Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles, everybody thinks they know the Beatles,

but how much do you really know?

Look at things from a different angle and try and bring things together in a different

way.

My name's Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Cockcroft. And today we're going to be

talking about an album that perhaps gets overlooked. You know, whenever there's some magazine or

website that puts together a list of the greatest albums of all time, the Beatles will usually

feature, but it's usually the usual suspects of Sergeant Pepper, Revolver, you know, Rubber Soul,

Abbey Road. It's never Help or Magical Mystery Tour.

Now, on this one, we're going to be talking about the help album.

What is it about an album like Help that doesn't get it onto the list of the greatest of all time?

It has yesterday, isn't that enough?

The Help album came out in 1965 and the Magical Mystery Tour album came out in 1967.

Let's kind of start with Help.

Stephen, do you like the Help album? I do like the Help album, but it would not be in my list

of the top five Beatles albums. And given that they only made 12 albums, I think that tells you

all you need to know. Lower Tier Beatles. Lower Tier Beatles is definitely my verdict. And I know there's a couple of

things we're going to go into deeper, but broadly speaking, what are its main failings? Why does it

fall down when other albums don't fall down? For me, I think it's an album that certainly

it contains a few great songs, but I don't think it hangs together as an album. I think it's a

sort of a transitional album. It's overshadowed, in my view, by Rubber Soul that comes immediately

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