The white album was listened to from beginning to end most of the time. It was a total experience. It was like a concert but with perfect sound and recording. Every concert needs pacing and variety. That’s why these two cuts worked so well. They filled the spaces between the heavier music. They were like sherbet between each gourmet course, intended to clean the pallet, or in this case, the aural cavity.
Lennon wrote Julia, I Am The Walrus, Mr. Kite (the ultimate Beatles carnival tune), Across The Universe, A Day In The Life, Girl, none of these qualify as rock music, while Paul wrote Helter Skelter, Get Back, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, Paperback Writer and many more of the best rocking songs the band recorded. Paul liked the old musical show tunes as well as Little Richard and Stockhausen. Which is why he can write Martha My Dear, Blackbird and Helter Skelter on the same album.
@benoitdesmarais2948 Truly excellent comment!🎯 I hope the guys read it. It'll further their understanding of The Beatles (specifically Paul & John) if they do.💯💯
Yes, thank you! I listed Helter Skelter & Live and Let Die, but forgot about Get Back! Woo wee, that song rocks out. I'm team Paul as a well rounded, not one note genius all day, every day.
Yes… 🤔 But still, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” - Aristotle And, “different strokes for different folks.” - USA, 50’s era, origin unknown
@@timjc4344 Agreed. Which is why I pointed to both the fact they wrote ballads and rockers, and that they could both be experimental in their songwriting. They never pushed the envelope quite as much in their solo careers. Actually, McCartney did multiply collabs, write an oratorio, dabble in electronics. But he never again transformed music like he did with his buddies in the 60's. He wrote good stuff, but you can't keep revolutionising music every year!
"Lennon gets you to the rock, every time." Hmm, the Revolution 9 sound collage, the nursery-rhyme inflected Cry Baby Cry, the Disney/Hollywood-esque Goodnight, the circus-music Mr Kite... Yes It Is, This Boy, Norwegian Wood, all waltz time. No, Lennon was almost as eclectic as McCartney, who was fully capable of providing rock material too, as others here point out.
Paul was fond of an old English style of music called "Music Hall" that was popular 1850-1918, that was characterized by being really catchy and usually humorous. His father actually played in a Music Hall band. Other music hall style songs by McCartney are "When I'm 64" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Herman and the Hermits had a huge hit with the Music Hall classic "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" because lead singer Peter Noone was also a big Music Hall fan. Queen's "Killer Queen" is also heavily Music Hall influenced.
Agreed. Helter Skelter, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, Back in the U.S.S.R. and Birthday are all kick-ass McCartney rock songs. Lennon and McCartney were BOTH rock guys when they wanted to be.
@@robertwiles8106 I saw Paul being interviewed and he said when they were filming "Help" on location in Jamaica It was in fact a Jamaican man who said it to Paul.
"Wild Honey Pie" was a prelude to Paul's first solo album. This was never a song I would put on specifically, but in the flow of the album, I can't imagine it not being there.
We would put the album on the turntable, and then sit back and just listen to every song in order. When you’ve heard it a hundred times you begin hearing the nuances and complexity of the songs. These were not really simple songs, they were experimental. There was lots of experimenting going on back then. And the idea of genres was still way in the future. Listen closely to Ob-La-Di, listen for the continuous syncopated interplay between instruments throughout the entire song. I suspect that was not a simple thing to maintain so perfectly. As a Rush, Black Sabbath, and Aerosmith loving Led Head, I love the entire White Album. It is a double album that is meant to not just be listened to, but to be experienced. As I’ve said many times before, vinyl albums were artistically created to be listened to from the first track on side one to the last track on side four. Pacing and variety was key to the overall enjoyment of an album.
Really showing my age here, but when this album & song came out I wrote a paper on it for an English class. Luckily the prof was also a fan, which led to an A for me!
Paul hung out with a guy named JIMMY CLIFF who would say this saying to him..."Obla di obla da life goes on bra". Jimmy was Carribean (Jamaican). So it was with a Jamaican/Dominican accent. Jimmy is one of the people backing them up in vocals on the song.
Listen to the last verse line. Roll reversal. Molly lets the children lend a hand and Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face and in the evening she's a singer in the band.
A Rasta dude used to say this to Paul when he asked him how’s it going so Paul made a song out of it. You know man ob la di ob la da life goes on bruh! That’s the genesis of the song. The songs you’re referring to come from Paul’s dads influence , he was a jazz big band player
There are only a few Beatles songs don’t care for -“Wild Honey Pie” is one of them. And you’re spot on - a lot of people thought this should have been a single disc. I can’t imagine it not being two discs, but that’s because I know it so well. They said the same thing about Elton John’s “Yellow Brick Road”. Imagine being so prolific that you can put out so much music in such a short span of time and nearly all of it better than anyone else is putting out.
