@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 🙏
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.
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
…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 ❤
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
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).
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. ❤👍✌️
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.
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
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".
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
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.
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!"
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 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!
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.
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.
This may be my fave side of the whole thing. I don't think a song warped my young, impressionable brain like "Sexy Sadie" did. It opened me up to odd cadences, metaphors, subversive pop music... I was ruined for life!
The songs the Manson family glommed onto from this album were Helter Skelter, Piggies, Sexy Sadie, and Long, Long, Long. Manson weaved those tunes into his theory of murder. George hated that that happened and they used one of his songs. I’m glad you finally noticed your resemblance tp McCartney. I. posted that a long time ago and got crickets from everybody. Basically, they invented heavy metal. Yoko and Patti Harrison sang “Birthday” refrain in the song.
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.
How crazy is it that Manson called his revolution Helter Skelter and the whole scheme was blown when Susan Atkins (aka Sadie, yes that’s right, Sadie) blabbed to her cellmate. “Sexy Sadie, what have you done. You made a fool of everyone”
I'm not sure if you have watched The Dirty Mac performing Yer Blues on The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus TV show from 1968. If not, then you must!! The Dirty Mac consists of Mitch Mitchell on drums, Keith Richards on bass, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, and John Lennon on vocals and rhythm guitar. ruclips.net/video/JeFwaWFTGYU/видео.htmlsi=-d6joe-JOrYETN0A
The Live Peace in Toronto version with John, Clapton, Klaus Voorman, and Alan White is worth a listen too. At least the original 1969 mix John did. Yoko's remix is a horror - buries Clapton's lead and elevates John's ragged (heroin withdrawals) rhythm playing.
I wore this album out, had the embossed serial number cover w/poster. Played it so much I even knew where to drop the needle on my favorite spots. That particularly came in handy on Rev #9. There were some cool parts in it I always enjoyed but would skip over much of that track after hearing it full length so many times.
"Everybody has got something to hide except me" was something the Maharishi said all the time while they were in India...John just added "...and my monkey" cause he had soured on Maharishi
When I needed the alarm on my phone to wake me up, with no chance to snooze, I made Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey the ring one. That song has a few seconds are fanfare, then takes off with a super-sized helping of nervous energy. Just what I needed.
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.
Side 3 has my fave Beatles song... Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey. People question my sanity when I tell them that but I love it.
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.
Side three as well: is it Christmas already?😅 The Maharishi may have made a fool of the Beatles and everyone else but the majority of the album was written whilst they were at his retreat and away from all the usual madness so we have that to be grateful for at least.
I bought The White Album in November 1980 less than a month before Lennon was murdered. It made the listening rather emotional. Birthday: made up in the studio. Yer Blues (parody of the British blues scene), and one where the band really worked together as a band - the Live Peace in Toronto version with Clapton playing is worth a listen. Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey (originally simply "Come On") is one of their best rockers. Helter Skelter (parody of the Who) is one of their best hard rock songs (NOT proto-metal). Mother Nature's Son and Sexy Sadie are clearly India influenced in their themes. George's Long, Long, Long seems poorly mixed to me but it's an eerie song.
If you can, check out the live version of “Yer Blues,” on The Rolling Stones Rock’n’Roll Circus, played by Lennon, Clapton, Keith Richards on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums, playing as The Dirty Mac.
Thank you for covering 3 sides!! Applauding 🎉❤ Mother Nature's Son gives me butterflies. Melodic perfection. I don't mean to sound rude but... Yoko should have stuck to visual art. Just sayin
50 years later, I don't want to hear some of these songs again...even if they're good songs. . When I come back, I go Straight to Sexy Sadie and Long,Long,long on this side.
One genius of the Beatles was in the imagery/symbolism/metaphor in the lyrics. Sexy Sadie portrays a woman who allures and breaks rules. But it's fairly well known that the song was not about a female at all; that it was about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who had a retreat center in India visited by the Beatles. He was supposed to be a great spiritual leader but apparently he disappointed the lads when he used his celebrity to lust after women.
I get so frustrated sometimes because these little short bursts of creativity in the short songs are just cut off, and I know they could have made something more, added more, they could have let themselves flow - and then the song is over, and I'm going whaaa???Aaargh! I think the album is a reflection of their moods at this time and the state of the band. They had no real common purpose or patience to work something through. So much potential! So talented and yet they seemed to peter out. Do you get what I'm saying?
Sexy Sadie was originally Maharishi. But the others told John you can't use his name. Same amount of syllables. The Guru they studied under while in India. Of course!
