I'm 70 years old and it's difficult for someone who didn't grow up in the sixties to understand the impact The Beatles had on popular music. They have an incredibly large and diverse catalogue of songs and to watch their musical advancement in such a short period of time was a joy to behold. No band was doing what they were doing and oftentimes they would have 5 songs in the top 10 and their number 1 songs would chart for months and months. Each album got more daring and bold and progressive and I was utterly in awe of how much they could change the direction of their sound from album to album especially after 1965. They forever changed the musical landscape and their influence on other generations is enormous!
From “I Want To Hold Your Hand “ to “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).” Name me ANY band that covered so much ground in so short a period of time. Absolute genius.
Exactly! 7 yrs and they put out such a wide variety of music. Imagine if they would have gotten together in the 70s. Or if Lennon lived and they made a new record in the 1980s or 1990s
Girl, the entirety of side two of this album is one big roller coaster. Nearly every song leads into the next and almost makes you feel like it’s one long song, but it isn’t. It’s simply magnificent.
That’s the problem with “modern” music.. today, it’s served up like a fast food combo at McDonalds or something. Quickly listened to, quickly processed.. no depth, no story. Back in the vinyl LP days, it was more akin to reading a book, or at least watching a mini-series. You had to /read it/watch it/listen to it from beginning to end in order to “get it”.. or appreciate it. The artistic aspect was at a much higher level. Modern technology has ruined that, such that it’s so easy now to pick and pinch out little sections of anything that is on an album/cd.. that there’s no longer any context or any sense of a greater purpose or focus of the artists work. You only hear what you WANT to hear, and that’s not always the best thing for you to do.
@@usmcrn4418 spot on,back in the day we used to listen to side one AND then side two. Imagine listening to Dark Side Of The Moon one song here and there? That's how I feel about this album. 🏴
@@usmcrn4418recently was listening to some of my son's cd's. Heard a cd from a band called All Them Witches from 2015 don't recall the full name of the album but it was " Dying Surfer....and i was surprised that it had a flow from song to song. He had a couple other cd's from them but i haven't gotten to them yet.
@@usmcrn4418 Right on. The good thing about radio was it forced you to listen to (or at least hear) music you didn't like. Even if it didn't broaden your taste (and often ut did) it at at least gave everyone some commonon cultural reference points. I don't think it's healthy to have every person's music, movies, TV, individually curated and delivered to them according to what they *slready* like.
Nobody reacting to this seems to mention Ringo’s drumming. It is so spot on throughout, complementing the other instruments to perfection when the time signatures go into a different style and then in the last, long instrumental section the use of cymbals ramps up along with the nuanced complexities of the drums. It’s utterly amazing. ❤
He's been so able to maintain the drum in an absolute balance among the amount of songs and rithms the Beatles always have asked for years and years... He still deserves a medal for that!!
Esp. here, where he pretty much announces the sudden end with 3 big hits of the drum. Seasoned listeners can tell that's the cut-off point when that happens.
I keep askimg, "How can she not have heard this before?" And then I have to remind myself that you probably grew up listening to music I have never heard before! 😳
We talk about 'Influencers' in music..in broadcast..in all social activity...the Beatles have to be the ultimate influencers in the history of popular music...this band created trends...established vibes unheard of before them....their influence goes on down the generations.
Imagine being a stoned teenager, just having pulled the plastic off this album, and listening to that with headphones. I was being chased by the big machine through a field of wheat that was being threshed, and as it got closer, I could feel the wind it was generating. And then it catches up to you. Stunning. That whole album is stunning. You can't leave this earth without hearing the whole thing from beginning to end.
You are correct that is John singing. The beauty of the Beatles is that as a first time listener you have no idea what you’re going to hear. Paul’s bass playing on this song is absolutely sublime 🙂
The Beatles wrote music like The Beatles, it was so weirdly perfect, and then they were like, we're done, and they never recorded music together again as The Beatles...part of the secret of their greatness
i just heard this album a few days ago and i think its unbelievable.The ending of this song makes more sense when you hear it follow into the next song "Here comes the sun"which is really upbeat and happy. It shows the incredible diversity and how well sculpted musicians at the time used to think of albums as a whole concept. I hear everything in this song prog rock, heavy metal etc etc.. love your review
She's so heavy back then meant intense,complex in a good or bad way, the song going loud and quiet up and down makes you experience what he's feeling when the heavy girl is around or what the heavy girl's behavior is. up and down loud and/or hard and soft.
From Rock, to Blues, to Jazz to eternity...as avant garde as a Picasso painting. Cycling the same words and chords through different emotions - another genius song conceived by John and pulled off by the greatest band of all time.
This is one of those occasions that listening to this album on CD is so worth it. 'I want you/she's so heavy' closes out the first side of the LP, and that sudden end is really impactful even then. On the CD though, it will then go to the next track, 'Here comes the sun', and the contrast between the two tracks is perfect.
But the CD defeats the Beatles artistic aim which was to have this stark punch of the sudden cut to silence, wondering if that was how it was meant to end or if your record was faulty and had jumped, rather than immediately going into the bright contrast of Here Comes the Sun. It was placed where it was as the last track on side one of the album for effect, and that intention is lost on CD.