This "White Album" is a Masterpiece album......those two songs among others were not the best songs on the album but they were the most played songs in parties or group gatherings because we knew by the playfulness of the song and Beatles that it was a "High" The Beatles were getting "High" when they recorded and performed it....and we were getting High with them in parties or social scenes.....and there are many songs on this album that the songs are "high songs!" You guys got to keep in mind that there were no computers, smartphones, or videos then so sharing the same experience came through phone calls, recorder tapes, and records and albums.
OMG!! guys!!! I LOVE "OB LA DI OB LA DA" it is SO fun, and it always was fun at his concerts. When tribute bands do it, a conga line forms on the dance floor and everyone has a ball. Paul was talking to a Nigerian conga player in a London night club say 'oh, ob la di ob la da, life goes on bra'" Paul loved that saying, and remembered it, and then wrote a song around it It's one of the songs I put on when I am feeling really down or blue, and it just cheers me up so much, makes me dance around. That is what makes the Beatles so fantastic and interesting, they did ALL KINDS of music, and music like we never heard before. I love their versatility. Paul can certainly ROCK, my goodness. "HONEY PIE" is John and Paul being silly. IF you watch Peter Jackson's 'GET BACK" you will see the Beatles fooling around and doing silly little songs and having fun. John especially.
@@braudabo Darn RIGHT!! It's a great song, and I am not the only one who thinks so. Just don't understand why some people make fun of it or don't like it.
You know we were screaming that chorus at the top of our lungs as kids! My young parents were first Beatles' gen & I started hearing them probably still in the late 60s, for sure. Definitely screaming this in the early 70s, lol. Thanks for the Beatles, love your reactions so much.
Not My favorite Beatles song myself but it fits perfectly on vast and different styles of the white album. I respect the Beatles so called misses because they were always trying something new. Not going to the same well all time. This song is in the same vein as Maxwell's Silver Hammer not my fav but nothing else sounds like it. This song is tribute to a friend of Paul's a reggae musician named Desmond who had toured England. To me it has an island feel. They weren't just rock they could do it all. McCartney has the softest song on this album, but he also has the unquestionably the hardest heaviest song on this album also you will see later down the line. Lennon does have a great Rock voice, but Mccartney was more well-rounded in my opinion. I Mean Blackbird one end of the spectrum. Then Helter Skelter the birth of metal before sabbath and Zepplin. Who else does that. love your reactions. you guys are best on Tube.
"Sounds like an elementary singalong." Yes, and The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill has a similar singalong feel to it. The great thing about the White Album is the amazing wide range of styles and genres. There are fun little gems littered throughout the album, as well as rock, folk, blues, etc. My favorite Beatles album.
Yes, in the words of Van Halen, Fair Warning has been given, lol. I just discovered recently that, apparently, John wanted the song on really bad (and it was, har har), but EVERYONE else (well, 'cept maybe Yoko, lol) did NOT. But they gave in and gave it to him. It hardly ruins the album, and IS interesting for the experimental, acid trip number it is, but if you gave it to a newbie and said "So this is The Beatles," they'd never listen to another Fab Four track again, lol.
Speaking of the song Blackbird, Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis sang '"Blackbird" in Scottish Gaelic in a cover version commissioned by Mojo magazine to celebrate The White Album's fortieth anniversary.[39] The song was released as a download single from Fowlis' own website in October 2008.
Wow, as I was typing out a comment, you said what I was about to say! Yes, it was a super fun primary school song the class sang!! Or just walk around the school yard arms over each others shoulders singing out loud!😁😁
Been meaning to comment on this White Album series, but with the holidays, been busy - Next song, is a sing a long. After they get back from India they get together with guitars, party, sit around and show their new songs - with the next song they keep that feel. It features a great mandolin, and synthesizer for the first time, and haunting organ...then right into the killer While my Guitar Gently Weeps, from the party to the studio, just terrific man! This album is The Beatles getting back to rock n roll, fast, slow, creative, inventive, sing-along, powerful, emotional, blues, progressive, folk, country - they do it all on this album, it sets a new standard for future rock bands to play music in their style, outside of their genre but keep it rock n roll.
