@@loosilu Actually, even though the G Major of the verses is now a G minor in the bridge, the bridge itself is in the key of Bb Major. Then, at the end, a C minor and D7 bring it back to G Major for the next verse. Senor Know It All (or at least this much :-> )
Paul ( amazingly ) has at least three classic songs of his on "Revolver" - "Eleanor Rigby", "Here There And Everywhere" and "For No One". And his jazzy sounding "Got To Get You Into My Life" is so good too.
@@loosilu it is a key change. G and Bflat is clearly a different key. notice john also does a bit of key change in im only sleeping by modulating E from F#. I think that was quite clever as well. key change that beatles used always came back to the root key in a certain clever modulation. Not like crappy key changes nowadays which are used only for raising tension. in here there everywhere, paul uses D7 to come back to G major, and in im only sleeping, john uses E flat to go back to F#
When I first heard Lennon's "She Said She Said" as a young teen in the 90s something suddenly opened on my musical horizon. IMO this album contains some of John Lennon's finest musical moments of his career
Definitely agree that this is a milestone for Lennon, which is funny because people tend to see Revolver as a McCartney driven album. I get that Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Sub, Here There Everywhere are great and innovative tracks but to me the Lennon and Harrison tracks ultimately have more lasting appeal in the long run.
@@h00liganismo1 Paul was experimenting just as much. There’s Eleanor Rigby but also Paul spearheading the use of tape loops on Tomorrow Never Knows. He contributed many of the loops and was even the one who figured it out first and showed the others how to do it. He also suggested the skip drum beat for the song as well. So Paul was responsible for 2 of the most innovative aspects of TNK even though it wasn’t “his” song
If Tomorrow Never Knows sounds new to your ears imagine the people in 1966 listening to it just a couple of years after She Loves You. It scared me when I first heard it (I was eight when it was first released). Now in my sixties and after hearing it hundreds of times it is one of my favorite Beatle tracks. They never played it live because once it was recorded you couldn't duplicate the loops on the faders. It still sounds like it could have been released last week.
Exactly. I LOVE "Tomorrow Never Knows". I read the Egyptian Book of The Dead , which inspired it. One of the strangest books I ever read. I went to an occult book shop in Evanston for it.
There is a VERY long Wikipedia page about Tomorrow Never Knows. One of the most influential songs in the entire history of rock and roll. The tape loops are literally the origin of sampling in modern music, just to give you an idea. The tape loops were Paul's doing. For all of the boomer men who insist John was the innovator, well, no.
They never played it live because they no longer gave performances by the time this was released in '66-- and it would be to difficult to replicate the tapes played backwards.
This was perfectly conveyed on MAD MEN, Don Draper listening to this. (The producers paid a fortune to use it!) This signalled the arrival of a new sort of consciousness in the 60's. People were looking inward.
0:01 Intro 0:28 Taxman 3:45 Eleanor Rigby 7:48 I'm Only Sleeping 11:02 Love You To (not Too lol 😆) 14:26 Here, There and Everywhere 19:05 Yellow Submarine 22:21 She Said She Said 26:10 Good Day Sunshine 29:00 And Your Bird Can Sing 32:06 For No One 35:03 Dr. Robert 38:08 I Want To Tell You 40:33 Got To Get You Into My Life 43:58 Tomorrow Never Knows 46:30 Final thoughts
@@jk4675 I don’t think it was ever supposed to be “too”, no. They wouldn’t slip a typo like that. One can only guess what the phrase means. My guess is that since the song ends with the line “I’ll make love to you, if you want me to”, the title is implying the reply “(I’d) love you to”.
@@mr.dirtydan3338 Sgt Pepper was certainly their most influential album but Revolver was more innovative really. Pepper ultimately doesn't do a whole lot of new things that Revolver didn't already do, like the whole strings and brass production stuff. Meanwhile Revolver is the first time we hear a lot of things like the tape loops, backwards guitars, classical indian genre, the trance genre, children's songs, a lot of cutting edge lyrics, etc.
It's like listening to the Beatles with a good friend who never heard them before and the enthusiasm is getting you excited and you're kind of hearing it for the first time again because you are witnessing the enjoyment and discovery of the other person. It takes you back to the times when you first heard it. I don't know what I'm saying anymore, but that was fun on a Friday night with a bottle of wine :) Thanks!
I had the same feeling. I was going through TH-cam and found Call Me Caroline, and she was so enthusiastic about learning about The Beatles, it made me realize once again how much I LOVE The Beatles, from Please Please Me to "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love".
Same, same! Watching her reaction vids & her enthusiasm has renewed my Beatlemania (not that it was ever gone, just subdued). Also, when she says “I THINK I MAY have heard this song before” I have to laugh. 😆
A great piece of Dali-sh Art work it is a mind opening musical experience and the first of its kind thats what puts it in the highest interlectual musical feet ever! Hurray! For Revolver 💎 by 4 🪲🪲🪲🪲insects and an apple 🍏 lol😅 🎉🎉🎉❤ love TheBeatles.
Thank you so much for your patience on this video. I hope it was enjoyable for you! Which songs are your personal favourites from this album? I think mine was an upbeat one…so unusual of me haha EDIT: I mention in the video about sampling, apologies I must be using the wrong term there. In my mind I was meaning a sample of a sound they had recorded. Apologies for that.
I like pretty much every song on this album, but my absolute favorites are Paul's Here, There, and Everywhere, and For No One. To me, these two work like opposites on both sides of Revolver. One is a beautiful love ballad, while the other is a tune about a break-up. I also really love John's I'm Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing (featuring two lead guitars played by George and Paul on their Epiphone Casinos), Dr. Robert, Tomorrow Never Knows, as well as George's three songs: Taxman (Probably my favorite Paul McCartney guitar solo), Love You To, and I Want to Tell You. Not to mention the single Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby, which features excellent lead vocals from Ringo for YS and three-way harmonies from John, Paul, and George for ER.
I've already smashed the Like button! I'm going to guess that your favorite (based on the clue) is "Got To Get You Into My Life". My favorite song - in fact, my all-time favorite Beatle song - is "She Said, She Said". LOVE YA, CAROLINE! Thank you, Sister of Melody!
"She Said, She Said" is based on Peter Fonda's acid-trip ramblings at a party John attended. Fonda kept saying, "I know what it's like to be dead." And "Doctor Robert" is about a London doctor who connected famous clients with drugs. "Got to Get You Into My Life" is Paul's ode to marijuana.
For No One is one of those McCartney songs that, even though I've heard it a million times, can still stop me in my track sometimes and again overwhelm me by the sheer perfection of it. The emotion, his voice, the horn and then the 'unfinished' musical ending that reinforces the sentiment expressed in the words. It's just a brilliant song.
@@CallMeCaroline On upcoming albums you should listen to remixes of deluxe editions. These remixes are made by Giles Martin, son of George Martin who was the producer of the Beatles. They have much better sound quality than the 2009 remastered versions.
but like listening for the first time as a grown up instead of a kid listening on a transistor radio riding his bike around the neighborhood. it's lovely to hear it more complete and understood.
The Beatles pioneered so many things on this album (ADT, vocals through a Leslie speaker, tape loops, backwards instruments, psychedelia, etc.). The recording techniques were revolutionary also, thanks to young EMI engineer Geoff Emerick. The way he mic’d the strings on Eleanor Rigby and the drums on Tomorrow Never Knows are part of the reason the album still sounds amazing now.
Where we're going, we don't need genres. I can really see the McCartney fangirl starting to come out in you, even if you don't see it yet. We've covered 4 years so far, and got 4 more to go. Buckle up. :)
Yes, Macca fan here, but more and more I see the continuous edge that kept the Beatles as a global phenomenon that John brought with his sound. Tomorrow never knows is an example of that. All four lads comprised an unforgetable and magical tour de force!
This album was a sonic departure for The Beatles with new young engineer Geoff Emerick at the controls. Emerick was a bit of a maverick who wasn't afraid to try new things and really push the equipment beyond the limits of how it was designed to be used. This often resulted in achieving new sounds never before heard on records, but also got him into plenty of trouble with the EMI Brass once they got wind of the kinds of things he was doing. Ultimately, the record sales spoke for themselves and Emerick was allowed to continue his unorthodox techniques and experimenting, but only for Beatles sessions, as long as he didn't damage anything. Emerick pioneered methods that are now commonplace in recording studios up to this very day.
So true. TNK would never be what it is without him. And the session they did that was very early and it was Emerick's first as chief engineer. He was 19!
Lyrics of Elanor Rigby were indeed different. Alan Ginsberg, famous beat poet and friend of the Beatles, told McCartney "That Eleanor Rigby song is a helluva poem." Might also want to point out that this was such a stark departure form the "I love you, you love me' songs they had mostly done up to this point, as this song spoke of loneliness, isolation, mortality, etc.
I always loved Ringo's contribution with "Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there". And I also read somewhere that George was the one that came up with "Ah, look at all the lonely people" part.
When I went to Germany in highschool, we went to a Biergarten where a myriad of great German beer drinking songs were played. The place was electric. Suddenly the band fires up the unmistakable notes of Yellow Submarine. The whole crowd raucously sang it and it blew the roof off the place. The Beatles are incredible.
Yellow Submarine was deliberately written as a children's song - to be sung by children in playgrounds and school assemblies everywhere. Their lack of pretentiousness is astounding. This song should never be ridiculed, children for decades have been singing and enjoying it - for many their first listen to The Beatles. I went to John Lennons infant school and I can still remember our head teacher playing this on the piano one assembly and explaining to us that the man who wrote was a very kind man and sat in the very place we where sitting, next to her piano. I still get a bit of a lump in my throat thinking about it ♥️
"For No One" is such a mature song from Paul, who was just 24 when he wrote it. The subject matter is incredibly wise beyond his years at the time. Indeed, he has mentioned this song recently as one he's exceedingly proud of, insofar as it confirms he was (on his day) as good a lyricist as John was.
It my opinion, it is the most poignant break up song ever written. What is worse than an ex who hates you is an ex for whom you mean absolutely nothing, as if you don't even exist.
@@ewest14 Not sure if he talks about "For No One" or not but he's just done a Lyrics doco where he talks about the influences behind the lyrics of many of his songs including Got to Get You Into My Life and Eleanor Rigby.
All in service to the song; could be their motto. John once said "Ringo was the best friend a song ever had." There's a really cool TH-cam by a young Scandinavian drummer girl about what a great drummer Ringo is, demonstrating how many songs you can recognize just by the drum pattern; consider how rare that is. And the way George's solos just drip off the chords, nothing super flashy, but incredibly apt and moving the vibe along...and of course "And Your Bird Can Sing", which is just badass guitar melody playing. And cosmic bass playing by Paul, too. "She said She said" is famously about John tripping at a party in LA and being hassled by Peter Fonda saying "I know what it is to be dead".
i second that emotion (love the lennon quote). there's a clip somewhere of dave grohl playing the simple floor tom beat of "come together" and saying "who would've thought that just *this* would be what the song needed to make it dance" (or words to that effect).
The album help! was released the 6th of august 1965, Rubber Soul was released 3rd december 1965. Revolver was released 5th August 1966. 3 albums with such quality with in a year. It's kinda nuts they did all they did as the beatles, before they were 30 years old.
Thanks for this info. I thought I knew these three albums very well, knowing every song in them having listened to them for years. Just didn't notice they were released within one year's time. Wow, three great great albums in just one year from arguably the greatest band in the world.
Be aware that around this time, they’ve slowed down the pace of their releases and also startEd releasing singles before the albums. Revolver, for example, came out a couple of months after “Paperback Writer/Rain” which fed into the anticipation for the new album. They continued to use non-album singles to “tease” the unreleased next album for a good part of the rest of their career. I look forward to you reaction to “Rain”! And remember when you listen to it, that people had a couple of months to digest it before they got hit with “Revolver”. Keep up the great work!
Actually, I heard they did that because they didn't want to have their fans to pay twice for the same songs. Albums at that time were usually a couple of hit singles with some filler material to fully exploit the music commercially.
"Rain" really was a line in the sand - the "Mop Tops" who were finally (very artistically) waked and buried on the cover of Sgt. Pepper were giving way to an astonishingly mature artistic ensemble.
