The Beatles - I’m Only Sleeping (REACTION)
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A Grammy was just awarded for Best Music Video for I'm Only Sleeping. Worth watching.
It is sooooo cool!!!
Saw it. Beautiful❤
Came here to post this. Wasted opportunity!
@praywithoutceasing4939 They could've reacted to the song AND the video at the same time, just that.
It is absolutely great. A labor of love for one of my favorite Beatles song.
The craziest thing is that this album is almost 60 years old recorded on relatively primitive equipment by today's standards and it still sounds incredible.
Yes, by definition anything that's a bit old is crazy innit?
@@billythedog-309 Wut?
@@jp3813 Well, it appears that for anything remotely old - buildings, books, records etc - is crazy or insane to most Americans that comment on RUclips.
@@billythedog-309 Revolver isn't just anything.
@@jp3813 No, it's older than you, so it's crazy. lnnit?
The magic of the Beatles - every new LP set new trends. Each track was stand-alone. Where they went others followed!!! Fact!!
There's the Beatles. Then there's everyone else.
...or tried to.
You just said in one line what I said in a paragraph. Fact indeed! The Rolling Stones regularly imitated The Beatles, like with their flop At Her Satanic Majesty's Request imitation of Sgt. Peppers. Rock on!
You nailed it. The Beatles didn't recreate the same albums like other bands. They could go from one genre to another and from one extreme to another. They were constantly evolving.
The genius of John Lennon's words and the collective genius of the band's musicianship.
RIP John. Always missed.
Just goes to show in 1966 The Beatles are leading the pack in popular music. As soon as others try to catch up, they find the Beatles left them in the dust. Just can't keep up .
This is the Beatles maturing musically & creatively in the studio. They are the best example of of a group that is completely different from 1st Album to last.
Led
@@JoeandAngie But The Beatles did it first. Love me some Zep though. They are my second favorite band of all time.
LSD 😉
They were maturing from their first recording released. The only way to actually hear that is to listen to their recordings chronologically from the beginning, instead of beginning with their last, or somewhere in the middle.
What was the LP they made before "Revolver"? Do you know? Have you "bothered" with it? It has greater emotional depth than "Revolver".
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That's Paul famous Hofner violin bass. so smooth. The backwards guitar is awesome too. Love this song. Great reaction guys
I think he was using his Rickenbacker bass in the studio by this time.
Either way it was Paul using an electric bass to get a great tone to complement the song. I doubt Paul even had access to an upright bass at the time. Later on in life his wife Linda bought him the actual stand up bass belonging to Bill Black that was heard in so many of Elvis’ early rockabilly tracks.
It’s funny that the thing you mentioned about the bass is actually the special feature of the rickenbacker 🤣
yes true...that was widely used in the 60's as well. Paul still uses his Hofner. Its awesome@@juanacosta5469
From what I have read in 1965 the Rickenbacker guitar company crafted and presented Paul with a left handed 4001. From that time, beginning with the Rubber Soul recording, Paul used the 4001 for the studio recordings and used the Hofner on the tour dates.
The Beatles innovated the backwards guitar solo, which quickly became a staple of the emerging psychedelia.
play all their songs in sequence; none will sound the same. That was the joy of every new release. You never knew what to expect.
I love this album. This song is perfect, classic Lennon
The Beatles changed music forever
I appreciate you for recognizing and appreciating musical genius. They didn't just play it. They created it.
The Beatles were the first rock band to win a Grammy Award for best album Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
On top of everything else that has been said here, Revolver was recorded on only 4 tracks. 4 tracks. All of their albums up to this point, and even their next album after Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hears Club Band, were recorded on only 4 tracks. They didn't get to 8 tracks until the White Album. Genius.
"Every song sounds different." You just described what made them great.
A beautiful song on a beautiful album. I feel that Revolver is THE greatest pop, psychedelic rock album, that launched 1000s of bands in history.
I'm 72 and experienced all Beatles albums firsthand. Revolver is and always will be my favorite go-to when I need a Beatles fix.
You haven't heard "Rubber Soul".
@@jnagarya519 love Rubber Soul!
@@Dan-zq5wt "Rubber Soul" has an emotional depth that "Revolver" does not. The different effects of two different drugs: the first, weed; the second, LSD, which tends to be experienced intellectually.
I love both LPs, but "Rubber Soul" is one of my top three, the other two being "Beatles for Sale" and "The Beatles" (aka "White" LP).
