I saw Hendrix on his first U.S. tour when he opened up for The Rascals at the Central Park outdoor ice skating rink in New York City. He was on his way up, The Rascals on their way down. That was the last time he opened up for anybody, of course.
I can't stop imaging how mind-blowing this song must have been, listening to it for the very first time 60 years ago, especially if they were lucky enough to own a stereo record player. Not the norm for the times, and how The Beatles kept on pushing that envelope, again and again, is just phenomenal.
I've been listening to this album since it was released - that's almost 60 years - and Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like it's from the future. No digital recording or processing in those days, just a rotating leslie speaker, tape loops with the engineers holding pencils to keep the loops tight, and backwards guitar by reversing the tape spool and playing it from the end to the beginning, the beginning, the beginning....
What I find so impressive about The Beatles Revolver album was their ages when it was recorded: John Lennon: 25 Paul McCartney: turned 24 during recording George Harrison: 23 Ringo Starr: 25 These days, guys their ages don’t seem to have much of an agenda in mind. I guess The Beatles thought, “Let’s us geniuses change musical history. How about it lads” ?
What a wonderful reaction! Today I was in a meeting. I told a friend, "I think life is a game." A few minutes later, I walked to my car. I kid you not. The very second I turned on the engine, I heard the line from this song: "Play the game existence til the end."
John told producer George Martin he wanted to sound like a Tibetan Monk preaching from a mountain top. Tape loops, backwards guitar, it has it all. Actually the first track recorded for the album. Ringo came up with the title, one of his malapropisms.
I didn't know it was the first song recorded - kind of like Day in the Life on the next album. They worked out their finish from the beginning ... (from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... )
I waited in a line to buy this the day it was released. I then met up with my bandmates to do a group listen. We were floored. This is perhaps the ultimate transition album. The future had arrived! Loved your thoughtful reaction.
This is my favorite of the album. I ADORE it! Love Indian music....the drone....the sitar....the rhythms.....Can you imagine, Brandon, what this did to broaden our taste in music back in '66? It opened up a whole new world of possibilities......World Music, Psychedelia... Thank GAWD for The Beatles and what they did for popular music
Imagine recording this musical masterpiece and then going on tour and reporters asking you "what do you like about American girls" or "when did you last get your haircut"? Must have driven the boys nuts. No wonder the touring ended that year.
I was born the year this came out. First heard it in my 40s. Amazing. I was familiar with a lot of other Beatles stuff from "oldies" compilations but this one was not usually included so like some other gems of theirs, waited hearing the whole album much later.
3 years from "She Loves YOU" to this-...always said that this is the song that changed EVERYTHING (its the Beatles...its the last on the album..."what just happened?"..)...opened the door to what could be!!...its still only 1966....next stop Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane...grew up on MONO version and i still hear this mix differently
Great reaction! Great song! Great album! Their entire career is just a very fast evolution. The early Beatles are a powerhouse of energy, and the later Beatles are just mesmerizing. Each song has such a unique fingerprint. Compare tomorrow never knows to here comes the sun, to helter skelter, to Eleanor Rigby. It’s such a unique powerhouse catalogue. And you’re right, it only continues to deepen with repeated listens.
...Revolver is certainly an interesting journey, and as you also stated: half-way out of their early years and half-way into their full maturity. They often built unique audios into their songs, and this one with quite a few tape-loops makes sure, that no one will ever be able to copy it completely... speaking of it: Phil Collins created a version of it on his first solo album 'Face Value' - worth a listen! And an interesting fact: 'Tomorrow never knows' actually is a phrase, that Ringo apparently often used as a comment, and John liked it so much, that he took it for the title. And another one: the 1997 James Bond movie was also titled after this one, as an homage to the Beatles, slightly changed into: 'Tomorrow never dies' 😎
For a couple of decades, REVOLVER was less considered than SGT P's but, for fans paying attention, it achieved That Importance Level that is frankly far beyond mere good or bad.
When I first heard this song I didn't get it. But when I got into the Beatles in college in the 90s this felt just like a lot of the electronic music built out of samples that was becoming popular at that time. In that context it fit right in and became one of my favorite Beatles songs.
I enjoyed that a lot! I had heard a few of the songs before but i had never heard the whole album. An interesting note , an eighties Goth/Rock band called The Mission did a great cover of Tomorrow Never Knows! Thanks Brandon!
