From She Loves You to A Day In the Life in 3 years. It's astounding.

@rubbersole79

Жыл бұрын

"The BeaTles went from I wanna hold your hand to Sgt. Pepper....,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...that's a massive progression!" - Kurt Cobain.

@aviadilo

Жыл бұрын

In four years actually - 1963 to 1967. Still quite a short time!

@bryanfouts287

5 ай бұрын

3 years ago may as well have been last week. Insane progress

@Sopmylo

5 ай бұрын

True. I'm North American, we got it a bit late.@@aviadilo

If you think that the album is avant-garde in 2022, imagine how it was in 1967. Tell you what, it was the first time the songs lyrics were printed on the album cover. I'm from Brazil and I was 9 years old then. My father used to sit with me, singing the songs and translating the lyrics; therefore I can say that the Beatles were my first English teachers...

@stevekaspar1396

2 жыл бұрын

In 1967 I was a very young pup 🐶 yet I was musically acute.. 🎼 this album was an earthquake.. can't describe it. .. earthquake

@susanryan2451

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, your memory of this is real heart-shaker! I'm having a good time here in Southern California imaging your happy Brazilian life, learning English and loving the Beatles. 💋🎶🎶🎶

@glauroo.junior83

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much !😄

This album really shows that they weren't just 4 geniuses, they were 4 geniuses surrounded by several other geniuses. George Martin's compositional genius shows here especially on a day in the life.

When you have the chance; the Abbey Road album by the Beatles is a culmination of their 7 years together, well worth the time!

@kingcassius2586

2 жыл бұрын

And he should be reminded that side 2 is unpausable being that the songs all run together.

@martinmorris5997

Жыл бұрын

They were together longer than 7 years, except maybe for Ringo. The other three had been together for 5-6 years before that.

Day In The Life - arguably the single greatest song in history, simply created by joining a couple of tunes John and Paul had no idea how to complete together…

@futurereflections4097

2 жыл бұрын

The encore to the legendary SGT Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band dream concert!

@johnhouse9983

2 жыл бұрын

listen to my room and or srill life by van der graaf generator

@stephenqualtrough7322

2 жыл бұрын

@@futurereflections4097 OR in my imaginary interpretation, coming out of the concert hall, back into reality again, after seeing a great concert

@sourisvoleur4854

2 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear. Just eargasm. Definitely head and shoulders above any other song I know of (save one but that's a story for another day).

@johnhouse9983

2 жыл бұрын

@@sourisvoleur4854 yeah sgt peppers is up there , but there are others , i urge u to listen to an album by Van Der Graaf generator called Still Life .Laters

Many people criticize Ringo's drumming...but listen to him on A Day In The Life..

I was in a youth orchestra when this album came out. I was already a Beatles fan, but one of my fellow orchestra members was "converted" by this from a straight classical musician to a Beatles nut.

All the Beatles albums are great -- and stylistically diverse. John Lennon's favorite was Magical Mystery Tour because of its weirdness. A lot of fans say Revolver is their best (it directly preceded Pepper). The Beatles are very much worth listening to chronologically. The band did not repeat itself. The songwriting started strong and became more experimental and interesting over their fairly short run. Their first movie, A Hard Day's Night, is a one-of-a-kind piece of filmmaking, with a great comedic script and lots of their early songs.

@luisspeciale4675

2 жыл бұрын

John Lennon said The White Album was his favorite and said "I am the walrus" is a weird song that will last a hundred years because it's so weird.

This is pure art at its finest and only the Beatles were capable of such a masterpice.

Listening to Lovely Rita, it strikes me that Paul doesn't get enough credit for his lyrics; mainly because his melodies are always so beautiful, not to mention all of his other strengths.

The more times you listen to this album the better it gets.......

First album with the entire lyric sheet printed on the back of the album. Revolutionary for its time.

“Hear the colors”…what a great way to put it! Great reaction, loved your joy.

@MrDiddyDee

2 жыл бұрын

It felt like that in a much broader sense at the time. Post war Britain was still a very black, grey, brown and beige place until the art, music and fashion of the mid to late 60's exploded into joyful Technicolor.

@aviadilo

Жыл бұрын

This phrase reminds me of the line "Listen to the colour of your dreams" from the closing track of Revolver.

