To appreciate the early stuff (and I agree there’s a lot of filler on the early albums) it’s interesting to listen to what else was around at the time. Any vit

To appreciate the early stuff (and I agree there’s a lot of filler on the early albums) it’s interesting to listen to what else was around at the time. Any vitality of the early rock and roll artists was long gone and the charts were filled with schmaltz like Bobby Vee. In that context, “Please Please Me” would have sounded something like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” did in 1991 when it arrived in a world of hair metal.