Now, this song "I'm Only Sleeping" -- ah, John Lennon!
The guitar solo/fills were recorded normal then played backwards which give it that trippy sound. Beatles were the first to try this
You should watch the video. It just won an award for Best Music video at The Grammys
One of my favorite Beatle songs!
This one is a total jam - perfect for singing along!
"The Beatles" made music -- they didn't do "genre". They TRANSCENDED the whole idea of "genre".
Gentlemen, that you for showcasing this ground breaking album released in the summer of 1966. I think this is the beginning of PROG rock.
Rock is rock is rock. So-called "prog rock" is middle-class pretentiousness by the insecure who were intimidated into believing rock was inferior to classical music, so they tried to stop the snobs' criticisms. The two -- rock and classical -- are incompatible, but they jammed them together anyway, and the musically illiterate believe it some sort of advance. It should be called "crock rock".
The two people I would have most wanted to meet and chat with during my life are John Lennon and Muhammad Ali.
One of the greatest albums ever recorded. A must have. You truly need to hear the entire album straight through.
60 years later and I still can't get over how good their music was.
With this song (and the single B-sde "Rain", which was recorded during the Revolver album sessions), they recorded the song in one key for the backing instruments, then slowed the tape down a whole step to record the vocals, then the final playback/master was then sped up to a half step between (meaning that, say, if they recorded a D note on the guitar, that note would be a C when they recorded the vocals, then when they did the final mix it became a C#/Db).
So this is why the bass sounds so resonate like a stand-up and the drums sounds so deep, and the voices sound pitched up.
Well Put ❗ Thanks for that narrative. Such a smooth beautiful song.
Excellent explanation. Thank you!
2 years earlier they were singing I Want to Hold Your Hand. ✌️🤟
And 2 years earlier I Want to Hold Your Hand was a revolutionary sound!
There has truly not been another band like them.
Great point. Progression in the highest form.
I think I posted this early (apologies if I did), but we used to wait for the next album like it was Christmas, because we knew they were going to do something you have never heard before--in the themes of the songs, the music, the instruments, the arrangement/composition. It was going to be a buffet of beautiful melodies and innovations, even avante guarde music. They were a walking revolution and are and will forever be the GOAT.
This one was always one of my favorites. A typical John song 😊It is sometimes hard to explain unless you've been around it or know their music journey and what an amazing one it was. Growing up with the Beatles music for me? Pure magic. They are part of my DNA!
They were a "new sound" when they blew up big time 1963-1964, but around late 1965-1966 they became trailblazers that other musicians took a lot of inspiration from as they, themselves, were constantly looking for inspiration from all kinds of sources, including Indian music. Once the Beatles broke that new ground with their own creations, everybody else was discovering it. It was during the mid-1960's that popular music became excited by everything new. By the late 1960's (1966-1969) music creativity exploded, with the result that by 1969, Prog Rock began to take it to a whole new level. Coincidentally, 1968 was when I started high school, so my young ears were filled with wonderfulness during all those golden years of music...
George and Paul's backup vocals are incredible. They make it sound so easy, but they're so precise with all of the harmonies. Then Paul goes high behind John and makes it feel like something written in the 20s! Very cool.
Hello fellas ,as a rule of thumb , if you hear a genre of modern music in a Beatles song chances are thats where the genre originated . all my best to you and yours from Liverpool
When I ponder the Beatles and their journey it is incredible to me that they survived. There was no template for them - musically or personally. Much of their experience was absolute insanity with some protection but nothing like it is in the music business now. Their art and smarts were incredible to grow up with and each album is a reflection of where they were in their lives at that point. To get a real sense of this band I think it's a good idea to listen to their albums chronologically - they were such an incredible influence in the world and they were incredibly influenced by world events and trying to cope with the insanity of their lives. At one point LSD played a big roll in their music but so did George Martin's production of their albums. He was key in their sound and some people refer to him as the 5th Beatle. At the beginning of their career as we know it George Martin was asked to produce them but had never heard of them and had no experience with rock music at all - he was a comedy and classical album producer. He agreed to take them on after he met them because he said they were just "so damned charming."