Please do lots of analysis of harmonies, etc later, Caroline. I've listened to these songs since they were new and hearing you talk about them in detail helps me know more about why I love them :)
A little bit amazing that Tomorrow Never Knows sounds new to someone in 2021. I think it says a lot about how innovative it really was in 1966 and still is.
"...For me, "Tomorrow Never Knows" is the jewel in the crown on this album...". Yes it's a groundbreaking song alright. But in my view Paul's wonderful contributions outshone John's solitary major track on "Revolver". They both bounced off each other with ideas during this time, and this friendly "competition" proved spectacularly creative and beautiful for the listener.
I am a geezer, and it is great fun to go through this album along with you. It sounds new again. The Beatles were wonderful, and in those days, they were a cultural phenomenon in a way that the modern world probably can no longer produce. I am glad they were the sound track for much of my life.
It amazes me to think this is only 3 years after their debut album. This is their 7th album it’s just crazy how they are evolving artistically and musically and they were so young. George was 23, Paul 24, Ringo and John 25. 🤯
@@nicolasjorgesorabilla6413 The Release date is irrelevant. It is the recording dates that matter and they recorded it between April 6 and June 22 of 1966. Paul's birthday is June 18, so he was 23 for all but 4 days of the recording of Revolver. I did do the math.
You have to imagine listening to this for the first time in 1966 - Paul singing about a spinster with classical instruments, George exploring his love of Indian sounds, Ringo singing about life on a Submarine, the horns on Got to Get You Into My Life, and John finishing it all off with a song about the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Amazing diversity! Only the Beatles could pull this off on a "pop record" and you can clearly see the experimentalism that leads to their next album, Sgt Peppers. My favorite John song on this album is She Said She Said and my favorite Paul song is For No One. Fantastic album!
I get the impression Caroline doesn't really know what to make of Revolver 😂. It's breadth is astonishing - every song is different yet the album is totally coherent and an absolute masterpiece. There's too much happening on it to truly appreciate it on a first listen. It's true genius, like The White Album, reveals itself over repeated listens.
Johnny is an obvious idiot - if she just sat there in silence there wouldn't be a video. Our Johnny is making an absolute fool of himself with his absurd sense of superiority.
Worst recording the Beatles ever made, with the possible exception of "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)." Maudlin, cloyingly sentimental, the best example of what John called "Paul's granny-music shit."
Fun fact: Got To Get You Into My Life was McCartney's love song to marijuana. He is quoted as saying that the lyrics were, "an ode to pot, like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret." The man was never shy about his love of pot, for sure.
It's pot. That was a direct Paul quote. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is the one that was (or wasn't, if you ask a Beatle) about an LSD acid trip. Marijuana is the one drug that kept Paul in trouble throughout his career...I assume he doesn't smoke it anymore, or maybe he just stopped getting caught. 😂 ✌☮
I really enjoy this wonderful series, Caroline! The only thing you aren't doing -- and can't possibly do -- is hear them in the context of the Sixties. You must realize that the Beatles were innovators and many of the musical aspects you're picking up in your analysis -- which may be familiar today -- were being done for the first time in pop records. It's hard to overstate the impact and influence the Beatles had on popular music.
Not to mention the impact The Beatles had on art, fashion, politics, film...nearly any human cultural endeavor one can name. They may not have set out to do that, but do it they did.
I literally grew up with the Beatles music. I was 12 and living in New York when I first heard a Beatles Song, and every week or month thereafter, a new release was anticipated with excitement and awe since there was no way of knowing what was coming. That is something only those of us who experienced their evolution can feel. But the fact that their music can still provoke surprise, exhilaration, emotion and joy is a monument to their success.
It's almost impossibile to tell what's Revolver's best song, we can only choose our favourite. And mine is Eleanor Rigby, actually my favourite Beatles' song since I first listened to it on the Red album. Its empathy never ceases to move me. I could write a paper on how it makes me feel.
With only a few possible exceptions, Revolver is just one masterpiece after another. And the amazing thing is, that this is still not the most culturally important album The Beatles recorded. That one comes next.
Apparently, it's the only song Lennon ever directly and clearly complimented him on. Apparently, just as they finished recording it, Lennon said to McCartney, "That's a really good song, lad. I love that."
@@curtb9567 You know, I think I remember that. And at the time, he told Paul to leave the line "the movement you need is on your shoulder," adding that he knew exactly what Paul meant. But I'm not sure he complimented Paul to his face on that, though he said--I think--it was one of his favorite McCartney songs, definitely.
"Rubber Soul" has three songs that have nothing to do with love or relationships; "Revolver" has eight. The two albums are rightly considered the "middle period" of the band, but the progression between the two albums is plain to hear. They were advancing so rapidly, it was astonishing to experience it in real time.
@@jk4675 "In My Life" ends with 'In my life I love you more'. "Think for Yourself" might be about a relationship, ending with 'Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you'. "The Word" is not necessarily about romantic love but a greater love.
@@gavinmitchell1328 "In My Life" ends with 'In my life I love you more'. "Think for Yourself" might be about a relationship, ending with 'Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you'. I've always thought "The Word" was about more than romantic love but a greater love, foreshadowing "All You Need Is Love".
The variety! Just consider the astounding variety of songs, styles, and themes on this LP. No one had EVER done anything like this on a successful pop album. It broke so much ground, and even today, more than four decades later, I don't think anyone else has matched the incredible breadth of music on this one record.
I've been a Beatles can since 1964. I must say that listening to them with Caroline makes them brand new. She has extensive musical knowledge and a very good ear. Of course it doesn't hurt that's she is gorgeous.
I BELIEVE that I've heard that the "seagull" sounds in Tomorrow Never Knows is actually the sound of Paul McCartney laughing, sped up, and played backward. I've heard this and read it from different sources, so it's likely true.
You could not imagine how mind-blowing this whole album (and especially Tomorrow Never Knows) was to a 8-year old boy in 1966. Suddenly a whole new world of musical possibilities blows open and nothing is ever the same.
I turned 8 one month after it came out, I got the album as a birthday present. In those days getting an album was a couple times a year gift. I remembered seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in February 64 when I was 5 and a **Little Kid** . Now I was 8 and much much more grown up.
I remember hearing Tomorrow Never Knows in a movie not knowing it was by the Beatles (I’m 22, so pretty young) and then I heard it on the radio, surprised that when the presenter said that this song is by the Beatles. I told my sister in excitement and she was absolutely baffled that it’s a Beatles song. Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper are an absolute faves of mine.
Raise your hand if you thought Caroline’s favorite song from Revolver would be “Here, There, and Everywhere.” It’s certainly my favorite McCartney ballad of all time.
Fun facts: McCartney is not featured on She Said She Said. He walked out of the studio during recording after an argument. Rumor is Lennon was making fun of him for not taking acid at a party they’d gone to. The bird sounds on Tomorrow Never Knows are sped up clips of McCartney laughing. Years after writing Eleanor Rigby, Paul learned there was a tombstone in his neighborhood to a woman named Eleanor Rigby, who died in 1939. Yellow Submarine was long believed to be a children’s song written by McCartney. However on there recent deluxe edition, it was revealed it was originally a much darker song by Lennon. The lyrics being “In the town where I was born, no one cared, no one cared.” Assumedly he brought it to McCartney who lightened it up.
Tomorrow Never Knows was way ahead of it's time. It's like something you would of heard at a rave in the 90's. Such a great album. Nice review Caroline!
It's very chemical brothers, actually, I think noel gallagher sort of ripped 'tomorrow never knows' off with a song he did with them, can't really remember, but oasis did have a career because of the beatles.
I do not believe it was ahead of its time. It was a product of the time, cutting edge of what was going on, and was about to happen in not only music, but the youth movement in western civilization.
@@imkluu The Beatles often were the vanguard of those times imkluu. They were very influential in not just music, but other areas as well. The sixties were shaped by the Beatles.
"Here, There and Everywhere" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. That's why Paul is my favourite musician - because of all his magical ballads like this. I want "Here, There and Everywhere" at my wedding... if it happens one day😂 Thanks for the video Caroline!
Ironically, Paul just named that song as his favorite too in an interview I heard this week with Terry Gross ( NPR/ Fresh Air ). He said other ones might also be faves, but if pressed that’s one he’d mention. Loved her interview !
@@tcanfield he said that that stands out as his favourite because John liked it too, which is very nice and shows how even now, Paul respects johns opinion on his work
@@Midnightmidway mccartney and Ram are also incredible albums, and he had some iconic singles, especially his collaborations with Michael Jackson. It’s not fair to suggest band on the run is the only good thing he did after the Beatles
@@Midnightmidway You’ve got that right ! I was surprised to learn Paul had the top grossing concert tours of the 70’s, since he wasn’t even on my radar. As for John, I was loving every album and urgently bought them as soon as they came out. As for these days, I still like Paul though. Heard a few good interviews recently with him talking to Conan, Sean Lennon and Terry Gross. He said he still feels like he’s 25, and I have to admit I admire his youthful attitude and energy !
I'm in my 70's and fell in love with The Beatles the first time I heard them. Even today I have photos and posters of them on the walls of my study - their music is always playing. I can't say that one Beatle was better than the other, they all brought different styles and stories and certainly different energy to the group. I love every song they produced but I must admit that Here, There and Everywhere is simply brilliant and is a favourite. Even after the breakup they individually produced some fantastic music - not as progressive as their collective Beatles efforts but still good music. I'm so glad young people like Caroline can appreciate the complexity of their music and for that we must thank George Martin He was brilliant, simply brilliant.
My third video watching from you, and with "Here, There and Everywhere," it finally clicked why I already love your videos: You make a real effort to explain the technical side of music (which, by the way, you're extremely good at), but your facial expressions as an indicator that you've just heard something that you find fascinating or beautiful are wonderful to watch. Ultimately, it's the emotions that music triggers that make it so incredibly powerful, and you reflect them perfectly.
My fave on this album is "Here, There And Everywhere." They have a song from this year that is only on a single that is their best song of the year IMO, it's called "Rain."
Rain was one of those songs when I thought I had heard it all from The Beatles and then chanced on that one day while flicking through records in an old 2nd hand shop. Way before the Internet of course, but still. A good day for me.
Rain is a masterpiece. Ringo says it was his best druming out of their entire catalogue, which is saying something because his drumming on Abbey Road is wonderful.
I’ve always considered Rubber Soul/Revolver the portal that transported and transformed the Early Beatles into the Sophisticated Beatles. You can hear the evolution.
McCartney's work on Revolver was absolute outstanding. Eleanor Rigby, all about loneliness. For No One, an incredibly perceptive description of a relationship gone stale. His incredible, Indian flavoured guitar work on Taxman, all designed to give Harrison space to keep learning sitar. Additionally, there was Harrison's continuation of his Indian themes in Love You To and his praise of the acid experience in I want to Tell You. Then there was Lennon's description of his current state of mind in I'm only Sleeping and Tomorrow Never Knows as well as recounting his earlier encounter with Peter Fonda in She Said She Said. An incredibly strong album, arguably their best, with almost no flaws.
Love Revolver. Also love Sgt. Peppers, The White Album, and Let it be has some great songs on it too, particularly in its Naked iteration. All are varied, musicaly intriguing, and yet catchy addictive and almost endlessly listenable to. How on earth did we get this magical concurrence of symbiotic talents.
Yep, Revolver is pretty awesome! Arguably the best work where they’re all on the same page. I just have a very soft spot in my heart for Sgt. Pepper’s, I love every song on that album with my entire being
@Thet I must admit this wasn't an original observation but something I read some years ago in a book that analysed Revolver. The story was that George was busy learning the sitar while at the same time the Beatles were evolving into a much harder sounding band, especially on guitar. Because there were some relatively complex solos on Revolver and because the Beatles really were good mates at the time, Paul offered to take on the more of the guitar work on the album (but not all of it) to give George more space with his sitar learning process. One of Paul's contributions was that searing solo on Taxman, something incidentally that was reused in some sort of slowed down reverse loop on I'm Only Sleeping. Just two elements in the many things that went to make Revolver such a great album. Cheers.
Please give us your rendition of "For No One." I would love to see what you can do with one of my favorite songs. Thanks for these reactions. They are quite excellent.
Thank you for the entertaining reaction! "I wasn't expecting that!" Was running through my mind the entire time I first heard this album in 1966. I was shocked that The Beatles had abandoned pop music for this ... art songs! It's one of my favorite albums of theirs for that reason. They turned away from more fame and fortune (and took us all with them).
