The Beatles’ fourth album, Beatles For Sale, has the dubious honor of being my least favorite of the band’s releases. Nestled between A Hard Day’s Night and Help! with half of its tracklist dedicated to covers, it never really stood a chance.

But, as the saying goes, the worst Beatles album is still better than most of what’s out there. And Beatles For Sale certainly has its share of great songs.

The best of them is ‘What You’re Doing,’ featured on the blog a year ago and one of my very favorite Beatles songs. That song alone makes this album a keeper.

The biggest hit on the album was ‘Eight Days a Week,’ a simple little ditty closer in spirit to their earliest releases than the more adventurous work to come. It’s notable for beginning with a fade in, as any Beatles reference guide will point out (I love how so many Beatles songs are known as the first widely known use of one trick or another).