@Bipbop66 it is on patreon! He just puts it on RUclips for the likes of me who shouldn't spend what little money they have on Patreon, and I'm very grateful 🙏
I"VE BEEN SCROLLING DOWN TO READ SOME OF THE MESSAGES LEFT HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TWO THINGS, IF I MAY. FIRST OF ALL, YOUR AUDIENCE IS THE BEST, MOST WELL BEHAVED, DECENT, AND MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE GROUP OF BEATLES FANS I'VE EVER SEEN. AND THE SECOND THING I'D LIKE TO SAY IS DIRECTED RIGHT TO YOUR LISTENERS. HEY EVERYBODY, HOW LUCKY AND EXTREMELY FORTUNATE WERE WE TO HAVE GROWN UP IN THE TIME THAT THE BEATLES WERE HERE AND MAKING THEIR INCREDIBLE MUSIC? I MEAN, WERE WE BLESSED, OR WHAT?
Some people, including George Martin, wanted to cut songs and make it a single album. As for me, I'm glad we have all these songs. The more Beatles, the better.
It was chock full of filler by Beatles standards but by the standards of everyone else? Pure gold at every turn. Yes as a 15-track single LP it would be their best ever. But even at 30 it may still be that! And there were still a few good tunes written along the way that didn't make the cut but showed up later on Beatles or solo LPs
The thing is, what I have learnt from reading many comments on the subject over the years on YT, is that: 1) everyone thinks they know for sure which those 'filler' songs are, and 2) nobody thinks it's the same songs - one person's definite 'throwaway song' always turning out to be amongst someone else's favourites... So maybe keeping nearly all of them in was the right decision after all...
sexy sadie was about the Maharishi. When in north India at the Maharishi transcendental meditation retreat with many top names Mia Farrow's sister Prudence was inappropriately groped by the Maharishi who claimed he was looking for her center of breathing.. The Beatles decided to leave and John was given the task of telling him. Apparently he told the Maharishi w're leaving the Maharishi said why? and Lennon said if you're so fucking cosmic you tell me. Apparently the song sexy sadie was going to be 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool of everyone'
John wanted to name it Maharishi and the others talked him out of it, changed it to Sadie. At some point John had the C U Next Tues word in there as well. Even John had to know that wasn't going to fly. Some believe Magic Alex made the whole groping thing up because he wanted to go home.
…unbelievably productive- And the handwringing around the breakup😳 George once said of them that they’d ’given their never systems’ So I still get irritated when I read about John being ‘lazy’ - While I’m still endlessly enriched by their work to this day. I think they could’ve used a vacation! And in a way, trip to India was a ‘short’ one, whereupon the six or whatever weeks spent there birthed 30+ songs - unbelievable ❤
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
Yeah, the bass sound all over The White Album is unique and never repeated on any other Beatles album. Apparently McCartney would often play Keyboards or guitar during the original tracks and get George or John to play along on bass with the newly purchased Fender 6 string bass. And then Paul would overdub the bass part again on his Fender Precision to beef up the more trebly 6-string sound. So the sound we hear more often than not is 2 basses played together. Very different sound from Paul's earlier Hofner/Rickenbacker sound - Although the Hofner & Fender 6 reappears on Let It Be and then we are back to the Precision & the 6-string on Abbey Road (but this time not usually playing at the same time together).
@@Kieop Well, many times the bass is indeed just played by Paul on the White Album, like Dear Prudence. But that unique & unmistakable chunky clicking bass sound that we are discussing here, like on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', is John (or sometimes George) playing it live on Fender VI bass (while Paul plays another instrument like piano or guitar) and then later Paul overdubbing his Fender Precision on top. And in fact for 'Back In The USSR' all 3 Beatles recorded bass parts (although from memory John's may have not made the final mix). My theory is The Beatles would have been well aware of the classic 1950's/early 60's 'tic-tac bass' technique of overdubbing a Danelectro or Fender 6 string bass guitar part with a pick to duplicate exactly the more boomy, less defined, upright bass part. Songs like 'Little Sister' by Elvis use this technique and I am guessing The Beatles had a nostalgic fondness for that sound.
Helter Skelter was the hardest song ever made, up to that point in time, and Paul made it that way to prove a point, and show up a musician friend who said his band had recorded the hardest song yet. Paul said, basically, "Hold my joint." 😂 This album proves just how great The Beatles truly were, even more than Sgt. Pepper's, IMO, because of the diversity of styles and wild experimentation. I love Sgt. Pepper's but the White Album is a whole other ball of wax. Thanks, for posting this, even if it won't stay up for long. ❤👍✌️
@@OroborusFMA The thing is that "I Can See For Miles" is quite tame. I used to have all of the Who albums on vinyl (I'm 74) and I never thought they were heavy or raucous or raunchy in the least. The Who album that "I Can See For Miles" was on was "The Who Sell Out" and I always have thought of that album as being embarrassingly SILLY & STUPID. Maybe two good songs...
They jammed for another 20 minutes at the end of Helter Skelter. So they edited most of that out and brought it back with true ending of the jam, when Ringo's decalres, "I got blister's on my fingers".
The long take of Helter Skelter (27 minutes) was the first version. There is a 13 minute take of the first version on RUclips from The Beatles. The released song was version 2.
