Every Beatles song sounds different, yet they are all identifiable as The Beatles. Let's open with a rocker and then switch gears completely - and it works!
@@chazbustos6790Zep? the Masters of plagiarism??? (do some research). Not even top 4!!! 1º - and far (but so, so , so far) above any other artist/band, The Beatles!!! A different league; a galaxy apart! 2º - Pink Floyd 3º - Bob Dylan 4º - Rolling Stones- Zep have to discuss the 5º position with Queen, Doors...
@GabrielSoares-lj9rv well its my subjective taste in music. I don't really care if Zeppelin plagiarized, they made some damn great music. Zeppelin Hendrix and Floyd are my 3
Wtf! 30 minutes ago since last comment?! Anyway - Pink Floyd comes close. In my canon, they took the stick and run with it. Abbey Road happened. And the Floyd took up their mantle...
Norwegian Wood was never released as a single, hence no chart placement. But still a remarkable Beatles classic and one of pop culture's first forays into world music (if not the first ever).
I was amazed many yea 0:03 rs later to find out Paul played lead on some of my favorite Beatles tracks - Good Morning Good Morning & The Sgt. Pepper Reprise for one.
@@ChasBeauregardeit’s crazy how many famous Beatles guitar solos weren’t played by George and actually played by Paul and John. Paul’s guitar solos in particular are incredible, he’s an incredible guitar player that sometimes gets lost because he’s such a great bass player, singer, keyboard player etc
@@steelyd2 Many famous Beatles bass guitars were played by George : She said, she said; old brown shoes, hey jude, oh darling, maxwell silver hammer and two of us. (This last track on his telecaster)
@@2JorgeBeat oh yeah, definitely a bunch but I don’t think that’s as surprising as the amount of incredible guitar solos by Paul. I heard him say in an interview that he didn’t really want to boast about how much of the actual instrumentation he was contributing on those Beatles albums. If you look at the liner notes and stuff sometimes there aren’t even real official credits but of course it’s come out since then who played what on each track
Paul could bang the skins too...he played drums on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence (both on the White Album, when Ringo quit the band for awhile) and The Ballad of John and Yoko.
This album and Revolver were two of the best albums ever made. They were game changers for making albums. Stunning and transformational to me as an 11 year old kid.
George Harrison said that Rubber Soul and Revolver were Part 1 and Part 2! Same mindset yet different, and yes it would have made an astounding dual LP.
I’m really a fan of taking the very best bands chronologically. It’s impossible to understand how a band goes from “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” to “I Am The Walrus” “A Day in The Life” or “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” without hearing the material between and the changes coming. Same with the 3 latter songs listed and even later material, say “Come Together”, “Here Comes The Sun” or “Oh Darling”. Then there’s The White Album which absolutely defies description! From beautiful ballads like “I Will” and “Julia” to hard rockers like “Helter Skelter” and “Glass Onion” to quirky ditties like “ Rocky Raccoon”, “Piggies” and “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” it’s just a double set of brilliance that is ALL OVER THE PLACE! There simply has never been a bigger force in modern music! I’ve been listening intently since 64 and still am!!
If there is a better blend of voices than Lennon - McCartney - and Harrison, I've yet to hear it. I'm 60 years old and have NEVER known a world without the Beatles. BEATLES FOREVER....!!! 😃
@bundywaters5988 because the Beach Boys were in the U.S. although they easily could have had the British version as well given they were on the same label and friends with the Beatles
Hey fellas. "George brought out his Batman utility belt". Loved that one. This song is one of the reasons why my generation loved the Beatles so much. You never knew what you were going to get, but you knew it would be great. You would buy a Beatles album without even hearing one song and you were never disappointed. Shout out to you guys for reacting to this. Peace.
Rubber Soul, and then followed by Revolver, were really the pair of albums that marked the Beatles’ transformation from their original Fab Four “mop top lads” persona, into the band that would revolutionize music, recording, culture, fashion, really all of it. When you consider that the next leap after Revolver was Sgt. Pepper, it’s just mind blowing to realize their total evolution as a band took place in the course of only 6 short years. ❤
My cousin used to wear a killer jacket with a Nehru collar, which was popularized in the west by the Beatles. It was corduroy with a 60s print and it fit him like a glove. He always told me it came from The Apple Store in London, but his mother who was an excellent seamstresss made it. He didn't fool me. I still have a picture of him wearing it.