@@markamos1911 True, but at the time, CDs were not around, and if The Beatles were anything, they were innovators and unafraid to try new things. I reckon John would have listened to the CD's new transition of songs and said, "y'know what, that'll do."
@@SpikeMatthews Well, John said, "If you haven't heard the Beatles in mono you haven't heard the Beatles." Aĺl their music was recorded and released in mono; stereo mixing came years later. And apparently John thought it was an imposition on the music as it was originally concieved.
@@SpikeMatthews Of course they would have used CDs, but that's not the point here. The point is that this was not the way THIS album was designed to be heard. The choice of IWYSSH ending up Side One was a conscious decision with an artistic purpose. There is some loss of that intended effect when you listen to it on CD and the tracks just run on into the next one. Without that natural break, you lose that opportunity of a pause for reflection on what you'd just heard, following which you'd have to physically get up and turn the record over. You were then greeted by a radical change of mood with HCTS, appropriately like a new day dawning.
Back 'in the day' everyone was waiting for the next Beatles album to come out - not just for new songs but entirely new directions in rock music, multi dimensional and not just the rock and roll thing. You're right - they were extremely versatile, and creative.
At 13 years old, I first heard the Beatles on KCBQ radio in San Diego. Honestly and truly I was stunned and shocked when the first bars of "I Want Hold Your Hand" kicked in. I had never heard of them. Their name was weird. I didn't have enough time to think except for that fleeting thought because the song started right away. It took my breath away because the beat was so powerful and driving. I stood at the radio in the living room staring at its dial. I didn't move until the song was done. I concentrated on what the DJ was saying about "The Beatles" which wasn't much. I went to my room turned on my radio and just sat. I knew My life had just changed....even if I never heard squat about the Beatles ever again, I knew that for me, things had changed. A couple of days later I went back to school and the whole place was just buzzing.The teachers had trouble keeping the students in line. In a couple of days, it was going to be Sunday and and I would be able to SEE the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nothing was ever the same again. I see the differences to this day. And for their entire career they never disappointed. Not once!
You can hear Floyd, you can hear the doors,definitely hear zeppelin, my point is whether it was the beatles first etc We have to be grateful for growing up listening to these amazing tracks and albums. Now we sit headphones on TH-cam and feel jealous of your journey of hearing this for the first time. Excellent reaction x
I listened to the Beatles later in life. I had NO idea they were this versatile and can hear their influence in the music I listened to. This one has Black Sabbath written all over it.
They really put in for this song. The bass is as good as anything I have heard, drumming perfect, Billy Preston adds are on point. George and John knock it out of the park with shredding vocals and inventive guitar work.
If The Beatles ever actually did this song in concert (which they probably didn't, because this was long after they stopped touring), I like to imagine the effect of a building rush of wind that comes from behind them, and right into their audience, until they're done playing the 'She's So Heavy' closing.
Jayy, after 1964, there were 2 phases of The Beatles career. The Touring Years, and The Studio Years. From 1964-1966, they were the clean cut boys, constantly playing concerts, shaking their hair, and singing songs like “She Loves You.” Then things changed. The Beatles played their final concert on August 29th, 1966. Tired of the rigors of “Beatlemania,” they decided to cease performing live, and concentrate solely on studio work. And that’s when they began to evolve. Musically, and physically. I remember the initial shock when they grew mustaches!😆 And the quizzical looks people had on their faces, after first hearing “Strawberry Fields Forever!” So that’s why you hear such diversity in their music. I can vividly remember playing “I Am The Walrus” for my mother, and she could hardly believe that it was the same band that played “A Hard Day’s Night!”😂 Of course a lot of folks prefer one phase over the other, which is cool.
The experience of listening to this monumental song on vinyl is so different than listening to it on CD. On the vinyl record LP, the sound builds and builds and then suddenly stops -- and that's it! Silence! The tone arm lifts off the record and you're sitting there thinking "my God, did I just blow out my speakers?" (I actually thought that the first time I played it and had my little stereo cranked up to the max.) But on CD, it continues on to the next track, so you have this dark, ominous snowstorm of sound building and building as if you're in the middle of the worst storm of your life. And then suddenly you have the sweet, delicate guitar opening of "Here Comes the Sun" -- like the dawn of a beautiful day after the storm from hell.
One of my favorite songs by the Fab Four off of one of my favorite of their albums (Abbey Road). The song does end abruptly, but I think this recording truncates it further. I have played the bass (electric and upright) for the past 27 years. When i was in the music shop being my first bass, this album was being played on the sound system. Fornthe first time after hearing the Beatles a lot for the better part of 3 decades, I noticed the bass. I learned to highly respect the bass playing of Paul McCartney. Listen again to this song on headphones and notice the bass. My bass playing has taken me to jazz music, but I started with rock and roll and LOVE the bass on this album. Anyway, this song is a great vibe. Throwaway lyrics, but it's all about the vibe.
@@Katehowe3010 don't forget Rubber Soul and MMT and Let it be! And so on and so on!! Every Beatles album is great, that is all there is to it!!!.🚶🚶🚶🚶 🎸🎸🎸🥁
@Louis Speciale The "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack is a little hit and miss and the "White Album" is far from perfect. Despite these oddities, i have nothing negative to say about the rest of their catalogue!
