I very much enjoyed this analysis. Great thoughts about what a riff is and differences in other kind of music. I consider Beethovens start of the 5th symphony as a riff too, and it is then further developed there, while here as well as in other rock songs it's like a label. I like your explanations. I think George loved this song at that time so much because he played the riff on a 12-string guitar while John did the guitar solo. It is a fantastic guitar collaboration 👌 Thank you Amy for this superb analysis 👍🏻😊
John apparently was a jealous guy. You should compare this with his later song (after the Beatles' breakup) "Jealous Guy". I'd say it's, lyrically, a more emotionally mature version of this. I was feelin' insecure/You might not love me any more/I was shivering inside, etc.
In an interview once, John said that he wrote the melody first, then worked out chords that fit, that's probably why there are unusual chords in a lot of his songs
I'd say many of the points you astutely pick up on, are actually standard blues techniques. A typical guitar-centered view of the blues is that the chords are playing a simple major progression, while the melody is playing a minor pentatonic melody, with the addition of the flat 5 and sometimes major sixth (so that it's kind of, sort of a dorian scale), of course bending notes for emotion and tension, sometimes not fully, so you get microtones that are just striving for a note and missing to add to the drama. Of course, once you allow any notes from the major mode plus the dorian mode plus the flat 5, you're allowing, I think, 11 of the 12 chromatic notes. The skill is in knowing when to play which notes. I digress. But I think you'd find anyone steeped in a blues background, which the Beatles were, would find this melody, with all its accidentals, straight-forward. (Not to put it down. I like it. It's quite catchy.) I'm guessing all this blues major/minor clashing is partially what made parents think all this rock music was just noise, while their children could hear the tension and release. But maybe not. I mean the parents of the 50s/60s would have been teens in the 30s/40s when a lot of big band jazz was doing something similar, so what do I know...
Leonard Bernstein also did an analysis of Beatles music around 1967.He came to many of the musical observations/ conclusions as yourself. Although less detailed technically,it was probably designed for a general 1967 audience. It can be viewed currently on RUclips.
I really like this song. This is a song I look at as Bach rock. Those Rickenbacker guitars have a very jangly sound, so much so that imo they almost have kind of a harpsichord sound in this song. I wish we still had Bach around, I think it would be really neat to have him make a fugue out of this, using this tune as one melody, and having another melody maybe starting with the flat 3rd (or maybe the 5th), and have one going up while the other is going down, something like that.
Cold not at all I find you warm and wonderful, your seriousness and focus on the task at hand is highly respectable, it is this that makes your channel a favorite of mine. Your playfulness and humor show through every time. I was fine until your tears came then I let go knowing your feelings are pure and sincere. Thank You Amy
Amy, I was recently re-listening to Stone Temple Pilots after a long time and I came across the realization that they are pretty much doing Beatles songs. STP's album Shangri-La Dee Da, which feels like a missing Beatles album if the never broke up. For example the song "Days Of The Week" sonunds like something Paul McCartney would write and sing. Other STP songs that heavily resemble the Beatles are: "Lady Picture Show" "Sour Girl" "Interstate Love Song" "Too Cool Queenie" "Tumble In The Rough" "Big Bang Baby" "Tripping' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" "Wicked Garden" "Creep" "Plush"
Klunky yes Ringo gives it that tantrum feel. A bit more of a more sour apple, moving more outside of the pop norm. Brilliant song. I like what you said about parallel or shadow keys. I agree it’s very interesting. Thanks Virgin Rock, the way you explained this stuff really revealed some aspects that I hadn’t noticed before.
I was thinking that it was probably the cowbell that made Amy think of it as clunking and sounded like they were banging pots and pans. According to Wikipedia, it is Paul playing the cowbell. It is really loud in the mix. She is entering the era of the cowbell in some songs, which continued into the 70s. So I guess it is about time Amy get used to the "more cowbell" jokes, from the old Saturday Night Live skit, that always show up in the comments whenever a song has a cowbell in it.
@@LeeKennison yeah maybe too much cowbell. Paul played it ? I would have guessed Paul. I can imagine the conversation where John says it’s Klunky and Paul says I can make it even Klunkier. I think they were still using two two track recorders and to overdub a cowbell probably took some doing so it was an important part. I wonder when they got the proper 4 track? Abbey Road album was a 16 track I think. Of course Hard Days night was mixed to mono. It was quite a feat recording in those days. I’ll never understand how they did it. I mean I know how they did it but how did it come out so well balanced, high level skills and lots of talent went into these recordings. No Rock and roll band got the A team in a studio. Except maybe Elvis. Most bands got 4 hours in the B studio. Beatles started that way. I have to say that the expansion and evolution of the Beatles was greatly facilitated by the advances in recording technology that they used to the fullest.
