It is so hard to choose from but a few that immediately come to mind that I don't think you reacted to yet: You Won't See Me Norwegian Wood Lady Madonna Michelle The Fool on the Hill Flying Old Brown Shoe Oh in addition some stuff from anthology: The different versions of Strawberry Fields (especially take 7 with edit piece) And Something (I almost like this one better than the Abbey Road version)
Give a listen to Macca’s Back to the Egg. Specifically Getting Closer, Spin It On, Old Siam Sir, Arrow Through and, and the single Goodnight Tonight. It’s a very under appreciated LP.
"Long, Long, Long" is an early slice of George's spirituality as he's singing about finding divinity not a woman. The ending was Paul hitting a chord that rattled a bottle of blue nun wine on top of the Leslie speaker cabinet, causing it to shake and add a spooky, ethereal sound to the ending chord. Always loved the piano from Chris Thomas, who produced a lot of the album when George Martin was away, as he gives it a sort of Nashville country-ish vibe. Very Blonde on Blonde, which isn't a shock considering George had become good friends with Dylan by this point.
Everybodys' Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey take a listen for a song 56 yrs old it blows my mind how good they were and still are and i'm 20 yrs old
Everybody's Got Something To Hide ....Monkey has always been one of my favorites on the White Album. Long, Long, Long and I'm So Tired deserve more recognition than they get, but no song on the White Album is more underrated than Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me And My Monkey, IMO.
Lee, on the song, "I'm So Tired" I've always chuckled at that lyric, “I’m so tired, I’m feeling so upset/Although I’m so tired, I’ll have another cigarette/And curse Sir Walter Raleigh/He was such a stupid get.”...Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco back to England from Virginia on July 27th, 1586. And John apparently blames him for the addiction to smoking he has, lol.
@@dandare42 He does actually say "get" though, otherwise it wouldn't rhyme with cigarette. I've always known "get" and "git" to be interchangeable. Irish people say "get" rather than "git", which is probably why John says it that way (what with the strong Irish influence on Liverpool).
long long long should make you feel strange things on the first listen. many white album tracks had weird little endings and the songs are just all over the place. and Cry Baby Cry is phenomenal
I love the Beatles to this day! I listen to them over and over again. The White album is my favorite. George Martin didn't think it was that great. He thought it was too long. He admitted that a lot of people love it though! The Beatles themselves say it is one of their favorites! This album was one of their so called start of their breakup!
Long, Long, Long - the absolute gentlest song that could possibly be imagined with a drum track that sounds like a thunder storm in the hold of a tanker. I cannot fathom how they ever had the imagination or the balls to marry those ideas together. Thanks for these vids Lee, I can't listen to these tracks for the first time again... so, living vicariously through you is a treat.
The White Album - the greatest album of all time - but this is the issue- it takes time. It's edgy, manic, bonkers, amazing, funny, heart breaking, rocking, jazz, country, avant-garde. It's a lot to take in with 30 songs, but it is worth it. When I first heard it around 1980 I was 12 and hated it, second time still hated it, 3rd time it started to sink in, 4th time I got it. There's so much to it, it is amazing. And to be clear - Revolution 9 is integral to it.
I've read somewhere the last chord of LLL sent a vibration to a bottle or a glass they had put on an amp in the studio. The glass started vibrating/wobbling on the amp, creating the initial weird sound and they simply took it from there. :)
In College I had the flu with a high fever, and the White Album was on my record player. Suddenly I woke up to the weird ending of "Long, Long, Long", totally feverish and disoriented, with that strange rattling noise and ghostly wailing voice, a very freaky experience! Many decades later, I still remembering that strange experience when I hear this song. And thus, I really appreciated your reaction to the ending of "Long, Long, Long". Also, I had always thought of this as an introspective "John song", and was surprised later to learn that it was actually George's writing and singing.
Long long long is straight up one of my absolute favourite Beatles tunes. I’ve been listening White album since I was very young, and songs like Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9 scared the crap out of me, but this one shook me to the core, I almost couldn’t take it when I was small. I still treasure it, it’s not like a song for me, more like a ritual that creeps right into your soul. Also some of my favourite Ringo fills, thunderous, awesome, and so cool.
Lennon wrote "I'm So Tired" during the Beatles' stay in India about insomnia he was having due to constant meditation and because he missed Yoko Ono. The song was recorded in the same session as another White Album song, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill".