Hearing these songs in their proper context makes such a massive difference - remember this is the way they wanted them heard and was the only way at the time to hear them
@ Me Irish Grandfather was babysitting me (5 yrs old), and as I rushed into his kitchen after playing outside, I started drinking milk out of the milk carton… As he sat at the kitchen table drinking a beer he asked me, “Hey Bob, why are ye drinking all that milk?” “I’m thirsty, I answered”. To which he replied, “It’s not Thursty, it’s Saturday!”
Back in the day we had been spoiled by years of torrential production of incredible music from the Beatles. I think I was numb or a bit jaded by the time the White album came out. It’s only after revisiting decades later that I now give it the respect it deserves. I am not enamored by every track, but as I always say: The Beatles’ song you like least is still better than 95% of the songs released at the time.
Yeah, I haven’t listened straight thru the sides like this in decades. You’re right it’s a mind trip of the Beatles and sounds and music, an adventure, a tour de force
Almost all the White Album was composed in India and worked on once back in England. Birthday has Patti Boyd Harrison in the studio. It might have been her birthday. Yer Blues was done live in a small, closet size room. One of Lennon's best vocals. To hear you call out Big Momma Thorton was a treat. My how you've grown musically of late, my friend. Kudos. On Mother's Nature Son I think it's Ringo slapping his thighs keeping time. No need to explain Me And My Monkee; Sexy Sadie was about slandering the Maharishi due to John's mistrust of him in the end. Love the sound of the piano in the opening. Lennon's singing is also great. Magic Alex visited them in India and left the impression that he had a mission to get the Beatles out of there and back to England. It has been suggested by Cynthia Lennon herself, that Magic Alex is the person that started the rumor about the impropriety between the Maharishi and Prudence. And Lennon ate it up, left and wrote a song about it. So as you can see, many more versions to that story than wiki page cares to explore. Helter Skelter is a slide in the UK and Paul is just making loud hard and heavy rock. The song got used by Charles Mansion as a McGuffin to incite his "family" to commit murder thus making the song infamous in its day. George Harrison once stated that the name of his song initially was 'It's Been A Long Long Long Time' but he thought it a bit too long long long. Side 3 is epic. Side 4 is the closure. Great react Lee. Thanks for posting it.
Let's start a side with Martha My Dear and the next with Birthday. Just to show everybody that we can do everything. I'm always in two minds about which album is my favourite of all time, Abbey Road or The White Album. As much as I appreciate experimentation and unpredictability, Revolution no 9 is not something I enjoy in the mix of me rocking, swaying and grooving to the rest of the songs. But then I hear Mother Nature's son, Blackbird, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps etc etc etc and think: "Wow, that is an incredible album!"
Helter Skelter is a perfect illustration of what I mentioned earlier. You are encountering it a second time a long time later while this huge amount of experiencing context grew up around you. I think it's fantastic.
People always say that Sgt. Peppers was the most influential album of all time. But I think it was the White Album. Because it contains all the musical styles that defined rock music from that point (1968) until well into the 1970s. The White Album is the root of 70s rock.
Abbey Road, maybe, with its high polish and early use of synthesizers, perhaps. If you listen to The Cars first album (1978) it has Abbey Road all over it, for example.
Without a doubt Sgt. Pepper was the most influential album of all time if you knew the time it was released and the state of music back then. Sgt. Pepper was an esoteric (or closed) concept album about the life of Billy Shears. The Beatles had to be both clever and cryptic about it for fear that the BBC would ban the album. As it was the BBC did ban two songs: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Fixing A Hole". The turnout to the album has the Beatles saying: We couldn't speak any other way. Of course things radically changed and just one year later they could have been up front about what their fictitious character Billy Shears did. Sgt. Pepper spawned numerous progressive rock bands like Family, The Moody Blues, The Soft Machine, The Move and others and also influenced the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Cream and others.
I feel that Helter Skelter is the birth of heavy metal. The Beatles gave birth to many new style of Rock music! At the grammy salute to The Beatles, on 9 February 2014, which was the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show (properly called "The Night that changed America"), before performing Hey Bulldog (for the first time; the second time he played the drums on While my guitar gently weeps), Dave Grohl summed it up perfectly when he said, "I can honestly say if it weren't for The Beatles I would not be a musician. From a very early age I loved their groove and their swagger; their grace and their beauty; their dark and their light. The Beatles knew no boundaries and in that freedom they seemed to define what we know as Rock and Roll today!"
Comparing earlier albums to this shows their progression and experimentation with different instruments. Obviously they had free reign to do whatver they wanted here. Love to see how much you're into them Lee - can you imagine being around at the time and living it. As you can see by the comments our generation listened to this album over and over and over again. Pure genius.
Dude. A 30 song double album. THIRTY! Are you kidding me? And other than Revolution #9 which a lot of folks didn’t care for, including me, all the tunes were so amazing, so different, so, just so fuckin Beatles. I will never tire of them, even after 60+ years, their shit just gets better. It is so crazy. But anyway- thx Lee. Fun times as always. Even though I have 2 copies of every Beatles album, plus the vinyl stuff, I still love comin here and listening with you. Peace my brother.🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹✌️😎
Maybe this is controversial, but I am glad Revolution No. 9 is on this album. I mean it’s not even a song and it lasts far too long and there isn’t really anything redeemable about it EXCEPT for the fact that it’s there and the Beatles did something crazy and different AGAIN!! Only the greatest band in the world could produce the most hated track there is, and I love it for that very reason. Even there worst thing gets all the attention
Unlike almost everyone 😏 I actually like #9. John had discovered the avant garde art world including conceptual art and sound art - he loved it because it’s weird and it’s about ideas. This was the nonlinear sonic chaos of a revolution. He did a great job. Of course few pop rock fans would like it, but I appreciate that he attempted to expand minds and expectations 😉
John actually had Maharishi in the lyric. It was George Harrison who said you can’t say that right out like that and suggested using Sexy Sadie, which John liked.
