WE MAKING IT OUT THE CIRCUS WITH THIS ONE🔥 Magical Mystery Tour (3:26) The Fool On the Hill (5:34) Flying (7:37) Blue Jay Way (9:26) Your Mother Should Know (12:29) I Am the Walrus (14:40) Hello, Goodbye (18:41) Strawberry Fields Forever (21:31) Penny Lane (24:59) Baby, You're a Rich Man (27:28) All You Need Is Love (29:45) Uncut Reaction: patreon.com/dariusdevon Like, Comment & Subscribe✅
@@jakerowland8195 Glass Onion is more of a song that is purposefully misleading about the "deeper meaning" of some of their songs, so it's not a nonsense song like I Am The Walrus but a song in which he makes fun of people who try to find conspiracies or double meanings to their music
John wrote it as a two finger salute to a teacher that said he would become nothing in life. At least this is my previous understanding of it. Maybe both true
I am the Walrus was because he heard from a student at his old school that the teachers were having them analyze Beatles lyrics, so he strung a bunch of nonsense together and said quote "Let the fuckers figure that one out"
Nah for real. I get why they did it because that was a thing The Beatles did intentionally for the fans, but yeah Sgt Peppers would b all the better for it. More interestingly where would the two songs fit on Sgt Pepper 🤔
@@LeChaunce I think that George Martin said that if Strawberry and Penny had been included, "When I'm 64" and "Lovely Rita" are the songs that would have been dropped to make room for them.
Blue Jay Way is a grower, and the transition from Flying into Blue Jay Way is genius. At some point, check out Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues, and The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed albums.
George actually peaked as a solo artist. His originals were very hit or miss as a Beatle. All things must pass is an incredible album. My favorite Beatles solo album.
There's lots of great stuff on ATMP, but you'd hopefully expect so on a triple album...there's also a fair share of 'whatever'. For all his moping about only getting one song per album, you can turn around and say 'Only a Northern Song' isn't exactly a great argument for more than one Harrison song. He had 3 decades after the Beatles to put out as much music as he wanted without anyone vetoing anything he wanted to record, he did put out some decent stuff, but come on...I like George, but holy crap, he could be one miserable whiny ungrateful little so and so.
@@orchidwave2574agreed. A lot of George defenders come out of the wood work acting like he was just a poor victim. Dude held a grudge like no other and had a piss-poor attitude. He praised Eric Clapton even after Clapton stole his wife and in the same breath lobbed insults towards Paul just because “Wahhh he asked me to play my guitar part a certain way on his song”.
Blue Jay Way was written when George flew into California for a vacation. He was jet lagged, exhausted, and his friends were late. Also, the hippy scene in CA was NOT what he expected, nor to his taste. "Don't be long"? or is he also saying "Don't belong" as in, these hippies don't belong to the same love movement we do. After this he was souring on LSD and looking more toward spirituality.
@@strikerbowls791 for George specifically? Yeah, number of sky daddy songs. Not too many drug songs from him except maybe "Savoy Truffle". He had a few 'screw the man' songs like "Taxman" and "Piggies" and a number of 'fuck the hell off' songs like "Don't Bother Me", "Think for Yourself", "I, Me, Mine" and "It's Only a Northern Song" (a dis track about their music publisher and possibly his band mates). Eventually he does write some positive things like "Something", "Here Comes the Sun", and "Old Brown Shoe"
23:27 The Beatles didn’t have control of the tracklisting of this album because Magical Mystery was made as a Movie Soundtrack Double EP. In America EP’s usually don’t sell well so Capitol Records just takes the EP and put some 1967 singles in it. It became a very huge hit, and that’s basically the reason why it’s in the official Beatles canon despite The Beatles not having control in that album.
I think it was both. "The walrus was Paul" from Glass Onion is a more direct response, but "I am the Walrus", in general, was meant to be complete nonsense in the vein of a lot of Dylan's lyrics.
@@patrickmcevoy5080 John clearly said GO was in response; he said Walrus was just him riffing on Lewis Carrol and doing wordplay like he'd always done (in His Own Write, Spaniard In The Works). Show me where he said Walrus was in response to ppl overthinking his lyrics & I'll change my mind.
@@patrickmcevoy5080 The big one. Very good question. I tell you what it was. In the stills we had taken, I was the one with the walrus head on - in the film it’s different. So John then immortalised it in ‘Glass Onion’, ‘I’ve got news for you all [sic], the walrus was Paul’. Obviously at the time you don’t care, it’s just a walrus head. Paul McCartney Q magazine, January 1998
I love it too but it was a slow burn for me as well. Nowadays I wouldn't dream of skipping over 'Within You Without You' but I can understand Darius thinking it was a clunker first time out.
@@h6rts It was a combination of John’s verse and Paul’s chorus, much like “Yellow Submarine” and “A Day In The Life”, as much as you can talk about verse and chorus regarding the latter.
Yooo, we're here! I thought it was so funny when you were listening to the white album and when they say "the walrus was paul" in glass onion you were like "what?"
The walrus is the villain of the story. John realized that Paul is a villain -- not what he seems. I think Paul has really good P.R., but in terms of human character, he slept with lots of women, he damaged himself with drugs and alcohol, etc. John did as well but John is impressive because he really worked on cleaning himself after being addicted to H and Yoko suffering a miscarriage. John was realizing that he really wanted to be a Dad and do it right and personally raised Sean in Sean's 1st five years of life. Sean is now a kick ass guitarist. Paul has a big family. John did not and had to do this transition of self only with Yoko's help.
