The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping - Original Speed
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- Another vocal recording inexplicably sped up during mastering. From the August 1966 release of 'Revolver', "I'm Only Sleeping" is presented here with the vocal tracks at the original recorded speed superimposed with ALL backward guitar inclusions from various US, UK mono and stereo mixes. You will not find all of these backwards guitar snippets together anywhere else, for what it's worth. You're welcome.
Again, for those who question whether the final mix recording was pitched at various speeds, this from an April 29, 1966 entry in the EMI studio logs ('The Beatles Recording Sessions'): "After 'Eleanor Rigby' John overdubbed his lead vocal onto the tape of the previously recorded 'I'm Only Sleeping' [rhythm track]. It was the first of three superimposition sessions for the song. On this occasion the tape machine was run at 45 cycles instead of 50, thus speeding up John's voice quite considerably on playback. Just to complicate matters further, the rhythm track onto which John's vocal was superimposed was taped at 56 cycles and played back at 47 3/4." The final mixes are presented here with the vocals in their native state.
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one of my favorites--it is so evocative of a certain time
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy.I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Love so much this'n reverse stretch. Thank 4 Beatles.
I prefer this to the album version. This track is much more haunting.... Quite mystifying, really.
My English teacher brought me here. :)
There is a kid in my school who looks like him too, only he's tall.
Is it me or does Paul pick up on the word "stream" in the line "float up stream..." - sounds more like his voice on the high note than John. Maybe it's the two of them, and Paul's voice just overrides...
Never heard this. Nice surprise. Mark: Only The Beatles!
John Lennons nasal voice was hypnotic especially when he was talking. What a great radio voice.
When my mother would wake me up in the morning for school, I'd throw the pillow over my head and mumble the words to this song. It annoyed her so much, but she loved that at least one of her children turned out to be a Beatle fanatic. :)
this is my cats song
This is the sound of eternity
Sheesh this sounds much better than the familiar version.
wow so in depth, thanks for the info a great song explained Revolver possibly The Beatles best but they just never stood still and never made bad music
thank you very much for this labor of love mix compilation
John Lennon intentionally tracked his vocals at a slower speed to achieve the strange timbre heard in the final release. The instruments were recorded then slowed down for vocal tracking. They did something similar on Rain, where the song was recorded very quick then slowed down.
Lennon would later do this same technique on Lucy In the Sky to achieve the ethereal vocals for that song.
Tim Cox Right. Most followers know how and why they did it, the studio experiments and all ("Hey, I found a way to make a tape loop."). But I'd always hated that many of their earlier final mixes often sounded unnaturally pitched forward (sped up), 'She Loves You' and 'I'll Get You' being particularly egregious. Most of us who've heard everything from them, especially interviews, become familiar with their voices, and it does bother some of us to hear them sped up, for whatever reason. These are just a composite of several final mixes pitched to his natural recorded voice, artistic liberties, if you will.
Tim Cox Just to expand upon what you said, You're almost correct. The comparison to rain is accurate. The track we're listening to was intentionally sped up on vocal while simultaneously the guitars (already recorded) we're re-fed through the machine and looped at 3/4 speed backward. So when they mixed the final version they slowed down the vocal and sped up the backward guitar in order to balance the tempo. Thus brilliantly arranging mix and master. Inventing that line of thought most likely. They only recorded slowed down/ sped up mixes on rain before reigning in the theory on revolver's I'm only sleeping and Tomorrow Never Knows in the mastering fazes, while double tracking the new technology on the latter. :)
Far out, man!
Never get tired of John's voice
Funny thing is, he hated his voice. He was always asking the producers to change it in any way they could. Just goes to show how irrational all of our insecurities are.
This version is better than the original! :D
I always thought the original was shoddy sounding... would have definitely preferred this style.
Surely its the whole track that's sped up? Thanks for sharing very interesting. The speeding up definitely lifts and pulls it together. Not really inexplicable in that sense :-)
Love it ;) Did you do the photo compilation too? Cause I also love that :P
Yes, hastily concocted. A toast to Robert Freeman, the Beatles' photographer, without whom many of the late-1965 early-1966 Dadaesque visuals for the mix wouldn't exist.
