The Hidden Voice in The Last Beatles Song | I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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- I Want You (She's So Heavy) is one of the Beatles' rare hidden gems: an often overlooked song that features some of the finest musicianship of their entire career. Produced over an 8 month period in 1969 and finally released on the iconic Abbey Road album, I Want You is a layered masterpiece. But there's an anomaly hidden in its many layers that you might not have a noticed before. And as a warning, once you hear it...you can't unhear this.
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"No one would dare yell at a Beatle during recording" except Yoko.
@@CB-xr1eg no need to be rude. Well alas I have been told I dont have a brain sometimes.🖕
@@lillyanne7277if you didn't have a brain you wouldn't be alive so that isn't possible
As well as nick some of George's biscuits and then sit on his amplifier. George was reportedly miffed.
ibanez gsr 200 Ringo got yelled at one time
Someone should have yelled at Yoko: "Get the hell out of the studio- this is for members of the band only!"
Beatles songs are full of "ghost" shouts, which are them, nobody else. It's part of the magic.
Thank you! Lolol this video is so silly 😂
Geejae: as is your childish comment
I heard it when playing my music ungodly loud back in the day. Just chalked it up to artistic expression. The Beatles always threw random stuff into their music. That's what I like. Cookie cutter music blows. No big deal. No conspiracy. Just cool music.
All you need is LOVE
The Doors have plenty of ghost shouts, and improvised in such a way that you’d think it was planned out like that.
I love the fact that Ringo came up with the idea to add some Conga Drums on 4/20/69, absolute legend.
I'm sure, being ahead of their time, the Fab4 smoked some reefer on 4/20/69.
Ringo is SO overlooked 😭
@@FABCASTLE Most the time overcooked
@@FABCASTLE huh…overlooked by whom.???
@@FABCASTLE bloody hell for a drummer he's not overlooked! Probably most famous drummer ever FGS!
I feel that this song was made in the 1990s but its from 1969. The Beatles really are ahead of their time. And yes, this is an amazing song.
True... maybe.
But maybe it's that music has stagnated since Beatles left the room.
@@SM-mb9bm yeah i agree
This does seem like a grunge song….
@@mattthompson9340my guy has never heard a grunge song 😭😭😭
@@GameyRaccoon It's more like grunge copied this rhythm section
I’ve always heard these “ghost” vocals and assumed it was just their style. They did this all the time. I didn’t know about there being two different versions of the song, though. Very cool.
he also talks about that in one of his other videos i’m pretty sure
edit: here th-cam.com/video/aCbsnnKlQHE/w-d-xo.html
It's the guide vocal bleeding through the drums. One assumes they overdubbed the lead vocals.
when I listened to this, as a kid, I always thought it was spontaneous. Of course, most kids believe that songs are just played in their current state. Now, as adults, we realize that additions are constantly made in the studio. The Beatles learned to utilize this feature. So, when we're listening to a song which had been planned for months, recorded in 45 takes, and fragmented, it all sounds like a spontaneous recording.
I'd heard it as well, I thought they were saying something like "yeah" matching the guitar key, like the guitar takes over the note.
I imagine that most of us have heard this 'hidden' voice for decades (for me since 1969 ~;-) - but this is an interesting video none-the-less.
These guys were so good that fifty years later we are watching a video about a background voice. They were like no other and there will never be another like them.
literally my moms favorite thing to say about the beatles; 'they were like no other band and there will never be another like them.'
Same in the Queen comment section lol
Jay Does Everything
queen were their own iconic band, the Beatles were more iconic than Queen, though (in my opinion), since the Beatles paved the way for bands like Queen. Queen are still great though.
@@natinthehat7700 i was talking about the people in the queen community they say that too their unique
@Japanese Flying Squirrel
Still a far cry from modern boybands, or even the Monkees. The Beatles had their own story, they formed independently, and then adopted that whole image with the suits and everything in the early 60s, the haircuts a bit earlier than that. They wrote their own songs and they found each other and decided to get together and play some music.
The Beatles were not the result of a record label looking to make money getting random good-looking musicians and giving them songs to perform as a band all of a sudden.
The only thing even remotely manufactured about them was Brian Epstein suggesting they wear those famous suits so associated with their early 60s period now. But the thing is pretty much every successful band ever has had a look, a certain style. There is always some sort of cohesion visually between the members. The Beatles weren't the first or the last to do that, and if that makes them manufactured, practically every successful band ever is manufactured.
I love 'She's so heavy' because like many tracks on Abbey Road, it sets a possible trajectory *if* they kept going through the 1970s. However, what I really like about it's brooding menace is 'Here Comes the Sun' follows. Not only do you have this masterpiece, but the counter to it is another majestic Beatles song.
Only “follows” directly if you don’t have to flip over the record 😉 I’m half joking but truly it’s something to be considered.