No. they had been together as J&P then JPG from the 1950s then to Hamburg where they really did develop as John, Paul, George, Stuart & Pete. Back then, they were teenage rockers and ultra tough. Hamburg and post Hamburg saw them learning hundreds of US records, adding their own spin, playing hundreds of gigs and testing them in live shows where they were in strong competition with all the other acts on the bill who stole their material so they had to keep developing new stuff. McCartney says how that helped: they built up to superstardom from local fame to regional fame to national fame to European fame then to USA. They also benefited from no recording and smart phones so, if they came up with a tune one day, it had to be stuck in their heads ready for the next day or it got dumped. They only became moptops when they finally got a manager, Brian Epstein, who told them to ditch the leathers or they'd be stuck in a niche. Moptops was their third or fourth existence
George Harrison was just starting to learn the Sitar, and John Lennon asked him if he could play it on Norwegian Wood. The first time an Indian instrument was used on a pop song.
Harrison also created the bouzouki sound for "Girl". It has been and still is a matter of contorversy whether he played an actual bouzouki or used a capo on an acoustic guitar to simulate bouzouki sound.
Probably true. For most creatives in whatever field from computer software through research science, painting, theatre, you'd say they hadn't yet found their thing and advise them to focus on one thing and develop that for a bit before moving on (even Picasso worked that way). But Beatles flipped from one style to another brilliantly while inventing their own genres that gave whole careers to other people
actually this video had a cut so they talk about Nowhere Man with the non hit early sounding tune, and yes this was also a hit, even more than the first two. Top 3 in the charts I think.
Don't forget to hit the singles that came from each album recording session. They refused to put them on the albums because they thought it unfair for their fans to pay twice for the same song. And though they changed the game from selling singles to selling albums, that transition hadn't really taken hold yet (until Sgt Pepper's) so the best songs were released as singles. The singles releases also served as a teaser for the upcoming album and as such, often had a commercial "A" side backed with a more challenging/experimental "B" side. The singles from the "Revolver" session's "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" is a good example, the single from "Rubber Soul" is "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work it Out". Keep up the great work, I love your reactions !
The raspy voice John Lennon has, and Paul was the Dominating voice in the harmony. But John says the part, And Baby I love you! This is for Drive My Car. Norwegian Wood was sung by John Lennon!!!
Rubber Soul was always my absolute favorite of theirs, I was around when it came out, I was in my late teens. Also my all time favorite album cover photo.
Please do Paper Back Writer and Rain the non-album single released at the time of Revolver. Great game changing songs in their own right. Great reaction guys best channel on You Tube.
Everyone was listening to Bob Dylan in 1965 and his album Freewheelin' changed lyric writing for ever. That album, from 1963 is a benchmark that you might want to explore those songs to better understand the evolution of all other bands! 1964-1966 was a time of radical transformation. (Those harmonies brought light into a dark world!)
You guys are fantastic!!!!! Paul was the lead vocal on Drive My Car. John on Norwegian Wood. You ought to watch the new release of Let It Be on Disney+!
This album was the turning point in the Beatles as a Band, and the type of music they wrote and recorded etc. They went from the sort of innocent good guys from Britain, to more of a reflection of the culture of the world. Drugs, Vietnam, their music matured, and reflected the times, beginning with this album, and then into Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album.
This album and Revolver were 2 sides of the same coin, fantastic, transitional albums, leading into psychedelia and rock explorations to come. Fantastic stuff, the very best, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎤🎹🎶
This is the way to go, Gentlemen. Follow the progression if the Beatles album to album. This was 1965 and was the second album they did this year! Help! was recorded earlier this year as well as making the film of the same name. Then they recorded this album, just incredible! Thanks La and Che!
Rubber Soul was the transition album for them, preparing us for Revolver. If you check out the Wiki page for the album, it explains all the innovative techniques they employed in the studio. As noted below, this song was a HUGE hit for them on the radio. And you'll notice the more adult lyrics in both songs, a far cry from I Want to Hold Your Hand. Amazing album!