There is an indescribable pleasure it watching a mind get blown for the first time by a track that had been blowing your own mind for decades. You never get a second first time.
They were incredible songwriters and musicians. Hard to find another band with every member contributing to lyrics and melodies for the huge catalog and their legacy in music history.😍🔥👍 I hope you'll get to check out Billy Preston someday (keyboard on this Beatles song) - His performance of his song, "that's the way God planned it" for George Harrison's fundraiser called, Concert for Bangladesh, will take you to church. The band is pretty memorable too, including George and Ringo and Eric Clapton and Leon Russell...😉👍
@@Katehowe3010 😂👍 I figured I would find out more about other groups as soon as I wrote that. Thanks for the info. I'm just more familiar with some groups than others and I appreciate learning more everyday. ☺️
Simply put, this is what made The Beatles great-versatility and they showed that thru their albums. Also another great reaction by you,keep it going(103k and counting)
Yes, they really manipulate the hearers' minds with this song. And the after the ending goes on seemingly forever till you can't stand it anymore -they cut it off abruptly! Genius!
Versatile is right, whether its a ballad or light and play full. to being rock or blues influenced ,and the experimental songs. Its all just so incredibly good.
The awareness of many young people towards the Beatles is good to perceive. There are many great artists or bands, but the Beatles culminate where no one else is!...
Everyone was waiting for your reaction to the abrupt ending, and you did not disappoint. Yes, that was the way that side 1 of Abbey Road ended, to be followed by Here Comes the Sun, which opened side 2.
That’s John Lennon for sure . I recall reading somewhere that John said the lyrics were so simple because he nothing more to say about whom he was singing about ( Yoko) . The music is spectacular and insanely different. Buts that what the Beatles were , different, and you never knew what you were going to get with a new Beatles album .
John was always saying this song is about Yoko, that song is about Yoko, including songs he wrote before he met her. I think he said that (and perhaps even believed it) to please her. The woman in John's life you never hear about was Alma Cogan, a British pop star of the 1950s who may have been the love of his life. She died in 1966, and John was devastated.
For a treat, there is on YT a version of this with only the bass track. You think the music repeats itself? Sir Paul was at the top of his inventive game on this one. Thanks for keeping this music alive, and being your own beautiful self here.
If you pirated my vessel I would surrender in a heartbeat.😍 This song is a vibe within a vibe within a vibe and I love your reaction. I hope you had a fun Halloween. Merry Christmas JAYY. I look forward to 2023 and another wonderful year of THE JAYY SHOW. May it be your best year yet. As hard as you work, you've earned it. Regards, RNB
This was the last track of Side 1 of the album, so the sudden STOP was like punctuation. When you turned the Album over, in contrast to the raw passion, you were greeted by one of the sweetest and most beautiful songs ever written...
Jayy- This was a another great Beatles song here and you guessed it right. This was John with the lead this time. Paul was playing bass guitar and George Lead Guitar. Please check out Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight. One of my fav Beatle songs here.
@@dannymoulton4829 John was not known as being a good musician. George was the best Guartarists but Paul was the bests musician bc he could play every instrument including the drums.
@@davidcohen7146 That's not true, who said that? John is considered to be one of the greatest rhythm guitarists(#6 Guitar World) and John and Ringo drove the band live.The Ramones are one the greatest bands and they had no lead guitar wanker. When John did take a solo it was fantastic. I think George was underrated because he came up with great solos and never overplayed. Paul was the only one that was sometimes self indulgent as evidenced by George having to restrain him on his songs.
This and Helter Skelter Was in a band back in the day We played at of Beatles songs zeppelin and other bands. I played the drums. Listening to this brings back great memories. ❤❤❤❤❤
What a trip, listening to this mind-blowing music again after so long. ,forgot how much I liked it. Listened over and over again as a teenager when it first came out.
I'm a beatle fan since 1999, I was 15 yo back then. I cannot tell you how many times I listened to this song in the dark, with the volume at maximum in my earphones... and 24 years later, when I do it, I still shivers like on day one. This is my 2nd favorite song of the Beatles, but it's a close call between first position eheh I loved your reaction, thank you
That's the last track on side one from Abbey Road - you really should hear "The Medley" on Side Two, in original order (YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY, SUN KING, MEAN MR. MUSTARD, POLYTHENE PAM, SHE CAME IN THRU THE BATHROOM WINDOW, GOLDEN SLUMBERS, CARRY THAT WEIGHT, THE END and HER MAJESTY) all in one finely edited masterpiece lasting about 17+ minutes!
Alot of rock bands after done calm before the storm, shock and awe. By starting the song calm and BAM! loud rock, or in to back in reverse Loud first and goes quiet soft.
The Psychedelic 60's music will blow your mind,it's all on TH-cam from those days and some newer versions from same old bands to newer recent bands. All you'd need listening to it is colored lights a lava lamp and colorful kaleidoscope effects. To get the full effect.
Now Jay you have to admit that your grandparents generation was cool, I remember listening to this song with a good joint, like floating above the clouds.The ending brought you back to reality.
