I asked the universe for you to put this video out like 2 days ago due to how long my drives have become and how soothing your voice is i listened to all the DDD's newest to oldest. And when i finished i "damn i wish he put out a Beatles dive thatd be sick" and in true form. The universe delivers. 💜🌼🐝 bless you
George's Indian-influenced Beatles songs rarely get enough love. The fact that they're still pretty out-there even today shows how much of an OG he really was.
my dad loved the early 60s stuff, so i grew up with that. i had a friend when i was in high school watching tv and there was a show called 'it was 20 years ago today', that talked about sgt. pepper. so we got the vinyl at the library and that song 'within and without you' turned me into an incense princess within 2 years. lol. i'm actually doing hashish right now (legal her in canada). hehehe.
as a music theory student, seeing that he was literally the first person to bring Indian-influenced music into the pop and rock genre is insane. It probably would have been integrated eventually, but as early as it was and how beautifully he meshes Indian and Western music theory together (probably without realizing it) is so monumental and cool, that it just blows my mind every time I think about it. RIP to the true founding fathers & long live ringo & macca
Fun fact! The shows at the Budokan in Japan were a big reason as to why they stopped wanting to perform live. The crowd in Japan were much more respectful that most, which led to them being quiet. That led to the boys actually being able to hear themselves, which itself led to them realizing how awfully they were playing. There's even a clip from one of the shows where they play If I Needed Someone, where George gets so mad at how they sound that he sings "If I fuckin' needed someone". (This is my favorite Beatles fact and I'll never ever stop sharing it.)
great joke and the dude definitely murdered let it be, all things must pass, and at least two people but he was also really good at recording motown artists
In Abbey Road's defense, it was made during a time when the main way to listen to music was on vinyl. So when I Want You (She's So Heavy) had that abrupt ending, the band stated that the original intent was for you to be left in silence for a bit, before playing the second side. I honestly think of it as a brief pause between two short albums playing back to back, but that's just me
This was exactly what I was about to comment. Same with with an album like Led Zeppelin IV where if you're streaming it, Stairway to Heaven ends then the happy Misty Mountain Hop plays. It was made with the intent for you to take in what had just happened, then go to the turn table and flip the record.
It’s supposed to go right into here comes the sun, I want you is such a heavy and long trip, then boom it plays here comes the sun uplifting and happy and its an amazing transition in my opinion
Yes! I was about to comment with the same thing. Once I Want You finished, you had to physically get up, lift the needle, turn over the record, place the needle back down, and then wait for the second side to begin. That's a pause that you don't think about, but it's there.
I love the ending of she’s so heavy and how it transitions into here comes the sun. One of the greatest moments in their catalogue as far as I’m concerned. It’s genius how oppressive the end of side one feels then the literal breath of sunshine side two starts with. It helps when you had it on physics media and needed to manually fill the record or the tape to start side two.
Having heard it for the first time as a teen via digital streaming, can vouch for that experience carrying over into the new age no problem thanks Kenjo
My aunt told me when she first heard it on vinyl, she was dreading flipping it to side two because of the way side one ends. She was thinking the whole second side was just going to be the She’s So Heavy riff forever
I agree. I think I want you is a great song and I never get tired of the riff that goes on and on and on. And it gets so loud and it makes you tired in a way because the track sounds so heavy.... And then stopping only to go into one of the most calming songs of all time is just such a great relief from a great heavy song to a great light song. In my opinion those 2 songs belong together
@@filmguymike I agree but from what I can assume from video essays like these, Revolution 9 was important as it pushed the boundaries of recording on tape and different types of blending and transitions. However, yeah it isn't a song I listen to.
Hot Take: Bungalow Bill is the best song on The White Album, which is the best non-soundtrack Beatles project (even if I consider Magical Mystery Tour superior)
I am listening to sgt. peppers and just finished that song. I think I need to listen to it again first but it wasn't crazy for me so far. I love the album tho edit: I relistened. It was great
25:22 my grandfather was a teen turning to 20s during Beatles mania and he had a mono and stereo pressing for each release. And luckily, he got a butcher cover. When he passed, I inherited all his records, including his research on the butcher cover controversy. Thank god my grandpa was a Beatles lover
Lucky that you have a butcher cover. My mom went to a thrift shop and spent 8 dollars on a original trunk cover and she freaked out on how much I could sell it for
I steamed the trunk cover off mine in June 1966. In August that year I saw them at dodger stadium. I’ll tell ya tho I would trade it all to be 21 again. I think
The Beatles took such a long break in 1966, it ended up being 1996 when they released the single Paperback Writer/Rain 20:32 30 years is a really, really long break.
@@Wired4Life2 I sometimes like to think about how the people must have felt in 1966 after hearing Tomorrow Never Knows as the final track. And Revolver came out one year before the summer of love, so that whole cultural movement barely existed yet. That must have been an alien experience.
Kinda sad to see ,"She's Leaving home", so easily dismissed, but it's just a matter of cultural differences, for us in the UK it was very much a part of the trend towards kitchen sink drama, it was Ken Loach in a song, one of the few songs that has ever made me want to shed a tear.
I understand being upset about weird tracklist choices, but the hard cut on “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is the end of side A of Abbey Road. Then you flip the record, and “Here Comes The Sun” plays, a perfect intro to Side B. I do get how on streaming though this would be odd :)
I personally think they sound great back to back. The duality of the dark ending of i want you to the bright peppy intro of here comes the sun is unbeatable imo.
I really hope we get a Michael Jackson DDD soon. Curious about how one would work since there was so much in Michael's timeline, but I think an MJ DDD would work pretty well.
“They brought on Phil Spector, who’s known for just killing it when it came to production, just absolutely murdering it.” I see what you did there, Mic.
ikr? Maybe one day he'll do a deep dive on this guy named Michael Jackson. He wrote some good tunes. But he was just such a normal balanced person that the press never really paid him much attention, and so the music sadly kinda went under the radar.
Magical Mystery Tour has always been just a tad under appreciated. I get it’s not much of an album more than a product of its movie, but it easily has some of their best material.
One of the main kicks I get out of Your Mother Should Know is that it's been so long that the song is now itself 🎵"a song that was a hit before your mother was born"🎵. The song got more fun with time.