Great mix, like REAL LOVE, this sounds way better at correct speed. I love the original, but this is very, very nice, thank you! And more please!
I love this . These albums are perfect and dont need remastering . The recording,mixing everything ,Just perfect
Wow, this is so trippy! You've really got to listen to it to get the message hidden behind all of it.
Long live The Beatles, forever in our hearts and in our minds!
Paul's background vocal at 2:10 or so says to me that this is not quite original speed.
Not sure what you mean, but the vocal playback here (including Paul's) is slightly below the native 56 cycles, as logged by EMI staff. In as much as it matters, I know and have been listening to their voices for 50 years. Sounds like Paul back there to me.
No me gusta esta version, porque es un mix en simultaneo de las dos versiones (mono y estereo)...se puede hacer con el software Sony Vegas..u otros programas de edicion de audio... eso se puede hacer en casa...
This sounds amazing
Why does this version echo?
Makes it better, gives us a dream like feeling.
*****
No, it would be better without it.
Man, this is pretty cool! I'm guessing there is a natural "phasing" taking place, with all the different versions on here, which coupled with how the whole track is slowed down a bit, and with all the cool backward guitar snippets, make this track a bit more haunting-sounding. Very nice, thanks for posting this!
Just by coincidence; I too discovered just how many Beatle tracks were sped up by accident.I discovered a way of doing this by using the sound equalizer on my media player.There is some facility marked Key and one can click +1 or minus 1 or whatever you like.When i'M 64 WAS THE MOST OBVIOUS ONE BUT THERE WERE NUMEROUS OTHERS mostly on Revolver and Pepper.
Amigo, busca capitolemiporducer en you tube. El verison que al tiene fue hecho con audacity y tomo muscho tiempo para hacer
Love this.
Interesting project, but let me throw a fly into the ointment. In concert pitch, the song is in G# (the first chord is Ebminor). On a concert pitch-tuned guitar or piano, the chord progression is |Ebm / / / |Abm / / / |G# / C# / |G# / C7 /|. To play along on guitar (and bass), you need to tune down all strings one half step to get the lowest note (Eb) you hear on the bass, and the open strings you hear on the guitar(s). The progression then becomes Em|Am|G C|G B7|,...much easier to play.
@TheIzabel11. The fellow holding the gun at Ringo, I believe, is Mal Evans, one of the inner circle of friends to The Beatles, who was with them from the beginning when The Beatles were not even known. He was also their roadie who had bite parts in the all of The Beatles movies. He unfortunately died in 1976 in Los Angeles when, high on drugs, was gunned down by the police. He was a threat to not only them, but to innocent bystanders. Sad. He seemed to be a gentle giant, but for the drugs.
Why is it swamped with massive amounts of annoying reverb/echo & shit.. Lennon's vocal (& George & Paul's backing) sounds much better dry - as on the original version of Revolver ? Interesting document & I'm not disrespecting anyone here..just curious as the 'effects' sound as though they've been patched in after the final mix..like years after.. I may be wrong about this, please give any details if anyone has any ? Appreciated ! Beatles Forever ! Peace WFR xx
the solo sounds just right.... it gives it a more sound more like a horn.. and really helps it to make sense. a totally dry mix makes no sense. I started out with the yesterday and today version and it was always one of my favorite songs.. the dry UK mix with such buried guitars and totally dry sounds awkward and the backwards guitar sounds random. Love this version.. too bad the Beatles themselves didn't undertake a thorough remix. Day Tripper would sound great in 5.1(7.2? 9.3?)
@init4fun - Well, after all the "flaming" back and forth, and the differences of opinions have been said and done; I had forgotten to seriously "thank you" for the video, plus the time and effort that you put into it. I particularly enjoyed the visual compilation of some very rare photos of the lads. I've been a huge Beatles fan since 1963, and anything video put up on TH-cam of The Beatles, is fine by me. PEACE.