Jazz and the blues had a baby, and they called it Rock and roll. Not exactly sure when you recorded your reaction but, I'm glad you did. When you listen to such eclectic sounds as this one from the beatles, you must keep in mind that nothing, nothing like this had ever been recorded or conceived of before
You really need to sit down and listen to The White Album in its entirety ! They are all over the place . Check out Long Long Long , you wouldn't think it and Helter Skelter are off the same album . Oh yeah , The Beatles are versatile !! 👍
Luv it! ..that ending you call genius, is what Ozzy Osborne said - he also said he developed early Black Sabbath sound over that ending...a small suggestion - nobody has done this on reaction channels - (if/when) you react to Back in the USSR do a double play bc the next song Dear Prudence are as one song. Same with A Day in the Life...there is a SGT Pepper (reprise) that leads into it and hang on at the end, it might seem like its over but there is a small bit at the end.
This is always been one of my favorite songs of theirs. And really it only has two different grooves it's just that it keeps switching back and forth between them and then at the end it draws the second Vibe out and just takes it to an extreme hypnotic pattern with all that Rising winds noise or whatever it is in the background and then I just cut you off your dream just ended, laugh. Anyway enjoy the reaction and you're right man at least in my TH-cam feed this only showed up today. But the funny thing is I never would have guessed it had been recorded on Halloween. I mean I don't even know are you supposed to be a pirate or something? All I know is that I just took your look as nothing more than wow she chose an interesting combination of things to put on, she's that cool man. Laugh. Maybe that's another way of saying it probably wouldn't matter, just like women say that Elvis could sing the phone book to them it would be just as devastating, I have a feeling you could put on just about anything walking to a room and people are going to be doing a double take going wow! 🥰
I was very privileged to have grown up with the Beatles. They were a phenomenon. Every musician after them tried in one way or another to emulate them. And yes, Miss Jayy, to paraphrase Forrest Gump, "The Beatles are like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're gonna get. "
These boys sound pretty good. If they stick with it, they could end up pretty popular.
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Yes, that's John Lennon singing. Fantastic, isn't it?
I'm 70 years old and it's difficult for someone who didn't grow up in the sixties to understand the impact The Beatles had on popular music. They have an incredibly large and diverse catalogue of songs and to watch their musical advancement in such a short period of time was a joy to behold. No band was doing what they were doing and oftentimes they would have 5 songs in the top 10 and their number 1 songs would chart for months and months.
Each album got more daring and bold and progressive and I was utterly in awe of how much they could change the direction of their sound from album to album especially after 1965. They forever changed the musical landscape and their influence on other generations is enormous!
Well put. They were prolific in every aspect of songwriting and musicianship.
They're okay I guess.
71years old rocker totally agree. Acid and pot influenced their music big time.
After a lovely afternoon with Bob Dylan and Maryjane.
I love how the coda is almost as long as the song.
From “I Want To Hold Your Hand “ to “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).” Name me ANY band that covered so much ground in so short a period of time. Absolute genius.
Exactly! 7 yrs and they put out such a wide variety of music. Imagine if they would have gotten together in the 70s. Or if Lennon lived and they made a new record in the 1980s or 1990s
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Radiohead, Animal Collective, and Pink Floyd all drastically changed and progressed their sounds with each album. All great bands
u nailed that Bill!
Mid-60s change was unreal
Girl, the entirety of side two of this album is one big roller coaster. Nearly every song leads into the next and almost makes you feel like it’s one long song, but it isn’t. It’s simply magnificent.
That’s the problem with “modern” music.. today, it’s served up like a fast food combo at McDonalds or something. Quickly listened to, quickly processed.. no depth, no story. Back in the vinyl LP days, it was more akin to reading a book, or at least watching a mini-series. You had to /read it/watch it/listen to it from beginning to end in order to “get it”.. or appreciate it. The artistic aspect was at a much higher level. Modern technology has ruined that, such that it’s so easy now to pick and pinch out little sections of anything that is on an album/cd.. that there’s no longer any context or any sense of a greater purpose or focus of the artists work. You only hear what you WANT to hear, and that’s not always the best thing for you to do.
@@usmcrn4418 spot on,back in the day we used to listen to side one AND then side two. Imagine listening to Dark Side Of The Moon one song here and there? That's how I feel about this album. 🏴
@@usmcrn4418recently was listening to some of my son's cd's. Heard a cd from a band called All Them Witches from 2015 don't recall the full name of the album but it was " Dying Surfer....and i was surprised that it had a flow from song to song. He had a couple other cd's from them but i haven't gotten to them yet.
@@usmcrn4418 Right on. The good thing about radio was it forced you to listen to (or at least hear) music you didn't like. Even if it didn't broaden your taste (and often ut did) it at at least gave everyone some commonon cultural reference points. I don't think it's healthy to have every person's music, movies, TV, individually curated and delivered to them according to what they *slready* like.
@@usmcrn4418 Often great anticipation and excitement to hear your favourites newest for the first time ..
Probably one of the greatest rock songs ever.
Who else but the Beatles could take just 13 words and do this much with them?