@@MisterMoccasin There is an interview John did where he discussed that he realized that the Walrus was the villain. The 3 other Beatles were mad at Paul when the band split up because only Paul didn't want to sign with Klein. This prevented them from accessing the money for many years. Had Paul done that the Beatles would have been ripped off by Klein, so Paul actually saved a bunch of their wealth. But at the time, they all saw Paul is the villain..
For me, Strawberry Fields Forever is the best Beatles song and my favorite song of all time. There is just nothing that is as dreamy, innovative, deep as this song for me. John wrote this song about his troubles from childhood, which I can really relate to. He talks about how he is different from everyone, either genius or crazy (“no one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low”). He reflects on how he wished he could go to a place called Strawberry Fields whenever he felt abandonment, which is actually a real place in Liverpool, a Salvation Army children’s home, where he would play in the gardens. Paul basically did the same thing with Penny Lane, but in a more nostalgic and happy way.
Yeah; John received a letter from a student at Quarry Bank(his old school), telling him that their English teacher was making them analyze the Beatles’ lyrics. Because John is John, and because Quarry Bank told John he would go nowhere in life, he wrote I Am The Walrus to purposely mess with them.
Blue Jay Way is great. Creeped me out on first listen but I absolutely love the atmosphere George makes with the production of the instruments and vocals on that song
Just imagine if Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were on Sgt. Pepper's. Shit would be insane. They were released as a single before Sgt. Pepper's, but for whatever reason they just wouldn't put the singles on the albums. That's why we've got Past Masters
The reason they released Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane is because it was nearly a year between Revolver and Sgt. Peppers so they thought it would be a good idea to give the fans something. But I agree they should have been on Sgt Peppers.
It’s because they had a policy of not putting singles on albums. If they had put _Strawberry Fields Forever_ or _Penny Lane_ on _Sgt. Peppers,_ this would have gone against their policy. They were able to put them on _Magical Mystery Tour_ because it was technically the soundtrack to their film of the same name.
Moreover, their producer, George Martin, said it was one of his biggest mistake that he did not add those two track to pepper. In retrospect, I’m ok with how it turned out because Magical Mystery Tour was elevated with those two songs. But yes, Pepper would have been more unbelievable with them included.
Indeed, they gave away “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” for early release since it had been too long since a Beatles release and Epstein was concerned by the rumours of the band breaking up. The reason why single material generally weren’t put on albums is that they felt that was conning the audience by effectively having them buy the same songs twice.
@@bourbon2242 They actually don't appear on the UK pressing, which was a 7" double EP. They're included on the American pressing of the album along with All You Need Is Love, which means that this is the only American Beatles album that's better than the UK version.
They wrote and played “All You Need is Love” for the first live television broadcast ever, 400 million people watched from 25 different countries, they wanted to make a song that everyone could understand and relate to regardless of where you’re from
I’m going through the comments here, putting Correct, testing my Beatles knowledge against myself in a way, it’s kind of fun! Just letting you know where I’m coming from with just typing “Correct”. And hopefully clarifying comments if it arises. I have to simplify my reactions, because I wanna babble about everything Beatles. 😂😂
George's biggest problem(s) (well-documented) was that the 2-Headed Beast, J&P, mostly ignored him, didn't put much time or energy into helping him polish, produce, complete, build & make his songs into "Beatle Songs." Often, they weren't even in the studio with him & just wanted to give him his 1 or 2 tracks, get them done, give Ringo a quick nod, then get back to The Lennon/McCartney Show. George was bitter about it his whole life & it was a major reason he mentally & spiritually "left the band" long before the actual split.
I definitely seen that in the Get Back film. George had to defend his beautiful songs but John could put in throw away tunes wherever and whenever like Maggie May. Isn't it a pity, indeed.
You have to watch the movie they made for Magical Mystery Tour. Total acid trip. Especially John on Your Mother Should Know. His eyes and grin says it all.
John wrote I am the Walrus after he found out that teachers and schools were studying and analyzing Beatle lyrics. He wrote a song that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever just to mess with people and confuse them when they tried to analyze that song. He actually said "let the fuckers figure that one out"
McCartney had a seriously long, successful career after The Beatles. I didn’t care for all the music, but I loved a good deal of it. I saw him in concert in 1989. This was before Linda developed breast cancer and ultimately passed away. That concert was pure magic. I was on the floor a few rows from the stage. I was in hog heaven! I have loved Paul since 1963. I love them all! I miss John and George. At age 82, Paul is still composing, touring, and selling out at his concerts.
Magical Mystery Tour, one of the most successful album, recorded from April 25, 1967 until November 7, 1967. US release date: November 27, 1967 UK double EP release date: December 8, 1967 with only 6 tracks! CD issue release date: September 22, 1987 on stereo CD Remastered version: September 9, 2009
1. The Fool On The Hill was written about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who the Beatles would then spend a few months with before the recording of the White Album 2. That was John on Baby, You’re A Rich Man
Are you sure about that Uncommon Cole? I think you'll find "The Fool on the Hill" was just a whimsical McCartney song. The song you're thinking about Maharishi Yogi was John's "Sexy Sadie" from The White Album when he realised the Maharishi was fake.