@gregriv69 WTF are you talking about? Two scientific studies? LOL!They didn't have "capable/reliable technology back then to do a "real" voice comparisons. In later recordings like "Lady Madonna" Paul had said he was using his "Elvis" voice. He was quite capable of singing differently than his typical "Paul" voice. FYI-One's voice does change over time, so go ahead and compare "Cavern Club" era songs to his prior so-called death songs of '64 and Help. All 4 of them got a good laugh of the rumor!
Check out Mark Lewishon's book to see how this song was originally recorded. The Fabs were going wor a very dreamy effect. The instrumental track was recorded with the tap running faster than normal, so that on playback at normal speed the pitch is dropped. They then over dubbed vocals with the ape machine running than normal speed. A mon-mix down and stereo mix down were then done with the machines running at normal speed.
Trippy mix with all the guitars & speed! Someone invested a lot of love and it's a great creation to share. Love one another, love is all...
When I was a kid and listening to this... these guys seemed old to me.....like my parents.
It is strange to see alot of these pictures for the first time, and think about how young they were in them.
Funny what 45 years will do to your point of view. LOL
Thanks for taking the time to put them up. Brought back lots of good memories.
Good work. You should speed up Strawberry Fields. I've always had the feeling it was mixed too slow, because it sounds NOTHING like Lennon.
I really do like this video and the song's original speed. Yes it may not be as clear as the CD version, but the natural sound of The Beatles and the distant sounding music just adds to the effect of drifting off into a middle of a dream, then floating up stream while only sleeping.
@init4fun I do realize that and can definitely appreciate it. Quite honestly I think you did a better job than EMI itself did when syncing takes for the stereo versions of Please Please Me and If I Fell. Those are the two that come to mind, anyway.
@init4fun I was a little uncertain about the reverb at first but it's grown on me quickly. It fits well with the trippy nature of the song. Makes it a little Tomorrow Never Knows-esque. Thanks for sharing. I like it!
A girlfriend is a general mystery plagued by misery. She's
more than hosiery. She proves that every day until she dies.
why they sped it up? because original paul freakin died in 65,. 2 scientific studies were done on paul and faul and were conclusive, there are 2 people singing the songs! pre and after 65 paul
This sounds awesome! This is my favorite Beatles song (has been since I first heard it, in 1976). This version totally blows my mind! Thank you....THANK YOU, for posting it. In my favorites it goes.
1. Where did you get these pictures they're AWESOME!!!
2. Who the heck is the guy at 1:00 HOLDING A GUN AT RINGO???
GREAT "Butcher Cover" outtakes! Have never seen anything like this....only the Butcher Cover album shot itself. Good pic of John holding a head and also a big hunk o' meat! :)
At 0:59 seconds hilarious Mal Evans with a gun in Ringo's face and the look on Ringo's face is hilarious! That was a precious moment in time! Ha Ha! A Kodak Moment if you will!
WOW! This sounds amazing! The Beatles were ahead of their time and that's what makes them so amazing!
Oh, and would someone hurry up and invent a time machine, already!
Bet George wished he had the hammer,when that mad man broke into his houce.And tried to stab him,and his wife saved his life.And knocked him out with a lamp or something.
@beatsound38 Amigo busca capitolemiproducer. El version que el tiene fue de audacity
AWESOME
Wow .... I just imagine the first time guitarists heard George's solo! ...They should have gone WTF??? How did he get that sound? ....
Thank you for sharing this, along with the Whittaker pics! It's fun to follow this up with the official version and hear the differences.
every time i play this song on my guitar i feel the love of the lyrics and chords combined that Lennon made he was truly an amazing man
Even tho' I collected Beatle cards in the 60's, it's astonishing how many bizarre props they used in taking photos together !!!???*?!!
I never heard this reverb version as a speed up version. Does it sit and wait for me somewhere on youtube.? Link please. :-)
Thanks so much!! I'm hating how some of these songs are reproduced and put on CDs. The original sound is soooo much better.