I like your reaction! I was 16 when this was released in May of 1967. One month before the Summer of Love. No one had ever heard the kind of songs the Beatles had created on this album. It influenced so many musicians and fans that it was a seismic event in music. An astonishing array of genres and sonic breakthroughs.

I love how you said,"you can hear the colors". You got it!

It's really wild to have listened to Sgt Pepper as your first Beatles' album! You need to listen to their earlier albums to appreciate how much the Beatles had evolved in only four years. A Hard Day's Night is my favorite from their early LPs and will make it clear why Beatlemania exploded across the world.

They’re at “The Beatles” funeral on the cover (notice their name spelled out in the roses on the grave) because they were the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for this album.

The most landmark album ever created. It changed music and popular culture over night. The list of albums that followed that would not be but for Sgt. Pepper is endless. Try The Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed" which was recorded only months after Pepper.

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425

2 жыл бұрын

sgt p. was the beatles trying to do what Frank Zappa did with Freak Out.

Hey man, Watching someone listen to this old timey music is priceless. I love the Beatles, we'd still be singing"How much is puppy in the window?" If it weren't for them I'd echo the opinion you should listen to Abby Road. Great job man, real thoughtful reactions.

An earlier album that I think is underrated is A Hard Day"s Night. The Beatles first attempt to write a through composed score, without resorting to covers is a 1964 triumph

@aviadilo

Жыл бұрын

AHDN is a great early Beatles album and probably the best pop album ever released. I think Sgt Pepper is their best album on the whole, though Revolver is pretty close - maybe it's a tie!

@stephenqualtrough7322

Жыл бұрын

@@aviadilo I have been debating the Revolver Sgt Pepper debate in my head for years For cultural influence inuences on their generation Sgr Pepper wins hands down however

Does anyone else like "Good Morning, Good Morning" besides me? Everyone, including Lennon, probably considered it a throwaway, but I think it's accidental genius.

@Suburbangeek

2 жыл бұрын

Love it. The brass, the lyrics, the guitar. Flirting on a night out from a humdrum home-life.

@docsavage8640

2 жыл бұрын

One of the strongest tracks as far as I'm concerned.

@patticrichton1135

2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE it TOO!!

@36karpatoruski

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with Lennon and boys. I skip it every time.

@strathman7501

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Would be a strong track in the original pre-Pepper concept of a Liverpool-childhood album that would have contained Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. Also I think of it as a sort of mundane "Day In The Life", and if i had a time machine I'd go back and ask them to consider opening with it, "go to a show, you hope she goes" segueing into the auditorium show-intro we're all familiar with. That way the two stories of the two Days, going from the quotidian to the epically mysterious, could book-end the album.

Just watched it. It was worth waiting for. Your A Day in the Life reaction did not disappoint. !

Lovely Rita came about because Paul got a kick out of hearing that in the US, women had the job to write parking tickets and they were called "meter maids" and the moaning was John being cheeky, because he could lol. For "Good Morning Good Morning", John was inspired by seeing a Corn Flakes ad on tv. I don't think the lyrics are depressing; I think they're of a guy just chilling, walking around his neighborhood. The lyrics "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife" Meet the Wife was the name of a television program at the time and "go to a show, you hope she goes" was John's subtle way of mentioning Yoko because he was still married to his wife, Cynthia and he'd met Yoko at an art show where she was exhibiting her work. The animal sounds were arranged, at John's request, so that it went up the food chain, so to speak. So you had birds, then a cat, then a dog, etc., but why a chicken at the end, I don't know lol. The reprise is a simple bit but they repeat "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely" so often, it almost sounds like they're saying Sgt. Pepper IS lonely. There is SO much going on in A Day In The Life. The man who "blew his mind out in a car" is Guinness heir, Tara Browne who died in a car crash. His father was a member of the House of Lords ("nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords"). The "film" is a reference to the film "How I Won the War" that was based on the book of the same name, that John had been in. The "crowd of people turned away" is a reference to the bad reviews the film received. The orchestra was told to go from lowest to highest note on their respective instruments for a crescendo. Paul's "woke up, got out of bed..." part was a bit of song he'd written but hadn't finished. The "4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" was an article John read about the bad roads in Blackburn that were full of potholes. In a bit of hyperbole, someone in the article commented that they tried counting them and there were so many, they could fill the Albert Hall. The ending has the orchestra going from lowest to highest note again with a final chord that was created by John, Paul, Ringo, and their roadie, Mal Evans, each playing the same chord simultaneously on pianos, while producer George Martin did the same on a harmonium. The chord was made to ring out for over forty seconds by increasing the recording sound level as the vibration faded out. In addition, there was a tone, similar to a dog whistle that was added to the end. The ending is some incomprehensible studio babble that was recorded and looped and that's Paul's voice saying "never could see any other way" sped up and distorted. They truly elevated pop music to an art form.