Nobody reacting to this seems to mention Ringo’s drumming. It is so spot on throughout, complementing the other instruments to perfection when the time signatures go into a different style and then in the last, long instrumental section the use of cymbals ramps up along with the nuanced complexities of the drums. It’s utterly amazing. ❤
He's been so able to maintain the drum in an absolute balance among the amount of songs and rithms the Beatles always have asked for years and years... He still deserves a medal for that!!
there could not have been Beatles without Ringo.
Ringo was an artist. His unique drumming was part of the musical canvas painted by the Beatles.
Esp. here, where he pretty much announces the sudden end with 3 big hits of the drum. Seasoned listeners can tell that's the cut-off point when that happens.
Ringo's percussion is what made the band.
I think this is one of their most underrated pieces. Decades later I still close my eyes and just get lost in the instrumental at the end.
I keep askimg, "How can she not have heard this before?" And then I have to remind myself that you probably grew up listening to music I have never heard before! 😳
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We talk about 'Influencers' in music..in broadcast..in all social activity...the Beatles have to be the ultimate influencers in the history of popular music...this band created trends...established vibes unheard of before them....their influence goes on down the generations.
Imagine being a stoned teenager, just having pulled the plastic off this album, and listening to that with headphones. I was being chased by the big machine through a field of wheat that was being threshed, and as it got closer, I could feel the wind it was generating. And then it catches up to you. Stunning. That whole album is stunning. You can't leave this earth without hearing the whole thing from beginning to end.
I was that teenager ☺
@@edmundhenry5095 I think a lot of us were. Haha
Was listening to The Beatles way before ever getting stoned. In fact, I'm not sure they had broken up before I knew who maryjane was. 😉
You are correct that is John singing. The beauty of the Beatles is that as a first time listener you have no idea what you’re going to hear. Paul’s bass playing on this song is absolutely sublime 🙂
The Great Billy Preston was very profound on this Album.
He played on two songs
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Paul's bass playing on The White album and Abbey road is simply magnificent.
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 You are really hitting the heavy side of the Beatles. Helter Skelter , now She's So Heavy.
The Beatles wrote music like The Beatles, it was so weirdly perfect, and then they were like, we're done, and they never recorded music together again as The Beatles...part of the secret of their greatness
"I have to say" this is a band who did things their own way and everybody else followed them.
i just heard this album a few days ago and i think its unbelievable.The ending of this song makes more sense when you hear it follow into the next song "Here comes the sun"which is really upbeat and happy. It shows the incredible diversity and how well sculpted musicians at the time used to think of albums as a whole concept. I hear everything in this song prog rock, heavy metal etc etc.. love your review
The abrupt ending marked the end of side A on the LP. You had to switch to side B to hear Here Comes The Sun.
It's technically not meant to be a direct follow-up but it does make sense.
the 5th Beatle Mr Billy Preston on Organ! Banger
She's so heavy back then meant intense,complex in a good or bad way, the song going loud and quiet up and down makes you experience what he's feeling when the heavy girl is around or what the heavy girl's behavior is. up and down loud and/or hard and soft.
A powerful and cold end and then Side B starts so calm and warm.
From Rock, to Blues, to Jazz to eternity...as avant garde as a Picasso painting. Cycling the same words and chords through different emotions - another genius song conceived by John and pulled off by the greatest band of all time.
Honey Pie sounds like a 1920s Song
This is one of those occasions that listening to this album on CD is so worth it. 'I want you/she's so heavy' closes out the first side of the LP, and that sudden end is really impactful even then. On the CD though, it will then go to the next track, 'Here comes the sun', and the contrast between the two tracks is perfect.
But the CD defeats the Beatles artistic aim which was to have this stark punch of the sudden cut to silence, wondering if that was how it was meant to end or if your record was faulty and had jumped, rather than immediately going into the bright contrast of Here Comes the Sun. It was placed where it was as the last track on side one of the album for effect, and that intention is lost on CD.
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@@markamos1911 True, but at the time, CDs were not around, and if The Beatles were anything, they were innovators and unafraid to try new things. I reckon John would have listened to the CD's new transition of songs and said, "y'know what, that'll do."
@@SpikeMatthews Well, John said, "If you haven't heard the Beatles in mono you haven't heard the Beatles." Aĺl their music was recorded and released in mono; stereo mixing came years later. And apparently John thought it was an imposition on the music as it was originally concieved.
@@SpikeMatthews Of course they would have used CDs, but that's not the point here. The point is that this was not the way THIS album was designed to be heard. The choice of IWYSSH ending up Side One was a conscious decision with an artistic purpose. There is some loss of that intended effect when you listen to it on CD and the tracks just run on into the next one. Without that natural break, you lose that opportunity of a pause for reflection on what you'd just heard, following which you'd have to physically get up and turn the record over. You were then greeted by a radical change of mood with HCTS, appropriately like a new day dawning.
Back 'in the day' everyone was waiting for the next Beatles album to come out - not just for new songs but entirely new directions in rock music, multi dimensional and not just the rock and roll thing. You're right - they were extremely versatile, and creative.
And then we wore out the grooves listening to their last album, until the next one came out.
Abbey Road. All of Abbey Road. It’s the single greatest album ever recorded. The B side is especially groundbreaking.
Abbey Road and Revolver are my favorites.. both so different.
