For me these vocal harmonies and chord progressions made that tune one of their greatest masterpieces...

Nothing underrated about this song - - IMO it's one of their absolute best!👌🏻

@tubergetrude333

Ай бұрын

totally agree. An early Lenon masterpiece.

@TonyLovell

11 күн бұрын

I have to semi-disagree. Although this song is not disregarded, the level of reverence it receives is still shy of what it deserves. This, and "This Boy" fall into this category.

@tedtimothy9074

10 күн бұрын

A tune can be a great song and it can also be underrated

@Kermit_T_Frog

9 күн бұрын

Along with "I Want to Hold Your" hand, the best early Beatles song. More heartfelt than "Yesterday." Almost nobody would say that.

Its considered one of their best love songs by every fan

@markrae1317

8 күн бұрын

Correct, hence not underrated in the slightest.

This was Lennon at his peak during the peak of Beatlemania, one of my all time personal favorites as well!!! I'll Be Back is another little masterpiece of songwriting from Lennon that never became a big favorite, but is still great, It's Only Love as well from around that era.

John's chord use has always been intriguing to me.

@willpowell5332

15 күн бұрын

Me too :)

Not just one of Lennon's best, but one of THE best ballads ever from anyone.

It's always been one of my favorites. I liked it far more than Yesterday.

Been one of my favorites since hard days nite. Im 71 now. Still sing along. Loud. All rock and roll begins w the beatles .

I’m 73 and have always loved “If I Fell” and so did everyone.

@markrae1317

8 күн бұрын

Exactly. Not underrated in the slightest.

The Beatles' only-7-years output will provide food for thought, research and pleasure for centuries.

@classicalethics2053

Ай бұрын

6 years of output really. "Let It Be" was released in 1970, yes, but it was actually recorded in February of 1969 and sat on the shelf for a year. So their titanic output took place within 6 years, from 1963 - 1969. "Abbey Road," their last-recorded album was released in August 1969.

@wonder6789

Ай бұрын

@@classicalethics2053 Their first recording "Love Me Do" was recorded in September 1962 and Abbey Road was released in September 1969: that's exactly 7 years. (If one doesn't count "I Me Mine", recorded in January 1970, which makes it 7 and 1/3 years.)

@classicalethics2053

Ай бұрын

@@wonder6789 I was going by albums. Their first album was 1963. Their last two albums were both from 1969. But you're right: "Love me Do," as a one-off single was released in October of 1962. Their first album wouldn't be released until 5 months later in March of 1963.

I have always thought that this song is a forgotten masterpiece. It's always been one of my favorites of their early period.

@willpowell5332

15 күн бұрын

Thanks for the comment :)

@richardmindemann6935

5 күн бұрын

This song is not under rated or forgotten by those of us who were paying attention back in the day. Also, a pet peeve of mine is the whole John versus Paul thing. They're both great, and by the time of Abbey Road, George showed that he was a worthy peer of both of them. What a band.

The song I like is "In My Life". That is a beautiful love song. I could see a man singing it to his wife on their 50th Anniversary.

I’ve always thought No Reply is an underrated Lennon early song.

@willpowellmusic

15 күн бұрын

@@jwt208 I agree actually.. I’ll make a video on that one soon :) check me or it on Spotify if you’re interested :) will Powell

@strathman7501

13 күн бұрын

Yes, 'No Reply' is a stunning track.

Unforgettable, timeless, never get tired of hearing it!!

And the beautiful harmony xxxxxx

Now you've done it! After stumbling across this video I've watched a good half dozen others about the same subject, watched 3 different Beatles performances of it, and downloaded the sheet music for piano!

There's A Place. An early Beatles song you dont hear so much about but is also a strong effort from John.

@willpowellmusic

14 күн бұрын

@@AllThePiecesMatter_ yeah I love that one, there’s a place Was very melancholy for that early period, thanks for the comment .. follow me on Spotify for more content :) cheers

@freeguy77

13 күн бұрын

The "B" side to "Twist and Shout." Recorded in Feb 1963, Released in Mar. 1963 on their immortal "Please Please Me" first album!