@@hopebgood “‘Fool on the Hill’ was mine and I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle, he wasn't taken too seriously. It was this idea of a fool on the hill, a guru in a cave, I was attracted to ... I was sitting at the piano at my father's house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord, and I made up ‘Fool on the Hill.’” - Paul McCartney, 1997
This is the first album I bought on cassette with my own money. I appreciate your honest reactions and you say when you don't like something so much. Peace and love
Love you Darius. Happy you always come back to the Beatles. So many if not all of the following bands were influenced by them. I forgot to say before: when I was a kid, I also had trouble distinguishing John’s voice with George’s. I also fell in love with John’s haunting voice. Paul however deserves his status as one of the most loved men on earth: self-taught musician, hard-worker, prolific songwriter ( with the most memorable and beautiful songs IMHO); down to earth family man, great dad, animal lover, and he’s over 80 ans still touring even if he lost so many loved ones ( John, Linda, George, etc) . Maybe you should dig into a Paul’s solo career. Not everything he did was great but when he did, it was amazing all without his best pal.
A somewhat overlooked (if thats possible) Beatles album, likely because it was released as an EP in the UK. But, there are some of their greatest songs, with another evolution of their songs, production and range. One of the best listening experiences of any Beatle album.
I’m only 26 and still fairly young but I love seeing other young people getting into the Beatles! Keep up the great content! Strawberry fields foreveeeeeer
Fun fact, George messed up his guitar solo on All You Need is love super badly because they were playing it on live broadcast and he was extremely nervous. If you listen to the isolated tracks, you can hear that the solo randomly cuts off because he messed up and just stopped halfway through lmaoo
Regarding George during this time, he has two songs that were left aside and ended up on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. I think you'll love It's All Too Much. He also had a nice Indian one, The Inner Light, which was used as the B side of the Hello Goodbye single and can be found in Past Masters vol. 2 which you MUST NOT SKIP!
Hi - The Inner Light was the b side of Lady Madonna! - I Am The Walrus was on the other side of Hello Goodbye* (I can't allow myself to call it 'the b side' as to designate I Am The Walrus as a b side would be a crime!!). I used to have both singles but still have The Magical Mystery Tour double EP. (*maybe this was different in other countries)
@@julianmassaldi ha ha - I did have to look it up when I saw your comment as I thought my memory had failed me. I was just scrolling down through the comments much like the chap who kept annotating peoples comments with 'Correct' - I wonder if he is a school teacher!
The first side of the album is from the movie Magical Mystery Tour, the second side is a collection of singles from 1967 (in ADDITION to Sgt Pepper!) Strawberry Fields & Penny Lane All You Need is Love & Baby Yr a Rich Man Hello Goodbye & I Am The Walrus (also in the movie)
One thing I always hear is that Paul's background vocals on all their songs he always sounds so into it! I truly think he loved this band so much! Even if it's said they gave George short shrift, I think Paul loved every minute of their music.
Baby you're a rich man is a combination of two songs, Lennon's and Maca's song, I like it because as 'Getting Better' they look like they were having fun together. And one can feel the cynicism of John and the brightness of Paul.
Darius! Love your channel - I’ll love the Beatles forever. Maybe that’s why I need to point out that this work was done in an era where music wasn’t overly influenced by our need to rate everybody hierarchically as if it’s a competition (American idol, the voice, etc) The Beatles were truly a band and Lennon and McCartney were competitive, but so close that they were ‘living in each other’s pockets’ - they both lost their mothers in their teens, and were bonded. They didn’t ’finish each others sentences’ like married couple do, but they did help finish each other’s lyrics- thru to the end. And even when they were written separately, they ran lyrics by the other one- So there was no GOAT. And that’s a beautiful thing.
Fun fact: for the post WW II generation, a Magical Mystery Tour was a tour bus that wonder take the youths out of Liverpool to an undisclosed destination.
The thing about George is that J&P grew up seeing George as a little brother. You could tell that J&P seen each other as equal partners. As George said, they had been writing for years by the time they made it big they got all of their bad songs out of the way. If you watch Get Back, youll see they still disregard him as a song writer. But George was smart, he kept his good songs and released them on his debut solo record.
Thanks for your reaction bruh. I hope someday you react to the Beatles album "Love", from 2007. 😁 They enhanced the quality of the songs, added little things from other beatles songs into other beatles songs and make them even more fresh. For example "Eleanor Rigby" has only strings at the start, then the song in perfect quality and in the end a little part of "Julia". It fits in so well. You will see. Give it a chance. "Strawberry Fields" for example is changed that all the takes are in 1 song, starting only acoustic and ends up real BANG. 😀
When trying to rate the beatles albums, one must, above all, remember when the album was made because the beatles were an evolution in music that just kept developing as time went on. Sounds like you as me really love their last works best, but the journey they made was historical!😊
i was 16 when i was lucky enough to see paul in concert (2001). he opened with "hello, goodbye" and i just started crying lol. i can't hear that song without thinking of that moment. maybe the greatest moment of my life.
Dude I love ur reactions! Ur so charismatic and it adds to the video! I have discovered ur videos awhile ago and u popped up again after awhile and I just had to sub. Wayy too good
Remember that this is a soundtrack to the movie of a bus tour a lot of these short instrumentals are the music you would hear as they're driving to the countryside.
You trying to decipher what the fuck John is saying on I am the Walrus is exacly why he wrote it that way. There were students trying to study Beatles lyrics so John made a track with nonsense to fuck with them 😭
I really recommend listening to Past Masters 1 and 2 as those are all of their singles. Part 1 being the pre psychedelic era of the band and part 2 being post
Ringo doubling down on the half time in "Magical Mystery Tour" is a real treat. "Let's all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born..." Goo goo g'joob! For what it's worth, when I was a kid in the seventies I saw more copies of this in the record collections of my friends parents than copies of Sgt Peppers.
I feel like you have to be in a specific kind of mood to appreciate Bluejay way fully. I get it, it's not for everybody, but it's such a vibe. There's something about it that feels really purposefully detached and dreamy and sort of encapsulates that feeling when you lose the give-a-fucks to fight back against whatever is pushing back on you. That's what it always feels like for me anyway... it's like a very specific kind of vibe.
