England won the World Cup that year, too. What a time to be alive. My Dad was 10 and still yearns to see England win the World Cup again, all due to this band in particular and others being the soundtrack to his youth which involved ’football coming home’… Yeah, sorry about that last phrase…it’s haunted us since 1996 when I was a teenager.
@@crackasmilezenpyre Georgee Martin helped with the technical side, but this is John and Paul's instruction, even on the classical side. They would say what type of sound they wanted and George would find out what instrument combination would execute that vision. They would also input ideas on the technical side, even in the classical sense, e.g. John was competent with the penny whistle and Harmonica and had good ideas with the trumpet sound also
This song was so different than anything we heard up to this point. Once again The Beatles did it. Changed music. They never disappointed when it came to their music.
@@brucekilby9957 Revolver is magic what a piece of art work ..Brilliant! Your not the same after listening its really musically mind opening especially for 1966. I was 11 and got the album through the 60's TV Guide albums sales really cheap...I still have the vinyl.
This song was recorded in 66. It is now 58 years old, and it is still from 100 years in the future. Unbelievable even now, and when you consider the recording equipment they had.......just absolutely incredible.
A song written by John Lennon after actor, Peter Fond, told him a story about almost drowning and saying, over and over, I know what's it like to be dead. Of course, they were both tripping during this conversation, and this story freaked John out.
"They have so many different types of sounds." THANK YOU. When I first started listening to the Beatles and exploring their catalogue as a teenager in the 2000s, that was the thing that blew me away and made me a fan for life. There is not any one Beatles sound. Their versatility is mindblowing. And it's even more incredible to think they covered all that incredible range of sounds in barely a single decade.
Tomorrow Never Knows is 55 years old but sounds like it was recorded yesterday. It was so unusual and groundbreaking. It blows your mind on first listen & requires a few more listens to get used to it. It is an amazing piece of work. 👍
In this day and age they wo7ld have done this on a computer with samples but this was done with magnetic tape, the ends of each end pasted together to make their tapeloops. This recording is the only mix of this song because of all the tape loops that came together at the mixing stage. Totally revolutionary at the time.
You know I thought I was a Beatles fan but maybe I'm not. Some of these lesser known songs are not that good in my humble opinion. But I'm glad you people enjoy them. And thanks by they way to bring them to my attention because who knows maybe I would have liked them. But sadly sub-par if you ask me.
@@theamericanjoeshow I agree. For an album that’s considered an almost unassailable peak, there’s a lot of naff on there: good day sunshine, doctor robert, and your bird can sing... but then there’s that I just don’t really like: I want to tell you, here there and everywhere, yellow submarine. And your bird can sing, along with its awful title is what I always bring up when talking about bad Beatles songs.
@@latenightlogic @Chris Sanders what don't you like about "And Your Bird Can Sing"? it's the first and probably one of the best power pop songs ever recorded lol
Sampling began here. The various sound effects you hear throughout the song are tape loops (often played backwards at different speeds) of different sounds the Beatles created.
I'm a great Beatles fan. However, the two songs I can't stand of theirs are Oh, Darling Andrei Wany You, She's so Heavy. Half way through the last track I have to lift the stylus off the record as I had enough.
Ringo is left handed, but plays drums right handed. That gave him the ability to play things others found incredibly difficult to replicate. Very underrated musician. Check out 'Come Together' for some cool drumming.
I'd expand on that a bit. He played a right handed drum kit, but played it left handed. Meaning that when he did a roll he led with his left hand, even when he had to reach way to the right. This is why there's an extra half beat pause on many of his rolls/fills. There was a great interview where he explained this. It wasn't done on purpose, it took him that extra time to get his left hand all around. A right handed drummer would start the roll with their right hand and therefore not naturally have that pause.
Check out more cuts from The White Album, like "Dear Prudence", "Glass Onion", "Cry Baby Cry", "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey" -- But given your fondness for "Oh! Darling" you'll probably really dig the Abbey Road medley. Set aside 20 minutes for that: "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Sun King", "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The End".
Mike, I agree, he should do the Side 2 songs of Abbey Road-- other than Here Comes The Sun because he's already done that -- but he should definitely start with "Because" and then go on to the rest you detailed here. Because is an amazing song and it sets the mood!
AND! Listen to the two medleys from the Abbey Road album. It's not on TH-cam in a "correct" version. So fire up Spotify or something like that. There are two medleys: "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"Sun King"/"Mean Mr Mustard"/"Polythene Pam"/"She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" and the other starts with "Golden Slumbers" and rounds off the album with "Her Majesty".
@@michaelbriefs9764 I agree completely. I always thought of the medley as beginning with "Because" but found that wasn't the case when I looked it up to make sure. So I left it out. Thanks for noting that I should have stuck with my gut!