I grew up with "The Beatles" from 15 and prefer "Rubber Soul," "Beatles for Sale," and "The Beatles" (aka "White" LP).
Except for Sgt Pepper, the masterpiece.
One of the greatest blues songs ever written period.
Absolutely so. Classic Beatles thing to do, take a genre, and move it forwards somewhere inexplicable and astonishing. Alice in Wonderland stuff.
At 13 years old, I first heard the Beatles on KCBQ radio in San Diego. Honestly and truly I was stunned and shocked when the first bars of "I Want Hold Your Hand" kicked in. I had never heard of them. Their name was weird. I didn't have enough time to think except for that fleeting thought because the song started right away. It took my breath away because the beat was so powerful and driving. I stood at the radio in the living room staring at its dial. I didn't move until the song was done. I concentrated on what the DJ was saying about "The Beatles" which wasn't much. I went to my room turned on my radio and just sat.
I knew My life had just changed....even if I never heard squat about the Beatles ever again, I knew that for me, things had changed. A couple of days later I went back to school and the whole place was just buzzing.The teachers had trouble keeping the students in line. In a couple of days, it was going to be Sunday and and I would be able to SEE the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nothing was ever the same again. I see the differences to this day.
And for their entire career they never disappointed. Not once!
You can hear Floyd, you can hear the doors,definitely hear zeppelin, my point is whether it was the beatles first etc We have to be grateful for growing up listening to these amazing tracks and albums.
Now we sit headphones on TH-cam and feel jealous of your journey of hearing this for the first time.
Excellent reaction x
I think you can hear The Beatles in them, and not the other way around.
This song and "Helter Skelter" is Heavy Metal just goes to show how versatile the wonderful the beatles were!!!
Lennon's bluesy guitar is just brilliant! 🎸 And Ringo's drumming is incredible, he never repeats himself.
The Beatles are simply the best. 👏
The BEATLES, especially John Lennon liked messing with your head. This is his song about his wife Yoko.
I listened to the Beatles later in life. I had NO idea they were this versatile and can hear their influence in the music I listened to. This one has Black Sabbath written all over it.
Yep - before Black Sabbath even existed.
Yeah, the instrumental ending has a lot of doom metal over it, im pretty sure that The Beatles was one of the bands that influenced Black Sabbath.
@@Stefan- : Ozzie Osbourne likened hearing The Beatles for the first time, as a black and white world suddenly turning technicolour
They really put in for this song. The bass is as good as anything I have heard, drumming perfect, Billy Preston adds are on point. George and John knock it out of the park with shredding vocals and inventive guitar work.
If The Beatles ever actually did this song in concert (which they probably didn't, because this was long after they stopped touring), I like to imagine the effect of a building rush of wind that comes from behind them, and right into their audience, until they're done playing the 'She's So Heavy' closing.
If you haven't listened to "Because", you MUST do it; such a beautiful song on this album.
Another metal song from the Beatles. Incredibly heavy song.
More rock than metal.
Please Continue this Beatles saga
Im in love ❤️
Love from 🇧🇷🥰
One of the greatest bass lead riffs ever!! ❤❤❤
I’m so proud of you! Helter Skelter and now this song. Good for you! You are exactly right, versatile, in every genre up to that time. ❤️❤️❤️👍
One of the great rock soul tracks of alltime
Jayy, after 1964, there were 2 phases of The Beatles career. The Touring Years, and The Studio Years. From 1964-1966, they were the clean cut boys, constantly playing concerts, shaking their hair, and singing songs like “She Loves You.” Then things changed. The Beatles played their final concert on August 29th, 1966. Tired of the rigors of “Beatlemania,” they decided to cease performing live, and concentrate solely on studio work. And that’s when they began to evolve. Musically, and physically. I remember the initial shock when they grew mustaches!😆 And the quizzical looks people had on their faces, after first hearing “Strawberry Fields Forever!” So that’s why you hear such diversity in their music. I can vividly remember playing “I Am The Walrus” for my mother, and she could hardly believe that it was the same band that played “A Hard Day’s Night!”😂 Of course a lot of folks prefer one phase over the other, which is cool.
The experience of listening to this monumental song on vinyl is so different than listening to it on CD. On the vinyl record LP, the sound builds and builds and then suddenly stops -- and that's it! Silence! The tone arm lifts off the record and you're sitting there thinking "my God, did I just blow out my speakers?" (I actually thought that the first time I played it and had my little stereo cranked up to the max.) But on CD, it continues on to the next track, so you have this dark, ominous snowstorm of sound building and building as if you're in the middle of the worst storm of your life. And then suddenly you have the sweet, delicate guitar opening of "Here Comes the Sun" -- like the dawn of a beautiful day after the storm from hell.
This is why they have the reputation that they do.
One of my favorite songs by the Fab Four off of one of my favorite of their albums (Abbey Road). The song does end abruptly, but I think this recording truncates it further. I have played the bass (electric and upright) for the past 27 years. When i was in the music shop being my first bass, this album was being played on the sound system. Fornthe first time after hearing the Beatles a lot for the better part of 3 decades, I noticed the bass. I learned to highly respect the bass playing of Paul McCartney. Listen again to this song on headphones and notice the bass. My bass playing has taken me to jazz music, but I started with rock and roll and LOVE the bass on this album. Anyway, this song is a great vibe. Throwaway lyrics, but it's all about the vibe.