‘Revolver’ is musically and innovatively probably The Beatles’ greatest achievement, but ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ is personal and close to my heart. My uncle bought this album for me when it came out in 1967, saying it would be a famous record. I was 2 years old. I still have it and it’s still playable, although I played it all the time and it’s part of my earliest memories. I had my little kid records and I had ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’. I knew every word but didn’t understand all of them. For a young American kid listening to “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!”, the title itself is incomprehensible, and then words and phrases such as “Late of Pablo Fanques Fair”, “hoops and garters, Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!”, “The celebrated Mr. K”, “Bishopsgate”, “Mr. Kite flies through the ring”, “Mr. Kite is topping the bill” made no sense. It’s surreal, Victorian English Lennon uses, that I finally learned in school, but at the time was more like hearing colors to me. It was the most colorful record that I had. I’ve never thought of it before but you’re absolutely right: on the cover they’re at a funeral: death of the old drab Beatles; birth of the colorful new Beatles. I first heard of The Rolling Stones by looking at the album cover and reading the sweater on the doll.

The song "Good Morning " was inspired by a box of Kellogs corn flakes which features the cockerel and the slogan "Good morning to you". It ends with birds being chased by a cat, being chased by a dog, being chased by a lion and assorted farmyard animals and a fox hunt following close behind.

@mrkelso

2 жыл бұрын

A bit of a nod of the head to the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds".

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

It was inspired by the jingle in a telly ad for Kelloggs Cornflakes. The very same one Still Colour sings before listening to it. Not by a cardboard box.

@dcg4mn

3 ай бұрын

@mrkelso - I wondered about that. Pet Sounds predated right? The Beatles were big fans of the BB.

"Sonically vivid" is a great description of this album. Try the albums "Abbey Road", "Revolver" or "Rubber Soul" next. Three more fascinating and vivid Beatles albums!

The album at that time was light years ahead of what anyone else was thinking of doing . Even the album cover was totally different with all the lyrics printed on the back of the album that was never done before . From this point on not only music but the design of albums ,would change . There are so many firsts on this album . The Beatles always seemed to come up with stuff no one else even considered.

The idea for the album cover was supposed to be the Sgt. Pepper band attending an award ceremony at a garden party attended by all their friends, idols, and even some villains (Hitler was originally on the cover but they decided to airbrush him out).

Love the repeating gibberish that was on the vinyl lock out groove at the end. Awesomeness 👍

That final piano chord (actually three pianos) is a punctuation mark. There is the music that came before it, and the music that came after it. It was the end of one phase, and the start of another. World changing. Paved the way for Pink Floyd's experiments, psychodelia, and more. Incidentally, that weird thing at the very end was recorded on the 'inner track'. It would repeat and repeat until you got off your bum and took the needle off. Many people never even heard it, because many record players would lift the needle automatically and return it before the track started. Great job on the review of this mostly sunny album -- thank you for letting us enjoy the ride with you.

I have listened to “ A day in the life” so many times in my life but just heard something new. I had always interpreted to lyrics to be a commentary on modern life and popular media reporting styles. But today, I looked at the orchestral wall of sound as actually a speeded up soundtrack of life until it comes to a shattering end and the final chord of infinity. Wow, the Beatles can still surprise.

@Kieop

2 жыл бұрын

I interpret the song as a day in the life of a guy who gets up everyday and rides the bus to work, reads the paper etc. Same routine, but today he also goes to a movie and it happens to be the last day of his life. Ironically he reads about the death of someone in a car crash and a story about potholes. Through the orchestra we get to experience his death as he experiences it firsthand (perhaps he even has a premonition of it -- a nightmare before his alarm clock goes off). Is it a bus crash or is it the end of the world? The final chord represents heaven and eternity.