I have a question, were there people back in those days who said things like “I miss the old Beatles I don’t like this new music?” I can imagine some of the Beatlemania fans weren’t really ready for the whole psychedelic thing
@@siloshroom2132 Yes there were Silo. I have many issues of "The Beatles Book" fan club magazine, and some fans wrote in to complain that they had strayed from their usual stuff. I guess they were soon put right !
The last sound your hear on "And Your Bird Can Sing" is Paul's bass. Kinda surprised you didn't mention his bass playing, in general, because it's quite spectacular.
@OhDannyBoyThePipes Paul is one of the greatest songwriters/composers of all time, and he didn't have a lot of formal music theory either(some, but not a lot).
Thank you Caroline for your joyful and quirky critique. Imagine how this album sounded to people in 1966. It changed everything. Quite apart from the unusual effects (it was before synths or digital effects were invented), the sheer quality and variety of the songs was like nothing anyone had ever heard. This album influenced everyone who came after and is still influencing them today. I could bore you with an explanation of each song, but there are plenty of books published that do this - probably the best is Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald.
There are so many "Reactions" videos out there these days - many of them little more than watching people while they listen to chopped-up snippets of albums and offering up inane gasps and "wows". Yours is SO different. First of all, you actually react - with every fibre of your self (check out those eyes at 4:44, for example!). You move and you "wow", but you have the knowledge to back up why certain moments cause those responses. And you seem to have such a feel for the music, that you can pick up in that one listen, and then - crucially - convey those feelings to us less eloquent viewers in such a clear and enthusiastic manner. Every one of your videos I have so far seen is delightfully captivating. Now someone needs to do a "First time watching Call Me Caroline reacting to Revolver" video!
What is fun about Caroline's reactions to the songs is that she probably only had a passing familiarity with the Beatles music originally, but can breakdown what is interesting, unique or innovative musically. She, with her obvious musical training, enthusiasm & expertise can comment on musical notes & chords, the instruments used, the lyrics, transitions, moods to tell us what she thinks is special about the music and that reminds us why we fell in love with the Beatles music to begin with.
This album has everything. The Beatles are at their peak - head in the clouds but feet still firmly on the ground - and unlike later albums playing together like a group with one vision not four individual visions
I feel sorry for Caroline needing to chop up her first-time listening experience. I just hope she listens to the whole albums (all of these) for days on end to really enjoy the craftsmanship.
She has said she listens multiple times, and I’m sure this includes while filming the recording. She chops them up in post. You can see the edits. Unfortunately, this is the way it has to be- TH-cam basically lets the copyright claimant act as the arbitrator instead of using an independent party, if the claim is disputed. If you do dispute a claim for fair use, for example, which this clearly would be, you don’t stand a chance. What’s worse is you get a “strike” against you, and three strikes and your channel is blocked. Most don’t even bother to dispute because of this. This has actually been brought before Congress a number of times for some oversight. A number of prominent artists and producers in the business have testified against the practice, but Congress is so far behind the curve on tech, nothing ever happens.
Concerning the album art: something interesting that we of our era might not realize is that the cover for Rubber Soul wasn't just another picture of the group. At the time, it was QUITE revolutionary because it was distorted and "rubbery". That sort of subtle trick is an everyday thing nowadays, but back then it was a graphic design innovation, and tied in with the emerging drug culture.
Agreed. The artwork for Revolver was created by Klaus Voorman a Beatles friend from their Hamburg era, himself a very good bass player as well as a graphic designer, later playing on both All Things Must Pass & Imagine albums and with many other artists. Tomorrow Never Knows was the inspiration for the psychedelic art.
The original photo for the cover of Rubber Soul. Photographer Bob Freeman had taken some pictures of the group at Lennon's house. Freeman showed the photos by projecting them on a piece of cardboard to simulate how they would appear on an album cover. The unusual Rubber Soul album cover came to be when the slide card fell slightly backwards, elongating the projected image of the photograph and stretching it. Excited by the effect, they said: "Ah! Can we have that? Can you do it like that?"
Douglas Adams said part of being a Beatles fan was listening to every new album the first time and going "what? I don't know what to make of this." and then listening again and falling in love with it. Revolver for me was the only Beatles album that I had that experience with, fifty years later. It just seemed to be doing its own thing and daring you to keep up. And that's part of what makes it the best one of their albums. Honestly, what other album would have Yellow Submarine / Elenore Rigby as the hit single?
@@OperationPhantom Absolutely, a great series! He talks about his love of the Beatles in the posthumous collection of articles and stories The Salmon of Doubt. He describes his childhood as "what was happening in the background while he was trying to listen to the Beatles." ^^
@@olivergiggins7931 Born in '52, and almost 12 when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan... must've been an amazing experience! I'd like to read that memoir, I'll look it up!
@@OperationPhantom The Ed Sullivan Show would have been irrelevant to Adams as he was English. But being that age, and of open mind, how could he not be a Beatles fan.
I was a 10 year old Beatle fan when this album came out and my friends and I loved it. Rubber Soul was a step up from their previous pop and rock and roll songs and this album was when they really blasted off with new ideas and sounds. It’s hard to believe this album was released three years after their first album (called Twist and Shout in Canada and Please Please Me elsewhere). Has any band or musician progressed so much and changed so often over 7 short years of recording?
I agree, 66 years old now, the thing I noticed the MOST, we were in holiday in New York State going up north, and we pulled over on the side of the street, my mom always prepared sandwiches on trips, and on the radio came ,the Beatles 2 latest releases as singles Here they are Strawberry Fields nd Penny...I said to myself, wow This is a turning point, no more touring, no more coming over the pond to see Ed Sullivan or us, and not even an lp to define the change, just Strawberry Fields FOR EVER, wow I said, that is change, I was 11, my brother 16!
Exactly, me and my neighbors shared our allowance to buy the record. Then spent every night in our basements listening to every song, over and over again. We had a rule, no stopping a song until it was over.
I loved your analysis of this one. You are right in that Rubber Soul was the epitome of the early Beatles, more sophisticated writing and production but still connected in their early work. Revolver is a break from that and a preview of things to come. You bring a new joy to hearing these songs through your ears! I can barely wait for another three weeks!
No, you're right about _Only Sleeping._ The whole song is designed to create a lazy, sleepy feeling. Not only is the guitar backwards for that reason, but the background tracks have been sightly slowed down to help put you in that mood. It was a technique John was experimenting with at the time. So, good catch
Slowing down the song or part of the instrumentation was something they were experimenting with a lot at this time. The same technique is used in Rain and Strawberry Fields Forever to give the songs a dreamy, surreal quality.
It's a pleasure to sit with you while you experience this album for the first time. From the snarling rock of "Taxman", through the wide-eyed innocence of "Here There & Evetywhere", the Salvation Army singalong of "Yellow Submarine" and the chamber music of "Eleanor Rigby" and "For No One", right through to the psychedelic freakout of "Tomorrow Never Knows" - there's just so much scope in 35 minutes. No track on this album is more than 3 minutes long. It's astonishing, really.
you’re absolutely right about the horror sound in eleanor rigby; the staccato strings were influenced by the theme for psycho! paul mentions this in the lyrics, which was only just released!!
@@CallMeCaroline yes the orchestration in "Psycho" was by Bernard Hermann. Producer Sir George Martin admitted to wanting to use that spiky, urgent, foreboding sound when he orchestrated the strings for "Eleanor Rigby". The bizarre thing was that in 1966, this song was paired with "Yellow Submarine" for a double-A side single. 2 more contrasting songs you couldn't get. 😊
George Martin loved the work of Hitchcock's composer, Bernard Herrmann - whilst Pyscho is one, obvious, reference point another was a more recent (equally jagged) Herrmann score for Francois Truffaut's movie version of Fahrenheit 451 which had been released a few months before Eleanor Rigby. George talked about wanting to emulate that score's "wintery" feel which he achieved, magnificently. I think Eleanor Rigby is a work of genius. It's like a complete play, a story with a beginning a middle and an end, all told in two minutes and two seconds and with music which enhances the melancholy.
I've never really thought about this before, but...did Father McKenzie kill Eleanor Rigby in the last verse? Died in the church? And then the Psycho strings. If he did, why did it take me 35 years to realize? Also, not that long ago, I came to the conclusion that 'Darning his socks in the night..' - Ringo's main input to the lyrics - alluded to masturbation.
Your analysis of the string arrangement on 'Eleanor Rigby' is spot on. Their producer George Martin scored the strings and later admitted that he used the staccato string score from Alfred Hitchcock's horror film 'Psycho' as his inspiration.
Yes, also the unusual (and somewhat claustrophobic) sonority of 2 players playing each line of the string quartet arrangement was based on the sound of that score (much more common is either solo players or a larger string section).
It such a joy watching you hear these songs for the first time Caroline, and your very wise and interesting analyses! A few things you may want to note. As we move deeper into the 60s (already beginning on this album), the lyrics are going to become far more surreal and waaaay less literal. It was the times. Also, you mentioned synth - of course, no one really used synths until a few years after this (the last album they recorded, Abbey Road, has a Moog). After you're done with these videos, you should definitely look into how they created songs like Tomorrow Never Knows, with only 4 track tape machines. It's beyond fascinating. The tape loops were run on multiple tape machines, each fed into a mixer channel. Each machine was running a repeating loop of tape held in place by pencils, fingers, etc. And each loop ran a different repeating sound- some off-speed, some backwards. The mixdown itself was literally a live performance, with multiple people bringing faders (repeating sounds) up and down, in and out. Pure serendipity - no two mixes were the same. Everything was done the hard way in those days! Thanks so much for these Caroline. They are delightful. For a lot of us old folks, this is like hearing old friends with fresh ears again. Checking out your music- you have serious ears! Best-
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is literally like receiving a broadcast from an alien civilization from deep space. It makes you wonder what else you are going to hear from these wondrous beings.
"What is it about a piano in the low register that sounds funny?" Man, I love your comments like this. Really getting into strange sound associations and how the tiniest things can have a certain mood or atmosphere to them. Great stuff.
Great reaction; you didn't disappoint. I saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York in 1966; the last year they toured. Despite what everyone tells you, I could hear every note and every word perfectly. As a result of The Beatles I entered the music business myself 10 years from February 9, 1964 - the year they came to America. I've seen a LOT of concerts and not one come close to the 27 minutes The Beatles were on stage. George Harrison said he felt like Rubber Soul and Revolver were more like Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and he enjoyed making them very much. You can hear that in the tracks. I believe Sgt. Pepper is coming up and you'll reach another level with them. Their music never gets old and an old song you've never heard before is a new song to you. By the way, do we really have to wait 3 more weeks for the next one?
"Got to get you into my life" was covered so many times that I didn't know they wrote it. When I heard the Beatles version I thought "I didn't know they covered songs in their later work". There are over 100 cover versions listed online.
Yes, you are correct! Paul has recently said that the staccato strings in Eleanor Rigby were inspired by the Hitchcock film, "Psycho" - a horror movie. As the victim is being stabbed, the strings are "stabbing" too.
I was 14 when Rubber Soul came out, the next year Revolver. I remember hearing them at the same time. Prior to this I thought of the Beatles as another British pop group, not impressed, had no clue as to the screaming and whatever I didn't get it. When I heard these albums I was hooked - they pulled me into Beatleworld and, while I never was infected by Beatlemania, but I understood everything they'd done before and they became, and continue to be, my favorite group. Best song writing duo since Schiller/Beethoven. I had to replace the LP because I wore the grooves down. It was a delight watching you listen, thanks. The sound kept dropping in and out, distressingly, but ... thanks.
Had an uncle who would have been 16 when this came out who echoed your feeling about early then later Beatles. As someone born just after they split up and came to be a fan ten years or so later, I can't see where any of their contemporaries could match early Beatles. John and Paul could each fart better hooks than just about every other band out there. But I've come to appreciate that I never had the experience where The Beatles were a band for girls. I can imagine that tainting my opinion of them.
This album for me, is maybe my favorite from The Beatles! So much experimentation and different things going on in the songs! It sounds so contemporary even though it was recorded in 1966. The Beatles were really ahead of their time! And they were awesome musicians!