This was my dad's favourite band. I never got into the Beatles because I gravitated towards the harder stuff my mom liked. Hell, my mom got me into White Snake, Black Sabbath and Maiden. But listening to you explain them, explain what they sounded like and why they were important. It brought me a little closer to my father, he would have loved it had he still been here. Thank you.
i don't usually leave comments on RUclips videos, but here we go: the Beatles are probably the most important band in my life, and despite not listening to them as much as i did when i was younger, they changed my perception on music and what it could be, not to mention all the memories that have with them. i don't exactly remember the fisrt time i heard any of their songs, but it probably was with an old compilation album that my grandpa had, it wouldn't leave his radio player and we had a great time listening to it. with that compilation i was exposed to all those songs from the early days, as well as some later songs, and they all were stuck in my head, but i didn't think much of them. some years later in my early teenager days, i saw a 1h hour+ video by a very famous Brazilian creator (Felipe Castanhari), very much in the style of the DDD, however it dove more on their personal lives. that video simply blew my mind, and it was from that point on that i started looking at music much more as an art form, rather than a collection of noises, and i wanted to take part on that art form, so i took up drums and started a band. the switch had been turned on in my head never to be turned off again, and still today i keep looking for more and more music, with that same joy that i had, when i was first descovering their catalog. it might not be the most well written text, or the most interesting one, but your video made me remember some very special times in my life. thank you mike, and keep up the quality content
@@fernandofilho7967 Great comment. It's cool how we all have our own super personal stories of how these 4 guys changed our lives. My love affair with the Beatles began, oddly enough, with Magical Mystery Tour. While Revolver is definitely my favorite Beatles album, a close second is Magical Mystery Tour. I love it. In fact, I think it's way better than Sgt. Pepper...which I've always found rather overhyped. A part of my love for MMT is that it just happened to be the album in my car CD player back in 2008 when I started smoking weed for the first time in my life. Needless to say, that album blew my mind. But even to this day, I still think it holds up. It's just a weird album...very hazy and trippy. Sgt Pepper is obviously psychedelic....but in a more colorful bright loud way. MMT is psychedelic in a more hazy eerie moody way, and I like that a lot. Ahhhh....I'm just thinking back to 12 years ago, when I was in college, driving around aimlessly at night after smoking a bowl(yes, i know, irresponsible), and listening to Blue Jay Way with the volume and bass nice and loud.....just feeling trippy and cool af. Those were better days.... It's kinda sad to realize you'll never be able to re-experience the first time the Beatles came into your life. For me it was MMT, and just happened to coincide with trying marijuana for the first time....and falling in love with both. Looking back, it was such a special singular feeling/experience....but I didn't really realize that at the time. I was just living my life. But yeah....the fact MMT coincidentally happened to soundtrack my first encounter with weed.....well, you could do worse.
Weird choice for a deep dive. I’ve never heard of this band before must be pretty obscure doubt they have much cultural significance at all. No but seriously though One of the greatest bands of all time. The white album is in my top 10 album of all time. Happy we finally got a DDD for them.
@@uffebeTo quote Dick Martin, "I didn't know that." One of the greatest things about being a Beatles fan is that one can learn new things for the rest of our lives.
My wife and I are both in our 50s and we’ve watched a lot of video about The Beatles. I have to say you did a terrific job. We both liked your sense of humor and your knowledge. A group think you should explore is The Zombies. While they certainly didn’t make nearly the impact the Beatles did, their innovation and talent eclipsed almost any other band from the era. Thanks so much for this video. It was well worth the hour.
@@nobodyburgen4594 I, for one, can. I’ll listen to anything that I think is creative, and that’s not just limited to the music that came out when I was young. The problem with nowadays is that there is great music out there but it generally does not receive the same amount of attention as some of the more commercial, less creative type of stuff. Don’t get me wrong - There was a lot of trashy music that came out in the past also. It’s just that much of it has been forgotten by people who only engage in feelings of nostalgia. The main difference between now and then is that the really great music that is produced now often does not receive the same amount of promotion that it did back in the old days. The people who control the music industry only seem to be interested in a formula that is going to produce commercially viable hits, and any formula like that spells the death of being uniquely creative and different.
@@MsAppassionata The thing is that thats only really happening with the radio, and thanks to spotify, youtube, and internet message boards like Rate Your Music, the radio is no longer the main way that artists get popular.
@@nobodyburgen4594 Yes but many older people my age still rely on the radio, which is why they don’t like a lot of the music that’s around today. I mean, I look on RUclips and Spotify, but there are so many artists out there and often people don’t know quite where to look to find new stuff. It’s all kind of random, as opposed to when we used to hear things on the radio. There’s no guarantee that we’ll hear new good songs and performers. I’ll see about the rate your music board you mentioned. Thanks.
On the White Album I have to disagree, I think every song is great and perfectly placed in the track listing. The way the album ranges in style with each song is exhilarating to listen to. Personally I wouldn't call any of it filler. Yes even Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie are perfect lol
A thing I Love about the White Album is: When you don't skip Revolution 9 and then suddenly the Strings and Ringo's Voice, of Good Night, come in. It just feels so calming and all the tension of Revolution 9 slowly seep away. That's why I always try not to Skip it.
"Producer Phil Spector was brought on, who was know for just KILLING IT when it came to production, just absolutely MURDERING IT. With instincts as SHARP AS A KNIFE." I can't stop laughing. Once you know about Spector, you know. Well played Mike, well played.
As a Filipino, it makes sense that the Beatles' Philippines tour dates were terrifying. We were living under a terrible dictatorship and the president's wife was something like a Lady Macbeth kind of figure. But yeah they were ousted back in '86 after a revolution. Many years later, David Byrne from Talking Heads worked with Fatboy Slim on Here Lies Love, an album based on that first lady.
Yeah when I saw that I was like "Lady they just didn't want to come for breakfast they didn't spit on your grandmothers grave or anything chill tf out". Like maybe you could argue it's a bit in bad taste or whatever but like it's not worth making the Beatles public enemy #1 like jesus christ. I feel so bad for them knowing how bad this went for them now.
As a MASSIVE Beatles nerd I was super excited when this popped up in my inbox, and I gotta say, it did not dissapoint. This was a great deep dive. Also, as an aside, I totally agree with you about the 2009 stereo mixes, and I really hope we get Giles Martin mixes of the older albums someday - especially Revolver (aka, the best one!).
Yes - and Rubber Soul. I guess it's a harder ask pre Sgt Pepper, with the four-track masters. At least on Pepper there was some 'bouncing down', so there was more to play with. And the rest of Magical Mystery Tour would be nice (mainly I am the walrus). And while I'm at it, Hey Bulldog.
Except for Help! and Rubber Soul (that were remixed in 198x), the 2009 releases are the original stereo mix, as heard on the 60s. They started remixing the canon albums in 2017 (?) with Sgt. Peppers and so on. I don't agree with his take because he missed one way of listening to the Beatles: with actual speakers.
