Let me start by saying that when the Beatles created this masterpiece album they did not have any intentions of creating music that people could dance to. They were focused on creating art and music to be listened to. Back in 1967 it was referred to as head music. It is very sophisticated music. It is considered by many to be the greatest album of all times. To truly enjoy it one needs to listen to it repeatedly.
I like the opinion warning. My question is, why does your generation think they should have an opinion about things they are clueless about? You don't need to post your opinion about everything. Honest.
yea this is something that bothers me with people in general, normalize not having an opinion on things you are uninformed on. You cannot analyze things properly without background knowledge.
"I like those drums they are using." That's called having an actual drummer, his name is Ringo Starr. Not a criticism but it's really weird to hear you mention how certain things "sound like" a more modern artist. Well, yeah, that's part of what's so great about The Beatles - they did all those things you like, first.
Google can't tell you the message of A Day In The Life, because I've only ever heard one person who understands it, and he is, unfortunately deceased. Incidentally, Rolling Stone rated Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the number 1 greatest album of all time on their list of 100 Greatest Albums.
Your reaction to 'She's Leaving Home' was disappointing. If you'd listened to the song instead of fretting over the recording error you'd have realised it was about a couple whose daughter was leaving home.
The Beatles were always challenging their huge following to experience new styles music. Not only from different times, but from different cultures. It was a musical journey with many twists and turns.
I'm really happy that after watching the Abbey Road reaction, I checked out your channel and found this video. It clearly shows that you came at it from a more mature angle and I wish the algorithm did you good and promoted this one too. I'll do my part by liking and subscribing. P.S. You hit the nail on the head with the ending of Mr. Kite, by the way. And I'm sure you read about it later, but they pioneered a "hardware" sampling/looping approach and yes they used a sound similar to the wind up thingy I also don't know the name of.
The instrument that an organ grinder plays is called a barrel organ, but the main instrument that we here in the song is a calliope, which is a more all encompassing musical instrument that has an organ, cymbals, drums, and other things all in one mechanism. They are usually associated with merry-go-rounds and circuses.
25:30 nobody is gonna hate you for this lmao that was genuinely what John lennon was trying to do and the people mixing the song were mad it took so long because all he could tell them was "i want it to sound like I'm in the middle of the circus
The big thing with the Beatles, especially from Rubber Soul on, is that the technological constraints of the time forced some pretty grand experimentation. Those "soundscapes" you mentioned, they were made with a combination of real instruments, synthesizers, and tape loops. All the stuff we can do now at the click of a mouse, they had to create organically, on analog recording equipment. It was absolutely pioneering for the time. They were incredible
if you like this, definitely do magical mystery tour (my favourite), very psychedelic and paul-mccartney-happy. if you do, keep in mind the track placement is a bit weird - it was originally made as a promo for their film by the same name. the first side's songs are in chronological order as to where they are in the film, and the second side is a compilation of singles.
Hey man, I commented on the previous one. I just wanted to say that I think this review was a lot better than the abbey road video. I just wanted you to do a more comprehensive listen and understand more of the Beatles music. Nice stuff!
Don'Bring Me Down was written by Jeff Lynne, a huge Beatles fan and who produced the 2 Beatles songs that came out in 1996 along with a few George Harrison albums. Good catch.
I have to say, after watching your Abbey Road reaction, it’s clear that you have taken on board comments and are now listening with a more open mind. Props to you man. I slightly prefer Sgt Pepper to Abbey Road too. Also I will add - Beatles songs absolutely grow on you and before long you’re addicted to the music and the history behind the band😂
You should listen to the other 2 songs that were not included in the album, since they were the best and they wanted to release them separately, as a single These are Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane
The Beatles were a Rock & Roll band who matured, grew & experimented as artist. There is no genre they were afraid to explore. Sgt Pepper was their 8th album. It doesn’t sound anything like their 1st LP “Please, Please Me”.
"Within you, without you" uses a sitar from India, It is an utopian song, About joint responsibility, search for transcendental peace. And living an ego free existence
It's amazing and so hard to conceive that a band went from the mature breakthrough of Rubber Soul to the psychedelic acid-tinged Revolver and then said "Nah we can still get way more ambitious, experimental and out there" with the next one. Oh yeah and those three masterpieces were released within an 18-month span :D Nowadays, a major artist puts out an album then tours behind it for 18 months then takes an 18-month break after that, tours again for 18 months and then records the followup over the next 18 months. Yet they still don't go leaps and bounds from their prior release the way the Beatles did in such a short time.
I too listened to St. Pepper for the first time when I was your age. A lot of people recommend you listen to additional other works and those are good places to go. Or don't. You are just starting your musical journey and there is so much to pick from. You do you. But I hope you will return to this album in years to come, as I have, and I am confident your appreciation for their work will only increase. Many people see them as the best pop band ever and that is a very legit position. But it is meaningless if you have nothing to compare it to. So bon voyage on your journey, you are laying a good foundation..