@@rb9628 Correct R B. However if anyone could reproduce "Tomorrow Never Knows" on stage live, it would probably be "The Fab Four" Beatles tribute / cover band. They are incredible. Check them out here on TH-cam.
Look.up "The Analogues" on you tube. They don't look like the Beatles but they play the exact same instruments that the Beatles played. They play everything that the Beatles didn't play live, live..
This is the album that makes it impossible to be judged good or bad. It's too important. This is the one that kicked open the doors for artists to go beyond what their record companies said, that tried to tie them down to formulaic music. "If the Beatles can do REVOLVER, I can try my own, too!" Of course... few artists ever succeeded like the Beatles did. For me, HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE is one of the great chord-progression songs plus beautiful lyrics that serenades under windows were made for.
John's use of the Tibetan Book Of The Dead will foreshadow his use of an old carnival poster as lyrics in FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR KITE. John was soooo keen as a wordsmith, but these two songs showed he also recognized other wordsmiths - he could take literally a poster and create a wonderful song out of it.
LOVE YOU TO... as in "I love you to... the end of time", "love you to ... some point or some other world or life." It's interesting that Paul had done two songs without the Beatles and here was George's entry. His WITHIN WITHOUT YOU and THE INNER LIGHT lay ahead, too.
So many of these are fantastic live, too. TAXMAN, GOOD DAY SUNSHINE, I'M ONLY SLEEPING, AND YOUR BIRD, HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE, SHE SAID, DR ROBERT, I WANT TO TELL YOU... the effect in clubs has been electric to watch.
Shortly after the album came out I was requested to play Here, There, and Everywhere for a wedding ceremony at a Catholic service. At that time it was highly unusual for any secular music to be played in church. The officiating priest read the lyrics and agreed to the couples request to have it played during their ceremony.
@@Cavie1974 this is extremely interesting, I was born in 97 and grew up with parents that loved the beatles, I always got the feeling that my parents parents never really understood the beatles and found it quite, I'm not sure, a bad influence on children at the time?
Don't be afraid to say if you don't like a Beatles song Caroline. If others `have a go` because you don't honestly like a song which is a favourite of theirs; it says more about them. Never be afraid to air your opinions. Regarding performances of songs from `Revolver` the Band never played any as they would not have been able to do justice to them `live` back then. The Beatles played their final concert to a paying audience on 29th August 1966 at San Francisco's `Candlestick Park` . And finally, did you know that there was once a Radio `Caroline` pop station which broadcast to the U.K from 1964 to 1968? It had a record in its `honour` "Caroline" by the `Fortunes`.
Radio Caroline still exists, it didn't end in 1968, and broadcasts on the net and AM waveband. It's named after JFK's daughter. First album station in the UK.
They wrote so many songs, there is enough to find to like and dislike. Personally I'm not a fan of their early period. To me they only achieved immortality after they stopped touring and wrote their music only for record instead with live performability in mind.
Never liked Taxman or Dr. Roberts. Lots of early stuff was just filler, especially their covers, with some exceptions. Most of Magical Mystery Tour irritates me.
So many great songs on this album. My favourite is 'And your bird can sing' - just want that song to go on and on. Didn't get to listen to the full album till 1972 when I started work - couldn't afford LP's up until that stage. lol
Ive listened to revolver several times over the past few weeks and it's like it's brand new each time. It's great watching you experience it for the first time. It's getting better all the time. For No One has to be my favourite on this album.
Arguably the Beatles best and most creative work. Tomorrow Never Knows sets the stage for the bands’ epic masterpiece. No one saw what was coming next. The Beatles lost many fans because they lost much of their “poppyness.” They wanted the boys to forever be the cute cut ups from A Hard Days Night. The thing I just loved about the Beatles is that they created music for an album but then they never looked back. They kept progressing. Consider the fact that this massive growth occurred in the span of three short years! George, the youngest in the group, was 23 years old! The last song on Revolver was a harbinger of what was to come: The cord heard ‘round the world. As always, I love your reactions and analysis of this great album, super cute❤️
My entry into the Beatles as a teen in the '70s was their Red and Blue collections, and from there I borrowed a friend's White Album and bought Sgt Pepper's and Abbey Road which at that point I thought I had grasped the group's extent and moved on for a bit to Steve Miller, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John et al. During a random trip to the record store, the Revolver cover artwork caught my eye and I gave them another try... WOW. It was like that much later ad for Anthology 2 ("Listen to the Beatles again... for the first time!"). This album was an epiphany, absolutely thrilling from start to finish, and made me a fan for life. As Rick Ruben put it, talking about Tomorrow Never Knows, it makes you rethink what recorded music is, it's that profound.
George Harrison is certainly getting more involved on Revolver. His use of the sitar in pop music was groundbreaking and he was certainly growing as a songwriter. This is the first and only Beatles album to be led off by a Harrison song (Taxman) and the first and only to include 3 songs written by George - Taxman, Love You Too and I Want to Tell You (not counting The Beatles double album which has 2 Harrisongs on each LP). The Beatles are growing, experimenting, breaking ground and Getting Better all the time...
Caroline, I want to thank you for providing the interpretive key I’ve wanted for years to “And Your Bird Can Sing.” I’ve always been baffled about how to understand them, and it was like someone finally opened the window.
The story John Lennon told over the years was "She Said, She Said" was inspired by a party in Los Angeles where Lennon was confronted by actor Peter Fonda (star of "Easy Rider," son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda) who had just dropped acid and in his LSD-fueled state, kept telling Lennon, "I know what's it like to be dead." Though he didn't want to hear it, this inspired the song, except Lennon changed the interlocutor to a female -- perhaps because he didn't want such an intimate bit of sharing from another man.
I find it impossible to pick a favorite song out of this album. It’s simply a masterpiece. Most artists would die to have any of these songs as their only hit.
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55 years on, Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like the future.
I always think ' twin peaks'
It was 30 years ahead of it's time.
Certainly a future stage in our lives - unless we're enlightened already (few are).
You should really check out the shoegaze genre which was inspired by that song.
GREAT!!!!! Comment!!!
Here, There and Everywhere was one of the most beautiful songs Paul ever wrote.
Key change for the bridge.
It's not actually a key change! it's minor to major, one of McCartney's signatures. HT&E was John's favorite song by Paul.
@@loosilu Actually, even though the G Major of the verses is now a G minor in the bridge, the bridge itself is in the key of Bb Major. Then, at the end, a C minor and D7 bring it back to G Major for the next verse. Senor Know It All (or at least this much :-> )
Paul ( amazingly ) has at least three classic songs of his on "Revolver" - "Eleanor Rigby", "Here There And Everywhere" and "For No One".
And his jazzy sounding "Got To Get You Into My Life" is so good too.
@@gribwitch Close to his best three songs IMO.
@@loosilu it is a key change. G and Bflat is clearly a different key. notice john also does a bit of key change in im only sleeping by modulating E from F#. I think that was quite clever as well. key change that beatles used always came back to the root key in a certain clever modulation. Not like crappy key changes nowadays which are used only for raising tension. in here there everywhere, paul uses D7 to come back to G major, and in im only sleeping, john uses E flat to go back to F#
When I first heard Lennon's "She Said She Said" as a young teen in the 90s something suddenly opened on my musical horizon. IMO this album contains some of John Lennon's finest musical moments of his career
Definitely agree that this is a milestone for Lennon, which is funny because people tend to see Revolver as a McCartney driven album. I get that Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Sub, Here There Everywhere are great and innovative tracks but to me the Lennon and Harrison tracks ultimately have more lasting appeal in the long run.
@@Gabe7Gal yes, even at this stage you can hear McCartney slipping into crooner role while Lennon and Harrison are experimenting hard and going moody
For my paul
@@h00liganismo1 Paul was experimenting just as much. There’s Eleanor Rigby but also Paul spearheading the use of tape loops on Tomorrow Never Knows. He contributed many of the loops and was even the one who figured it out first and showed the others how to do it. He also suggested the skip drum beat for the song as well. So Paul was responsible for 2 of the most innovative aspects of TNK even though it wasn’t “his” song
If Tomorrow Never Knows sounds new to your ears imagine the people in 1966 listening to it just a couple of years after She Loves You. It scared me when I first heard it (I was eight when it was first released). Now in my sixties and after hearing it hundreds of times it is one of my favorite Beatle tracks. They never played it live because once it was recorded you couldn't duplicate the loops on the faders. It still sounds like it could have been released last week.
Exactly. I LOVE "Tomorrow Never Knows". I read the Egyptian Book of The Dead , which inspired it. One of the strangest books I ever read. I went to an occult book shop in Evanston for it.
Wait til she gets to Pepper. Hopefully shell do the mono
There is a VERY long Wikipedia page about Tomorrow Never Knows. One of the most influential songs in the entire history of rock and roll. The tape loops are literally the origin of sampling in modern music, just to give you an idea. The tape loops were Paul's doing. For all of the boomer men who insist John was the innovator, well, no.
They never played it live because they no longer gave performances by the time this was released in '66-- and it would be to difficult to replicate the tapes played backwards.
This was perfectly conveyed on MAD MEN, Don Draper listening to this. (The producers paid a fortune to use it!) This signalled the arrival of a new sort of consciousness in the 60's. People were looking inward.
0:01 Intro
0:28 Taxman
3:45 Eleanor Rigby
7:48 I'm Only Sleeping
11:02 Love You To (not Too lol 😆)
14:26 Here, There and Everywhere
19:05 Yellow Submarine
22:21 She Said She Said
26:10 Good Day Sunshine
29:00 And Your Bird Can Sing
32:06 For No One
35:03 Dr. Robert
38:08 I Want To Tell You
40:33 Got To Get You Into My Life
43:58 Tomorrow Never Knows
46:30 Final thoughts
Thanks. The captions don't always work.
Love You To is a typo that never got changed. It's supposed to be Love You Too
@@jk4675 I don’t think it was ever supposed to be “too”, no. They wouldn’t slip a typo like that. One can only guess what the phrase means. My guess is that since the song ends with the line “I’ll make love to you, if you want me to”, the title is implying the reply “(I’d) love you to”.
@@Nerkin610 an intentional pun or play on words, perhaps?
@@clydekimsey7503 A pun for sure! Very much in line with the band to do that :-)
Revolver is often considered the most revolutionary album ever. It really changed the musical world. There was nothing like this before...
But wouldn't you say sgt peppers was their most influential?
@@mr.dirtydan3338 Sgt Pepper was certainly their most influential album but Revolver was more innovative really. Pepper ultimately doesn't do a whole lot of new things that Revolver didn't already do, like the whole strings and brass production stuff. Meanwhile Revolver is the first time we hear a lot of things like the tape loops, backwards guitars, classical indian genre, the trance genre, children's songs, a lot of cutting edge lyrics, etc.
It's like listening to the Beatles with a good friend who never heard them before and the enthusiasm is getting you excited and you're kind of hearing it for the first time again because you are witnessing the enjoyment and discovery of the other person. It takes you back to the times when you first heard it. I don't know what I'm saying anymore, but that was fun on a Friday night with a bottle of wine :) Thanks!
I had the same feeling. I was going through TH-cam and found Call Me Caroline, and she was so enthusiastic about learning about The Beatles, it made me realize once again how much I LOVE The Beatles, from Please Please Me to "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love".
Same, same! Watching her reaction vids & her enthusiasm has renewed my Beatlemania (not that it was ever gone, just subdued).
Also, when she says “I THINK I MAY have heard this song before” I have to laugh. 😆
I feel the same :)
Exactly so.
And I just found her two years later... Awesome to find her. I haven't listened to too many of these songs in a long time.. memories flood back
Finally watching a premier of Carolines Beatles experience and couldn't be a better album that changed musical history...
My favorite album by the Beatles.
I'm Only Sleeping is my all-time favorite song. George's backwards guitar solo is genius.
perfect balance between the three songwriters, 5-5-3. sgt pepper is too paul-centric, imo
Love that song. My favorite of that album
@@mikeziegler4785 Agreed.
It’s eerie but pulls you in
Agreed
A real masterpiece of an album.
A great piece of Dali-sh Art work it is a mind opening musical experience and the first of its kind thats what puts it in the highest interlectual musical feet ever! Hurray! For Revolver 💎 by 4 🪲🪲🪲🪲insects and an apple 🍏 lol😅 🎉🎉🎉❤ love TheBeatles.