@@braulioacosta6816 will not deny that all of said 2009 mixes are perfectly fine playing out of speakers and the way they originally did it makes sense given the technology they had available to them at the time, but imo that's kind of a moot point. I don't think your particular setup should impact the listening experience of a given mix in the first place, I think it'd be much more preferable for an album to sound good both on headphones and speakers than for it to only sound good on speakers, and I can't just give them a pass given how I've heard plenty of other albums from that era that still sound good in both settings by today's standards (The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed for instance)
@@braulioacosta6816 It is worth noting though that the Beatles themselves were only involved in the mono mix, the stereo mix was more of an afterthought. So if you want to be a purist, you have to listen to the mono mix. And Giles Martin even took the mono mix as a base for his new remixes, so you could argue that they are closer to the original vision of the Beatles.
It has been 60 years and I can not get tired of their music. That includes bootlegs, Star Club tapes and all their individual efforts. It’s not all good but it is so diverse and entertaining. Thank you. I watched the whole hour.
I was thinking "Hmm, it's Friday, surely the DDD will be out by now." I checked the MTS Twitter, found nothing new, came back here, it's uploaded. Someone give me someone popular who hasn't uploaded in a while, I want to use my powers for good.
Ringo narrated the first few UK releases of Thomas the Tank Engine. Those were among my most treasured VHS cassettes in my very very early years. So between that and the early US releases, Thomas was my first exposure to the Beatles and George Carlin.
Feels weird to watch this video after the Get Back documentary. But It makes me happy to realize that those times in the band's lifespan weren't as bad and unhappy as we were lead to believe for so many decades.
The first Harrison-penned song was actually "Don't Bother Me" from With the Beatles. That one always seems to slip people's minds. I've seen magazines, articles, etc. mistakenly credit other George songs as being his first. Just wanted to point that out. This is an incredible video. Thank you making great stuff!
for some reason everyone forgets about the song "long, Long, Long" on the white album. i listened to the beatles my whole ass life and didn't find it until a few years ago, and it's soo good. one of the best george songs no one knows.
There are so many fantastic deeper cuts off the White album and this is for sure one of them. The serene guitar, synths, swells of drums and the uplifting hook in the middle. All perfection!
That song is severely underrated, and I don't understand why it's not talked about more. It's so beautiful, I listen to it twice in a row to take it all in.
Maybe so. It is relatively obscure. Very cool psychedelic rocker. It goes on a bit too long for me. They could have trimmed a good minute or so off the end.
i've always had this deep love for paul's quiet, almost domestic tracks? martha my dear & when i'm sixty-four are prime examples of paul finding beauty in simplicity and i love them. also, i love ob la di, ob la da-- four year old me thought it was absolutely jammin' and it's been a fave ever since.
I think Paul deserves more credit for his more light hearted songs he manages across every album. He does music hall to folk really well and has a real talent for melody to make these ballads vibrant and lively.
Honestly my favourite LP of theirs is Rubber Soul. Revolver and Pepper are more inventive, but Rubber Soul feels like a warm, comfy blanket, there's just a very inviting quality to it. It's definitely the one I return to the most.
Yes, i love it too - with John's superlative chronometers: 1. In My Life 1. Girl 1. Nowhere Man 2. Norwegian Wood 3. Run for your life Plus Paul's 6. You won't See Me 7. Michelle 8. I'm lookin' thru you And George's 9. If i needed someone
I've voted for The Beatles for so long to be covered on the DDD and voted for them every time they were in the polls and I'm SO HAPPY to see them getting covered. At last.
My dad passed away 9 years ago and I've always wished that I could show him your videos. Never has that feeling been stronger than right now. He was the one who helped me to fall in love with music, and he was a huge fan of the Beatles. We watched A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarine together when I was a young kid (the glove traumatized me too, I feel you there). I got really nostalgic listening to all of these songs again and reliving those memories of driving around town with my dad and listening to these albums. He really would have loved the heart and humor you bring to all of your videos. Thanks for helping me remember the good times I had with him, and great video as always.
Magical Mystery Tour is my favourite. I was born in 1964 during the Beatles’ second Ed Sullivan show. My older sisters had the MMT album with the included picture book and I played it all the time before i knew anything about anything. The movie would play on UHF tv a few times a year on Saturday afternoons. Timing is everything…
So someone's probably said this but George's first original officially released song is "Don't Bother Me" off of With The Beatles. Great video, sorry to be pedantic.
I love "Let It Be" specifically because it does feel like an extended epilogue of sorts. It feels like a fond farewell after a decade of crazy success and Spector production adds a certain finality to the whole thing. Plus it has "I Me Mine" and "Don't Let Me Down" on it both of which are bangers.
Don't Let Me Down was added back on the album for the Let it Be- Naked version... which is the superior version... though I like the original recording of the song Let it Be better than the Naked version.
I think of Let It Be is a "lesser masterpiece"...as in most artists would give up a pinky to have an album that good, but it has some flaws that diminish it's greatness. Some weaker songs, and the production could have been better, but damn there are some brilliant pieces there.
My favorite is Across the Universe. I first listened to it during my junior year of high school, but it really hit me during graduation. I saw my growth in this song when comparing it to the lyrics and compositions of earlier Beatles songs. The line "Nothing is gonna change my world" is particularly meaningful to me since it represents graduation, marking the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. It marks a big change that occurs in a normal day.
The white album is their best and I will die on that hill screaming Wild Honey Pie. Also, to echo what some other people have said, the earliest memory I have of learning the beatles existed (Im 24) was watching Ringo narrated Thomas the tank engine VHS's as a kid and my mum saying; "oh yeah, he was in a big band".
I know people tend to really hate "Wild Honey Pie", but I'd be lying if I said McCartney screaming "Honey Piiiiie!!!" wasn't absolutely hilarious. That's one of my guilty pleasures for sure.
She's leaving Home is a favorite in my family because my Grandmother was a professional cello player. My mother tried to play her the song but she was dismissive of that ruckus rock music noise. But when one of her students played it for her she liked it. Anyway, when I hear the song it makes me think of a woman who died before I was born and feel closer to her a little bit.
Actually, 'Let It Be' sounds like an excellent bonus album for the fans, and it succeeds brilliantly as just that, and I think it has been so positively reevaluated justly.
