When I was 16 I was on bus on my way home from work. A girl stepped onto the bus. I was struck by her. I never spoke to her, but I felt wonderful. When I hear this song it’s as though I’m trying to tell someone of this girl that I just saw. It’s like a sixteen year old me. I’m 61 now. This song is one of my favourite The Beatles songs, and I heard recently that Paul thought it was one of his too. It speaks to me of a young person’s excitement. Thank You VR for showing this. Geoff from Fremantle, Western Australia 🇦🇺🙏

@IwasInThe60s

Ай бұрын

You have succeeded.in telling me and many other people.😉 I had a similar experience in 1994. I was peacefully sitting in a bus with my family when this girl got on the bus. She just blew my mind. I cannot explain it, I can only echo your emotions.

One of my favorite Beatle songs.Thank you.

Every fiddle and banjo band I knew of had this song in their set list. Love the drums and the joy of it. Thanks Virgin Rock great listen and analysis.

What Beatles song doesn't get stuck in your mind ? That's one of the qualities the band has.

Paul has exquisite good taste in the writing and performance of this.

I do love the breathless delivery of the lyrics and the way each musical phrase in the verse extends into the next bar, keeping you unable to stop.

One of my favorites. Fun upbeat song synonymous with the Beatles messaging of love and in this case love at first sight.

Finally, my favourite! I've been waiting for this. I've always thought the intro is the moment he sees her as the rest of the world disappears, and then he's all shaken up as he is struck by yearning, because it's not a song about being in love, it's about the yearning for it which is truly romantic. Loved the analysis as always, keep being brilliant!

" Had it been another day i might have looked the other way " great line.

The Quarrymen was John’s group when Paul met him in July 1957. Paul soon joined the band, which played a type of music called “skiffle”, popular in the day. I consider I’ve Just Seen A Face a nod to the Beatles’ skiffle origins. The Quarrymen used a washboard for percussion, which Ringo’s brushes mimic quite nicely.

@rosmeeker1964

Ай бұрын

Also lots has been written about Appalachian music and its roots in Scottish fiddle tunes...so that connection is also not far fetched.

@marysweeney7370

Ай бұрын

I agree. It is reminiscent of the Quarreymen's Maggie Mae in its tempo and guitar strumming, but with a lot more folk influence.

@bobtaylor170

Ай бұрын

Interesting. I'm fascinated by those songs, and don't think I'd have made that connection. I'm not sure I agree with it, but the thought is interesting.

@randomcsorely

Ай бұрын

Sounds like Bluegrass music

@Bassman2353

Ай бұрын

Excellent observation.

Yes, it is before "The Boxer". And EVERYONE listened to what "The Beatles" were doing. And a close listen to Paul Simon's solo LP "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover" hears the influence of Paul McCartney throughout.

@IwasInThe60s

Ай бұрын

The Beatles inspired all subsequent music and even genres. Except maybe rap, which is not music in the first place.🙄

I enjoyed this reaction very much, this song was always special to me with this creative type of lyrics. Great rimes 👌 Excitement in the air 👌👌 Contrast in verse and chorus 👌👌👌 Well said 👍😀 I'm happy that I just looked at my phone to see the notification because had it been another day I might have looked the other way and I would have missed it 😅

@fredmuller7400

Ай бұрын

Look the other way, and I’d have never been aware but as it is a dream of her tonight

@richardfehlmann4593

Ай бұрын

​@@fredmuller7400 👍😅

Thank you, great song, we are finally closer to "Yesterday"! To get back on topic, the interplay with the guitars is quite fun.

@brusselssprouts560

Ай бұрын

Review Yesterday, as it is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.

One of my favourite little quirks in this song is that it rhymes “aware” with “her”, which could only work in a scouse accent.

An absolute favorite of mine.

I like the way the rhythm of the accompaniment changes on the last verse. It almost feels like whirling around on some fairground ride. Great reaction. And now, the big one . . . Yesterday.

one of the best songs to sing when you re in love with only 14 or 15 years.

Thank you for saying “heels over head in love.” I’ve never understood why people say head over heels… my head is frequently over my heels. More often than not if I had to guess, there’s nothing remarkable about it.

It”s funny, but All the Beatles material seems to be available on KZread with no issues.

Peter sellers. A hard day's night. 😊

I really enjoyed this one. Great catch on the similarities to Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer". I think the labels folk rock and country rock both apply. This is also often the case when trying to distinguish between folk and old style country, the distinctions can get blurry. The same is true of a lot of the old acoustic blues tunes from the 30s and 40s. They can often just as easily be viewed as folk songs. There is no bass guitar in this song, even through your score shows a bass guitar part (probably used in covers). The acoustic guitar plays the roll of a bass here, with the lowest notes being played on the bass strings of the acoustic, which is an octave higher than the corresponding string on a bass guitar. (EDIT: see my comment below)

@LeeKennison

Ай бұрын

I just noticed an error in what I had previously said at the end of my comment. I originally said, "which is an octave too high to be within the ledger lines of the bass clef." Which is not correct since the notes are low enough to be there, I was just trying to convey that the guitar is typically represented on the treble clef, and not the bass clef like the bass guitar. So I changed it to read "which is an octave higher than the corresponding string on a bass guitar".