My first year living on campus in college 1992, I heard this song while alone in my dorm listening to the college station and doing some homework. I knew their hits and the Abbey Road album, and I liked them, but this left me literally stunned. I can still picture the room like it was yesterday.
I had a similar experience. I bought Revolver on CD in 1999. First time I listened to it I was thinking "will there ever be another band this good?" then this track came on and completely floored me. The answer is "no."
Isn't it weird how music can help you capture a moment in time, there are songs I listen to and transports me right back to the exact time and place of where I was at the time
The other thing people listening today might not realise is that the Beatles weren't just dipping into different existing genres (although they did that as well), they were CREATING genres. As Brian May (of Queen) said 'The Beatles opened the doors, and we all just walked through'.
It's because the sitar is tuned according to the drone note. George wrote the sitar part after studying with Ravi Shankar, so it was more in line with classical North Indian music than, like, Norwegian Wood. There's an old joke -- you can sub in lute, or any other instrument that has movable frets: a sitar concert is an hour of playing preceded by an hour of tuning.
Have you reacted to "Rain" yet? And, just gotta tell you you would have fit in with our crowd when we listened to Revolver when it first came out. Love how you reaction guys are bridging the Generation Gap!!
LSD hit like a flash of lightening right in the middle of the 1960s. Completely shook up the music scene, transforming it almost overnight. Their greatest song might be "A Day in the Life."
At the same time, many young people in the Western world were also beginning to explore traditional Eastern philosophy and spiritual practices. The acid provided a popular short-cut to gaining a similar sudden insight into the deeper nature of existence/reality that could (usually) only be experienced after years of dedicated study and meditation practice. But I suspect it may have been because for most people, maintaining that transformational enlightened mind-frame remained dependent on an external factor - drugs - rather than internal commitment to spiritual cultivation, that it couldn't last. Ultimately, the wonderful hippie dream of universal peace and love, inspired by the acid experience, only managed to survive a few more years once the Beatles broke up and the polychromatic 60s wound down to a disappointing end, like waking up in the cold light of day with a hangover, that to me, anyway, left many things started, unresolved.
@@Alembizoa I love the Beatles as much as anyone, but nothing they did before Rubber Soul is as important as what came after. It’s like a different band.
Two things. First, "Tomorrow Never Knows" is one chord from start to finish. All of the sounds in the background were produced by manually running loops of tape over the playback heads of multiple tape machines live as they recorded and mixed the song live in the studio. Producer, engineeers, roadies and The Beatles were all involved. So while it is studio mastery, it is also a one-off that can never be exactly duplicated. Second, for the next reaction you should dive into not one song but many. The medley on side 2 of their album "Abbey Road" is something to be completely amazed by. Here's a link: th-cam.com/video/dcv1EFoaX-8/w-d-xo.html
Yes definitely a must reaction! Dan, someone commented about the medley on another reaction site that he didn’t like the medley because “it’s just a bunch of half-baked song ideas.” Oh, the humanity! That person has no ears.
You nailed it! The Beatles at their core are a rock band, but they branched out into so many different genres and new styles that you can't box them in. It's what makes listening to them so exciting. If you love their amazing singing, try their cover of "Long Tall Sally" - it has Paul shredding those vocals!
I think you’d love Yer Blues, from the same album as While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun & Helter Skelter. Incredibly RAW Beatles song!
Absolutely right and I would know! Also know John went home directly upon his passing, leaving his body behind. Will see him soon, you as well brother. Amazing what can be passed in three minutes with a few lyrics. Wow
Set in the '60s, the show "Mad Men" talk about the Beatles lots but this is the only song that was actually featured (hey -- it's expensive!) This one cost $200,000 for a one-time, one episode. Many call it the first psychedelic song (1965).
i know nobody recommends it but i just know “Yet Blues” will be one of your faves. it’s got soul, heavy lines, and everything oh darling has in a different style
“Rain” The BEST Beatles song in my opinion This song and Tomorrow Never Knows are the pinnacle of The Beatles. Also has the best drumming on any Beatles song, Ringo even said it was his most inspired performance.
When I was young I first heard this and thought , " what the heck is this". Now I'm old I realize just how great and far advanced this song was. And of course the Beatles were the greatest in my mind.
Avant-garde, experimental Beatles. Luv it. HazeBruv, you're SO RIGHT: The Beatles can go heavy, experimental, funk, World-Music, soul, R&B, road-house, soul ballad; French Jazz; it just doesn't stop. And MAN, your reviews? They're FIRE!! Insight, Cool, Hip, Funk: Dude. You've got "IT!"