George is such a chill dude on the outside. Always searching for something! i don't know what it was but he always was it seems (through his music at least)
Man, you've got to listen to I'm so tired another two or three times and really let it sink in. It's actually a fantastic song with amazing textures, although I agree that it is criminally too short. And yet it burns itself into your brain for a lifetime, that's how good it is.
My two favorite Beatles by far.John is the man,best song writer and voice I have ever heard and George was so underrated and so good.One of my favorite albums also.
fun fact: when I was a teenager, I was reading Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula the same time I bought the White Album... the song sequence of Helter Skelter and Long, Long, Long perfectly captured the mood of the book, and so I played side three of the White Album over and over as I read the book, and sometimes just those two songs... another fun fact: that sound at the end was apparently a wine bottle vibrating on a piece of equipment
I’m actually doing the whole album on patreon at the moment. This was a teaser of the whole album, basically. Side 1 is already up on there 😎 side 2 this Sunday
The White album has long, long, long been a favorite but for some reason that I can't explain Long, Long, Long took a very long time for me to fully appreciate. I liked it but it didn't stand out on this double album so full o' wonderfulness. Then one day it hit me...I became enlightened...This song is one o' the very best!
First of all, love your channel. This might be too much info but Long,Long,Long has deep meaning for me. I was a kid in the late 80’s and I tried to delete myself. I ended up in a hospital for people who do that kind of thing. This was the days of cassettes and walkmans. I played this song so much, my batteries were draining but I kept listening anyway. I can still hear this song getting slower and slower as the batteries drained. On a good note, never did that bad thing again and I’m still here.
White Album if listened to as a whole, you don't worry about short song lengths. Cause there's so many great tracks on this album that all blend into each other. Long Long Long is my favorite of the album. Covered it in my band. Only hard part is finding a drummer to play Ringo's parts. Ringo was a genius at making the drums a strong voice in the song.
Paul was living in London while John was living in the suburbs with his wife and son, Julian. Paul exposed John to the avante garde scene. Paul was single, going to parties and to clubs while John was at home, even when he so horribly kicked Cyn out he stayed at his house with Yoko for a bit. I always looked at the Beatles of 4 parts of 1 entity. John was the mind. Paul was the heart. George was the spirit. Ringo was the personality. Whereas John was a major influence in the early years, Paul was the influence in the later years. George came into his own in 1967- 1968.
I try to separate myself from the other 10,000 reaction channels by tackling things others usually wouldn’t or don’t care to. I honestly enjoy this music a lot and it makes this channel worth it. The views come and go but the community and the music stays the same… golden! lol
Hell Yeah! I have always especially liked both of these songs from The White album. I think Long, Long, Long is an underappreciated track. It always struck me as so forlorn and intimate. A truly a great song by Harrison
That vibrating sound at the end of Long, Long, Long is a beer bottle sitting on top of an amp, not an intentional part of the song. They thought it sounded cool so kept it in. Two GREAT songs by the way.
Love hearing an adult musician react to the Beatles. I was a fan in the 60's and loved their music for their whole career but I was just a kid. John is my fav also. So glad for ur utube success!! Here's an odd one. I know a lot of people don't like Yoko but John loved her and was working on a song of hers the night he was murdered. 'Walking on Thin Ice', kinda a dance song. I like it but sadly in retrospect, it sounds like her reaction to that unbearably sad day. Thanks again...
Love The White album. "I'm So Tired" has become my theme song over the years, lol. Always had a soft spot for George, though. Great picks, Ken. Great reaction, Lee. Peace.
Just consider that on November 22nd this album will be 56 years old. There are 30 songs on this album. Plus, the Hey Jude/Revolution single was another two songs.
