THE SCORE: Please Please Me DECCA 7" FREAKBEAT PSYCH

€ 81

$ 94

€ 81 Sold For

May 20, 2007 Sold Date

May 10, 2007 Start Date

€ 10 Start price

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Description

THE SCORE

Please Please Me / Beg me
DECCA UK 1966 F.12527 DR.39054

Condition: Vg+. Obviously played but not worn out at all. Some light surface hairlines. No major scratches. It's a nice and clean copy which plays very loud and sounds superb with a big bass sound, distorted guitars and lots of reverb.
The label on the please please me - side looks a bit faded but the record is actually in better condition than the sight of the label might suggest. The record hasn't been DJ'd to death - but obviously has been stored in somebody's household for 40 years and wasn't played much. This person has probably died (God bless him) because this record eventually landed with a whole bunch of other sixties singles in a small box in a charity shop not frequented by record collectors at all. The original DECCA company sleeve went missing on its 40 years journey.
If in doubt and you can make it to Berlin you can come round, look and listen to it anytime. If you have any questions please mail me.
The B side is very good as well and is a more conventional Mod style R&B shaker with strong vocals and a good dancebeat.

In case you don't already know: This single is something like the definition of the now much overused term "Freakbeat". In this case it's justified to call it so. here's a nice piece about it I found on the internet:
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"Freakbeat" is a label applied retroactively to music created in the transition from the pill-fueled mod years of the early-to-mid-60s to the psychedelic sounds that flourished by decade's end. Freakbeat stretched the straight ahead dance beats with heavier bass and reverb, fuzz boxes and phase units that created a more elastic sound. These weren't acid-flushed hippie-jams, but you could feel the drugs starting to take hold. Freakbeat mixed British beat harmonies, garage rock snarl, and strident, aggressive guitar playing with overt studio craft. Its brilliance lay in the combination of catchy beat-era melodies and concise structures with the developing musical freedoms of psychedelia.

Superstar acts like the Yardbirds and Pretty Things created music that was termed freakbeat, but it was the lesser-known acts that were the center of the '80s retro-obsession during which the genre was christened. The Score's cover of The Beatles' "Please Please Me" is a perfect freakbeat example - melodic as a Beatles song, but with charging drums, the sort of bass playing McCartney started on Revolver, and an in-your-face vocal that wouldn't have gone over well on Ed Sullivan. "
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