A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
1964 Ratings: #6 / 45
User Score
1964 Rank: #56
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic

Decades after its original release, A Hard Day's Night's punchy blend of propulsive rhythms, jangly guitars, and infectious, singalong melodies is remarkably fresh. There's something intrinsically exciting in the sound of the album itself, something to keep the record vital years after it was recorded.

100
Rolling Stone
Although they were now the four most famous people in the world, the toppermost of the poppermost, bigger than Elvis, bigger than Jesus, they were still holding nothing back emotionally or musically: Just listen to "If I Fell" or "You Can't Do That."
100
The Telegraph

A Hard Day's Night is electric and utterly sure-footed.

97
Pitchfork

A Hard Day's Night is from an era when pop and showbiz were inseparable-- and if it doesn't transcend that time, it does represent its definitive peak.

96
Beats Per Minute
The arrangements are starting to really blossom and even the downers sound like they’re being performed by a band that’s not only at the peak, but that’s enjoying the ride.
90
Sputnikmusic

A Hard Day's Night remains a diamond in a sea of emeralds, the one release of the startlingly prolific first three years that remains consistently of top quality throughout.

Doublez
94

The History of the Albums – n°244

If you have followed the previous episodes or if you know their beginnings, 1964 is once again a pivotal year for the Beatles and for all the British Isles. To give you a very brief summary of the context, let's talk numbers and talk little. If the singles of 1963 follow one another progressively at the 1st place in the UK charts, the first 2 albums follow the same path. Moreover With the Beatles will become the second album to exceed 1 million sales ... read more

marvelgaryen
80

THE UNSUPERVISED BEATLES MARATHON // PART III

It's on the third album the band really starts to take form, not just as an iconic four man music group but as a locomotive, a symbol, something greater than just the regular. The versatility as a result of the experimentalism The Beatles just started diving, took place officially, the production starts to diverse from common instrumentation and goes to a new form of musicality.

LonelyHipHopFan
40

OUTDATED

THE BEATLES DISCOGRAPHY DEEP DIVE #3

Once again, it's like the first two albums, but slightly better. It has a little bit more variety, instrumentally speaking at least. And there's no Ringo song, so that probably boosted the score a bit. Am I the only one who doesn't like Ringo that much? Poor guy.

LucianoSG
73

- The Beatles Discography #3 -

First decent Beatles album!

This is actually a pretty good change for their sound, now I feel the songs sound more clean and authentic, with better production and more variety in the instrumental. The folk inspiration also helped a lot to show off that the band had more ideas to compose.
McCartney and Lennon's songwriting, even if their lyrics are still very straightforward to understand, they also feel different in a good way, like more poetic. They wrote songs ... read more

85

I should have creamed better

Beatlesfan
95

A hard days country

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Added on: September 2, 2012