Fun fact: Richard Starkey, the writer of Don't Pass Me By also goes by the stage name Ringo Starr. He was actually in a really popular band from the 60s.

@Marina-pe1gx

2 жыл бұрын

Οh yeah in the early 60s he was one of Rory Storm's hurricanes, right?

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

He was in a very popular Liverpool band called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes when John and Paul asked him to join The Beatles after they sacked Pete Best. Incidentally, I knew Pete Best very well, a lovely man and no bitterness at all.

@dragonoftheeast7572

2 жыл бұрын

Are you guys talking about Richard Starkey?? The drummer from Rory and the Hurricanes...??

@andrewpayne6295

2 жыл бұрын

Who is this Ringo Starr of whom you speak?

@leestrawberryfields...

2 жыл бұрын

@@amr180671 Pete Best made quite a few quid after the release of Anthology 1 (I think he featured on 10 songs). I'm very pleased for him

That's the genius of Paul McCartney....He writes melodies that you've never heard before, but sound like something you've heard all your life.

@shitpostbotmin

7 ай бұрын

granted she might know that one from offspring's why dont you get a job. she probably grew up around that song

@pandanurse

6 ай бұрын

He did it so well with yesterday that even he thought he already knew it from somewhere

@Kingkodiakbear

6 ай бұрын

@@pandanurseeven he did

@rubbercilla

3 ай бұрын

YES

@ripped181

Ай бұрын

That’s how predictable and un-inventive they are lmao

No one will ever figure out how these 4 guys found so many unique melodies in so short a time. It's baffling.

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

Only Buddy Holly came close with a catalogue of classics in such a short space of time

@MrMookRecords

2 жыл бұрын

I'll see your Buddy Holly and raise you Guided By Voices ( especially the incredibly prolific 91 - 96 perood). He's also still releasing at least 2 new GBV albums a year. But the quality in the early 90s was off the dial

@celt67

2 жыл бұрын

@@amr180671 PLEASE. Even Holly himself rejoiced in how simple his songs were to listen to and play. 4 chords at most.

@ontheruntonowhere

2 жыл бұрын

I would put Eagles up there. They recorded their classic catalog in only 7 years. They didn't change the course of music like the Beatles did, but they were pop craftsmen of the same ilk.

@dj71162

2 жыл бұрын

I think they had the benefit of being around at a time of great artistic inspiration all around them. That and the fact that less ideas had been taken then, as opposed to if you tried to write an original song today, its impossible because everythings been taken already.

The bass part in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, is one of the best and innovated bass parts ever written

I'm watching these reactions after completing the 'get back' series, at this point I'm just living in the Beatles' world... It's a great feeling

@Turtledove2009

2 жыл бұрын

It's a great year to be a Beatles fan!

@crumblefest

2 жыл бұрын

are you saying "I've Got a Feeling"?

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

@@crumblefest A feeling he can't hide, oh yeah!

@raghuvansh1293

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBuwen everybody had a wet dream

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

@@raghuvansh1293 Everybody pulls the socks off.

A few song facts: "Back in the USSR" is a parody of Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA" as well the Beach Boys' "California Girls." It subverts the patriotic message of the Chuck Berry song. It's one of the Beatles' wittier compositions. "Dear Prudence" was written while the Beatles were in India. It was written about/for Prudence Farrow, the sister of famous actress Mia Farrow, who was spending a lot of time alone in her cabin. "Glass Onion" is John poking fun at people who go too deep into dissecting the meaning of Beatles songs. The idea of a "glass onion" is something that seems to have a lot of layers but is actually transparent. "Piggies" is about anti-establishment song. It references George Orwell's Animal Farm, where the pigs were the ruling class. It also plays off the slang of calling cops "pigs." "Julia" is about John Lennon's mother, who was hit and killed by a car when he just a teenager. It adds a lot of depth to the song once you know that. Yes, it is a "love" song. But not in the traditional way.

@sphericalharmony1603

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen a few people in the comments saying that Piggies is intended to refer to the slang term for police but I don't know of any evidence for this. It is denied in the Wikipedia article on the song.

@rome8180

2 жыл бұрын

@@sphericalharmony1603 no, it says that Harrison denied it. The article itself doesn't deny it. Either way, that seems like an odd quibble. The song is very anti-authority. And the Beatles definitely didn't like the police. And there's no way George wasn't aware of the connotation, seeing as this is right when it became popular slang.

@bluepeng8895

2 жыл бұрын

While My Guitar Gently Weeps features Eric Clapton on lead guitar

@scyz2807

2 жыл бұрын

I've always seen Piggies as being about how the rich over consume. But then there are the "little" piggies who aren't so lucky.

@Leafsdude_

2 жыл бұрын

Lennon was probably going for shock value when he said it, but he was quoted more than once suggesting that "Julia" _was_ a traditional love song...

The look on your face when Wild Honey Pie starts. Welcome to the White Album. A journey of beautiful, bizarre, and banging. A classic by the legendary Beatles.

@CallMeCaroline

2 жыл бұрын

It definitely got my attention! haha

@frederickbuchanan9438

2 жыл бұрын

I think Ringo or George said the White Album should have been shrunk down to one disk. Whichever one said it, he made a good point. I respect The Beatles but there’s a fair amount of crappy material on the White Album.

@krautgazer

Жыл бұрын

I particularly like how random and chaotic it is. That's what makes this album unique. I wouldn't change much of anything, except switching "Revolution 1" for the hard rock single version, and adding 2 more songs which were recorded in the sessions and were cut from it: McCartney's "Junk" and Harrison's "Not Guilty" - they are bangers.

@Kamoo4160

Жыл бұрын

@@frederickbuchanan9438 "It was great, it sold, it's bloody the beatles white album, shut up". Paul Mccartney

@letsgomets002

Жыл бұрын

​@@frederickbuchanan9438 yes agreec

It took me years--decades really--to realize that Julia is one of Lennon's (and the Beatles') masterpieces. It is a staggeringly good song.

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

How he stripped it down was amazing

@jacksonmorganfroghin4815

2 жыл бұрын

I concur

@CallMeCaroline

2 жыл бұрын

It's hauntingly beautiful

@angelseari4

2 жыл бұрын

Julia was written for John's mother. She died while was a teen. I know that Paul met her. Paul's mother died of breast cancer, as did Paul's wife just short of 30 years together. Paul's lucky that he had a loving and strong dad who got the family through their loss. Lennon didn't have that kind of support. Julia is hauntingly beautiful. The story is that she hit while crossing a street. He lost her very suddenly and never found closure.

@s.h.741

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelseari4 Alcoholic? I think I read most of the books about the Beatles but I never saw anywhere mentioned that she was an alcoholic. Sounds like slander to me because she was such an unconventional woman. Any sources?

Caroline, when you said McCartney's (Beatles) melodies sound like you've known them your whole life, well you hit the nail on the head- that was the magic of their music.

@StuartQuinn

2 жыл бұрын

It was written as a children's song, so there's a chance she has heard a version of that song as a child and has forgotten.

@DKassel

2 жыл бұрын

That was true of the Beatles, as well. When Paul came up with the melody for "Yesterday" in his sleep, it was so familiar he thought someone else had already written it.

@atroyz

2 жыл бұрын

If you’ve lived on this earth you’ve heard Ob-la-di in your life (unless you don’t own a radio and have never been in a supermarket or watched TV). Beatles’ songs are like Christmas songs in December. There’s no way to have not heard them (Unless maybe you’re in a religious sect the bans music?) I believe she may not have “consciously” heard it, but she’s heard it. That’s the main reason it’s familiar.

@falchoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@atroyz either that or she's heard the Offspring's "why don't you get a job"

@marshallhood9220

2 жыл бұрын

@@falchoon That's so funny. "why don't you get a job" came out when I was in the 6th grade -I was all about Beatles since the 1st grade but that had faded by then - When I heard "why don't you get a job" it sent me through a couple of years of loving Offspring. Years later I realized the only reason I ever liked Offspring back then was purely because of that one song, which was really a Beatle song with "parental guidance" lyrics. How did they avoid a lawsuit on that one?

Two minor points, in case no-one's mentioned them yet: the regular 'click' beat in Blackbird is McCartney's shoe tapping on the floor -there's video footage KZread somewhere; and in I Will he sings - not plays - the bass part. Fantastic reaction video - whatever can be said about the White Album it can't be called predictable. Thanks very much and I hope you enjoy sides 3-4.