According to the book accompanying the 2018 box set The Beatles: Super Deluxe Version, the annotation on the tape box from the session offers an alternative line-up that "explodes some myths of who played what":[9] Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass, piano John Lennon - vocals, guitar George Harrison - guitar, tambourine Ringo Starr - drums, handclaps Pattie Boyd - backing vocal Yoko Ono - backing vocal
Do yourself a favor and watch the three Bratles movies: A HARD DAYS NIGHT, HELP!, and YELLOW SUBMARINE. Thats what normal people used to do. See them on your own, for yourself, not for RUclips.
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.
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
@@IvanFlavin 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.
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
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 ❤
One of the best albums of all time... ❤❤❤❤
When they say nobody was doing this sort of stuff before the Beatles, they mean NOBODY was doing this stuff before the Beatles
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
Ok, I got thru all three sides, and I'm now waiting for the fourth
This has been awesome thx
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).
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).
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.
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
Wow!!! So awesome! Thank you Lee. And yes, you do look like Paul.
"Long, Long, Long" is my favorite song on the album. There's just something very special about that recording.
It made RUclips! Thank you for covering this album the right way, all the way through. ✌️❤️🎶
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.
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.
There's such an edge to The White Album. It's unnerving but fucking amazing
The best side three ever recorded. Play LOUD and dance yourself into oblivion. BLISTERS!!!!!
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!!
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 got blisters on my fingers!'
Ringo!
This also happens when you play the Guitar to much.
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!
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!
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.😂
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
Thank you Lee!!!
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.
Helter Skelter...they invented heavy medal too!
Heavy metal. Although they should have got a heavy medal for inventing 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!"
One of the ‘tightest’ groups ever. Their history even before they got to EMI Abbey Road was unbelievably prolific. They were brothers, so close.
Greatest album of all time!!
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? 😅
Lennon's Vocals on Sexy Sadie!
Still sends Shivers up my spine!
My Desert Album!
So much diversity.
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.
The variety, the music, the moods, the legends. Beatles White Album.
Sadie 😂 love the wah wah background singing❤ its about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It was even going to be called Maharishi...
The most versatile band in the world
Great to hear again. Solid side.
It's been a wild car ride so far my friend. Looking forward to the final album side. Have a great one!
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!
Man! I love all the Beatles albums, but this one takes the cake!!
Thanks Lee- sublime White Album- and just in time for my birthday. 🎸🎂🎯🦃❤ I love these guys so much.
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.
Love the look in your eye while listening to this. Sometimes, it just hits you, just right. Especially these boys, eh? ❤❤❤
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.
They wrote so many songs from so many different genres. Opening the door for many new artist.
Jamming out to The Beatles in the metaverse - what a great turn of phrase.❤
Sexy Sadie is about the maharishi.
This album is an Absolute Masterpiece. The more you listen to it, the better it gets.
This may be my fave side of the whole thing. I don't think a song warped my young, impressionable brain like "Sexy Sadie" did. It opened me up to odd cadences, metaphors, subversive pop music... I was ruined for life!
The songs the Manson family glommed onto from this album were Helter Skelter, Piggies, Sexy Sadie, and Long, Long, Long. Manson weaved those tunes into his theory of murder. George hated that that happened and they used one of his songs. I’m glad you finally noticed your resemblance tp McCartney. I. posted that a long time ago and got crickets from everybody. Basically, they invented heavy metal. Yoko and Patti Harrison sang “Birthday” refrain in the song.
The Lennon Vocal Fry shout developed due to the loud crowds and poor PA systems in Hamburg. The only way to be heard was to scream the vocals.
Yeah! 👍
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.
Still up!!
So awesome revisiting this masterpiece with you
How crazy is it that Manson called his revolution Helter Skelter and the whole scheme was blown when Susan Atkins (aka Sadie, yes that’s right, Sadie) blabbed to her cellmate. “Sexy Sadie, what have you done. You made a fool of everyone”
Thank you Lee!
Sexy Sadie was my fav of this side
I'm not sure if you have watched The Dirty Mac performing Yer Blues on The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus TV show from 1968. If not, then you must!! The Dirty Mac consists of Mitch Mitchell on drums, Keith Richards on bass, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, and John Lennon on vocals and rhythm guitar.
ruclips.net/video/JeFwaWFTGYU/видео.htmlsi=-d6joe-JOrYETN0A
The Live Peace in Toronto version with John, Clapton, Klaus Voorman, and Alan White is worth a listen too. At least the original 1969 mix John did. Yoko's remix is a horror - buries Clapton's lead and elevates John's ragged (heroin withdrawals) rhythm playing.
❤ Thank you Lee. You're the best ❤
Imagine coming up with a great rock song, as an alternative to “Happy Birthday” 🎂
The Beatles LET LOOSE on this album!