Side 1 (Magical Mystery Tour through I Am The Walrus) were the soundtrack of the Magical Mystery Tour tv movie. It was released in England as an EP (extended play) record of just the songs from the film. Side 2 were singles released separately then packaged with the Magical Mystery Tour songs as an album in the US and that’s how it’s been ever since. The album version has a booklet insert that were images from the film. The Beatles manager Brian Epstein died from an accidental overdose after Sgt. Pepper was released and Magical Mystery Tour was the first production after Brian’s passing. Paul took it upon himself to take charge; all of which led to tensions and fracturing the band. Baby You’re a Rich Man was John writing about Brian. Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were written before Sgt. Pepper and the first songs recorded during those sessions but released as a Double A Side single so they were not included on the Sgt. Pepper album. All You Need Is Love was recorded for the first ever worldwide satellite tv event that wanted the Beatles as the presentation from Britain and may or may not have been written first the event depending on who tells the story.
A few suggestions from 60s/70s: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Black Sabbath - Paranoid The Who - Who's Next The Who - My Generation King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Cream - Disraeli Gears The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Neil Young - Zuma Some later suggestions: Pixies: Doolittle Radiohead - The Bends Radiohead - OK Computer The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead The Cure - The Head on the Door
WE MAKING IT OUT THE CIRCUS WITH THIS ONE🔥
Magical Mystery Tour (3:26)
The Fool On the Hill (5:34)
Flying (7:37)
Blue Jay Way (9:26)
Your Mother Should Know (12:29)
I Am the Walrus (14:40)
Hello, Goodbye (18:41)
Strawberry Fields Forever (21:31)
Penny Lane (24:59)
Baby, You're a Rich Man (27:28)
All You Need Is Love (29:45)
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Flying was supposed to be a longest track in 9 minutes 30 but they cut it to 2 minutes 17 seconds!
Beatles Past Masters Volume 2 and Let It Be are next!
Listen to the Beatles love album u will not be disappointed
Big bro you still got 2 more and i cant wait man!!!
id also like to say, dc what u say Blue Jay Way bangss
John wrote "I am the Walrus" to intentionally not make sense after he heard that schools had been studying their lyrics 😅
i could be mistaken but i thought that was glass onion
Both stories are true
You are correct, he wanted to write a song that didn’t make sense and the lyrics couldn’t be analyzed.
@@jakerowland8195 Glass Onion is more of a song that is purposefully misleading about the "deeper meaning" of some of their songs, so it's not a nonsense song like I Am The Walrus but a song in which he makes fun of people who try to find conspiracies or double meanings to their music
John wrote it as a two finger salute to a teacher that said he would become nothing in life. At least this is my previous understanding of it. Maybe both true
I am the Walrus was because he heard from a student at his old school that the teachers were having them analyze Beatles lyrics, so he strung a bunch of nonsense together and said quote "Let the fuckers figure that one out"
Last time I was this early, She Loves You was a radical advancement in music
"Baby, You're A Rich Man" is John with Paul accompanying.
Paul had the chorus, then John wrote the verse
Exactly
George Martin once said that not including "Strawberry fields" and "Penny lane" on Pepper was one of the biggest mistakes of his career.
It really was. I mean, Pepper's is amazing as is, but those two songs added on to it would've made it even better.
Agreed
Nah for real. I get why they did it because that was a thing The Beatles did intentionally for the fans, but yeah Sgt Peppers would b all the better for it. More interestingly where would the two songs fit on Sgt Pepper 🤔
@@Grayson-Rosen And which two tracks end up on MMT as a result.
@@LeChaunce I think that George Martin said that if Strawberry and Penny had been included, "When I'm 64" and "Lovely Rita" are the songs that would have been dropped to make room for them.
Blue Jay Way is a grower, and the transition from Flying into Blue Jay Way is genius. At some point, check out Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues, and The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed albums.
the best drums ever sounded on blue jay way. As trippy produced as on a Tame Impala record
I am the Walrus is a f* master piece
When my son was little my husband used to sing this song to him. Great memories 🤗
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My dude killing me listening to I Am The Walrus 😂😂😂
“Goo-goo g’joob?! 😰” lol
Dude was already "Flying" in the sky
On 'Mrs Robinson' by Simon and Garfunkel, I love how during the next to the last Chorus, Paul Simon throws in "...Goo Goo G'joob, Mrs Robinson..."
George actually peaked as a solo artist. His originals were very hit or miss as a Beatle. All things must pass is an incredible album. My favorite Beatles solo album.
There's lots of great stuff on ATMP, but you'd hopefully expect so on a triple album...there's also a fair share of 'whatever'. For all his moping about only getting one song per album, you can turn around and say 'Only a Northern Song' isn't exactly a great argument for more than one Harrison song. He had 3 decades after the Beatles to put out as much music as he wanted without anyone vetoing anything he wanted to record, he did put out some decent stuff, but come on...I like George, but holy crap, he could be one miserable whiny ungrateful little so and so.
ATMP is my favourite album in general
@@orchidwave2574agreed. A lot of George defenders come out of the wood work acting like he was just a poor victim. Dude held a grudge like no other and had a piss-poor attitude. He praised Eric Clapton even after Clapton stole his wife and in the same breath lobbed insults towards Paul just because “Wahhh he asked me to play my guitar part a certain way on his song”.
