringo.

[Wolter]

This side does have the rare “dialogue between songs” phenomenon.

“Tell Me Whet You See.”
“I’ve Just Seen a Face.

Anyway, I’m willing to say “Act Naturally” is actually the second best song on this entire side.

[BitterTom]

Though I'd admit it's overrated, Yesterday is a great song for me and it's a shame it's been voted out this early. YLMTM gets the vote for me. Nice little ditty but is the weakest out of a great bunch.

[Heston]

I agree with Wolter that "Act Naturally" is the best cover they ever did.

Insanity

[Flex]

PROTECT ACT NATURALLY BRIGADE

[Heston]

PROTECT ACT NATURALLY BRIGADE

I'm not looking after the interests of Billy Ray Cyrus fans.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'll be honest: Nothing on Side B is especially appealing to me (within a Beatles context, of course; not popular music more generally). And the album as a whole is mostly a shrug for me. There's some historic importance, with a turn to more folkish/mature concerns, but it's at best a warm-up for the next leap forward of Rubber Soul.

[Heston]

I'll be honest: Nothing on Side B is especially appealing to me (within a Beatles context, of course; not popular music more generally). And the album as a whole is mostly a shrug for me. There's some historic importance, with a turn to more folkish/mature concerns, but it's at best a warm-up for the next leap forward of Rubber Soul.

Hard disagree, I think side one is excellent. Side two is patchy but they were on an insane schedule. I actually think Rubber Soul has its share of average songs too.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'll be honest: Nothing on Side B is especially appealing to me (within a Beatles context, of course; not popular music more generally). And the album as a whole is mostly a shrug for me. There's some historic importance, with a turn to more folkish/mature concerns, but it's at best a warm-up for the next leap forward of Rubber Soul.

Hard disagree, I think side one is excellent. Side two is patchy but they were on an insane schedule. I actually think Rubber Soul has its share of average songs too.

Beatles For Sale and Help! sound like transition pieces, somewhere between the teeny bop band they were and the genre-pushing artists they were going to be. It's not that the songs are bad—just to be clear, c'mon, it's the fucking Beatles—but there's so little that stands out to me, unlike with PPM and AHDN or RS and R, because the material is neither that beautiful pop nor that really developed songwriting. It suffers in comparison with what bookends.

[Flex]

My two fave albums