Hazebruv I LOVE your reactions especially to The Beatles. I have a very diverse love of music and The Beatles are EASILY my favorite. Their diversity is unequaled in popular music. Every song, every album was different from the previous. They were the true pioneers of the popular music form without equal. Some bands came close but Lennon-McCartney and George Harrison later emerging as a very gifted song writer later with Ringos original style made for a once in a lifetime band that still to this very day are loved and admired. Again, just want to say it's fun, exciting and pretty damn cool to watch and witness someone experiencing the brilliance, originality and genius that is, The Beatles. Peace and Love my Bruv!
First Beatles song I ever heard, when I was 5 or 6, although I probably heard it in '67 or '68, a few years after it came out. My house was all country all the time but my friend Kathy was the youngest of 6 kids and they had all the cool albums
Where to go next? The so-called B-side medley of the ABBEY ROAD album, which encompasses the songs "You Never Give Me Your Money," "Sun King," "Mean Mr. Mustard," Polythene Pam," "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window," "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight," "The End," and "Her Majesty." These little snippets of songs form one continuous medley that needs to be listened to from start to finish (it's around twenty minutes long).
It's interesting that 56 years after it's release people still understand the technical difficulties created by this masterpiece. I remember first hearing it when released. It was something never heard before and I was like.....wait what? The Beatles had a whole army of sound technicians who walked around in lab coats, creating sounds that was very limited with what is available to do today. This song required tape with various sounds running across the room to different machines, in order to control the speeds. I think it was this song that Lennon requested to be in some kind of device that had him spinning around the microphone to create a different perspective to his voice. A feat they were not able to supply for him. Excellent review of a great classic.
You have Geoff Emerick to thank for that. Dude was twenty years old taking over the reigns from the only engineer they had ever worked with Norman Smith. He received a baptism of fire coming in to engineer one of the most innovative albums in the history of rock music for arguably the greatest band ever. He came up with the idea for how to make John's voice sound the way he wanted and was petrified that John was going to hate it. John loved it and was in awe as to how Geoff got the sound. Then John said "do you think we could get the same effect if I were hung upside down from a rope and swung around the microphone?" He wasn't kidding either.
He comments how they have so many different types of sound. People who are super creative usually span the musical spectrum. This isn't rhyming words to a beat. This is MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of people don't like this song from The Beatles but it's one of my favorites from the rubber soul album and it's run for your life I know it's basically like misogynistic or like a posession of a woman type thing but it's just a catchy little tune. So give it a listen and tell me what you think
Great reaction, HazeBruv! I've been suggesting Tomorrow Never Knows to a few reactors for a while, and you're the first to do it! Well done. Gotta say it again, Ringo kills me with those drums on this. If anyone can name a better Ringo beat, please tell me.
This is a song you won’t hear on The Beatles 1962-1966 double album. They had so many greatest hits that they can’t all fit on a greatest hits album, which Is why I own all of their albums.
I hope we can hear the unbelievable tamborine work on this composition and we'll try and comprehend the tom-tom drums in relation the snare-&- -cymbal bass drum sequence beating to itself, from itself, in itself moving forward to the "end of the beginning."
I've been WAITING for you to check this song out! This is so sick! I love The Beatles, and this is one of the greatest songs they wrote, it's just so experimental, the composition and production is out of this world. But it isn't just great for greatness sake and being experimental, it just sounds fantastic. The words are also great. It's gets better for repeated listening as well, as it has so many layers. Great album as well. LOVE your reaction!! xxxx
I like that you listen to the Beatles, and appreciate them. They started gaining fame early in my life, so they have - in essence - provided the soundtrack to my life. Every phase they went through - i went through and it felt as if they were there holding my hand and whispering to me and comforting me through everything. Ps this is probably my favorite song. And I love that they cannot be pinned down to any one style. I love your favorites, too! I love all their songs, it's hard to decide sometimes - but there seems to be a Beatle song to match my EVERY mood!
The backwards guitar solo is Paul's solo in Taxman, backwards, a nice bookend to the first song on the album. This track is still mind-blowing and a fabulous work of musical art. We used to play this in a dark room, and we got a buzz from it without using any substance.
Listen man listen the Abbey rd medley is a must. Check other comments for the list of songs in the medley. Your loving Ringo the last song “The End” has the only drum solo that Ringo played with the Beatles. He didn’t like going solos, but for their last song together they made him do it. It’s FIRE!
I’d suggest now that you have an idea of the kind of band that the Beatles are/became: Start listening chronologically. It REALLY makes you appreciate their growth as musicians in 6 years of recording.
The ringing sound affect of the seagulls squawking isn’t actually a seagull squawking, its a sped up audio recording of paul mccartney laughing. The shit they let John lennon get away with amazes me
And let's not forget that this song was recorded in 1966. A true masterpiece.