HELL, YEAH!! @L33Reacts - First and foremost - I appreciate your persistence to keep it sponsor-free, and I SO appreciate you being on this journey with The Beatles. But I respectfully agree to disagree on some of this - and that's perfectly okay.. John being "the intelligence" of The Beatles - he just chose to put more of his natural pessimism and caustic wit into his songs as they grew from the lads in '62 to 1969. Paul, on the other hand, was a more optimist by nature kinda guy and it shows in his writings (their differences are part of what made them such a great song writing team from the very beginning), but he could also sharpen his pencil, if you know what I mean, when the mood struck him. And Paul by this time was also somewhat saddled with having to be the driving force when it came to work because of Brian Epstein's passing. Once enough time had elapsed after the breakup, the other 3 all pretty much admitted as much. I always felt "I'm So Tired" was Lennon's perfect follow-up to his "I'm Only Sleeping" (from Revolver). I've read it was sorta his reaction to all the lectures and meditation while on their trip to India. Maybe my favorite line in that song was "... I'll have another cigarette - And curse Sir Walter Raleigh - he was such a stupid get" referring to Raleigh introducing tobacco to England. The ending of "Long, Long, Long" (a song recorded without Lennon) always made me think of the movie "The Exorcist" for some strange reason. Sadly, the White Album was the beginning of the implosion of The Beatles as a group - in my opinion, perhaps, along with Brian's passing - the end result of the trip to India. So many of the songs were recorded while other members of the group were totally absent. John and Yoko (whose constant presence was a stressor, no doubt, but they just wanted to be together all the time ...ah, young love) with "Revolution 9" as sort of a back atcha to Paul recording "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" while John was absent (on his birthday, no less) as well as George not there. I believe John phrased it as being like "John with a backing group" or "Paul with a backing group," and sometimes songs were recorded completely by themselves. Ringo left the group for awhile, things were such a mess that even George Martin took off for a bit. And yet, there were some absolutely incredible songs on that double album. With all this, it is truly a miracle we still got "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road" afterward.
It's always good to shout out George Martin, for sure. ❤ What an amazing individual. And I like that his son played the same role in producing that recent add highly emotional release, Now and Then, and did the string arrangement I believe. He hired a really great director to bring that ensemble together so well.
I am suggesting the last two songs of side two, I will and Julia. Two magic compositions. The White Album is fantastic from the first note of Back in the ussr to the very last note of Good night. An incredible roller coaster in all genres of modern music. Nothing similar can be found.
For what it’s worth, I’m a little lukewarm on the White album as a whole. Of their later albums, it’s the one I’m least likely to put on. However, it’s got some of my absolute favorite songs. Like Dear Prudence, Julia, Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and I Will. It’s an interesting album, they experiment with a lot of different styles and there are many other songs I like, but overall it’s a little uneven. I much prefer Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper, and Abbey Road. 😎
During the recording of Long, Long, Long, a bottle of wine was sitting on the organ. When Paul would hit a certain note, the bottle would vibrate, creating the sound the group decided to incorporate at the end of the song. I always suspect that George was imitating Yoko's vocal mannerisms as the bottle rattled.
Ringo wrote 2 compositions and assisted on 2 others. Don't Pass Me by and Octopuses garden, he wrote. They wrote a "Ringo song" for every album. Yellow Sub, Little Help from my friends, were Ringo singing Lennon/McCartney songs and ACT NATURALLY was written by one of his heroes BUCK OWENS, who famously later was half the hosting of Hee Haw with Roy Clark for 16+ years on television. Buck also was inspiration for the band Creedance Clearwater Revival.
Hell yeah, so far, so good. Sorry, I don't recall, have you done 'Northern Song' yet? Was thrilled to hear 'It's All Too Much' on any reaction channel. The completist ethic serves you, your channel and your audience well, mate. Again, hell yeah. 😊 ✊🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
if you have any other Beatles or Beatles adjacent suggestions, this is the place to leave them. I appreciate y'all!
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number), Thank You Girl and even more, lol
The Magical Mystery Tour album is magical. I think you've only done I am the Walrus - but there is more.
It is so hard to choose from but a few that immediately come to mind that I don't think you reacted to yet:
You Won't See Me
Norwegian Wood
Lady Madonna
Michelle
The Fool on the Hill
Flying
Old Brown Shoe
Oh in addition some stuff from anthology:
The different versions of Strawberry Fields (especially take 7 with edit piece)
And Something (I almost like this one better than the Abbey Road version)
Love I'm So Tired, and Long, Long, Long is a nice one. The White album is the most diverse one they ever did.
Give a listen to Macca’s Back to the Egg. Specifically Getting Closer, Spin It On, Old Siam Sir, Arrow Through and, and the single Goodnight Tonight. It’s a very under appreciated LP.
Long, Long, Long is an absolute underrated and under played gem! Just beautiful!
I needed a lot of listening to recognize how great this song is.
that was SO good. and what an ending! George is the man lol
You are so right,I love every bar of this song. And the drumming ❤❤❤❤
Listen to Revolution #9 backwards!