@@Hartlor_Tayley That is some good and interesting information, since I was curious with how they did it back then. Assuming that Wikipedia is accurate, Paul played both bass and cowbell, along with doing back vocals. So if it was only two track at the time, does that mean that he would have to have done his backing vocals at the same time as doing one of the others? I assume while playing bass, while all the others were also singing and playing their parts together. I guess you could also do it by transferring the original tape to another while adding the new parts, but that would degrade the fidelity of the original.
You might consider listening to "I'll Be Back" from this album. Beautifully performed, with John's lyrics about conflicted emotions and nuanced expressions of unrequited love.
@@Bassman2353 Yes, and the emotional ambiguity of the lyrics mirrors the unusual rhythm of the music. And of course the bridge is one of the best of all Beatle songs.
Yeah this was their golden period 63 - 65, a certain kind of band magic and energy that they had. Lots of fans prefer the early songs. Some think this is their best album.
I know it seems like you've spent a lot of time on A Hard Day's Night, but if there's one thing "you can't do," it's skip the album closer, "I'll Be Back." Imagine a stray track from Rubber Soul getting lost in the sea of time and somehow landing three albums too early.
John whipped this one out quickly, but he always worked best under pressure. And yeah, in rock music a riff is often the signature element that people remember a song by -- at least 60's rock music. Did John Lennon invent the signature rock riff? Maybe. He *was* the band's riff master and came up with the classic riffs in "I Feel Fine", "Ticket to Ride", and "Day Tripper". If so that alone should cement his place in the genre. Amy, that 'unpolished' sound you're hearing is what would became the basis for 'garage rock' a bit later in the 60's. It was often associated with surf music, and eventually culminated in bands like The Velvet Underground.
Have you had the chance to look at some of the Beatles performances during their early period? It may give you some insight into their popularity I really like their performance of 1964 - You Can't Do That at Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia.. I hope you get a chance to see it and can let us know.
"If I catch you talking to that boy again". But it works both ways: "I wanna hold your hand". Both are hinting at something far deeper. but that would be inappropriate for a simple pop song. The music and John's attitude convey all we need to know. Great analysis as ever. You are very perceptive and notice nuances that I felt at the time at an emotional level but could never have identified. I still see individual songs as having a particular 'flavour', but I could never describe what it is.
I hope Beatles For Sale will be touched as much as this album, because you've already spent more time on A Hard Day's Night than the previous two albums. And I hope I Feel Fine AND She's A Woman will be analyzed next (After I'll Be Back, I guess)
She spent more time on this because there are more original songs on this album. And it's better than the previous 2. And Beatles for sale has only 8 original songs like the first two albums, so don't get your hopes up.
@@peterolbrisch8970 She's not doing only original compositions. I thought the metre was 6/7 songs per album plus the singles/odd tracks, if you think she will only cover 150 Beatles songs in total and she's already over 30
This song song is very much blues-based. Switching between the major and minor is very common in blues. The song has two 12-bar A sections followed by a B section (sometimes called a bridge or a middle 8). John Lennon was a genius, but the more I find out about him, the more I realise that he was a piece of work. BTW, the "pots and pans" sound is probably a cowbell.
Cant wait for the Help album and Yesterday, one of the greatest pieces of music ever writen. Should be credited McCartney/Martin. George Martin composed the string quarted during a weekend, after convincing Paul that it would be better than just guitar and voice.
Riff equals unique, typically only a bar of two, (sometimes more) , of a musical hook line, that typical repeats and makes a song recognizable, the second you hear it.
When you get to much later songs (to the extent that there was a "much" since they weren't together that long, alas), you're going to start to forget many of these earlier songs, like this one. They're not bad, and some are really good. But relatively few can compare to the masterpieces that are yet to come. There are of course signs of their greatness in their early works, but it's not till Rubber Soul that they really started to come into their own as great songwriters. It's the same with any band or musician, and if you listened to some early Pink Floyd or Rolling Stones you'd see what I mean.