The Beatles started out as a pop band with a strong R&B and Motown influence, and got more and more experimental as time went on. They were always looking for new sounds, new instruments, new ideas to explore. For an example of their early pop sound, "Please Please Me" (their first #1 in the UK, recorded at the end of 1962 and released early in 1963) is a good place to start. You can feel their growing frustration with their pop image coming through by the end of 1964 with the album BEATLES FOR SALE, and in 1965/66 their music gets more personal, more mature, and more experimental, incorporating folk influences from artists like Bob Dylan, instruments and musical traditions from India, and new studio and post-production techniques like feedback, tape loops, backwards recording, et cetera. Some reactors listen to all their albums in release order so they can track the Beatles' musical development the same way (if much faster) than their original fans had back in the 60s, but that's not a time commitment everyone is willing to make.
If you listen to the songs and pay attention to the lyrics, you can avoid saying stupid shit. How you get the idea “She's Leaving Home” is about a woman leaving one of the Beatles is staggering. The song literally says the young woman has left her parents and the home she was raised in because she needed a more fulfilling life.
don't listen to haters bro, if you don't like something, just be honest, keep an open mind, AND KEEP LISENINGGGG, i love the Beatles, and i'm 16, it's not generational!!!! i'd say the next beatles album you should check out is revolver or the white album, good stuff. but also other artists', like queen or Radiohead (my favs) also check this guy Michael Kiwanuka, he's not old or anything, just really good lol
Do not wonder what The Beatles' lyrics were about. Most of it's just wordplay and they were all geniuses at it. When Lennon wrote 'I am a Walrus', it was in direct response to some teacher that asked his students to interpret their lyrics, so he made them all nonsense lyrics. 'For the Benefit of Mr Kite', the sound at the end was a number of recordings of fairground music, cut up into small pieces, thrown in the air, and reassembled. Bloody genius!
The Beatles started in America in 1964 as a band the girls screamed for like they were Elvis. They were the biggest act on the planet. But the music was great, and each album just got better. Even so, no one would have believed that just three years later, they would release Sgt Pepper, what many considered the greatest pop/rock album ever, revolutionizing the recording process and the idea of what pop music could be. The next year saw them with a totally different sound and their biggest hit to date with the single Hey Jude, and the double album, The Beatles (also known as the White Album).
i disagreed with some of you opinions but respected all of your opinions. i love this band it was the first that really got my ear. the band is almost as cool as the music. they have crazy stories surrounding the beatles in general. i love that you read some stuff on it and i even learned something. the beatles audience on here can be tough but youre doing an awesome job! i enjoy your content.
@@Mirrorgirl492 Ah, yes...and the Lysistrata is about a bunch of feminists staging a political protest. And Romeo and Juliet's about a couple of kids from different gangs getting together. And Great Expectations is about a boy who gets help to become a 'gentleman'. The world's literature is filled with such trivialities... 😀
Try analysing the unusual chords, modes, modulations, timing, and unique way of how they play an instrument. The details and texture of different sounds, how they layered and intereact. The amount of songwriting techniques applied.
Lucy was a picture made by 5 year old Julian Lennon and given to John. Also psychedelic. Mr. Kite had tape loops and overdubbing and backward stuff and was one great inventions by the Beatles and their producer George Martin. The Beatles (and esp. George Harrison) went to India to stay with the Maharishi Yogi to study Transcendental Meditation. (Within you and without you)
No. Start where you want. I never went through my Beatles listens by year. I started with PM's solo work, started hearing the Beatles in the mid period of their career. You can't control how people interpret the music or what or when they listen to it. They may hate something or be indifferent to it, or interpret it in a way different from yours. It's just like how people say you have to listen to Pink Floyd's albums in their entirety in one listen. More bs.
@@keithbrown7685 But I can point to the fact that not knowing what you're talking about as concerns the facts and their music you haven't listened to is exactly that: not knowing what you're talking about. And I can point out that not knowing their earliest achievements leaves you without basis to accurately "interpret" their later achievements. Maybe you should go back to the beginning -- drop all the nonsense about "pop" and "boy band," both being false -- and try it that way. You might actually learn something worth knowing.
@@tuio403 If you ignore all before, as example, "Rubber Soul," then you miss the evolution that occurred before then. But -- yeah: blowing off knowing what one is talking about is the norm among the irresponsible know-it-alls. What percentage of youngest voters voted for the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon Trump because they lack perspective on when to stop the cavalier disregard for reality and consequences?
@@tuio403 Be different, child: listen to their" Live at the BBC" recordings-- many are available on youtube. Those show they were a kick-ass band. And research their history -- their behaviors - in Hamburg, which were not of a "boy band".