A Day In The Life is sooooo good

Your expressions of appreciation brings chills and a fresh love for this album. Thank you!

The order for discovery of this body of work and for listening to the Beatles as a historical phenomenon that developed over that decade is to start out with listening to their first best groundbreaking early singles (Please Please Me, I Saw Her Standing There, I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, , This Boy, Slow Down, their cover of Anna, and a small handful of deep cuts from their first two albums, All You Got To Do, It Won't Be Long, Hold Me Tight, Little Child, I Wanna Be Your Man, Then listen to A Hard Day's Night album, which breaks ground and is a true early masterpioece and the first of their albums with all original songs, no covers. Then a couple or a few cuts from Beatles for Sale (the Lennon dark songs:. No Reply, I'm a Loser, and Baby's In Black, and Paul's I'll Follow the Sun and the single I'm Down), Next the album Help!, where they reach new heights and depths and had begun smoking cannabis. Then Rubber Soul. Next the singles Paperback Writer and Rain. Then the album Revolver, The singles released as a double A side Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, then maybe listen to Sgt Pepper again and then the album Magical Mystery Tour. (You can listen to Penny Land and Strawberry Fields for the first time on Magical Mystery Tour too rather than as singles which they were, recorded at the same time as and being released before Sgt. Pepper.) Then the White Album, Then Hey Jude the single. Then Let It Be and finally Abbey Road.

@StillColour

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Peter, first of all thank you so much for watching my video and thanks for the suggestions. I'm adding to the list!!

Really good reaction vid to the second half of the album that was an earthquake.. Indescribable what this album did in the summer of 67 and beyond. Hendrix even learned the title opening song and played it in McCartney's presence.. put this album and Hendrix together in 1967 and you have a nuke that still reverberates

The Beatles were always good at giving you the "unexpected." Now you know how WE who were there when it was first released the summer of 1967, felt when WE heard it for the first time. We had never heard anything like that it was so different from their previous album, but still, each of their albums from their first album to their last, was different!

Till the day I die I will always enjoy watching people listen to Day In The Life for the first time, and watching their faces change during the crescendo, that 'end of the world approaching' look... and I always enjoy the come-down on that last chord, it evens everything out and lets the sun shine again... pure magic.

@Y-two-K

Жыл бұрын

I also love the puzzled look during the inner groove track playing. No one expects it.

Have enjoyed your 3 videos on this, thanks! I'm hoping you plan to do some more Beatles albums? Either from the start, or specifically I'd love to see you react to their 1968 album "The Beatles" commonly known as The White Album, I think you'd love it!

"A Day In The Life" is two unfinished songs put together. John wrote the first and last third and Paul wrote the middle third. You can hear an alarm clock just before Paul's section to cue the orchestra to stop playing. It also features The Beatles roadie, Mal Evans counting the orchestra up to 24 bars so they all finish at the same time. George Martin instructed the orchestra to start their final passage at bass E and finish on a high E. The run out at the end finishes with a dog whistle. (But I've never heard it!).

@MrDiddyDee

2 жыл бұрын

The orchestra wouldn't have taken their cue from the alarm clock, they were being conducted by Paul McCartney and George Martin all the way through the progression and, as you stated, the musicians knew exactly how many bars they had to progress through their own ranges.

@jaredf6205

2 жыл бұрын

Paul’s part is dumb and ruins an otherwise amazing song.

@cuebj

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaredf6205 It makes the song - dreamy start to the day followed by jolt into reality and back to dreaminess.

@Superdelphinus

Жыл бұрын

Mal also played one of the pianos for the ‘chord’ too (there are loads of outtakes of him and Paul not getting their timing right on the 50th anniversary version)!

@izzonj

6 ай бұрын

The alarm clock isn't cueing the orchestra, it is telling Paul to wake up and get out of bed

The album is genius🤘❤️

The “St Pepper” in the album title comes from Paul mishearing something somebody else said; the idea of the Lonely Hearts Club Band (and, no doubt, album cover) came from his and the band’s desire to shed their Beatles persona and start afresh as a new band, unencumbered by expectations. Please try The Cure’s Disintegration album, start to finish, without the distraction of (lyric) videos. It’s a mood!