I've enjoyed your reactions to discovering one of the great Beatles albums. John took the lyrics for this song directly from the opening passage of Dr Timothy Leary's panegyric to LSD, a book called The Psychedelic Experience. This was Leary's acid-oriented personal interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (or, Book of Living and Dying), a centuries old instruction manual for Buddhist monks on preparing for death while still living this life. John came across the book when it seemed to jump out at him as he entered the Indica Gallery Bookshop, a business Paul and some friends had invested in. It was also the place he and a young Japanese multimedia/ performance artist Yoko Ono were famously soon to meet, while she was exhibiting her art there... For the song, he asked George Martin to try and create the effect of 10,000 Tibetan monks chanting on a mountain. Brilliant and ground-breaking though the result was, he was never fully satisfied it achieved the aural experience he could hear in his head....
The selection of the top 6 surprises me a little. For me, Tomorrow never knows, Got to get you into my life, I'm only sleeping, And your bird can sing/She said, she said are all must-haves. Good day Sunshine, at least here in Germany, was a honey advert for a long time... Of course, there isn't a track on Revolver, that I would skip.
“Paperback Writer” and “Rain” are the songs that came out during this album. Check out “Rain” first. The Beatles and their producer George Martin did a lot with this song. The biggest being that they after recording it, they slowed the song down on the recording. It’s masterful. Ringo Starr said that it was his best drumming. Thanks.
Amazing drumming from Ringo. Given that the musical special effects we're all used to haven't been invented yet, I would love to know how they managed some of the sounds.
Similar to SGT P's MR. KITE, these lyrics tagged along with John from another source, and he was able to convert those words into this song. And all the recording techniques would be like 'permission slips' to every producer, recording engineer and composer: "The Beatles did it, make money - why can't I?"
First! Again, so amazingly good. The memory I have for this song is listening to it in my parents’ garden while they were on holiday. Sun was baking and so was I 🙃 Maybe aged 19 ❤ Thanks for the album review. This was the second transitional album, after Rubber Soul. Yes, moving forwards into a more advanced sound with George Martin coming into his own. At the same time, as they were less constrained by convention and also making tour-friendly hits. They stopped touring after their albums were burned and they got death threats with the “bigger than Jesus” misunderstanding, among other things.
Of course the use of tape loops was ubiquitous in experimental avantgarde music. But to hear it on a pop/rock album in 1966, by the biggest band in the world... I'm not sure people in general fully appreciates what an enormous leap this was, and that it's something we will never experience again.
Personally, I think the 'bridge' album was Rubber Soul, in terms of taking the Beatles away from the fab 4 era. but every subsequent album was another significant step forward.
I agree. We'd seen a couple of albums going into HARD DAYS NIGHT contribute songs or composing/recording that were 'beyond the norm' for radio at the time, and beyond what the Beatles had previously (and wonderfully) delivered to their growing fanbase. I can put HARD DAYS, HELP and RUBBER SOUL together in some ways, but REVOLVER is also a very different look (for the Beatles) and they'd push their Looks and their music far beyond Mop Top-dom.
These strange vocals reminds me of some songs of The Stranglers album "The Gospel According to the Meninblack" or the one from "The Raven" album called "Meninblack".
For those that think that Ringo Starr was just an "OK" drummer. Try playing this. Playing a drum beat like this over and over without changing it up is very challenging to do. Ringo is a great drummer, this song alone proves that.
I quite like this one! Moody Beatles and Experimental Beatles are my Favorite Beatles! 👌🥰 And when you thank the Fab Four, I would also include George Martin IMHO! From Wikipedia: "Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 - 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician. He was commonly referred to as the "fifth Beatle" because of his extensive involvement in each of the Beatles' original albums. Martin's formal musical expertise and interest in novel recording practices facilitated the group's rudimentary musical education and desire for new musical sounds to record. Most of their orchestral and string arrangements were written by Martin, and he played piano or keyboards on a number of their records. Their collaborations resulted in popular, highly acclaimed records with innovative sounds" and with Rubber Soul Martin said "I think Rubber Soul was the first of the albums that presented a new Beatles to the world. Up to this point we had been making albums that were rather like a collection of their singles. And now, we really were beginning to think about albums as a bit of art in their own right. We were thinking about the album as an entity of its own, and Rubber Soul was the first one to emerge in this way." And FWIW if I had to pick my 6 favorite songs from this album, at this moment I'd pick the following (subject to change ;-) Eleanor Rigby Here, There And Everywhere Yellow Submarine Good Day Sunshine For No One Got To Get You Into My Life
The incredible thing is that this was the first song they recorded for the album. John wanted to have Tibetian Monks chanting but it was too expensive and complicated according to (I think George Martin), so Paul and George M especially did the sound collage to it. Ringo's drumming is exceptional - he also geve the song the title. It is interesting that you expected a slow song in the end. Actually all Beatles albums when off with a bang, mostly some harder Rock (Twist and Shout, Money, Everybody...., Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Run for Your Life, Get Back, The End - Her Majesty is a hidding track and origanally placed between Mustard and Pam) or something arty/monumental (Day in the Life, All You Need Is Love - and THIS song). There is one exception with the White Album that closes with a Lennon ballad sung by Ringo but Goodnight makes total sence after 90+ minutes of all kind of music through all genres and styles. A Hard Day's Night doesn't have a proper "last song" as it consisted only of 13 instead of 14 songs as they usually did per album. But I would put I'll Be Back in cathogroy II: it's and art folk rock song. AHDN is and always was my fav album by the Beatles and as conceptual as Rubber Soul. I am talking about UK albums btw except for Magial Mystery Tour which was a double EP there.