Hey man i just wanna say that this video is pretty good! I really think Abbey road wasnt the starting point for the beatles, and that weirded you out, but like sgt pepper got some more upbeat songs and your opinions were much more happy towards them, so what i have to say is good video man and so much better from the abbey road vid, i recommend you listen to let it be, there you will se a lot more of rock and roll, keep it up man!
this is an album that rewards repeat listens... my favourite Beatles album is Rubber Soul... but really, you should go back to their early career and watch live performances where the girls went wild for them... and then you can appreciate the journey these later albums represent
She's leaving home is about a daughter who runs away from home in the 1960s. I was alive then, and a lot of teenagers were running away from home and never coming back. That is basically how the hippie generation started. Albums like this emboldened teenagers to do stuff that they wouldn't have done beforehand. A lot of well-to-do families tried to keep things like this a secret. Woodstock 1969 was full of runaways.
It wasn't just any girl running away, either -- it was a specific girl, Melanie Coe, whose story Paul McCartney read in the newspaper. He didn't realize when he read the article that he'd met her -- back in 1963 she'd won a lip synching contest he'd judged. He shook her hand and gave her a Beatles album as a prize.
Top selling musicians of all time. Not knowing much about them is cultural illiteracy. Watch the video A Brief History Of The Beatles to get caught up.
John said Lucy was about a drawing done by his young son Julian where Julian had been creative with the eyes. The sensational story was it being L (Lucy) S (Sky) D (Diamonds) .... honesty, does it really matter, if I'm wrong I'm right....
People thought Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a reference to LSD. Lucy Sky Diamonds, but John insisted the song was based on a picture his son Julian drew that Julian called Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Yes Julian came home from school with his painting and John said what's this Julian said "that's Lucy in the sky with diamonds" Lucy was a class friend of his
I would listen to Please Please Me. Then you will know where they were coming from. A lot of what you were questioning the meaning of was just humour. I first heard this album shortly after it came out. It was in mono, anyway, on my first listen, with friends in Fishguard yacht club, where we were illegally drinking and it was obvious that She's leaving home was about a girl running away, For the benefit of mr. kite was about a circus and the trippiest song on the album Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was about acid. Whatever John's explanations, he cannot have not noyiced the initials. Just one last thing, I am always amazed at the number of people reviewing this album do not at least crack a smile at lines like "And now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" PPS. The strange noise at the end came as the needle was crossing the centre of the discon it's way to return. It lasted about2 seconds.
Why all the insults directed at this young man? "She's Leaving Home" is musically dense and emotionally heavy-understandably, he might not have caught the lyrics clearly enough to realize the main character is a daughter, not a wife. Personally, I enjoy seeing how people with different tastes and musical experiences respond to albums like "Sgt. Pepper's." There's so much to take in, and I know plenty went over my head the first time I listened. Let's appreciate the variety of perspectives rather than looking for reasons to ridicule. On a different note, what does it say about the Beatles that their album from 56 years ago still sounds fresh and speaks to young people?
Lucy in the sky of diamonds is based off a picture that one of the band members John Lennons child drew and they said the picture was “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” so that’s what inspired them at lot people think it’s about LSD because of ‘ LUCY I’m the SKY with DIAMONDS’ Spells out LSD but John confirmed himself that it wasn’t.
Lucy O'Donnell married to became Lucy Vodden. She died quite young, in 2009, having suffered from Lupus. When the anthropologists who found the first Australopithecus afarensis fossils they were listening to Sgt Pepper so they named the fossil skeleton 'Lucy'. And, as you intimate, Beatles were unashamed about drugs and other songs so no reason for disbelieving Lennon about this song not being about LSD
Watching kids trying to understand The Beatles and their music is sometimes like a rocket scientist trying to explain his job . I’m always pleasantly pleased when they finally get it .
This trip you're on will expand all your musical horizons. One of the most influential bands of all time. You're going to need to listen to a lot of these songs multiple times to understand what they mean. You should also do some historical background on the band. If you watch a couple documentaries about them you will get a feel for how these songs relate to their lives at that time.
It's not your fault today s music is all made for radio, and the album production ,method, and sound is already stamped and getting towed by the producers. We Generation x love a good dance, but yeah , good music is more then what I'm hearing,, it's a bit soulless now, no new genre,, just sub genre of the 70s and 80s. Nothing new to report here. 😊
Exactly. I think there needs to be a good mix of pop and hip-hop music with other genres like rock, country, jazz, prog, etc. on the streaming sites. There's still great music out there, but you need to look for it since it's not mainstream
45:29 is where you don’t hear on a US Capitol release until 1980 when it was included on the “Rarities” album. The US release of “Sgt. Pepper” had none at the end of side 2 in the locked groove. Capitol decided to omitted it where it reaches the normal blank groove and you can hear nothing.