@nbkarki

2 жыл бұрын

Side 4 😬

@samsowden

2 жыл бұрын

@@nbkarki side nine?

@Artic69

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a metronome?

@ChrisMaxfieldActs

2 жыл бұрын

@@Artic69 That's what I have heard also, but I've seen the film, and it does seem to be his foot tapping. It certainly always sounded like a foot tapping, to me.

@Artic69

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisMaxfieldActs in my opinion it sounds very accurate to the tempo so I personally think it’s a metronome but it’s also equally as likely to be his foot tapping.

This album has my favorite John songs of any Beatles albums. Dear Prudence and Julia are both so heartachingly good.

@Turtledove2009

2 жыл бұрын

I'm particularly fond of John's songs and I agree.

@ripped181

Жыл бұрын

John's songs on Revolver are the best too.

@_ludba

Жыл бұрын

I think John was at his best during the White Album days!

@richardctaylor79

11 ай бұрын

The bass on Dear Prudence is beautifully simple... just perfect...

By the way Caroline Martha was Paul's sheepdog and Julia was John's deceased mother,it shows anything can be a somgwriters inspiration. Bob.

The back-to-back combination of I Will and Julia is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

@darshin95

2 жыл бұрын

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@cdog9559

2 жыл бұрын

in strange way the "back to back" of #9 & "Good Night" is awesome.

@Cromeyellow66

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@farrellmcnulty909

2 жыл бұрын

@@cdog9559 The chaos of #9 is the perfect segue into Good Night. John knew exactly what he was doing when he sequenced them.

@michaelgentiluomo5385

2 жыл бұрын

Love Piggies as it applies to children of today. "In there lives there's something lacking, what they need a damn good wacking!"

Caroline's point about how far ahead of its time The White Album was is well made. It sounded like "The Future" in 1968. It still, in many ways, sounded like The Future well into the 1990s. Firstly, with the possible exception of rap, it predicted just about every major rock musical development in the next twenty years - from reggae to metal to punk to sampling. Secondly, and more importantly, this is *The Beatles*, the biggest pop band in the world, releasing a double - thirty song - LP the majority of which sounded nothing like anything they'd done before, mixing styles and genres, getting miles more experimental than even Revolver and Pepper had been. It IS, indeed, difficult to imagine Adele or Ed Sheeran or One Direction or whoever doing anything even remotely similar in the Twenty First Century, much less including a nine minute sound collage of performance art on their latest CD because they could. The word 'revolution' was much in vogue at the time (by The Beatles and lots of others) but if anyone can point to a record more 'revolutionary' (in all senses) than The White Album in 1968, I'd be fascinated to hear it.

@carolwood53

2 жыл бұрын

number 9 number 9 number 9

@solidsimon3501

2 жыл бұрын

I bet Honey Pie didn't sound like the future in '68.

@rjpg

2 жыл бұрын

agree, especially Helter Skelter...I still think that's the first Heavy Metal song ever.

@garymclean765

2 жыл бұрын

Like a lot of the Beatles music it sounds like then and now. I listen to the Beatles all the time and never get tired of it. And if you listen sometimes you are in the room with them.

@gribwitch

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a "Baby Boomer" ( born in the 1950's ). Given that perspective, who is Adele or Ed Sheeran or One Direction ? And how could and why should they be compared to The Beatles ? There is no comparison. There's the Beatles - a light year gap of distance - and then the rest, struggling to be relevant. I haven't noticed ANY of the artists of the contemporary music era come close to the quality the Beatles had over FIFTY YEARS ago !

Whenever somebody asks me "what album would you want if you were stranded on an island the rest of your life" I always answer the White Album because it has so many genres and layers. I never get tired of listening to it.

@user-sn5cq3ey4q

10 ай бұрын

me neither

@abc456f

4 ай бұрын

Can't argue with that. Such a diversity of songs. Abbey Road still my #1.

@douglasspalding9609

13 күн бұрын

Same here.

As has been mentioned Back in the USSR was more about paying homage to the beach boys more than to Elvis. The Beach Boys were rivals, especially to Paul as they had creative melodies and harmonies that rivaled the Beatles. i.e Back in the USSR - Beatles Well, The Ukraine girls really knock me out (... Wooh, ooh, ooh) They leave the West behind (Da, da, da) And Moscow girls make me sing and shout (... Wooh, ooh, ooh) That Georgia's always on My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind i.e.California Girls - Beach Boys Well, East coast girls are hip I really dig those styles they wear And the Southern girls with the way they talk They knock me out when I'm down there The Midwest farmer's daughters really make you feel alright And the Northern girls with the way they kiss They keep their boyfriends warm at night I wish they all could be California (girls)

@CallMeCaroline

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, the lead vocals sounded Elvis inspired to me but isee what you mean about the arrangement and general 'sound' of the song :)

@scottcullen35

2 жыл бұрын

@@CallMeCaroline oh my, I am thrilled to have your reply as I really think you stand out among many who comment of artists and songs as your ability to offer a professional and personal analysis that is at times disarming i.e. "while my guitar gently weeps" or enchanted i.e. "Blackbird", "ask me why" is so refreshing to watch. Hopefully you'll continue with the program onto other artist with whom you are unfamiliar. Beatles main rivals the Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Dave Clark Five or even Bob Dylan could be interesting - there are others but not with as large a catalog other than the Stones and Dylan. If not familiar with David Bowie or Crosby Still Nash and Young songs that might worth pivoting to. Although not as revolutionary as the Beatles, David Bowie was really the next artist to be as novel and unique as the Beatles. Start with "Hunky Dory" then "Ziggy Stardust". Still hope you you'll give "This Boy" another listen for the vocal complexity - but really everyone has their favorites!

@gabriel38g

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the U..S.S.R. is a take-off of Chuck Berry's song Back in the U.S.A. There's a part of the song where Paul surreptitiously actually stops and sings 'Back in the U.S., Back in the U.S., Back in the U..S.S. R!' The Beach Boys famously 'stole' Surfin' USA from Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen, so there's another U.S.A. connection there. :)

@scottcullen35

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabriel38g absolutely and Paul and John were not shy about acknowledging that they'd "sampling" or "steal" > lots of Everly Brothers as well on other songs - a touch of Elvis in Paul's attitude but obviously all beach boys in chorus > Mike Love was with the Beatles in India while much of the white album was inspired _ Think Paul viewed Brian Wilson as a creative peer due to melodies and harmony arrangements with John a little more looking at Dylan as a force to be reckoned with.

@timfisher5925

2 жыл бұрын

@@CallMeCaroline The Beatles had gone to India and Mike Love of the Beach Boys was there and they talked about a re-write of Back in the USA (chuck berry) and California Girls by the Beach Boys some say its a homage some say its a mickey take (high background vocals etc) either way I love it and it's a great opener to the Album

Just think how far we've come in five years - from Please Please Me to The White Album. Incredible, unmatched growth and development that changed pop music forever!

@analogblues

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for her to say how shocking their growth is over a short period of time. I don't think she appreciates that fact.

@stanbrekston

2 жыл бұрын

it's almost like going from discovering fire to landing on the moon.

@analogblues

2 жыл бұрын

@@stanbrekston Good analogy. I agree!

@GldnrR31t3r

2 жыл бұрын

@@analogblues And when you take a listen to what everyone else was doing at the same time each of these was released. They were really just blowing music wide open in every possible way.

@margaritakmp

2 жыл бұрын

@@analogblues she's still so young and I think that might be one of those things you grow to understand - once you have the perspective to really appreciate just how quickly time passes. it didn't properly sink in for me until i hit 30

"Dear Prudence" was one of the songs John wrote when the Beatles went to India on a meditation retreat; it was written for Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who was going through some dark times. (Incidentally both Farrow sisters were along on that retreat.) John wrote this to try to lift her spirits. "Martha My Dear" is Paul's tribute to his English Sheepdog, Martha, who was probably only a year or two old by this point. The beautiful and haunting "Julia" was John's memorial to his mother, Julia, who he lost to an auto accident when he was a teenager. He also threw in a nod to Yoko with the phrase "Ocean Child", which is the English translation of her name.

@stuartcarden1371

2 жыл бұрын

I was searing for this reply so I didn't repeat anything.

