Prime Factors: Music

Abram and Joe discuss the Beatles's fourth album, "Beatles for Sale". It was truth in advertising: exhausted from touring and filming, the Beatles produced an album that cynically stated on the cover exactly how they felt about the situation. Can an album by a weary foursome stack up the their best? We'll be the judge.

"Long Tall Sally" is possibly the least-well known of the Beatles catalog that we will cover. An EP released just prior to "A Hard Day's Night", "Long Tall Sally" contained all new recordings that had not been on previous UK albums or singles. It is an important-- but short and easy to overlook-- member of the Beatles discography. We look at its four songs.  Released in honor of Paul McCartney's 8...

Abram and Joe discuss the Beatles's third album (and first film!), "A Hard Day's Night". Beatlemania is in full swing and we'll see how the band adjusts to their new found multi-media fame. 

Abram and Joe discuss The Beatles's second album, "With the Beatles", the most difficult one to search for. You can't even call it "The Second Album" because that refers to a different US-only release. We have fun reviewing the tracks and not talking about Motown, despite Joe's repeated attempts. 

Our first real episode! Abram and Joe discuss The Beatles's very first album, "Please Please Me" and rate its tracks. 

They might not have been bigger than Jesus, but they certainly were bigger than Robert Walpole, William Pitt, or Harold Wilson: they were "The Beatles". In this very special episode, Abram takes the microphone and whisks us into a magical mystery tour of Beatles history from their start as the Quarrymen to a very special rooftop concert, and all of the multi-colored aquatic conveyances in between....