I’m old enough to have been around when the Beatles first became popular and this is my favorite album of theirs. I know it’s not considered by a lot of people to be their best record (probably top 5 for many), but it’s still the one that I like the best. Also, my two all time favorite Beatles song (“I’m Looking Through You” and “If I Needed Someone”) are both on this album. Thanks for the music and the memories, fellas!
Great reaction gentleman. What can you it’s the Beatles? One of the greatest bands of all time. Keep up the phenomenal work La/Che. Can’t wait for your reaction to Black Pumas and finishing up the original soundtrack Song Remains The Same….
It's a great album, It's what inspired Brian Wilson (after listening to the US version of Rubber Soul) to make Pet Sounds, which in turn inspired The Beatles to make Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. A good healthy competition.
Thanks Susie...I was wondering if I heard a SITAR in the background. Nice touch George ❗ I also love their song WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU. Very Indian influenced . They are just crazy good❗
OMG i **LUV** **Norwegian Wood** they were ALWAYS playing it on the radio when i was a lil kid so yea it was a very well known song heh **LUV** your reaction as ALWAYS!!! YAY
Thank you so much for going back to do Rubber Soul ... after Abbey Road it's probably my favourite Beatles album. SWEET! By the way, the high voice on Drive My Car is McCartney. And Norwegian Wood is probably the first instance of sitar being used in Western popular music.
An amazing thing about this album is that the band had nearly no time to write the songs and record them. They were in the middle of a long tour and had a few weeks off. Get into the studio, boys, write and record some hits. So, they did what they do best. Amazing. It is also my understanding that John was getting annoyed with the way 'Norwegian Wood' was being recorded so he played his acoustic aggressively. This is what ended up on this track.
I used to think John was building a cozy fire in the fire place. Paul later said that It was a pyromania ending with the whole place, being made from NW, was going up in flames 🔥🔥🔥
It was long ago and far away and I used to come home from school and my older sisters would have pooled their money and bought the latest Beatles album..that happened all the way from Meet the Beatles to Abbey Road...
John was often playful and coy with his lyrics. it's been noted that 'so, I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood' may or may not be taken as he torched her place after waking up alone. Or maybe he just started a nice fireplace fire going?
Drive My Car was a paul song and Norwegian Wood a John song. Whoever took lead vocals was the one who wrote it. Only on a few songs did they truly collaborate
Of Norwegian Wood John said: “I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences - girl's flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell.”
The lyrics on Norwegian Wood are so typically Lennon. Really funny. "I once had a girl, or should I say she once HAD me" (check out the lyrics, the story is hilarious)
@@Kairon111161 Not so sure he torched the house as much he pitched her furniture into the fireplace. Either way it's fun to imagine what George actually intended. I love ambiguous lyrics.
And in an achievement unlikely to ever be equaled, for the week of 4 April 1964, The Beatles occupied the top five positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In all, they had 12 places on the US chart.
@@Straydogger That's history. Drake equalized that in September 2021. In November 2022, Taylor Swift took the entire top 10 and last week Swift surpassed herself and took the songs from her new album in positions 1 - 14! Of course, today with downloading and streaming it's easier, to release many songs at the same time and for the leading artists it's almost a disappointment, if at least 3 songs from the new album don't appear in the top 10.
@@John_Locke_108 Sure, but on the surface a happy song. You got more of a direct idea what happened in Johns when he 'lit a fire'. But like Ticket to Ride etc. I get it. Makes me think of the movie The Santa Clause, where kids/elves danced to ZZ Tops Gimme All Your Lovin. Did the producers even look at the lyrics? "If I blow my top, will you let it go to your head?" Lol.
They didn’t change the game, they changed the world.
As someone who watches a frankly embarrassing amount of Beatles reactions on TH-cam...this channel is a good one.
Beatles, Zep, Sabbath, these guys are on point.