@jeremyb5640

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's right. Paul and roadie Mal Evans were on a flight and Mal asked for salt and pepper with his meal. Paul heard it as 'Sgt Pepper' putting the idea into his head. And having a fictional band persona then allowed them complete creative freedom to experiment.

For that last note on “A Day in the Life” George Martin wanted to capture every bit of the note. The sound pots were turned up to maximum & if you listen very closely, you can hear the air conditioning unit in the studio. He really wanted that last note to stand out

I recommend the albums revolver and Rubber Soul by The Beatles. They are great albums!

Mind blown by A Day In The Life? It still blows my mind 40 years since I first heard it. Their greatest single achievement (with Strawberry Fields Forever, Tomorrow Never Knows and the Abbey Road medley close behind). For the climatic orchestral section, they had to fill a missing 24 bars. Paul came up with the idea of asking the orchestra to build from their instruments’ lowest possible notes to the highest within those 24 bars. The result sounds apocalyptic. John is literally signing about stories in the day's newspaper including the death of a close friend in a car crash, exploring the nature of reality and everyday life through the pages of the tabloids. The killer line 'I'd love to turn you on' was considered deeply shocking, seen as encouraging drug use and earning it a ban by the BBC. That final chord is John, Ringo and roadie Mal Evans all playing E major chord on a piano simultaneously with producer George Martin on harmonium. The front cover depicts Sgt Pepper's band after playing a concert in a park with a host of famous people in the audience watching the show. Each Beatle was allowed to pick their heroes to include in the photo. The animal noises at the end of Good Morning Good Morning are a bit of fun, but loosely arranged in the order of animals which could prey on the one before, so a bird is followed by a cat, followed by a dog, etc. Kellogg's used to use a cockerel as part of their cereal ads for corn flakes, so I guess that's why they used it at the beginning. Really glad you enjoyed this album so much. Thanks for the review, Jervis. It rewards constant repeat plays and is a perfect summer record. From here you could go back to 1966 to Revolver, which is another candidate for greatest album of all time or forward to Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album and Abbey Road. All well deserving of your time.

@alanpeterson4939

2 жыл бұрын

Paul is dead.

@blankyd3360

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't notice that the animal sounds had an order to them based on the food chain

@patticrichton1135

2 жыл бұрын

3 pianos were used for the final chord along with George Martin on harmonium

The end of "A Day in the :Life" would be the perfect sound track to the Death Star explosion sequence in Star Wars.

Jarvis , react to to Revolver the previous Beatles album to this one. .please. More classics than you shake a stick at and possibly even more daring and revolutionary than even Pepper is. Or maybe go one forward for the jolly Sgt Pepper follow up Magical Mystery Tour album for more of the same. It feature some tracks originally intended for Pepper but siphoned off for the Poenny Lane / Strawberry Fields single the record company demanded from the Beatles

Paul met a Meter Maid whose first name was META (really) and that was his inspiration for the song. Many years later for the 20th anniversary Sgt. Pepper's release, they found her and was interviewed by some news shows.

Finally someone who lets the album run out to the end thank you

Lovely Rita , that piano intro with those heavily aaahs in the backing. Another amazing Beatles song.

Lennon's background vocals in "Lovely Rita" are so damn haunting........

I believe they put in all the animals as a response to The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" album. Another great classic, you should check out some day.

@lucasoheyze4597

2 жыл бұрын

I believe they got the EMI animal noises tape out for the rooster sound at the start, and John said "What else is on that?" 😆

Thank you, 3 great reaction videos. Brilliant.😊

The Good Morning you sang was from the Movie, "Singin' in the Rain". The three main characters stayed up all night rewriting a movie script. It goes, "Good Moring, good morrrrrrning, we've worked the whole night through, good morning, good morning to YOU!"

“Lovely Rita” is a seriously cheeky, sarcastic bit of sass. 😆

I also love Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. That is a stellar album not to be missed. Of course, The Beatles will always be my favorite!

The greatest song ever.

Loved your reaction. It's always great to get to experience Beatles albums for the first time again through someone else's experience and your observations are pretty spot-on. Please react to Abbey Road and then Revolver. Those are my 2 favorite Beatles albums and have some of their best music IMO.