@gribwitch

Ай бұрын

@@LeeKennison You also made an error in your spelling. It's "role" not roll.

Hurray we are transitioning to the middle period of the Beatles. The Dillards, a bluegrass quartet from the sixties cover this classic. The Dillards are greatly admired as a progressive young country of the time.

I've Just Seen A Face was in 1965 while The Boxer was 1969

@fredmuller7400

Ай бұрын

Good an example from another text

High in my list of Beatles songs, I love how compact and fast-paced it is, its unique country-adjacent folk vibe; it gives the feeling of a heart fluttering with new love. It's also held an extra special place in my heart as a gay man because it's a very easy love song to switch the pronouns in to make it apply to whoever you fancy; I felt this apply to love I felt even before I felt comfortable coming out of the closet, and it kept me going until I could.

All your videos are massively entertaining, and I want to make a request for at least one more King Crimson (yes, I know, the copyright stuff is infuriating) and that it would be 'Level Five' from their last studio album The Power To Believe. This has become one of my all-time favourite tracks. It'd be very, very interesting to hear your take on its.. unusual structure. Thank you!

When Paul plays guitar in a song, that doesn't mean he didn't play bass too although sometimes it did.

We had this song in our setlist. Great song, and it is surprising how many people know it even though it wasn't a single. It is the bluegrass aspect of it. I don't really like country much either, older country is better, but I do like bluegrass, because it's more up tempo and more virtuosic in the instrumentation, so it keeps it from getting boring.

This is another song that Capitol in America moved to 'Rubber Soul', which actually makes sense. "I don't know if Simon and Garfunkel heard this before..." Amy, EVERYBODY had heard this before. Except for today's YT reaction channels, apparently. 😄 Stylistically, this song was a huge departure from the kind of songs John and Paul had been writing up til then. The Dylan influence is clear, but Paul is also showing his ability to leap forward as a trend-setter.

"Cute"!? An above-it-all "assessment".

Thanks, you're the only other person I know who has noticed that echo of Paul's "Li, li, li, li li-li" (or Di, di, di di di-di - his enunciation falls somewhere between the two) in Paul Simon's The Boxer. It leapt out at me.

If you didn’t know, the American album Rubber Soul was a different set of songs. That album started with the song , I’ve just seen a face. The American Beatle albums before CD’s were quite different. The American version of Rubber Soul was quite acoustic. It is one of the few American albums I prefer over the current version. Another interesting thing of note was the U.S. albums only has twelve songs. If it was from a movie soundtrack like Help there was only one side on vinyl of Beatle tracks. The UK albums had 14 songs. In the case of the Magical Mystery Tour album which came later, the American version actually used simulated stereo for a few of the tracks! I had to buy a German version of the album to get true stereo back in the seventies. Another interesting thing of note was that the German vinyl was very thick and much better quality compared to the cheaper American vinyl. ❤❤❤

@BigSky1

Ай бұрын

Not all the UK albums had 14 songs. Hard Days Night had 13. Pepper had 13. Let Ie Be had 12 Abbey Road had 17 etc.

@Beatles4Sale.

Ай бұрын

@@BigSky1 good point! Thanks…

@gribwitch

Ай бұрын

The yanks butchered the playlist order of Beatles songs from the original versions. "Cutting and pasting" songs from one album onto another. Stupid thing to do. Who did they think they were ?

@ElementaryPenguin

25 күн бұрын

@@gribwitch - they were capitalists who signed four very naive young men to a contract that gave little to the young men and a lot to the record company. Why release 2 albums when you can butcher them into 3 albums and make more money. Who needs art when you can make money?

@gribwitch

24 күн бұрын

@@ElementaryPenguin Cynical, but sadly accurate.

The Beatles could be pretty corn pone sometimes, and they were good at it. Remember, corn is sweet.

Paul McCartney - lead vocal, harmony vocal, acoustic lead guitar John Lennon - acoustic rhythm guitar George Harrison - acoustic lead guitar Ringo Starr - brushed snare, maracas

I don't think it's a purely acoustic number. George's guitar in the intro is lightly amplified. And Paul is playing 12-string acoustic guitar, not six-string.

you might hear examples still in West Nashville busking???

This is the fastest Beatles song.

To tell the truth Bob Dylan has a song that uses the key notes in the song, but I've heard it before but it's actually better than no sequence utilized by Bob Dylan , version though I do like Bob Dylan's song I wish I knew the name. They played skiffle which is basically derived from bluegrass, Appalachian music. When I say they played skiffle that's how the Beatles started with acoustic guitars a bass, and I guess brush sticks.

Amy Shafer - My First Listen and Reaction.... entertaining enough & sounds like Sister Wendy Beckett

The style you're trying to get at here is Skiffle. An early British take on country music. The Beatles played a lot of it before they were the Beatles. There's some stylistic differences between this track and true Skiffle but it has more in common with it than American varieties of country or bluegrass.