@@kovie9162it's the remembered fresh innovation that is remembered by us olde farts junior! We know that All My Loving , Please Please Me , She Loves You , And I Love Her , I'll Be Back , A Hard Day's Night , No Reply , Ticket To Ride , Yesterday , I've Just Seen A Face and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away were exceptions but they amidst all the excitement will always stand out! Cheers 😹💈🤡
Like your descriptive take on a riff as a kind of label, fits well! Would like to suggest a listen/reaction to “Smoke on the water” by Deep Purple which has likely the most iconic riff in rock history…
After all my life listening to all kind of music (well, not classical), I still don't know what a riff is, or a hook, or a groove, or ... Sometimes I think I have an idea, but that fades away rather quickly again. But ... best explanation I saw so far that I could actually repeat if someone would ask me to.
This is the first time George used the new Rickenbacker 12 string electric guitar and didn’t take the solo. So colouring the music in a modern sounding way with a new instrument, George was a master at this throughout the Beatles and maybe relished the new influence he had. The Byrds used that sound.
I really enjoy your reactions. However, I wonder just how accurate the sheet music is to the original songs. I remember back in the day when these records were released, many of my musician friends said the sheet music was hardly ever exactly the way the songs were played. Since we are talking about 50 to 60 years ago, maybe the sheet music of today is right on target.
Hi Amy, 1. Your definition of a riff as a label, a brand, an identifying marker, is right. If you really want to understand what a riff is, just listen to the right examples. Here is a short list: - Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones - Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple - Sunshine of Your Love by the Cream - Allright Now by the Free You won't need to have any doubts anymore after this. It would save you a lot of half-assumptions during the rest of your first listens on RUclips. I hope Vlad allows you to have a quick listen by yourself to these songs. Listenenig to the first 15 seconds of each song will do. 2. About the tune (without the "Everybody's green"-part), it's just a Blues. That's why you hear all these blue notes and vocal inflexions (like "and leave you) FLA-A-AT"). And yes, it i s impressive to be able sing like that. 3. The chord during "I've told you before" is quite advanced. Today, Rock musicians call it thr Jimi Hendrix chord. 4. John Lennon used to be mean to his girlfriends and wife. Only when he met Yoko Ono, he saw the errors in his ways and he became a feminist. Then he started writing songs like "I'm Just a Jealous Guy" and "Woman Is the Nigger of the World". 5. The rough tin can sound you hear, is a cow bell. In the "Rock community" there's an ironinc line that they say eny time they hear a song with cow bell in it, which says, "Needs more cow bell!". 6. John Lennon's Blues Rock voice could already be heard in Twist and Shout. In fact so much so, that he lost his voice after the recording! 7. George Harrison probably called this song his favourite in 1964, because it really r o c k s ! Also, he was probably fed up with the earlier songs, that they had been playing over and over again. Micha
THAT'S THE SONG I WAS TALKING ABOUT.IT WAS ALSO THE REASON THAT "I CALL YOUR NAME" WASN'T INCLUDED IN THE LP,CONSIDERED SIMILAR TO "YOU CAN'T DO THAT" BY MARTIN AND REJECTED.THAT'S THE REASON THAT THIS LP HAS 13 & NOT 14 SONGS AS THE 2 PREVIOUS ONES TOO.THANK YOU AMY
“Everybody else is just green…” ;) just realized that when Roy Harper sings this line he also sustains the note and then at the very end takes the e a little bit higher (more in a yodeling way tho). A conscious or subconscious reference to The Beatles…? hmm
12:25 I'd argue John didn't spend a lot of time practicing the vocal. They almost never did. He and Paul were better singers than a lot of people would give them credit for
Great live track from the Beatles. Lennon from the gut, presents his unsavory jealous mentality, which he later got better under control. In 1965, however, he went one step further in "Run for Your Life" and warned his imaginary partner, that he would kill her, if she cheated on him.
The story goes that they were running out of studio time and needed an extra track to complete the album, so John went off and just wrote this down on the fly. The theme of killing the unfaithful lover is deep in American folk/blues, and I expect John just took that idea for his song.
Dear Virgin Rock, I strongly suggest you to check this Beatle footage about this song: ruclips.net/video/LNQutZEKFHE/видео.html 4:21, you can really enjoy how John manage this vocal line in a master way!! also very good record high definition...Beatles are not just amazing to listen but to watching them!! Hope you enjoy it!! And old Beatles fan.... PS: Thanks for the meaning of the phrase: "Everybody's green"...I was like crazy searching in my english-spanish dictionary when I was 6 years old....I'm 60 now... Regards from Argentina (SouthAmerica)...
I wanted to tell you that if you really listen you could take any heavy metal song and put it to classical music and vice versa. Also Metallica has actually played with a classical orchestra on one or two of their songs. I've always said that the classical musicians and composers were the great great great grandfathers of rock/heavy metal.