@@feelthejoy Quite. It dd matter that you had to turn over the record
Besides being a beautiful song, Here Comes the Sun is very interesting from a musical perspective. The bridge has time signatures like 11/8 which is very unique in western music and was influenced by George’s interest in Indian music.
I Want You is a such a beast that not even its own creators could find it a fitting end. All The Beatles could do to stop it was just...stop it.
And it was BRILLIANT!
It was John's idea to cut the tape. Paul hated it as with the white noise.
Yes, that abrupt stop is fantastic!
@@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH wrong
@@brandonbrandon2822 it may be wrong for you but it’s right for me….
@@brandonbrandon2822 No you are wrong. The only other thing they could have done is fade out slowly but the quick cut off followed by Here Comes The Sun is perfect. A fade out with the static/white noise wouldn't have sounded right.
It's McCartney vocalizing his bass-line.
Yeah
The vocal ID isn’t that identifiable, but this sounds very probable. I can hear that. Paul always had a habit to sing whatever part he was focusing on.
That's it!
This is common. Jazz pianists vocalize their solos all the time. Perhaps Paul didn't expect that track to be used for the final, and he was still working it out?
@@dougdrazga4461 Could be, but I suspect that he's just diggin' on the emphasis of that particular bass riff.
In the nineties my classmates laughed at me because i was 'still' listening to the Beatles.
I still listen to it in 2020
and will continue to do so.
I got those same comments in the late 70’s...and in fact, when John had been murdered, only a few were affected by his death as compared to me.
In the nineties when I was in high school my friend approach me and asked me if I heard Norwegian wood and it amazes me that he was into the Beatles and we were listening to Nirvana and Pearl jam and Alice in chains
When I was 14 or 15 KISS were the biggest thing in the world, every other kid at school was all into them.
Me, I was busy listening to all The Beatles I could get my hands on.
I bet your classmates listen to Niki Minaj or some bullsh*t music
@@TheAndreseao i dont think they listened to niiki minaj in the nineties
This song really scared many fans way back. See, by then many other bands saw the Beatles as too pop and not heavy enough. Well...they put everyone to shame. And we all stood at attention. When 'Abbey' came out we had all known, through the grapevine, they were breaking up, that it was over. There was a feeling of death, and this song was too much to bear. It seemed really really scary. Mixed emotions going on.
Yes, I was into psychedelia by then and had left my juvenile Beatlemania behind. Or so I thought. But they kept putting out remarkable albums up to and including Abbey Road. They were hard to ignore. Then they went out with the forgettable Let It Be. What a mistake.
It was crushing for many of us when the suggestion was floating around. They went on to give us their individual talents. They left their legacy for us to share with our descendants.
@@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH Let it be is one of their greatest albums bruh.
@@gameplays4071 the rooftop stuff is great and there's a few good songs otherwise but it's nothing compared to the rest of the albums. I think of it more like bonus tracks than an album, and it's incredible for what it is.
This song rocks so hard
In college we had a party and I, a budding recording engineer, was in charge of music and I had a tape recorder. At one point in the evening's playlist I looped the end of "She's so Heavy" so it lasted about 20 minutes. It became such a part of the background that when it eventually came to its natural end it was like the air was sucked out of the room. People nearly fell over.
Wow! I wish I was there! We’re y’all stoned!? Lol.
@@gaylealleluia8392 The Beatles were, that's for sure.
It is my voice. I
was hiding inside of one of Ringo's drums. I am partially deaf now but what an experience!
lol
Why is this so funny to me lmao
And I know thats true because I was in the drum with everate and he was trying to tell me to move over. But sadly Im particularly deaf and blind due to ringos knee repeativly hitting my forehead
Oh how I believe u
That's amazing.....
“The neighbors were complaining about the noise the band was making”.imagine having the balls to complain to the beatles about their music being “noise”.
Back then rock fans were still in the minority as the many of the old guard were only middle-aged (as well as approaching middle-age).
I love The Beatles as much as the next fan, but a lot of their songs really are just noise.
If you're disturbing the peace, you're disturbing the peace. It doesn't matter if it's Bach or Mozart.
Nothing about having balls, have you ever been in a recording session, I have as a roadie for a band, it gets a bit much after 6 hours and somebody wanting to sleep so they can go to work the next day has a valid reason for complaining about a city studio making noise till dawn.
I’m surprised that the studio wasn’t better soundproofed, which they needed to keep outside noise from being hear inside.
Also, I really don’t think most bands play at loud “corvette” volume while recording. It would distort the recording and make the VU meters spike excessively.
Abbey Road, still a gem of a record. Bravo!
I've always loved this song. For me, nothing beats John or Paul in their scream/singing voice.
I think it's Paul: he's always doing his "Woo Woos and all?
Yes. Listen to the Something vocals isolated and you'll hear him singing along with the guitar solo.