The song is great because of the way they did it: loops, etc. They kinda "invent" the techno music in 66. This is a Beatles song, not just a "Lennon" song. The song in itself is not the strong point, here. And this song is one of the arguments why Revolver is my preferred Beatles album, as well as the number of great songs, the variety of styles, George and Ringo really involved (more than in Sergeant Pepper's, for example), etc. A period when they were 100% together.
Phil Collins, on his first solo album "Face Value" (1981), at the end of the album, included a cover of this song. Phil Collins' cover is probably better than the original.
Phil Collins has done a fantastic cover of this dark song from Lennon, on his first album Face Value, with a slowed rythm. Knew it before the Beatles one, so I prefer Phil's version. Like Jealous guy, I prefer Bryan Ferry's version than Lennons.
Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With this album popular music became an art form. That mind set endured through the 70's then gradually disappeared. Hence the rubbish we get today.
As much as Beatles fans rave about this I have to say I’m not into it one bit, I’m a huge Beatles fan and this one is a skipper for me usually, however, Phil Collins did a cover of this and I love it, it’s genuinely better than The Beatles version, it’s musically more melodic and interesting than this, and trust me, I’m a huge Beatles fan, the best band I’ve ever heard actually.
Imagine hearing this as a teenager in 66. It was an astonishing song then and still in 2025.
~ I actually was 16 when I first heard this on release, 74 now ~
I was 14....perfect age to grow up with the lads. They blew our minds all along the way
Changed my life at 13 - and prepared me for Hendrix next year. Got me a little 'experienced'.
I saw Hendrix on his first U.S. tour when he opened up for The Rascals at the Central Park outdoor ice skating rink in New York City. He was on his way up, The Rascals on their way down. That was the last time he opened up for anybody, of course.
That they did! @@lawrencesmith6536
I can't stop imaging how mind-blowing this song must have been, listening to it for the very first time 60 years ago, especially if they were lucky enough to own a stereo record player. Not the norm for the times, and how The Beatles kept on pushing that envelope, again and again, is just phenomenal.
From “love me do” to this song in less than three years.
4 years. 1962-1966
The creative power of psychedelics.Creativity crashed through the floor with the rising popularity of cocaine in the seventies
there was nothing like this when it came out---so far ahead of their time! innovators. And I love the spiritual, trippy, vibe of this tune
Check out the corresponding single to this album, Paperback Writer and Rain.
I remember hearing this track as a 4 year old when my mum bought the album. It scared the crap out of me and mesmerised me at the same time 🤣
It is an album highlight, on an album full of highlights. Truly pioneering for popular music.
This was not ahead of its time. It revealed there is no time. 😮😊😮
Ringo was great on this
Revolutionary album
I've been listening to this album since it was released - that's almost 60 years - and Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like it's from the future. No digital recording or processing in those days, just a rotating leslie speaker, tape loops with the engineers holding pencils to keep the loops tight, and backwards guitar by reversing the tape spool and playing it from the end to the beginning, the beginning, the beginning....
I remember the very first time I heard this. I was totally blown away. This was way way back when it first came out.
It's like 30 years ahead of it's time. It's 90s alternative psych-rock.
Decades & decades ahead of its time. Genius.
What I find so impressive about The Beatles Revolver album was their ages when it was recorded:
John Lennon: 25
Paul McCartney: turned 24 during recording
George Harrison: 23
Ringo Starr: 25
These days, guys their ages don’t seem to have much of an agenda in mind. I guess The Beatles thought, “Let’s us geniuses change musical history. How about it lads” ?
