 | A Hard Day's Night
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.29 The Fab Four's first set of all-originals. Aside from the outstanding musicianship, the melodies (as always) are infectious. "Tell Me Why" is an orgasmic song.
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 | Beatles for Sale (1990) by The Beatles
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.99 Underrated disc which has it's charms--coming after the all-original material found on _A Hard Day's Night_, fans possibly felt a bit let down as they returned to mixing originals with covers.
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 | Surfer Girl/Shut Down, Vol. 2 by The Beach Boys
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.95 _Shut Down, Vol. 2_ (from '64) is classic stuff from these guys. The absolutely gorgeous (and stunningly-written) "Keep An Eye On Summer" is my favorite, but the whole album is a gem.
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 | Little Deuce Coupe/ All Summer Long by The Beach Boys
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.15 _All Summer Long_ (from '64) is a blockbuster of sophistication from start to finish. Possibly the greatest (in my book, at least) Beach Boys song lies on this album: the brilliant and gorgeous "Girls On The Beach."
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 | Folk-Nanny/Born to Wander by The Four Seasons
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $16.11 Four Seasons were excellent, as always. _Born To Wander_ (from '64) is filled to the brim with gorgeous, touching melodies.
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 | Dawn (Go Away) and 11 Other Great Songs by The Four Seasons
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.85 The two originals on here - the title track, and "Big Man's World" - are stunning, as to be expected. The real surprise, is that the covers are just as stunning and mind-blowing. "Life Is But A Dream" and "Only Yesterday" are prime examples.
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 | Rag Doll by The Four Seasons
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.00 The first Four Seasons album of all-originals, and is a mind-blower from beginning to end. The title track, the touching "Marcie," and the orgasmic "Huggin' My Pillow" are just a few of my personal favorites.
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 | The Times They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.18 All the way back in 1964, Dylan made this dark, barren, weighty, stark, weary and thought-provoking soundscape of a folk album. It's also haunting and moving.
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 | Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.98 A diverse mix of the beautiful with the laugh-out-loud hilarious. An excellent Dylan album.
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 | St. Louis to Liverpool by Chuck Berry
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.97 Don't scoff. Ever wonder who had an astounding influence on our beloved Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Dylan, The Who and countless other big-leaguers? That would be Mr. Berry!
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 | Wednesday Morning, 3 AM by Simon & Garfunkel
Buy used from: $4.46 S&G's excellent, straight-up folk album, mixing originals with covers. Their gorgeous melodies were already in evidence.
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