Same 😂
Same❤❤❤😂
No embarrassment in watching lots of Beatles reactions, I do the same for tons of bands, especially the Beatles
Every Beatles song sounds different, yet they are all identifiable as The Beatles. Let's open with a rocker and then switch gears completely - and it works!
The Beatles are the GOATS. No one comes close to them.
Zeppelin comes close. Wouldn't argue with some Floyd either
Listen to Norwegian Wood by Mahogany Rush their version
@@chazbustos6790Zep? the Masters of plagiarism??? (do some research).
Not even top 4!!!
1º - and far (but so, so , so far) above any other artist/band, The Beatles!!! A different league; a galaxy apart!
2º - Pink Floyd
3º - Bob Dylan
4º - Rolling Stones-
Zep have to discuss the 5º position with Queen, Doors...
@GabrielSoares-lj9rv well its my subjective taste in music. I don't really care if Zeppelin plagiarized, they made some damn great music. Zeppelin Hendrix and Floyd are my 3
Wtf! 30 minutes ago since last comment?! Anyway - Pink Floyd comes close. In my canon, they took the stick and run with it. Abbey Road happened. And the Floyd took up their mantle...
This is the album that completely changed the direction of the band. It is one of the best albums in history.
George's favorite record
Norwegian Wood is legendary. Great song.
agreed! ♥
YES SIR!
Totally....Supposedly about John bangin' around with Ronnie Spector.
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081 Lol. I thought it was about Brigitte Bardot. 🤷🏽♀️
Lennon doing Dylan... successfully
They didnt change the game. THEY INVENTED THE GAME. Thats George on the SITAR. Paul is usually the high harmony. Norwegian Wood WAS HUGE HIT
Well said!
Norwegian Wood was never released as a single, hence no chart placement. But still a remarkable Beatles classic and one of pop culture's first forays into world music (if not the first ever).
Dude...YES, well put!
Norwegian Wood wasn't a "huge hit". Lol It was never released as a single.
@@braudabo Norwegian Wood b/w Nowhere Man was the single from the album in some countries. Demand required it. ✌
Quote of the day "Paul can play any damn thing he want to" . 😎
I was amazed many yea 0:03 rs later to find out Paul played lead on some of my favorite Beatles tracks - Good Morning Good Morning & The Sgt. Pepper Reprise for one.
@@ChasBeauregardeit’s crazy how many famous Beatles guitar solos weren’t played by George and actually played by Paul and John. Paul’s guitar solos in particular are incredible, he’s an incredible guitar player that sometimes gets lost because he’s such a great bass player, singer, keyboard player etc
@@steelyd2 Many famous Beatles bass guitars were played by George : She said, she said; old brown shoes, hey jude, oh darling, maxwell silver hammer and two of us. (This last track on his telecaster)
@@2JorgeBeat oh yeah, definitely a bunch but I don’t think that’s as surprising as the amount of incredible guitar solos by Paul. I heard him say in an interview that he didn’t really want to boast about how much of the actual instrumentation he was contributing on those Beatles albums. If you look at the liner notes and stuff sometimes there aren’t even real official credits but of course it’s come out since then who played what on each track
Paul could bang the skins too...he played drums on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence (both on the White Album, when Ringo quit the band for awhile) and The Ballad of John and Yoko.
This album and Revolver were two of the best albums ever made. They were game changers for making albums. Stunning and transformational to me as an 11 year old kid.
Got to give Abby Road a shout.
@@elih9700 Sargent Pepper wasn't too tacky either.
Revolver and Rubber Soul are my top 2 Beatles album, in that order.
George Harrison said that Rubber Soul and Revolver were Part 1 and Part 2! Same mindset yet different, and yes it would have made an astounding dual LP.
I’m really a fan of taking the very best bands chronologically. It’s impossible to understand how a band goes from “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” to “I Am The Walrus” “A Day in The Life” or “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” without hearing the material between and the changes coming. Same with the 3 latter songs listed and even later material, say “Come Together”, “Here Comes The Sun” or “Oh Darling”. Then there’s The White Album which absolutely defies description! From beautiful ballads like “I Will” and “Julia” to hard rockers like “Helter Skelter” and “Glass Onion” to quirky ditties like “ Rocky Raccoon”, “Piggies” and “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” it’s just a double set of brilliance that is ALL OVER THE PLACE! There simply has never been a bigger force in modern music! I’ve been listening intently since 64 and still am!!