The track was indeed a smash hit in the UK - for The Marmalade... The slight ska touch certainly contributed to the growing popularity of reggae at the time. It's no coincidence, that a reggae band like Inner Circle later covered the track, as did Youssou N'Dour. In Germany, cover versions by Howard Carpendale (in German) and The Spectrum were chart successes. Wild honey pie would probably be described today as an "interlude" on an album. By 1968, McCartney had already demonstrated exceptional rock ('roll) shouting skills (e.g. Long tall Sally, I'm down) and would do so again in a very legendary track on this album.
My music teacher played this for us when I was 11 and we sang along with a book of songs ❤ Just a few songs earlier, Paul rocked us back into the USSR, so he could bring it 😊
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was probably the most popular track from the White Album back in late 1968 and early 1969. It was so popular that the group Marmalade released a cover version of the song and that went to #1 in the UK, Norway and Austria because The Beatles own version had not been released as a single. After seeing that a cover of the song was doing so well... The Beatles version was released as a single in many countries around the world (with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as the B side) and it went to #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. To give you an idea of how popular the song was - while it soared to #1... "Guitar Weeps" did not even chart. It is a song that some fans love and others hate... along the lines of "Mull of Kintyre". It's a perfect example of McCartney's great talent at creating enormously catchy tunes that capture the record buying public's imagination.
Like when Beatles ended and George Harrison released his solo album All Things Must Pass in 1970. A triple album with 23 songs. Many of the songs was written for Beatles but was overlooked. So he had a lot of material ready.
It’s so great watching you guys react to this whole album… it was so ground breaking at the time because as you said at this point they could do whatever the flock they wanted… and when you listen to the whole album like we used to do… these little songs they did made the album great. ❤🎸
Lennon used to refer to these kind of McCartney songs as "granny music" and he wasn't wrong. Whatever ones feelings about them might be, they certainly helped expand the Beatles audience.
This is one of those albums ("The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society" and "Exile on Main Street" are two others) where the album as a whole works better than listening to the songs individually. All together, The White Album is a terrific collection of songs, but each one loses a little something when separated from the pack.
This is a double album. If you want rock from Paul, the hardest rock song The Beatles ever put out is on this album, and it's written and sung by Paul. It's Helter Skelter. So, they were all doing a variety of types of songs.
Have you guys seen the movie 'Yesterday?'' It's about an earth shattering event where all info on The Beatles is erased, except for a few people. I highly reccomend it, it is really good. I won't spoil it but there is one scene where, in the movie theater, I let out a loud gasp and everyone and my husband turned and looked at me. Please let us know when you've seen it. I have enjoyed watching you guys appreciate Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brother, and now The Beatles. The music of which I grew up listening to and still love. Thank you La and Che.
GREAT movie, especially the first half hour or so--there are SO many great "inside jokes" that only Beatles fans will get (even casual fans, really). I hope they watch it now that they have the knowledge to make it more enjoyable. And the woman who plays the dude's agent is super hilarious!
Both 1968......keep it goin' .....although 'honey pie was weird !!!! FYI....McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" in a joke-like Jamaican ska style and appropriated a phrase popularised by Jimmy Scott, a London-based Nigerian musician, for the song's title and chorus. (source...Wiki)
These are written for fun, as kind of a joke. And you are right. They did it because they could and to hell with the record company (i.e., "We are the effing Beatles. Wanna make something of it?").
You can clearly see the difference in the writing of John & Paul. But you will catch a few curves on some of their collaborations. And yes it’s a double album. Man you have no idea what you’re both in for. Peace and continued success guys. And Happy New Year ❤
You have to take these songs in context of the entire album. The album is really fast paced with every song a different character or style, and when placed between some other killer songs, they contribute to the feeling and mood of the whole album. I wouldn't miss a track on these two discs. But I'm not everyone.
Paul can do rock, and it's on THIS album! 'Helter Skelter', it's considered one of the very earliest hard rock/metal prequels. He also did Live and Let Die, which was a Bond movie title track. There's others, too. I can't wait til you get to Helter Skelter. Motley Crue covered it in the late 80s and added in the actual hard rock/metal elements. A really great cover.
There's a Doris Day song from an Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" where she sings "Que Sera, Sera" (Spanish for "Whatever will be, will be"). I always thought The Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was making fun of these types of shmaltzy 50s/60s Hollywood production songs like "Que Sera, Sera" and the "The Sound of Music's song, "Do, Re, Mi."
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" has a Caribbean vibe, but it leans more toward Reggae and Ska than true Calypso. Reggae is characterized by its "double syncopation" in other words, the interplay of syncopated bass and off-beat chords.
In the 60s only a few nerds were aware that there were different genres of music. If it sounded good, we played it. And we played the entire album without skipping a song. (Mainly to avoid scratching the record, I'll admit.)