The thing you said about the music abruptly going in another direction and you don't know how to vide with it along with you're wanting to dissect the lyrics etc. makes me want to comment on how I see the album. I understand what you are saying and it makes me think that there are different ways of listening to music and they way you are used to listening to your own music may have an impact on how you hear this album. You're very analytical about music ( not that that's bad) and I feel too much dissection can lessen the effect of what the album does for me. Which is taking me through a mystical ride of a fictional band in a fictional world. To me, it's more about an abstract idea. It has meaning in a vague kind of way, I enjoy the lyrics and play on words but do not rely on it. The changes in pace and suddenly going into a totally different direction is surprising and fun. I don't think about it too much just enjoy the surprises and let them flow into each other as you would in a "sound bath".
That was on the UK “Sgt. Pepper” album where you can hear “Lucy, Abbey All The Way”. The US “Sgt. Pepper” album doesn’t have it, because Capitol decided to omitted from the run out groove, so you can hear it blank.
@@Musicradio77NetworkI always thought it was saying “Never kiss me any other way” lol at any rate if you play that part backwards it sounds like it’s saying “We will fuck you like we’re Superman “ which was always fun at parties
Tears For Fears, Paul Weller, Jane Weaver, Beth Gibbons, The Libertines, Steven Wilson released some very good albums in recent years. Especially their latest ones (second last one for Tears For Fears).
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Depeche Mode - Delta Machine Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds David Bowie - Blackstar Supergrass - Road To Rouen Tame Impala - Lonerism Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Paul McCartney - RAM Blur - The Best Of Oasis - What’s The Story Morning Glory
BRO listen to ME, not these 60 year old boomers. Listen to the latest mixes. The 2009 mixes are shit. Listen to revolver 2022 mixes, white album 2018 mixes, and the abbey road 2019 mixes. The fact you listened to the 2009 mixes is a CRIME😭😭😭🔥🖐🏻
Let me start by saying that when the Beatles created this masterpiece album they did not have any intentions of creating music that people could dance to. They were focused on creating art and music to be listened to. Back in 1967 it was referred to as head music. It is very sophisticated music. It is considered by many to be the greatest album of all times. To truly enjoy it one needs to listen to it repeatedly.
I like the opinion warning.
My question is, why does your generation think they should have an opinion about things they are clueless about?
You don't need to post your opinion about everything. Honest.
yea this is something that bothers me with people in general, normalize not having an opinion on things you are uninformed on. You cannot analyze things properly without background knowledge.
"I like those drums they are using." That's called having an actual drummer, his name is Ringo Starr.
Not a criticism but it's really weird to hear you mention how certain things "sound like" a more modern artist. Well, yeah, that's part of what's so great about The Beatles - they did all those things you like, first.
It’s modern artists who SOUND like the Beatles.
These young uns….
Google can't tell you the message of A Day In The Life, because I've only ever heard one person who understands it, and he is, unfortunately deceased. Incidentally, Rolling Stone rated Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the number 1 greatest album of all time on their list of 100 Greatest Albums.
Your reaction to 'She's Leaving Home' was disappointing. If you'd listened to the song instead of fretting over the recording error you'd have realised it was about a couple whose daughter was leaving home.
Benefit of mr kite is actually based on a circus poster from the 1800s
The Beatles were always challenging their huge following to experience new styles music. Not only from different times, but from different cultures. It was a musical journey with many twists and turns.
I'm really happy that after watching the Abbey Road reaction, I checked out your channel and found this video. It clearly shows that you came at it from a more mature angle and I wish the algorithm did you good and promoted this one too. I'll do my part by liking and subscribing.
P.S. You hit the nail on the head with the ending of Mr. Kite, by the way. And I'm sure you read about it later, but they pioneered a "hardware" sampling/looping approach and yes they used a sound similar to the wind up thingy I also don't know the name of.
The instrument that an organ grinder plays is called a barrel organ, but the main instrument that we here in the song is a calliope, which is a more all encompassing musical instrument that has an organ, cymbals, drums, and other things all in one mechanism. They are usually associated with merry-go-rounds and circuses.
25:30 nobody is gonna hate you for this lmao that was genuinely what John lennon was trying to do and the people mixing the song were mad it took so long because all he could tell them was "i want it to sound like I'm in the middle of the circus
The big thing with the Beatles, especially from Rubber Soul on, is that the technological constraints of the time forced some pretty grand experimentation. Those "soundscapes" you mentioned, they were made with a combination of real instruments, synthesizers, and tape loops. All the stuff we can do now at the click of a mouse, they had to create organically, on analog recording equipment. It was absolutely pioneering for the time. They were incredible
ALL THEIR albums are good.
if you like this, definitely do magical mystery tour (my favourite), very psychedelic and paul-mccartney-happy.
if you do, keep in mind the track placement is a bit weird - it was originally made as a promo for their film by the same name. the first side's songs are in chronological order as to where they are in the film, and the second side is a compilation of singles.