Paul actually said at the time it was one of his favourite songs knowing full well it was written by John. Couldn't have a better commendation. It's a classic.

I like how you detected the song's jazz possibilities - I never noticed that before (well, I've only been listening to it for 60 years....)

Timeless beauty in their songs. Cheers Will !!

I've always loved this song and it nearly always makes me cry as does In My Life. It's probably one of the most complex Beatles' songs too. So much variation in one song. I know The Beatles did a lot covers early on in their career like Please Mr Postman but I love those too. Yes I agree that the Beatles wrote lots of great songs before Rubber Soul came along. Another Lennon classic is Ask Me Why which is way back in 1962 I think but such a great song. All the songs on Hard Day's Night and Help, are fantastic and these both preceded Rubber Soul.

A Hard Days Night is just an incredible album and I would put it in my top three Beatles albums. Also ‘This Boy’ was left off the album, only the Beatles could do that.

@andrewhudson8966

14 күн бұрын

Wasn’t This Boy part of the With The Beatles sessions?

It's as beautiful a song as any I've ever heard.

I love how people who understand music reveal the beauty and intelligence behind so many of the Beatles songs. For many years I thought I was one of just a few who who appreciate them this way.

Agreed! Now I am reminded of the time I was at a late seventies (maybe early 80s) Beatlefest and the late great Buzzy Linhart performed a slooooow bluesy version of 'If I Fell,' that just blew me away and it was probably then that I learned that The Beatles music was so universal and flexible! Cheers!

I always LOVED this song! Stunning key changes.

This is one of the best of the Beatles’ songs

Little-noticed fact: the entire lyrics are just three sentences. After verse 1, it's grammatically all one sentence.

The early Beatles could write the Book on Love. If you analyze “If I Fall” you will see how insightful the lyrics are on Love and the psychological twists and turns of the mind trying to protect itself. John had a great depth of observation on love when it came to rejection, acceptance, pain, and revenge. He points to his own song “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to say love is not that simple. “I'm a Loser” is also another great song from John that touches on the complexity of love and psychology that can play itself out. Great insights from a young man.

"If I fell" might not be my absolute favorite Beatles song, but whenever I sit down for a session on my acoustic, this song will eventually come out. Beautiful chord structure and melody, with lyrics that show a heart wanting to move on but fearing just more heartbreak. I think of this one as a beautifully devastating song and I felt that first at the age of seven.

Songwriting and singing genius.

It is underrated . . . never mentioned among the greatest Beatles songs . . . and it should be.

@secondcomingofbast9908

20 күн бұрын

Yes it does tend to get lost in the shuffle. Great song regardless.

@markrae1317

8 күн бұрын

That's not what 'underrated' means!

Very nice, and a top-drawer Lennon-McCartney classic indeed. I hoped you were going to explore the beautiful key change in the bridge, which i think is one of the glories of this song. As a matter of interest, John told David Sheff that Paul came up with the middle eight. Actually he said "Paul gave me the middle-eight on the F" which confused me at first, as it comes in with the C, not F. But then I discovered the song was originally written on piano in the George V Hotel, Paris, when they were doing the Olympia Theatre concerts, so given their fairly rudimentary piano skills ion 1964 it would fit if it was started in G, which i think would indeed put the bridge chord into an F. It's also possible that John just misremembered, but i think this explanation makes sense. What do you think?

I've always been impressed by the song. But you're right, it would make a fantastic vehicle for jazz improvisation.

So beautiful, thank you Will. I was introduced to it listening to Reba MacIntyre's version, a real heart and soul song!

@willpowell5332

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much xxxx

I have always loved If I Fell, but I had never heard of it dressed up as what could pass as a Jazz Standard. An amazing revelation from someone understands how music works and enlightens us all with a new appreciation of what outstanding songwriters and performers these four lads were. Thank you! A wonderful treat!

It is a great song but was probably written by Lennon/McCartney together (as many early Beatles songs were), though likely to have been Lennon’s original idea as he sang lead. It was written for A Hard Day’s Night and the story goes that they were confined to a room in a Paris Hotel with a piano and told to get on with it by Brian Epstein. If I fell was one of the songs that came out of this.