Another fantastic reaction gentleman. The Beatles are just pure genius. They are one of the all time greatest bands of all time. Just a talented bunch of lads. Keep on rocking and doing what you do for the Airplays family love what you are doing ❤
The Bass is Paul using his Custom Made Rickenbacker 4001 (1st left handed) Bass, that my mother "Dotty" assembled in 1964 while working at Electro-Strings Rickenbacker Guitars, Santa Ana California. The track includes a backwards lead guitar part played by George Harrison, the first time such a technique was used on a pop recording. Harrison perfected the part with the tape running backwards so that, when reversed, it would fit the dreamlike mood. One guitar was recorded with fuzz effects, the other without. Engineer Geoff Emerick described the meticulous process as "interminable". "I can still picture George hunched over his guitar for hours on end", headphones clamped on, brows furrowed in concentration..... It played backwards, and, ‘What the hell is going on?’ Those effects! Nobody knew how those sounded then. We said, ‘My God, that is fantastic! Can we do that for real?’… So that was what we did and that was where we discovered backwards guitar. It was a beautiful solo actually. It sounds like something you couldn’t play"- Paul McCartney ..... 'I don't mind writing or reading or watching or speaking, but sex is the only physical thing I can be bothered with any more"- John Lennon
No auto-tune; no cut and paste Pro Tools fixes; just authentic performance, superior songwriting and as you already noted, great production. These guys were just in a class by themselves. And it's appropriate that you're reacting to them on the 60th anniversary of the day they landed at JFK national airport, two days before the historical first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Yes, incredible record. Fun story; in 1965 they were coming to Toronto. I have 2 older sisters who wanted to go baaad. The Toronto radio station, Chum AM,had tickets they were giving away all day one Saturday. All you had to do was call up ( you know we'll take the 6th caller) and guess a number on the wheel between 1 and 10. My oldest sister all day, had the first 6 digits of the stations # dialed in and only had to dial the last#. She got through and the DJ said, ok Jean pick a number from 1-10. She said 4 he spun the wheel and said congrats you just won 4 tickets to the show. Well they screamed and my Mom came down a said what's wrong lol. Anyway I didn't get to go but when I saw them the next day I said how was the show. They both were talking with a hoarse voice lol. They were special, both my sisters and of course The Beatles. Memories...
Goosebumps. Been listening to it since 1966, and it still washes over me like a Cuban woman bathed in chocolate.
Fun fact: Paul owns Elvis’s bass players stand up bass.
"66?! That's hella early!" Exactly, because The Beatles were *creating* the styles you're hearing, a new way to make music, and new expectations from it. Ringo's a master, never drawing attention to himself.
And Che hit the nail on the head--Revolver put the exclamation point on the band's evolution from fantastic pop love ballads, to trailblazing albums transforming music. Each song is a mini movie, with whatever style, arrangement, and instrumentation best tell the tale. Their previous album, Rubber Soul, began that trend, and is IMO a must-react. Revolver takes it further, and changes the Beatles image from adorable moptops, to musical wizards. Now united not just as performers but as studio creators, the Beatles were taking music new places.
Your enthusiasm, insights, and growing knowledge of the band is delightful. Thanks for having me along. 🙏
I'm pretty sure Paul was using flatwound strings on his bass back then, which gives you a very mellow, warm tone. Depending on your playing style and your amp/recording chain, you can get close to that upright bass sound.
As jazz people would say "He's walking the bass"
They started with Mono, then cam stereo and the Beatles made use of the advances. I love how you understand and love the Beatles Songs, welcome to the club.
This was the first use of backmasking. The amount of "firsts" on this album is wild.
Just so simple, yet brilliantly beautiful and always to quote La & Che “surprising” always blazing a trial of creativity and usually the first to do it!
One of my favorite Beatles songs.
One of my favourite Beatles songs. Route 66 babies
This song perfectly encapsulates a big part of the genius of the Beatles...namely, their ability to take almost any style of music (in this case folk-rock/psychedelia), make it their own and make it so damn listenable.
One of the Beatles' finest songs. "Sounded good for '66" you say. Well, there was a lot of excellent music that year - songs like "Good Vibrations", "Paint It Black", "Eight Miles High" and "Sunny Afternoon". The music of 1966 was far better than today's!