I might be able to help by pointing you to the source of your feeling of "klunky" or "banging pots and pans". It is nearly constant and intentional because Ringo is banging out the meter with his cowbell! A very popular motif in rock music. You might enjoy a classic parody of cowbell use in rock done by the SNL masters: ruclips.net/video/cVsQLlk-T0s/видео.htmlsi=-0P9N0TmGmMNoUlJ
How can you realy tell any thin about the song if you dont listen to it play just a split second of it your missing every thing i dont think you get it an wat beatles have impact rock music an so many musicians like were have u been in life
Not, one of the Beatles best. I believe George was going through alot of female problems with fidelity, thus his Spiritual side likes the chastisement of sexual immorality. Though in the 60's I don't think you could even say lack of purity?
@@BigSky1nonsense. She used to play em but took em off to get us all to pay $$$ . Others play much more and some wait the 30 days and get whole albums up!!! Avarice rules ok ! 🤡
Well they teased in the early days then removed everything and just do snippets now. ! !They're cash orientated which is why they won't play more of the song like others do ( Call Me Caroline , Enlighten Jesse etc) or wait the 30 days to protest and then play the whole song or album (such as Welp Here We Are On RUclips) ! Sorry! 😹
Virgin, you, and my other 'Lover' Fran, are having the SAM,E issue RUclips, is fucking up medium sized channels with this copyright bullshit, I am so sorry, we really did have a lot of fun, for many years here, but corporate America was ALWAYS going to win and ruin the fun party...
She stopped playing the songs to make moolah. Others play much more of the song and some wait the 30 days to place whole albums uninterrupted. Check out Call Me Caroline or Welp Here We Are On RUclips or Enlighten Jesse or many less avaricious others. 🤡
@@fredneecher1746well Fred many don't know the songs and it's a big disappointment naturally. However many do play much more or even whole songs and albums :-- Welp Here We Are On RUclips , Call Me Caroline , Enlighten Jesse etc etc etc ! 💈🤡🌈
I very much enjoyed this analysis. Great thoughts about what a riff is and differences in other kind of music. I consider Beethovens start of the 5th symphony as a riff too, and it is then further developed there, while here as well as in other rock songs it's like a label. I like your explanations.
I think George loved this song at that time so much because he played the riff on a 12-string guitar while John did the guitar solo. It is a fantastic guitar collaboration 👌
Thank you Amy for this superb analysis 👍🏻😊
Most of us who grew up with this never believed that this was who John was.
It was just the Beatles writing about all the aspects of humanity
This is one of John's jealousy songs, great riff, and great interplay between John and George.
John apparently was a jealous guy. You should compare this with his later song (after the Beatles' breakup) "Jealous Guy". I'd say it's, lyrically, a more emotionally mature version of this. I was feelin' insecure/You might not love me any more/I was shivering inside, etc.
In an interview once, John said that he wrote the melody first, then worked out chords that fit, that's probably why there are unusual chords in a lot of his songs
I'd say many of the points you astutely pick up on, are actually standard blues techniques. A typical guitar-centered view of the blues is that the chords are playing a simple major progression, while the melody is playing a minor pentatonic melody, with the addition of the flat 5 and sometimes major sixth (so that it's kind of, sort of a dorian scale), of course bending notes for emotion and tension, sometimes not fully, so you get microtones that are just striving for a note and missing to add to the drama. Of course, once you allow any notes from the major mode plus the dorian mode plus the flat 5, you're allowing, I think, 11 of the 12 chromatic notes. The skill is in knowing when to play which notes. I digress. But I think you'd find anyone steeped in a blues background, which the Beatles were, would find this melody, with all its accidentals, straight-forward. (Not to put it down. I like it. It's quite catchy.) I'm guessing all this blues major/minor clashing is partially what made parents think all this rock music was just noise, while their children could hear the tension and release. But maybe not. I mean the parents of the 50s/60s would have been teens in the 30s/40s when a lot of big band jazz was doing something similar, so what do I know...
Spot on!
According to what I've read, the guitar solo was by John. And In The End we will hear John solo again.Rock on John Lennon
Yes John played the solo as he did on Get Back, Honey Pie and a couple of others.
Leonard Bernstein also did an analysis of Beatles music around 1967.He came to many of the musical observations/ conclusions as yourself. Although less detailed technically,it was probably designed for a general 1967 audience. It can be viewed currently on RUclips.
I think he chose Good Day Sunshine as his favourite Beatle recording. I don’t think much of that opinion.