IF I FELL Definitely in Top 50 Beatles. Maybe Top 25. It's that good.

It's very hard to pick a favorite Beatles song, but if pressed, this is mine. Always has been. And I bought every Beatle album as they were being released.

I mimicked the spirit of this song's intro in one of my own (my intro: Bbm Dbm A B D), which was a variation on a chord sequence that would arise later (A C A B D).

I'll Be Back from the same album another underrated Lennon classic

@oceanspruce

7 күн бұрын

Completely agree.

I would say it is actually a perfect song! And I would also say that it was executed perfectly

Great analysis, thanks!) (title a little clickbaity)

Yes! ‘ IF I fell’ My first guess. Some nasty chords in that key. 😮

@willpowellmusic

14 күн бұрын

@@chriswest8389 it’s always been a. Favourite… just think it deserves to be known as much as yesterday and let it be .. thanks for the comment… I’m on Spotify if you’re interested in my own music :) thanks 🙏

@chriswest8389

14 күн бұрын

@@willpowellmusic while, melodically , I prefer yesterday, it’s a bit smaltzy. I’m sure Frankie boy covered it. John , in his so called fat Elvis period wrote his best melodys. My fave ballad of his is’ I should have known better’😃

i absolutely love this one, i thought this was more known

From the Beatles late period I would go for Cry Baby Cry, a fine song that rarely gets much mention.

The D9 chord beginning the bridge was amongst the most ingenious chord change in pop music history and for some odd reason you made NO mention of it at all--unless you have a part II of this video in the works

@manfred747

25 күн бұрын

Yeah - in our house we speak of little else.

It would have also made a great Christmas song!

“I’ll Cry Instead” is another great early Lennon song. It’s so honest about the chip on his shoulder and the show he puts on to cover up the fears he had (and that we all have). It shows a vulnerability that wasn’t common then. Written when Lennon was 23.

@willpowellmusic

15 күн бұрын

@@ARichardP yeah I love nearly every song on a hard days night … Lennon was on fire at that point for sure … for more of my music check me out on Spotify … Will Powell

@freeguy77

13 күн бұрын

The "B" side is wonderful for George's lead on, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" (#95, it's only week on the Billboard Hot 100, Aug. 1, 1964).

I always find it striking that it is clearly a Lennon song, but the two voices are equally prominent. But it's Paul singing the melody I think.

Before "If I Fell" (in the movie and album, ""A Hard Day's Night") there was this masterpiece that John recorded on the Mar. 1963 "Please Please Me" album: "Ask Me Why." HERE: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKioqcytlrSddaQ.html Both "If I Fell" and "Ask Me Why" show John at the top of his singing and emotional connection with the audience, unlike anyone else I've ever heard! Same for Karen Carpenter for the female singers.

The best love song in the history of this planet. An absolute masterpiece! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

Brill. Thanks for this.

The first hits proved these guys were great. Think SLY, IWTHYH, AML, for example. If I Fell proved that rhey were consistently great - until Number 9 came along. 63 to 67 were gifts from across the universe, in the midst of a despicable, military-industrial-fuelled war. The best and worst of times. Imagine how bad that period would have been without this musical gift.

Someone needs to look up the word underrated

This seemingly "simply" song has 13 chords in it, 5 of which are not in the songs primary key of D. But the true genius is the way they are made to blend together so beautifully and melodicly, with no sense of discord.

Keep in mind that at this early stage of their working relationship, George Martin played a major role in refining and arranging the Beatles' self-written songs to make them commercially appealing: "I taught them the importance of the hook.”

Da hat Paul aber locker dran mitgewirkt!

Is it the first Beatles song to use a diminished chord?

It was the first love ballad John wrote

A hard day’s night sung to Ringo 😊

Great musical analysis. The Beatles, bless them, just did not have the blues in their English blood. They were dance hall, 'trad jazz', samba and skiffle. Add that with one bona fide musical Titan (Paul) and a couple others who weren't too shabby either, and there you go, a band in the rarest of ethers.