ON FOUR TRACKS!!!!
This song is on fire
Thank u George Martin.
England won the World Cup that year, too. What a time to be alive. My Dad was 10 and still yearns to see England win the World Cup again, all due to this band in particular and others being the soundtrack to his youth which involved ’football coming home’…
Yeah, sorry about that last phrase…it’s haunted us since 1996 when I was a teenager.
@@crackasmilezenpyre Georgee Martin helped with the technical side, but this is John and Paul's instruction, even on the classical side. They would say what type of sound they wanted and George would find out what instrument combination would execute that vision. They would also input ideas on the technical side, even in the classical sense, e.g. John was competent with the penny whistle and Harmonica and had good ideas with the trumpet sound also
This song was so different than anything we heard up to this point. Once again The Beatles did it. Changed music. They never disappointed when it came to their music.
Still is
This song is from their drug period,strange,weird,inventive and great. Always experimental. Revolver was magic.
"Venus and Furs" on Exploding Plastic Inevitable
@@brucekilby9957 Revolver is magic what a piece of art work ..Brilliant! Your not the same after listening its really musically mind opening especially for 1966. I was 11 and got the album through the 60's TV Guide albums sales really cheap...I still have the vinyl.
@@brucekilby9957 lol their drug period is what made them. 66-70 Seemed like a great time
This song was recorded in 66.
It is now 58 years old, and it is still from 100 years in the future. Unbelievable even now, and when you consider the recording equipment they had.......just absolutely incredible.
"She Said She Said" is a nice piece of hard rock from the Beatles. Interesting lyrics with a driving guitar.
A song written by John Lennon after actor, Peter Fond, told him a story about almost drowning and saying, over and over, I know what's it like to be dead. Of course, they were both tripping during this conversation, and this story freaked John out.
One of the very few Beatles songs that does not have Paul McCartney on it!
@@benjclarke3010 Yeah, that's super weird. A friend pointed it out and I had to look it up. I couldn't believe it.
"She Said, She Said" is grungy and I like it very much. Ringo's drum playing on this track is totally underrated.
And an offbeat time signature.
"They have so many different types of sounds."
THANK YOU. When I first started listening to the Beatles and exploring their catalogue as a teenager in the 2000s, that was the thing that blew me away and made me a fan for life. There is not any one Beatles sound. Their versatility is mindblowing. And it's even more incredible to think they covered all that incredible range of sounds in barely a single decade.
Tomorrow Never Knows is 55 years old but sounds like it was recorded yesterday. It was so unusual and groundbreaking. It blows your mind on first listen & requires a few more listens to get used to it. It is an amazing piece of work. 👍
In this day and age they wo7ld have done this on a computer with samples but this was done with magnetic tape, the ends of each end pasted together to make their tapeloops.
This recording is the only mix of this song because of all the tape loops that came together at the mixing stage.
Totally revolutionary at the time.
"And Your Bird Can Sing" doesn't get enough love.
I always loved the laughing version on the Anthology 2 collection.
that song had the first dual lead with McCartney playing over Harrison, always one of my favorites
You know I thought I was a Beatles fan but maybe I'm not. Some of these lesser known songs are not that good in my humble opinion. But I'm glad you people enjoy them. And thanks by they way to bring them to my attention because who knows maybe I would have liked them. But sadly sub-par if you ask me.
@@theamericanjoeshow
I agree. For an album that’s considered an almost unassailable peak, there’s a lot of naff on there: good day sunshine, doctor robert, and your bird can sing... but then there’s that I just don’t really like: I want to tell you, here there and everywhere, yellow submarine.
And your bird can sing, along with its awful title is what I always bring up when talking about bad Beatles songs.
@@latenightlogic @Chris Sanders what don't you like about "And Your Bird Can Sing"? it's the first and probably one of the best power pop songs ever recorded lol
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" doesn't get enough love either.
Seminal. A powerful & bitter love song, a million miles from the moon in June.
Love that song.
I used to sing that song when it first came out while I was trout fishing, I was 12
@@diogenesagogo "a million miles from the moon in June"
What does that mean??
@@mikejones-go8vz What circumstances brought you to be listening to this song while you were trout fishing??
That Drumming is 30 years ahead of its time
No drum machine in April 1966
Sampling began here. The various sound effects you hear throughout the song are tape loops (often played backwards at different speeds) of different sounds the Beatles created.
According to Geoff Emerick (the engineer of this album), Ringo's drumming was a loop, too.
And the entire song is just 1 chord, never changing.
I'm a great Beatles fan. However, the two songs I can't stand of theirs are Oh, Darling Andrei Wany You, She's so Heavy. Half way through the last track I have to lift the stylus off the record as I had enough.