@@BigSky1perhaps not but it has some unique features - see a trained musician's analysis i.e. Call Me Caroline ! 👁️
Oh of course I know who Leonard Bernstein was and admire his work and he should be listened to. Caroline is just a bit more catchable for many. 🌈😹
I really like this song. This is a song I look at as Bach rock. Those Rickenbacker guitars have a very jangly sound, so much so that imo they almost have kind of a harpsichord sound in this song. I wish we still had Bach around, I think it would be really neat to have him make a fugue out of this, using this tune as one melody, and having another melody maybe starting with the flat 3rd (or maybe the 5th), and have one going up while the other is going down, something like that.
Sounds like something you should do.
Bach also played around with disharmonies in a subtle way.
Thanks for this video! Looking forward to when you get to You Won't See Me in a few months
Cold not at all I find you warm and wonderful, your seriousness and focus on the task at hand is highly respectable, it is this that makes your channel a favorite of mine.
Your playfulness and humor show through every time.
I was fine until your tears came then I let go knowing your feelings are pure and sincere.
Thank You Amy
More cowbell! (Sorry -- couldn't help myself).
Green can also mean that someone is inexperienced. I enjoy watching them sing this song live. I agree with your assessment.
Amy, I was recently re-listening to Stone Temple Pilots after a long time and I came across the realization that they are pretty much doing Beatles songs. STP's album Shangri-La Dee Da, which feels like a missing Beatles album if the never broke up. For example the song "Days Of The Week" sonunds like something Paul McCartney would write and sing.
Other STP songs that heavily resemble the Beatles are:
"Lady Picture Show"
"Sour Girl"
"Interstate Love Song"
"Too Cool Queenie"
"Tumble In The Rough"
"Big Bang Baby"
"Tripping' On A Hole In A Paper Heart"
"Wicked Garden"
"Creep"
"Plush"
Klunky yes Ringo gives it that tantrum feel. A bit more of a more sour apple, moving more outside of the pop norm. Brilliant song. I like what you said about parallel or shadow keys. I agree it’s very interesting. Thanks Virgin Rock, the way you explained this stuff really revealed some aspects that I hadn’t noticed before.
I was thinking that it was probably the cowbell that made Amy think of it as clunking and sounded like they were banging pots and pans. According to Wikipedia, it is Paul playing the cowbell. It is really loud in the mix. She is entering the era of the cowbell in some songs, which continued into the 70s. So I guess it is about time Amy get used to the "more cowbell" jokes, from the old Saturday Night Live skit, that always show up in the comments whenever a song has a cowbell in it.
I like it when Ring leaves his mark on a song. But he never overstates.
@@J0hnC0ltrane Ringo always played perfect parts, made it easy to build out a song.
@@LeeKennison yeah maybe too much cowbell. Paul played it ? I would have guessed Paul. I can imagine the conversation where John says it’s Klunky and Paul says I can make it even Klunkier. I think they were still using two two track recorders and to overdub a cowbell probably took some doing so it was an important part. I wonder when they got the proper 4 track? Abbey Road album was a 16 track I think. Of course Hard Days night was mixed to mono. It was quite a feat recording in those days. I’ll never understand how they did it. I mean I know how they did it but how did it come out so well balanced, high level skills and lots of talent went into these recordings. No Rock and roll band got the A team in a studio. Except maybe Elvis. Most bands got 4 hours in the B studio. Beatles started that way. I have to say that the expansion and evolution of the Beatles was greatly facilitated by the advances in recording technology that they used to the fullest.
@@Hartlor_Tayley That is some good and interesting information, since I was curious with how they did it back then. Assuming that Wikipedia is accurate, Paul played both bass and cowbell, along with doing back vocals. So if it was only two track at the time, does that mean that he would have to have done his backing vocals at the same time as doing one of the others? I assume while playing bass, while all the others were also singing and playing their parts together. I guess you could also do it by transferring the original tape to another while adding the new parts, but that would degrade the fidelity of the original.
You might consider listening to "I'll Be Back" from this album. Beautifully performed, with John's lyrics about conflicted emotions and nuanced expressions of unrequited love.
The use of quarter note triplets in the rhythm guitar adds greatly to the texture of that song - always love listening to it.
@@Bassman2353 Yes, and the emotional ambiguity of the lyrics mirrors the unusual rhythm of the music. And of course the bridge is one of the best of all Beatle songs.
Tension, is the name of this great song. Thanks Amy.
Another call for the song "Travel" by The Gathering, the TG25 live version. "I wish you knew your music was to stay forever".