For decades now, I myself consider this (British) LP a "masterpiece" as well.
Thank you so much for your patience on this video. I hope it was enjoyable for you! Which songs are your personal favourites from this album? I think mine was an upbeat one…so unusual of me haha
EDIT:
I mention in the video about sampling, apologies I must be using the wrong term there. In my mind I was meaning a sample of a sound they had recorded. Apologies for that.
Glad you finally got it done, can't wait to watch it. in 14 minutes.
I like pretty much every song on this album, but my absolute favorites are Paul's Here, There, and Everywhere, and For No One. To me, these two work like opposites on both sides of Revolver. One is a beautiful love ballad, while the other is a tune about a break-up. I also really love John's I'm Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing (featuring two lead guitars played by George and Paul on their Epiphone Casinos), Dr. Robert, Tomorrow Never Knows, as well as George's three songs: Taxman (Probably my favorite Paul McCartney guitar solo), Love You To, and I Want to Tell You. Not to mention the single Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby, which features excellent lead vocals from Ringo for YS and three-way harmonies from John, Paul, and George for ER.
I've already smashed the Like button! I'm going to guess that your favorite (based on the clue) is "Got To Get You Into My Life". My favorite song - in fact, my all-time favorite Beatle song - is "She Said, She Said". LOVE YA, CAROLINE! Thank you, Sister of Melody!
And Your Bird Can Sing and She Said She Said are my fav from this album. I'm Only Sleeping,very close.
I would have bet it would be Here There and Everywhere, but now I'm thinking Got to Get You into My Life
"She Said, She Said" is based on Peter Fonda's acid-trip ramblings at a party John attended. Fonda kept saying, "I know what it's like to be dead." And "Doctor Robert" is about a London doctor who connected famous clients with drugs. "Got to Get You Into My Life" is Paul's ode to marijuana.
Interesting very interesting. And the only song that John reward Paul for making it is here there and everywhere
Steve Turner's book Beatles '66; the revolutionary year reassesses a lot of the mythology. He has GTGYIML as being a paean to LSD
@@rafailkarampetsos6914 John liked “For No One” very much as well.
It's actually quoting Jane Fonda at the same party with Peter...
I wish i didn't know that about Paul's song to Marijuana. It can mean other things (I'm decidind :)).
For No One is one of those McCartney songs that, even though I've heard it a million times, can still stop me in my track sometimes and again overwhelm me by the sheer perfection of it. The emotion, his voice, the horn and then the 'unfinished' musical ending that reinforces the sentiment expressed in the words. It's just a brilliant song.
Dude I totally agree. Incredible song... I bet most musicians that hear that song for the first time say to themselves "I wish I wrote that!"
Yup. It's perfect. In every particular. All that in under two minutes but ending with that open cadence to leave you feeling unsettled.
"For No One" is probably one of their most underrated songs. Just a beautiful song that I never get tired of hearing.
Incredibly depressing, deeply well written, strikingly simple. Makes this grown man cry every time I hear it... the French Horn is so powerful.
For no one is probably my favourite McCartney ballad. Ineffably sad lyric.
I've heard this album a thousand times and I'm weirdly envious that you get to hear it for the first time. Thanks, Caroline. 🙂👍
Thanks for watching!
Same here!
@@CallMeCaroline On upcoming albums you should listen to remixes of deluxe editions. These remixes are made by Giles Martin, son of George Martin who was the producer of the Beatles. They have much better sound quality than the 2009 remastered versions.
I know, me too! But through her ears it's like hearing it for the first time again (well, as close as I'll get).
Thanks, Caroline, indeed!
but like listening for the first time as a grown up instead of a kid listening on a transistor radio riding his bike around the neighborhood. it's lovely to hear it more complete and understood.
The Beatles pioneered so many things on this album (ADT, vocals through a Leslie speaker, tape loops, backwards instruments, psychedelia, etc.). The recording techniques were revolutionary also, thanks to young EMI engineer Geoff Emerick. The way he mic’d the strings on Eleanor Rigby and the drums on Tomorrow Never Knows are part of the reason the album still sounds amazing now.
The Leslie,which Badfinger used on "No matter what"Which elevated that song!
Geoff Emerick doesn’t nearly get an enough credit for his efforts and innovation
On Taxman: "Mr. Wilson" and "Mr. Heath" were the leaders of the two major British political parties at the time.
And eventual Prime Ministers, right?
@@phila3884 Mr Wilson was the Prime Minister at the time and Mr Heath was the leader of the opposition and became the Prime Minister in 1970
Where we're going, we don't need genres.
I can really see the McCartney fangirl starting to come out in you, even if you don't see it yet. We've covered 4 years so far, and got 4 more to go. Buckle up. :)
I believe I see that happening too - and if that's the case, then she has 51 MORE years of Macca music to discover.
Paul fangirls rock :D
Yes, Macca fan here, but more and more I see the continuous edge that kept the Beatles as a global phenomenon that John brought with his sound. Tomorrow never knows is an example of that. All four lads comprised an unforgetable and magical tour de force!
@@Bipbop66 paul is as responsible for tommorow never knows as John
@@flyingkillerrobots877 mind blowing, right?! 😄
Hearing Paul McCartney sing Got to Get You into My Life live this summer was a highlight of my life. Macca still puts on a great show at 80 years old.
Yes I'm not one for celebrities, but Macca is the one I would love to meet and chat with. I would have so many questions...
I caught Macca show @ Giants Stadium in June 1993. He & his band did more than give me my moneys' worth.
This album was a sonic departure for The Beatles with new young engineer Geoff Emerick at the controls. Emerick was a bit of a maverick who wasn't afraid to try new things and really push the equipment beyond the limits of how it was designed to be used. This often resulted in achieving new sounds never before heard on records, but also got him into plenty of trouble with the EMI Brass once they got wind of the kinds of things he was doing. Ultimately, the record sales spoke for themselves and Emerick was allowed to continue his unorthodox techniques and experimenting, but only for Beatles sessions, as long as he didn't damage anything. Emerick pioneered methods that are now commonplace in recording studios up to this very day.
So true. TNK would never be what it is without him. And the session they did that was very early and it was Emerick's first as chief engineer. He was 19!
Thanks for recognizing the other people that were instrumental in the collaboration that produced the amazing music of The Beatles.
I am inspired with Geoff's creativity & experimental way of working👍😊
From this album-on, you're going to be blown away. The Beatles have reached their stride with Revolver and they just keep reaching higher and higher.
Tomorrow Never Knows is incredible.
It has sounded ahead of its time for almost 60 years.
All rave music, all electronica, all of it starts with Tomorrow Never Knows
That song is trash wth is going on in this song bruh no way people find it sonically good
Lyrics of Elanor Rigby were indeed different. Alan Ginsberg, famous beat poet and friend of the Beatles, told McCartney "That Eleanor Rigby song is a helluva poem." Might also want to point out that this was such a stark departure form the "I love you, you love me' songs they had mostly done up to this point, as this song spoke of loneliness, isolation, mortality, etc.
I always loved Ringo's contribution with "Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there". And I also read somewhere that George was the one that came up with "Ah, look at all the lonely people" part.
When I went to Germany in highschool, we went to a Biergarten where a myriad of great German beer drinking songs were played. The place was electric. Suddenly the band fires up the unmistakable notes of Yellow Submarine. The whole crowd raucously sang it and it blew the roof off the place. The Beatles are incredible.
Yellow Submarine was deliberately written as a children's song - to be sung by children in playgrounds and school assemblies everywhere. Their lack of pretentiousness is astounding. This song should never be ridiculed, children for decades have been singing and enjoying it - for many their first listen to The Beatles. I went to John Lennons infant school and I can still remember our head teacher playing this on the piano one assembly and explaining to us that the man who wrote was a very kind man and sat in the very place we where sitting, next to her piano. I still get a bit of a lump in my throat thinking about it ♥️
"For No One" is such a mature song from Paul, who was just 24 when he wrote it. The subject matter is incredibly wise beyond his years at the time. Indeed, he has mentioned this song recently as one he's exceedingly proud of, insofar as it confirms he was (on his day) as good a lyricist as John was.
Do you know where he talks about it? I would like to see that
Up there with his best for sure.
It my opinion, it is the most poignant break up song ever written. What is worse than an ex who hates you is an ex for whom you mean absolutely nothing, as if you don't even exist.
@@ewest14 Not sure if he talks about "For No One" or not but he's just done a Lyrics doco where he talks about the influences behind the lyrics of many of his songs including Got to Get You Into My Life and Eleanor Rigby.
I pedantically point out the song was written in March 1966, recorded in May, making Paul only 23.
All in service to the song; could be their motto. John once said "Ringo was the best friend a song ever had." There's a really cool TH-cam by a young Scandinavian drummer girl about what a great drummer Ringo is, demonstrating how many songs you can recognize just by the drum pattern; consider how rare that is. And the way George's solos just drip off the chords, nothing super flashy, but incredibly apt and moving the vibe along...and of course "And Your Bird Can Sing", which is just badass guitar melody playing. And cosmic bass playing by Paul, too.
"She said She said" is famously about John tripping at a party in LA and being hassled by Peter Fonda saying "I know what it is to be dead".
That drummer girl is Sina Doering is actually German and her father played George Harrison in a Beatles cover band...link link.
i second that emotion (love the lennon quote). there's a clip somewhere of dave grohl playing the simple floor tom beat of "come together" and saying "who would've thought that just *this* would be what the song needed to make it dance" (or words to that effect).
The album help! was released the 6th of august 1965, Rubber Soul was released 3rd december 1965. Revolver was released 5th August 1966. 3 albums with such quality with in a year. It's kinda nuts they did all they did as the beatles, before they were 30 years old.
In fact Before they were 25 years old! That's amazing! Wonderful!!
Yes, incredible
Yes, and they had such a supportive and brilliant producer (George Martin bless his soul), who would play if he had to 😀.
Thanks for this info. I thought I knew these three albums very well, knowing every song in them having listened to them for years. Just didn't notice they were released within one year's time. Wow, three great great albums in just one year from arguably the greatest band in the world.
Breathtaking genius.
Be aware that around this time, they’ve slowed down the pace of their releases and also startEd releasing singles before the albums. Revolver, for example, came out a couple of months after “Paperback Writer/Rain” which fed into the anticipation for the new album. They continued to use non-album singles to “tease” the unreleased next album for a good part of the rest of their career. I look forward to you reaction to “Rain”! And remember when you listen to it, that people had a couple of months to digest it before they got hit with “Revolver”. Keep up the great work!
Actually, I heard they did that because they didn't want to have their fans to pay twice for the same songs. Albums at that time were usually a couple of hit singles with some filler material to fully exploit the music commercially.
"Rain" really was a line in the sand - the "Mop Tops" who were finally (very artistically) waked and buried on the cover of Sgt. Pepper were giving way to an astonishingly mature artistic ensemble.
Along with Walrus, Strawberry, Penny Lane, etc. 😀
Rain! Maybe my favorite.
@@MartijnHover That's the truth.
Please do lots of analysis of harmonies, etc later, Caroline. I've listened to these songs since they were new and hearing you talk about them in detail helps me know more about why I love them :)
Notice the Major7 harmony on the word, "sleeping" ("I'm Only Sleeping")
This album is one of the greatest artistic creations of humanity. Truly inspired.
A little bit amazing that Tomorrow Never Knows sounds new to someone in 2021. I think it says a lot about how innovative it really was in 1966 and still is.
For me, "Tomorrow Never Knows" is the jewel in the crown on this album
It's one of the crown jewels of pop and rock.
Jewel in the crown of The Beatles.
Can't imagine any song more experimental this at the time. Still is amazing.
"...For me, "Tomorrow Never Knows" is the jewel in the crown on this album...".
Yes it's a groundbreaking song alright. But in my view Paul's wonderful contributions outshone John's solitary major track on "Revolver".
They both bounced off each other with ideas during this time, and this friendly "competition" proved spectacularly creative and beautiful for the listener.
@@gribwitch Of course, without Pauls contribution to this album it would not be the great album it is
I am a geezer, and it is great fun to go through this album along with you. It sounds new again.
The Beatles were wonderful, and in those days, they were a cultural phenomenon in a way that the modern world probably can no longer produce. I am glad they were the sound track for much of my life.