Honestly, while Abbey Road is the perfect Masterpiece for the Beatles to end their time as a band, I'm glad Let It Be was the final album, it reads like an album for the end credits. It's the epilogue, the winding down of a decade or so of nonstop hit making. Honestly, I don't know if I can ever hear the title track without getting emotional, something about it just hits me in the ways only the finales to some of my favorite TV shows ever have hit me.
it's weird to say that the Beatles are underrated, but I have to agree with you. As a musician, I can tell that people who didn't study pop's and rock's history don't get (or maybe they just don't know) what The Beatles actually did for music. It's not about liking their voices or whatsoever, someone could not like the Beatles but saying they're overrated is just wrong. It's not an opinion, it's just false. Not everything can be questionable. Music history at some point is not so different from history itself or science. Someone can dislike the Beatles but that doesn't allow them to claim bs just because of that.
Yeah… no. The Beatles' influence is very well-known, they’re the most famed & acclaimed band in history after all- they’re not underrated in the slightest, and I love them to bits myself.
I always thought the transition between I Want You (She's So Heavy) and Here Comes The Sun was absolutely perfect. Are you kidding me?? When George says "it's been a long, cold, lonely winter", it's almost like he's referring to the outro of I Want You (She's So Heavy). It couldn't possibly be better than that.
It's worth noting that the segue between She's So Heavy and Here Comes The Sun isn't so abrupt on the record because Here Comes The Sun is the first track on Side B!
I got excited when you started talking about using the Beatles as an example of how music recording and engineering progressed, I would love a video focused on that
@revonine3099 You would really enjoy the series “Soundbreaking” (originally on Apple TV) - all about the effects of recording technology on the development of music. The first two episodes in particular focus a lot on George Martin and the Beatles. I learned a lot from it.
Ask any guitar player if they know what the flange effect is... They of course will say yes. Ask them when it was first used.. most will not know... It was first used on Tomorrow never knows on John Lennon's vocal... Then ask the guitar player where the name 'flange' came from... Most likely they will not know... The effect was originally called artificial double tracking or ADT... John Lennon asked Geoff emerick how he achieved the effect... Emerick proceeded to explain how he ran the tape over a flange wheel and used a verispeed to slow down a second recording of the same track to give it the impression of the two playing together being two different tracks... Lennon did not understand what he was saying because it was all just technical mumbo jumbo to him... So whenever Lennon wanted that affect he just asked emerick to 'flange' it. That's where the famous guitar effect gets its name.... John Lennon off the cuff remark
From UK...Nice one Mic - I was a Beatles fan from aged 9 (1963) and saw them live that year...Almost all you said positive and negative was spot on...Your research was admirable for a whipper-snapper (check that one out)...Just stumbled on your site...I became a guitarist and enjoyed playing live gigs for over 40 years ...Cheers !
I can’t believe you don’t like she’s leaving home that much, I always thought of it as one of their legendary storytelling songs up there with a day in the life
I have trouble gwtting behind that one, too. In fact, Pepper might be my least favorite Beatles album. I don't like "Kite" at all, not a fan of LSD, and a lot of the tunes are snappy riffs in search of a song, like Abbey Road's medley.
A midi version of "Her Majesty" is the perfect way to end a very enjoyable retrospective on the music of the Beatles. Thank you for an in depth analysis of their music and the times they were living in. I smiled, I laughed, I cried too.... Thank you so much.
Why oh why did you leave out "Mr. Kite" when discussing Sgt pepper? That is such an underrated masterpiece, and one of my fav Beatles songs. Seriously.
Also, another thing George did was produce movies! In 1979 the studio behind Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” backed out at the last minute. George, a good friend of the Pythons, started the production company “Handmade Films” that produced it and would later go on to produce films like “Time Bandits” and “Withnail and I”.
Don't forget 'The Ruttles', a 70s comedy documentary film which charts a famous British band, starring Eric Idle & Neil Innes (as well as a cameo from George Harrison).
I Want You (She's So Heavy) apparently works better when it's a record. Because you get a second to breathe after the hard cut, and then when you flip it over you get the pallet cleanser.
Only critique is that abbey road wasn’t named and given a cover that easily. They originally were gonna do something around Everest but they didn’t wanna travel for a photoshoot at Everest and just went outside
what the White Album lacks in cohesion it makes up for in generosity. There's just so many damn songs! It's also probably the funniest album. John is so sneering throughout, especially on Bungalow Bill and Warm Gun (the former just has so many laugh out loud lines like, "In case of accidents, he always brought his mum" and "if looks could kill it would have been us instead of him")
People make fun of Your Mother Should Know and I guess I understand why but I've always been astounded that Paul could write a melody like that just on command and then throw it away like nothing. An insane talent
@@gclip9883 fun fact: during the original recording, when you hear Paul say 🎵writing 50 times🎵 he cracks up a little bit, and it's because John mooned him from outside the recording booth due to hating the song so much
I don’t know about y’all, but I love music. It’s my passion. But part of me has always been afraid to say things like that because I’ve never been read truly drawn to the Beatles. This helped them become a little bit more accessible to me
Their discography is definitely beefy enough to be hard to enter, but it is so so worth it in my opinion. I think the Beatles are the most highly regarded band that isn’t overrated. Have fun with them!
I LOVE the jump from I Want You (She's So Heavy) to Here Comes The Sun. To me it always felt like the calm after the storm. The long stormy hypnotic noise clearing to a sunny quiet guitar, and that song's slow build up to the drop when the drums kick in.
I was introduced to the Beatles in the mid 2000s after my grandmother went to Vegas and saw the cirque du soliel Beatles Love show. She brought me the CD from that show as a souvenir and my life changed. My dad had the anthology in CD and I delved into the studio deep cuts and it's corny, but it was a comfort for me during some of the worst parts of my life. The Beatles will always be special to me as someone who is enamored with music and the way it can influence your emotions, the Beatles make me feel nostalgic and excited and bittersweet. Also Rubber Soul is my favorite album.
You have a similar joke/interjection/editing style to Scott the Woz but not quite as hyperactive and a lot more grounded. I love your shit, insightful stuff here. You got me back into Floyd! This video is great
John & Paul yelling She Loves you over the ending of All You Need. You can hear the orchestra play Greensleeves and In the Mood in the background too. Shout out to You can't unhear this Beatles YT channel for solving the mystery. 👍
The thing about that hard cut at the end of I Want You (She’s So Heavy) is that it’s the end of side A. So, side A culminates in a roar of heavy sound, leaving you speechless with it’s dark, groovy, grinding heaviness, and then silence…. And then, in a Beatles stupor, you turn that record over, and Here Comes the Sun comes in like a ray of pure white light, like a morning stroll through the garden….
When I was in college one of my teachers told us about a friend of hers that had a terminal illness and that he was a massive Beatles fan. I don't remember exactly how it happened, I think someone turned on Hey Jude on a little music player in the room, and the whole class ended up singing along to it. My teacher recorded it and sent it to her friend and later told us that it brought a huge smile to his face. He died not too long after, and quite honestly I haven't listened to the song since. But it's a strange little Beatles adjacent story I've always got in the back of my head. Other than that the day we got Beatles rock band in the house was a very exciting day.