One of my all time favorites. Haunting
“I’m So Tired” is a massive favorite for me, as a lifelong insomniac
This channel has made me an insomniac LOL long, long, long hours equals i'm so tired. LOL
but i can't sleep because their are thumbnails to be made XD
I’m So Tired has always been a huge favourite of mine. Just the right amount of John sarcasm and grumpiness! 😂
"Long, Long, Long" is an early slice of George's spirituality as he's singing about finding divinity not a woman. The ending was Paul hitting a chord that rattled a bottle of blue nun wine on top of the Leslie speaker cabinet, causing it to shake and add a spooky, ethereal sound to the ending chord. Always loved the piano from Chris Thomas, who produced a lot of the album when George Martin was away, as he gives it a sort of Nashville country-ish vibe. Very Blonde on Blonde, which isn't a shock considering George had become good friends with Dylan by this point.
Everybodys' Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey take a listen for a song 56 yrs old it blows my mind how good they were and still are and i'm 20 yrs old
Everybody's Got Something To Hide ....Monkey has always been one of my favorites on the White Album. Long, Long, Long and I'm So Tired deserve more recognition than they get, but no song on the White Album is more underrated than Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me And My Monkey, IMO.
I've always adored Long Long Long.
Long Long Long is arguably my favourite George song & one of the most underrated Beatles tracks. Beautiful & hypnotic.
Yes, so underrated! But this is a psychedelic masterpiece!
I agree. There is such longing in that song.
Hearing again, now after so many years, I have to agree. So good.
Lee, on the song, "I'm So Tired" I've always chuckled at that lyric, “I’m so tired, I’m feeling so upset/Although I’m so tired, I’ll have another cigarette/And curse Sir Walter Raleigh/He was such a stupid get.”...Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco back to England from Virginia on July 27th, 1586. And John apparently blames him for the addiction to smoking he has, lol.
He says "git." It's British slang meaning a foolish or worthless person (according to wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)
@@dandare42 He does actually say "get" though, otherwise it wouldn't rhyme with cigarette. I've always known "get" and "git" to be interchangeable. Irish people say "get" rather than "git", which is probably why John says it that way (what with the strong Irish influence on Liverpool).
@@thereunionpartyyes, and “get” is used in the North generally. I’ve never heard anyone say “git” except when mimicking Alf Garnett
“stupid get” - very much what John would have heard and used growing up in Liverpool.
You know that I need you, my sweet Lord.
I do agree, John was the best lyricist. He cut out all the bullshit and spoke from the soul. That guy was as genuine as they get and very intelligent.
LOVE Long Long Long, chillingly beautiful - every element of the song is such a unique Beatles moment. We loved George!
Over time; Long, Long, Long has become my top The Beatles song. Always sounds just right when everything is going wrong.
long long long should make you feel strange things on the first listen. many white album tracks had weird little endings and the songs are just all over the place. and Cry Baby Cry is phenomenal
The way the pick was scratching the guitar strings at the end of Long, Long, Long is just hauntingly brilliant. 🙂
Used to sing I'm So Tired to my kids as a lullaby.
That's great
That's lovely.❤
WE HAVE SIDE ONE OF THE WHITE ALBUM ON PATREON AS WE SPEAK! Side two will be coming out this weekend!
What do you think so far?
I love the Beatles to this day! I listen to them over and over again. The White album is my favorite. George Martin didn't think it was that great. He thought it was too long. He admitted that a lot of people love it though! The Beatles themselves say it is one of their favorites! This album was one of their so called start of their breakup!
The White album is amazing. I played the hell out of it in 1968 when l bought it. I was 12 years old.
My two oldest siblings gave me that album on my 9th birthday in 1971. Immediately I played Birthday on our stereo console.
Long, Long, Long - the absolute gentlest song that could possibly be imagined with a drum track that sounds like a thunder storm in the hold of a tanker. I cannot fathom how they ever had the imagination or the balls to marry those ideas together. Thanks for these vids Lee, I can't listen to these tracks for the first time again... so, living vicariously through you is a treat.
The White Album - the greatest album of all time - but this is the issue- it takes time. It's edgy, manic, bonkers, amazing, funny, heart breaking, rocking, jazz, country, avant-garde. It's a lot to take in with 30 songs, but it is worth it. When I first heard it around 1980 I was 12 and hated it, second time still hated it, 3rd time it started to sink in, 4th time I got it. There's so much to it, it is amazing. And to be clear - Revolution 9 is integral to it.
