This is easily one of my top 3 Beatles albums (probably just behind The White Album and Abbey Road) and I've always believed it to be vastly superior to Rubber Soul, which I tend to feel can be a little overrated when discussing their canon of work.

Songs like "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away", "I've Just Seen A Face" and "I Need You" are some of their finest acoustic numbers with hooks for days. "Ticket To Ride", "Yesterday" and the title track are rightly three of their most beloved hits.

There isn't really a dud on the entire album, even Ringo's version of "Act Naturally" is pretty good.

Any other Beatles fans care to share their thoughts on this album??

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the blue and red compliation aside, this was actually the first proper Beatles album I bought.

it must have been the late 80ees, I was maybe 14 or 15, and they showed the movie Help on TV. and I loved it a few days later I bought the album to get songs from the movie which I did not have on my compilations. still like the album very much today, but would not really rank it above Rubber Soul

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