❤️🥁🔥
Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Norwegian Wood" number 83 on its 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
Rolling Stone is a joke. They now make lists and insert records for DEI rather than music content
The instrumentation, the lyrics, the voices, the production.... All changed... started here!
The Beatles took our hands and moved us along gently.
The Beatles... Music Masters..
The best band ever! 🎶🎶🎶👍
Behind every Beatles song there is a story, a theme or a subject. All the Beatles wrote with terrific imagination both musically and lyrically!😁😁🇬🇧
Beep beep beep beep yeah!
Beep beep*M*beep beep yeah! 😎
I love that fun addition to the chorus!
Used on every radio station.
One of my earliest memories of anything was sitting with my mom watching them on the Ed Sullivan Show.
If there is a better blend of voices than Lennon - McCartney - and Harrison, I've yet to hear it. I'm 60 years old and have NEVER known a world without the Beatles. BEATLES FOREVER....!!! 😃
This album inspired The Beach Boys Brian Wilson to write Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds inspired the Beatles to write Sgt. Peppers.
The US version.
Bullshit
@bundywaters5988 because the Beach Boys were in the U.S. although they easily could have had the British version as well given they were on the same label and friends with the Beatles
Hey fellas. "George brought out his Batman utility belt". Loved that one. This song is one of the reasons why my generation loved the Beatles so much. You never knew what you were going to get, but you knew it would be great. You would buy a Beatles album without even hearing one song and you were never disappointed. Shout out to you guys for reacting to this. Peace.
Rubber Soul, and then followed by Revolver, were really the pair of albums that marked the Beatles’ transformation from their original Fab Four “mop top lads” persona, into the band that would revolutionize music, recording, culture, fashion, really all of it. When you consider that the next leap after Revolver was Sgt. Pepper, it’s just mind blowing to realize their total evolution as a band took place in the course of only 6 short years. ❤
Yeah, from I Want to Hold Your Hand to I Want You (She's So Heavy) is 6 short years but eons in music evolution.
@@vicprovost2561The whole West world change, at least for the young generation.
My cousin used to wear a killer jacket with a Nehru collar, which was popularized in the west by the Beatles. It was corduroy with a 60s print and it fit him like a glove. He always told me it came from The Apple Store in London, but his mother who was an excellent seamstresss made it. He didn't fool me. I still have a picture of him wearing it.
No. they had been together as J&P then JPG from the 1950s then to Hamburg where they really did develop as John, Paul, George, Stuart & Pete. Back then, they were teenage rockers and ultra tough. Hamburg and post Hamburg saw them learning hundreds of US records, adding their own spin, playing hundreds of gigs and testing them in live shows where they were in strong competition with all the other acts on the bill who stole their material so they had to keep developing new stuff. McCartney says how that helped: they built up to superstardom from local fame to regional fame to national fame to European fame then to USA. They also benefited from no recording and smart phones so, if they came up with a tune one day, it had to be stuck in their heads ready for the next day or it got dumped. They only became moptops when they finally got a manager, Brian Epstein, who told them to ditch the leathers or they'd be stuck in a niche. Moptops was their third or fourth existence
The GOATS of music
why does everyone forget about George Harrison? his vocals are great and so are his harmonies.
💯
Drive My Car HAS to be one of the catchiest songs ever written.
It’s like busy traffic in a song lol.
True
Yellow Submarine too! The Odi day something like that lol
The piano part of drive my car was used in hundreds of house music tracks in the 90ties
No doubt leave it to them
George Harrison was just starting to learn the Sitar, and John Lennon asked him if he could play it on Norwegian Wood. The first time an Indian instrument was used on a pop song.
Harrison also created the bouzouki sound for "Girl". It has been and still is a matter of contorversy whether he played an actual bouzouki or used a capo on an acoustic guitar to simulate bouzouki sound.
@onsesejoo2605 there's no controversy, it's a guitar with a capo.