I love to watch this reaction video ... but the timing ... 😆 it's deep in the night ... I have to wait for tomorrow ... 😅
Would love your reaction to .
Piggy in the middle .
By the rutles.
I advise you to listen band from California "Love". Some people call them the American Beatles. Album "Forever Changes" is a piece of art.
John sings as if he in a rage. Very very unusual and personal pop song. Hard to think of another pop singer coming up with this.
Can't wait for you to do the next or last song on the album. I'll Be Back is one of my favorites.
The early Beatles in my opinion is the best.
Yeah this was their golden period 63 - 65, a certain kind of band magic and energy that they had. Lots of fans prefer the early songs. Some think this is their best album.
I think green in the context of the song was used more and well understood in 60's Britain.
I know it seems like you've spent a lot of time on A Hard Day's Night, but if there's one thing "you can't do," it's skip the album closer, "I'll Be Back." Imagine a stray track from Rubber Soul getting lost in the sea of time and somehow landing three albums too early.
And it has two bridges.
John whipped this one out quickly, but he always worked best under pressure. And yeah, in rock music a riff is often the signature element that people remember a song by -- at least 60's rock music. Did John Lennon invent the signature rock riff? Maybe. He *was* the band's riff master and came up with the classic riffs in "I Feel Fine", "Ticket to Ride", and "Day Tripper". If so that alone should cement his place in the genre. Amy, that 'unpolished' sound you're hearing is what would became the basis for 'garage rock' a bit later in the 60's. It was often associated with surf music, and eventually culminated in bands like The Velvet Underground.
The Velvet Underground thanks for mentioning them
you are the champion amy
Have you had the chance to look at some of the Beatles performances during their early period? It may give you some insight into their popularity I really like their performance of 1964 - You Can't Do That at Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia.. I hope you get a chance to see it and can let us know.
"If I catch you talking to that boy again". But it works both ways: "I wanna hold your hand". Both are hinting at something far deeper. but that would be inappropriate for a simple pop song. The music and John's attitude convey all we need to know. Great analysis as ever. You are very perceptive and notice nuances that I felt at the time at an emotional level but could never have identified. I still see individual songs as having a particular 'flavour', but I could never describe what it is.
I hope Beatles For Sale will be touched as much as this album, because you've already spent more time on A Hard Day's Night than the previous two albums. And I hope I Feel Fine AND She's A Woman will be analyzed next (After I'll Be Back, I guess)
She spent more time on this because there are more original songs on this album. And it's better than the previous 2. And Beatles for sale has only 8 original songs like the first two albums, so don't get your hopes up.
@@peterolbrisch8970She has also analysed covers on the first 2 albums,
@@peterolbrisch8970 She's not doing only original compositions. I thought the metre was 6/7 songs per album plus the singles/odd tracks, if you think she will only cover 150 Beatles songs in total and she's already over 30
John plays the solo on this. George plays the riff on his 12 string.
This song song is very much blues-based. Switching between the major and minor is very common in blues. The song has two 12-bar A sections followed by a B section (sometimes called a bridge or a middle 8).
John Lennon was a genius, but the more I find out about him, the more I realise that he was a piece of work.
BTW, the "pots and pans" sound is probably a cowbell.
Cant wait for the Help album and Yesterday, one of the greatest pieces of music ever writen. Should be credited McCartney/Martin. George Martin composed the string quarted during a weekend, after convincing Paul that it would be better than just guitar and voice.
Riff equals unique, typically only a bar of two, (sometimes more) , of a musical hook line, that typical repeats and makes a song recognizable, the second you hear it.
Just to remind you.
All of these songs and the ones that are coming are done in a very short time.
When you get to much later songs (to the extent that there was a "much" since they weren't together that long, alas), you're going to start to forget many of these earlier songs, like this one. They're not bad, and some are really good. But relatively few can compare to the masterpieces that are yet to come.
There are of course signs of their greatness in their early works, but it's not till Rubber Soul that they really started to come into their own as great songwriters. It's the same with any band or musician, and if you listened to some early Pink Floyd or Rolling Stones you'd see what I mean.
I whole-heartedly disagree with you. I think that also their early songs are mind-blowing. Still.
@@michavandam Few of their pro-Rubber Soul songs can compare to what came after, musically, even if some are quite good.