Imagine you're a still a young guy who but is awash in attention and fame over your music, and millions are expecting you to be some Ultimate Philosopher or Guru. To hell with that, let's so somethings that are light and playful.
To me this album defined the beginning of the full split of the Beatles. True Abbey Road brought them back one more time, but John and Paul ( and George to a smaller degree) did ‘their’ songs with the other band members acting as the backup band, or not. Definitely some gems on this album, and some non gems, and yes, by this time they did whatever they wanted. If you prefer the early Beatles, prior to Magical Mystery tour where albums seemed to have a cohesive thought out group of songs, the White Album is likely not your thing. If you aged with them though, it feels like it fits perfectly. I remember my Brother getting this one for Christmas, when it came out.. We listened to it from start to finish. Revolution no9 scared the sh*t out of me.. l was only a little kid.
Fun fact: the Beatles and George Martin were at odds on this album release. George wanted it released as a single album, not a double album as he thought there were some “weak” songs on it and it would make a fantastic single album but, the Beatles won out in the end. There were several factors The Beatles wanted it to be a double LP (creative, financial,etc.) but, what George Martin didn’t know is that the Beatles were hurriedly trying to get out of their awful contract with EMI. The contract stipulated not how many albums the Beatles put out but, how many songs, so yes there are some “weaker” songs on the white album, but, it got the EMI contract fulfilled quickly.
Lennon absolutely hated this song (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da), as he thought it was a sappy kiddy song, too. Thinking back to the fact that he penned Yellow Submarine and had great fun recording that one, I wonder if his complaints about the song weren't more born out of friction with Paul in the studio than an actual hatred for the song. The White Album was a double-LP, and was the result of the band diving deep into songwriting while on their trip to India to see see the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Sexy Sadie - later in the album). They returned with so much material they could not pare it down to just one disc.
Paul writes these songs because he can.
The white album was listened to from beginning to end most of the time. It was a total experience. It was like a concert but with perfect sound and recording. Every concert needs pacing and variety. That’s why these two cuts worked so well. They filled the spaces between the heavier music. They were like sherbet between each gourmet course, intended to clean the pallet, or in this case, the aural cavity.
Great way to put it!
Paul has written every kind of song imaginable with the Beatles and without! Genius is right!
Lennon wrote Julia, I Am The Walrus, Mr. Kite (the ultimate Beatles carnival tune), Across The Universe, A Day In The Life, Girl, none of these qualify as rock music, while Paul wrote Helter Skelter, Get Back, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, Paperback Writer and many more of the best rocking songs the band recorded. Paul liked the old musical show tunes as well as Little Richard and Stockhausen. Which is why he can write Martha My Dear, Blackbird and Helter Skelter on the same album.
@benoitdesmarais2948
Truly excellent comment!🎯
I hope the guys read it. It'll further their understanding of The Beatles (specifically Paul & John) if they do.💯💯
Yes, thank you! I listed Helter Skelter & Live and Let Die, but forgot about Get Back! Woo wee, that song rocks out. I'm team Paul as a well rounded, not one note genius all day, every day.
Yes… 🤔
But still, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
- Aristotle
And, “different strokes for different folks.”
- USA, 50’s era, origin
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@@timjc4344 Agreed. Which is why I pointed to both the fact they wrote ballads and rockers, and that they could both be experimental in their songwriting. They never pushed the envelope quite as much in their solo careers. Actually, McCartney did multiply collabs, write an oratorio, dabble in electronics. But he never again transformed music like he did with his buddies in the 60's. He wrote good stuff, but you can't keep revolutionising music every year!
"Lennon gets you to the rock, every time." Hmm, the Revolution 9 sound collage, the nursery-rhyme inflected Cry Baby Cry, the Disney/Hollywood-esque Goodnight, the circus-music Mr Kite... Yes It Is, This Boy, Norwegian Wood, all waltz time. No, Lennon was almost as eclectic as McCartney, who was fully capable of providing rock material too, as others here point out.
Paul was fond of an old English style of music called "Music Hall" that was popular 1850-1918, that was characterized by being really catchy and usually humorous. His father actually played in a Music Hall band. Other music hall style songs by McCartney are "When I'm 64" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Herman and the Hermits had a huge hit with the Music Hall classic "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" because lead singer Peter Noone was also a big Music Hall fan. Queen's "Killer Queen" is also heavily Music Hall influenced.
Paul took it further as a solo artist with songs like You Gave Me the Answer.
Most of that isn't "music hall" at all 🤣😂😅
Ohhhhhj I can wait to see what you think of Helter-skelter if you think John was the rock guy. 🤗
The first heavy metal song? Whatever, a certified banger.