The albums ranked: 13: Yellow Submarine 12: Beatles for Sale 11: With The Beatles 10: Please Please Me 9: A Hard Day's Night 8: Help! 7: Let It Be 6: Magical Mystery Tour 5: Rubber Soul 4: Sgt. Pepper 3: White Album 2: Revolver 1: Abbey Road
How come Sgt. Pepper is the last of your top four? Why Revolver over the White album and why is Abbey Road your favorite? I’d love to hear your opinions
@@killme9534 okay I got a lot of thoughts on this, so this'll be a two-parter. Bear with me. 1. I think Sgt. Pepper is massively overrated. Look, it's a good album. A Day in the Life is one of the greatest songs they ever did. However, going through the track list, there's quite a few flawed songs: Getting Better: The jump from "I didn't like school and I used to get angry" to "I physically abused my wife, boy, what a jerk I was" is pretty excessive. It's also ignorant of how horrific the act of beating your wife is. I know attitudes were quite different in the 60s, but still. She's Leaving Home: Not a bad song, but it's a carbon copy of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Yes, the Beach Boys were inspired by Rubber Soul, but they expanded on that influence. This just sounds like a Brian Wilson impression. Within You Without You: Sounds way more profound than it actually is. Reading into the lyrics, it's pretty contradictory. Harrison goes from saying "with our love we could save the world" to "you're really only very small" and "life flows on within you and without you". The laughing at the end only adds to that perception. I don't call music "pretentious" often, but this is it. Lovely Rita: It's not *bad*, per se. There's some catchy instrumentals on there. But it's just really fruity. Kind of obnoxious. "When are you free to take some tea with meeeeeeeeee?" And what is this weird hiccuping sound from Paul at the end? It's just not one of his best performances. Good Morning Good Morning: Simply put: Pure filler. It feels like a non-song.
2: Additionally, I just don't think Sgt. Pepper is *that* game-changing. When I think of 1967, I think the most game-changing music of that year came from Hendrix and the Velvet Underground (I know the latter took time to gain the acclaim they have now, but still). I also think that the jump from Rubber Soul to Revolver is much, much bigger than the jump from Revolver to Sgt. Pepper. It's not ahead of its time, it's of it's time. Abbey Road, on the other hand, is ahead of its time. It's the band's best-produced album. It sounds more pristine and spotless than any other album I've heard from that era. The melodies, the harmonies, the instrumentation; it's just absolutely fucking gorgeous.
@@jamescarlisle4023 I was only asking because I feel somewhat the same way, though not as strongly against Sgt. Pepper. I do think the concept of it gets overrated when half the bands admitted to not having the concept in mind for most of the recording. That and I feel they would’ve made the same music regardless of said concept, even if it adds to the amazing album cover and some cool transitions. I enjoy the lyrics off of Getting Better and Within You Without You, but I agree in that they aren’t nearly as deep as they come off to be on the latter. I don’t know the word but Sgt. Pepper is probably one of their most schmaltzy? Fruity like you said records, so much so it kind of brings some songs down for me. I think a third of the tracklist certainly was ahead of its time, not a lot sounded like it’s best moments. But I do think those moments like Lucy and A Day overshadow a lot else that’s on the record. Hard agree with Abbey Road though! I really didn’t think it needed the remaster it got, it seemed pretty pointless just making an already crisp record sound louder than it needed to be. But everyone was really operating at their peak. Some of George’s best songs yet, killer performances by Paul, his bass work is phenomenal, Ringo shines more than ever, his second song is miles better than Don’t Pass Me By, John really owning his blues influence and just adding onto his already great psychedelic sound. What a legendary album.
Please do Swans next! They are my favourite band of all time and with an incredibly diverse set of albums it will be such a joy watching you discuss about them. As always, loved this installment in the DDD series!
The absolute beauty of The Long and Winding Road really becomes evident in the Let It Be Naked album. No orchestra, no choir, buy rather what Paul had wanted when he wrote the song. Dear Prudence is one of the most powerful songs by The Beatles. The slow and almost sad beginning which slowly transitions into a lively and, while not quite happy, but upbeat song with that perfect guitar playing. By the end it can either have you smiling and ready to tackle anything, or in tears. Also, Happiness is a Warm Gun, to me is one of their most underrated songs, I'm not sure why 🤷♂️
Yet Paul doesn't play the Naked version in his concerts and instead sticks w/ the original. Honestly, if he didn't complain, no one else in the world would complain.
The Naked Version definitely sticks with me occasionally Now that Let It Be’s Super Deluxe is already released I usually go to that version’s Take 19 Mix (both version should be the same take just different mixes I think) Honestly could’ve put only subtle more intimate soft sounding strings or violins instead of over the top orchestra honestly the original on top with the whole choir just to cover bad bass playing and hell Paul’s honestly cheesy sounding vocals (in the take the original album used) comes off as so forced to me
Growing up, I didn’t realize that popular consensus was “yeah the beatles are holistically and actually good” and figured that it was more “the beatles are known as the best band of all time because they were extremely popular and also the “first”, and abbey road, sergeant pepper, and less so rubber soul are good” I grew up latching onto one album by a band each, and having my entire love of that band be focused on that one album, having little personal knowledge of the artist as a whole. (which i’ve regretfully continued to this day, queue my praise of Concrete and Gold forgetting that all Foo Fighters albums sound the same). Revolver was that for The Beatles. (I had also been introduced to Sergeant Pepper, but 8 year old me’s response to that was “huh cool they’re in costumes and personas that’s really dorky and kinda embarrassing now time to listen to taxman and eleanor rigby”) Not realizing how expansive The Beatles’ discography actually was, only hearing Revolver mentioned in passing, it lead me to believe Revolver was some forgotten gem. It’s been really nice to learn that oh, Revolver is actually hailed as the second to fourth greatest Beatles album, even if by the time I realized that, it was so connected to my early childhood that I listen more to reminisce than to analyze an art piece. I think what you said in the conclusion, about The Beatles being the Citizen Kane of bands; having originated so much of modern production and songwriting techniques, they’re a great Lil’ Tykes First Band. With 55 years since Revolver, I known that is changing, but it seems less that any band has taken it’s place, and more that it’s a role that’s never been filled before or since. There’s no “biggest band of all time” or “biggest band right now” except statistically. BTS is, but will BTS become stylistic innovators, or will the fields of most popular band and most inventive band continue to diverge. Knowing that some day Paul McCartney & Mick Jagger will grow too old to perform has encapsulated my fear of the endless march of time for years now. I had never realized that Beatlemania came partially from the want for vibrance to return to life after the second world war. Knowing that, it’s easy for them to take on the feel of more joyful times long since past. Someday Paul, Ringo, and the Rolling Stones are gonna die, and that time will be truly relegated to history. Also, I know in my heart somewhere in his discography Ringo has his Temporary Secretary/Revolution 9, and some day I will find it.