@Zholobov1

2 жыл бұрын

In fact, "Martha My Dear" was not about Paul's dog, but rather about his ex-girlfriend Jane Asher. Look at the lyrics more closely. Paul is hurt by her leaving him and says she will be sorry. But as usual with Paul's lyrics from this point on he uses the double meaning here and there.

@FlamingoKicker

2 жыл бұрын

I just read an interview with Prudence and she denies there was anything wrong with her. She laughed about how everyone (especially John, who probably just had the hots for her and wanted to spend more time with her and less with his wife Cynthia) was freaking out about her spending all her time meditating but her point was they went to India to learn to meditate so she was just using her time to accomplish what she was there to do. Other people would rather go entertain themselves, play guitars, smoke and have a drink.

@esays3249

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Prudence is my fav Beatles song... in fact, its on my top 10 songs of all time!

@rh45sth62

2 жыл бұрын

Donavon taught John how to Travis pick while in India, and from this you get the picking in Dear Prudence and Julia. The other thing that adds to the sound (atmosphere) in Dear Prudence is the drop d tuning. It's the first time I'd heard drop d tuning in a song, and thanks to this song I learnt how to Travis pick and use drop d tuning ! It's a great song lyrically too of course.

'Dear Prudence' is my #1 favorite song of all time. The production is impeccable, the varied instrumentation is never cluttered. The song fades in at the beginning and fades out at the end as if a cloud of music briefly settled to earth and took off again. Ringo had briefly left the band so Paul played that excellent drum break. That tinkling sound at the climax you seemed to think was a flute is a piano, the sound is made by rolling a glass back and forth over the keys. Keith Emerson would do that later on 'Karn Evil 9'. You may have noticed that the bass line is different for each verse. The harmonies as you noted are a beautiful drone. The lyrics are super positive comparing Prudence (Mia Farrow's sister who was in India studying meditation along with them, Donovan, Mike Love, etc.) to a blue sky. John was trying to coax her out of her hut where she meditated day and night. Donovan taught John how to pick strings while they were there, he used it here and on 'Julia'. When the song climaxes that's when the electric guitars, piano, drums and background vocals really kick in before it calms again going into the fade out. Magnificent. Paul may write lovely melodies effortlessly but it's John's song that are the most creative I think, they stick with me.

@mikeames1427

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree...it is a masterpiece of compositon!

@ewest14

4 ай бұрын

Who’s responsible for making John’s songs so creative though. It was more Paul as he experimented a lot on John’s songs and John even said Paul ruined his songs like Strawberry Fields Forever with his experimentation. Paul did the tape loops for Tomorrow Never Knows and helped with the innovative drumming, the mellotron and other arrangement ideas in Strawberry Fields, the organ and vocal ideas for Lucy in the Sky, turned Come Together into a swamp groove from the 50s rock and roll style song John brought in, did many of the experimental things on A Day in the Life, etc.

This album is so representative of what this band truly was, their core essence, it's no wonder they named it "The Beatles".

"This sounds like the future" is a perfect description for the Beatles.

@craigd5519

2 жыл бұрын

Truth

I remember my older brother bringing this album home when it was first released. First off we wondered if the cover was some kind of mistake and we had a special promo or error. Then we sat and listened to it all the way through and the variety of songs completely floored me. I was seven years old and already a huge Beatles fan, but this album almost overwhelmed me. I couldn't imagine that so many different types of songs could be on one release.

@TTM9691

2 жыл бұрын

That is a FANTASTIC remembrance. I got chills reading it.

@lcommander631

2 жыл бұрын

You're 60?

@mst3ktemple421

2 жыл бұрын

@@lcommander631 I am. I turned 60 in March. My brother is 5 years older and sister is 3 years older so they were buying records by the time I turned 5. The first "new" album I remember my brother bringing home was Sgt Pepper and next was the White Album.

@lcommander631

2 жыл бұрын

@@mst3ktemple421 that must have been such an experience.. sgt peppers was super different I unfortunately discovered the Beatles between 2020 and 2021. I always knew about them but never listened them. And then curiosity set in and i was obsessed. I thought they were overrated before, but now i think they are underrated lol

@mst3ktemple421

2 жыл бұрын

@@lcommander631 Its fortunate whenever someone gets to experience the Beatles. At any age in any year. I consider myself extremely fortunate that I got to enjoy them in real time. Having an older brother and sister helped because they were allowed to buy the records and share them with me. The first album I ever bought for myself was Let it Be.

Gently Weeps leading into Warm Gun is a one-two punch that other albums could only dream of having

@user-sn5cq3ey4q

10 ай бұрын

followed by martha my dear, I'm so tired and blackbird the best 5 song segue in their career - IMO

I was really sick all week and then I watched this... I've never felt better!!! She's performing miracles here😀😀😀

@CallMeCaroline

2 жыл бұрын

Oh Cleon I'm so glad the video made you feel better!

If you haven't reviewed them yet, there were two singles from 68, Lady Madonna/The Inner Light from earlier, and then Hey Jude/Revolution from the White Album sessions. The album is amazing and sad at the same time. Because it marked the end of the collaborative nature of their recording. More friction, less group work and more individual work. Paul started experimenting with playing multi instruments, which was possible because of the 8 track recording ability.

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

It did not mark the end of their collaborative work! Watch 'Get back". But it is true that all of them four became more individualistic at this time. That must not have been the end of the Beatles; the main reason for the breakup in 1969/70 was Allan Klein.

@ricardo_miguel13

2 жыл бұрын

She should have reacted to the whole album Yellow Submarine before. They are like outtakes of Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour.

@JStarStar00

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricardo_miguel13 Yellow Submarine album came out after White and before the Get Back sessions.

@bjornerikroth

2 жыл бұрын

@@JStarStar00 Yeah, but all the tracks are recorded in 1966/67/early 68.

@ricardo_miguel13

2 жыл бұрын

@@JStarStar00 I know. But everyone wants to order Let It Be before Abbey Road too. The movie Yellow Submarine was made in between 1967 and 1968, you see it on their psychedelic clothes they were wearing at that time. So was the album. Only A Northern Song, All Together Now and It's All Too Much are from 1967, Hey Bulldog like Lady Madonna, The Inner Light and Across The Universe from early 1968. All recorded before the White Album.

I'm sure this one had you going, "Whaaaaaat?" a few times. This gem is a piece of history. It stands on it's own, it is it's own genre. It's The Beatles. I remember buying this and bringing it home and playing it on my record player, not a stereo, but a small record player with one little speaker in the side. I wore it out. Literally. It came with a big poster with a bunch of snapshots plus 8x10 glossies of each of the Beatles. They hung on my bedroom wall for years. The "White Album" is both fascinating and a bit terrifying at times. Those were magical days, before the internet, when you'd go to the record store and buy albums when they came out and bring them home and be taken away. Magic.

@carolwood53

2 жыл бұрын

Those posters! They moved with me many times.

@darkjanggo

2 жыл бұрын

@@J2HATMgoo Beatlesque is kind of a genre

@bluepeng8895

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert The Beatles and the Rolling Stones sounded kind of the same. They both sang the same songs (I Wanna Be Your Man, Money) and their album covers were very similar (Sgt Pepper, Satanic Majesties), (White Album, Beggar's Banquet), (Rubber Souk, Between the Buttons)

@ChrisMaxfieldActs

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluepeng8895 Not really. The only real comparison is PEPPER and SATANIC MAJESTIES, but the former led directly to the latter, and psychedelic rock was a short phase for popular music, in general.

@ZackfromNoHo

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert Both Badfinger and the Rutles sound like the Beatles. Of course the Rutles were trying to sound like them and Badfinger was on Apple Records and had various Beatles playing on, producing or writing songs on their records.

The Beatles experimented a lot with Time Signatures but not the way most people do. Most like to experiment with recurring time signatures with riffs to evenly fit them. The Beatles moved between time signatures based on the vocals, melody, and lyrics. They'll throw in an almost out-of-place time signature change for one or two measures, but it fits so well with the vocal lines that it doesn't feel out of place at all. It gives character and uniqueness to the rhythm of the song to make it flow.

@d.harrison1570

2 жыл бұрын

You mean like the 5/4 in "Don't Let Me Down"?