Aren’t they great? This album is brilliant, in my opinion.
And a many million others!
Revolver is the best album from the Beatles!
@Terezinha "Revolver" or "Abbey Road". Impossible for me to separate!
@@Katehowe3010 don't forget Rubber Soul and MMT and Let it be! And so on and so on!! Every Beatles album is great, that is all there is to it!!!.🚶🚶🚶🚶 🎸🎸🎸🥁
@Louis Speciale The "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack is a little hit and miss and the "White Album" is far from perfect. Despite these oddities, i have nothing negative to say about the rest of their catalogue!
For those not aware.."Heavy" was a term used in the '60--70s to denote something that was intense and / or profound.
There is an indescribable pleasure it watching a mind get blown for the first time by a track that had been blowing your own mind for decades. You never get a second first time.
They were incredible songwriters and musicians. Hard to find another band with every member contributing to lyrics and melodies for the huge catalog and their legacy in music history.😍🔥👍
I hope you'll get to check out Billy Preston someday (keyboard on this Beatles song) - His performance of his song, "that's the way God planned it" for George Harrison's fundraiser called, Concert for Bangladesh, will take you to church. The band is pretty memorable too, including George and Ringo and Eric Clapton and Leon Russell...😉👍
You're forgetting Queen. All four members wrote songs, and had hits!
@@Katehowe3010 😂👍 I figured I would find out more about other groups as soon as I wrote that. Thanks for the info. I'm just more familiar with some groups than others and I appreciate learning more everyday. ☺️
@@marthaz You're welcome. 😊
OH DARLIN, is a really good Beatles tune.
Badass, is’nt it? 🤘❤️love your reactions and insight 🤘there are a couple beatles outros, that for beatle fans, go on forever in our minds and souls
Cool!
Thanks Jay you're doing a great job thoroughly covering the most amazing band! Keep those Beatles coming.
One of the more unique Beatles tunes.
Sure is good listening to these tunes again. Don’t hear them near as much as I used to. Good job.
Same. Time to dig out the old records again.
I thought I saw tears forming in your eyes - this is how we felt when we first listened to this.
Simply put, this is what made The Beatles great-versatility and they showed that thru their albums. Also another great reaction by you,keep it going(103k and counting)
Yes, they really manipulate the hearers' minds with this song. And the after the ending goes on seemingly forever till you can't stand it anymore -they cut it off abruptly! Genius!
Beatle music is its own genre.
Versatile is right, whether its a ballad or light and play full. to being rock or blues influenced ,and the experimental songs. Its all just so incredibly good.
The awareness of many young people towards the Beatles is good to perceive. There are many great artists or bands, but the Beatles culminate where no one else is!...
Everyone was waiting for your reaction to the abrupt ending, and you did not disappoint. Yes, that was the way that side 1 of Abbey Road ended, to be followed by Here Comes the Sun, which opened side 2.
That’s John Lennon for sure . I recall reading somewhere that John said the lyrics were so simple because he nothing more to say about whom he was singing about ( Yoko) . The music is spectacular and insanely different. Buts that what the Beatles were , different, and you never knew what you were going to get with a new Beatles album .
John was always saying this song is about Yoko, that song is about Yoko, including songs he wrote before he met her. I think he said that (and perhaps even believed it) to please her. The woman in John's life you never hear about was Alma Cogan, a British pop star of the 1950s who may have been the love of his life. She died in 1966, and John was devastated.
I love the transitions what they do with this song
Man what a Vibe what a Groove With A Beat whatever you want to call it there you go
They mastered every sound available ❤from elation to misery the ups and downs of living😮
For a treat, there is on YT a version of this with only the bass track. You think the music repeats itself? Sir Paul was at the top of his inventive game on this one.
Thanks for keeping this music alive, and being your own beautiful self here.
Some Beatles fans call this " filler" ... Shows how good the Beatles are
If you pirated my vessel I would surrender in a heartbeat.😍 This song is a vibe within a vibe within a vibe and I love your reaction. I hope you had a fun Halloween. Merry Christmas JAYY. I look forward to 2023 and another wonderful year of THE JAYY SHOW. May it be your best year yet. As hard as you work, you've earned it. Regards, RNB
Thank you so much
George Harrison making good use of the new Moog Synthesiser for the white noise at the end. Lennon wanted this to be the last track of the album.
They greatest band ever!!!
This was the last track of Side 1 of the album, so the sudden STOP was like punctuation. When you turned the Album over, in contrast to the raw passion, you were greeted by one of the sweetest and most beautiful songs ever written...
Jayy- This was a another great Beatles song here and you guessed it right. This was John with the lead this time. Paul was playing bass guitar and George Lead Guitar. Please check out Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight. One of my fav Beatle songs here.
That's John on lead guitar.
@@dannymoulton4829 Well actually it was John and George both on lead guitar so I was partly right. Paul is lead bass.
@@davidcohen7146 Of course David, but John was ridiculously underrated as a guitarist and that's him on the jazzy lead part.