I agree, unfortunately a lot of people won't re-listen to Revolution 9, which is a pity because the more you listen the more you appreciate it.
I've read somewhere the last chord of LLL sent a vibration to a bottle or a glass they had put on an amp in the studio. The glass started vibrating/wobbling on the amp, creating the initial weird sound and they simply took it from there. :)
a wine bottle produced some sort of feedback. They liked it and put it in the song
I've always appreciated the Beatles, but I really appreciate your insights
You are too kind, Pat. Thank you. these lads inspire the best in me!
I worked a lot of midnights at the steel mill and the white album was one my favorites to listen to in my crane cab
In College I had the flu with a high fever, and the White Album was on my record player. Suddenly I woke up to the weird ending of "Long, Long, Long", totally feverish and disoriented, with that strange rattling noise and ghostly wailing voice, a very freaky experience! Many decades later, I still remembering that strange experience when I hear this song. And thus, I really appreciated your reaction to the ending of "Long, Long, Long".
Also, I had always thought of this as an introspective "John song", and was surprised later to learn that it was actually George's writing and singing.
The Beatle Boys still deliver the goods after all these decades.
This is my “desert island” album.
I see why. This is shaping up to be their best album yet ( that i've heard all the way through) and that is SAYING SOMETHING.
Good description. Of all of their great albums, this is the one that usually turn to when I want to listen to something
Two beautiful songs.
Long long long is straight up one of my absolute favourite Beatles tunes. I’ve been listening White album since I was very young, and songs like Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9 scared the crap out of me, but this one shook me to the core, I almost couldn’t take it when I was small. I still treasure it, it’s not like a song for me, more like a ritual that creeps right into your soul. Also some of my favourite Ringo fills, thunderous, awesome, and so cool.
I will always love love love the whole entity that is the white album.. probably very reflective of their life at the time.
Hell yeah! Both of these are amazing underrated songs by Best band in the world
Got this album for xmas when I was 13, and still enjoying it - although its now the CD version.
I can't wait till I've heard it all and I can go and try and find a copy to spin then...
Lennon wrote "I'm So Tired" during the Beatles' stay in India about insomnia he was having due to constant meditation and because he missed Yoko Ono. The song was recorded in the same session as another White Album song, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill".
Long, Long, Long is easily one of my favorites. Ive always gravitated toward George 😊
George is such a chill dude on the outside. Always searching for something! i don't know what it was but he always was it seems (through his music at least)
Man, you've got to listen to I'm so tired another two or three times and really let it sink in. It's actually a fantastic song with amazing textures, although I agree that it is criminally too short. And yet it burns itself into your brain for a lifetime, that's how good it is.
My two favorite Beatles by far.John is the man,best song writer and voice I have ever heard and George was so underrated and so good.One of my favorite albums also.
fun fact: when I was a teenager, I was reading Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula the same time I bought the White Album... the song sequence of Helter Skelter and Long, Long, Long perfectly captured the mood of the book, and so I played side three of the White Album over and over as I read the book, and sometimes just those two songs... another fun fact: that sound at the end was apparently a wine bottle vibrating on a piece of equipment
I love these songs, love The White album! So glad to be hearing this on youtube. Your Beatles reactions are awesome, thanks Lee.
Hell yeah! Slipped through the blockers!
Hell yeah! It made it to youTube
HELL YEAH! I was worried. It's still probably gonna get taken down, but at least it's being seen for a bit by YT :)
you should listen to Helter Skelter and Long, Long, Long in sequence as going together, because they complement each other perfectly
I’m actually doing the whole album on patreon at the moment. This was a teaser of the whole album, basically. Side 1 is already up on there 😎 side 2 this Sunday
Two different worlds.
@@andreasfahlen4936 the storm, and the calm after the storm
@@1967PONTIACGTO yes something like that, it surely makes George songs sounds more beatiful.
*song
Long, Long, Long is elemental - I mean that in terms of elemental forces, not simple. One of my favorite Beatles songs.
Hell yeah it’s on you tube, fist pump for lee😊
Great that this made it onto TH-cam, I enjoyed it, thanks!
Drums were always Ringo. I love this song,( I'm so tired) , thank u❤❤❤❤
The White album has long, long, long been a favorite but for some reason that I can't explain Long, Long, Long took a very long time for me to fully appreciate. I liked it but it didn't stand out on this double album so full o' wonderfulness. Then one day it hit me...I became enlightened...This song is one o' the very best!