I remember getting the cassette of the white album and listening to it on my boom box. It was magical. I sat up and thought, why hasn’t anyone told me about this album? Why am I just now hearing it? People should be telling everyone to listen to this album. It is by far the best album of all time.
As a kid of 8 or 9 I only listened to sides 1 and 2. I discovered this side when I was 14 and or 15, after I really got into harder rock (for the most part) and went crazy over it. Helter Skelter was my big favorite, followed by Yer Blues. The contrast from song to song is just wild, most of this side is constant extreme changes - Yer Blues to Mother Natures Son to Everybody's GOt Something... to Sexy Sadie to Helter Skelter to Long Long Long, just all over the place. You can't really categorize this album, other than insanely diverse. Not another band in the world who can do all those styles and do them so well. A lot of bands from that era were really diverse, but The Beatles were at the top.
It really does my heart good to see young music fans getting into the Beatles.I was born in 1957 and they were the soundtrack of my youth.I see you are also into many artists from the 60s and 70s,there is plenty to choose from,though the Beatles are the pinnacle.Keep listening 👍
I'm your age, and I tell people I imprinted on the Beatles , although I do remember some earlier music (Sealed With a Kiss, Roses are Red ). For me, all rock music is in comparison to the Beatles. And they led every year with their latest album and we would think, oh, OK, this is what we are doing now.
@@freda1182 Imprinted - that’s good🤘🏽 would apply to me. I was ten when they exploded, a tad too young but I was certainly aware as they saturated the atmosphere and media -I watched them on Ed Sullivan. Three years later at age 13 I bought Sgt Pepper and never looked back: I’ve always remembered the Summer of Love as the Summer of Sgt. Pepper - everyone played it a million times. We waited anxiously for each new album, and that excited breathless suspended moment lowering the needle onto Track 1 for the first time - we never knew WHAT the hell to expect (I mean Come Together?😱 come! on!) … they were always ahead of us and pulled us along, almost as if each album announced a new era til their next was released 😉 I’ve always thought that the only filmmaker who might possibly get anywhere near depicting that magical moment would be Spielberg.
Nilsson does a nearly spot on exact cover. It's almost like Paul wrote it for Harry. It's such a beautiful song and it takes me back to my childhood playing outside without a care in the world.
This is my favourite side. It just ROCKS! Every song is so heavy and layered (with a few exceptions); every time you listen to them you hear something new. Some of their best individual vocals: John on Yer Blues, Paul on Helter Skelter and George on Long Long Long. I adore the ride cymbal in Everybody's Got Something to Hide. I love how the bell of the ride sounds like a fire bell. Also in that song, the drums and bass are so in synch. Just amazing groove. I love the energy of Birthday, the purity of Mother Nature's Son, the sentiment of Sexy Sadie and the eeriness of Long Long Long.
there was a restaurant in chelsea (manhattan) in the 80s that would shut off the lights and blast this (Birthday) when it was someone's birthday and they were bringing out a cake.......loved it. forgot the name, 23rd st bet 8th and 9th.
I used to lie on my back with my head between the speakers on our "Radiogram" so I could feel the bass on Long Long Long. You bring back such great memories for us old guys. I wish you could have been there. You would have loved it. It was a blast. Thanks!
I have been with you since you started this...(I should give you some support...I'm piling up sponsorships...) and I have been rewarded with your growth. I really enjoy your Beatles and Steely Dan reactions. I've come to look forward seeing your posts. The fact that you remarked in passing that C. Manson was likely a CIA project gave me pause; I didn't expect, and am delighted that you are aware of this! When you open your mind to the possibility, and read the research on this (mostly by Tom O'Neil, but also by Mae Brussell) and put into perspective just how much resistance there is to positivity in the advancement of the human project- well, I love an open mind. Fare thee well, young brother.
Part of the weirdness at the end of "Long, Long, Long" was an accident. An empty bottle on the top of a speaker started rattling during a take, so they incorporated the effect into the song.
I have a friend who is younger than my youngest child. For his birthday his then girlfriend invited me to karaoke and said they were going to play "you think its your birthday " not realizing it was called Birthday. Its their answer to happy birthday. I grew up on that song.
Bought this album for my 1st girlfriend, Christmas '68. It was a kingly gift, around $6.99! I had jus turned 15. Mind-blowing album with so much to react to and dissect and enjoy!
Finished 3of 3. You have to understand when us boomers first listened to these albums, we were listening on “crappy” hi fi. Now through high tech equipment, it’s like we’re listening for the first time. Keep up the good work sir.
Ever since this Album came out, me and a couple of my friends played Birthday for each other now, for over 50 years !!! Damn that's a lot of birthdays.