And Harrison was only about a year older when he did Within You Without You.
What a wonderful reaction! Today I was in a meeting. I told a friend, "I think life is a game." A few minutes later, I walked to my car. I kid you not. The very second I turned on the engine, I heard the line from this song: "Play the game existence til the end."
John told producer George Martin he wanted to sound like a Tibetan Monk preaching from a mountain top. Tape loops, backwards guitar, it has it all. Actually the first track recorded for the album. Ringo came up with the title, one of his malapropisms.
I didn't know it was the first song recorded - kind of like Day in the Life on the next album. They worked out their finish from the beginning ... (from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... from the beginning ... )
This song is the future.
And it still will be many years from now 💥
Johns lyrics here, and also in Across the Universe are just on another level
I waited in a line to buy this the day it was released. I then met up with my bandmates to do a group listen. We were floored. This is perhaps the ultimate transition album. The future had arrived! Loved your thoughtful reaction.
that opening chord is chilling, so cool man
This is my favorite of the album. I ADORE it! Love Indian music....the drone....the sitar....the rhythms.....Can you imagine, Brandon, what this did to broaden our taste in music back in '66? It opened up a whole new world of possibilities......World Music, Psychedelia... Thank GAWD for The Beatles and what they did for popular music
What makes this more interesting is to read how they created these sounds.
Imagine recording this musical masterpiece and then going on tour and reporters asking you "what do you like about American girls" or "when did you last get your haircut"? Must have driven the boys nuts. No wonder the touring ended that year.
For No One is my favorite. It's so elegant and emotional.
This song is mind boggling good
I used to listen to this album with a speaker on either side of my head. Didn't have headphones. Lol.
I was born the year this came out. First heard it in my 40s. Amazing. I was familiar with a lot of other Beatles stuff from "oldies" compilations but this one was not usually included so like some other gems of theirs, waited hearing the whole album much later.
I've been looking forward to this reaction!
3 years from "She Loves YOU" to this-...always said that this is the song that changed EVERYTHING (its the Beatles...its the last on the album..."what just happened?"..)...opened the door to what could be!!...its still only 1966....next stop Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane...grew up on MONO version and i still hear this mix differently
All to liquid LSD 25
Only BEATLES could make it!!!!!
Great reaction! Great song! Great album! Their entire career is just a very fast evolution. The early Beatles are a powerhouse of energy, and the later Beatles are just mesmerizing. Each song has such a unique fingerprint. Compare tomorrow never knows to here comes the sun, to helter skelter, to Eleanor Rigby. It’s such a unique powerhouse catalogue. And you’re right, it only continues to deepen with repeated listens.
One of my favourites.
...Revolver is certainly an interesting journey, and as you also stated: half-way out of their early years and half-way into their full maturity. They often built unique audios into their songs, and this one with quite a few tape-loops makes sure, that no one will ever be able to copy it completely... speaking of it: Phil Collins created a version of it on his first solo album 'Face Value' - worth a listen! And an interesting fact: 'Tomorrow never knows' actually is a phrase, that Ringo apparently often used as a comment, and John liked it so much, that he took it for the title. And another one: the 1997 James Bond movie was also titled after this one, as an homage to the Beatles, slightly changed into: 'Tomorrow never dies' 😎
For a couple of decades, REVOLVER was less considered than SGT P's but, for fans paying attention, it achieved That Importance Level that is frankly far beyond mere good or bad.
I think there was a certain amount experimental avant-garde music around this time but The Beatles somehow made very accessible as well
This song is ahead of this time...
lt was exactly of its time.
My favorite Beatles song
I remember listening to this song so many years ago! Great reactions to this amazing album! It was quite a journey! 😊
The Beatles Psychedelic song is the precursor of metal
The sound of birds was made by tape loops. Pretty amazing at that time huh!!!!
When I first heard this song I didn't get it. But when I got into the Beatles in college in the 90s this felt just like a lot of the electronic music built out of samples that was becoming popular at that time. In that context it fit right in and became one of my favorite Beatles songs.
A preview of what would be next from this magnificent group.
I enjoyed that a lot! I had heard a few of the songs before but i had never heard the whole album.
An interesting note , an eighties Goth/Rock band called The Mission did a great cover of Tomorrow Never Knows!
Thanks Brandon!
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I hear the beauty within. And I LOVE IT!!! 💙💜❤🧡💛💚🎵🎶🎶🎶
I've enjoyed your reactions to discovering one of the great Beatles albums.