@TheBlackQueen

2 жыл бұрын

@@d.harrison1570 That's a good example, though they have plenty of more experimental ones, such as the 11/8+4/4+7/8 or simply 26/8 section in Here Comes The Sun.

@alrivers8458

2 жыл бұрын

You have made an excellent, great point. It is so enjoyable the way they played with time signatures. I believe I read a comment from John Lennon where he said Happiness is a Warm Gun was his most complex song because of the many changes in the time signature. By the way, with that same comment, he recognized and thank Ringo for his job in this song, keeping with all those changes.

@joeygalateo5246

2 жыл бұрын

I think the most notable moment of this for me was in we can work it out, that song really opened my eyes about the beatles

@TheBlackQueen

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeygalateo5246 It does change to 3/4 from 4/4 briefly during the Bridge but that's about it. Not really much of an meter experiment.

I'm sure I'm not the only one looking forward to seeing the reaction to Revolution 9 😂

By doing this Caroline, you're making true one of our beatles fans dream : to live again the discovery of hearing their albums for the first time... I would so much being like you and hear Revolver, Sergent Pepper, MMT, The White album for the first time, and it reminds me how they "hit" me... I see you're listening the stereo version which is nowadays with CD the "classic one", in fact the White Album is the last one to have a proper mono mix... which was like for the other previous albums THE mix in which the Beatles get involved, often the stereo was made after in few hours just by sounds engineers without them... All the Singles until Get Back included were released in mono. I rediscovered the Beatles by listening all the mono mix who are sometimes much differents (like for the White Album, Sergent Pepper, MMT or Revolver) so when you're finished and you want to discover them again, try the original mono mixes... Like Lennon said it : "You haven't heard Sergeant Pepper if you haven't heard it in mono"...

@steveandrews5716

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. In mono, Pepper is other worldly.

@gribwitch

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveandrews5716 Mono ??? Ugh ! How could one audio channel be better or more expansive than stereo ? Technically it can't be. That's why the switch was made.

@Flynn-dy5zv

2 жыл бұрын

​​ @Graham Taylor It depend how you make the mixs... You have to remember that in the 60s, having a stereo music equipment was a kind of luxury, more for audiophiles listening at classical music and ready to speng enough money to have it... But the audience of the Beatles or other pop/rock bands was a huge part popular or young peoples who often didn't even had the money for a lp equipment, they listened music through radios who only played in mono, 45 rpm through juke-boxes or small 45rpm equipment that they could buy but that played only in mono, or the lp equipment of parents or friends who was not always stereo equipment... So even if they had an interest in stereo, the Beatles knew that the most widespread version of their music was the mono version, that's why it was the only mix that really interested them... Singles were only released in mono with stereo created after often for EP or LP compilations. For the LP's and singles, the Beatley participated only in the creation of mono mixes : in the case of Sergent Pepper, the mono mix is days of creation with the Beatles involved, and the stereo mix was just created after in few hours just by sounds engineers and the Beatles didn't quite care about it... They switched to stereo only in 1969 with Abbey Road, when stereo equipment began to be more widely used, but in fact even if the LP and its singles were mixed and released only in stereo, lot of listeners could only listen to the stereo mix in mono through radio or a non stereo equipment...

@Chiroman527

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveandrews5716 Hey Steve, So, you can obtain SP and MMT in Mono? Where can I get those LPs? To affirm, Mono LPs can be played on Stereo equipment and Stereo Speakers or do I need Studio Monitor Speakers? I have a couple of Mono Albums in my Stash (The Kinks Greatest Hits from the 60s as an example [I'm 70 yo}. I do have the Remastered CDs for Abbey Road, The White Album, and now Let It Be - they sound Fantastic !!

@gribwitch

2 жыл бұрын

@@Flynn-dy5zv Thankyou for that detailed explanation Flynn ! Interesting.

"The art of simplicity is not easily done" - well said, Caroline! Glad you're loving this album so much 🤗

"The art of simplicity is not easily done." Beautiful words!

So glad you liked Rocky Raccoon! One of my favorites too, but I know a lot of people who really just despise it and toss it aside. Lovin the reactions, and can’t wait to see what you say about the rest of it 👍🏼

@bespectacledheroine7292

Жыл бұрын

They're tripping 100%. It's a top 5 song of this album. I can see people thinking the beginning is too silly but it melts into the loveliest tune and redemption story. Forget 'em!

@petercouz

Жыл бұрын

Love Rocky!

@vicvega3614

Жыл бұрын

Who the hell doesnt like rocky? Morons

The antithesis of Sgt. Pepper. My fav record of all time. Also the best selling Beatles album. Which is crazy considering that it's a double disc, hence the more expensive one.

@gavinreid2741

2 жыл бұрын

Double albums count in the all time sale chart as two albums , so in reality albums such as the White Album and Pink Floyd's The Wall have only done half as well as they appear to have.

@cae2525

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't their best selling Sgt Pepper's?

@gavinreid2741

2 жыл бұрын

@@cae2525 in the UK their best selling album is Sgt Peppers, in America it is The White Album. In the USA the compilation 1967-70 has also sold more than Sgt Peppers.

@justintroyka8855

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea that the White Album is the anti Sgt. Pepper. While Sgt. Pepper has a unifying concept and hasall the songs fitting together musically, the White Album is one of the most eclectic, varied albums you could imagine. Even the album covers are opposite: Sgt. Pepper has a bright colorful cover packed with people and details, but the White Album's cover is almost completely white. For various reasons, I think of Sgt. Pepper as happy and the White Album as angry (though in both cases there are different songs with different moods).

This is maybe the one I’ve been most excited to see the reaction to. It’s such a layered and eclectic album, with a huge range of different musical styles. Abbey Road may edge it out for my favorite, but this is just such a wild listen that it’s hard to know what to make of it the first time through, interested to hear what you think

@imkluu

2 жыл бұрын

I was first waiting for Rubber Soul, and then Revolver, but I really want to hear her take on Abbey Road.

@peytonwilliams3107

2 жыл бұрын

@@imkluu really all of their masterpiece albums tbh

@bluepeng8895

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what she’ll think of Yellow Submarine

@joecummings9662

2 жыл бұрын

The Beatles white album is my favorite

@phila3884

2 жыл бұрын

Like you, Abbey Road may be my sentimental favorite, but this album is the Beatles at their most creative.

Couple of random odds & ends that I love about what is my "Desert Island" album: 1. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" is followed immediately by "I Will". Same composer. Same vocalist. I don't think any unitiated listener would surmise this! 2. (Related) George Martin's sequencing deserves a lot of credit for the "feel" of this album - and it does indeed have a vibe all its own that none of the Beatles' other albums can compare to. The grouping of the "animal" songs: the way the three lower notes that end "Martha My Dear" immediately reverses into the three single up-notes that begin "I'm So Tired"; the way some songs blend, some songs are separated by just a qiuck break, and some have quite a bit more space in between - - it's not "music" per se, but to me it's always been just as an integral part of the album as the music itself. (SPOILER ALERT: On Side 4, the spooky "Cry Baby Cry" followed by the haunting "Can You Take Me Back" out take, followed by a snippet of barely audible dialogue, followed by "Revolution 9" is the most unsettling stretch of Beatles music you'll hear. And I love it.)

@krautgazer

Жыл бұрын

I particularly like how "Helter Skelter", the noisiest and loudest of all Beatles songs, is immediately followed by "Long, Long, Long", the quietest and most delicate of all Beatles songs in their whole discography. I also like how "Revolution 9", the most experimental of all of their tracks, is followed by "Good Night", which is possibly the most old fashioned and traditional of all of their songs, almost a Disney or a Bing Crosby song.

@scottandrewbrass

Жыл бұрын

George Martin didn't sequence the album. It was John and Paul in one continuous 24 hour session.

Excellent Caroline, you should be bottled and sold to the depressed. You always cheer me up with your endless enthusiasm and it's interesting to hear the Beatles' music afresh through different ears. So much variation on The White Album. I can't listen to Julia without tearing up, it's instantaneous. I can't wait to hear what you think about Revolution No 9...No9...No 9. Thanks for making these films. All the best.

@nellsun2521

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. She has a lot of positive energy! Certainly cheers me up when I watch.