Yer Blues is John's rock guy moment.
@@gregcable3250 Yer Blues is straight sick af.
Happiness is a Warm Gun rocks pretty hard after the intro.
Agreed. Helter Skelter, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, Back in the U.S.S.R. and Birthday are all kick-ass McCartney rock songs. Lennon and McCartney were BOTH rock guys when they wanted to be.
Paul got the phrase Obladi Oblada life goes on bra, when he asked a Jamaican, how's it going.
It was the bouncer at a popular London club, who later tried to sue over it.
@@robertwiles8106 I saw Paul being interviewed and he said when they were filming "Help" on location in Jamaica It was in fact a Jamaican man who said it to Paul.
People make up the craziest verifiable lies in youtube comments 😆 🤣 😂 you can look this up, you know
@@docsavage8640 is this what your life amounted to?
@@waynemoon5359they didn't film Help! in Jamaica at all.
The most versatile songwriters ever, difficult to categorize.
Spot on !
They didn’t only play rock and roll.
They did everything. Paul sings lots of rock and roll!
Obladi is just fun! ♥
It's a great song that just got past them
"Wild Honey Pie" was a prelude to Paul's first solo album. This was never a song I would put on specifically, but in the flow of the album, I can't imagine it not being there.
That was my thought exactly!
I named one of our cats Honey Pie after this song.
She was Carmel colored.
Ob La Di, Ob La Da always brings a smile.
Paul could go softer and harder than anyone else in the band. Wait til you get to Helter Skelter.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is one of my favorite Beatles song
We would put the album on the turntable, and then sit back and just listen to every song in order. When you’ve heard it a hundred times you begin hearing the nuances and complexity of the songs. These were not really simple songs, they were experimental. There was lots of experimenting going on back then. And the idea of genres was still way in the future. Listen closely to Ob-La-Di, listen for the continuous syncopated interplay between instruments throughout the entire song. I suspect that was not a simple thing to maintain so perfectly. As a Rush, Black Sabbath, and Aerosmith loving Led Head, I love the entire White Album. It is a double album that is meant to not just be listened to, but to be experienced. As I’ve said many times before, vinyl albums were artistically created to be listened to from the first track on side one to the last track on side four. Pacing and variety was key to the overall enjoyment of an album.
Wait 3 songs with John's "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", You're in for a treat.
Really showing my age here, but when this album & song came out I wrote a paper on it for an English class. Luckily the prof was also a fan, which led to an A for me!
Paul hung out with a guy named JIMMY CLIFF who would say this saying to him..."Obla di obla da life goes on bra". Jimmy was Carribean (Jamaican). So it was with a Jamaican/Dominican accent. Jimmy is one of the people backing them up in vocals on the song.
It must be nice to do whatever you want......exactly
Listen to the last verse line. Roll reversal. Molly lets the children lend a hand and Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face and in the evening she's a singer in the band.
A mistake they decided to leave in
@docsavage8640 could be, but they did leave it in.
A Rasta dude used to say this to Paul when he asked him how’s it going so Paul made a song out of it. You know man ob la di ob la da life goes on bruh! That’s the genesis of the song. The songs you’re referring to come from Paul’s dads influence , he was a jazz big band player
Nigerian, igo tribe, not rasta// Jamaican.
@ like I would know the diff if he walked by. At least I got some most of it right
No problem
@@josepheastman1719 just busting balls bro. Not mad at all! I stand corrected
Loved this as always. Album is a balanced masterpiece. Paul just enjoys making music and got the expression from a Jamaican guy in India.
There are only a few Beatles songs don’t care for -“Wild Honey Pie” is one of them. And you’re spot on - a lot of people thought this should have been a single disc. I can’t imagine it not being two discs, but that’s because I know it so well. They said the same thing about Elton John’s “Yellow Brick Road”. Imagine being so prolific that you can put out so much music in such a short span of time and nearly all of it better than anyone else is putting out.
This album especially, genre wise, is all over the place
This "White Album" is a Masterpiece album......those two songs among others were not the best songs on the album but they were the most played songs in parties or group gatherings because we knew by the playfulness of the song and Beatles that it was a "High" The Beatles were getting "High" when they recorded and performed it....and we were getting High with them in parties or social scenes.....and there are many songs on this album that the songs are "high songs!" You guys got to keep in mind that there were no computers, smartphones, or videos then so sharing the same experience came through phone calls, recorder tapes, and records and albums.