For me, that album was Abbey Road until I found the time to revisit some of their discography. Learned to love and appreciate a lot of what they’ve done and recorded afterwards. It’s easy to hear music fifty years past and call it overrated, but I can only wish those same people will grow out of that way of thinking. They’re missing out for sure!
I'd love to see an updated version of your thoughts on Let It Be now that the doc is out. It really changed my mind on an album I thought sounded so flat and uninspired. It's a band trying desperately to find the spark that made them love being in a band together. The messiness of it now makes sense since every song is recorded live and it sounds so organic compared to their more studio wizardry style of albums past. Seeing them perform I've Got A Feeling, Don't Let Me Down, and One After 909 and learning that THOSE WERE THE VERSIONS THAT WERE ON THE ALBUM blew my mind out my ass. And seeing them slowly write Abbey Road songs while making this was so fucking cool too. It is WILD that Let It Be was supposed to be this grounded return to their roots and they instead made a studio masterpiece. Also the Naked version is far superior to the Spector mix and, if they didn't remaster it last year, would probably be the definitive version of Let It Be to me personally. But yeah I'd love to hear your thoughts on the album after Get Back released.
I agree - Let It Be has always been, along with Please Please Me, my least favorite Beatles album. Some gems, for sure, but overall just kind of average to me. And while I maybe still don't love the album, it was so fascinating watching those songs just come into being and appreciating the various details.
For the longest time I thought that roughly release year equaled songwriting year; making the entirety of Abbey Road concieved BEFORE Let It Be. Learning that it was pretty much the opposite blew my mind to pieces. I thought in the beginning of get back that they were using Abbey Road tunes to warm up
Captions are being worked on, and should be live sometime this weekend. As always, thank you for watching!
Been waiting for this one for a while let's go!
I asked the universe for you to put this video out like 2 days ago due to how long my drives have become and how soothing your voice is i listened to all the DDD's newest to oldest. And when i finished i "damn i wish he put out a Beatles dive thatd be sick" and in true form. The universe delivers. 💜🌼🐝 bless you
bob dylan ddd please
Please can you do Aaliyah??
Could You make a DDD of rise against?
Happy to see MicTheSnare shining a light on underground talent!
Yes
I’ve been waiting for this truly underrated band to be reviewed by mic
Yeah, saw these guys on SoundCloud back in 2015, fun to see them have some sucsess!
Some of them are definitely underground!
@@larsdahlgren739 same
George's Indian-influenced Beatles songs rarely get enough love. The fact that they're still pretty out-there even today shows how much of an OG he really was.
my dad loved the early 60s stuff, so i grew up with that. i had a friend when i was in high school watching tv and there was a show called 'it was 20 years ago today', that talked about sgt. pepper. so we got the vinyl at the library and that song 'within and without you' turned me into an incense princess within 2 years. lol. i'm actually doing hashish right now (legal her in canada). hehehe.
"Within You Without You" is one of my favorite tunes on PEPPER and always has been; even when I started listening to that album as an 8 year-old.
So true it’s ‘out-there’ at times but also George’s voice is kinda like a familiar friend imo
as a music theory student, seeing that he was literally the first person to bring Indian-influenced music into the pop and rock genre is insane. It probably would have been integrated eventually, but as early as it was and how beautifully he meshes Indian and Western music theory together (probably without realizing it) is so monumental and cool, that it just blows my mind every time I think about it. RIP to the true founding fathers & long live ringo & macca
The inner light also doesnt get enough love
Fun fact! The shows at the Budokan in Japan were a big reason as to why they stopped wanting to perform live. The crowd in Japan were much more respectful that most, which led to them being quiet. That led to the boys actually being able to hear themselves, which itself led to them realizing how awfully they were playing. There's even a clip from one of the shows where they play If I Needed Someone, where George gets so mad at how they sound that he sings "If I fuckin' needed someone". (This is my favorite Beatles fact and I'll never ever stop sharing it.)
How come they sounded better in the rooftop concert besides the lyrical mishap in some moments
Can't believe Phoenix Wright listens to the beatles, but at the same time it makes sense.
i need to see this clip
@@staringcorgi6475 experience maybe?
@@paulasalaburu6180 the Beatles going to Japan is still an event talked about today by Japanese artists
"Producer Phil Spector was brought on, who was known for just killing it when it came to production, just absolutely murdering it."
MIC PLEASE
great joke and the dude definitely murdered let it be, all things must pass, and at least two people but he was also really good at recording motown artists
@@saml302 >and at least two people
LO
I admit to preferring Spector's "Let It Be" LP to McCartney's preferred stripped down version.
"Instincts as sharp as a knife."
@@Multitudes-e5n I missed that the first time
We all know that their undisputed masterpiece is the generation-defining song “It’s Okay To Leave Your Dog In A Hot Car.”
Nothing bad could possibly happen
if you leave your dog
I HATE that meme
I see you are a man of culture too
@@nikguimont8546 not based
In Abbey Road's defense, it was made during a time when the main way to listen to music was on vinyl. So when I Want You (She's So Heavy) had that abrupt ending, the band stated that the original intent was for you to be left in silence for a bit, before playing the second side. I honestly think of it as a brief pause between two short albums playing back to back, but that's just me
This was exactly what I was about to comment. Same with with an album like Led Zeppelin IV where if you're streaming it, Stairway to Heaven ends then the happy Misty Mountain Hop plays. It was made with the intent for you to take in what had just happened, then go to the turn table and flip the record.
It’s supposed to go right into here comes the sun, I want you is such a heavy and long trip, then boom it plays here comes the sun uplifting and happy and its an amazing transition in my opinion
@@nah6426 that wasn't possible when the album came out
Yes! I was about to comment with the same thing. Once I Want You finished, you had to physically get up, lift the needle, turn over the record, place the needle back down, and then wait for the second side to begin. That's a pause that you don't think about, but it's there.
Absolutely my favorite: ABBY ROAD. #2 Rubber Soul, #3 REVOLVER!
I love the ending of she’s so heavy and how it transitions into here comes the sun. One of the greatest moments in their catalogue as far as I’m concerned. It’s genius how oppressive the end of side one feels then the literal breath of sunshine side two starts with. It helps when you had it on physics media and needed to manually fill the record or the tape to start side two.