@CallMeCaroline

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad these videos cheer you up! :) Thanks for watching and commenting

The White Album showcases everything that made the Beatles so great. It's their most musically diversed album that truly shows they could play just about anything and make it accessible for the masses. At the same time it shows how they were branching out into different areas, not only musically, but lyric wise as well. This is my favorite album by the Beatles hands down.

This album has everything from Music Hall to Heavy Metal. Really looking forward to Caroline’s reaction ..reminder set!

@gavinreid2741

2 жыл бұрын

Heavy metal..define.

@ishanpareek2188

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinreid2741 IVE GOT BLISTERS ON MA FINGHERS!!!

@markfoster2066

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinreid2741 I would think “Helter Skelter” would fall within the definition

@SM-dt1pr

2 жыл бұрын

Thing is, music hall and heavy metal aren't even the two extremes on this album.

@carolwood53

2 жыл бұрын

@@SM-dt1pr Yes - need to add country and avant-garde as well.

As an older man, I heard all the Beatles songs and albums when they came out the first time. I truly enjoy watching your reactions to them. They are fresh, sometimes funny, insightful musically, and entertaining. You may not catch the "drug" references we understand from our days, but you obviously still enjoy the genius of the music as much as we did/do. "Julia", was written in honor of John Lennon's Mother. Thought you should know that. Beautiful song revealing his softer side and the anguish he still felt within. On "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which George Harrison wrote, Eric Clapton overdubbed the lead guitar part, although he is not formally credited for the contribution. One of the greatest live performances of the song was done in honor of George at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions. It includes Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Harrison's son, Dhani, others, and Prince absolutely shreds it when he finally steps up for his turn. You would do well to react to it. Simply search for it and you will find it. 😀

@Turtledove2009

2 жыл бұрын

Prince's performance was amazing!

paul plays some tasty bass on this album....and yes his melodies are timeless...he is an absolute master of melody. the best in pop history

I hope you found out that "Julia" is John's song to his dear departed mother (that was her name), who was tragically killed in a car accident when he was 17. It changes the character of the song when you know what it's about--suddenly the sweet love song becomes an absolutely haunting, heartbreaking piece. One of his very best compositions, ever.

@michaelselfe5320

2 жыл бұрын

The kanji translation of Yōko (洋子) means "ocean child". - Wiki

@spiritof6663

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelselfe5320 Yes, that is a brief reference to Yoko. I think he was establishing a connection from his natural mother to the new woman in his life (who he actually nicknamed "mother").

@joe6096

2 жыл бұрын

The specifics of how she died are even more horrific. It wasn't just a car accident - she was run over in the street. She was walking across the street from her house and John was home and he heard the screeching tires. Very traumatic for him at such a young age.

@AW-xj3so

2 жыл бұрын

@@joe6096 by a drunk off-duty police officer 😞

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

I live 2 minutes from the bus stop Julia was killed at. Flowers are regularly left in her memory

The Magic of hearing "Dear Prudence", the first time many moons ago, continues to stay with me forming goosebumps no matter the setting or decade that I listen to it!

@jaredbond7908

2 жыл бұрын

cool. yeah, an often overlooked one. :)

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

Souxie and the Banshees did a great cover

I Will is one of my personal favorites by the Beatles. A perfect example of simplicity executed flawlessly. Same with Julia immediately afterwards

@craigsmith8669

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds amazing, didn’t realise the base was vocal for a long time and I must’ve heard it 100s of times before I realised.

@timothyjones3410

Жыл бұрын

Somebody wrote once that I Will is a melodic remake of I'll Follow The Sun.

@SkankyYank

Жыл бұрын

One of the night-night songs that I sang to my daughters at bedtime when they were growing up.

@KurtSauers-mi5ev

11 ай бұрын

I Will has been my wife’s and my song for 35 years. The White Album is my go to album. The Esther tapes are awesome

@KurtSauers-mi5ev

11 ай бұрын

Esher Tapes. Damn autocorrect

0:00 Introduction ----- Side 1 ----- 0:44 Back In the U.S.S.R. 2:51 Dear Prudence 6:05 Glass Onion 7:45 Ob-la-Di, Ob-la-Da 10:26 Wild Honey Pie 11:08 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 13:07 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 16:34 Happiness Is a Warm Gun ----- Side 2 ----- 18:40 Martha My Dear 20:45 I'm So Tired 22:14 Blackbird 23:24 Piggies 24:44 Rocky Raccoon 27:27 Don't Pass Me By 29:21 Why Don't We Do It In the Road? 30:29 I Will 31:42 Julia

@zdvxr

Жыл бұрын

That’s crazy how many songs are in this double album and this isn’t even all of them.

@erickreategui397

8 күн бұрын

.

Another great review! IMPORTANT INFO!: When you listen to Abbey Road, it’s essential to not stop or have ads between Because and The End. Trust me! I’ve seen a lot of reviewers make this mistake and it takes them out of the album

Finally another Rocky Raccoon lover!!! That song was my most listened to song of 2021 on spotify.

@thesilvershining

Жыл бұрын

It’s such an awesome song!!!

Only the old-timers understand the first line of the album: "Flew in from Miami Beach, B. O. A. C. ..." BOAC was the now-defunct British Overseas Airways Corporation. I flew BOAC from London to Luxembourg in 1983. It was a 1-hour flight, more or less, but they served full supper, including (coach class, mind you): An aperitif; a glass of wine; and a liqueur or port or something for afters. I was buzzed by the time I got through Lux customs.

@allenswanson2423

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I note that Caroline didn't find a box of scrunchies in her stocking.

@JStarStar00

2 жыл бұрын

BOAC is now British Airways.

Right around now, Paul was becoming one of the all-time great rock bassists.

@Okaolaaj

4 ай бұрын

I have the feeling that Paul felt the urgence for standing out on John's and George's songs (suddenly George had become the third genius in the band), giving place to those iconic bass lines.

i've never set a "reminder" in my life. so caroline, you lucky lady you, you're the first. i've seen all your beatle reviews and look forward to watching this one. the WHITE ALBUM is the best r&r album ever produced. its a vertiable history of 20th century music with many unique and innovative beatle touches thrown in the mix. its a musical ride like no other!

"Wild Honey Pie" and "Why don't we do it in the road" are basically just them F'n around. You see a lot of it on the "Get Back" series. Playing with the sound of the songs and playing with their vocals. I'm happy that they showed me a bit of how serious songs can develop from play. This is my opinion only, you don't have to agree with it. 😉 ✌

@alanbeaumont4848

2 жыл бұрын

Or put another way, if they weren't by John Lennon on a Beatles album they would never have been pressed. He was mostly phoning it in at this point, with the added drag factor of Ono feeding his ego rather than giving constructive criticism as the other Beatles did.

@peterblood50

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanbeaumont4848 She was so irritating in the Get Back series. She was in every working session and was just a parasite on the set. Didn't she have some shopping or screaming to do somewhere else?

@thesilvershining

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterblood50 I can’t really put all the blame on her. John enabled her by letting her be there. He didn’t seem to give a damn about anything at that point, the world revolved around him and Yoko.

@peterblood50

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesilvershining I agree with your assessment. It's kind of sad to see those two connected at the wrist and ankles like a couple of teenagers.

FYI, Martha was Paul’s English Sheep Dog. Knowing this gives one a deeper understanding and appreciation of the track.

One of the most exciting things about "the white album" was the inserts; the poster and the 4 pictures of "the lads" who we hadn't seen for a some time looking much different than they had. Also it was one of the first double albums which were unusual for the time but starting to become more popular, in part because of the advent of FM radio and the long form show formats that FM became known for. One last thing many of the songs were written variously while they were on their retreat in India with the maharishi ("sexy sadie" when you get to it). Love that you love it. P.S. "Martha" was Paul's dog

George Martin had a major roll in the sound of the Beatles, he was one of the greatest producers to have ever lived. RIP George Martin

This album is like a candy store for me. A little of everything. The first beatles album i ever got. My favourite is still revolver tied with abbey road but this will always hold a special place in my heart.

Tears streaming down my face as I watch Caroline get the vibes of "White My Guitar Gently Weeps." The Beatles were not taking George's song seriously and so he called his pal Eric Clapton (then known as "God" of guitar)to intertwine those haunting riffs and then take that heartbreakingly aching solo. Then the Beatles took it seriously and Paul and John turned in some staggering harmonies...But this song is epic. Caroline's face just reflects the whole thing. (( unrelated: Growing up, all the older sisters and neighbor girls who made me swoon and had no use for me at all... preferred George.. and so that made me look at George as ... maybe the coolest one))

@thomaspappalardo7589

9 ай бұрын

John contributed no harmonies, it’s just George and Paul. John only contributed organ, and maybe an electric 12-string that doubles the bass part during the bridges.