OMG!! guys!!! I LOVE "OB LA DI OB LA DA" it is SO fun, and it always was fun at his concerts. When tribute bands do it, a conga line forms on the dance floor and everyone has a ball. Paul was talking to a Nigerian conga player in a London night club say 'oh, ob la di ob la da, life goes on bra'" Paul loved that saying, and remembered it, and then wrote a song around it It's one of the songs I put on when I am feeling really down or blue, and it just cheers me up so much, makes me dance around. That is what makes the Beatles so fantastic and interesting, they did ALL KINDS of music, and music like we never heard before. I love their versatility. Paul can certainly ROCK, my goodness. "HONEY PIE" is John and Paul being silly. IF you watch Peter Jackson's 'GET BACK" you will see the Beatles fooling around and doing silly little songs and having fun. John especially.
Hi! Patti's always fighting for Ob-la-di, ob-la-da... 😄
@@braudabo Darn RIGHT!! It's a great song, and I am not the only one who thinks so. Just don't understand why some people make fun of it or don't like it.
You know we were screaming that chorus at the top of our lungs as kids! My young parents were first Beatles' gen & I started hearing them probably still in the late 60s, for sure. Definitely screaming this in the early 70s, lol. Thanks for the Beatles, love your reactions so much.
This was the Beatles first release on their own Apple Records label.
This song is just filled with fun and happiness!
wild honey pie is fucking awesome. one of my favorites.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da......then the acid kicked in. LOL.
Can’t go wrong with The White Album.
Not My favorite Beatles song myself but it fits perfectly on vast and different styles of the white album. I respect the Beatles so called misses because they were always trying something new. Not going to the same well all time. This song is in the same vein as Maxwell's Silver Hammer not my fav but nothing else sounds like it. This song is tribute to a friend of Paul's a reggae musician named Desmond who had toured England. To me it has an island feel. They weren't just rock they could do it all. McCartney has the softest song on this album, but he also has the unquestionably the hardest heaviest song on this album also you will see later down the line. Lennon does have a great Rock voice, but Mccartney was more well-rounded in my opinion. I Mean Blackbird one end of the spectrum. Then Helter Skelter the birth of metal before sabbath and Zepplin. Who else does that. love your reactions. you guys are best on Tube.
Always reminded me of something that might be sung in a pub. Thanks, guys.
The label? It was their label!!
All these tunes grow on you.
"Thriller" is a children's song, and you probably love that
Are you comparing this song to Thriller?
@@AirplayBeats No, I'm saying this song is being dismissed as a children's song. I'm not as enamored of Michael Jackson as you are though.
@ got it
As simple as this song is, this was a HUGE HIT!
I love when John sings "ring" and "sing"
I'm listening while shoveling snow ❄️ and thinking about my daughter's dance recital when her class tap danced to this very song. Good stuff👯♂️
Love that part ob la de ob la da Life goes on brauh!! It got my Rasta roots juices flowing!! (Time to light up a spliff lol) Thanks fellas!!
I love this song! Always have, and I always will.
One of my earliest memories is jamming out this song in the back seat of my Mom's car...
This is definitely a unique album from The Beatles
This is Johns rock record. And George’s contributions were the bangers
I see someone recommended' why dont we do it in the road ' I can second that
They are their own genre.
"Sounds like an elementary singalong." Yes, and The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill has a similar singalong feel to it. The great thing about the White Album is the amazing wide range of styles and genres. There are fun little gems littered throughout the album, as well as rock, folk, blues, etc. My favorite Beatles album.
After your reaction to these 2 songs, I think it's fair to warn you way in advance for Revolution #9...
Yes, in the words of Van Halen, Fair Warning has been given, lol. I just discovered recently that, apparently, John wanted the song on really bad (and it was, har har), but EVERYONE else (well, 'cept maybe Yoko, lol) did NOT. But they gave in and gave it to him. It hardly ruins the album, and IS interesting for the experimental, acid trip number it is, but if you gave it to a newbie and said "So this is The Beatles," they'd never listen to another Fab Four track again, lol.
Speaking of the song Blackbird, Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis sang '"Blackbird" in Scottish Gaelic in a cover version commissioned by Mojo magazine to celebrate The White Album's fortieth anniversary.[39] The song was released as a download single from Fowlis' own website in October 2008.
Music hall tune. 🤓💜💜💜
Wow, as I was typing out a comment, you said what I was about to say! Yes, it was a super fun primary school song the class sang!! Or just walk around the school yard arms over each others shoulders singing out loud!😁😁
It's a double album. And don't worry, some bangers are coming up next. Plus this album has their strangest song. Revolution #9.