This my favorite beatles album. The white album is great too. I'd also recommend Magical Mystery Tour, and Rubber Soul.
Hey man, I commented on the previous one. I just wanted to say that I think this review was a lot better than the abbey road video. I just wanted you to do a more comprehensive listen and understand more of the Beatles music. Nice stuff!
For most of my life (born in 1960), I was never a fan of “She’s Leaving Home”. How wrong I was. So sad and beautiful.
I have always loved SLH. It is sad and beautiful.
Should have started listening to the albums in the sequence they were released.
The best way. Such a progression.
Watching this kid critique Sergeant Pepper's is like watching a squirrel critique the statue of David.
Give the guy a break, he is just starting out and has the balls to listen to a 60 year old album. I'd say he is ahead of his peers.
Don'Bring Me Down was written by Jeff Lynne, a huge Beatles fan and who produced the 2 Beatles songs that came out in 1996 along with a few George Harrison albums. Good catch.
Paul wrote When I'm 64, when he was still a young teenager.
I have to say, after watching your Abbey Road reaction, it’s clear that you have taken on board comments and are now listening with a more open mind. Props to you man. I slightly prefer Sgt Pepper to Abbey Road too. Also I will add - Beatles songs absolutely grow on you and before long you’re addicted to the music and the history behind the band😂
This reaction is much more constructive than the one to Abbey Road, great one!
You should listen to the other 2 songs that were not included in the album, since they were the best and they wanted to release them separately, as a single
These are Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane
just think about how varied those songs were. In 1967 this was off-the-wall crazy. It was also a reaction to Pet Sounds
John wrote songs for the listener to interpret in their own way. He wanted you to read between the lines.
The Beatles were a Rock & Roll band who matured, grew & experimented as artist. There is no genre they were afraid to explore. Sgt Pepper was their 8th album. It doesn’t sound anything like their 1st LP “Please, Please Me”.
It does not sound anything like their first *three* studio albums.
"Within you, without you" uses a sitar from India, It is an utopian song, About joint responsibility, search for transcendental peace. And living an ego free existence
It's amazing and so hard to conceive that a band went from the mature breakthrough of Rubber Soul to the psychedelic acid-tinged Revolver and then said "Nah we can still get way more ambitious, experimental and out there" with the next one. Oh yeah and those three masterpieces were released within an 18-month span :D Nowadays, a major artist puts out an album then tours behind it for 18 months then takes an 18-month break after that, tours again for 18 months and then records the followup over the next 18 months. Yet they still don't go leaps and bounds from their prior release the way the Beatles did in such a short time.
I too listened to St. Pepper for the first time when I was your age. A lot of people recommend you listen to additional other works and those are good places to go. Or don't. You are just starting your musical journey and there is so much to pick from. You do you. But I hope you will return to this album in years to come, as I have, and I am confident your appreciation for their work will only increase. Many people see them as the best pop band ever and that is a very legit position. But it is meaningless if you have nothing to compare it to. So bon voyage on your journey, you are laying a good foundation..
George was into Indian music.
The Beatles started out as a pop band with a strong R&B and Motown influence, and got more and more experimental as time went on. They were always looking for new sounds, new instruments, new ideas to explore.
For an example of their early pop sound, "Please Please Me" (their first #1 in the UK, recorded at the end of 1962 and released early in 1963) is a good place to start.
You can feel their growing frustration with their pop image coming through by the end of 1964 with the album BEATLES FOR SALE, and in 1965/66 their music gets more personal, more mature, and more experimental, incorporating folk influences from artists like Bob Dylan, instruments and musical traditions from India, and new studio and post-production techniques like feedback, tape loops, backwards recording, et cetera.
Some reactors listen to all their albums in release order so they can track the Beatles' musical development the same way (if much faster) than their original fans had back in the 60s, but that's not a time commitment everyone is willing to make.
Damn it another great Beatles reactor...I'm hooked. I really appreciate that you're playing the whole album.
She's leaving home is beautiful
If you listen to the songs and pay attention to the lyrics, you can avoid saying stupid shit. How you get the idea “She's Leaving Home” is about a woman leaving one of the Beatles is staggering. The song literally says the young woman has left her parents and the home she was raised in because she needed a more fulfilling life.
but also it mentions being the said mother at the same time, cut him some slack, lyrics are occasionally confusing and people can miss things
Be nice. At least he is exposing himself to The Beatles Experience.
First time viewer great reaction
Check out some the BeaTles singles that aren’t on any albums.