Your reactions to The Beatles mean a lot to old geezers like me. They are truly special. It's impossible to have a favorite song. I loved Rocky Raccoon like I knew him as a kid when this came out. Paul's I Will is a masterpiece among many but especially brilliant. The whole album is so all over the place it is amazing. Arguably their best album along with Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Let it Be, Abby Road, Rubber Soul, and Revolution. Truly amazing ... These for lads from Liverpool. Thank you, my young friend.
The crazy thing is that they all played different instruments. Some songs Paul plays drums. Ringo can play piano and John and George played some bass on some songs.
For me Long Long Long is the sleeper on this side. For many years I listened but didn't fully appreciate. Then finally it clicked-this is a fantastic, surreal endin' to side 3.
Love your reactions so much, my friend! You are especially dear to me, as you remind me of a very old friend of mine of 40 years, that passed away a couple years ago. You look almost identical to him. I'm a 60 year old woman whose first love was the Beatles. I fell in love with them as a teenager and I never looked back! I also must say that I wish I could subscribe to your Pateron, but my finances won't permit it at the moment. Hopefully, that will change in the future. Peace.
There were many tracks that either they jammed to or demoed during The Beatles (White Album) recording sessions like Let It Be, Jealous Guy, Junk, Not Guilty, Oh My Love and Gimmie Some Truth.
This will only be up for a short time.
Loving it while it's here!
Consider patreon, then?
Making hay…
@Bipbop66 it is on patreon! He just puts it on RUclips for the likes of me who shouldn't spend what little money they have on Patreon, and I'm very grateful 🙏
@@RoadienicknamedRory I’m making hay while the sun shines..not critical of Lee at all.
When they say nobody was doing this sort of stuff before the Beatles, they mean NOBODY was doing this stuff before the Beatles
I"VE BEEN SCROLLING DOWN TO READ SOME OF THE MESSAGES LEFT HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TWO THINGS, IF I MAY. FIRST OF ALL, YOUR AUDIENCE IS THE BEST, MOST WELL BEHAVED, DECENT, AND MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE GROUP OF BEATLES FANS I'VE EVER SEEN. AND THE SECOND THING I'D LIKE TO SAY IS DIRECTED RIGHT TO YOUR LISTENERS. HEY EVERYBODY, HOW LUCKY AND EXTREMELY FORTUNATE WERE WE TO HAVE GROWN UP IN THE TIME THAT THE BEATLES WERE HERE AND MAKING THEIR INCREDIBLE MUSIC? I MEAN, WERE WE BLESSED, OR WHAT?
Nice
Please don't yell
No one comes close to them-as Paul Simon once said “What planet are they from?” Helter Skelter- first Metal song 1968!
The most versatile band in the world
Some people, including George Martin, wanted to cut songs and make it a single album. As for me, I'm glad we have all these songs. The more Beatles, the better.
It was chock full of filler by Beatles standards but by the standards of everyone else? Pure gold at every turn. Yes as a 15-track single LP it would be their best ever. But even at 30 it may still be that! And there were still a few good tunes written along the way that didn't make the cut but showed up later on Beatles or solo LPs
The thing is, what I have learnt from reading many comments on the subject over the years on YT, is that:
1) everyone thinks they know for sure which those 'filler' songs are, and
2) nobody thinks it's the same songs - one person's definite 'throwaway song' always turning out to be amongst someone else's favourites...
So maybe keeping nearly all of them in was the right decision after all...
There's no filler on the White Album. The volume and eclecticism is what makes it so brilliant. Removing any track would weaken the best album ever.
@@thetoadsong
You're absolutely right!
McCartney's bass playing on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide except for Me and my Monkey" is phenomenal.
Yeah, boy!
His bass playing on the whole album!!
sexy sadie was about the Maharishi. When in north India at the Maharishi transcendental meditation retreat with many top names Mia Farrow's sister Prudence was inappropriately groped by the Maharishi who claimed he was looking for her center of breathing.. The Beatles decided to leave and John was given the task of telling him. Apparently he told the Maharishi w're leaving the Maharishi said why? and Lennon said if you're so fucking cosmic you tell me. Apparently the song sexy sadie was going to be 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool of everyone'
@l33reacts must-read comment!
John wanted to name it Maharishi and the others talked him out of it, changed it to Sadie. At some point John had the C U Next Tues word in there as well. Even John had to know that wasn't going to fly.
Some believe Magic Alex made the whole groping thing up because he wanted to go home.
Sexy Sadie is also sampled in Karma Police
@@SalvadorJoli No it's not, the piano line is just a bit similar
@@petersilktube I shouldn't have said sampled, I guess. It's inspired by sexy Sadie but not exactly the same.
56 years later "Helter Skelter" is still one of the most kick ass songs ever recorded!!!
There's such an edge to The White Album. It's unnerving but fucking amazing
One of the best albums of all time... ❤❤❤❤
It’s crazy to have this album with 30 songs and then have singles lady Madonna, hey bulldog ,Hey Jude and revolution as singles in the same year.
Humanity will be unpacking the quality and quantity of the Beatles' output for a long, long, long time.
…unbelievably productive-
And the handwringing around the breakup😳 George once said of them that they’d ’given their never systems’
So I still get irritated when I read about John being ‘lazy’ -
While I’m still endlessly enriched by their work to this day. I think they could’ve used a vacation! And in a way, trip to India was a ‘short’ one, whereupon the six or whatever weeks spent there birthed 30+ songs - unbelievable ❤
The B-side to "Lady Madonna" was "The Inner Light".