@Stinger2222

9 ай бұрын

Eric didn't want to do it, another guitar player on a Beatles song BLASPHOMY, but George talked him into it. He said he tried to make it sound like a Beatles guitar solo. I was into him at the time from his Mayhall days and into Cream and his solo stuff and picked him out on first listen.

Re Piggies, part of their brilliance is they wrote songs for every age group. Yellow Submarine, Octopus' Garden, O-Bla-Di O-Bla-Da were performed by the same group that performed Helter Skelter, Revolution, Get Back and Come Together.

I would like that after reviewing all the Beatles' records you could give us your "first reaction" to their solo records; of course not all of them because it is humanly impossible, I am referring to "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band", "McCartney" and "All Things Must Pass". It would be interesting to get your perspective on how the fab four started their solo careers and what melodic and harmonic differences you notice from the Beatles days :)

@tatjbere

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Ringo's first solo album Sentimental Journey, so jazzy

@sportshighlightsproduction900

2 жыл бұрын

We need this

@cjmacq-vg8um

2 жыл бұрын

... i always liked "ram" better than "mccartney." and i like "imagine" better than "plastic ono band." "julia" and "oh my love," i believe, are two of the best ballads ever written. to my ear they're very similar.

@cjmacq-vg8um

2 жыл бұрын

oh, and i always liked "apple jam." the "free" third album from "all things must pass." after all - its johnny's birthday!

@nicolopassaro4987

2 жыл бұрын

@@cjmacq-vg8um I was referring to their very first solo albums cause at that time they were a great success among critics, audience and music papers, with positive feedback for all of them. The other album ones, mmm, more difficult to say the same, sometimes there was a good audience response only or a good critics response only and in other cases so and so. With their very first solo albums I was quite sure to go for a safe road in listening to them.

Of all the Beatles albums The Beatles aka The White Album was the first of its kind. This album has everything is all music genres. This is the album that said even though we’re the Beatles, this is basically each of them being solo artist. Ringo wrote his first song on this album. Paul was doing more of his own. George said I’m a great song writer, and John was going his own way. Not to give away too much about the get back documentary, about someone leaving. It was during this album Ringo wanted to quit. He actually left For a couple weeks. The first ever double album. First album with no art on the cover, no photos. Pepper is the great album ever made, the white album Is the Beatles greatest album they made.

@imkluu

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't the first double pop album. Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde was released in 1966, and a week later the Mothers of Invention's album Freak Out! was released. There were a couple of double Jazz albums released before this in the late 40's and in the 50's.

@stevea6307

2 жыл бұрын

@@imkluu True. Even in 1968, Cream's Wheels Of Fire and Hendrix's Electric Ladyland preceeded The White Album. All three double albums went to #1 on the charts, I believe.

@B.R.0101

2 жыл бұрын

Probably this is 'the' album to listen to till its end without a break.

@a.m.son222

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard The White Album described as the first post-modern album of the rock era.

@Zholobov1

2 жыл бұрын

@@imkluu and there was a Brezhnev's party speech double album as well

Re: "Julia": One of the most interesting parts of Sean Lennon's interview with Paul McCartney in 2020 for John's 80th birthday, Sean asked for some stories of what Julia was like. Sean was too young to have talked much to John about her, and Julian had never met her. So Sean would have had little chance to talk to anyone who had really known his grandmother.

@Turtledove2009

2 жыл бұрын

I found that question to be particularly poignant. As well, when Sean interviewed Julian, they were piecing their remembrances together to try to understand a father they barely knew.

@JStarStar00

2 жыл бұрын

@@Turtledove2009 It was also interesting to hear Julian discuss in quite a bit of detail John's solo albums, particularly "Plastic Ono Band," which came out immediately after the divorce from Cynthia and marriage to Yoko. You might expect Julian not to have fond memories of that period, but he speaks of John's writing quite positively.

Martha was Paul’s dog…which makes the song infinitely sweeter to me. He wrote a song to his dog. Julia was John’s mother, whom he loved dearly, but never really received love from. He always strived for her affection, but never really got it from her. He named his son Julian after her. Julian was called Jules, and Paul wrote “Hey Jude” (originally called Hey Jules) for him, as a kind of “I’m sorry your father was never there for you” ballad…because John was basically as absent of a parent as his mother was to him.

I remember when I bought this album. I couldn't stop listening to it. So many new songs to listen to. Some beautiful touching songs, and some really hard rockers. There is something in this album for everyone. Can't wait to watch your reaction.

@DaveMcIroy

2 жыл бұрын

Should have kept the vinyl sealed. ^^

Happiness is a warm gun is so good. The more you listen the better it gets. Them backvocals are heavenly

Just me thinks Back in the USSR is one of their greatest songs. So cheeky, fun, musical, happy. Always makes you wanna get up and dance!!

The Piggies song lost its innocence when the Manson family scrawled that in the victims blood on the walls of the house they invaded in 1969. Charles Manson thought that the Beatles were communicating to him through the White Album. BTW, Martha is Paul's sheepdog.

@hadinasrallah8928

2 жыл бұрын

He what?….

The thing about the White Album for me is that the first time I heard it I kinda didn't know what to make of it, other than those instant classics like Guitar Gently Weeps and USSR..... then as I listened to this album more and more, I became completely infatuated to the point I now considered their greatest achievement. Greater than Sgt. Peppers. The variance in the musical journey of this album is beyond anything anyone else has ever done. So varied, so random, so many different musical genres explored. It's a magnificent piece of work.

@kend1964

2 жыл бұрын

I head into a sonic dream when I listen to this album. My favourite Beatles album….

@thatsmrfuckwit

2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. But, IMO, you still need to take out Rev. #9, Wild Honey Pie and Don't Pass Me By. There's 13 minutes right there, roughly a single side. And you could prob. throw in Ob La Di etc., which would def. mean you're down to 3 sides only. So what to do? Look for more contenders to cut in order to make a long but fantastic single LP, or reinstate all the above to make it what is was, a great but deeply flawed album??? Just saying.....

@docmoondog

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatsmrfuckwit The Beatles' (and G. Martin's) sequencing was impeccable from Sgt. Pepper right through to Abbey Road. I see the white album as the pinnacle of all that. It diminishes the experience to take individual tracks out of context Moreso here than any of the other albums, really. Sides 2+4 tend to come off as B-side material by design.

McCartney's bass playing on the White Album is worth it's own video.

@thesilvershining

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Rocky Raccoon: "Her name was Magill and she called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy". McCartney playing around with some US people.

Loads of great songs on this album, but my fav has to be While My Guitar Gently Weeps! It’s a great song by George that is definitely in my personal top ten Beatles songs.

@imkluu

2 жыл бұрын

This is also considered to be one of the top ten best Beatles songs by most critics.

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

It is so difficult to vote one song of this album at the best one. I like so many of them.

@michaelbailey6980

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBuwen My two favorites are Rocky Racoon and Long, Long, Long. But every song on this double album is good, except for Revolution #9.

@jjmoto6078

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbailey6980 Yeah, I would say that it could do without Rev 9 as well as Honey Pie.

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbailey6980 if you would legally oblige me today to call one song the best on this album I would name 'Blackbird'. But I can't guarantee that I name a different song tomorrow.

I remember as a child my Aunt's playing "Love Me Do" 45 record over and over but, when I was 14 is when my Dad handed me a cassette of the "White Album" and I became a big fan.

That confidence you're talking about is something built on knowing you have no rival and no equal. You don't think you're the best, you know you're the best.

I was 14 when this was released. I was an avid fan of The Beatles. This album stunned me in all the best ways. Creativity personified and unleashed upon an unsuspecting planet. They were in their mid-twenties creating art that seemed instantly timeless. History has validated that truth.

"Don't Pass Me By" was Ringo's first fully written song. He'd been working on it since 1965.