Paperback Writer, Rain and Day Tripper
Great poP rock singles
love your vibe man, and of course love the Beatles 🙂
This guy’s attitude is “Meh.” What’s to love?
don't listen to haters bro, if you don't like something, just be honest, keep an open mind, AND KEEP LISENINGGGG, i love the Beatles, and i'm 16, it's not generational!!!! i'd say the next beatles album you should check out is revolver or the white album, good stuff.
but also other artists', like queen or Radiohead (my favs)
also check this guy Michael Kiwanuka, he's not old or anything, just really good lol
She’s leaving home is about a child running away. It’s pretty obvious.
Do not wonder what The Beatles' lyrics were about. Most of it's just wordplay and they were all geniuses at it.
When Lennon wrote 'I am a Walrus', it was in direct response to some teacher that asked his students to interpret their lyrics, so he made them all nonsense lyrics.
'For the Benefit of Mr Kite', the sound at the end was a number of recordings of fairground music, cut up into small pieces, thrown in the air, and reassembled. Bloody genius!
The Beatles started in America in 1964 as a band the girls screamed for like they were Elvis. They were the biggest act on the planet. But the music was great, and each album just got better. Even so, no one would have believed that just three years later, they would release Sgt Pepper, what many considered the greatest pop/rock album ever, revolutionizing the recording process and the idea of what pop music could be. The next year saw them with a totally different sound and their biggest hit to date with the single Hey Jude, and the double album, The Beatles (also known as the White Album).
Next should be the Magical Mystery Tour album as its an extension of Sgt. Pepper-THEN do the White Album.
The meet the wife reference is ambiguous. At the time there used to be a popular TV sitcom called 'Meet The Wife'.
🌸 this is my first time on your channel... but I have to say-
this is Your channel -do you do you, dude .
don't worry about the haters
i disagreed with some of you opinions but respected all of your opinions. i love this band it was the first that really got my ear. the band is almost as cool as the music. they have crazy stories surrounding the beatles in general. i love that you read some stuff on it and i even learned something. the beatles audience on here can be tough but youre doing an awesome job! i enjoy your content.
She's Leaving Home was based on a story in the newspaper about a young lady who left her parents house to be with a man from the motor trade.
In exactly the same way "The Odyssey' is about what happens to a guy on his way home.
The girl the song was written about had actually appeared on a TV show with Paul prior to here running away. It’s on RUclips.
Although IRL the girl went off with a croupier, not a car salesman!
@@Mirrorgirl492 Ah, yes...and the Lysistrata is about a bunch of feminists staging a political protest. And Romeo and Juliet's about a couple of kids from different gangs getting together. And Great Expectations is about a boy who gets help to become a 'gentleman'. The world's literature is filled with such trivialities... 😀
Try analysing the unusual chords, modes, modulations, timing, and unique way of how they play an instrument.
The details and texture of different sounds, how they layered and intereact. The amount of songwriting techniques applied.
"She´s leaving home" ----- The daughter is leaving parents house for having fun.
Wurlitzer organ plus a bunch of hand-crafted tape loops.
It's supposed to be a circus feel.
This was a really good reaction! I recommend Revolver as your next Beatles album! :)
I’ve always found that we each seem to enjoy the music we hear earliest in life and at our most impressionable times. Your thoughts?
4:42 "just play the songs all the way through, and just Let It Be..."
I see what you did there haha
Can't play them through because of copyright laws
Lucy was a picture made by 5 year old Julian Lennon and given to John. Also psychedelic.
Mr. Kite had tape loops and overdubbing and backward stuff and was one great inventions by the Beatles and their producer George Martin.
The Beatles (and esp. George Harrison) went to India to stay with the Maharishi Yogi to study Transcendental Meditation. (Within you and without you)
Great video man! Id say Pink floyd’s the wall is a no brainer reaction dude
Start with their first and listen chronologically.
No. Start where you want. I never went through my Beatles listens by year. I started with PM's solo work, started hearing the Beatles in the mid period of their career.
You can't control how people interpret the music or what or when they listen to it. They may hate something or be indifferent to it, or interpret it in a way different from yours.
It's just like how people say you have to listen to Pink Floyd's albums in their entirety in one listen. More bs.
@@keithbrown7685 But I can point to the fact that not knowing what you're talking about as concerns the facts and their music you haven't listened to is exactly that: not knowing what you're talking about.
And I can point out that not knowing their earliest achievements leaves you without basis to accurately "interpret" their later achievements.
Maybe you should go back to the beginning -- drop all the nonsense about "pop" and "boy band," both being false -- and try it that way. You might actually learn something worth knowing.
Start wherever you want dude
@@tuio403 If you ignore all before, as example, "Rubber Soul," then you miss the evolution that occurred before then.
But -- yeah: blowing off knowing what one is talking about is the norm among the irresponsible know-it-alls.
What percentage of youngest voters voted for the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon Trump because they lack perspective on when to stop the cavalier disregard for reality and consequences?
@@tuio403 Be different, child: listen to their" Live at the BBC" recordings-- many are available on youtube. Those show they were a kick-ass band.