I wore this album out, had the embossed serial number cover w/poster. Played it so much I even knew where to drop the needle on my favorite spots. That particularly came in handy on Rev #9. There were some cool parts in it I always enjoyed but would skip over much of that track after hearing it full length so many times.
YT put up sides 1,2 & 3 on Nov 26. Like going back to high school.
I bought this album, factory sealed Capitol purple label, at age 16. I eventually got a used Apple label pressing, with embossed serial number.
"Everybody has got something to hide except me" was something the Maharishi said all the time while they were in India...John just added "...and my monkey" cause he had soured on Maharishi
Everybody does have something to hide and John called bullshit on the Maharishi. Gotta love it.
L33 , think about how tripped out we were , amazing!!!
When I needed the alarm on my phone to wake me up, with no chance to snooze, I made Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey the ring one. That song has a few seconds are fanfare, then takes off with a super-sized helping of nervous energy. Just what I needed.
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.
I've had this in several forms L O L wish I had the original still.
From lovey dovey to beyond insanity, and back. "Everybody has something to hide except for me and my monkey". Indeed.
Side 3 has my fave Beatles song... Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey. People question my sanity when I tell them that but I love it.
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.
Side three as well: is it Christmas already?😅 The Maharishi may have made a fool of the Beatles and everyone else but the majority of the album was written whilst they were at his retreat and away from all the usual madness so we have that to be grateful for at least.
Birthday is an Awesome song!!! I always text the birthday video to friends and family on their birthdays.
Great side! Love all of these! I wonder how The Who would've gone down if they had named themselves The Poo 😂
You gotta play the full version of Helter Skelter!
I bought The White Album in November 1980 less than a month before Lennon was murdered. It made the listening rather emotional. Birthday: made up in the studio. Yer Blues (parody of the British blues scene), and one where the band really worked together as a band - the Live Peace in Toronto version with Clapton playing is worth a listen. Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey (originally simply "Come On") is one of their best rockers. Helter Skelter (parody of the Who) is one of their best hard rock songs (NOT proto-metal). Mother Nature's Son and Sexy Sadie are clearly India influenced in their themes. George's Long, Long, Long seems poorly mixed to me but it's an eerie song.
Gilles Martin fixed the mix on Long Long Long in the 2018 anniversary release. The whole album sounds Fab.
If you can, check out the live version of “Yer Blues,” on The Rolling Stones Rock’n’Roll Circus, played by Lennon, Clapton, Keith Richards on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums, playing as The Dirty Mac.
Best stemma song sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter was a mighty fine song.
Thank you for covering 3 sides!! Applauding 🎉❤ Mother Nature's Son gives me butterflies. Melodic perfection. I don't mean to sound rude but... Yoko should have stuck to visual art. Just sayin
Fun stuff. Glad I got to see Sides 1, 2, & 3 before they get yanked.
50 years later, I don't want to hear some of these songs again...even if they're good songs. . When I come back, I go Straight to Sexy Sadie and Long,Long,long on this side.
The Poo rocks!!
One genius of the Beatles was in the imagery/symbolism/metaphor in the lyrics. Sexy Sadie portrays a woman who allures and breaks rules. But it's fairly well known that the song was not about a female at all; that it was about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who had a retreat center in India visited by the Beatles. He was supposed to be a great spiritual leader but apparently he disappointed the lads when he used his celebrity to lust after women.
It takes a long long long time to find God but George finally did as we all will.
I get so frustrated sometimes because these little short bursts of creativity in the short songs are just cut off, and I know they could have made something more, added more, they could have let themselves flow - and then the song is over, and I'm going whaaa???Aaargh! I think the album is a reflection of their moods at this time and the state of the band. They had no real common purpose or patience to work something through. So much potential! So talented and yet they seemed to peter out. Do you get what I'm saying?
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I watched side 1 this morning, 11-26 didn't see 2 and now here's 3.. lol
Nice one
Sexy Sadie was originally Maharishi. But the others told John you can't use his name. Same amount of syllables. The Guru they studied under while in India. Of course!
if you are will do any more albums, then Abbey Road is a must. Their final masterpiece
2:40 Actually that's Paul, Ringo did not play on this one.
According to the book accompanying the 2018 box set The Beatles: Super Deluxe Version, the annotation on the tape box from the session offers an alternative line-up that "explodes some myths of who played what":[9]
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass, piano
John Lennon - vocals, guitar
George Harrison - guitar, tambourine
Ringo Starr - drums, handclaps
Pattie Boyd - backing vocal
Yoko Ono - backing vocal
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I separated many, many seeds on the cover of this album!
Do yourself a favor and watch the three Bratles movies: A HARD DAYS NIGHT, HELP!, and YELLOW SUBMARINE. Thats what normal people used to do. See them on your own, for yourself, not for RUclips.