Fellow geezer here too! We had the greatest music growing up in the 1906s and 1970s, didn't we? :)
Me too!
It amazes me to think this is only 3 years after their debut album. This is their 7th album it’s just crazy how they are evolving artistically and musically and they were so young. George was 23, Paul 24, Ringo and John 25. 🤯
John and Ringo were born in 1940. They are two years older than Paul and three older than George.
@@braemtes23 but john’s birthday is in october and revolver was released on august so, do the math my friend
@@braemtes23 ringo was 26
@@nicolasjorgesorabilla6413 The Release date is irrelevant. It is the recording dates that matter and they recorded it between April 6 and June 22 of 1966. Paul's birthday is June 18, so he was 23 for all but 4 days of the recording of Revolver. I did do the math.
@@nicolasjorgesorabilla6413 Nitpicking much , Nicolas ?
You have to imagine listening to this for the first time in 1966 - Paul singing about a spinster with classical instruments, George exploring his love of Indian sounds, Ringo singing about life on a Submarine, the horns on Got to Get You Into My Life, and John finishing it all off with a song about the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Amazing diversity! Only the Beatles could pull this off on a "pop record" and you can clearly see the experimentalism that leads to their next album, Sgt Peppers. My favorite John song on this album is She Said She Said and my favorite Paul song is For No One. Fantastic album!
Thank you acid!
I get the impression Caroline doesn't really know what to make of Revolver 😂. It's breadth is astonishing - every song is different yet the album is totally coherent and an absolute masterpiece. There's too much happening on it to truly appreciate it on a first listen. It's true genius, like The White Album, reveals itself over repeated listens.
I think Revolver is one of the greatest albums ever made. It is the Beatles at the height of their creative power.
@@westhamdd84 I know, it seems like it shouldn't be able to exist in this world.
She seems a little above the material. Musicians eh? It's only one of the greatest albums ever made .She should be privileged. Just enjoy it ffs!
Johnny is an obvious idiot - if she just sat there in silence there wouldn't be a video. Our Johnny is making an absolute fool of himself with his absurd sense of superiority.
Yes Caroline I'd love to hear you analyse the harmonies etc!
Yes, that would be great.
I second the request. Yes please!
I third the request. Beatles harmonies are magical and I'd like to know more.
Yes please!
What on earth is she going to do with the white album and the second side of Abbey Road?!
I think Caroline is absolutely going to love “She’s Leaving Home” off of Sgt. Pepper
Without a doubt.
Hope so, but she didn't seem so enthusiastic about Eleanor Rigby. . . .
Worst recording the Beatles ever made, with the possible exception of "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)." Maudlin, cloyingly sentimental, the best example of what John called "Paul's granny-music shit."
@@scottfrench4139 what’s that strange sound comin from oh it’s the sound of you talkin outta your ass
@@scottfrench4139 touches that deeply hey
Fun fact: Got To Get You Into My Life was McCartney's love song to marijuana. He is quoted as saying that the lyrics were, "an ode to pot, like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret." The man was never shy about his love of pot, for sure.
I believe it was about LSD
It's pot. That was a direct Paul quote. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is the one that was (or wasn't, if you ask a Beatle) about an LSD acid trip. Marijuana is the one drug that kept Paul in trouble throughout his career...I assume he doesn't smoke it anymore, or maybe he just stopped getting caught. 😂 ✌☮
@@elishaodum7638 Paul in a recent interview said he quit smoking pot some years ago...
@@danebattaglia75Doctor Robert is about LSD. The dentist who slipped them acid for the first time, spiking their coffee.
Yes, it is a love song to marijuana. As Let Me Roll It is like a more groovy song about it
I really enjoy this wonderful series, Caroline! The only thing you aren't doing -- and can't possibly do -- is hear them in the context of the Sixties. You must realize that the Beatles were innovators and many of the musical aspects you're picking up in your analysis -- which may be familiar today -- were being done for the first time in pop records. It's hard to overstate the impact and influence the Beatles had on popular music.
Well saidTOM
Not to mention the impact The Beatles had on art, fashion, politics, film...nearly any human cultural endeavor one can name. They may not have set out to do that, but do it they did.
I literally grew up with the Beatles music. I was 12 and living in New York when I first heard a Beatles Song, and every week or month thereafter, a new release was anticipated with excitement and awe since there was no way of knowing what was coming. That is something only those of us who experienced their evolution can feel. But the fact that their music can still provoke surprise, exhilaration, emotion and joy is a monument to their success.
Well put. You stated something that bothers me about a lot of reactors, without sounding like a condescending, pompous ass.
It's almost impossibile to tell what's Revolver's best song, we can only choose our favourite. And mine is Eleanor Rigby, actually my favourite Beatles' song since I first listened to it on the Red album. Its empathy never ceases to move me. I could write a paper on how it makes me feel.
It was a great arrangement work by George Martin
@@Jovolution Inspired by Bernard Herrmann's 'shrieking' arrangement for PSYCHO. George Martin said so himself.
Mine is I'm Only Sleeping
With only a few possible exceptions, Revolver is just one masterpiece after another. And the amazing thing is, that this is still not the most culturally important album The Beatles recorded. That one comes next.
Tomorrow Never Knows for me. But For No One and She Said She Said come close.
Really nice analysis. It’s a great album.
McCartney has said Here, There, and Everywhere is his favourite song. And Lennon absolutely loved it too.
Apparently, it's the only song Lennon ever directly and clearly complimented him on. Apparently, just as they finished recording it, Lennon said to McCartney, "That's a really good song, lad. I love that."
@@robertelessar He also praised Hey Jude. And he felt it was about him and yoko.
@@curtb9567 You know, I think I remember that. And at the time, he told Paul to leave the line "the movement you need is on your shoulder," adding that he knew exactly what Paul meant. But I'm not sure he complimented Paul to his face on that, though he said--I think--it was one of his favorite McCartney songs, definitely.
"Rubber Soul" has three songs that have nothing to do with love or relationships; "Revolver" has eight. The two albums are rightly considered the "middle period" of the band, but the progression between the two albums is plain to hear. They were advancing so rapidly, it was astonishing to experience it in real time.
There's "Nowhere Man" and "The Word". What's the third one?
@@nealfig I think it's Nowhere Man, Think For Yourself, and In My Life, although it might be The Word, even though it's about love.
The Word is about love. The three songs are: Nowhere Man, Think for Yourself & In My Life
@@jk4675 "In My Life" ends with 'In my life I love you more'. "Think for Yourself" might be about a relationship, ending with 'Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you'. "The Word" is not necessarily about romantic love but a greater love.
@@gavinmitchell1328 "In My Life" ends with 'In my life I love you more'. "Think for Yourself" might be about a relationship, ending with 'Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you'. I've always thought "The Word" was about more than romantic love but a greater love, foreshadowing "All You Need Is Love".
The variety! Just consider the astounding variety of songs, styles, and themes on this LP. No one had EVER done anything like this on a successful pop album. It broke so much ground, and even today, more than four decades later, I don't think anyone else has matched the incredible breadth of music on this one record.
This really sums it up right, thanks mate!!! 🙏
Not even the Beatles themselves!
@@samsowden but they did. On the White album.
@@Cromeyellow66 Heh, sort of, but then they had four sides to play with, not just two!
*more than 5 decades later. ;)
You're welcome
I've been a Beatles can since 1964. I must say that listening to them with Caroline makes them brand new. She has extensive musical knowledge and a very good ear. Of course it doesn't hurt that's she is gorgeous.
I BELIEVE that I've heard that the "seagull" sounds in Tomorrow Never Knows is actually the sound of Paul McCartney laughing, sped up, and played backward. I've heard this and read it from different sources, so it's likely true.
Absolutely correct.
The "seagulls from hell" sound.
You could not imagine how mind-blowing this whole album (and especially Tomorrow Never Knows) was to a 8-year old boy in 1966. Suddenly a whole new world of musical possibilities blows open and nothing is ever the same.
I turned 8 one month after it came out, I got the album as a birthday present. In those days getting an album was a couple times a year gift.
I remembered seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in February 64 when I was 5 and a **Little Kid** . Now I was 8 and much much more grown up.
I remember hearing Tomorrow Never Knows in a movie not knowing it was by the Beatles (I’m 22, so pretty young) and then I heard it on the radio, surprised that when the presenter said that this song is by the Beatles. I told my sister in excitement and she was absolutely baffled that it’s a Beatles song. Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper are an absolute faves of mine.
@@redlightflash9315 it was a cover in the craft film from 1996, the radio show was a playlist on bbc made by beabadoobee, a musician from the uk
Please listen to the entire album again by yourself. It just keeps getting better with every listen, which is the hallmark of it's greatness
Raise your hand if you thought Caroline’s favorite song from Revolver would be “Here, There, and Everywhere.” It’s certainly my favorite McCartney ballad of all time.
Hand well & truly raised!!
If she doesn't choose that then it's got to be For No One surely.
@ jayburdification Yes, For No One and The Long and Winding Road!
Fun facts:
McCartney is not featured on She Said She Said. He walked out of the studio during recording after an argument. Rumor is Lennon was making fun of him for not taking acid at a party they’d gone to.
The bird sounds on Tomorrow Never Knows are sped up clips of McCartney laughing.
Years after writing Eleanor Rigby, Paul learned there was a tombstone in his neighborhood to a woman named Eleanor Rigby, who died in 1939.
Yellow Submarine was long believed to be a children’s song written by McCartney. However on there recent deluxe edition, it was revealed it was originally a much darker song by Lennon. The lyrics being “In the town where I was born, no one cared, no one cared.” Assumedly he brought it to McCartney who lightened it up.
Tomorrow Never Knows was way ahead of it's time. It's like something you would of heard at a rave in the 90's. Such a great album. Nice review Caroline!
It's very chemical brothers, actually, I think noel gallagher sort of ripped 'tomorrow never knows' off with a song he did with them, can't really remember, but oasis did have a career because of the beatles.
@@71hammyman Many bands owe their careers to the Beatles. None have managed to match the Beatles brilliance. None ever will.
I do not believe it was ahead of its time. It was a product of the time, cutting edge of what was going on, and was about to happen in not only music, but the youth movement in western civilization.
@@71hammyman The song is "Let Forever Be".
A total knock off, but a great tune.
@@imkluu The Beatles often were the vanguard of those times imkluu. They were very influential in not just music, but other areas as well. The sixties were shaped by the Beatles.
"Here, There and Everywhere" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. That's why Paul is my favourite musician - because of all his magical ballads like this. I want "Here, There and Everywhere" at my wedding... if it happens one day😂
Thanks for the video Caroline!
Ironically, Paul just named that song as his favorite too in an interview I heard this week with Terry Gross ( NPR/ Fresh Air ). He said other ones might also be faves, but if pressed that’s one he’d mention. Loved her interview !
@@tcanfield he said that that stands out as his favourite because John liked it too, which is very nice and shows how even now, Paul respects johns opinion on his work
@@Midnightmidway mccartney and Ram are also incredible albums, and he had some iconic singles, especially his collaborations with Michael Jackson. It’s not fair to suggest band on the run is the only good thing he did after the Beatles
@@Midnightmidway You’ve got that right ! I was surprised to learn Paul had the top grossing concert tours of the 70’s, since he wasn’t even on my radar. As for John, I was loving every album and urgently bought them as soon as they came out. As for these days, I still like Paul though. Heard a few good interviews recently with him talking to Conan, Sean Lennon and Terry Gross. He said he still feels like he’s 25, and I have to admit I admire his youthful attitude and energy !
I'm in my 70's and fell in love with The Beatles the first time I heard them. Even today I have photos and posters of them on the walls of my study - their music is always playing.
I can't say that one Beatle was better than the other, they all brought different styles and stories and certainly different energy to the group.
I love every song they produced but I must admit that Here, There and Everywhere is simply brilliant and is a favourite.
Even after the breakup they individually produced some fantastic music - not as progressive as their collective Beatles efforts but still good music.
I'm so glad young people like Caroline can appreciate the complexity of their music and for that we must thank George Martin He was brilliant, simply brilliant.
My third video watching from you, and with "Here, There and Everywhere," it finally clicked why I already love your videos: You make a real effort to explain the technical side of music (which, by the way, you're extremely good at), but your facial expressions as an indicator that you've just heard something that you find fascinating or beautiful are wonderful to watch. Ultimately, it's the emotions that music triggers that make it so incredibly powerful, and you reflect them perfectly.