@@kovie9162it's the remembered fresh innovation that is remembered by us olde farts junior! We know that All My Loving , Please Please Me , She Loves You , And I Love Her , I'll Be Back , A Hard Day's Night , No Reply , Ticket To Ride , Yesterday , I've Just Seen A Face and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away were exceptions but they amidst all the excitement will always stand out! Cheers 😹💈🤡
Like your descriptive take on a riff as a kind of label, fits well! Would like to suggest a listen/reaction to “Smoke on the water” by Deep Purple which has likely the most iconic riff in rock history…
Just another comment.
This is why George Harrison is equal to John and Paul in making what is the Beatles.
The most undercredited man in rock history.
After all my life listening to all kind of music (well, not classical), I still don't know what a riff is, or a hook, or a groove, or ... Sometimes I think I have an idea, but that fades away rather quickly again. But ... best explanation I saw so far that I could actually repeat if someone would ask me to.
Jealousy is a human disease.
This is the first time George used the new Rickenbacker 12 string electric guitar and didn’t take the solo. So colouring the music in a modern sounding way with a new instrument, George was a master at this throughout the Beatles and maybe relished the new influence he had. The Byrds used that sound.
You just stated what a riff is!
I really enjoy your reactions. However, I wonder just how accurate the sheet music is to the original songs. I remember back in the day when these records were released, many of my musician friends said the sheet music was hardly ever exactly the way the songs were played. Since we are talking about 50 to 60 years ago, maybe the sheet music of today is right on target.
Hi Amy,
1.
Your definition of a riff as a label, a brand, an identifying marker, is right.
If you really want to understand what a riff is, just listen to the right examples. Here is a short list:
- Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones
- Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
- Sunshine of Your Love by the Cream
- Allright Now by the Free
You won't need to have any doubts anymore after this. It would save you a lot of half-assumptions during the rest of your first listens on RUclips. I hope Vlad allows you to have a quick listen by yourself to these songs. Listenenig to the first 15 seconds of each song will do.
2.
About the tune (without the "Everybody's green"-part), it's just a Blues. That's why you hear all these blue notes and vocal inflexions (like "and leave you) FLA-A-AT"). And yes, it i s impressive to be able sing like that.
3.
The chord during "I've told you before" is quite advanced. Today, Rock musicians call it thr Jimi Hendrix chord.
4.
John Lennon used to be mean to his girlfriends and wife. Only when he met Yoko Ono, he saw the errors in his ways and he became a feminist. Then he started writing songs like "I'm Just a Jealous Guy" and "Woman Is the Nigger of the World".
5. The rough tin can sound you hear, is a cow bell. In the "Rock community" there's an ironinc line that they say eny time they hear a song with cow bell in it, which says, "Needs more cow bell!".
6. John Lennon's Blues Rock voice could already be heard in Twist and Shout. In fact so much so, that he lost his voice after the recording!
7. George Harrison probably called this song his favourite in 1964, because it really r o c k s ! Also, he was probably fed up with the earlier songs, that they had been playing over and over again.
Micha
THAT'S THE SONG I WAS TALKING ABOUT.IT WAS ALSO THE REASON THAT "I CALL YOUR NAME" WASN'T INCLUDED IN THE LP,CONSIDERED SIMILAR TO "YOU CAN'T DO THAT" BY MARTIN AND REJECTED.THAT'S THE REASON THAT THIS LP HAS 13 & NOT 14 SONGS AS THE 2 PREVIOUS ONES TOO.THANK YOU AMY
The other reason it has only 13 songs is that Ringo got tonsillitis on the final day of recording and we’re not able to record 1 more song.
@@BigSky1was not or they're not - if yer agoin' to troll do it in correct english please! 😹
“Everybody else is just green…” ;) just realized that when Roy Harper sings this line he also sustains the note and then at the very end takes the e a little bit higher (more in a yodeling way tho). A conscious or subconscious reference to The Beatles…? hmm
The line is simpler than that. It is simply "Everybody's greeeen,," why did you add "else is just..." to the line?
@@lorddaver5729 “Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?”, this is how the song goes, listen again, lol.
I'm not talking about@@dago87able
George was a bit jealous himself as well. He probably identified with it.
Yes they threw it out quickly.
If you get to the history of there recordings.
They maybe worked on the songs a couple of times.
John actually played the guitar solo in the middle on this.
12:25 I'd argue John didn't spend a lot of time practicing the vocal. They almost never did. He and Paul were better singers than a lot of people would give them credit for
Great live track from the Beatles. Lennon from the gut, presents his unsavory jealous mentality, which he later got better under control. In 1965, however, he went one step further in "Run for Your Life" and warned his imaginary partner, that he would kill her, if she cheated on him.