"Hey Bulldog" was released on the "Yellow Submarine" album.
@@waynec3563The single that should have been!
There is no telling how Great The Beatles were.
Like Mozart and Beethoven these people will be remembered for 500 years.
Beethoven and Mozart haven't made it 500 years yet, maybe they'll be forgotten soon. Probably not :)
There will never be another band like the beatles.....500 years from now they will still be playing beatles music.....greatest band ever!!!
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
The Beatles kicked the door in and everyone else followed!🙏
"Long, Long, Long" is my favorite song on the album. There's just something very special about that recording.
It’s super chilled.
I agree completely
Yes, hautingly beautiful!!!
It's so moving. One of my favourites as well.
The bass sound on this album is so chunky and meaty. One of my favourite bass sounds. It really shines on Yer Blues.
Yeah, the bass sound all over The White Album is unique and never repeated on any other Beatles album. Apparently McCartney would often play Keyboards or guitar during the original tracks and get George or John to play along on bass with the newly purchased Fender 6 string bass. And then Paul would overdub the bass part again on his Fender Precision to beef up the more trebly 6-string sound. So the sound we hear more often than not is 2 basses played together. Very different sound from Paul's earlier Hofner/Rickenbacker sound - Although the Hofner & Fender 6 reappears on Let It Be and then we are back to the Precision & the 6-string on Abbey Road (but this time not usually playing at the same time together).
@@marascusbomm Hmm. Interesting. I'd never heard that before. I thought the bass was just the overdub.
@@Kieop Well, many times the bass is indeed just played by Paul on the White Album, like Dear Prudence. But that unique & unmistakable chunky clicking bass sound that we are discussing here, like on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', is John (or sometimes George) playing it live on Fender VI bass (while Paul plays another instrument like piano or guitar) and then later Paul overdubbing his Fender Precision on top. And in fact for 'Back In The USSR' all 3 Beatles recorded bass parts (although from memory John's may have not made the final mix). My theory is The Beatles would have been well aware of the classic 1950's/early 60's 'tic-tac bass' technique of overdubbing a Danelectro or Fender 6 string bass guitar part with a pick to duplicate exactly the more boomy, less defined, upright bass part. Songs like 'Little Sister' by Elvis use this technique and I am guessing The Beatles had a nostalgic fondness for that sound.
They really could write and sing in any style perfectly
It made RUclips! Thank you for covering this album the right way, all the way through. ✌️❤️🎶
Helter Skelter was the hardest song ever made, up to that point in time, and Paul made it that way to prove a point, and show up a musician friend who said his band had recorded the hardest song yet. Paul said, basically, "Hold my joint." 😂
This album proves just how great The Beatles truly were, even more than Sgt. Pepper's, IMO, because of the diversity of styles and wild experimentation. I love Sgt. Pepper's but the White Album is a whole other ball of wax. Thanks, for posting this, even if it won't stay up for long. ❤👍✌️
Well, kind of. Paul *read* someone from The Who saying they had made the raunchiest loudest noise ever (I Can See for Miles, I believe).
@@OroborusFMA The thing is that "I Can See For Miles" is quite tame. I used to have all of the Who albums on vinyl (I'm 74) and I never thought they were heavy or raucous or raunchy in the least.
The Who album that "I Can See For Miles" was on was "The Who Sell Out" and I always have thought of that album as being embarrassingly SILLY & STUPID. Maybe two good songs...
So glad to see all the White Album up. So many amazing tracks. I have a real soft spot for 'Mother Natures Son'. Such a beautiful song.
The best side three ever recorded. Play LOUD and dance yourself into oblivion. BLISTERS!!!!!
They jammed for another 20 minutes at the end of Helter Skelter. So they edited most of that out and brought it back with true ending of the jam, when Ringo's decalres, "I got blister's on my fingers".
Why oh why has their studio jamming not been edited and issued? The little I heard in Get Back was simply amazing and I wanted more of it.
The long take of Helter Skelter (27 minutes) was the first version. There is a 13 minute take of the first version on RUclips from The Beatles.
The released song was version 2.
The variety, the music, the moods, the legends. Beatles White Album.
What's amazing is how so many of their songs there was no previous template.
Ok, I got thru all three sides, and I'm now waiting for the fourth
This has been awesome thx
Lennon's Vocals on Sexy Sadie!
Still sends Shivers up my spine!
My Desert Album!
So much diversity.
My parents bought me this album for my 18th birthday and a new stereo to play it on (many, many years ago). Birthday has always been a favourite!
Hearing these songs in their proper context makes such a massive difference - remember this is the way they wanted them heard and was the only way at the time to hear them
Birthday….often taken for granted, but man it rocks!!
The Beatles are unbelievable and hypnotizing 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🕊💎🙏👍🩵💚💜
Birthday is the best birthday song of any era.
'I got blisters on my fingers!'
Ringo!
This also happens when you play the Guitar to much.
@@AlBarzUK Yes, a spontaneous exclamation of real pain!