@@orchidwave2574I agree that he could whine, but Only A Northern Song is still ahead of its time imo - maybe it always will be
@@orchidwave2574absolutely
Blue Jay Way was written when George flew into California for a vacation. He was jet lagged, exhausted, and his friends were late. Also, the hippy scene in CA was NOT what he expected, nor to his taste. "Don't be long"? or is he also saying "Don't belong" as in, these hippies don't belong to the same love movement we do. After this he was souring on LSD and looking more toward spirituality.
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So it’s drugs or sky daddy? No inbetween
@@strikerbowls791 for George specifically? Yeah, number of sky daddy songs. Not too many drug songs from him except maybe "Savoy Truffle". He had a few 'screw the man' songs like "Taxman" and "Piggies" and a number of 'fuck the hell off' songs like "Don't Bother Me", "Think for Yourself", "I, Me, Mine" and "It's Only a Northern Song" (a dis track about their music publisher and possibly his band mates). Eventually he does write some positive things like "Something", "Here Comes the Sun", and "Old Brown Shoe"
23:27 The Beatles didn’t have control of the tracklisting of this album because Magical Mystery was made as a Movie Soundtrack Double EP.
In America EP’s usually don’t sell well so Capitol Records just takes the EP and put some 1967 singles in it.
It became a very huge hit, and that’s basically the reason why it’s in the official Beatles canon despite The Beatles not having control in that album.
You are healing the world Darious. One mindfuck at a time.
I am the Walrus, was John's response to intellectual's trying to analyse his work. It was written on several acid trips.
@@robinfoster7597 you're thinking of Glass Onion
@@chetcarman3530 no, it was I am the walrus.
I think it was both. "The walrus was Paul" from Glass Onion is a more direct response, but "I am the Walrus", in general, was meant to be complete nonsense in the vein of a lot of Dylan's lyrics.
@@patrickmcevoy5080 John clearly said GO was in response; he said Walrus was just him riffing on Lewis Carrol and doing wordplay like he'd always done (in His Own Write, Spaniard In The Works). Show me where he said Walrus was in response to ppl overthinking his lyrics & I'll change my mind.
@@patrickmcevoy5080 The big one. Very good question. I tell you what it was. In the stills we had taken, I was the one with the walrus head on - in the film it’s different. So John then immortalised it in ‘Glass Onion’, ‘I’ve got news for you all [sic], the walrus was Paul’. Obviously at the time you don’t care, it’s just a walrus head.
Paul McCartney
Q magazine, January 1998
I think blue jay way is a great psychedelic song.
Yeah I think Im higher on it then most as well. It didn’t really click with me the first time I heard it either though.
I love it too but it was a slow burn for me as well. Nowadays I wouldn't dream of skipping over 'Within You Without You' but I can understand Darius thinking it was a clunker first time out.
@@teddydog6229 Blue Jay Way and Within You Without You are probably my favorite non solo George songs, and you cant forget Taxman also!
Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were released together as a "double A-side" single in February 1967. We wore out both sides. It's the goat 45.
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Yes, first two songs recorded in the Pepper sessions. Put those two tracks on it and tell me how great that album is.
"I gotta' see what the Maca's doing on the solo albums". RAM! Can't wait for you to review that one. Best Beatle solo album.
@@barneymiller5488 I’m personally a fan of Band On The Run but the Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey medley is so good
It’s gonna be so good can’t wait for him to listen to monkberry moon delight 😂
I agree with all these comments
my man Darius gonna love Monkberry Blue Delight
YES YES YES! RAM is the best!
I'm about to be 'Flying' after this one!
Keep them coming Darius!
Baby you’re a rich man was John
And it was recorded in one day, on May 11, 1967 completed in almost 7 hours of rehearsal.
Macca’s chorus though, which they sing in unison
@@Nerkin610 It was Wien by John though
@@h6rts It was a combination of John’s verse and Paul’s chorus, much like “Yellow Submarine” and “A Day In The Life”, as much as you can talk about verse and chorus regarding the latter.
@@Nerkin610 Also "We Can Work It Out"
the vocals on RAM will blow your mind
13:40 "Where IS John" me: Oh, you just wait 😄
Yooo, we're here! I thought it was so funny when you were listening to the white album and when they say "the walrus was paul" in glass onion you were like "what?"
The walrus is the villain of the story. John realized that Paul is a villain -- not what he seems. I think Paul has really good P.R., but in terms of human character, he slept with lots of women, he damaged himself with drugs and alcohol, etc. John did as well but John is impressive because he really worked on cleaning himself after being addicted to H and Yoko suffering a miscarriage. John was realizing that he really wanted to be a Dad and do it right and personally raised Sean in Sean's 1st five years of life. Sean is now a kick ass guitarist. Paul has a big family. John did not and had to do this transition of self only with Yoko's help.
@@morpher44 you sound like an insane person.
@@MisterMoccasin There is an interview John did where he discussed that he realized that the Walrus was the villain. The 3 other Beatles were mad at Paul when the band split up because only Paul didn't want to sign with Klein. This prevented them from accessing the money for many years. Had Paul done that the Beatles would have been ripped off by Klein, so Paul actually saved a bunch of their wealth. But at the time, they all saw Paul is the villain..
Yeah, someone with an unhealthy hatred for someone he never met. Get help, man. @@MisterMoccasin
@@morpher44 Did you time travel from 1981? People have reevaluated John and Paul since then.
For me, Strawberry Fields Forever is the best Beatles song and my favorite song of all time. There is just nothing that is as dreamy, innovative, deep as this song for me. John wrote this song about his troubles from childhood, which I can really relate to.