I have a bouzouki, Girl doesn't even sound like a bouzouki
So glad you are doing this! Lifelong Beatles fan here. Don't give George the short shrift, his contributions were huge.
Norwegian wood brought the Indian sitar to the masses
The most eclectic and Progressive band in the history of music❤
Probably true. For most creatives in whatever field from computer software through research science, painting, theatre, you'd say they hadn't yet found their thing and advise them to focus on one thing and develop that for a bit before moving on (even Picasso worked that way). But Beatles flipped from one style to another brilliantly while inventing their own genres that gave whole careers to other people
The beatles always set the pace . They blew you away with each new record .
Norwegian Wood was a hit and is a classic
Norwegian Wood is a huge Beatles song. Probably the biggest song from Rubber Soul in terms of popularity, and how widely known it is.
"Michelle" was a huge hit too.
In My Life is a fan favourite too
actually this video had a cut so they talk about Nowhere Man with the non hit early sounding tune, and yes this was also a hit, even more than the first two. Top 3 in the charts I think.
In My Life is the biggest song of the album, just look at the streaming numbers.
okay sorry they talked about You Won‘t See Me, they are right it wasn’t a hit
The Beatles invented World music encompassing many genres of music from the world over.
Paul is an incredible good multi instrumentalist, playing not only bass and guitar but drums, piano und several other instruments.
One of my top 3 Beatles albums! dbl ♥ Norwegian Wood is my fave song off Rubber Soul!
This and Revolver are their best work IMO. Great reaction as always.
Always perfection❤🌟🙂
You guys are so lucky that you are getting to hear these songs for the first time, Imagine me being like 15 and hearing it, they changed my life!
Good times.
Fantastic album! Norwegian Wood in my opinion is a classic piece of music! Thanks for the great start to a Saturday. Excellent reaction fellas 👌 😊❤
Don't forget to hit the singles that came from each album recording session. They refused to put them on the albums because they thought it unfair for their fans to pay twice for the same song. And though they changed the game from selling singles to selling albums, that transition hadn't really taken hold yet (until Sgt Pepper's) so the best songs were released as singles. The singles releases also served as a teaser for the upcoming album and as such, often had a commercial "A" side backed with a more challenging/experimental "B" side. The singles from the "Revolver" session's "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" is a good example, the single from "Rubber Soul" is "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work it Out". Keep up the great work, I love your reactions !
The raspy voice John Lennon has, and Paul was the Dominating voice in the harmony. But John says the part, And Baby I love you! This is for Drive My Car. Norwegian Wood was sung by John Lennon!!!
The song “because” shows off their vocal harmonies. Their voices were made for each other
Excellent choice. Rubber Soul is a great album!
Rubber Soul is just classic
Beatles WERE the game :)
Rubber Soul was always my absolute favorite of theirs, I was around when it came out, I was in my late teens. Also my all time favorite album cover photo.
Please do Paper Back Writer and Rain the non-album single released at the time of Revolver. Great game changing songs in their own right. Great reaction guys best channel on You Tube.
2 of the absolute greatest songs ever. Both in my top 10 all time for over a decade
Rubber Soul was the first album I ever bought, in 5th grade! Norwegian Wood was always one of my favorites.
Paul is a terrific piano player. Trained
Paul is not a trained musician. He learned everything on his own. He was influenced by his dad who was a jazz player but had no formal training.
@@Straydogger He took lessons, but didn't like them, and didn't learn to read music well. After that, he basically worked at it on his own.
This is now my favourite Beatles reaction channel, you clearly have a wide and knowledgeable music taste and it shows, keep up the reactions
Paul McCartney is a multi-instrumentalist.
The Beatles changed music history. Although they weren’t together for a very long time they had more hits than any band ❤
For whatever reason, Norwegian Wood, is the quintessential Beatles song....just really sounds like the Beatles!
Not just another one of their gorgeous love songs...but listening to it now with La & Che... did I detect a SITAR ❓
Actually, sounds like Beatles doing Dylan... which is what it is. And done successfully
They changed our ears and brains
Everyone was listening to Bob Dylan in 1965 and his album Freewheelin' changed lyric writing for ever. That album, from 1963 is a benchmark that you might want to explore those songs to better understand the evolution of all other bands! 1964-1966 was a time of radical transformation. (Those harmonies brought light into a dark world!)
you guys are so freakin AWESOME!!