@StillColour

2 жыл бұрын

Those kind words are much appreciated!! Happy you was able to relive the album through me :) thanks for the recommendations. Adding to the list!

Check out their song "You know my name". It's not on any album and was the B side of a single, but it's my fav. It's mostly improv.

Very enjoyable and fresh reaction. Looking forward to you reacting to more of the Beatles.

@tubularap

2 жыл бұрын

What album to suggest ? You could start from the beginning, (which only a few KZreadrs have done). But since you now have done Sgt. Peppers already you could take Abbey Road, and Let It Be, and then work backwards in time. Will be at least as interesting as normal chronology.

@StillColour

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Can't wait!! 🤩

Great reaction can't wait to see you react to other Beatles albums or other bands

great reaction:) .......when i first heard this album, and the "sgt pepper reprise", back in 1994, the reprise drumming reminded me of hip hop drumming also, and i listened to this album all thru that summer, and whenever i'd hear that song and especially the intro, everytime,,hip-hop came to mind...good vibes.

Loved your video, loved your words at the end, it was a joy. Yes...one can hear colours in there...never thought of it, but you gave it a great name. Yeah...this album is one huge shining precious stone.

In Good Morning Good Morning he literally meant it when he said “I’ve got nothing to say but it’s okay”

I’d do Abbey Road next based on your songs you liked from that album

Great reaction to Day in the life by you. So much elevator music out nowadays. That track hits home with most that hear it. If you do the Beatles albums in chronological order it's a seam of gold. You'll grow your channel guaranteed. It's a massive body of work and incredibly diverse. There are a few bits of not so great but many diamonds you have yet to discover. Lucky you. Subscribed...Cheers

"Day In The Life" is absolutely chilling. It's like the album suddenly drops you not only into reality, but into a harsh reality.

Now you should listen to the entire album again on your own, with no interruptions. Just put your headphones on, turn out the lights, and chill.

@futurereflections4097

2 жыл бұрын

First time I heard this was with a few friends and our good friend Lucy (in the Sky with Diamonds) 😉. I was 18. It really felt like a bittersweet goodbye to childhood and entrance into adulthood and a reminder to never lose that youthful wonder.

@susanryan2451

2 жыл бұрын

@@futurereflections4097 I'm right with you there, brother ✌🏼

MOST IMPORTANT ALBUM EVER!!

I just found you and I loved this! ❤ A Day in The Life is my favorite, and I've known all the words for as far back as I can remember - at least phonetically. As a Kansas City girl, I literally had *no idea* what they were talking about. Why are there holes in BlackfordLankyshield, and why did this guy Albert Hall have to count them? 🤔😄

The crescendo in the middle feels like reaching the top of a roller coaster

The expression on your face at the end of Day In The Life was a time machine for me. Fifty years ago used to introduce folks to that song, usually with thai stick or sensimilla enhancement. Same stunned astonished wtf did I just hear expression every time. Thank you for the flashback.

Top selling musicians of all time.

"A day In The Life" is nothing more than about bunch of articles they read in a newspaper An example is.... "I read the news today, oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" This is just about the many pot holes there ....and the article said there were about 4, 000 of them. Only The Beatles could make a great song out such mundane things

yeah. they went there. they really went there. that song announced to the world that the beatles werent fing around any more. they were telling it like it was, the light AND the dark. and boy, was there darkness...

Great job! Love your thoughtfulness and substance in your reaction. You went for it!

@StillColour

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@michaelwalker7991

2 жыл бұрын

@@StillColour My pleasure, really. Hey: if you're so moved check my comment on your Voodoo Child reaction to Hendrix.

''You can hear the colours'' Love that!

Lots of GREAT Beatles album, alot of different choices for favorites--this is mine (I think!) Great job of comments and reactions. Do some more Beatles if you can! Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Revolver--all great!