John took the lyrics for this song directly from the opening passage of Dr Timothy Leary's panegyric to LSD, a book called The Psychedelic Experience. This was Leary's acid-oriented personal interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (or, Book of Living and Dying), a centuries old instruction manual for Buddhist monks on preparing for death while still living this life.
John came across the book when it seemed to jump out at him as he entered the Indica Gallery Bookshop, a business Paul and some friends had invested in. It was also the place he and a young Japanese multimedia/ performance artist Yoko Ono were famously soon to meet, while she was exhibiting her art there...
For the song, he asked George Martin to try and create the effect of 10,000 Tibetan monks chanting on a mountain. Brilliant and ground-breaking though the result was, he was never fully satisfied it achieved the aural experience he could hear in his head....
The selection of the top 6 surprises me a little. For me, Tomorrow never knows, Got to get you into my life, I'm only sleeping, And your bird can sing/She said, she said are all must-haves. Good day Sunshine, at least here in Germany, was a honey advert for a long time... Of course, there isn't a track on Revolver, that I would skip.
“Paperback Writer” and “Rain” are the songs that came out during this album. Check out “Rain” first. The Beatles and their producer George Martin did a lot with this song. The biggest being that they after recording it, they slowed the song down on the recording. It’s masterful. Ringo Starr said that it was his best drumming. Thanks.
Well done Brandon... sorted! Obviously progressive, but unlike some of the later bands, it retained a strong core melody, thank you.
Just a couple of years removed from "A Hard Days' Night". Amazing! This was so much fun!!☮
"One small step for a musician, a giant leap for music." Well, I think that's what someone once said.
Bravo Brother! Job very well done,
All done on a 4 track analog tape system-painstaking compilation & editing work to compile all these sounds.
Me encanta, me transporta, super evolucionada y sigue siendo moderna y vanguardista ! ❤saludos desdé Argentina, crecí escuchando a Los Beatles ❤
Amazing drumming from Ringo. Given that the musical special effects we're all used to haven't been invented yet, I would love to know how they managed some of the sounds.
Similar to SGT P's MR. KITE, these lyrics tagged along with John from another source, and he was able to convert those words into this song. And all the recording techniques would be like 'permission slips' to every producer, recording engineer and composer: "The Beatles did it, make money - why can't I?"
Just a wee bit psychedelic. And this was the mid 60s!!
Lennon and McCartney had to be travelers from the future
First! Again, so amazingly good. The memory I have for this song is listening to it in my parents’ garden while they were on holiday. Sun was baking and so was I 🙃 Maybe aged 19 ❤
Thanks for the album review. This was the second transitional album, after Rubber Soul. Yes, moving forwards into a more advanced sound with George Martin coming into his own. At the same time, as they were less constrained by convention and also making tour-friendly hits. They stopped touring after their albums were burned and they got death threats with the “bigger than Jesus” misunderstanding, among other things.
I really was born in the wrong era....I love this music....Led Zeppelin too
It's not as though you would have had a chance to hear it performed live, anymore than those of us who remember 1966 did. So, it doesn't matter.
Of course the use of tape loops was ubiquitous in experimental avantgarde music. But to hear it on a pop/rock album in 1966, by the biggest band in the world... I'm not sure people in general fully appreciates what an enormous leap this was, and that it's something we will never experience again.
Personally, I think the 'bridge' album was Rubber Soul, in terms of taking the Beatles away from the fab 4 era. but every subsequent album was another significant step forward.
I couldn’t agree more.
I agree. We'd seen a couple of albums going into HARD DAYS NIGHT contribute songs or composing/recording that were 'beyond the norm' for radio at the time, and beyond what the Beatles had previously (and wonderfully) delivered to their growing fanbase. I can put HARD DAYS, HELP and RUBBER SOUL together in some ways, but REVOLVER is also a very different look (for the Beatles) and they'd push their Looks and their music far beyond Mop Top-dom.
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These strange vocals reminds me of some songs of The Stranglers album "The Gospel According to the Meninblack" or the one from "The Raven" album called "Meninblack".
For those that think that Ringo Starr was just an "OK" drummer. Try playing this. Playing a drum beat like this over and over without changing it up is very challenging to do. Ringo is a great drummer, this song alone proves that.