You guys are fantastic!!!!! Paul was the lead vocal on Drive My Car. John on Norwegian Wood. You ought to watch the new release of Let It Be on Disney+!
I got no car but I got a driver and that’s a start.!!
When La’s head starts going back and forth you can tell he’s locked in to the groove
This album was the turning point in the Beatles as a Band, and the type of music they wrote and recorded etc. They went from the sort of innocent good guys from Britain, to more of a reflection of the culture of the world. Drugs, Vietnam, their music matured, and reflected the times, beginning with this album, and then into Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album.
Beginning with this album, and then into ... Revolver.
...and ultimately, Abbey Road!
Drive My Car was one of the coolest grooviest songs of the mid-60s and that's saying something
Paul does the high harmonies 🤠🎶🎼🎶
This album and Revolver were 2 sides of the same coin, fantastic, transitional albums, leading into psychedelia and rock explorations to come. Fantastic stuff, the very best, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎤🎹🎶
Two thumbs up for Revolver and Abby Road
This is the way to go, Gentlemen. Follow the progression if the Beatles album to album. This was 1965 and was the second album they did this year! Help! was recorded earlier this year as well as making the film of the same name. Then they recorded this album, just incredible! Thanks La and Che!
I'm from that time. It was quite a journey.
Rubber Soul was the transition album for them, preparing us for Revolver. If you check out the Wiki page for the album, it explains all the innovative techniques they employed in the studio. As noted below, this song was a HUGE hit for them on the radio. And you'll notice the more adult lyrics in both songs, a far cry from I Want to Hold Your Hand. Amazing album!
Favorite Beatles album
Wife here. Awesome album . Enjoy. In My Life got to hit that best of all time !
Speaking of Paul, he played drums on the Steve Miller song "My dark hour". 😊
Great LP for 65. Keep on enjoying it and putting a smile on our faces.
I’m old enough to have been around when the Beatles first became popular and this is my favorite album of theirs.
I know it’s not considered by a lot of people to be their best record (probably top 5 for many), but it’s still the one that I like the best.
Also, my two all time favorite Beatles song (“I’m Looking Through You” and “If I Needed Someone”) are both on this album.
Thanks for the music and the memories, fellas!
You’re not kidding. Listen to Paul’s first solo album. He played all the instruments and produced it himself at home. Incredible
Great reaction gentleman. What can you it’s the Beatles? One of the greatest bands of all time. Keep up the phenomenal work La/Che. Can’t wait for your reaction to Black Pumas and finishing up the original soundtrack Song Remains The Same….
It's a great album, It's what inspired Brian Wilson (after listening to the US version of Rubber Soul) to make Pet Sounds, which in turn inspired The Beatles to make Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. A good healthy competition.
Brian Wilson is a genius
Great timing guys . Just what I needed on a lazy Saturday 👍
ALL their songs were a hit !!!
No of us had heard anything like it
EVERY song was a hit
Rubber Soul and Revolver and the best Beatles albums IMO.
Both albums are awesome for sure ! But how about Abbey Road my friend?
@@patrickdutton6056 Not as strong as these IMO.
George said these rwo could have made a great double album.
They have so many. I truly don’t believe they have a bad one.
Wow what’s the third review?! Did I miss something. They’re the greatest of all time! They know how to connect with our souls!
OMG - NORWEGIAN WOOD is one of my FAVS....and, I LOVE the lyrics to BOTH THESE SONGS!! HUGS, YA'LL!!
You can hear the evolution of the Beatles in this album. This is where it really began.
the harmonies sound like horns. genius.
They do?
I just LOVE 'Drive my Car'!
I love this whole album so much, extremely special.
I love this song always have. I was wild about the Beatles lol. In 1965 I was 15, the whole album is great!. Thanks for all the great memories.
Oh y’all are makin’ me SMILE ear to ear while we listen to great music together. Thank you so much❤
Goood reaction. Paul is the high voice.