ME fingers! lol
@ Me Irish Grandfather was babysitting me (5 yrs old), and as I rushed into his kitchen after playing outside, I started drinking milk out of the milk carton… As he sat at the kitchen table drinking a beer he asked me, “Hey Bob, why are ye drinking all that milk?” “I’m thirsty, I answered”. To which he replied, “It’s not Thursty, it’s Saturday!”
One of the ‘tightest’ groups ever. Their history even before they got to EMI Abbey Road was unbelievably prolific. They were brothers, so close.
Back in the day we had been spoiled by years of torrential production of incredible music from the Beatles. I think I was numb or a bit jaded by the time the White album came out. It’s only after revisiting decades later that I now give it the respect it deserves. I am not enamored by every track, but as I always say: The Beatles’ song you like least is still better than 95% of the songs released at the time.
Helter Skelter...they invented heavy medal too!
Heavy metal. Although they should have got a heavy medal for inventing it.
They wrote so many songs from so many different genres. Opening the door for many new artist.
Like I've always said, Lee.
IN THE UNIVERSE OF POPULAR MUSIC, THE BEATLES WERE THE
"BIG BANG!"
The greatest album side of any album ever. Period.
Yeah, I haven’t listened straight thru the sides like this in decades. You’re right it’s a mind trip of the Beatles and sounds and music, an adventure, a tour de force
Almost all the White Album was composed in India and worked on once back in England. Birthday has Patti Boyd Harrison in the studio. It might have been her birthday. Yer Blues was done live in a small, closet size room. One of Lennon's best vocals. To hear you call out Big Momma Thorton was a treat. My how you've grown musically of late, my friend. Kudos. On Mother's Nature Son I think it's Ringo slapping his thighs keeping time. No need to explain Me And My Monkee; Sexy Sadie was about slandering the Maharishi due to John's mistrust of him in the end. Love the sound of the piano in the opening. Lennon's singing is also great. Magic Alex visited them in India and left the impression that he had a mission to get the Beatles out of there and back to England. It has been suggested by Cynthia Lennon herself, that Magic Alex is the person that started the rumor about the impropriety between the Maharishi and Prudence. And Lennon ate it up, left and wrote a song about it. So as you can see, many more versions to that story than wiki page cares to explore. Helter Skelter is a slide in the UK and Paul is just making loud hard and heavy rock. The song got used by Charles Mansion as a McGuffin to incite his "family" to commit murder thus making the song infamous in its day. George Harrison once stated that the name of his song initially was 'It's Been A Long Long Long Time' but he thought it a bit too long long long. Side 3 is epic. Side 4 is the closure. Great react Lee. Thanks for posting it.
I just want to yell with my arms up in the air during Helter Skelter. I love it so much. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘.
Listen closely and you will hear a rubber ducky in Helter Skelter.
Let's start a side with Martha My Dear and the next with Birthday. Just to show everybody that we can do everything. I'm always in two minds about which album is my favourite of all time, Abbey Road or The White Album. As much as I appreciate experimentation and unpredictability, Revolution no 9 is not something I enjoy in the mix of me rocking, swaying and grooving to the rest of the songs. But then I hear Mother Nature's son, Blackbird, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps etc etc etc and think: "Wow, that is an incredible album!"
Helter Skelter is a perfect illustration of what I mentioned earlier. You are encountering it a second time a long time later while this huge amount of experiencing context grew up around you. I think it's fantastic.
'Everybody's Got Something...Monkey' is such an underrated banger. Love that track.
He wrote it after someone drew a cartoon depicting Yoko as a monkey on John's back distracting him. It pissed him off
People always say that Sgt. Peppers was the most influential album of all time. But I think it was the White Album. Because it contains all the musical styles that defined rock music from that point (1968) until well into the 1970s. The White Album is the root of 70s rock.
Abbey Road, maybe, with its high polish and early use of synthesizers, perhaps. If you listen to The Cars first album (1978) it has Abbey Road all over it, for example.
Oh yeah, the White Album is all that. The progression from one Beatles phase to another. Mind blowing.
I absolutely agree. 70's and even part of 80's music owe a lot to the White Album.
Without a doubt Sgt. Pepper was the most influential album of all time if you knew the time it was released and the state of music back then. Sgt. Pepper was an esoteric (or closed) concept album about the life of Billy Shears. The Beatles had to be both clever and cryptic about it for fear that the BBC would ban the album. As it was the BBC did ban two songs: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Fixing A Hole".
The turnout to the album has the Beatles saying: We couldn't speak any other way. Of course things radically changed and just one year later they could have been up front about what their fictitious character Billy Shears did.
Sgt. Pepper spawned numerous progressive rock bands like Family, The Moody Blues, The Soft Machine, The Move and others and also influenced the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Cream and others.
@@JimDeferio So what DID he do?
Got the album for Christmas of 1968, i was fourteen, and wore the grooves off!
Was known as the Christmas album in our house because my brother got it one year. For a long time I thought all fans called it that, hah!
I feel that Helter Skelter is the birth of heavy metal. The Beatles gave birth to many new style of Rock music!
At the grammy salute to The Beatles, on 9 February 2014, which was the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show (properly called "The Night that changed America"), before performing Hey Bulldog (for the first time; the second time he played the drums on While my guitar gently weeps), Dave Grohl summed it up perfectly when he said, "I can honestly say if it weren't for The Beatles I would not be a musician. From a very early age I loved their groove and their swagger; their grace and their beauty; their dark and their light. The Beatles knew no boundaries and in that freedom they seemed to define what we know as Rock and Roll today!"