It’s definitely paul singing the bass line
*Hello. I don't know if it's of any interest to you, but outside of the immediate family, our Uncle Bob was formally **_"Professor Robert Arthur Moog, BA, MA, Ph.D."_** He invented the world's first commercial analog synthesizer back in 1964. But anyway, the only reason I mention him, is because intermittently throughout 1969, he lived in London and worked with a young man called Michael Vickers at Abbey Road studios. Mr Vickers was employed by George Martin at the studios, and had been given the unenviable task of programing the Moog synthesizers used on the Abbey Road album. Uncle Bob knew George Martin pretty well, and so he asked him as a favor, if he could go over to London and work with, or perhaps train Michael (Vickers) on the Moog programing used on the album, which of course he did. Anyway, in 1979, and as part of EMI celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the release of the album, Uncle Bob was invited to take part in a number of interviews on local radio stations, and he was actually asked at a couple of these interviews about the screaming in the background of **_"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"._** And Uncle Bob was pretty adamant that it was just Paul, vocalizing the sound he wanted to **_'squeeze out of'_** his own guitar. Something he apparently did quite often in both live and studio performances. Although with family, he used to joke that it was probably Paul screaming at Yoko to leave the effing studio! So that's my little contribution on the subject. Take care all.*
Wow, that’s an awesome family connection! You Uncle Bob was a legend and left such a huge influence on music history. Thanks for sharing!
@@YouCantUnhearThis Hi. You're right, I suppose he did play a part in the history of modern music, but when it's a member of your own family, it's just "Uncle Bob" if you know what I mean? Or in our case, "Just Uncle Bob making lots of weird noises from his hand-built workshop/studio at the bottom of the garden"! I think what we're most proud of as a family, is that he refused to patent 95% of what he invented, because he felt the whole of the music world should be able to make use of his invention. But we're still very proud (and often get quite sentimental), whenever we see pop and rock artists, standing behind a keyboard carrying our family name, in front of thousands on a televised concert or wherever. I do apologise for going off the original subject and rambling on. Have a lovely day and please stay healthy and safe in these troubled times.
Thats so awesome! What a cool part of history to have had as a part of your family. And thank you for sharing this.
@@esperanzahewitt8280 Professor Moog synthesized the replacement.
The truth has been spoken
You say I can't unhear this?
I think you overestimate my memory.
I never did hear that voice.
Sounds like my memory.
wuh ... huh?
I am 69 yrs old now and was a Beatles fan when I was 9 yrs old, so that's 60 yrs a fan! I had this album too and had all their albums and loved them all. Even my dear sainted mother who would have been 100 yrs old in February 2022 loved them!
My mom (born in 1929) loved them too. She also liked led zeppelin, van Halen, queen, Ozzy Osbourne, and a long list of others . She could tell you her favorite song of probably 30 or more rock bands. Tell you some of the members of them. She took me to see van Halen in 1982, went in and watched the show.
Her favorite queen song was "tie your mother down". The beatles had too many good ones for her to pick just one.
RIP mom. Sure do miss that girl.
This is one of my favorite songs to listen to when I'm depressed. I just love the almost foreboding last half of the song. The build up of music and noise is just mesmerizing.
Imagine a bunch of people at a swanky mid-century cocktail party, clinking glasses around a bean-shaped pool, and in the back of the minds of every one of them, they know the specter of nuclear annihilation hangs over them.
And at the end- an abrupt stop!
"You'll never be able to unhear it"
I'll forget about the ghost vocal 10 minutes from now
I never could hear it
I never heard it to begin with, being half deaf might be why, not sure.
Lol. The scream in Love Rollercoaster by the Ohio Players is something you can never unhear. Its just creepy.
Just checkin' to see if you've forgotten about that 'ghost' vocal
"MAGOG BROMINE CHAMBER" google that , it's really something you won't forget in a hurry.
stuart houselander I’ll never forget how shitty that album was. I sat there waiting for any tiny bit of redeeming audio and I never found it. What a waste of time
Sounds like Macca mimicking the bassline he plays.
It does, and it wouldn’t be unusual since he always did that.
I would call it...
Mimicking the harmony which he was trying to duplicate with the bass line.
Struggling to find the harmony in vocals and instruments is a wonderful thing the Beatles mastered.
I wish I could.🙄🤣👍🥃
He always do that. Sometimes you see him humming the chords, like "D minor hm hm C la la" and so on.
Macca?
My first reaction was "sounds like Paul"
There's always something so _alive_ about Beatles recordings and this one is no exception, it has such intense emotion in the foreground and the very background itself is tensely listening with the perfect metaphor of it breaking down into white noise and mingling with the foreground, ultimately collapsing together into incoherence and suddenly cutting off.