My favorite Beatles album! Thanks La and Che! George is playing the sitar on Norwegian Wood.
Thanks Susie...I was wondering if I heard a SITAR in the background. Nice touch George ❗ I also love their song WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU. Very Indian influenced . They are just crazy good❗
OMG i **LUV** **Norwegian Wood** they were ALWAYS playing it on the radio when i was a lil kid so yea it was a very well known song heh **LUV** your reaction as ALWAYS!!! YAY
Composing original and diverse music aint easy! that's talent!
This album is a HARMONY MASTERPIECE!
Thank you so much for going back to do Rubber Soul ... after Abbey Road it's probably my favourite Beatles album. SWEET!
By the way, the high voice on Drive My Car is McCartney. And Norwegian Wood is probably the first instance of sitar being used in Western popular music.
An amazing thing about this album is that the band had nearly no time to write the songs and record them. They were in the middle of a long tour and had a few weeks off. Get into the studio, boys, write and record some hits. So, they did what they do best. Amazing.
It is also my understanding that John was getting annoyed with the way 'Norwegian Wood' was being recorded so he played his acoustic aggressively. This is what ended up on this track.
I used to think John was building a cozy fire in the fire place. Paul later said that It was a pyromania ending with the whole place, being made from NW, was going up in flames 🔥🔥🔥
Norwegian wood - fancy way to say wood paneling
It was long ago and far away and I used to come home from school and my older sisters would have pooled their money and bought the latest Beatles album..that happened all the way from Meet the Beatles to Abbey Road...
John was often playful and coy with his lyrics. it's been noted that 'so, I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood' may or may not be taken as he torched her place after waking up alone. Or maybe he just started a nice fireplace fire going?
Drive My Car was a paul song and Norwegian Wood a John song. Whoever took lead vocals was the one who wrote it. Only on a few songs did they truly collaborate
Loved your reaction to these Beatles' classics. George getting out his utility belt cracked me up. Thankks, guys.
Of Norwegian Wood John said: “I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences - girl's flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell.”
Most bands would kill to have a song half as good on their BEST OF!!
The lyrics on Norwegian Wood are so typically Lennon. Really funny. "I once had a girl, or should I say she once HAD me" (check out the lyrics, the story is hilarious)
Glad someone else sees the humor of NW.
Most people barely notice it.
So I lit a fire
isn't it good
Norwegian wood.
😂
Norwegian Wood and Drive My Car are BOTH funny stories. And both have hints of darkness and/or absurdity, like all the best humour.
@@neilmartin99 I've always wondered -- did he torch her house?
@@Kairon111161 Not so sure he torched the house as much he pitched her furniture into the fireplace.
Either way it's fun to imagine what George actually intended.
I love ambiguous lyrics.
The Beatles had 20 No 1 hits and 34 Billboard top 10 hits. They had a total of 68 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
They were the real deal.
And in an achievement unlikely to ever be equaled, for the week of 4 April 1964, The Beatles occupied the top five positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In all, they had 12 places on the US chart.
They also held the top five spots on the billboard top 40 at one time
@@Straydogger That's history. Drake equalized that in September 2021. In November 2022, Taylor Swift took the entire top 10 and last week Swift surpassed herself and took the songs from her new album in positions 1 - 14!
Of course, today with downloading and streaming it's easier, to release many songs at the same time and for the leading artists it's almost a disappointment, if at least 3 songs from the new album don't appear in the top 10.
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They'd have had more #1s but they were sometimes kept off the top spot by... The Beatles
Paul, happy beep beep song. John, you tease me I'll burn down your house.
Yeah but "drive my car" isn't actually about driving a car. Both songs are a bit naughty.
@@John_Locke_108 Sure, but on the surface a happy song. You got more of a direct idea what happened in Johns when he 'lit a fire'. But like Ticket to Ride etc. I get it. Makes me think of the movie The Santa Clause, where kids/elves danced to ZZ Tops Gimme All Your Lovin. Did the producers even look at the lyrics? "If I blow my top, will you let it go to your head?" Lol.
Just LOVE how after "it's time for bed", there's a 2-measure instrumental break! GENIUS!!!