"Golden Slumbers" "Carry That Weight" and"The End are highly recommended. It's like a medley
It IS a medley, dumbass
And listen to it directly from the album on Spotify or something. There is not a "correct" version on TH-cam of the medleys.
I keep saying this but no one has done a reaction video to these three inseparable songs yet.
@@hejmuesli well there is one which comes closest, which apparently is from a game: th-cam.com/video/f8M0eC21qp0/w-d-xo.html
Gold!
This song never gives you a break. It's unsettling, beautiful, fresh, and never lets up.
“Tomorrow Never Knows” isn’t a song…IT’S AN EXPERIENCE! It’s a masterpiece! 👌🏾💯
That is so crazy ..I was just sitting here thinking that just before I got to your comment
@@dwaynebeamon5105 big facts bro 💯
RECORDED ON FOUR TRACKS!!!
This owes everything to the Grateful Dead
No one mentions the DRUMS!
Such a prophetic song -- to this day, tomorrow still doesn't know.
Ringo is left handed, but plays drums right handed. That gave him the ability to play things others found incredibly difficult to replicate. Very underrated musician. Check out 'Come Together' for some cool drumming.
I'd expand on that a bit. He played a right handed drum kit, but played it left handed. Meaning that when he did a roll he led with his left hand, even when he had to reach way to the right. This is why there's an extra half beat pause on many of his rolls/fills. There was a great interview where he explained this. It wasn't done on purpose, it took him that extra time to get his left hand all around. A right handed drummer would start the roll with their right hand and therefore not naturally have that pause.
Paul is right handed but plays bass left handed
Check out more cuts from The White Album, like "Dear Prudence", "Glass Onion", "Cry Baby Cry", "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey" -- But given your fondness for "Oh! Darling" you'll probably really dig the Abbey Road medley. Set aside 20 minutes for that: "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Sun King", "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The End".
Mike, I agree, he should do the Side 2 songs of Abbey Road-- other than Here Comes The Sun because he's already done that -- but he should definitely start with "Because" and then go on to the rest you detailed here. Because is an amazing song and it sets the mood!
Yes that'd be awesome
AND! Listen to the two medleys from the Abbey Road album. It's not on TH-cam in a "correct" version. So fire up Spotify or something like that. There are two medleys: "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"Sun King"/"Mean Mr Mustard"/"Polythene Pam"/"She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" and the other starts with "Golden Slumbers" and rounds off the album with "Her Majesty".
@@michaelbriefs9764 I agree completely. I always thought of the medley as beginning with "Because" but found that wasn't the case when I looked it up to make sure. So I left it out. Thanks for noting that I should have stuck with my gut!
" Hey Bulldog "
“It’s All Too Much” is my favorite Beatles tune, highly recommended.
I second that. Not sure it's my favourite but it's definitely in the Top 10. It's very overlooked also, along with Hey Bulldog..
Mine too
Love that song
My first year living on campus in college 1992, I heard this song while alone in my dorm listening to the college station and doing some homework. I knew their hits and the Abbey Road album, and I liked them, but this left me literally stunned. I can still picture the room like it was yesterday.
Great memory!
I had a similar experience. I bought Revolver on CD in 1999. First time I listened to it I was thinking "will there ever be another band this good?" then this track came on and completely floored me. The answer is "no."
yep
Isn't it weird how music can help you capture a moment in time, there are songs I listen to and transports me right back to the exact time and place of where I was at the time
“You can’t box them up” so right.
The other thing people listening today might not realise is that the Beatles weren't just dipping into different existing genres (although they did that as well), they were CREATING genres. As Brian May (of Queen) said 'The Beatles opened the doors, and we all just walked through'.
Norwegian Wood is a great song
And Rubber Soul is a great album overall...also "Girl" "Think For Yourself" "The Word" "Drive My Car" plus everything else on it.
@@Trendyflute I couldn't agree More!
"All Too Much" it's a George Song but definitely phsycedelic.
Yes! This is a hidden gem! Great choice!
Psychedelic lol
Shite.
This was the first time a music loop was done. Ringo then played to the loop! After that other guitar parts and vocals were added atop. AMAZING!
The whole song is in one chord, and it never changes.
Key of C
There are two chords, C and Bb, although the bass only plays one pitch.
It's because the sitar is tuned according to the drone note. George wrote the sitar part after studying with Ravi Shankar, so it was more in line with classical North Indian music than, like, Norwegian Wood.
There's an old joke -- you can sub in lute, or any other instrument that has movable frets: a sitar concert is an hour of playing preceded by an hour of tuning.