He talks about how he is different from everyone, either genius or crazy (“no one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low”). He reflects on how he wished he could go to a place called Strawberry Fields whenever he felt abandonment, which is actually a real place in Liverpool, a Salvation Army children’s home, where he would play in the gardens.
Paul basically did the same thing with Penny Lane, but in a more nostalgic and happy way.
Do not skip Past Masters vol. 2.
Yess, past masters vol 2 is way better than vol 1
You know my Name (Look up the Number) absolutely tune!
I am the walrus was made because people were analysing his lyrics. It's meant to be nonsense. I think
@@somewhatstrider8139 you're thinking of Glass Onion.
Yeah; John received a letter from a student at Quarry Bank(his old school), telling him that their English teacher was making them analyze the Beatles’ lyrics. Because John is John, and because Quarry Bank told John he would go nowhere in life, he wrote I Am The Walrus to purposely mess with them.
@@chetcarman3530they were both written about that
The Blue Jay Way slander is CRAZYYYY. I'm sure it'll grow on you at some point.
Blue Jay Way is great. Creeped me out on first listen but I absolutely love the atmosphere George makes with the production of the instruments and vocals on that song
@@Stonkzy I love Blue Jay Way. It IS creepy. It's different and that's why I like it.
@@hopebgoodagreed
Paul is a beast, yes!
LOVE THIS ALBUM!!!!
My favorite album ever
I quite literally started spasming when I saw this on my recommended. Thank you Darius 🙏
Same!
Just imagine if Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were on Sgt. Pepper's. Shit would be insane. They were released as a single before Sgt. Pepper's, but for whatever reason they just wouldn't put the singles on the albums. That's why we've got Past Masters
The reason they released Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane is because it was nearly a year between Revolver and Sgt. Peppers so they thought it would be a good idea to give the fans something. But I agree they should have been on Sgt Peppers.
It’s because they had a policy of not putting singles on albums. If they had put _Strawberry Fields Forever_ or _Penny Lane_ on _Sgt. Peppers,_ this would have gone against their policy. They were able to put them on _Magical Mystery Tour_ because it was technically the soundtrack to their film of the same name.
Moreover, their producer, George Martin, said it was one of his biggest mistake that he did not add those two track to pepper. In retrospect, I’m ok with how it turned out because Magical Mystery Tour was elevated with those two songs. But yes, Pepper would have been more unbelievable with them included.
Indeed, they gave away “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” for early release since it had been too long since a Beatles release and Epstein was concerned by the rumours of the band breaking up. The reason why single material generally weren’t put on albums is that they felt that was conning the audience by effectively having them buy the same songs twice.
@@bourbon2242 They actually don't appear on the UK pressing, which was a 7" double EP. They're included on the American pressing of the album along with All You Need Is Love, which means that this is the only American Beatles album that's better than the UK version.
You’re not done with psychedelic music until you listen to the album Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues
Or “On the Threshold of a Dream”.
They wrote and played “All You Need is Love” for the first live television broadcast ever, 400 million people watched from 25 different countries, they wanted to make a song that everyone could understand and relate to regardless of where you’re from
You’re underrating Blue Jay Way. IMHO
Dude loves Ringo. ❤️
Baby You're a Rich Man was written by JOHN. He sings the entire song in a falsetto voice!😅😅😅
"All you need is love" was featured on the very first international satellite TV broadcast from the U.K. to the world. A first.
For solo records I would recommend RAM or Band on the Run for Paul, Plastic Ono Band for John, All Things Must pass for George, and Ringo yeah.
that 1973 album from ringo is awesome brother
"Flying" is the only proper Beatles instrumental, it was also the first song to be credited to all four band members :)
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I’m going through the comments here, putting Correct, testing my Beatles knowledge against myself in a way, it’s kind of fun! Just letting you know where I’m coming from with just typing “Correct”. And hopefully clarifying comments if it arises. I have to simplify my reactions, because I wanna babble about everything Beatles. 😂😂
George's biggest problem(s) (well-documented) was that the 2-Headed Beast, J&P, mostly ignored him, didn't put much time or energy into helping him polish, produce, complete, build & make his songs into "Beatle Songs." Often, they weren't even in the studio with him & just wanted to give him his 1 or 2 tracks, get them done, give Ringo a quick nod, then get back to The Lennon/McCartney Show. George was bitter about it his whole life & it was a major reason he mentally & spiritually "left the band" long before the actual split.
I definitely seen that in the Get Back film. George had to defend his beautiful songs but John could put in throw away tunes wherever and whenever like Maggie May. Isn't it a pity, indeed.
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You have to watch the movie they made for Magical Mystery Tour. Total acid trip. Especially John on Your Mother Should Know. His eyes and grin says it all.
Baby You're a Rich Man is Lennon/McCartney, not Harrison!
Cranberry sauce. People were saying that those words were “I buried Paul’, but John said it was cranberry sauce.
John wrote I am the Walrus after he found out that teachers and schools were studying and analyzing Beatle lyrics. He wrote a song that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever just to mess with people and confuse them when they tried to analyze that song. He actually said "let the fuckers figure that one out"
McCartney had a seriously long, successful career after The Beatles. I didn’t care for all the music, but I loved a good deal of it. I saw him in concert in 1989. This was before Linda developed breast cancer and ultimately passed away. That concert was pure magic. I was on the floor a few rows from the stage. I was in hog heaven! I have loved Paul since 1963. I love them all! I miss John and George. At age 82, Paul is still composing, touring, and selling out at his concerts.
Blue Jay Way is in the Hollywood hills where the streets are named after birds. A very fancy neighborhood for sure.