Thank you very much for doing this. I love the dreamlike atmosphere and trippiness of the backward guitars. :)
fuck yeah this is dope! thanks for posting, I like this better than the official version, its way trippier
actually this is the American version, slowed down. that extra guitar out of nowhere is a dead give away
John Whitecloud, I think the solo is reversed, you can find the original forwards solo somewhere on youtube
@Revolution1117 Study done by Italian Scientist and published in WIRED mag, go find it, do your homework.
Are you saying that this version is trippier, slower than the original?Cos I think the opposite is true.
We need far more disclaimers on videos that are not really what their titles would generally imply.
And this speed can't be right either. it's close...just a tad sharp of D. I would have to assume that they would have tuned to,.. if not concert pitch at least a true whole tone. A whole lot of their tracks seem to be in these just slightly off pitch keys. I will also assume that the only thing that mattered during mixing and mastering was how it sounded....as it should be....there are no rules in music and these guys proved it.
@AppleCorp3 Yep it is him.. where he says "stream" and "need" and "sleeping"
beautiful, right? :)
Interestingly enough the earlier take is in the key of the sped up version. This might explain it. Sing it in lower key and speed up to obtain more relaxed vocal.
it sound like a dream i love to wake up 2 this 2 tell me mom dont wake me im only sleeping
the pics of the boys with pieces of meat and disemboweled babies are truly bizarre.
WOW i love the reverb...i wish i could hear all of lennon's songs with this reverb
I did not think there was that much of a difference until i heard both play in sync as best as I could. Still, it is not a noticeable difference without both playing in sync at first.
Man but they all looked exhausted by '66! It's a wonder they made it till '69!
wow, some great and rare Beatles pics that i have not seen before! very nice!
This is a homemade bit...please stop doing this to Beatle songs. Thank you.
decided long ago that it will also be played at my funeral
Revolver is one of their best albums! What are you talking about?
Revolver is the SHIZNIT. They freakin' EXPLODED on this album.
its hard to listen to john now...cause now he's just a voice..
I did something like this but it sounds so much nicer
This song was written about me...I'm pretty damn sure.
I heard this song at a funeral and I loved it so much
don't care for all the reverb and distance put in
Esta é a melhor música de John e os Silver Beatles.
Fantastic, I'm loving the reverb in this song!
no way...... they would never bloat their songs with such stupid and pathetic reverb ....
+carlos delaorden Dumbass. There's an ignorant one in every crowd. This mix is culled from synchronizing several of EMI's orginial US & UK mono & "stereo" 1966 vinyl pressings (to get all the background guitar tape snippets, as they're different in US, UK mono & stereo mixes), and Capitol Records is famous for their insistence in adding reverb to "enhance" their "stereophonic sound." If you come across a US vinyl pressing from that era (until the mid-60's), you'll find mixes saturated with an inordinate amount of reverb, which the band and George Martin hated. Here's a sample: th-cam.com/video/WqBkZfdOl-w/w-d-xo.html
So, screw you. Like it or not, that's just the way it was.
@SlappyFrankenstein Who asked you?
Wikipedia says it was originally played faster, then slowed down afterward.
Anybody can edit Wikipedia and it's loaded with feds pushing the (patsy) Chapman "lone nut" cover-up of the assassination of Lennon. So, while some info on it can be correct, it's not a credible source. The backing tracks on Revolver were often slowed down (i.e. 'Rain') when vocals were added. The vocals on the released version had the vocal track speed up significantly and the backing track slowed down. Here, the recording is pitched down to hear not only their natural singing voices but several mixes (mono & stereo) with all of the backwards guitar edits added.
What does that has to be with my comment ._.
so lets hope that you are not only sleeping
That backwards guitar sounds like a sitar.
Actually, only the vocals were "sped up" - the instruments were recorded at a faster tape speed so when slowed down it gives that "underwater" drowsy feel. Slowing the track down corrects the vocals but really stretches out the instrumental track.
Oh sorry - missed that. I'll do better next time. Keep these coming - they're great to listen to!
Lol 0:39, pauls pants r lighting up!
1:32 what happened to ringo's face?
TOTALLY being played at my funeral!
i agree totally
Meh, I love it either way
God's Song