First of all, love your channel. This might be too much info but Long,Long,Long has deep meaning for me. I was a kid in the late 80’s and I tried to delete myself. I ended up in a hospital for people who do that kind of thing. This was the days of cassettes and walkmans. I played this song so much, my batteries were draining but I kept listening anyway. I can still hear this song getting slower and slower as the batteries drained. On a good note, never did that bad thing again and I’m still here.
Finally someone who gets revolution 9. Thank you. The best Beatle cover band The Analogues do an excellent cover.
I think it is certainly an achievement. A feat, even. It's so damn odd. but so damn beautiful too lol
White Album if listened to as a whole, you don't worry about short song lengths. Cause there's so many great tracks on this album that all blend into each other. Long Long Long is my favorite of the album. Covered it in my band. Only hard part is finding a drummer to play Ringo's parts. Ringo was a genius at making the drums a strong voice in the song.
Paul was living in London while John was living in the suburbs with his wife and son, Julian. Paul exposed John to the avante garde scene. Paul was single, going to parties and to clubs while John was at home, even when he so horribly kicked Cyn out he stayed at his house with Yoko for a bit. I always looked at the Beatles of 4 parts of 1 entity. John was the mind. Paul was the heart. George was the spirit. Ringo was the personality. Whereas John was a major influence in the early years, Paul was the influence in the later years. George came into his own in 1967- 1968.
So very good
You did it again. You were the first person I saw that reacted to Shattered by the Stones ..and you picked the gem of The White Album "long long long"
I try to separate myself from the other 10,000 reaction channels by tackling things others usually wouldn’t or don’t care to. I honestly enjoy this music a lot and it makes this channel worth it. The views come and go but the community and the music stays the same… golden! lol
Hell yah.
I have all Beatles album bir the with album is my favorit.
Big hugs from Goethenburg Sweden ❤
Hell Yeah!
I have always especially liked both of these songs from The White album.
I think Long, Long, Long is an underappreciated track. It always struck me as so forlorn and intimate. A truly a great song by Harrison
I'm So Tired : part 2 of John's "sleep" trilogy following Revolver's "I'm Only Sleeping"
I absolutely love both of these, but especially Long, Long, Long
Hell ya!
Great stuff!
So good.
That vibrating sound at the end of Long, Long, Long is a beer bottle sitting on top of an amp, not an intentional part of the song. They thought it sounded cool so kept it in. Two GREAT songs by the way.
Hell, Yeah!!🤣
Fairly good analysis
Fairly good comment. 😝
The White Album is the blueprint for all the music after
Love hearing an adult musician react to the Beatles. I was a fan in the 60's and loved their music for their whole career but I was just a kid. John is my fav also. So glad for ur utube success!! Here's an odd one. I know a lot of people don't like Yoko but John loved her and was working on a song of hers the night he was murdered. 'Walking on Thin Ice', kinda a dance song. I like it but sadly in retrospect, it sounds like her reaction to that unbearably sad day. Thanks again...
lennon was actually shot carrying the tapes of "walking on thin ice" theyd just been recording it that very day
Hell yeah.
I never listened too Long properly before but that was wonderful.. Great reaction. You missed the Walter Raleigh line.
This later song by Stealers Wheel reminds ne of it a bit. th-cam.com/video/tD46805xg_Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=n4dgVgAgagMLRNN4
hell yeah
HELL YEAH
Another great reaction Lee, thanks. :) TH-cam by the way.
Hell yeah!
****** yeah
Long long long is such a hidden classic.
The White album💞
Going to see the Fab Faux this Saturday night at the Beacon Theater in NYC. They will be doing the complete White Album. Can't wait!
HELL YEAH!!!
I love love love everything on this album! Love this time of the Beatles too.
HELL YEAH 💯
Hell Yeah
Love The White album. "I'm So Tired" has become my theme song over the years, lol. Always had a soft spot for George, though. Great picks, Ken. Great reaction, Lee. Peace.
Just consider that on November 22nd this album will be 56 years old. There are 30 songs on this album. Plus, the Hey Jude/Revolution single was another two songs.
another reason why I decided to work through the entire album! It's birthday will coincide with the final video for it on patreon.
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I love both songs, but Long long long is special to me. Beautiful but a little haunting too.
