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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 2912
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $7.90 |
| Used Price: $2.06 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Please Please Me (1990) Track Listing:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go to Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
8. Love Me Do
9. P.S. I Love You
10. Baby It's You
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret
12. Taste of Honey
13. There's a Place
14. Twist and Shout
15. Please Please Me Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1963 album from The Beatles featuring 'I Saw Her Standing There', 'Love Me Do', 'Please Please Me', 'P.S. I Love You', 'Twist And Shout' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol.
Description of Please Please Me (1990):
Their first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits when this appeared, but they still relied heavily on the cover material to see them through. Their insecurity about their own abilities seems curious in hindsight since they'd pulled the title song and "I Saw Her Standing There" (with thanks to Little Richard) out of their hats. But they were an unknown quantity, still to launch a million bands and take pop music to places it had never dreamed off. A small step for four men, a giant leap for music. --Chris Nickson
Please Please Me (1990) Reviews:
great LP 
2009-12-12 - This is one of my favorites showing the talents of the Beatles early in their career. I already have a copy but due to the remastering it sounds like the Beatles recorded this just yesterday.
This album stayed 6 months at the top of the charts in Britain in 1963!
2009-12-06 - Not bad for a debut albut that contained 8 original compositions at a time when nobody wrote their own material(at least not as a norm)! The other amazing fact is that the Beatles recorded all 10 songs in mere 10 hours of 1 day (the other four were the first 2 singles included in the album)! Today most people spend the same amount of time getting a decent drum sound! Anyway, the remastered stereo CD souds great, a few musical surprises that were previously buried in the mono version of the 1987 CD, great little booklet, and a nice mini documentary. No outtakes, but didn't expect to hear any, anyway!
Also great in stereo
2009-11-26 - I was a bit worried about the stereo version, after all what has been written about the limitation of the two tracks recordings. Actually it's very good and makes for a new listening experience if you are used to the mono version.
The album itself is of course a classic. I saw her standing there and Twist and shout are Rock'n Roll at is best !
Worth it for sure !
All In A Days Work
2009-11-03 - Hands down a rock-n-roll milestone record. Four lads from Liverpool, England walk into Abbey Road Studios on Monday morning February 11, 1963 to start work in Studio 2 at 10:00 AM. By 10:45 PM that evening all the songs on Please Please Me are recorded!! Seems simple enough but couple that with the fact that John Lennon had symptoms of the flu that day and could only give one vocal performance for Twist And Shout before his voice would be completely gone. Thankfully it was the last song of the days work in Studio 2. You can literally hear John's voice shredding. There would be no second take for Twist And Shout. A stunning rock vocal performance ranking high in the tops of all time on record. From the opening track's energetic 1-2-3-4 (Paul's count into I Saw Her Standing There) you get the feeling there is truly something magical happening. There was so much raw energy packed into those 14 hours that day in Studio 2 with each track being cut live on the spot. It is as close to the live sound as we would get to The Beatles until their final album Let It Be nearly 7 years later (save for a few reasonable sounding bootleg recordings). Please, Please Me is remarkable in that sense you feel as if John, Paul, George, and Ringo are after something from their very own hearts. They desired to make this one count in every way. This would be the same group that would only 3 years later record Revolver!! Who would've known that that very day in Abbey Road Studio 2? From that day they never looked back and began a wonderful musical recording odyssey unmatched in sheer out-put. Please, Please Me is where the party started and it is remarkably timeless in that sense. Brilliant!!
Changing the Face of Pop Music
2009-11-02 - The Beatles' "Please Please Me" (1963) proved that the four lads from Liverpool would be around for the long haul. Opening with the breathless rocker "I Saw Her Standing There" and finishing with "Twist and Shout" (a remarkable first-take performance from John Lennon), the group's auspicious debut album still packs a sonic wallop. Along with "Love Me Do" and the title hit are Lennon-McCartney classics such as "Misery" and "There's a Place" - plus memorable covers of "Baby It's You," "A Taste of Honey" and "Boys" (Ringo's first lead vocal). The original mono version remains preferable to the weird stereo mix. Shortly before his death, Lennon acknowledged "Please Please Me" as one of his favorite Beatle albums.