Long Live The Beatles

Isn’t George singing with a harmony too? I believe this song could be parsed out much further. The "middle eight” is brilliant....the outdo superb. This song will last....like so many other of John’s songs.

Well ................. there are seven notes in all......Major notes and of course Minor, Sharp Flat and adding a seventh etc ... but, to stretch a nice chord change melody into JAZZ .... just is reading into the perspective. I loved the Beatles - my early playing was largely based on their creative skills even when they were naive as composers ... still great, of course !

Maybe underrated by some, but not by me. A most beautiful song, not totally unlike "In My Life".

I like “Girl.”

@willpowell5332

12 күн бұрын

Yeah that’s another great Lennon song .. strange melody on that one … thanks for watching

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Far from simplistic, one of Johns most beautiful songs ever.

Not underrated, excellent song... Lennon shows composition skills here that may in fact has been his finest moment

If I Fell is not underrated.

Most overrated word on KZread is calling the biggest, best, most talented band in history underrated!!! Reminder, the integrity is in knowing music but being humble and grounded instead of those Nugents and others who tell you they are greater than they are like a certain former president!!

Why do you think it's underrated? It's a magnificent song on several levels.

@Dex619

Ай бұрын

Look up the word “underrated “ I don’t think you know what it means.

@I_Am_Become_Light

Ай бұрын

@@Dex619 LOL

@Dex619

Ай бұрын

@@I_Am_Become_Light I’m not being funny. You really need to look up “underrated”.

@I_Am_Become_Light

Ай бұрын

@@Dex619 Go back to your room and think about what you've done.

@Dex619

Ай бұрын

@@I_Am_Become_Light I haven’t done anything other than try to help you with your vocabulary. If you want to sound illiterate, continue using words incorrectly. I was pointing out that you didn’t have an understanding of a word. Sorry if I upset you. I actually am already in my room listening to the underrated “If I Fell.”

dude's trolling for 👎 on his own channel 😂

The Beatles were better than any band in history.

@tonywright8294

16 күн бұрын

No

Title is clickbait. I was a teenager for the whole British invasion. This song was underrated by whom exactly? Since you were not born yet who is your source for this?

The word is 'oriented' not 'orientated'

It isn't jazz. It wasn't jazz. Nobody gives a shit if you can try to vainly turn it into jazz by polluting it with a bunch of extra "very hip extra notes" that absolutely don't make it any better. It's a brilliant Paul McCartney song with original ideas. The intro is brilliantly expected harmonically and melodically. It absolutely doesn't need your extra notes.

Underrated?????????

Do you understand the definition of "underrated?" If a song is underrated, then it has to be rated poorly by people to start with. Since this is not the case, then you just look like a fool by using that lazy word.

Underrated? I don't think so.

Not underrated at all.

The biggest sad fact is, that John Lennon, WAS A CHRISTIAN IN WORD, NOT IN ACTION, BEHAVIOR, OR IN 1:33 LIVING PROOF HE LOVED JESUS CHRIST, then John turns around after becoming wealthy, that their Band will outlive and be more important than JESUS CHRIST, landed him (John Lennon) in Hell, where he awaits his final Judgement at the White Throne Judgement of Christ, where he will hear these words from Jesus Christ Himself, “…depart from ME, I never knew you John Lennon…”. These are going to be the most fearful words anyone can hear from JESUS CHRIST. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, BEFORE ITS TOO LATE - REMEMBER HELL IS AROUND THE CORNER…

@SStone-dm7es

Ай бұрын

You’re a bundle of laughs eh? Ever heard the phrase ‘judge not’ ?

@LcdDrmr

28 күн бұрын

There are many millions of Christians "IN WORD, NOT IN ACTION, BEHAVIOR" right now, called MAGA.

@charlie-obrien

17 күн бұрын

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try.

Their melodies and lyrics showed sophistication by the time they created the soundtrack for “A Hard Days Night.” Definitely by the creation of “Beatles For Sale.”

Just the fact it’s usually left off of the red album and it wasn’t a single, doesn’t get mentioned as much as some others,