@@dannymoulton4829 John was not known as being a good musician. George was the best Guartarists but Paul was the bests musician bc he could play every instrument including the drums.
@@davidcohen7146 That's not true, who said that? John is considered to be one of the greatest rhythm guitarists(#6 Guitar World) and John and Ringo drove the band live.The Ramones are one the greatest bands and they had no lead guitar wanker. When John did take a solo it was fantastic. I think George was underrated because he came up with great solos and never overplayed. Paul was the only one that was sometimes self indulgent as evidenced by George having to restrain him on his songs.
This and Helter Skelter
Was in a band back in the day
We played at of Beatles songs zeppelin and other bands. I played the drums. Listening to this brings back great memories. ❤❤❤❤❤
What a trip, listening to this mind-blowing music again after so long. ,forgot how much I liked it. Listened over and over again as a teenager when it first came out.
your expression when it ended is priceless
I'm a beatle fan since 1999, I was 15 yo back then. I cannot tell you how many times I listened to this song in the dark, with the volume at maximum in my earphones... and 24 years later, when I do it, I still shivers like on day one. This is my 2nd favorite song of the Beatles, but it's a close call between first position eheh
I loved your reaction, thank you
Thank you so much
That's the last track on side one from Abbey Road - you really should hear "The Medley" on Side Two, in original order (YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY, SUN KING, MEAN MR. MUSTARD, POLYTHENE PAM, SHE CAME IN THRU THE BATHROOM WINDOW, GOLDEN SLUMBERS, CARRY THAT WEIGHT, THE END and HER MAJESTY) all in one finely edited masterpiece lasting about 17+ minutes!
Thank you for this opportunity. I don’t never head this song.
This is the music I grew up with. It's fun to see the reactions of these youngsters hearing the Beatles for the first time.
The end blows you away just like it did me
The first time I heard She's So Heavy was Motley Crue's cover and loved it ever since
Alot of rock bands after done calm before the storm, shock and awe. By starting the song calm and BAM! loud rock, or in to back in reverse Loud first and goes quiet soft.
The Psychedelic 60's music will blow your mind,it's all on TH-cam from those days and some newer versions from same old bands to newer recent bands. All you'd need listening to it is colored lights a lava lamp and colorful kaleidoscope effects. To get the full effect.
That's why we LOVE THE BEATLES
She had him going to scream therapy. Can you hear it! That was a really heavy tune.
This song is in the top echelons of Beatles songs! ( Thank f**k for spell check on my phone because I've never seen echelons written down!)♥️🏴
Now Jay you have to admit that your grandparents generation was cool, I remember listening to this song with a good joint, like floating above the clouds.The ending brought you back to reality.
Jazz and the blues had a baby, and they called it Rock and roll. Not exactly sure when you recorded your reaction but, I'm glad you did. When you listen to such eclectic sounds as this one from the beatles, you must keep in mind that nothing, nothing like this had ever been recorded or conceived of before
The Beatles are the best band for the universe. Bob Dylan is greatness too. And Tom Waits.
You really need to sit down and listen to The White Album in its entirety ! They are all over the place . Check out Long Long Long , you wouldn't think it and Helter Skelter are off the same album . Oh yeah , The Beatles are versatile !! 👍
I I felt the same way when I heard it shot the heck out of me that loud voice
That’s why they are the Greatesr Ever
Paul's bass is legendary
Love the Beatles and this Album is awesome
Excellent reaction. I enjoyed watching your eyes throughout this video.
Luv it! ..that ending you call genius, is what Ozzy Osborne said - he also said he developed early Black Sabbath sound over that ending...a small suggestion - nobody has done this on reaction channels - (if/when) you react to Back in the USSR do a double play bc the next song Dear Prudence are as one song. Same with A Day in the Life...there is a SGT Pepper (reprise) that leads into it and hang on at the end, it might seem like its over but there is a small bit at the end.
Back in the day I remember my sister bringing home her first Beatles 'seven single', with a song on both sides of the record, amazing! Thanks.
This is always been one of my favorite songs of theirs. And really it only has two different grooves it's just that it keeps switching back and forth between them and then at the end it draws the second Vibe out and just takes it to an extreme hypnotic pattern with all that Rising winds noise or whatever it is in the background and then I just cut you off your dream just ended, laugh. Anyway enjoy the reaction and you're right man at least in my TH-cam feed this only showed up today. But the funny thing is I never would have guessed it had been recorded on Halloween. I mean I don't even know are you supposed to be a pirate or something? All I know is that I just took your look as nothing more than wow she chose an interesting combination of things to put on, she's that cool man. Laugh. Maybe that's another way of saying it probably wouldn't matter, just like women say that Elvis could sing the phone book to them it would be just as devastating, I have a feeling you could put on just about anything walking to a room and people are going to be doing a double take going wow! 🥰
She's so heavy!
I was very privileged to have grown up with the Beatles. They were a phenomenon. Every musician after them tried in one way or another to emulate them. And yes, Miss Jayy, to paraphrase Forrest Gump, "The Beatles are like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're gonna get. "
This was the final song they ever recorded together with the four of them in the same studio.
That's The Beatles! Brilliant original writing and arrangement and production, fantastic!