After listening to the Beatles for the last 60 years, this has become one of my favorite tunes of theirs. The very first instance of so-called "backwards guitar". Thanks for the listen
Tomorrow Never Knows has to be the first
and Sand by Nancy and Lee was even first
@@ricardo_miguel13 Cool man. I wasn't aware of it. Just listened and looked up on Wiki. The musicians were the famous Wrecking Crew. Thanks
Ned from Spain sayin Hey La and Che and thank you for listening to this. Revolver is when these guys got deeper into mind altering substances and the influences of Motown, Dylan, Freakbeat and Indian music Producer George Martin was a mighty MVP in helping put the sounds in their heads on to tape. I might be wrong but I think the backwards guitar solo, imitating a sitar ?, was the first just before Jimi Hendrix did it. Also they had Sitar legend Ravi Shankar play on the track " Love You To " by George Harrison of course. All good things to you fellas.
You can hear the wood - the aged resins holding the fibers in place - resonating. I love standup bass.
Pretty sure it's Paul's Hofner Bass, which has a nice woody sound anyway. Kinda feel it's him who's maintaining the swing more than Ringo's foot, but - unusually for the era - he's hitting chords too.
Nice going through this album with you, can't wait for Tomorrow Never Knows!! Meantime check out PJ Harvey - Rid of me, any live solo version "lick my legs I'm on fire"
One of my favorite Beatles songs. I love playing and singing it, too.
This is probably the most incredible album ever written.
Track after track of staggeringly great songs and culminating in probably the most ground breaking song ever made.
I think the Revolver and Rubber Soul albums really showed us how they could evolve and just how exciting they might turn out to be. And boy, were they ever. I remember listening to this on my older brothers 8-track tape player around 1975.
another banger!
Lovely song! This is one of my favorite albums by them. This is where they disconnect from the "yeah-yeah-yeah" phase and start to be more experimental, bringing more maturity and complexity to the lyrics and instruments. The track "Tomorrow never knows" is something out of the box for an album made in 1966.
The Beatles makes me dreaming every time ❤❤
Always loved this song. The whole album
My favorite Beatle song.
Adore John’s lyrics and vocal performance. Paul bass work and the harmonies are gorgeous.
Beautiful and impactful piece; one of their most underrated.
John’s edge 🔥
the bass is Paul's electric Hofner bass. The lead voice is John Lennon, Lead Guitar is George Harrison, Drums is our beloved Ringo!
They have his 66 Rickenbacker as bass used
🔥Revolver, 🔥Rubber Soul,🔥 Sgt. Pepper🔥
You nailed it. , every album was an adventure
They were doing contemporary music in a way that had not been done before. ⭐️👍
This song may have been the first song to have backwards guitar on it.
Gosh: I just feel SO FORTUNATE to have GROWN UP with this type of SOUND and the TALENT that surrounded us!! Will we EVER see it, again? There are some talented people out there...but, it's almost like most of them don't things anymore that MOVE your SOUL!! Everything is "some-kinda-'mix'".... The Beatles are almost like your EARS are enjoying a SMORGASBOARD of MUSIC!! UGH - SO GOOD! I LONG for the DAYS!! Thanks for reacting to this album, GUYS!! HUGS!
I was blessed to have this song an essential part of my childhood. Elder siblings had the album which I loved so very much and would play this in my head to go to sleep. 💤 I called myself a Beatles baby! 😹
The mono version of this is even better. A bit more of that "reverse" effect
One of my favorite Beatles songs from my favorite Beatles album.
I do love the Beatles that was very nice.
I can't wait till you do Sgt, Peppers album.
I know I’m patiently waiting!
3 song writers and 3 lead singers give you diversity in style and composition.
One of my favorite Beatles songs. John's lead vocal is great and the back up singing is in a class of its own. Loved your reaction, guys.
That swing it is almost as Dominoes by Syd Barrett's also the back masking sound. David Gilmour said that it was the hardest thing to accomplished
Imagine if you were well to do in 1966.....Brand new 1966 Vette, Revolver, Stones, go go girls, Man..... Had to be a great time
One of my favorite John songs! He wrote this because when Paul would come over to write songs, he would always be in bed sleeping!
This is one of John's famous "last minute" songs. While recording Rubber Soul. John was shy some material. Paul is playing on his Hofner beatle bass. One recordings, he only used them, and later (67,68) his Rickenbacher bass on a lot of songs until going back to his Hofner the last year of the Beatles. John went home with nothing one night but an assignment and this is what he came in with the next morning. Of course it wasn't totally complete, but with the other 3, they had it done an in the can quickly. George adds some of his Indian tempura and sitar, and Paul added a touch of tape loops (his fun projects.) this is MID Sixties
The sound track of my youth. Love them.