One of the greatest album sides in modern music. The mic broke on Yer Blues. Then they dip into MNS. Crazy!!! The diversity
Okay here we go Lee❤ i am on board for all of this. Birthday song is the greatest it's so freaking up there with all the fun stuff.😂
Comparing earlier albums to this shows their progression and experimentation with different instruments. Obviously they had free reign to do whatver they wanted here. Love to see how much you're into them Lee - can you imagine being around at the time and living it. As you can see by the comments our generation listened to this album over and over and over again. Pure genius.
Dude. A 30 song double album. THIRTY! Are you kidding me? And other than Revolution #9 which a lot of folks didn’t care for, including me, all the tunes were so amazing, so different, so, just so fuckin Beatles. I will never tire of them, even after 60+ years, their shit just gets better. It is so crazy. But anyway- thx Lee. Fun times as always. Even though I have 2 copies of every Beatles album, plus the vinyl stuff, I still love comin here and listening with you. Peace my brother.🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹✌️😎
Maybe this is controversial, but I am glad Revolution No. 9 is on this album. I mean it’s not even a song and it lasts far too long and there isn’t really anything redeemable about it EXCEPT for the fact that it’s there and the Beatles did something crazy and different AGAIN!! Only the greatest band in the world could produce the most hated track there is, and I love it for that very reason. Even there worst thing gets all the attention
@@AnthonyMinsky#9 was surpassed on the dislike list by John and Yoko with Kiss, Kiss, Kiss, at least #9 will send you sleep!
@@iainsmith2434 Then there's the unreleased What's The New Mary Jane
Unlike almost everyone 😏
I actually like #9.
John had discovered the avant garde art world including conceptual art and sound art - he loved it because it’s weird and it’s about ideas.
This was the nonlinear sonic chaos of a revolution. He did a great job.
Of course few pop rock fans would like it, but I appreciate that he attempted to expand minds and expectations 😉
@@dcg4mn I love Revolution 9.
John actually had Maharishi in the lyric. It was George Harrison who said you can’t say that right out like that and suggested using Sexy Sadie, which John liked.
I remember getting the cassette of the white album and listening to it on my boom box. It was magical. I sat up and thought, why hasn’t anyone told me about this album? Why am I just now hearing it? People should be telling everyone to listen to this album. It is by far the best album of all time.
In my family, we play the birthday song for every birthday!
Jamming out to The Beatles in the metaverse - what a great turn of phrase.❤
They could have made six or seven “conventional “ albums, spread out over 10;years with this masterpiece
Thank you Lee!!!
No, really, thank you, Lee !!!
Man! I love all the Beatles albums, but this one takes the cake!!
One of my favorite albums
As a kid of 8 or 9 I only listened to sides 1 and 2. I discovered this side when I was 14 and or 15, after I really got into harder rock (for the most part) and went crazy over it. Helter Skelter was my big favorite, followed by Yer Blues. The contrast from song to song is just wild, most of this side is constant extreme changes - Yer Blues to Mother Natures Son to Everybody's GOt Something... to Sexy Sadie to Helter Skelter to Long Long Long, just all over the place. You can't really categorize this album, other than insanely diverse. Not another band in the world who can do all those styles and do them so well. A lot of bands from that era were really diverse, but The Beatles were at the top.
It really does my heart good to see young music fans getting into the Beatles.I was born in 1957 and they were the soundtrack of my youth.I see you are also into many artists from the 60s and 70s,there is plenty to choose from,though the Beatles are the pinnacle.Keep listening 👍
I'm your age, and I tell people I imprinted on the Beatles , although I do remember some earlier music (Sealed With a Kiss, Roses are Red ). For me, all rock music is in comparison to the Beatles. And they led every year with their latest album and we would think, oh, OK, this is what we are doing now.
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Imprinted - that’s good🤘🏽 would apply to me.
I was ten when they exploded, a tad too young but I was certainly aware as they saturated the atmosphere and media -I watched them on Ed Sullivan.
Three years later at age 13 I bought Sgt Pepper and never looked back: I’ve always remembered the Summer of Love as the Summer of Sgt. Pepper - everyone played it a million times.
We waited anxiously for each new album, and that excited breathless suspended moment lowering the needle onto Track 1 for the first time - we never knew WHAT the hell to expect (I mean Come Together?😱 come! on!) … they were always ahead of us and pulled us along, almost as if each album announced a new era til their next was released 😉
I’ve always thought that the only filmmaker who might possibly get anywhere near depicting that magical moment would be Spielberg.
Greatest album of all time!!
You're absolutely right!
Sexy Sadie was my fav of this side
Nilsson does a nearly spot on exact cover. It's almost like Paul wrote it for Harry. It's such a beautiful song and it takes me back to my childhood playing outside without a care in the world.
This is my favourite side. It just ROCKS! Every song is so heavy and layered (with a few exceptions); every time you listen to them you hear something new. Some of their best individual vocals: John on Yer Blues, Paul on Helter Skelter and George on Long Long Long.