Been meaning to comment on this White Album series, but with the holidays, been busy - Next song, is a sing a long. After they get back from India they get together with guitars, party, sit around and show their new songs - with the next song they keep that feel. It features a great mandolin, and synthesizer for the first time, and haunting organ...then right into the killer While my Guitar Gently Weeps, from the party to the studio, just terrific man!
This album is The Beatles getting back to rock n roll, fast, slow, creative, inventive, sing-along, powerful, emotional, blues, progressive, folk, country - they do it all on this album, it sets a new standard for future rock bands to play music in their style, outside of their genre but keep it rock n roll.
The track was indeed a smash hit in the UK - for The Marmalade... The slight ska touch certainly contributed to the growing popularity of reggae at the time. It's no coincidence, that a reggae band like Inner Circle later covered the track, as did Youssou N'Dour. In Germany, cover versions by Howard Carpendale (in German) and The Spectrum were chart successes. Wild honey pie would probably be described today as an "interlude" on an album.
By 1968, McCartney had already demonstrated exceptional rock ('roll) shouting skills (e.g. Long tall Sally, I'm down) and would do so again in a very legendary track on this album.
My music teacher played this for us when I was 11 and we sang along with a book of songs ❤
Just a few songs earlier, Paul rocked us back into the USSR, so he could bring it 😊
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was probably the most popular track from the White Album back in late 1968 and early 1969. It was so popular that the group Marmalade released a cover version of the song and that went to #1 in the UK, Norway and Austria because The Beatles own version had not been released as a single. After seeing that a cover of the song was doing so well... The Beatles version was released as a single in many countries around the world (with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as the B side) and it went to #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. To give you an idea of how popular the song was - while it soared to #1... "Guitar Weeps" did not even chart.
It is a song that some fans love and others hate... along the lines of "Mull of Kintyre". It's a perfect example of McCartney's great talent at creating enormously catchy tunes that capture the record buying public's imagination.
Honey pie sounds like one of those songs we used to make up while drunk in college...
"Wild Honey Pie" was only added to the album when George Harrison's wife, Patty, said how much she loved it.
The song was inspired by I believe one of their friends who was from Jamaica.
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SO GLAD to see ya'll reviewing this ALBUM!!! LOVE IT!! HUGS from TEXAS, YA'LL!!
Like when Beatles ended and George Harrison released his solo album All Things Must Pass in 1970. A triple album with 23 songs. Many of the songs was written for Beatles but was overlooked. So he had a lot of material ready.
A fun song, cheerful. thanks guys
Check out the song helter skelter if you think Paul cannot rock … love your reactions looking forward to the next one 😊
Facts! Glad it's on this album, too! Also Paul did 'Get Back' & 'Live and Let Die', among others. He can rock out.
It’s so great watching you guys react to this whole album… it was so ground breaking at the time because as you said at this point they could do whatever the flock they wanted… and when you listen to the whole album like we used to do… these little songs they did made the album great. ❤🎸
when we can laugh between Hendrix and the Cream. The Beatles were able to fill in the other spaces unexplored and forgotten
Lennon used to refer to these kind of McCartney songs as "granny music" and he wasn't wrong. Whatever ones feelings about them might be, they certainly helped expand the Beatles audience.
This is one of those albums ("The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society" and "Exile on Main Street" are two others) where the album as a whole works better than listening to the songs individually. All together, The White Album is a terrific collection of songs, but each one loses a little something when separated from the pack.
and now for the rest of the day you'll have ob-la-di running unrestricted through your brain
Sometimes I wish I lived in a Paul McCartney song
Haha very good
Honey pie is all time favorite
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'..Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face, and in the evening she's a singer in a band'. Thinking maybe Paul was 50+ years ahead of his time?
This is a double album.
If you want rock from Paul, the hardest rock song The Beatles ever put out is on this album, and it's written and sung by Paul. It's Helter Skelter. So, they were all doing a variety of types of songs.
Have you guys seen the movie 'Yesterday?'' It's about an earth shattering event where all info on The Beatles is erased, except for a few people. I highly reccomend it, it is really good. I won't spoil it but there is one scene where, in the movie theater, I let out a loud gasp and everyone and my husband turned and looked at me. Please let us know when you've seen it. I have enjoyed watching you guys appreciate Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brother, and now The Beatles. The music of which I grew up listening to and still love. Thank you La and Che.
GREAT movie, especially the first half hour or so--there are SO many great "inside jokes" that only Beatles fans will get (even casual fans, really). I hope they watch it now that they have the knowledge to make it more enjoyable. And the woman who plays the dude's agent is super hilarious!