I quite like this one! Moody Beatles and Experimental Beatles are my Favorite Beatles! 👌🥰 And when you thank the Fab Four, I would also include George Martin IMHO! From Wikipedia:
"Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 - 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician. He was commonly referred to as the "fifth Beatle" because of his extensive involvement in each of the Beatles' original albums. Martin's formal musical expertise and interest in novel recording practices facilitated the group's rudimentary musical education and desire for new musical sounds to record. Most of their orchestral and string arrangements were written by Martin, and he played piano or keyboards on a number of their records. Their collaborations resulted in popular, highly acclaimed records with innovative sounds"
and with Rubber Soul Martin said
"I think Rubber Soul was the first of the albums that presented a new Beatles to the world. Up to this point we had been making albums that were rather like a collection of their singles. And now, we really were beginning to think about albums as a bit of art in their own right. We were thinking about the album as an entity of its own, and Rubber Soul was the first one to emerge in this way."
And FWIW if I had to pick my 6 favorite songs from this album, at this moment I'd pick the following (subject to change ;-)
Eleanor Rigby
Here, There And Everywhere
Yellow Submarine
Good Day Sunshine
For No One
Got To Get You Into My Life
An unsung hero in this song is George Martin. His production is outstanding.
The incredible thing is that this was the first song they recorded for the album. John wanted to have Tibetian Monks chanting but it was too expensive and complicated according to (I think George Martin), so Paul and George M especially did the sound collage to it. Ringo's drumming is exceptional - he also geve the song the title.
It is interesting that you expected a slow song in the end. Actually all Beatles albums when off with a bang, mostly some harder Rock (Twist and Shout, Money, Everybody...., Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Run for Your Life, Get Back, The End - Her Majesty is a hidding track and origanally placed between Mustard and Pam) or something arty/monumental (Day in the Life, All You Need Is Love - and THIS song). There is one exception with the White Album that closes with a Lennon ballad sung by Ringo but Goodnight makes total sence after 90+ minutes of all kind of music through all genres and styles. A Hard Day's Night doesn't have a proper "last song" as it consisted only of 13 instead of 14 songs as they usually did per album. But I would put I'll Be Back in cathogroy II: it's and art folk rock song. AHDN is and always was my fav album by the Beatles and as conceptual as Rubber Soul.
I am talking about UK albums btw except for Magial Mystery Tour which was a double EP there.
Yeses and yeses and yeses.
I am gonna guess that you rather like this little hymn.
Lemme check. BRB...
This is three years removed from “ I want to hold your hand”
Hi Brandon, Phil Collins made a good version of this song
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The song is great because of the way they did it: loops, etc. They kinda "invent" the techno music in 66. This is a Beatles song, not just a "Lennon" song. The song in itself is not the strong point, here. And this song is one of the arguments why Revolver is my preferred Beatles album, as well as the number of great songs, the variety of styles, George and Ringo really involved (more than in Sergeant Pepper's, for example), etc. A period when they were 100% together.
This album was a bridge between Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper.
Phil Collins, on his first solo album "Face Value" (1981), at the end of the album, included a cover of this song. Phil Collins' cover is probably better than the original.
In the end of the song he whispered an extract from Somewhere over the rainbow from Judy Garland.
Ive heard Phil Collin’s version. It’s not even 1% as good as the original
..and George Martin.
wow..
wonder what he thought of this?!
Pretty cool eh. Now, you should listen to the album on LSD to really hear it 😊
Hi Brandon. Check also the Phil Collins version on his first 1981 solo album. Frankly it was that I heard first. The comparison can be interesting
It wouldn't surprise me if Pink Floyd were influenced by those primeval animal sounds, to do similar in the middle section of "Echoes".
Great song, P. Collins has a fantastic cover of this one (last Face Value song)
The Beatles play the future
Do yourself a favor and listen to the Mono version where the sounds come and go at diff. times
Phil Collins has done a fantastic cover of this dark song from Lennon, on his first album Face Value, with a slowed rythm. Knew it before the Beatles one, so I prefer Phil's version. Like Jealous guy, I prefer Bryan Ferry's version than Lennons.
Bryan Ferry's version is not bad - technically. But he lacks the credibility Lennon certainly has.
Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With this album popular music became an art form. That mind set endured through the 70's then gradually disappeared. Hence the rubbish we get today.
As much as Beatles fans rave about this I have to say I’m not into it one bit, I’m a huge Beatles fan and this one is a skipper for me usually, however, Phil Collins did a cover of this and I love it, it’s genuinely better than The Beatles version, it’s musically more melodic and interesting than this, and trust me, I’m a huge Beatles fan, the best band I’ve ever heard actually.
While The Beatles' version was first, I prefer Phil Collins's version.