HELL, YEAH!! @L33Reacts - First and foremost - I appreciate your persistence to keep it sponsor-free, and I SO appreciate you being on this journey with The Beatles. But I respectfully agree to disagree on some of this - and that's perfectly okay.. John being "the intelligence" of The Beatles - he just chose to put more of his natural pessimism and caustic wit into his songs as they grew from the lads in '62 to 1969. Paul, on the other hand, was a more optimist by nature kinda guy and it shows in his writings (their differences are part of what made them such a great song writing team from the very beginning), but he could also sharpen his pencil, if you know what I mean, when the mood struck him. And Paul by this time was also somewhat saddled with having to be the driving force when it came to work because of Brian Epstein's passing. Once enough time had elapsed after the breakup, the other 3 all pretty much admitted as much. I always felt "I'm So Tired" was Lennon's perfect follow-up to his "I'm Only Sleeping" (from Revolver). I've read it was sorta his reaction to all the lectures and meditation while on their trip to India. Maybe my favorite line in that song was "... I'll have another cigarette - And curse Sir Walter Raleigh - he was such a stupid get" referring to Raleigh introducing tobacco to England. The ending of "Long, Long, Long" (a song recorded without Lennon) always made me think of the movie "The Exorcist" for some strange reason. Sadly, the White Album was the beginning of the implosion of The Beatles as a group - in my opinion, perhaps, along with Brian's passing - the end result of the trip to India. So many of the songs were recorded while other members of the group were totally absent. John and Yoko (whose constant presence was a stressor, no doubt, but they just wanted to be together all the time ...ah, young love) with "Revolution 9" as sort of a back atcha to Paul recording "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" while John was absent (on his birthday, no less) as well as George not there. I believe John phrased it as being like "John with a backing group" or "Paul with a backing group," and sometimes songs were recorded completely by themselves. Ringo left the group for awhile, things were such a mess that even George Martin took off for a bit. And yet, there were some absolutely incredible songs on that double album. With all this, it is truly a miracle we still got "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road" afterward.
It's always good to shout out George Martin, for sure. ❤ What an amazing individual. And I like that his son played the same role in producing that recent add highly emotional release, Now and Then, and did the string arrangement I believe. He hired a really great director to bring that ensemble together so well.
Have u done And Your Bird Can Sing?
Or Paul outdoing Little Richard on Long Tall Sally?
Another great Lennon song
I am suggesting the last two songs of side two, I will and Julia. Two magic compositions. The White Album is fantastic from the first note of Back in the ussr to the very last note of Good night. An incredible roller coaster in all genres of modern music. Nothing similar can be found.
For what it’s worth, I’m a little lukewarm on the White album as a whole. Of their later albums, it’s the one I’m least likely to put on. However, it’s got some of my absolute favorite songs. Like Dear Prudence, Julia, Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and I Will. It’s an interesting album, they experiment with a lot of different styles and there are many other songs I like, but overall it’s a little uneven. I much prefer Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper, and Abbey Road. 😎
I loved your reaction to side one! You seem to share even more in the patreon videos 😊
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During the recording of Long, Long, Long, a bottle of wine was sitting on the organ. When Paul would hit a certain note, the bottle would vibrate, creating the sound the group decided to incorporate at the end of the song. I always suspect that George was imitating Yoko's vocal mannerisms as the bottle rattled.
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Ringo wrote 2 compositions and assisted on 2 others. Don't Pass Me by and Octopuses garden, he wrote. They wrote a "Ringo song" for every album. Yellow Sub, Little Help from my friends, were Ringo singing Lennon/McCartney songs and ACT NATURALLY was written by one of his heroes BUCK OWENS, who famously later was half the hosting of Hee Haw with Roy Clark for 16+ years on television. Buck also was inspiration for the band Creedance Clearwater Revival.
The noise at the end of long long long is a bottle of blue nun rattling on the amplifier
Hell yeah, so far, so good. Sorry, I don't recall, have you done 'Northern Song' yet? Was thrilled to hear 'It's All Too Much' on any reaction channel. The completist ethic serves you, your channel and your audience well, mate. Again, hell yeah. 😊
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You rock bro, this is such a nice comment. Thank you.
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Hell yeah! Thanks Lee! x
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Two great songs,that get played a lot in the car
So many magical moments on the White Album. Getting close to Yer Blues'
He'll yeah......we're on TH-cam!!