Having heard it for the first time as a teen via digital streaming, can vouch for that experience carrying over into the new age no problem thanks Kenjo
You are here??? Amazing mashup, love you and mic the snare alot!! :D
My aunt told me when she first heard it on vinyl, she was dreading flipping it to side two because of the way side one ends. She was thinking the whole second side was just going to be the She’s So Heavy riff forever
This comment .
I agree. I think I want you is a great song and I never get tired of the riff that goes on and on and on. And it gets so loud and it makes you tired in a way because the track sounds so heavy.... And then stopping only to go into one of the most calming songs of all time is just such a great relief from a great heavy song to a great light song. In my opinion those 2 songs belong together
I loved when the Beattles released "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" in 1996
Yeah, and John had his 3rd child in 1975.
**snicker** Glad someone else noticed that. I had a good chuckle.
they were so ahead of their time tbh
Yes but he said 1996 a few seconds earlier about the Beatles going back to the studio
They had to compete with Oasis. And they kicked oasis’ butt.
It's so nice to see you shedding some light on lesser known bands like The Beatles
Zzzzzzz ...
Everyone agrees The White Album has filler. Noone can agree what the filler songs are though.
Unpopular opinion: the White Album is all filler.
@@filmguymike You people are calling Rocky Raccoon filler?
@@filmguymike I agree but from what I can assume from video essays like these, Revolution 9 was important as it pushed the boundaries of recording on tape and different types of blending and transitions. However, yeah it isn't a song I listen to.
Hot Take: Bungalow Bill is the best song on The White Album, which is the best non-soundtrack Beatles project (even if I consider Magical Mystery Tour superior)
I disagree wholeheartedly.
She’s Leaving Home is the most under-appreciated Beatles track and I will back it till the day I die.
Deadass. Like, I didnt really like it at first until when I listened to it again
Amen.
I am listening to sgt. peppers and just finished that song. I think I need to listen to it again first but it wasn't crazy for me so far. I love the album tho edit: I relistened. It was great
Under rated ? Really?
YES YES YES
25:22 my grandfather was a teen turning to 20s during Beatles mania and he had a mono and stereo pressing for each release. And luckily, he got a butcher cover. When he passed, I inherited all his records, including his research on the butcher cover controversy. Thank god my grandpa was a Beatles lover
Lucky that you have a butcher cover. My mom went to a thrift shop and spent 8 dollars on a original trunk cover and she freaked out on how much I could sell it for
I steamed the trunk cover off mine in June 1966. In August that year I saw them at dodger stadium. I’ll tell ya tho I would trade it all to be 21 again. I think
Trying so hard not to say, "Baby you're a rich man"
Yeah, F everyone and anyone who doesn't understand that the Beatles are the best thing to happen to music since Mozart!
@@NealBain-d2h🫵👍✌️
The Beatles took such a long break in 1966, it ended up being 1996 when they released the single Paperback Writer/Rain 20:32
30 years is a really, really long break.
I noticed that too I had to rewind and go away what did he say 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, you know that album they recorded on the roof is set to be released in 50 years.
Can't wait
the released Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver in 364 days
Lmaooo
"Tomorrow never knows" was absurdly ahead of its time. Amazing song.
And it still is
Heavy Metal Beatles
it predated EDM by almost 3 decades
@@kyleh1127 "Tomorrow Never Knows" was the first song the band tackled for _Revolver,_ and they immediately knew it had to end the album.
@@Wired4Life2 I sometimes like to think about how the people must have felt in 1966 after hearing Tomorrow Never Knows as the final track. And Revolver came out one year before the summer of love, so that whole cultural movement barely existed yet. That must have been an alien experience.
Kinda sad to see ,"She's Leaving home", so easily dismissed, but it's just a matter of cultural differences, for us in the UK it was very much a part of the trend towards kitchen sink drama, it was Ken Loach in a song, one of the few songs that has ever made me want to shed a tear.
I understand being upset about weird tracklist choices, but the hard cut on “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is the end of side A of Abbey Road. Then you flip the record, and “Here Comes The Sun” plays, a perfect intro to Side B. I do get how on streaming though this would be odd :)
This 100% they never conceived them being played back to back
man i just left a comment saying exactly this thanks for beating me to it
I personally think they sound great back to back. The duality of the dark ending of i want you to the bright peppy intro of here comes the sun is unbeatable imo.
It’s the calm after the storm
YES.
I really hope we get a Michael Jackson DDD soon. Curious about how one would work since there was so much in Michael's timeline, but I think an MJ DDD would work pretty well.
Yes definitely waiting for the day he dose Michael Jackson
I've been wanting that for a long time as well
I just wanna hear someone talk about Invincible. I think it's a decent album.
Michael Jackson had some deep dives in all the wrong things
@@iost5459 you’re not funny
“They brought on Phil Spector, who’s known for just killing it when it came to production, just absolutely murdering it.”
I see what you did there, Mic.
Haha
"With instincts as sharp as a knife"
goddamn that was funny
@@thebadfella5296 “that Phil just suffocated with his wall of sound approach.”
“…also got drowned in Phil’s production…”
Ringo really seems like a great dude just doing whatever makes him happy.
nice to see you giving attention to smaller underground artists
Again, *REVERSE PHYSIOLOGY!*
@@washmonument physiology??
Lennon and Harrison are underground
ikr?
Maybe one day he'll do a deep dive on this guy named Michael Jackson.
He wrote some good tunes.
But he was just such a normal balanced person that the press never really paid him much attention, and so the music sadly kinda went under the radar.
This is basically a mix of music review channel and Scott the Woz, and I love it.
finally someone else sees the scott comparison
Broooooooooo, that is spot on
Deep Discog Dive: SilvaGunner
omg i just commented this thinking no one else thought it lol
Fun fact: it is physiologically impossible for humans to hear Ringo Starr speak and not immediately image he's narrating Thomas The Tank Engine.
Oh gosh yes, it is a tragedy he didn't mention that here.
@@Niyati99 Especially since he mentions Ringo having a "weird" career.
Everyone living in non-english speaking countries will disagree. I don't know who narrated "Thomas de stoomlocomotief" but it sadly wasn't Ringo.
George Carlin narrated later seasons too! Oddly star-studded cast for a low-budget British kid’s show
@@marymitchell6257 I remember. I grew up with both. Din't hear Carlin's standup until 2003 and, as you can imagine, it was quite a culture shock. lol
wtf who's bashing Your Mother Should Know, that song is a fucking masterpiece
Magical Mystery Tour has always been just a tad under appreciated. I get it’s not much of an album more than a product of its movie, but it easily has some of their best material.