@JStarStar00

2 жыл бұрын

In fact there was an interview with John & Paul in early 65 and they comment on the fact George is starting to write songs. The interviewer Asks off hand if they think Ringo will write any songs. They jokingly say, "oh yeah, he's been working on one for years." "Isn't that right, Richie?" they yell across the room to Ringo who apparently wasn't paying attention. "Oh yeah," Ringo says. "Don't pass me by, don't make me cry," and they all laugh and say, "it needs more work."

@spiritof6663

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it went back even further than that!! Starr mentions it in a 1964 interview (when asked if he'd written any songs) and biographer Mark Lewisohn says that Ringo first premiered it for the group right after he joined them, in August 1962!

@petterv6604

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine working on a song that mid for 3 years

@gpwnedable

2 жыл бұрын

@@petterv6604 Yeah! Lol

@AW-xj3so

2 жыл бұрын

And as Family Guy put it ' That's very nice Ringo. We'll put it up here on the fridge where everyone can see it'

I've always loved how it moves from the crude, raucous sexuality of "do it in the road," to the tenderness of "I Will". Just showing tons of range and confidence by McCartney!

Im glad you picked up on Harrison's innovative development evident in this album. He started writing late and was there with the Lennon-McCartney machine for comparison. In post - Beatles years his creativity exploded, peaking in my opinion with the Travelling Wilburys. He was not the quiet Beatle, he was the cool funny Beatle. He saved Monty Python's movie "Life of Brian", by mortgaging his house to fund Handmade Films. About being a Beatle, he later said "You can find someone else to be your performing monkey". Rest In Peace George Parasol.

I've been listening to this album for about 35 years now, and it's very easy to take how amazing some of these songs are for granted. Listening to the first half of the White Album is just an amazing experience. When George Martin first heard the demos that the Beatles had created in May 1968 after their trip to India but before they went into the studio, he remarked that it was both an overwhelming experience at the number of songs they had ready to record but also an underwhelming experience in light of their "quality." He just didn't hear him right, I think. Or didn't know what he had in store. He also thought it would make a much better single album. Imagine what we WOULDN'T have had all those years if this were only a single album.

@HaleksMTL

2 жыл бұрын

Martin still said that in his later years, I think to his death he thought "We could've made a VERY GOOD single album, rather than a double one..."

Great work. Julia still chokes me up too. I'm sure someone by now has explained it's John singing to his deceased Mom Julia. And Pauls' Martha is his sheepdog, btw.

If she was disturbed by A Day in the Life, I can only imagine how freaked out she must have been listening to Revolution 9.😅

@imkluu

2 жыл бұрын

It is too bad Paul has yet to release the experimental, avant-garde "Carnival of Light" that he made with them about a year before the White Album sessions. It was near 14 minutes long, and supposedly pretty crazy. It isn't found on bootlegs, and Paul tried to get it on the Anthology 2 album, but the other Beatles outvoted him, and so it has never been released. As of at least 2008, Paul has said he owned a tape of it, and has considering releasing it. He is proud of it because it shows his interest in the avant-garde before John's getting into it.

@bluepeng8895

2 жыл бұрын

Or Wild Honey Pie

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

Don't laugh! I like Revolution 9 today after having overlooked it for years. On anthology 3 you can see why it is called 'Revolution' like the other track. It was iriginally the ending of the song.

@BladderProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Revolution #9 is the greatest dance song in my lifetime! Wild Honey Pie is the greatest love song ballad in my lifetime. Also, can I interest you in some swamp land I have for sale? Great price!

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

@@BladderProductions Depends on the price

As a matter of trivia, Paul played drums on the first 2 songs, "Back in the USSR" and "Dear Prudence", although Ringo later added an overdub of his own at the end of "Dear Prudence". Ringo got fed up with the lot of them and went on holiday during the recording session and Paul filled in playing the drums.

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

Was it true that when Paul was asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world he replied, he's not even the best drummer in The Beatles?

@GusGoosegrease

2 жыл бұрын

@@amr180671 Not true. Neither Paul nor John said this. This was said a couple of decades later by a comedian.

@stillgoodneuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@GusGoosegrease It is true Ringo said he was blessed to be in a band with 3 other frustrated drummers.....

The concept of the"White Album" was the writer of the song had control of the production and the others acted as studio musicians. On Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Paul wanted to do another take because he stuffed the last verse by singing "Desmond does his pretty face..." John convinced Paul to leave it as is because it would give the listener something to think about. On this album Paul mostly plays the Fender Jazz Bass instead of the Hofner Violin Bass.

Piggies is a metaphor for class. The "bigger piggies" are the first class people who always have "starched white shirts." The last line of the song, "Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon" is obviously a dog eat dog metaphor.

@danwall6662

2 жыл бұрын

Piggies are The Pigs, ie: Cops

@TAJMofficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@danwall6662 that wouldn't make any sense. Pigs represent people with the "bigger piggies" being first class and the "little biggies" being lower/working class. Cops have nothing to do with it

@michaelselfe5320

2 жыл бұрын

@@danwall6662 Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts? You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt, I agree with you

@danwall6662

2 жыл бұрын

@@TAJMofficial yes there is the Orwellian pigs who became the new overlords, replacing humans ( after the revolution in Orwells Animal Farm). Also, remember the Beatles were having awful trouble with a particular corrupt pig/police officer Sgt Pilcher, who was planting drugs on George, John and Yoko , Mick Jagger Brian Jones etc etc. That piggy Pilcher ended up in jail.

I think that the Beatles were the last music hall artists. As teenagers in Germany they had to play not only rock&roll but folk songs, German waltzes, drinking songs etc. and this eclectic mix is reflected in the white album. There is a grain of truth in the accusation that they were not a rock band at all.

@richarddefortuna2252

2 жыл бұрын

You're forgetting The Kinks, who carried a much deeper and stronger English Music Hall tradition well into the '80s.

@DKassel

2 жыл бұрын

Paul's father played trumpet, cornet, and piano. He was also the leader of a swing band, so Paul was also exposed to a large library of standards and show tunes growing up.

@brianparker663

2 жыл бұрын

There's a lovely little comic aside about their eclecticism in the Howard Goodall documentary. Talking about Eleanor Rigby he says "this type of cadence is very common...in the 14th century!" (or words to that effect).

@patrickm1268

2 жыл бұрын

@@brianparker663 All I can say is "Amen" to that.

@jacksonmorganfroghin4815

2 жыл бұрын

More than rock they be promoted love. Sounds cheesy but who doesn't love cheese? Love isn't silly, love isn't silly at all. Happy New Year people. I love all of you right now. Tomorrow? Who knows?

As usual, loved watching your reactions. BTW if you didn't already know the ballad-like song "Martha My Dear" is about Paul's sheepdog named ... wait for it... Martha!

This is my favourite album of all time. Side 2 is my favourite side from any album. Watching this made me cry in delight. I love your reactions and insights. You are doing good things here! Thank you!

When you've been listening to these songs for many, many years (as I have), it's sheer magic to see the expressions on the face of a first-time listener. It's also educative, in that it reminds me of what first struck me about the tracks when I first heard them. Great video! (PS - the superb guitar solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is Eric Clapton - "God", as he was known in the 1960s. Now you know why!)

I can't wait to see Caroline's take on The White Album and Abbey Road....this is going to be great!

@harrylazard805

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing because she likes the orchestration she won't like the White Album as well as the last two. It will be interesting to see what she thinks of Phil Spector's treatment of Let it Be and if she compares it to the Stripped Down remake....

@bluepeng8895

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what she'll think of Yellow Submarine

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

Looking at their abilities the Beatles became better and better with every album. 'Abbey Road', their last, was technically their best. The rest depends only on the personal taste of the public listeners. I wonder where they would have gone if they have not broken up. What for example would have the Beatles put aside 'The dark side of the moon'. I mean their voyage would have gone further.

@DaveMcIroy

2 жыл бұрын

That here is literally her "take on The White Album".

@aquamarine99911

2 жыл бұрын

@@harrylazard805 Listening to this reminds me that there was still a lot of orchestration on the White Album. But that's not what Caroline is reacting to. At the end of this vid she seems clearly overcome at the sheer quantity of quality music. White Album really was their best.

On While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Harrison was having trouble getting John and Paul to help him with the song. He went and got Eric Clapton and when John and Paul saw him in the studio, they perked up. Paul wrote the now iconic piano intro and played bass. John and Paul helped with the words and guitars. Ringo, as usual, came up with great percussion. Clapton played lead guitar. It's the same guitar that falls over in the Get Back documentary. Julia was John's mother, who passed away in 1958 at the age of 44.