It's with some disappointment in myself that I've reached the ripe old age of 51 and only heard about this track from your video when I first watched it just four days ago. I have some Beatles albums, but I don't have Abbey Road and I've only ever heard the singles from it, so this particular track has eluded me until now. So, I figured it'd be on youtube somewhere, found it, had a listen, and I can honestly say I was blown away! The styles it covers sound much more recent than the 1969 date would suggest. I could hear bands from the 70s, 80s and 90s in there, mainly along the darker paths of prog rock, metal, darkwave, grunge and even elements of industrial rock. And then I got utterly lost in that lengthy outro, sucking me inside my own mind until I was abruptly and unceremoniously dumped back to reality by that cut. And since that first listen, I can't get it out of my head. It's a masterpiece! And given it's the last song they recorded together as a group, it almost feels like a baton passed to the future: Like they were saying, "Here you go, this is where we think rock should be going, now run with it."
Same here. I'm 54, and although I think I've probably heard this song "very infrequently" over the decades, if I'd heard it, I never really heard it enough for it to register in my brain consciously, till sometime this past year or so.
Decades ago, before I was online, there would have simply been no way to look it up later, even if I could have remembered enough lyrics from the radio to do so.
I gave up on "modern music" in 1983 at age 16, because of the mounting ratio of crap (in both country and rock et al), to good music. And vowed from that day forth, to ONLY listen to the Oldies.
The Oldies being roughly defined by myself then as anything older than 16, lol. Or perhaps younger, but a great song from the 70s, which I hadn't heard till it was a few years old.
And I kept my word. And from spot checks now and then in the decades since, I certainly haven't missed much.
And by only listening to great music, from the two/three decade Golden Age of Music (50s thru the 70s, with some 80s added carefully) as opposed to "new music" of indiscriminate or more often nonexistent quality, my earworms are now, uniformly fantastic! And the earworms now include this song from time to time.
I'm still discovering new music, that although it is old chronologically, is new to me.
And a few (very few) newer songs that make the grade.
Life is just too short to listen to crap music, just for the unimportant reason that it is new.
As a farm lad, I knew then, as I know now, that being "fresh and new" definitely does NOT improve anything that can be defined as being a form of feces. Whether it is from a cow, a horse, a dog, or feces from a music studio. Being fresh and new, just makes feces worse and less tolerable. Which is a fact the so-called music industry does not want you to think about that hard. 😂
Listen to the album in its entirety. I’m hoping you’ve done this and experienced the full emotional journey
It sounds like someone is yelling "More Cowbell!"
Holy crap it actually does..
Haha
HAHAHAHA
Yeah, ..
I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell
No, it's "Paul is dead!"
You lured me in with some imperfection in the song and tricked me into listening to a 10 minute beatles history lesson.
I respect that.
I like your pfp and taste in music
😆
How many people have given you props on having HAL as your avitar. Sweet...
@@PGeorge61 it's constant lemme tell you
@@nateds7326 lol...a price must be payed for greatness....😜
As a beatle fan for life and bored to hell with the same facts all over again everywhere I find this pretty refreshing and interesting! Good job!
I rewatch this video so much because She’s so Heavy is my favourite Beatles song. The Trident recording is one of the best pieces of art produced.
John on rhythm guitar, Paul on bass guitar, George on lead guitar, Ringo on drums, and Yoko on everyone's nerves.
John plays lead on this song
Too funny!
Yeah, Yoko made it a lousy record
John & George both played & recorded multi- rythym tracks ( arpeggios & heavy ascending/descending riff)
I suspect George plays lead guitar on the intro only, the solo in the middle is all John.
That's cute.
It's Paul's voice scat singing his bass line. That's all it is, no biggie. Oh brother.
Nobody said it was anything more than that.
Haha it does sound exactly like that
I think the original poster finally got some decent gear to listen on. Stuff like this all over many records, just get some HiFi gear, good pressings, and critical ears.
Its the Beatles. Its never not a big deal. Haha.
Wish I would’ve seen this before I started damn. Respect
Having been a fan since the beginning I wish everyone too young to be there could experience the kick ass thrill of waiting for the next Beatle album to come out, the evolution of their sound was kinda mind blowing. The wonderful thing is we evolved right along with them, they were the pied pipers of my generation. Then there was the individual music they all continued to make. Then No more John, no more George. Still have Paul &Ringo thankfully
Waited with baited breath. Finding them years later is admirable, but being there from the beginning is such a life enriching experience that stays with you til your last breath. Another milestone just passed. FEB. 7, 1964 and FEB. 9. Arrived in America and very first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Another one coming up August 19, 1965 AND '66. '65, Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX. '66, Midsouth Coliseum Memphis, TN, face to face at their press conference. John autographed his 1st book and George shook hands with me, his effort, not mine. Yeah, being there from the beginning is the best way!