I adore the ride cymbal in Everybody's Got Something to Hide. I love how the bell of the ride sounds like a fire bell. Also in that song, the drums and bass are so in synch. Just amazing groove. I love the energy of Birthday, the purity of Mother Nature's Son, the sentiment of Sexy Sadie and the eeriness of Long Long Long.
there was a restaurant in chelsea (manhattan) in the 80s that would shut off the lights and blast this (Birthday) when it was someone's birthday and they were bringing out a cake.......loved it. forgot the name, 23rd st bet 8th and 9th.
I used to lie on my back with my head between the speakers on our "Radiogram" so I could feel the bass on Long Long Long. You bring back such great memories for us old guys. I wish you could have been there. You would have loved it. It was a blast. Thanks!
Still up!!
So awesome revisiting this masterpiece with you
Wow!!! So awesome! Thank you Lee. And yes, you do look like Paul.
Paul who?
@TangoEliott uh, Paul McCartney???
@dawnschneider187 sorry, bad joke
Sadie 😂 love the wah wah background singing❤ its about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It was even going to be called Maharishi...
I have spent my day dealing with the dentist and two different offices of BS. Thanks for making it easier!
Did you have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle? 😅
Thank you Lee!
Thanks Lee- sublime White Album- and just in time for my birthday. 🎸🎂🎯🦃❤ I love these guys so much.
Sexy Sadie is about the maharishi.
I have been with you since you started this...(I should give you some support...I'm piling up sponsorships...) and I have been rewarded with your growth. I really enjoy your Beatles and Steely Dan reactions. I've come to look forward seeing your posts. The fact that you remarked in passing that C. Manson was likely a CIA project gave me pause; I didn't expect, and am delighted that you are aware of this! When you open your mind to the possibility, and read the research on this (mostly by Tom O'Neil, but also by Mae Brussell) and put into perspective just how much resistance there is to positivity in the advancement of the human project- well, I love an open mind. Fare thee well, young brother.
Love the look in your eye while listening to this. Sometimes, it just hits you, just right. Especially these boys, eh? ❤❤❤
Part of the weirdness at the end of "Long, Long, Long" was an accident. An empty bottle on the top of a speaker started rattling during a take, so they incorporated the effect into the song.
I'm a life long professional musician and 'Birthday' was the go to song when we had a Birthday in the crowd. I've played it hundreds of times times .😊
I remember when I was a kid loudly jamming out to Helter Skelter and having to turn up Long, Long ,Long, to hear it.
Best birthday song.......EVER!!
I have a friend who is younger than my youngest child. For his birthday his then girlfriend invited me to karaoke and said they were going to play "you think its your birthday " not realizing it was called Birthday. Its their answer to happy birthday. I grew up on that song.
It's been a wild car ride so far my friend. Looking forward to the final album side. Have a great one!
Bought this album for my 1st girlfriend, Christmas '68. It was a kingly gift, around $6.99! I had jus turned 15. Mind-blowing album with so much to react to and dissect and enjoy!
❤ Adorable story
I'm not due for Thanksgiving dinner until Sunday afternoon so I'll spend Thanksgiving listening to the white album with you.
Glad to have you my friend, I hope you enjoyed 🙏
Glad you posted this. Reminds me of how great the White Album is. I'll take it over Revolver.
Finished 3of 3. You have to understand when us boomers first listened to these albums, we were listening on “crappy” hi fi. Now through high tech equipment, it’s like we’re listening for the first time. Keep up the good work sir.
Ever since this Album came out, me and a couple of my friends played Birthday for each other now, for over 50 years !!! Damn that's a lot of birthdays.
I listened to this album over and over again as a kid, but listening to it again recently, I cannot remember ever hearing "Long Long Long"
I feel ya! I don't remember thinking that it was on this album. I thought it was on some later album; it's ahead of event this record...
Your reactions to The Beatles mean a lot to old geezers like me. They are truly special. It's impossible to have a favorite song. I loved Rocky Raccoon like I knew him as a kid when this came out. Paul's I Will is a masterpiece among many but especially brilliant. The whole album is so all over the place it is amazing. Arguably their best album along with Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Let it Be, Abby Road, Rubber Soul, and Revolution. Truly amazing ... These for lads from Liverpool. Thank you, my young friend.
You mean the White Album was there best along with all their other albums! All of them were good.
And to think we have a spiral fair slide called "Helter Skelter" to thank for the song. Inspiration can come from anywhere.
Imagine coming up with a great rock song, as an alternative to “Happy Birthday” 🎂
The crazy thing is that they all played different instruments. Some songs Paul plays drums. Ringo can play piano and John and George played some bass on some songs.
if you are will do any more albums, then Abbey Road is a must. Their final masterpiece
❤ Thank you Lee. You're the best ❤
For me Long Long Long is the sleeper on this side. For many years I listened but didn't fully appreciate. Then finally it clicked-this is a fantastic, surreal endin' to side 3.
Love your reactions so much, my friend! You are especially dear to me, as you remind me of a very old friend of mine of 40 years, that passed away a couple years ago. You look almost identical to him. I'm a 60 year old woman whose first love was the Beatles. I fell in love with them as a teenager and I never looked back! I also must say that I wish I could subscribe to your Pateron, but my finances won't permit it at the moment. Hopefully, that will change in the future. Peace.
There were many tracks that either they jammed to or demoed during The Beatles (White Album) recording sessions like Let It Be, Jealous Guy, Junk, Not Guilty, Oh My Love and Gimmie Some Truth.