And research their history -- their behaviors - in Hamburg, which were not of a "boy band".
Hey man i just wanna say that this video is pretty good! I really think Abbey road wasnt the starting point for the beatles, and that weirded you out, but like sgt pepper got some more upbeat songs and your opinions were much more happy towards them, so what i have to say is good video man and so much better from the abbey road vid, i recommend you listen to let it be, there you will se a lot more of rock and roll, keep it up man!
this is an album that rewards repeat listens... my favourite Beatles album is Rubber Soul... but really, you should go back to their early career and watch live performances where the girls went wild for them... and then you can appreciate the journey these later albums represent
When you check out the White Album, you should do the 2018 remaster, instead of the 2009
Yes Please!
She's leaving home is about a daughter who runs away from home in the 1960s. I was alive then, and a lot of teenagers were running away from home and never coming back. That is basically how the hippie generation started. Albums like this emboldened teenagers to do stuff that they wouldn't have done beforehand. A lot of well-to-do families tried to keep things like this a secret. Woodstock 1969 was full of runaways.
Which pretty much couldn't be more obvious if you listen to the song.
It wasn't just any girl running away, either -- it was a specific girl, Melanie Coe, whose story Paul McCartney read in the newspaper. He didn't realize when he read the article that he'd met her -- back in 1963 she'd won a lip synching contest he'd judged. He shook her hand and gave her a Beatles album as a prize.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
L. S. D
Top selling musicians of all time. Not knowing much about them is cultural illiteracy. Watch the video A Brief History Of The Beatles to get caught up.
a lot of people are philistines.
Check out "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust..."
John said Lucy was about a drawing done by his young son Julian where Julian had been creative with the eyes. The sensational story was it being L (Lucy) S (Sky) D (Diamonds) .... honesty, does it really matter, if I'm wrong I'm right....
THE WHITE ALBUM PLEASE
People thought Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a reference to LSD. Lucy Sky Diamonds, but John insisted the song was based on a picture his son Julian drew that Julian called Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Yes Julian came home from school with his painting and John said what's this Julian said "that's Lucy in the sky with diamonds" Lucy was a class friend of his
Lucy sky Diamonds = LSD. If you've done psychedelics the images they describe in the song make perfect sense, infact goes for almost every track
Great reaction! If you want to get more into the Beatles I recommend their albums rubber soul and revolver.
I would listen to Please Please Me. Then you will know where they were coming from.
A lot of what you were questioning the meaning of was just humour.
I first heard this album shortly after it came out. It was in mono, anyway, on my first listen, with friends in Fishguard yacht club, where we were illegally drinking and it was obvious that She's leaving home was about a girl running away, For the benefit of mr. kite was about a circus and the trippiest song on the album Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was about acid. Whatever John's explanations, he cannot have not noyiced the initials.
Just one last thing, I am always amazed at the number of people reviewing this album do not at least crack a smile at lines like "And now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall"
PPS. The strange noise at the end came as the needle was crossing the centre of the discon it's way to return. It lasted about2 seconds.
Yes! , Mr Kite is about a circus...great reaction!
I listened “Mr. Kite” on the US Capitol release, and it sounds all over the place.
Here's the obligatory comment requesting Pet Sounds. Such a great album
Pet sounds is Rubbish
@theoccupier1652 not tryna argue with you but... why?
Why all the insults directed at this young man? "She's Leaving Home" is musically dense and emotionally heavy-understandably, he might not have caught the lyrics clearly enough to realize the main character is a daughter, not a wife. Personally, I enjoy seeing how people with different tastes and musical experiences respond to albums like "Sgt. Pepper's." There's so much to take in, and I know plenty went over my head the first time I listened. Let's appreciate the variety of perspectives rather than looking for reasons to ridicule. On a different note, what does it say about the Beatles that their album from 56 years ago still sounds fresh and speaks to young people?
you should react to “definitely maybe” from oasis since they’re having a reunion this year!
Try Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
This was an album they composed after they began really getting into drugs... And many of the songs were... inspired... by their intake...
From someone who is old enough to know, another masterpiece album worth reviewing is Cat Stevens’s Teaser and the Firecat.
Lucy in the sky of diamonds is based off a picture that one of the band members John Lennons child drew and they said the picture was “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” so that’s what inspired them at lot people think it’s about LSD because of ‘ LUCY I’m the SKY with DIAMONDS’ Spells out LSD but John confirmed himself that it wasn’t.
Lucy O'Donnell married to became Lucy Vodden. She died quite young, in 2009, having suffered from Lupus. When the anthropologists who found the first Australopithecus afarensis fossils they were listening to Sgt Pepper so they named the fossil skeleton 'Lucy'.
And, as you intimate, Beatles were unashamed about drugs and other songs so no reason for disbelieving Lennon about this song not being about LSD
The Beatles were The Masters of Each New Song being truly New .