Yeah if I ever get access to a time machine I am totally going to one of the first Beatles concerts. LOL
For as long as it lasted, I'm glad they all got to have a life after "The Beatles". I'm still 16 in my heart when I hear their music. At least someone will remember me 3-4 generations after I'm gone, when they hear a Beatles song. 🥲
I particularly remember the surprise of the Rubber Soul cover as I unwrapped the album as a Christmas present 1965. It was so different! But not as shocking as seeing the Sgt Pepper cover for the first time.
This song had a huge impact on me as a young boy.
The distorted and repeating riff, combined with the white noise and the, at least seemingly, slow increase in volume hypnotized me.
Can music really be like this? Now, 40 years later my favorite songs are long repeating riffs that goes on and on.
It comes from here.
You: "Warning, you can't unhear this." Me: "Okay." You: "Did you hear it?" Me: "No."
@J.W. Braun honestly I think this was interesting about the time and all the layers put into this song, like all their songs as they grew more mature musically, though really, it really is someone, probably sub-consciously, singing along, that's what musicians do when their really into the melody or certain part of a song or their part..etc. ; )
I'm fucked if I can hear it 🎸✌️
Ah, not just me then.
Mind you I do get a lot of hearing aid adds pushed my way by the advertising algorithms.
Perhaps they know something...
I would listen to this song super loud thru headphones when I was a kid. Something about bong hits and headphones really made all of the parts come thru. 40+ years later I'm deaf as a post but I remember hearing most of what was talked about here. I did appreciate the history lesson though.
I would assume it was Ringo saying, “Yeeaaahh!!”
If you play I Want You backwards at 78rpm, just before John's scream, you'll clearly hear Ringo shouting 'why are you listening to the tune backwards, you f***king muppet!' No, I'm just joking....
You never know
I dunno sounds pretty legit
that was funny.
😂🤣😂🤣😂
@Kwenz Landah pal, do you think you are his friend?
Without question this was the greatest track the Beatles ever recorded.
I agree!
It is.
It's with question
@@swirlingfudge i agree… there’s many questions
This will always be my favourite Beatles song💘
I ALWAYS HEARD IT AND THOUGHT MY DAD WAS CALLING ME DOWNSTAIRS GAHAHAH
yep! same.
I always hear a telephone in Revolution 1
moronkink Me too....🤣
Seems like the better your HiFi, and the greater the frequency range it plays. The more this happens. There's a lot of stuff on old recordings like this just waiting to surprise you late at night after you've smoked some ganga, and make you freak out a little. 😊
There's a couple of Etta James songs where there's loud background noises, and it sounds like someone is upstairs in my home making noise, but I live in a single story condo. So at first it had me thinking an animal got into our attic, or something like that. Definitely felt a little stupid after figuring it all out. 😂✌️
Ha!! Same thing happened to me EVERY time I listened to Panic In Detroit by Bowie. I swear someone yells “Bob”. Sounded exactly like my dad calling from downstairs.
The best Beatles TH-camr out there.
Wow, that's high praise. Thanks for watching!
SteliosSeven no
What about Hollyhobs? He's also really good at Beatles video essays.
I'm a big fan of Hollynobs! Fab Four Archivist is another excellent Beatles channel worth checking out: th-cam.com/channels/xWFyPG8Qgj-1BVqC_r6rLg.html
@@YouCantUnhearThis Definitely deserved though. I really appreciate your dedication and detective work through such subtle parts of the song. And the videos are always such high quality. Keep up the great work!
It sounded like Ringo exclaiming "That's what I'm talking about!" after John's yells
I’ve had so many “favorite“ Beatles songs all my life. Now in my senior years I have to admit that this is probably my very favorite song on my very favorite album.
The isolated three vocals ....really shows again and again their power as interpreters. Ringo's drumming... outstanding.
What do you mean interpreter?
Sorry!!! I ment performers as well as composers, etc.
They were so complete as musicians!
@@cynthiaberenguer2188 you can edit comments by the way
Ringo has perfect timing. The heart of the instrumentals.
It sounds like Paul McCartney. It seems like there's lots of beatles songs with him adding little funny vocals in the background.
matt p ya it's the bob wills influence in him.😎 Ahh Haaaa...
Not Paul he been put the band 4 years by Abby road billy took the acting role of paul.
JeremyB billy is fake. Paul’s alive and still is
Michael Schultz. So you mean the older country singer Bob Wills.?
I would never think Bob Wills would influence Paul.??
I knew his son BW Jr. in the 80's in California. Carrying on singing like his father Wills Sr.
This song just shows us how The Beatles could adapt to any style of music. They could easily have gone down the Led Zep Route. But then we have Maxwell's silver Hammer.
I’ve heard worse songs then that
It's a good wee granny song that one
Haha Maxwell's Silver Hammer is fucking dope.