Both 1968......keep it goin' .....although 'honey pie was weird !!!!
FYI....McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" in a joke-like Jamaican ska style and appropriated a phrase popularised by Jimmy Scott, a London-based Nigerian musician, for the song's title and chorus. (source...Wiki)
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At this point, they had their own record label, Apple Corps.
Paul got this from a Nigerian conga player named Jimmy Scott in a club when he asked what's up Jimmy and he replied o la di ob la da Bro life goes on
Bass line rolling!
These are written for fun, as kind of a joke. And you are right. They did it because they could and to hell with the record company (i.e., "We are the effing Beatles. Wanna make something of it?").
They were very experimental and gave way for other great musicians to experiment! They were very ahead of their time!
You can clearly see the difference in the writing of John & Paul. But you will catch a few curves on some of their collaborations. And yes it’s a double album. Man you have no idea what you’re both in for. Peace and continued success guys. And Happy New Year ❤
If you didn't like that I can't wait to see how far you get with revolution 9 😅
You have to take these songs in context of the entire album. The album is really fast paced with every song a different character or style, and when placed between some other killer songs, they contribute to the feeling and mood of the whole album. I wouldn't miss a track on these two discs. But I'm not everyone.
lol I LOVE wild honey pie, but it’s not for everyone ❤
Paul can do rock, and it's on THIS album! 'Helter Skelter', it's considered one of the very earliest hard rock/metal prequels. He also did Live and Let Die, which was a Bond movie title track. There's others, too. I can't wait til you get to Helter Skelter. Motley Crue covered it in the late 80s and added in the actual hard rock/metal elements. A really great cover.
There's a Doris Day song from an Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" where she sings "Que Sera, Sera" (Spanish for "Whatever will be, will be"). I always thought The Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was making fun of these types of shmaltzy 50s/60s Hollywood production songs like "Que Sera, Sera" and the "The Sound of Music's song, "Do, Re, Mi."
1 of many reasons the Beats were so popular: how can you feel down or depressed singing Obladi Oblada? Give it time, Che… it will grow on you
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" has a Caribbean vibe, but it leans more toward Reggae and Ska than true Calypso.
Reggae is characterized by its "double syncopation" in other words, the interplay of syncopated bass and off-beat chords.
In the 60s only a few nerds were aware that there were different genres of music. If it sounded good, we played it. And we played the entire album without skipping a song. (Mainly to avoid scratching the record, I'll admit.)
Dont worry, Paul comes good later on this album ❤
Well.. depends if you liked the next track Wild Honey Pie, but he really has some great tunes from this LP.
This song is as good as most of the album imo. People just like to run with a narrative.
Imagine you're a still a young guy who but is awash in attention and fame over your music, and millions are expecting you to be some Ultimate Philosopher or Guru. To hell with that, let's so somethings that are light and playful.
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To me this album defined the beginning of the full split of the Beatles. True Abbey Road brought them back one more time, but John and Paul ( and George to a smaller degree) did ‘their’ songs with the other band members acting as the backup band, or not. Definitely some gems on this album, and some non gems, and yes, by this time they did whatever they wanted. If you prefer the early Beatles, prior to Magical Mystery tour where albums seemed to have a cohesive thought out group of songs, the White Album is likely not your thing. If you aged with them though, it feels like it fits perfectly. I remember my Brother getting this one for Christmas, when it came out.. We listened to it from start to finish. Revolution no9 scared the sh*t out of me.. l was only a little kid.
Fun fact: the Beatles and George Martin were at odds on this album release. George wanted it released as a single album, not a double album as he thought there were some “weak” songs on it and it would make a fantastic single album but, the Beatles won out in the end. There were several factors The Beatles wanted it to be a double LP (creative, financial,etc.) but, what George Martin didn’t know is that the Beatles were hurriedly trying to get out of their awful contract with EMI. The contract stipulated not how many albums the Beatles put out but, how many songs, so yes there are some “weaker” songs on the white album, but, it got the EMI contract fulfilled quickly.
Interesting tid bit!
Cool. "Wild Honey Pie" makes more sense in the context of "Honey Pie" on side four. "Blackbird" is on side two.
versatility
Lennon absolutely hated this song (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da), as he thought it was a sappy kiddy song, too. Thinking back to the fact that he penned Yellow Submarine and had great fun recording that one, I wonder if his complaints about the song weren't more born out of friction with Paul in the studio than an actual hatred for the song. The White Album was a double-LP, and was the result of the band diving deep into songwriting while on their trip to India to see see the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Sexy Sadie - later in the album). They returned with so much material they could not pare it down to just one disc.