Magical Mystery Tour, one of the most successful album, recorded from April 25, 1967 until November 7, 1967.
US release date: November 27, 1967
UK double EP release date: December 8, 1967 with only 6 tracks!
CD issue release date: September 22, 1987 on stereo
CD Remastered version: September 9, 2009
1. The Fool On The Hill was written about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who the Beatles would then spend a few months with before the recording of the White Album
2. That was John on Baby, You’re A Rich Man
Are you sure about that Uncommon Cole? I think you'll find "The Fool on the Hill" was just a whimsical McCartney song. The song you're thinking about Maharishi Yogi was John's "Sexy Sadie" from The White Album when he realised the Maharishi was fake.
@@hopebgood “‘Fool on the Hill’ was mine and I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle, he wasn't taken too seriously. It was this idea of a fool on the hill, a guru in a cave, I was attracted to ... I was sitting at the piano at my father's house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord, and I made up ‘Fool on the Hill.’” - Paul McCartney, 1997
@@The_Uncommon_Cole Mmmm. tbh I'm still doubtful mate.
This is the first album I bought on cassette with my own money. I appreciate your honest reactions and you say when you don't like something so much. Peace and love
Love you Darius. Happy you always come back to the Beatles. So many if not all of the following bands were influenced by them.
I forgot to say before: when I was a kid, I also had trouble distinguishing John’s voice with George’s. I also fell in love with John’s haunting voice. Paul however deserves his status as one of the most loved men on earth: self-taught musician, hard-worker, prolific songwriter ( with the most memorable and beautiful songs IMHO); down to earth family man, great dad, animal lover, and he’s over 80 ans still touring even if he lost so many loved ones ( John, Linda, George, etc) . Maybe you should dig into a Paul’s solo career. Not everything he did was great but when he did, it was amazing all without his best pal.
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You should react to the "Yellow Submarine" film when you can.
you would be surprised on how many song Paul played the lead guitar.
I Am The Walrus is pure brilliance. Adding in a radio play in the middle of the last chorus is a chefs kiss🤌🏻
A somewhat overlooked (if thats possible) Beatles album, likely because it was released as an EP in the UK. But, there are some of their greatest songs, with another evolution of their songs, production and range. One of the best listening experiences of any Beatle album.
Agreed
Every time you post something now I put it on and then can’t stop watching til I’ve seen the whole thing. Great videos man, keep it up brother 🙏
I love how Blue Jay Way transitions from "please don't be long" to "Don't belong".
I’m only 26 and still fairly young but I love seeing other young people getting into the Beatles! Keep up the great content!
Strawberry fields foreveeeeeer
My favorite Beatles album! I’ve been waiting for this video 🫡
The Beatles are one of the best bands in the world, to look at their music progression and maturity beginning to end.
Strawberry fields forever is by far my favorite song ever!
Fun fact, George messed up his guitar solo on All You Need is love super badly because they were playing it on live broadcast and he was extremely nervous. If you listen to the isolated tracks, you can hear that the solo randomly cuts off because he messed up and just stopped halfway through lmaoo
I Am the Walrus has it's origin in a Lewis Carroll poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter". John also said he based the song's melody on a SIREN.
Regarding George during this time, he has two songs that were left aside and ended up on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. I think you'll love It's All Too Much. He also had a nice Indian one, The Inner Light, which was used as the B side of the Hello Goodbye single and can be found in Past Masters vol. 2 which you MUST NOT SKIP!
It's All Too Much strikes me as the quintessential Beatles song. It's my favorite Beatles song. ⚛️🔴⚛️
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Hi - The Inner Light was the b side of Lady Madonna! - I Am The Walrus was on the other side of Hello Goodbye* (I can't allow myself to call it 'the b side' as to designate I Am The Walrus as a b side would be a crime!!). I used to have both singles but still have The Magical Mystery Tour double EP. (*maybe this was different in other countries)
@@Elvin_Pelvin you're right! I was going off memory and not looking it up
@@julianmassaldi ha ha - I did have to look it up when I saw your comment as I thought my memory had failed me. I was just scrolling down through the comments much like the chap who kept annotating peoples comments with 'Correct' - I wonder if he is a school teacher!
George has the best solo album at out of them with All Things Must Pass. Some say it’s the best Beatles album ever
Band on the Run would like a word
@@jsghetler you would lose that debate.
Ahh, I love your reaction, I'm ready for you to be reacting to the solo albums, especially George's have a special place in my heart ❣️
The first side of the album is from the movie Magical Mystery Tour, the second side is a collection of singles from 1967 (in ADDITION to Sgt Pepper!)
Strawberry Fields &
Penny Lane
All You Need is Love & Baby Yr a Rich Man
Hello Goodbye &
I Am The Walrus (also in the movie)
One thing I always hear is that Paul's background vocals on all their songs he always sounds so into it! I truly think he loved this band so much! Even if it's said they gave George short shrift, I think Paul loved every minute of their music.
This song is a head trip...literally. I love this trip!!
You should react to the Rutles!!!
Flying was made for the movie because they needed an instrumental for one of the segments
You make the best reaction videos man. Glad your back and hope you are doing well!
The more Beatles songs one listens to, the more one appreciates Paul McCartney.
You were OBVIOUSLY not on enough drugs for this reaction, going into Magical Mystery Tour sober is a rookie mistake
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Baby you're a rich man is a combination of two songs, Lennon's and Maca's song, I like it because as 'Getting Better' they look like they were having fun together. And one can feel the cynicism of John and the brightness of Paul.