Not following the Maxwell Hate Bandwagon. Love it.
it's a great song though to be honest, extremely catchy and with maybe some offhand lyrics but some that are still a joy to listen
Without a doubt my FAVORITE song on this album! Their talent was on full display, one final time. It just shows how in sync they were, each adding his ingredient to the song made it such a masterpiece! To me, the last two minutes or so sounds like you're in a rainstorm, hurricane or a tornado, so chaotic, destructive, then...silence. It's the end. BRILLIANT!
This song was on the playlist that played in the restaurant where I held my very first job. It was 1976 and the restaurant was The Courtyard Restaurant in Houston, Texas. The entire experience was surreal for me because my family didn't dine at high-end restaurants or listen to rock and roll.
The central part of the restaurant was created to give the sensation of an outdoor courtyard somewhere in Europe, complete with moving clouds on the ceiling, rooflines all around the perimeter and clotheslines with laundry drying. If I wasn't busy when "l Want You" came on, I would settle back into the shadows and allow all of my senses to be overwhelmed and take me on a drug-free trip. To this day, this song instantly transports me back to 1976 and that restaurant. Thank you for adding so much nuance to an amazing memory!
That's a great memory. 👍
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I just started a new job and this plays quite frequently
Great memory, thank you!
John's scream here is one of the greatest screams in rock and roll. I never see it mentioned on any lists on that subject. Pity...
Right up there with the scream on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
It's a very primal scream, isn't it?
@@djmoch1001 It was a preview of what was to come a year later on his Plastic Ono Band solo LP!
His performance on "Mother" is rock screaming at its finest. From the heart.
Not to mention "Well Well Well"
“I want you” is top five Beatles songs for me. In fact, it’s one of the great recordings in history. It bleeds, it screams, it growls. The guitar lines are iconic. Paul’s bass playing is slick & sexy. The vocals are well, you get the idea. I can NOT stop it once it starts. I’ve probably listened to it 500 times over the last 50 years. Both to listen and to study. The final riff line could go on forever, & I imagine it does. I’ve imagined seeing it live & the final section goes on for 45 minutes, over & over, tearing at your brain as guitars burn and new ones are brought up to burned as well. It’s harder than anything Zeppelin recorded because it’s purely raw. Zeppelin actually played monster but their recordings are clean & crisp. I love em btw. This song, including John’s scream, is utterly primal, as if all the frustrations of their entire careers were being released. The white noise is was a revelation at the time. I imagined them playing, and the camera pulls back and they’re in the middle of a withering blizzard and they just sink into the screaming wind. It’s mayhem encroaching on the music. Like electronic rage slowly drowning out the Beatles… and of course, when it cuts off, we ALL jumped out of our chairs to see why the record player broke. The ultimate WTF moment. I literally then thought I’d gotten a bad copy of the record. I had to check with a friend to realize he’d gotten a bad copy too!! What a rip it was!
Loved this song from the day I bought this wonderful album way back when - my highlight was the change of beat @ 2:25 into the solo - very cool! Plus one of the greatest song outro's ever......always had to be played LOUD!! What a song - what an album - what a joy it gave and still gives me to hear it to this day. Our generation was blessed to have had these guys as a huge part of our musical lives.
Sounds like Paul to me.
Paul (excited cause they're rockin' their butts off !! )
Joshua Watt I agree it does sound more like Paul then John and I don’t think George would do that it doesn’t just seem like his doing and if it was heard from the drums then it would be much louder if it was Ringo doing it
Paul adlib off mic
Sounds like he might be directing them. Cause that's what he did!
Joshua Watt yeah
Man, your channel is like X-files for people who love Beatles.
Right?? And I. Am. HERE for it. 💜
I think "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" on pondering the Beatles about 20 yrs ago, I decided that this, was the BEST they have ever done - and I don't even do drugs! I can imagine what a trip that must be at the same time!
The Beatles reached a new level in composition and style. If they had stayed together, who knows what else?
After they broke up, thinking about their solo work, I don't think they ever created anything better than this.
One of my favorite Beatles songs hands down, one of my favorite songs of all time. Enjoyed this video more than I thought I might too, I’ve never seen any of your stuff before now. Very good, cheers mate!
That guitar solo would’ve been truly amazing on the final take tbh
uh no.
It's Paul vocalising the bass line. Something like "Badadoom Da-Dada"
That's what I thought : ))
Yup. He did the same thing all through "If I Fell."
Yea.....you can even see him do it on the Get Back show....he does it on several songs
@@PabloRichards which part?
@@farhanrasyidi Just listen to the whole song with headphones. You'll begin to hear the vocalizations of the bass all the way through.
Fascinating to hear how much the song had evolved from the "Get Back" sessions with Billy Preston. Also read that Paul objected heartily to John's idea of a hard out at the end, but has since come to appreciate it.