Yep, a classic Eastern drone. ☯️👍🏻
Yes there are two chords like you said. @@richardm3093
That song was so ahead of its time. Masterful
Norwegian Wood is a cool song --- too hard to pick just one song --- Impossible in fact
I second this recommendation!
Have you reacted to "Rain" yet? And, just gotta tell you you would have fit in with our crowd when we listened to Revolver when it first came out. Love how you reaction guys are bridging the Generation Gap!!
Ringo rocks on Rain!!
LSD hit like a flash of lightening right in the middle of the 1960s. Completely shook up the music scene, transforming it almost overnight. Their greatest song might be "A Day in the Life."
At the same time, many young people in the Western world were also beginning to explore traditional Eastern philosophy and spiritual practices. The acid provided a popular short-cut to gaining a similar sudden insight into the deeper nature of existence/reality that could (usually) only be experienced after years of dedicated study and meditation practice.
But I suspect it may have been because for most people, maintaining that transformational enlightened mind-frame remained dependent on an external factor - drugs - rather than internal commitment to spiritual cultivation, that it couldn't last.
Ultimately, the wonderful hippie dream of universal peace and love, inspired by the acid experience, only managed to survive a few more years once the Beatles broke up and the polychromatic 60s wound down to a disappointing end, like waking up in the cold light of day with a hangover, that to me, anyway, left many things started, unresolved.
Its a trip to think Rubber Soul was the first of their LSD influenced albums!
@@Alembizoa I love the Beatles as much as anyone, but nothing they did before Rubber Soul is as important as what came after. It’s like a different band.
Taxman. Also on Revolver. That entire album is incredible.
Two things. First, "Tomorrow Never Knows" is one chord from start to finish. All of the sounds in the background were produced by manually running loops of tape over the playback heads of multiple tape machines live as they recorded and mixed the song live in the studio. Producer, engineeers, roadies and The Beatles were all involved. So while it is studio mastery, it is also a one-off that can never be exactly duplicated. Second, for the next reaction you should dive into not one song but many. The medley on side 2 of their album "Abbey Road" is something to be completely amazed by. Here's a link: th-cam.com/video/dcv1EFoaX-8/w-d-xo.html
Yes definitely a must reaction! Dan, someone commented about the medley on another reaction site that he didn’t like the medley because “it’s just a bunch of half-baked song ideas.” Oh, the humanity! That person has no ears.
Seconded
You make that sound like a bad thing LOL... Do you really think ALL those voices on the Queen albums are for real ?
@@Newfie-zc7ug Not a bad thing at all. Pure genius, actually.
@victorrosales91 Have a better link that won't be blocked? Post it. I'm eager to hear it too. Thanks!
It still does that to me too after 57 years
You nailed it! The Beatles at their core are a rock band, but they branched out into so many different genres and new styles that you can't box them in. It's what makes listening to them so exciting. If you love their amazing singing, try their cover of "Long Tall Sally" - it has Paul shredding those vocals!
I think you’d love Yer Blues, from the same album as While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun & Helter Skelter. Incredibly RAW Beatles song!
I was 10 years old when this came out . Very trippy for a youngster. My older sister bought the album as soon as it came out.
Tomorrow Never Knows is a song directly from the Source channelled through John Lennon.
Absolutely right and I would know! Also know John went home directly upon his passing, leaving his body behind. Will see him soon, you as well brother. Amazing what can be passed in three minutes with a few lyrics. Wow
Set in the '60s, the show "Mad Men" talk about the Beatles lots but this is the only song that was actually featured (hey -- it's expensive!) This one cost $200,000 for a one-time, one episode. Many call it the first psychedelic song (1965).
A Day in the Life. Truly one of the greatest achievements in pop music history.
i know nobody recommends it but i just know “Yet Blues” will be one of your faves. it’s got soul, heavy lines, and everything oh darling has in a different style
I know it's just a typo, but you meant YER Blues
‘Girl’ and ‘Rocky Raccoon’ are a couple of my favourites
Rocky was very popular among Beatle listeners back in the analog album days ..
Cool
Love Girl.
“Rain”
The BEST Beatles song in my opinion
This song and Tomorrow Never Knows are the pinnacle of The Beatles. Also has the best drumming on any Beatles song, Ringo even said it was his most inspired performance.
"Rain" is the best Beatles song?
@@martyslazenger935 to me it is, right up there with “Tomorrow Never Knows”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and “A Day In The life” imo
@@martyslazenger935 and “It’s All Too Much”
Just say it’s your personal ‘best’.
I'm Only Sleeping
George answered this one brilliantly with It’s All Too Much on the Yellow Submarine record. Ringo is on absolute fire on that one too.