I think that Caroline passed too quick through Happiness is a Warm Gun. For me is technically the first progressive rock song of history. Even though is not a 15-minutes song (like Pink Floyd and then Rush did a few years later), the song never comes back (only “progresses”). Putting that personal comment aside, Mojo ranked it N° 8 among all Beatles songs. And Tori Amos said about this song something like that: “The Beatles had the ability to make you think about the world, not just your own little world. They could put the microcosm and macrocosm in the same song. In this track they sang of drugs, sex, guns and religion without telling me what to feel about it (without preaching). That's genius."

@yes_head

2 жыл бұрын

There were long, multi-part songs before "Happiness". The Who's "A Quick One While He's Away" (1966), for example. By 1968 it was an idea that was being experimented with a lot of musicians.

@juanpablonavarrete8977

2 жыл бұрын

@@yes_head Hi. I insist that the length is not the key issue here. Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands of 1966 is a 12-minutes song and is not progressive rock at all. Neither that the song has multiple parts if within the parts the song comes back (otherwise it could resemble with a medley). Of course, the fact the song only progresses (which is the case of Happiness) is not the single factor in progressive rock. Probably the other ones can be found in another Lennon’s song in the following year (1969): I Want You (She's So Heavy). Of course, this song and Happiness are not progressive rock themselves but are unique as predecessor and ahead of time. As when Josh Hart said that I Want You (She's So Heavy) might also have “inadvertently” started the doom metal.

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is where George begins to almost outclass his mates. It should’ve been a single. I love almost everything on the White Album, but this song far outshines. And Clapton’s not too shabby either.

@davidrauh8118

2 жыл бұрын

While My Guitar Gently Weeps was the B-side to Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da in many parts of the world. But not England or the U.S.

@brianjeffries1961

2 жыл бұрын

Harrison had a hard time convincing the others to not only record his song, but to take it seriously. It took him bringing in Clapton for the guitar solos for them to really invest energy into the song, making it the timeless classic it is... The "demo" version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is also stunning. Just George on acoustic guitar, vocals, and minimal organ, plus an extra set of lyrics not found on the album release.

@reinpost

2 жыл бұрын

To me, it's the bassline that makes the song. All the other parts are great, too.

@kurniadi9829

2 жыл бұрын

@@reinpost not to forget Paul's piano. Paul was always great in piano like he did in I Want To Tell You and Sexy Sadie (and also his mellotrone in Strawberry Fields Forever and lowrey organ in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)

@thesilvershining

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurniadi9829 You’re right, I can’t imagine any of those songs without the pianos/organ.

As a reminder, the solo guitar in "While my guitar gently weeps" was played by Eric Clapton. George Harrison invited him to play the song in order to simmer down the tension among the other members of the band.

Julia was written to his mother who died suddenly whe leaving the house in which John lived with his aunt, as she was hit by a car on the street there. She was never really capable of raising him, so John lived there. The song is so full of pain and a feeling of lost love that it sometimes brings tears to my eyes. This was one of those times.

The White Album is far and away my favorite album of all time by any artist. If it’s the only album I could ever listen to again I think I’d be ok with that.

@MrOasis316

2 жыл бұрын

I wish they would have shortened it there is a lot of stuff on it didn’t like . If they made it twelve songs It would have been their best album. Side 2 is average

@kgeo753

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrOasis316 12 songs?!? 12 SONGS?!? No.

@MrOasis316

2 жыл бұрын

@@kgeo753 just my opinion I didn’t like a bunch of songs on it so it’s not my favourite by them but the songs I do like from this album I absolutely love.

@vicvega3614

Жыл бұрын

@@MrOasis316 no wayyyyy!!!!! The white album is definitely when the Beatles were on fire and experimental genius, if anything they couldve put more obscure recordings and added them. So hard to pick a favorite album but the white album has become mine, i think about 8t as if i could only take 1 and never listen to any of the others again, i couldn't live without the White album

@vicvega3614

Жыл бұрын

@@MrOasis316 oh and i named my daughter whos 21 now Abbey Rhode just spelled road different

Though I loved the Beatles from the very beginning, this is by far my favorite. Have been waiting to see your reaction, and from what I've heard from you, I'm pretty sure you will be as blown away as we were back in the day. Dave

@PeterBuwen

2 жыл бұрын

'This is the bloody white album of the Beatles' as Paul McCartney once said.

Connecting "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to early Prog Rock influencers is a brilliant leap, Caroline. I concur directly. The little set piece stories of "Bungalow Bill" and "Rocky Racoon" would evolve into the cinematic world of bands like Genesis

@KebabMusicLtd

Жыл бұрын

She didn't compare it to Prog Rock influencers, she compared it to the music of the 80s.

Ringo quit in the middle of the White Album sessions so Paul is the one drumming on "Back in the USSR" and "Dear Prudence". The others talked Ringo into coming back a few weeks later.

In Dear Prudence, that high "drone" vocal sound going on for like a minute is actually sung all on one breath!

@geoffholmes8173

2 жыл бұрын

McCartney discusses that on McCartney 3 2 1 as being like a competition between them, egging each other on to hold it for even longer.

Caroline, here's an idea. When it comes time to listen to the Revolution/Hey Jude single (which was contemporary with 'The Beatles') you could view the live performance videos that are on KZread, which, presumably, will allow you to post, and react to, the entire songs.

@carolwood53

2 жыл бұрын

Agree - I really want her to incorporate the visuals - think she's a Paul girl now? Just wait. :) Signed, one who is still in love with him 100%

@Vince_Steele

2 жыл бұрын

The filmed music clip of Revolution that was officially released by the Beatles is a unique hybrid of the slower album version and the faster single release, as it incorporates the faster speed and heavy metal flavour of the single, but also keeps the shooby-doo-whops from the album. I'd recommend the film clip more as an afterthought after listening to the official tracks.

@ringmike

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vince_Steele imho that is what makes it the BEST version of the song

@davidjordan2336

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vince_Steele The Revolution clip isn't really a mashup of the two versions of the song. It's an actual live performance, although they use some pre-recorded backing tracks, kind of like they did with All You Need Is Love. Likewise with the Hey Jude clip. They enjoyed this semi-return to live performance, which planted the seed for the rooftop concert.

@Turtledove2009

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vince_Steele I actually really like the White Album version of Revolution. I seem to be in the minority.

Thank you Caroline for bringing me ‘back’ to the Beatles. I’ve been a fan since I heard the newly released ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ (the US UA Soundtrack) as a child. But over the years, familiarity didn’t breed contempt but a sort of malaise in listening to their music. Despite a Beatles song always being in my playlists, I stopped really listening. Your journey of discovery has helped reawaken the joy of their catalog for me. It’s great to be back! I hope you enjoy(ed) the wild ride that is “The Beatles”!

I was 14 when it came out. We went to my cousins the day after Christmas and one of them got what was then just a stunning clock radio, a Panasonic, if I remember right. I went into the cousin's bedroom to check it out. I turned it on and it sounded amazing, since all I'd owned prior to that was a mono record player. An intriguing song spilled out. I recognized it was The Beatles but didn't know the song. I laid down on his bed with the radio at my head and stayed there completely enthralled in the semi-dark room, as the radio station, Santa Ana's KYMS, played the entire thing, mixing up the song order. I'd never heard anything like it before, and it literally took me places I'd never been. It definitely made an impression! Edit: Visited your Soundcloud page. Nice tunes! Very nice voice. Excellent control and resonance. Nice range, too.

The White Album is the summit of human artistic achievement. Everything else lives somewhere further down the hill.

@kijekuyo9494

2 жыл бұрын

Well, then there's "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock, but point well taken.

@phillipanderson7398

Жыл бұрын

About half of it is

@finlybenyunes8385

Жыл бұрын

Great though it is, that's a very overblown compliment, which indicates to me that you've not listened to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Chopin, Ravel? The greatest compliment paid to the Beatles (by a British musicologist) claimed that they were the greatest songwriters since Schubert!)

@nickaustin8334

11 ай бұрын

Overblown? This is the internet, pal. You’re lucky it even scans.

This is the one I take if I'm stranded on a desert Island.