With the Beatles Remastered - Lennon and McCartney Originals
Other than Yellow Submarine (which includes a lot of George Martin instrumentals and two George Harrison originals) no Beatles album has a lower percentage of Lennon/McCartney originals than With The Beatles.
Just 7 of the 14 songs on this album were written by John and/or Paul (that's 50% of course.
) 6 of the other 7 are covers (such as "Till There Was You" and "Money") and the other one is George's songwriting debut, "Don't Bother Me.
" I recently wrote an article like this one about the Lennon/McCartney originals on The Beatles For Sale album and the main reason I think that Beatles For Sale is a superior album to this one is that I much prefer those 8 songs to these 7.
Although, I should add that I do prefer the covers on this one.
What follows is a short synopsis of each of these songs (which do sound best when heard on the With The Beatles Remastered version included in The Beatles in Mono Box Set.
) "It Won't Be Long" - Probably my least favorite album opener by the Fab Four but still one of the better songs on this album.
It's a good song but the competition among album openers is rather fierce.
"All I've Gotta Do" - Lately this may be my favorite song on this album.
I really love John's vocal performance on it and the way John & Paul's vocals blend together on the refrain is really fantastic.
"All My Loving" - This is easily the most popular song on With The Beatles (which, like many of their albums, included no singles.
) Paul wrote (and sung) this one.
"Little Child" - One of the very few songs in the Lennon/McCartney catalog I just have no use for.
I don't like this one and it shows no signs of growing on me.
The harmonica solo it's only saving grace (that sounds pretty rocking in the remastered mono version.
) "Hold Me Tight" - This is a pretty cute song and it's got a lot of energy.
One of my favorites on this album and definitely one of their more overlooked early pop classics.
"I Wanna Be Your Man" - John & Paul originally wrote this for The Rolling Stones and then decided to release their own version of it (with Ringo) on vocals too.
It's a cool part of their mythology (writing The Stones first song for them) but it's not much of a song, is it? I don't care for it.
"Not A Second Time" - Sounds like filler to me.
Not one of their best efforts.
Just 7 of the 14 songs on this album were written by John and/or Paul (that's 50% of course.
) 6 of the other 7 are covers (such as "Till There Was You" and "Money") and the other one is George's songwriting debut, "Don't Bother Me.
" I recently wrote an article like this one about the Lennon/McCartney originals on The Beatles For Sale album and the main reason I think that Beatles For Sale is a superior album to this one is that I much prefer those 8 songs to these 7.
Although, I should add that I do prefer the covers on this one.
What follows is a short synopsis of each of these songs (which do sound best when heard on the With The Beatles Remastered version included in The Beatles in Mono Box Set.
) "It Won't Be Long" - Probably my least favorite album opener by the Fab Four but still one of the better songs on this album.
It's a good song but the competition among album openers is rather fierce.
"All I've Gotta Do" - Lately this may be my favorite song on this album.
I really love John's vocal performance on it and the way John & Paul's vocals blend together on the refrain is really fantastic.
"All My Loving" - This is easily the most popular song on With The Beatles (which, like many of their albums, included no singles.
) Paul wrote (and sung) this one.
"Little Child" - One of the very few songs in the Lennon/McCartney catalog I just have no use for.
I don't like this one and it shows no signs of growing on me.
The harmonica solo it's only saving grace (that sounds pretty rocking in the remastered mono version.
) "Hold Me Tight" - This is a pretty cute song and it's got a lot of energy.
One of my favorites on this album and definitely one of their more overlooked early pop classics.
"I Wanna Be Your Man" - John & Paul originally wrote this for The Rolling Stones and then decided to release their own version of it (with Ringo) on vocals too.
It's a cool part of their mythology (writing The Stones first song for them) but it's not much of a song, is it? I don't care for it.
"Not A Second Time" - Sounds like filler to me.
Not one of their best efforts.