I was about 13 years old and hanging out with my best friend and his older brother in their basement when I first heard I Want You/She's So Heavy. It was highly cranked up on a great stereo system, and I was transported into a world of intrigue and awesomeness!!! It remains one of my all time favorite songs!♡ It was very cool to learn about the details of it's creation. Thank you!♡
I've often wondered if with today's recording technology a remake could be made that had all the original complexity and intrigue, but also deeper and more powerful bass sounds.
With every Beatles record I ever played there was always that background voice of my father yelling TURN THE BLOODY VOLUME DOWN.
Sounds like we had the same father.👍😉
lol
One thing you didn't mention was how the song relates to the very next track "Here Comes the Sun." Although on vinyl the space between the two tracks required an album flip on other media it is such an amazing change of gears to go from the tape cut on "I Want You" to the gentle beginnings of "Here Comes the Sun." I think it is especially effective on the digital format.
Aaron Landers I always liken that abrupt cut to: walking/driving through a blinding winter blizzard, the lashing snow impairing all senses-then all of a sudden winter ends and springs breaks forth with warmth as the sunlight peaks over the horizon and the first buds and blades of grass bloom...
Aaron Landers man, It always rises up so fast that after it ends I would not wanna hear any other song
Right on. That transition is sublimely jarring.
@@EJ160E that was great, nicely said
@@EJ160E I have a version of Abbey Road that I purchase at Roma many years ago, and I Want You didn't stop cut abrupt. It shunt down very slowly !!! Turning back from Roma to France, all my friends were crazy about having a different version of them and I'm proud to have this unusual version ! (sorry for my bad Englis)
This song is literally so good and the fact it was made in the year is was is mind blowing. The Beatles are truly one of a kind and there will never be anyone like them.
I'm not a big fan of the Beatles but, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this song. It's a work of genius., Every element combines to create an incredibly powerful soundscape as the tension increases and the white noise takes over the music. My only complaint is that it's too short. It could go on and on as far a as I'm concerned.
I've heard several versions - remixed to ridiculous lengths and it totally works.
Yeah, I'd say it was Paul working out his bassline.
I freaking love these anomalies and imperfections throughout their collection. Kudos to them for leaving this stuff in and giving the music its character. No frills, no gimmicks, just genius songwriting and performance. It doesn't take away in the least- in fact it adds to it! More bands should do this
Can't talk about the roots of metal music without mentioning this song.
Every peep and squeek is diliberately included in all of these works of brilliant art ,theres nothing that is any more mysterious than any thing else on any song by these master craftsmen of sound.
I never appreciated until today how much work went into this song, and how long it took. As a teenager I didn't like the song as it wasn't melodic enough but it in the intervening years it has grown on me. I like all the ghost vocals, assuming they were the result of studio exuberance and the small number of tracks. For me they are a lot of fun. I am pleased they have not been erased in our current enthusiasm for standardisation and perfectionism.
Lot of them cannot be erased without completely redoing the track. They were just there buried in the original tracks. You could only get rid of them if they were completely isolated tracks. ...Why would they be isolated?.. It would always be buried background noise in instrument tracks or even moved forward from several tracks to a single submix..
That's interesting, since this song got me into The Beatles. I later learned to appreciate their early stuff.
I didn't have a clue that that guitar solo existed in the mix. It sounds so gorgeous, I wish it was louder :(
It's a shame they didn't include it on the 50th anniversary edition =(
@@condor.67 My thoughts exactly.
condor67 I remember being really disappointed that more takes of I Want You weren’t included.
The second one sounds like Paul for sure. And I thought George bought the MOOG?
It’s the chord progression in this song that’s so cool starting on Dm and falling to an Amaj. I love playing it. It’s haunting.
This song, as you presented it, really appears like a treasure chest full of gems, with a few hidden compartments that contain even more gems. There is so much to discover when solitary tracts are explored. It's sort of like archeology.
this song is crazy i wish it was longer though
Renan Souza you did not get it...
yogurtsniffer86 good one buddy
I always heard it, and thought it was Paul. In many Beatle songs they do call outs to each other, this is just one of many.
Me too. As I began listening to the Beatles, Wings was already a phenomenon. Paul seems to do that throughout both band's life.
And those "call outs" do seem very frequent with the Beatles.
BTW, nice name, or moniker; Lilly Dee.
@@johnodonnell5840 Thanks. None of these "you can't unhear it moments" are new to me, always heard them and it is mainly Paul doing it.
Same
Fantastic song! For this tune, the lyrics are just window dressing to an AMAZING masterwork of music. I've Loved this song since the album was released back in 1969!!!
Love "I Want You (She's so Heavy)." It gets so dark sounding. It's so unique.
I can only say that I am now of an age when nearly everything the Beatles ever did makes me sob with painful nostalgia. Abbey Road was and remains brilliant.