My favorite Beatles song on my favorite Beatles record. Absolute bliss.
John's ode to sleeping, I heard he slept a LOT haha. I think this was the first song to ever use the backwards guitar solo effect!? I heard John got the idea when he popped a cassette tape into the player and it made that sound speed up garbled sound. Also interesting, this song was not on the American release of Revolver, only the English/Euro version in 66. It might have been a B side here in the States, that I don't know. Most of us never heard it until the CD version of Revolver was dropped in the early 90's..I remember being blown away!
The early records from 63-65 all kind of had a consistent sound. It was early classic pop rock
From Rubber Soul on, every album was different. Theyd go 20 different places in one record. They laid the foundation the first few years and then they went crazy experimenting
This album (as shown in this song) was the first time ANY group had ever used certain effects in music: slowed down audio (drums), flanger and cabinet, and the reverse audio like the guitar here. And the way they micd the bass . One of the most influential and innovative albums of all time!
Paul on bass. Great player.
They seemed to put the bass up front in a lot of the songs recorded on revolver...you MUST check out the single "paperback writer" with the b side "rain"....bass is killing it on rain, along with ringos drums. This (paperback/rain) belongs on revolver but was put out as single instead, never made it to an albulm.
Correlation between sound of the records is what the word he was looking for. Yeah, those guys..what to say? The late George Martin was really the fifth Beatle. Amazing man. Sugested the trumpet on "Penny Lane" and the rest is history.
That lazy rhythm! This is my top favorite Beatles track. Very psychedelic.
You’re absolutely right. After they quit touring (see the Ron Howard doc) they became a studio band and basically were inventing new ways to record and new sounds.
Wonderful. Just another Beatles masterpiece
One of my favorite John songs from the album. The bass does sound like an upright. But I have a lot of resources, books that I read & at this time during Revolver, Paul changed to the Rickenbacker 4001 electric bass over the hofner. Geoff Emerick the engineer was altering a lot equipment during this album to give Paul different bass tones. He would pump the bass signal into a leslie speaker & miked the rotating horns to go back in a bass amp. He would rewire the bass speaker to be a microphone off of his bass speaker. essentially having to speakers facing each other. some crazy shit they experimented with. As far as I know Paul never played on an upright bass during any Beatles recordings. The orchestras that George Martin hired to record on their songs might have.
One amazing thing about this song is that it was not included in the US version of Revolver until Revolver was issued on the CD format in the 80s. A great song like this one!
Their 66/67 psychedelic era is so good.
One of my very favourite Beatles songs both to listen to and to play. As always, Paul's nimble, bouncing bass, Ringo's perfectly tailored to the tune drums, George's pioneering backwards guitar solo and John's effortlessly emotive and relatable lyrics and delivery.
Love it. 😴😉🤙🏼🎶❤️✨️🕊
1966 too fellas, they cut up some of the guitar parts and ran them backwards...it was really revolutionary for the time. This is when they decided not to tour anymore and concentrated on creating in the studio, often with "collage" like pieces such as this which couldn't be played live without using a recorded track behind them. This album left me spellbound as an 11 year old kid and I consider it the greatest album ever made. My take. This is when albums became "statements" and not just a collection of 2 minute 30 second songs.
Love this reaction, the commentary, and The Beatles.
Fun fact: "I'm Only Sleeping" is known for its backwards guitar. It was conceived by George Harrison in a late-night session, inspired when a studio engineer accidentally flipped a tape and Harrison was amazed at the effect and decided to do it for real. So he wrote down a solo and then played it twice, once forwards and once backwards, with fuzz effects on one track.
actually Sand by Nancy and Lee had already a backwards guitar solo some months before. And Tomorrow Never Knows was recorded before aswell.
Loving you guys reacting to the Beatles. Just wish you'd be able to start with their first album and then chronologically go through their work, it would have been perhaps more insightful and mind blowing to see and appreciate the insanely creative steps they took .
Thank you for bringing out so many of the Beatles songs that’s are off the beaten path so to speak. This song is a gem from start to finish. Appreciate all your work guys. Cheers!
Guitar solos and licks are being played in reverse, gives it psychedelic atmosphere. John's idea; genius! Album from 1966.
One of my top Beatles songs.