My fave on this album is "Here, There And Everywhere." They have a song from this year that is only on a single that is their best song of the year IMO, it's called "Rain."
I wish they had put Rain on this album instead of yellow Submarine.
@@mysterymac38 I would have put Dr Robert as the B side of Paperback Writer and Rain replace it on Revolver.
Rain was one of those songs when I thought I had heard it all from The Beatles and then chanced on that one day while flicking through records in an old 2nd hand shop. Way before the Internet of course, but still. A good day for me.
That was John's favorite song of Paul's.
Rain is a masterpiece. Ringo says it was his best druming out of their entire catalogue, which is saying something because his drumming on Abbey Road is wonderful.
I’ve always considered Rubber Soul/Revolver the portal that transported and transformed the Early Beatles into the Sophisticated Beatles. You can hear the evolution.
McCartney's work on Revolver was absolute outstanding. Eleanor Rigby, all about loneliness. For No One, an incredibly perceptive description of a relationship gone stale. His incredible, Indian flavoured guitar work on Taxman, all designed to give Harrison space to keep learning sitar. Additionally, there was Harrison's continuation of his Indian themes in Love You To and his praise of the acid experience in I want to Tell You. Then there was Lennon's description of his current state of mind in I'm only Sleeping and Tomorrow Never Knows as well as recounting his earlier encounter with Peter Fonda in She Said She Said. An incredibly strong album, arguably their best, with almost no flaws.
Love Revolver. Also love Sgt. Peppers, The White Album, and Let it be has some great songs on it too, particularly in its Naked iteration.
All are varied, musicaly intriguing, and yet catchy addictive and almost endlessly listenable to. How on earth did we get this magical concurrence of symbiotic talents.
God, forgot Abbey Road in my list. The album that marked out my early teenage years. How could I? Dolt.
Yep, Revolver is pretty awesome! Arguably the best work where they’re all on the same page. I just have a very soft spot in my heart for Sgt. Pepper’s, I love every song on that album with my entire being
@@thesilvershining Agree - Revolver's my favourite but what's not to love about Sgt Pepper's?
@Thet I must admit this wasn't an original observation but something I read some years ago in a book that analysed Revolver. The story was that George was busy learning the sitar while at the same time the Beatles were evolving into a much harder sounding band, especially on guitar. Because there were some relatively complex solos on Revolver and because the Beatles really were good mates at the time, Paul offered to take on the more of the guitar work on the album (but not all of it) to give George more space with his sitar learning process. One of Paul's contributions was that searing solo on Taxman, something incidentally that was reused in some sort of slowed down reverse loop on I'm Only Sleeping. Just two elements in the many things that went to make Revolver such a great album. Cheers.
Please give us your rendition of "For No One." I would love to see what you can do with one of my favorite songs.
Thanks for these reactions. They are quite excellent.
Excellent request! I'd like to hear that, too.
"No sign of love behind the tears, cried for no one..." Can you imagine a 23-yr old writing that beatifully, sad lyric?
Thank you for the entertaining reaction! "I wasn't expecting that!" Was running through my mind the entire time I first heard this album in 1966. I was shocked that The Beatles had abandoned pop music for this ... art songs! It's one of my favorite albums of theirs for that reason. They turned away from more fame and fortune (and took us all with them).
I had the same reaction at age 10.
The Beatles had total confidence that their audience would follow them anywhere. It made them fearless.
I have a question, were there people back in those days who said things like “I miss the old Beatles I don’t like this new music?” I can imagine some of the Beatlemania fans weren’t really ready for the whole psychedelic thing
@@siloshroom2132 Yes there were Silo. I have many issues of "The Beatles Book" fan club magazine, and some fans wrote in to complain that they had strayed from their usual stuff. I guess they were soon put right !
@@siloshroom2132 We, Beatle-maniac-fans, were older too, growing musically too.
The last sound your hear on "And Your Bird Can Sing" is Paul's bass. Kinda surprised you didn't mention his bass playing, in general, because it's quite spectacular.
McCa bass playing deserves its own video. That man is really the Mozart of our days... Awesome
@OhDannyBoyThePipes Paul is one of the greatest songwriters/composers of all time, and he didn't have a lot of formal music theory either(some, but not a lot).
26:12 Sunshiiine always reminds me of Oasis.
Thank you Caroline for your joyful and quirky critique.
Imagine how this album sounded to people in 1966. It changed everything. Quite apart from the unusual effects (it was before synths or digital effects were invented), the sheer quality and variety of the songs was like nothing anyone had ever heard. This album influenced everyone who came after and is still influencing them today.
I could bore you with an explanation of each song, but there are plenty of books published that do this - probably the best is Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald.
There are so many "Reactions" videos out there these days - many of them little more than watching people while they listen to chopped-up snippets of albums and offering up inane gasps and "wows".
Yours is SO different. First of all, you actually react - with every fibre of your self (check out those eyes at 4:44, for example!). You move and you "wow", but you have the knowledge to back up why certain moments cause those responses. And you seem to have such a feel for the music, that you can pick up in that one listen, and then - crucially - convey those feelings to us less eloquent viewers in such a clear and enthusiastic manner.
Every one of your videos I have so far seen is delightfully captivating.
Now someone needs to do a "First time watching Call Me Caroline reacting to Revolver" video!
What is fun about Caroline's reactions to the songs is that she probably only had a passing familiarity with the Beatles music originally, but can breakdown what is interesting, unique or innovative musically. She, with her obvious musical training, enthusiasm & expertise can comment on musical notes & chords, the instruments used, the lyrics, transitions, moods to tell us what she thinks is special about the music and that reminds us why we fell in love with the Beatles music to begin with.
This album has everything. The Beatles are at their peak - head in the clouds but feet still firmly on the ground - and unlike later albums playing together like a group with one vision not four individual visions
I feel sorry for Caroline needing to chop up her first-time listening experience. I just hope she listens to the whole albums (all of these) for days on end to really enjoy the craftsmanship.
Don’t overthink too much. Enjoy and appreciate the cleverness of the music and lyrics.
She'll need about three batteries standing by for the White Album!
She mentioned in another video she does go back and listen to the albums again.
She has to "chop up" songs because of 8 second copyright laws. I think.
She has said she listens multiple times, and I’m sure this includes while filming the recording. She chops them up in post. You can see the edits.
Unfortunately, this is the way it has to be- TH-cam basically lets the copyright claimant act as the arbitrator instead of using an independent party, if the claim is disputed. If you do dispute a claim for fair use, for example, which this clearly would be, you don’t stand a chance. What’s worse is you get a “strike” against you, and three strikes and your channel is blocked. Most don’t even bother to dispute because of this. This has actually been brought before Congress a number of times for some oversight. A number of prominent artists and producers in the business have testified against the practice, but Congress is so far behind the curve on tech, nothing ever happens.
Eleanor Rigby. One of the Beatles most complete and beautiful pieces. This one, for sure, will stand the test of time.
That’s one of those songs where the first time I heard it I kept thinking about it afterward.
Concerning the album art: something interesting that we of our era might not realize is that the cover for Rubber Soul wasn't just another picture of the group. At the time, it was QUITE revolutionary because it was distorted and "rubbery". That sort of subtle trick is an everyday thing nowadays, but back then it was a graphic design innovation, and tied in with the emerging drug culture.
Agreed. The artwork for Revolver was created by Klaus Voorman a Beatles friend from their Hamburg era, himself a very good bass player as well as a graphic designer, later playing on both All Things Must Pass & Imagine albums and with many other artists. Tomorrow Never Knows was the inspiration for the psychedelic art.
The original photo for the cover of Rubber Soul. Photographer Bob Freeman had taken some pictures of the group at Lennon's house. Freeman showed the photos by projecting them on a piece of cardboard to simulate how they would appear on an album cover. The unusual Rubber Soul album cover came to be when the slide card fell slightly backwards, elongating the projected image of the photograph and stretching it. Excited by the effect, they said: "Ah! Can we have that? Can you do it like that?"
Douglas Adams said part of being a Beatles fan was listening to every new album the first time and going "what? I don't know what to make of this." and then listening again and falling in love with it.
Revolver for me was the only Beatles album that I had that experience with, fifty years later. It just seemed to be doing its own thing and daring you to keep up.
And that's part of what makes it the best one of their albums.
Honestly, what other album would have Yellow Submarine / Elenore Rigby as the hit single?
I use to play a new Beatles album about 6 times over each evening for about 3 weeks…till my mom reminded me to get to bed for school !
Cool! I somehow didn't know he was a fan... the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is something else as well!
@@OperationPhantom Absolutely, a great series! He talks about his love of the Beatles in the posthumous collection of articles and stories The Salmon of Doubt. He describes his childhood as "what was happening in the background while he was trying to listen to the Beatles." ^^
@@olivergiggins7931 Born in '52, and almost 12 when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan... must've been an amazing experience! I'd like to read that memoir, I'll look it up!
@@OperationPhantom The Ed Sullivan Show would have been irrelevant to Adams as he was English. But being that age, and of open mind, how could he not be a Beatles fan.
I was a 10 year old Beatle fan when this album came out and my friends and I loved it. Rubber Soul was a step up from their previous pop and rock and roll songs and this album was when they really blasted off with new ideas and sounds. It’s hard to believe this album was released three years after their first album (called Twist and Shout in Canada and Please Please Me elsewhere). Has any band or musician progressed so much and changed so often over 7 short years of recording?
Nope, no other band has done it! The Beatles were true geniuses.
No, they were so unique. Love them.
No
I agree, 66 years old now, the thing I noticed the MOST, we were in holiday in New York State going up north, and we pulled over on the side of the street, my mom always prepared sandwiches on trips, and on the radio came ,the Beatles 2 latest releases as singles Here they are Strawberry Fields nd Penny...I said to myself, wow This is a turning point, no more touring, no more coming over the pond to see Ed Sullivan or us, and not even an lp to define the change, just Strawberry Fields FOR EVER, wow I said, that is change, I was 11, my brother 16!
Exactly, me and my neighbors shared our allowance to buy the record. Then spent every night in our basements listening to every song, over and over again. We had a rule, no stopping a song until it was over.
I loved your analysis of this one. You are right in that Rubber Soul was the epitome of the early Beatles, more sophisticated writing and production but still connected in their early work. Revolver is a break from that and a preview of things to come. You bring a new joy to hearing these songs through your ears! I can barely wait for another three weeks!
"Rubber Soul" is solid middle-era Beatles. "Help!" was the transition into the new period.
No, you're right about _Only Sleeping._ The whole song is designed to create a lazy, sleepy feeling. Not only is the guitar backwards for that reason, but the background tracks have been sightly slowed down to help put you in that mood. It was a technique John was experimenting with at the time. So, good catch
Slowing down the song or part of the instrumentation was something they were experimenting with a lot at this time. The same technique is used in Rain and Strawberry Fields Forever to give the songs a dreamy, surreal quality.
And revisited on the White Album in "I'm So Tired".
@@patricknelson5151 Yeah, I think _Rain_ was the first time they used the technique on one of their songs, and it was a single for this album
@@SM-jg8fr Strawberry Fields wa sslowed down to match the key of the two parts
It's a pleasure to sit with you while you experience this album for the first time. From the snarling rock of "Taxman", through the wide-eyed innocence of "Here There & Evetywhere", the Salvation Army singalong of "Yellow Submarine" and the chamber music of "Eleanor Rigby" and "For No One", right through to the psychedelic freakout of "Tomorrow Never Knows" - there's just so much scope in 35 minutes. No track on this album is more than 3 minutes long. It's astonishing, really.
you’re absolutely right about the horror sound in eleanor rigby; the staccato strings were influenced by the theme for psycho! paul mentions this in the lyrics, which was only just released!!
Oh wow, there you go! Thanks for that Kate
@@CallMeCaroline yes the orchestration in "Psycho" was by Bernard Hermann. Producer Sir George Martin admitted to wanting to use that spiky, urgent, foreboding sound when he orchestrated the strings for "Eleanor Rigby". The bizarre thing was that in 1966, this song was paired with "Yellow Submarine" for a double-A side single. 2 more contrasting songs you couldn't get. 😊
George Martin loved the work of Hitchcock's composer, Bernard Herrmann - whilst Pyscho is one, obvious, reference point another was a more recent (equally jagged) Herrmann score for Francois Truffaut's movie version of Fahrenheit 451 which had been released a few months before Eleanor Rigby. George talked about wanting to emulate that score's "wintery" feel which he achieved, magnificently. I think Eleanor Rigby is a work of genius. It's like a complete play, a story with a beginning a middle and an end, all told in two minutes and two seconds and with music which enhances the melancholy.