The story goes that they were running out of studio time and needed an extra track to complete the album, so John went off and just wrote this down on the fly. The theme of killing the unfaithful lover is deep in American folk/blues, and I expect John just took that idea for his song.
Fabulous!
An 🍏 a day keeps the Maya away.
Its like his aunt Mimi coming through.
Dylan, perhaps. Positively 4th Street type anger.
Yes exactly but wasn’t that Dylan song after this? It’s very close in time.
What happened to I'll Be Back??
I hope and I'm quite convinced, it will be coming soon 🤞🤞🤞
That clunky, rough-hewn sound comes partly from the cowbells chugging away in the background.
And another point.
They were thrown into crazy world wide game and constant touring.
Hmmm... "Pedantic" isn't being used correctly. 🤔
OMG At last, you are reacting to a Beatles item. Never happened before.
Honestly at this point, it does not surprise me that she hasten, If went felt full life, about life....
Just wait for 'Run for your life'...👿
No. It's an offensive song. 😒
Please react to Pet Sound Album!!
Let me know when your done with the beatles
Dear Virgin Rock, I strongly suggest you to check this Beatle footage about this song: ruclips.net/video/LNQutZEKFHE/видео.html 4:21, you can really enjoy how John manage this vocal line in a master way!! also very good record high definition...Beatles are not just amazing to listen but to watching them!! Hope you enjoy it!! And old Beatles fan.... PS: Thanks for the meaning of the phrase: "Everybody's green"...I was like crazy searching in my english-spanish dictionary when I was 6 years old....I'm 60 now... Regards from Argentina (SouthAmerica)...
I wanted to tell you that if you really listen you could take any heavy metal song and put it to classical music and vice versa. Also Metallica has actually played with a classical orchestra on one or two of their songs. I've always said that the classical musicians and composers were the great great great grandfathers of rock/heavy metal.
I might be able to help by pointing you to the source of your feeling of "klunky" or "banging pots and pans". It is nearly constant and intentional because Ringo is banging out the meter with his cowbell! A very popular motif in rock music. You might enjoy a classic parody of cowbell use in rock done by the SNL masters:
ruclips.net/video/cVsQLlk-T0s/видео.htmlsi=-0P9N0TmGmMNoUlJ
Need more cowbell!
How can you realy tell any thin about the song if you dont listen to it play just a split second of it your missing every thing i dont think you get it an wat beatles have impact rock music an so many musicians like were have u been in life
Lennon loved dissonance.
Not, one of the Beatles best. I believe George was going through alot of female problems with fidelity, thus his Spiritual side likes the chastisement of sexual immorality. Though in the 60's I don't think you could even say lack of purity?
Lyrically speaking, an “honest,” if unpleasant, Lennon at this point. As a rock song, especially live, a banger from the Beatles.
maybe i get it wrong. but why do you put on reactions videos without music? and why are you reading from your ipad?
Issues with Copyright.You obviously didn’t listen to the beginning of the. Video.
@@BigSky1nonsense. She used to play em but took em off to get us all to pay $$$ . Others play much more and some wait the 30 days and get whole albums up!!! Avarice rules ok ! 🤡
Well they teased in the early days then removed everything and just do snippets now. ! !They're cash orientated which is why they won't play more of the song like others do ( Call Me Caroline , Enlighten Jesse etc) or wait the 30 days to protest and then play the whole song or album (such as Welp Here We Are On RUclips) ! Sorry! 😹
Virgin, you, and my other 'Lover' Fran, are having the SAM,E issue RUclips, is fucking up medium sized channels with this copyright bullshit, I am so sorry, we really did have a lot of fun, for many years here, but corporate America was ALWAYS going to win and ruin the fun party...
I appreciate that you are trying to analyse the song, but you overdo it. You talk TOO much. Try listening more and talking less.
its incredible stupid to put out videos without music, who are interested?
I am.
It’s incredibly stupid to make a stupid comment when the presenter had told you the reason at the start of the video but you chose to ignore it.
Every Beatles fan is interested. We know all these songs backwards anyway.
She stopped playing the songs to make moolah. Others play much more of the song and some wait the 30 days to place whole albums uninterrupted. Check out Call Me Caroline or Welp Here We Are On RUclips or Enlighten Jesse or many less avaricious others. 🤡
@@fredneecher1746well Fred many don't know the songs and it's a big disappointment naturally. However many do play much more or even whole songs and albums :-- Welp Here We Are On RUclips , Call Me Caroline , Enlighten Jesse etc etc etc ! 💈🤡🌈