This is the first psychedelic song. Recorded 55 years ago. 🤯
The drums and bass are ridiculous. A great reaction, 'Oh my goodness!', haha. This was great. Thanks
Tbh this track is freakin modern!!! Doesnt sound like the 60s!! Darn, the Beatles are such genuises!!! Really gifted musicians!!
When I was young I first heard this and thought , " what the heck is this". Now I'm old I realize just how great and far advanced this song was. And of course the Beatles were the greatest in my mind.
Avant-garde, experimental Beatles. Luv it. HazeBruv, you're SO RIGHT: The Beatles can go heavy, experimental, funk, World-Music, soul, R&B, road-house, soul ballad; French Jazz; it just doesn't stop. And MAN, your reviews? They're FIRE!! Insight, Cool, Hip, Funk: Dude. You've got "IT!"
ALL Beatles songs are fire.
"All I've gotta' Do". A simple early song, but a real gem
Great pick!
One of my early favorites. Still stands the test of time!
John's soulful vocal, just beautiful!
Hazebruv I LOVE your reactions especially to The Beatles. I have a very diverse love of music and The Beatles are EASILY my favorite. Their diversity is unequaled in popular music. Every song, every album was different from the previous. They were the true pioneers of the popular music form without equal. Some bands came close but Lennon-McCartney and George Harrison later emerging as a very gifted song writer later with Ringos original style made for a once in a lifetime band that still to this very day are loved and admired. Again, just want to say it's fun, exciting and pretty damn cool to watch and witness someone experiencing the brilliance, originality and genius that is, The Beatles.
Peace and Love my Bruv!
Fun fact: 'Revolver' is the FIRST album to play music backwards!
And remember this is a late 1950's band ..Beatles are unbelievable!! Amazing!
I’m going to ask you to react to a song that I know nobody else will request 😏...one of their early songs but it rocks...I saw her standing there 🙂
The best of their early stuff!
First Beatles song I ever heard, when I was 5 or 6, although I probably heard it in '67 or '68, a few years after it came out. My house was all country all the time but my friend Kathy was the youngest of 6 kids and they had all the cool albums
The greatest intro to a rock album:
1 2 3 FAWR!
One of the greatest masterpieces ever written
They wrote 328 songs, just scratching the surface...
Keep listening, Rubber Soul great album 👌
”Revolution 9” doesn’t get enough love.
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"It's All Too Much". It really is, too.
“Get Back” from the rooftop concert.
Where to go next? The so-called B-side medley of the ABBEY ROAD album, which encompasses the songs "You Never Give Me Your Money," "Sun King," "Mean Mr. Mustard," Polythene Pam," "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window," "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight," "The End," and "Her Majesty." These little snippets of songs form one continuous medley that needs to be listened to from start to finish (it's around twenty minutes long).
"The Long One," probably their collective masterpiece.
I was listening to the album and track in the 60s and 70s - I still play it today and absolutely love it.
RAIN !!!!! -- Rain -- rain -- R A I N
PS; by the Beatles :-)
Also: "Martha My Dear"
It's in My Top 5 for sure, along with another from the British Revolver, I'm Only Sleeping.
LAY DOWN ALL THOUGHTS, SURRENDER TO THE VOID 💜💜💜
The Beatles are special . Nothing comes close to them .....
"You Know My Name, Look Up The Number".
Amazing drumming. This album changed music forever! The album cover won a grammy! Incredible cover. Yes on fire! I love every song!
It's interesting that 56 years after it's release people still understand the technical difficulties created by this masterpiece. I remember first hearing it when released. It was something never heard before and I was like.....wait what? The Beatles had a whole army of sound technicians who walked around in lab coats, creating sounds that was very limited with what is available to do today. This song required tape with various sounds running across the room to different machines, in order to control the speeds. I think it was this song that Lennon requested to be in some kind of device that had him spinning around the microphone to create a different perspective to his voice. A feat they were not able to supply for him. Excellent review of a great classic.
John asked the producers if they could make him sound like “the Dali Lama coming down from the moutain” they did a pretty damn good job IMO!
You have Geoff Emerick to thank for that. Dude was twenty years old taking over the reigns from the only engineer they had ever worked with Norman Smith. He received a baptism of fire coming in to engineer one of the most innovative albums in the history of rock music for arguably the greatest band ever. He came up with the idea for how to make John's voice sound the way he wanted and was petrified that John was going to hate it. John loved it and was in awe as to how Geoff got the sound. Then John said "do you think we could get the same effect if I were hung upside down from a rope and swung around the microphone?" He wasn't kidding either.
Emerick also came up with the idea to muffle Ringo's bass drum for the song and Ringo was equally impressed with him as well.