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Darius! Love your channel -
I’ll love the Beatles forever. Maybe that’s why I need to point out that this work was done in an era where music wasn’t overly influenced by our need to rate everybody hierarchically as if it’s a competition (American idol, the voice, etc)
The Beatles were truly a band and Lennon and McCartney were competitive, but so close that they were ‘living in each other’s pockets’ - they both lost their mothers in their teens, and were bonded. They didn’t ’finish each others sentences’ like married couple do, but they did help finish each other’s lyrics- thru to the end. And even when they were written separately, they ran lyrics by the other one-
So there was no GOAT. And that’s a beautiful thing.
Fun fact: for the post WW II generation, a Magical Mystery Tour was a tour bus that wonder take the youths out of Liverpool to an undisclosed destination.
Everything through "I Am The Walrus" was a soundtrack to a British TV movie ... All three singing "roll up" and it means get in line for the bus ...
I am so impressed with your journey . I love your passion for 60’s 70’s Epic music .. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨😊
The thing about George is that J&P grew up seeing George as a little brother. You could tell that J&P seen each other as equal partners. As George said, they had been writing for years by the time they made it big they got all of their bad songs out of the way. If you watch Get Back, youll see they still disregard him as a song writer. But George was smart, he kept his good songs and released them on his debut solo record.
Thanks for your reaction bruh. I hope someday you react to the Beatles album "Love", from 2007. 😁 They enhanced the quality of the songs, added little things from other beatles songs into other beatles songs and make them even more fresh. For example "Eleanor Rigby" has only strings at the start, then the song in perfect quality and in the end a little part of "Julia". It fits in so well. You will see. Give it a chance. "Strawberry Fields" for example is changed that all the takes are in 1 song, starting only acoustic and ends up real BANG. 😀
As an old fart purist, I destroyed that cd after one listen; given to me by my son. Las Vegas, indeed...
When trying to rate the beatles albums, one must, above all, remember when the album was made because the beatles were an evolution in music that just kept developing as time went on. Sounds like you as me really love their last works best, but the journey they made was historical!😊
i was 16 when i was lucky enough to see paul in concert (2001). he opened with "hello, goodbye" and i just started crying lol. i can't hear that song without thinking of that moment. maybe the greatest moment of my life.
Dude I love ur reactions! Ur so charismatic and it adds to the video! I have discovered ur videos awhile ago and u popped up again after awhile and I just had to sub. Wayy too good
The accompanying TV movie is even more strange 😅
“John what are you talking about?!” during I Am The Walrus had me cracking up 🤣
Remember that this is a soundtrack to the movie of a bus tour a lot of these short instrumentals are the music you would hear as they're driving to the countryside.
I so agree with your metaphor that the songs on this album are so colourful.
You trying to decipher what the fuck John is saying on I am the Walrus is exacly why he wrote it that way. There were students trying to study Beatles lyrics so John made a track with nonsense to fuck with them 😭
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Darius when I need to relax I go to And I Love Her. Soothes my soul in 2 minutes
George also wrote Only A Northern Song and It’s All Too Much (on Yellow Submarine album). “Too Much” is a great song.
I really recommend listening to Past Masters 1 and 2 as those are all of their singles. Part 1 being the pre psychedelic era of the band and part 2 being post
He did volume 1. It's on his Beatles playlist
@eddieparrino Ah, didn't catch that, my bad
Ringo doubling down on the half time in "Magical Mystery Tour" is a real treat. "Let's all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born..." Goo goo g'joob! For what it's worth, when I was a kid in the seventies I saw more copies of this in the record collections of my friends parents than copies of Sgt Peppers.
Oh, I love all those well known tracks on this album but I really love "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "Blue Jay Way" too.
I always did find that this era of George’s eastern discovery did lead to his music having that long drawn out funeral dirge sound.
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I would say MMT is one of the best Beatles album intros.
(It was mainly John singing)
Agreed
SFF has a really interesting creation story, I would recommend looking into it :)
One of the most underrated Beatles album, in my opinion.
Agreed
I feel like you have to be in a specific kind of mood to appreciate Bluejay way fully. I get it, it's not for everybody, but it's such a vibe. There's something about it that feels really purposefully detached and dreamy and sort of encapsulates that feeling when you lose the give-a-fucks to fight back against whatever is pushing back on you. That's what it always feels like for me anyway... it's like a very specific kind of vibe.
John was playing with consonant sounds on I am the Walrus. That’s it lol
Side 1 (Magical Mystery Tour through I Am The Walrus) were the soundtrack of the Magical Mystery Tour tv movie. It was released in England as an EP (extended play) record of just the songs from the film. Side 2 were singles released separately then packaged with the Magical Mystery Tour songs as an album in the US and that’s how it’s been ever since. The album version has a booklet insert that were images from the film. The Beatles manager Brian Epstein died from an accidental overdose after Sgt. Pepper was released and Magical Mystery Tour was the first production after Brian’s passing. Paul took it upon himself to take charge; all of which led to tensions and fracturing the band. Baby You’re a Rich Man was John writing about Brian. Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were written before Sgt. Pepper and the first songs recorded during those sessions but released as a Double A Side single so they were not included on the Sgt. Pepper album. All You Need Is Love was recorded for the first ever worldwide satellite tv event that wanted the Beatles as the presentation from Britain and may or may not have been written first the event depending on who tells the story.
A few suggestions from 60s/70s:
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - My Generation
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Neil Young - Zuma
Some later suggestions:
Pixies: Doolittle
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Yummy "freak out in a moonage daydream" & "let the children boogie" riffs (Ronson w. his crunchy guitar)!
@@lizroberts6257 Moonage daydream is Bowie's best song imo