Sharing the ear-worm ...

It's skiffle

Your channel won't close down...!!!...under fair use you can play more ...don't know way you're so affraid 😢😢😢😢😢

4:23 Por fin una Cancion donde se escucha un poco mas de La Musica de Los Beatles en cambio en otras has estado hablando mas de 20 minutos con casi nada para escuchar ni siquiera los acordes es una lastima porque sos una experta y explicas muy bien y al ver otras Reacciones vi que pudieron poner sus canciones practicamente en su totalidad

The little coda you noticed that sounds a lot like "The Boxer" seems to be acknowledged by Paul McCartney in his later 1976 live performance with Wings. He sings that bit as "lie, lie, lie, lie la lie" just like Simon and Garfunkel! kzread.info/dash/bejne/qIqo1quaYpO-mqw.html

@fredmuller7400

Ай бұрын

Beatles were the greatest. This came out in 1965. What I believe is without looking it up. Simon and Garfunkel’s came out years later. And in their defense, the song doesn’t sound anything like it. You can analyze any song and there’s roots you can find in other artist songs if you try, there’s probably thousands of songs you can pick a part and say hey this bar sounds like this Look at me look what I discovered.

Simon and Garfunkel nicked a heap of ideas from Let It Be too - for the song Bridge Over Troubled Water.

@bobtaylor170

Ай бұрын

No. Let it Be came out in May, 1970. That was after Bridge Over Troubled Water.

@martingifford5415

Ай бұрын

@@bobtaylor170 Quote from Wikipedia: "McCartney first began to play around with "Let It Be" in the recording studio in between takes of "Piggies" on 19 September 1968. Some months later, the song would be rehearsed at Twickenham Film Studios on 3 January 1969". So that's before Paul Simon wrote it. And if you go through all the elements, there are over 10 similarities, e.g. "Let It Be" is similar to "Like a Bridge", both are gospel, and "trouble" is in "When I find myself in times of trouble" and "Like a bridge over Troubled water". Also, the basic theme is the same.

@johnbyrnes7912

Ай бұрын

​@@bobtaylor170 no bob the release date listed is March 6 though I had remembered it as the Yuletide song - funny that ! 🤡

head over heels. arse over elbow.

@fredneecher1746

Ай бұрын

I've heard a shorter word instead of 'elbow'. The one they sing on the chorus of 'Girl'.

This replaced 'Drive My Car" on the US "Rubber Soul". And that gave the edge to the US release. It may be folk, but it doesn't "rock". Gad, more of the "official" "fan-worshipped" "genre" nonsense.

You're sure that Simon and Garfunkel didn't consciously borrow parts of the melody? Paul Simon is a known plagiarist.

@johnsilva9139

Ай бұрын

He has also said that Paul McCartney is his favorite song writer.

@anyandeverything15

Ай бұрын

Great artists steal

@billythedog-309

Ай бұрын

@@anyandeverything15 Blatantly, in some cases - even managing to get royalties on a traditional song.

@johnsilva9139

Ай бұрын

@@anyandeverything15 I believe Pablo Picasso said that.

Paul never met a "Country" song he couldn't vastly improve.The thing about Country music is that it sucks. Any time you hear something that sounds like Country but actually sounds good is because the artist took something from boring, stale, awful country platitude and added originality, musicianship, or subtlety to it.

ANOTHER SKIFFLE INFLUENCE IN THEIR MUSIC

Don't misunderstand what I'm about to say; I like this channel and the way they do reviews. However, I think that when it comes to reviewing a topic related to the Beatles, objectivity is lost. The only thing I don't like is that the reviews are done from the perspective of a fan, not from a music enthusiast's viewpoint. I believe you're not impartial when reviewing a Beatles song. It's not possible for everything to be perfect in Beatles songs; I think you're looking at them through the eyes of a fan, which doesn't allow for a true review of the songs. Sometimes I find it frustrating because all the reviews seem the same and not genuine. I would like it if one day you could set aside your fandom towards the Beatles and do a real review. Clearly, they have many flaws and mistakes, which are not discussed. Perhaps it's done this way to attract viewers to the video as well, and I would understand that. Even though I'm also a Beatles fan, I can acknowledge that some songs don't make sense, their lyrics are off, or they are musically directionless. In other words, why not do a truly objective and real review? In other reviews, you criticize the lyrics or musical changes, the tones they use, etc., but in the Beatles reviews, it seems like you're listening to an Ave Maria and a choir, too much seriousness

@fromchomleystreet

Ай бұрын

I have never gotten this impression, at all. She’s reviewed some of the Beatles songs that I would describe as less-than-stellar and freely acknowledged that they’re nothing particularly special or revolutionary. And she DOES break down musical structure, etc, to the degree it’s possible on a first listen. To the extent that she’s a “fan”, she’s only become one through the process of reviewing their songs. She’s listening to them for the first time, so it’s hardly surprising that she may not have noted little errors that you, as a fan, are more aware of.

One of the worst Beatles songs. Sorry Americans I know it opens your version of Rubber Soul but its just a leftover Help filler (from side 2).