@@mikek5958 I believe he was only 19 or 20 then too
@@brgreg8725 Yeah he was just 20; crazy.
In the end it was Geoff who came up with the idea to put Lennon's vocal thru a revolving Lesliespeaker
He comments how they have so many different types of sound. People who are super creative usually span the musical spectrum. This isn't rhyming words to a beat. This is MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of people don't like this song from The Beatles but it's one of my favorites from the rubber soul album and it's run for your life I know it's basically like misogynistic or like a posession of a woman type thing but it's just a catchy little tune.
So give it a listen and tell me what you think
This is my favorite if I have to pick one. George's work on the sitar is mindblowing.
Three suggestions, She's leaving home, Within You Without You, A Day in the Life. from the Sergeant Peppers album.
One of the greatest tracks ever recorded…if you know, then you know..
Great reaction, HazeBruv! I've been suggesting Tomorrow Never Knows to a few reactors for a while, and you're the first to do it! Well done. Gotta say it again, Ringo kills me with those drums on this. If anyone can name a better Ringo beat, please tell me.
When this song came out, nobody had ever heard anything like it. It knocked everybody for a loop. It's definitely a cool song.
This is a song you won’t hear on The Beatles 1962-1966 double album. They had so many greatest hits that they can’t all fit on a greatest hits album, which Is why I own all of their albums.
I hope we can hear the unbelievable tamborine work on this composition and we'll try and comprehend the tom-tom drums in relation the snare-&- -cymbal bass drum sequence beating to itself, from itself, in itself moving forward to the "end of the beginning."
"Blue Jay Way", from the Magical Mystery Tour album. George sings it. I swear, you'll feel literally intoxicated from listening to that song!
I've been WAITING for you to check this song out! This is so sick! I love The Beatles, and this is one of the greatest songs they wrote, it's just so experimental, the composition and production is out of this world. But it isn't just great for greatness sake and being experimental, it just sounds fantastic. The words are also great. It's gets better for repeated listening as well, as it has so many layers. Great album as well.
LOVE your reaction!! xxxx
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide 'Cept for Me and My Monkey" - the song is as crazy and cool as the title!!!!
A masterpiece. That simple.
"I've Just Seen a Face". One of Paul's gorgeous live songs, with an acoustic folk feel.
My favorite Beatle song, way ahead of its tine.
In the 60s this was so unbelievable
It still is 100%
So many great groups doing music that was out there.
But the Beatles were always next level.
I like that you listen to the Beatles, and appreciate them. They started gaining fame early in my life, so they have - in essence - provided the soundtrack to my life. Every phase they went through - i went through and it felt as if they were there holding my hand and whispering to me and comforting me through everything. Ps this is probably my favorite song. And I love that they cannot be pinned down to any one style. I love your favorites, too! I love all their songs, it's hard to decide sometimes - but there seems to be a Beatle song to match my EVERY mood!
Listen to "Glass Onion" its amazing and has a really good music video too.
This Beatles tune has REALLY grown on me after so many years of hearing it.
"Rain" please
The backwards guitar solo is Paul's solo in Taxman, backwards, a nice bookend to the first song on the album.
This track is still mind-blowing and a fabulous work of musical art. We used to play this in a dark room, and we got a buzz from it without using any substance.
It’s All Too Much is another crazy psychedelic track from George, way overlooked and a favorite of mine
Whatever you had heard before has to be reappraised along side this.
Yo bro the Beatles were like a conduit for changing the collective mindset Of generation’s
Dude, you HAVE to do “Old Brown Shoe”. It is to George Harrison what “Oh Darling” is to Paul McCartney. Next Level, Dude! NEXT LEVEL!!!
Listen man listen the Abbey rd medley is a must. Check other comments for the list of songs in the medley. Your loving Ringo the last song “The End” has the only drum solo that Ringo played with the Beatles. He didn’t like going solos, but for their last song together they made him do it. It’s FIRE!
And listen to the medley directly from the album on Spotify or something, because there is not a "correct" version of the medley on TH-cam.
I love the Beatles!
Waiting for each new album was a new explosion in experience. Brilliant 🙏
"That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing" Words to live by.
“Within You Without You”
I’d suggest now that you have an idea of the kind of band that the Beatles are/became: Start listening chronologically.
It REALLY makes you appreciate their growth as musicians in 6 years of recording.
You literally hear them grow up.
This was so fking advanced and out there when it was released.
Watch their live performances ‘Get Back’ and ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ on top of the Apple rooftop 👍
YES!
The ringing sound affect of the seagulls squawking isn’t actually a seagull squawking, its a sped up audio recording of paul mccartney laughing. The shit they let John lennon get away with amazes me
According to George Martin it is actually Paul laughing. Sped up of course.