I just have to hit that final chord ;) I’ll let others address overall. That chord sent shockwaves rippling around the world. No human had ever heard - or even considered doing anything like that in music before, not even classical. But I think even more importantly, part of the shock was PERSONAL recognition! No matter where on earth you lived, if you had access to a piano as a child, at some point you tested that damper pedal to see how long a note or chord would last. It’s HUMAN. And this is the musical equivalent of Proust taking one bite of a madeleine and instantly being pulled back through a lifetime of memories. It’s a perfect example of the Beatles true, world cultural genius: very sophisticated, understanding the full range of emotional existence, yet childlike simplicity all in a single moment or concept. Even today they are STILL deserving of accolades. (As is Proust) 😊

Revolver will blow your mind

Have a listen to Revolver, white album, let it be and Abbey Rd…. Brilliant Beatles albums

Been good to watch you hear this for the first time. Hope you spend the time to just hang with 'em over time, hear the 'easter eggs' in Beatles albums, like the cat turning into the dog at the animal ending of Good Morning, and the roaring lion becoming an elephant. Not everything is about making linear sense by this point in their career, where they've been smoking pot for a couple years (after Bob Dylan turned 'em on to it) and dropping acid (thanks to their dentist, who dosed them at dinner one night!). Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds conveys a lot more in vibes than you get from just the (amazing) images of the lyrics, don't ya think? And like so many things in their songs, whether Rita did the deed or not is entirely up to the listener to decide...

@nessaseetah1805

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought "nearly made it" meant he was c-blocked by "a sister or two..."?

@feedigli

2 жыл бұрын

@@nessaseetah1805 Ah yes; how could I forget?

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band Reprise was actually the Beatles all four of them playing that take live, no fooling around with different tapes, just full straight out playing by the band.

You are SO right Sgt Pepper was an EXPERIENCE and the great thing is so are the other albums of this period Beatles. Enjoy the EXPERIENCES Of them

Sgt. Pepper is famous for the album cover & being the 1st LP to include the lyrics for every song on the cover.

Never could be any other way Never could be any other way Never could be any other way Never could be any other way Never could be any other way The first time I REALLY heard this album was with a lovely girl and a quarter ounce of mushrooms. The sun was coming up as A Day in the Life began. There was a huge weeping willow in her yard. When the sun came through the tree, it didn't just glow, it exploded into light as if it were suddenly plugged into electricity just as the record ended. That was decades ago, but this music takes me right back. Thanks for the videos, what a great reaction.

@futurereflections4097

2 жыл бұрын

Dang, that sounds heavenly.

Really enjoyed these videos and your interpretation of the songs, I’m always a bit jealous of people listening to these songs for the first time! It’s definitely worth listening to the 50th anniversary deluxe version of pepper, just to hear the early takes and the building of layers of these incredibly famous songs as they come to life. Same on abbey road too where I actually prefer some of the stripped down demo versions (‘something’ for example sounded almost like a Bob Dylan song to start with).

Welcome to the story of the best group ever , The Beatles........

Brilliant comment, 'Sonically vivid'

When I hear a day in the life I get the same chills I felt 50+ yrs ago

Good morning was inspired by a Kelloggs add out at the time..Great song

The Bonzo Dog Band was the band that appeared in the Beatles home movie. This song is much like the Bonzo's wacky sonic approach to a song.

I would highly recommend listening to revolver or abbey road. Revolver was when they really started to experiment a bit with music while abbey road was when they found a great balance between experimentation and tradition in my opinion.

@StillColour

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, adding to the list!

That last line sounds like "Never Goosey Any Other Way" was the last groove on the record. It was a perpetual reminder to take the record off of the player in case you fell asleep and it has a dog whistle blowing on it that humans can't hear but it will startle the dog as well. As a kid in the 1970s I missed that last groove because we all had automatic disk changers by then which they didn't have in the 1960s.

@noteverton

2 жыл бұрын

Never could see any other way.

@susanryan2451

2 жыл бұрын

@@noteverton absolutely, brother✌🏼

i think i heard somewhere that the cover was like the idea if you could have 25 people in the world at a party living or dead who would they be legends leaders anyone. and the band all chose members of the cast of people on the cover.

The great album on Earth!!

For the first time you sure picked a goodie.

Good..more Beatles pls

I so agree with the vivid colours bit. It’s one of the few albums I have that strong association with (it’s like an orangey, coral red type colour for me for the record!), one of the others is blur’s the great escape (blue) and parklife (reddy/ yellow) weirdly enough. Maybe it’s not old enough yet, but parklife would be a good one to go through if you haven’t heard it.

Boom!