1:14 Never in my LIFE have I actually been glad to hear "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey".
I had always heard it was someone scared and confused in the studio, saying "What was that about?!".
I've always wished we could hear the version of this song without the cut; a whole 'nother minute of that punching guitar riff would just make it perfect. Now that I know there's a guitar solo buried (or perhaps removed entirely) in the mix, I can't help but want to hear that, too.
I need to become friends with Giles Martin, I think...
The isolated tracks are available online, if you know where to look. And on the new boxset there's an outtake that goes past the cut at the end.
TheHylianBatman *AAAAAAAAAAA* KANSAS CITY
@@julianuary Will have to look into that! Thanks!
I've actually listened to the isolated tracks. Guess I didn't listen hard enough.
@@thomascars1 TAKE MY BABY BACK HOME
Probably my favorite Beatles tune. I started listening to them in 1974, my senior year in high school. Haven’t stopped.
What a great video! I absolutely love this track, and it's one of my favourite Beatle songs. I very clearly remember hearing it for the first time at a parry and my mind was blown by the massive ending with the huge guitars and the white noise and then the sudden abrupt stop.
You Can't Unhear This is like CGP Grey or Lemmino; he doesn't upload often, but when he does you best believe the video is going to *rock.* (Let's get him to 100k guys!)
“No one would dare shout at a Beatle during a recording session.”
Norman Smith has entered the chat
Jeremy Latta how about that battle axe Yoko Ono
This is, was, and will always be my favorite Beatles song. It synthesizes everything that was great about them perfectly. It only made perfect sense to find out that this was literally their ultimate studio recording. I always just figured the voice referred to was Paul or John shouting just off mic the way they were both fond of doing when the band really started to “cook”.
When this album was released I couldn’t get enough of it. The very first time I heard the abrupt ending of I Want You, I think my heart stopped for a moment as well. It’s still a great album and I still listen to it. A lot.
Your channel has quickly become a must watch for me
I cannot even put into words how far ahead the Beatles still are than everyone, and how sad it is this seems to get more lost every year
This will always be my favorite album of all time no matter who does what. It is truly a masterpiece ❤️🙏
It's Paul not only can you hear his voice but he has a habit of following the melody of songs. A great example of this is the stripped down version of Something. You can't hear it very well in the final but after it was stripped down to only George and Paul's vocals it becomes apparent. Paul does this quite frequently not only with Wings, his solo work, and live.
The guitar solo has been my ringtone for years lol.
It always sounded like "far out" to me, in response to John's great scream! Anyway "ghost vocals" were common in Beatles recordings (listen to Chains, for example, from their very first album). No reason to want to "unhear" them; they're an essential part of Beatle mystique.
This song belongs on a Sludge Metal album. I cannot understate how much I adore this song and seeing this video just makes me love it even more.
Always loved this song. Thanks for the dissection. Brilliant.
New episode is finally out! What do you think of I Want You?
I want you to let me know in the comments :)
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Favorite Beatles song behind A Day in The Life. Love your work man, hope you have a good one ✌️☮️🔆
i LOVE this song. i’m thinking of covering it, as a matter of fact. i mean, it’s so... well, you know... 😏
Where do you get the isolated tracks??
@@occengineering Rock Band/5.1 Stems
Please, don’t leave us for another 3 months. Your work is amazing :( 🙏🏻🎶
You have renewed my enthusiasm for The Beatles genius. Thank you
Thank you! Always excellent Beatles content!
Imagine making a whole video about Paul McCartney making some off-mic vocalizations while playing and spinning it like it's some great mystery.
The way this song was produced is such chilling symbolism...
How so?
@@chipgaasche4933 Static fades in, competing with the music and then the sound suddenly stops. It's like musical symbolism for the end of the band, and it was the last song they worked on together. It just feels eerie, even though I'm sure it was a psychological representation of what they were going through at the time, expressed through their art. It just feels meaningful, knowing the background of the song. Really profound.
@@m0L3ify I see. I think you're reading too much into it..but I can see what you mean.
@@m0L3ify I'm sure it represents just what you say; the abrupt end of the Beatles. Not sure that it is chilling, eerie or particularly profound, but hey I think it's a great work too.
Listening to all this gives me shivers as Abbey Road was one of my very first records I ever had. It was a birthday gift from my aunt who didn't really know what she was buying for me. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, isn't it?
WOW. Those harmonized vocals are amazing.
Sometimes being a boomer has its upside, lol! I was a kid, just getting into music heavily, when this came out. Could. Not. Believe. And yes, this song tripped me out big time!
Nice video, well done!
Paul is always shouting out things when they're banging away
on a rocking backing track.
This is one of the forgotten songs. Thanks for reminding me of this classic !!
I've long loved and enjoyed this song. And I've always known there was something unique about it, thanks for filling in the gaps.