Watching kids trying to understand The Beatles and their music is sometimes like a rocket scientist trying to explain his job .
I’m always pleasantly pleased when they finally get it .
Lucy in the sky means nothing, and everything
This trip you're on will expand all your musical horizons. One of the most influential bands of all time. You're going to need to listen to a lot of these songs multiple times to understand what they mean. You should also do some historical background on the band. If you watch a couple documentaries about them you will get a feel for how these songs relate to their lives at that time.
She's leaving home went right over your head ... Listen to the music/lyrics instead of running off at the mouth!
It's not your fault today s music is all made for radio, and the album production ,method, and sound is already stamped and getting towed by the producers.
We Generation x love a good dance, but yeah , good music is more then what I'm hearing,, it's a bit soulless now, no new genre,, just sub genre of the 70s and 80s.
Nothing new to report here. 😊
Exactly. I think there needs to be a good mix of pop and hip-hop music with other genres like rock, country, jazz, prog, etc. on the streaming sites. There's still great music out there, but you need to look for it since it's not mainstream
First album I ever owned. When it came out, people lost their minds, it was so good.
45:29 is where you don’t hear on a US Capitol release until 1980 when it was included on the “Rarities” album.
The US release of “Sgt. Pepper” had none at the end of side 2 in the locked groove. Capitol decided to omitted it where it reaches the normal blank groove and you can hear nothing.
being for the benefit of mr kite definitely has a circus vibe! also pretty much ahead of its time
The white album
circus sound is exactly right
The thing you said about the music abruptly going in another direction and you don't know how to vide with it along with you're wanting to dissect the lyrics etc. makes me want to comment on how I see the album. I understand what you are saying and it makes me think that there are different ways of listening to music and they way you are used to listening to your own music may have an impact on how you hear this album. You're very analytical about music ( not that that's bad) and I feel too much dissection can lessen the effect of what the album does for me. Which is taking me through a mystical ride of a fictional band in a fictional world. To me, it's more about an abstract idea. It has meaning in a vague kind of way, I enjoy the lyrics and play on words but do not rely on it. The changes in pace and suddenly going into a totally different direction is surprising and fun. I don't think about it too much just enjoy the surprises and let them flow into each other as you would in a "sound bath".
A "meter maid" is/was a female parking enforcer who would write citations for parking illegally, specifically, parking at a meter without paying.
The music in ".....Mr Kite" is indeed circus music. You nailed it! It comes from a calliope, an Organ operated by steam.
The last bit was on the run out groove of the vinyl album. Just one more treat for the brain.
That was on the UK “Sgt. Pepper” album where you can hear “Lucy, Abbey All The Way”. The US “Sgt. Pepper” album doesn’t have it, because Capitol decided to omitted from the run out groove, so you can hear it blank.
@Musicradio77Network nope. My copy, in America, in 1967, had that on the runout groove.
@@Musicradio77NetworkI always thought it was saying “Never kiss me any other way” lol at any rate if you play that part backwards it sounds like it’s saying “We will fuck you like we’re Superman “ which was always fun at parties
@@bryanfouts287 haha, i always heard "never do see any other way"
The white álbum please
Mr. Kite gave you a circus feel? You don’t say!
LOL
i encourage you to react to 'A brief history of the beatles' its a great video and it will help you get a better perspective of the band as a whole.
Tears For Fears, Paul Weller, Jane Weaver, Beth Gibbons, The Libertines, Steven Wilson released some very good albums in recent years. Especially their latest ones (second last one for Tears For Fears).
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
David Bowie - Blackstar
Supergrass - Road To Rouen
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Paul McCartney - RAM
Blur - The Best Of
Oasis - What’s The Story Morning Glory
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick To Your Mind
Carole King - Tapestry
The Carpenters - Gold Greatest Hits
Moby - Play
Coldplay - X&Y
It's a calliope on Mr kite...and the song is about a circus.
A brilliant imaginary song by the Fantastic 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🙏🕊💜👍
BRO listen to ME, not these 60 year old boomers. Listen to the latest mixes. The 2009 mixes are shit. Listen to revolver 2022 mixes, white album 2018 mixes, and the abbey road 2019 mixes. The fact you listened to the 2009 mixes is a CRIME😭😭😭🔥🖐🏻
This 60(+) year old boomer agrees with you 💯
THANK YOU, the hard panning on the 2009 suck and they somehow became the default😭
Poor guy has a lot to learn.
It is a breaking point between dimensions....have fun fun exploring your own expansion within..it's like the Beatles were a portal..lol
Great reaction brother! 🙏🏻❤ If you can, please react to the album Magical Mystery Tour, by the Beatles
do ziggy stardust next bro
Please do revolver
. . . and Abbey Road
Yes
"...time for Tea And Meet The Wife." Tea And Meet The Wife was an English TV show at that time.