@@Nebuchadnezzar-Wildebeest that's so so interesting!!
I've never really thought about this before, but...did Father McKenzie kill Eleanor Rigby in the last verse? Died in the church? And then the Psycho strings. If he did, why did it take me 35 years to realize?
Also, not that long ago, I came to the conclusion that 'Darning his socks in the night..' - Ringo's main input to the lyrics - alluded to masturbation.
Your analysis of the string arrangement on 'Eleanor Rigby' is spot on. Their producer George Martin scored the strings and later admitted that he used the staccato string score from Alfred Hitchcock's horror film 'Psycho' as his inspiration.
George Martin, the 5th Beatle.
Written by Bernard Hermann, one of the greatest soundtrack composers ever.
Yes, also the unusual (and somewhat claustrophobic) sonority of 2 players playing each line of the string quartet arrangement was based on the sound of that score (much more common is either solo players or a larger string section).
It such a joy watching you hear these songs for the first time Caroline, and your very wise and interesting analyses! A few things you may want to note. As we move deeper into the 60s (already beginning on this album), the lyrics are going to become far more surreal and waaaay less literal. It was the times. Also, you mentioned synth - of course, no one really used synths until a few years after this (the last album they recorded, Abbey Road, has a Moog). After you're done with these videos, you should definitely look into how they created songs like Tomorrow Never Knows, with only 4 track tape machines. It's beyond fascinating. The tape loops were run on multiple tape machines, each fed into a mixer channel. Each machine was running a repeating loop of tape held in place by pencils, fingers, etc. And each loop ran a different repeating sound- some off-speed, some backwards. The mixdown itself was literally a live performance, with multiple people bringing faders (repeating sounds) up and down, in and out. Pure serendipity - no two mixes were the same. Everything was done the hard way in those days! Thanks so much for these Caroline. They are delightful. For a lot of us old folks, this is like hearing old friends with fresh ears again. Checking out your music- you have serious ears! Best-
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is literally like receiving a broadcast from an alien civilization from deep space.
It makes you wonder what else you are going to hear from these wondrous beings.
"Got to Get You Into My Life" charted in the U.S. in 1976, 10 years after it was recorded.
"What is it about a piano in the low register that sounds funny?"
Man, I love your comments like this. Really getting into strange sound associations and how the tiniest things can have a certain mood or atmosphere to them. Great stuff.
Great reaction; you didn't disappoint. I saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York in 1966; the last year they toured. Despite what everyone tells you, I could hear every note and every word perfectly. As a result of The Beatles I entered the music business myself 10 years from February 9, 1964 - the year they came to America. I've seen a LOT of concerts and not one come close to the 27 minutes The Beatles were on stage. George Harrison said he felt like Rubber Soul and Revolver were more like Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and he enjoyed making them very much. You can hear that in the tracks. I believe Sgt. Pepper is coming up and you'll reach another level with them. Their music never gets old and an old song you've never heard before is a new song to you. By the way, do we really have to wait 3 more weeks for the next one?
How did people react those days when the Beatles started making psychedelic music? Did people think it was weird at the time
@@siloshroom2132 "Yes" is the short answer. They now know better !
George's riff on I Want To Tell You is one of the greatest little riffs of all time.
Agree completely! Plus I’d add the riff of She Said, She Said as another classic
"Got to get you into my life" was covered so many times that I didn't know they wrote it. When I heard the Beatles version I thought "I didn't know they covered songs in their later work". There are over 100 cover versions listed online.
Thinking that they went from Please Please Me to Revolver in just 3 years blows my mind. What an evolution they had.
Yeah it’s insane considering many artists now take longer than three years just to record one album
Yes, you are correct! Paul has recently said that the staccato strings in Eleanor Rigby were inspired by the Hitchcock film, "Psycho" - a horror movie. As the victim is being stabbed, the strings are "stabbing" too.
I was 14 when Rubber Soul came out, the next year Revolver. I remember hearing them at the same time. Prior to this I thought of the Beatles as another British pop group, not impressed, had no clue as to the screaming and whatever I didn't get it. When I heard these albums I was hooked - they pulled me into Beatleworld and, while I never was infected by Beatlemania, but I understood everything they'd done before and they became, and continue to be, my favorite group. Best song writing duo since Schiller/Beethoven. I had to replace the LP because I wore the grooves down. It was a delight watching you listen, thanks. The sound kept dropping in and out, distressingly, but ... thanks.
Had an uncle who would have been 16 when this came out who echoed your feeling about early then later Beatles. As someone born just after they split up and came to be a fan ten years or so later, I can't see where any of their contemporaries could match early Beatles. John and Paul could each fart better hooks than just about every other band out there.
But I've come to appreciate that I never had the experience where The Beatles were a band for girls. I can imagine that tainting my opinion of them.
You were as old as i am now when one of the 5 greatest albums ever was released, wow.
Schiller/Beethoven. "Song writing duo". Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
This album for me, is maybe my favorite from The Beatles! So much experimentation and different things going on in the songs! It sounds so contemporary even though it was recorded in 1966. The Beatles were really ahead of their time! And they were awesome musicians!
Tomorrow Never Knows: "I can only imagine how they performed that live."
That's the neat thing...
“… We don’t…”
@@iwanmorris293 It wasn't possible! You can't recreate the one-time sound of random pieces of tape just tossed in the air and then looped. Yikes.
They never did.
@@rb9628 Correct R B. However if anyone could reproduce "Tomorrow Never Knows" on stage live, it would probably be "The Fab Four" Beatles tribute / cover band. They are incredible. Check them out here on TH-cam.
Look.up "The Analogues" on you tube.
They don't look like the Beatles but they play the exact same instruments that the Beatles played.
They play everything that the Beatles didn't play live, live..
Yellow Submarine is probably the first Beatles song I loved in my life.
This is the album that makes it impossible to be judged good or bad. It's too important. This is the one that kicked open the doors for artists to go beyond what their record companies said, that tried to tie them down to formulaic music. "If the Beatles can do REVOLVER, I can try my own, too!" Of course... few artists ever succeeded like the Beatles did. For me, HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE is one of the great chord-progression songs plus beautiful lyrics that serenades under windows were made for.
John's use of the Tibetan Book Of The Dead will foreshadow his use of an old carnival poster as lyrics in FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR KITE. John was soooo keen as a wordsmith, but these two songs showed he also recognized other wordsmiths - he could take literally a poster and create a wonderful song out of it.
LOVE YOU TO... as in "I love you to... the end of time", "love you to ... some point or some other world or life." It's interesting that Paul had done two songs without the Beatles and here was George's entry. His WITHIN WITHOUT YOU and THE INNER LIGHT lay ahead, too.
So many of these are fantastic live, too. TAXMAN, GOOD DAY SUNSHINE, I'M ONLY SLEEPING, AND YOUR BIRD, HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE, SHE SAID, DR ROBERT, I WANT TO TELL YOU... the effect in clubs has been electric to watch.
Shortly after the album came out I was requested to play Here, There, and Everywhere for a wedding ceremony at a Catholic service. At that time it was highly unusual for any secular music to be played in church. The officiating priest read the lyrics and agreed to the couples request to have it played during their ceremony.
@@Cavie1974 this is extremely interesting, I was born in 97 and grew up with parents that loved the beatles, I always got the feeling that my parents parents never really understood the beatles and found it quite, I'm not sure, a bad influence on children at the time?
Don't be afraid to say if you don't like a Beatles song Caroline. If others `have a go` because you don't honestly like a song which is a favourite of theirs; it says more about them. Never be afraid to air your opinions. Regarding performances of songs from `Revolver` the Band never played any as they would not have been able to do justice to them `live` back then. The Beatles played their final concert to a paying audience on 29th August 1966 at San Francisco's `Candlestick Park` . And finally, did you know that there was once a Radio `Caroline` pop station which broadcast to the U.K from 1964 to 1968? It had a record in its `honour` "Caroline" by the `Fortunes`.
Radio Caroline still exists, it didn't end in 1968, and broadcasts on the net and AM waveband. It's named after JFK's daughter. First album station in the UK.
For these albums really suck though
They wrote so many songs, there is enough to find to like and dislike.
Personally I'm not a fan of their early period. To me they only achieved immortality after they stopped touring and wrote their music only for record instead with live performability in mind.
Never liked Taxman or Dr. Roberts. Lots of early stuff was just filler, especially their covers, with some exceptions. Most of Magical Mystery Tour irritates me.
@@stevend.bennett427 Agree to disagree
So many great songs on this album. My favourite is 'And your bird can sing' - just want that song to go on and on. Didn't get to listen to the full album till 1972 when I started work - couldn't afford LP's up until that stage. lol
Ive listened to revolver several times over the past few weeks and it's like it's brand new each time. It's great watching you experience it for the first time. It's getting better all the time.
For No One has to be my favourite on this album.
Arguably the Beatles best and most creative work. Tomorrow Never Knows sets the stage for the bands’ epic masterpiece. No one saw what was coming next. The Beatles lost many fans because they lost much of their “poppyness.” They wanted the boys to forever be the cute cut ups from A Hard Days Night. The thing I just loved about the Beatles is that they created music for an album but then they never looked back. They kept progressing. Consider the fact that this massive growth occurred in the span of three short years! George, the youngest in the group, was 23 years old! The last song on Revolver was a harbinger of what was to come: The cord heard ‘round the world. As always, I love your reactions and analysis of this great album, super cute❤️
And you bird can sing. Total brilliance
My entry into the Beatles as a teen in the '70s was their Red and Blue collections, and from there I borrowed a friend's White Album and bought Sgt Pepper's and Abbey Road which at that point I thought I had grasped the group's extent and moved on for a bit to Steve Miller, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John et al.
During a random trip to the record store, the Revolver cover artwork caught my eye and I gave them another try... WOW. It was like that much later ad for Anthology 2 ("Listen to the Beatles again... for the first time!"). This album was an epiphany, absolutely thrilling from start to finish, and made me a fan for life. As Rick Ruben put it, talking about Tomorrow Never Knows, it makes you rethink what recorded music is, it's that profound.
George Harrison is certainly getting more involved on Revolver. His use of the sitar in pop music was groundbreaking and he was certainly growing as a songwriter. This is the first and only Beatles album to be led off by a Harrison song (Taxman) and the first and only to include 3 songs written by George - Taxman, Love You Too and I Want to Tell You (not counting The Beatles double album which has 2 Harrisongs on each LP). The Beatles are growing, experimenting, breaking ground and Getting Better all the time...
Got to admit, it's getting better
Well it can't get much worse.
Yeah, but George Martin on the other hand...
Caroline, I want to thank you for providing the interpretive key I’ve wanted for years to “And Your Bird Can Sing.” I’ve always been baffled about how to understand them, and it was like someone finally opened the window.
The story John Lennon told over the years was "She Said, She Said" was inspired by a party in Los Angeles where Lennon was confronted by actor Peter Fonda (star of "Easy Rider," son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda) who had just dropped acid and in his LSD-fueled state, kept telling Lennon, "I know what's it like to be dead." Though he didn't want to hear it, this inspired the song, except Lennon changed the interlocutor to a female -- perhaps because he didn't want such an intimate bit of sharing from another man.
You beat me to it, I see. I was thinking Fonda had been in an accident and he emphasized this experience when they were on acid, no?
Sad, even now men feel too weak to show their emotions.
@@71hammyman I mean yeah it is sad but it seems a bit presumptuous to link that to this particular songwriting choice.
there is "He said, He Said" early home demos on youtube
Fonda was accidentally shot when he was a child and he almost died as a result of his wounds.
I find it impossible to pick a favorite song out of this album. It’s simply a masterpiece. Most artists would die to have any of these songs as their only hit.
What a treat to see your reactions to this album.
By the way, my favorite episode of "Mad Men" is "Lady Lazarus", wonder why....
Paul is a songwriting genius, and the more Beatles I listen to the more his genius stands out.