@@killme9534 I completely agree, in fact there were some time not so long ago when I would consider MMT my favorite Beatles record
One of the main kicks I get out of Your Mother Should Know is that it's been so long that the song is now itself 🎵"a song that was a hit before your mother was born"🎵. The song got more fun with time.
Your Mother Should Know is literally one of the best Beatles tbh. Anyone who bashes on it don't know what their talking about.
First time I’ve heard anyone talk about Ringo’s gunshot snare on Rocky Raccoon. Always loved that
This was my dad's favourite band. I never got into the Beatles because I gravitated towards the harder stuff my mom liked.
Hell, my mom got me into White Snake, Black Sabbath and Maiden.
But listening to you explain them, explain what they sounded like and why they were important. It brought me a little closer to my father, he would have loved it had he still been here.
Thank you.
Ozzy Osbourne is a huge Beatles fanatic, by the way...
Give them a chance! It's never too late :)
i don't usually leave comments on RUclips videos, but here we go:
the Beatles are probably the most important band in my life, and despite not listening to them as much as i did when i was younger, they changed my perception on music and what it could be, not to mention all the memories that have with them. i don't exactly remember the fisrt time i heard any of their songs, but it probably was with an old compilation album that my grandpa had, it wouldn't leave his radio player and we had a great time listening to it. with that compilation i was exposed to all those songs from the early days, as well as some later songs, and they all were stuck in my head, but i didn't think much of them. some years later in my early teenager days, i saw a 1h hour+ video by a very famous Brazilian creator (Felipe Castanhari), very much in the style of the DDD, however it dove more on their personal lives. that video simply blew my mind, and it was from that point on that i started looking at music much more as an art form, rather than a collection of noises, and i wanted to take part on that art form, so i took up drums and started a band. the switch had been turned on in my head never to be turned off again, and still today i keep looking for more and more music, with that same joy that i had, when i was first descovering their catalog.
it might not be the most well written text, or the most interesting one, but your video made me remember some very special times in my life. thank you mike, and keep up the quality content
Are you me? 😂It's great to hear The Beatles inspired another musician in the same way I was
The beatles inspired the whole world.theyre my top tier band.and I mostly love some pretty aggressive hardcore metal
@@NintenDub yeah man, a top tier band indeed!
@@fernandofilho7967 Great comment. It's cool how we all have our own super personal stories of how these 4 guys changed our lives. My love affair with the Beatles began, oddly enough, with Magical Mystery Tour. While Revolver is definitely my favorite Beatles album, a close second is Magical Mystery Tour.
I love it. In fact, I think it's way better than Sgt. Pepper...which I've always found rather overhyped.
A part of my love for MMT is that it just happened to be the album in my car CD player back in 2008 when I started smoking weed for the first time in my life. Needless to say, that album blew my mind. But even to this day, I still think it holds up. It's just a weird album...very hazy and trippy. Sgt Pepper is obviously psychedelic....but in a more colorful bright loud way. MMT is psychedelic in a more hazy eerie moody way, and I like that a lot.
Ahhhh....I'm just thinking back to 12 years ago, when I was in college, driving around aimlessly at night after smoking a bowl(yes, i know, irresponsible), and listening to Blue Jay Way with the volume and bass nice and loud.....just feeling trippy and cool af.
Those were better days.... It's kinda sad to realize you'll never be able to re-experience the first time the Beatles came into your life. For me it was MMT, and just happened to coincide with trying marijuana for the first time....and falling in love with both. Looking back, it was such a special singular feeling/experience....but I didn't really realize that at the time. I was just living my life.
But yeah....the fact MMT coincidentally happened to soundtrack my first encounter with weed.....well, you could do worse.
Same crazy to think that a band from the 60’s have the biggest impact on me musically.
“Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?”, in my opinion, is their most incredible song. Makes me cry almost every time. So heavy.
It is absolutely their bluesiest.
one of my favourites on the white album
@@NediSafa no, yer blues takes that title
I hate that song
@@toddpacker4683 Being sarcastic, buddy
The transition from she's so heavy to here comes the sun is honestly one of my favorite transitions. It's so off putting but I love it
Weird choice for a deep dive. I’ve never heard of this band before must be pretty obscure doubt they have much cultural significance at all.
No but seriously though One of the greatest bands of all time. The white album is in my top 10 album of all time. Happy we finally got a DDD for them.
Fellow white album fan :D
“Don’t Bother Me” was the first George Harrison song released on a Beatles album in 1963, predating his two songs on Help.
I believe he wrote Im happy just to dance with you on a hard days night also
@@riahlexington No, that's one of John's. He did write it for George to sing, though,
@@uffebe yeah my bad
@@uffebeTo quote Dick Martin, "I didn't know that." One of the greatest things about being a Beatles fan is that one can learn new things for the rest of our lives.
I heard that song slowed down, with a harmonica. It was beautiful.
Dude that was so impressive, congrats
Coucou Feldup tu aimes les Beatles? 🤗
My wife and I are both in our 50s and we’ve watched a lot of video about The Beatles. I have to say you did a terrific job. We both liked your sense of humor and your knowledge. A group think you should explore is The Zombies. While they certainly didn’t make nearly the impact the Beatles did, their innovation and talent eclipsed almost any other band from the era. Thanks so much for this video. It was well worth the hour.
Totally agree. And, as another 50-something viewer, gotta say, it's fantastic to see younger generations loving music that was so important to us.
@@EricHadleyIves as a teenager, i can only hope that you older (by comparison) folks can also listen to and appreciate our music.
@@nobodyburgen4594 I, for one, can. I’ll listen to anything that I think is creative, and that’s not just limited to the music that came out when I was young. The problem with nowadays is that there is great music out there but it generally does not receive the same amount of attention as some of the more commercial, less creative type of stuff. Don’t get me wrong - There was a lot of trashy music that came out in the past also. It’s just that much of it has been forgotten by people who only engage in feelings of nostalgia. The main difference between now and then is that the really great music that is produced now often does not receive the same amount of promotion that it did back in the old days. The people who control the music industry only seem to be interested in a formula that is going to produce commercially viable hits, and any formula like that spells the death of being uniquely creative and different.
@@MsAppassionata The thing is that thats only really happening with the radio, and thanks to spotify, youtube, and internet message boards like Rate Your Music, the radio is no longer the main way that artists get popular.
@@nobodyburgen4594 Yes but many older people my age still rely on the radio, which is why they don’t like a lot of the music that’s around today. I mean, I look on RUclips and Spotify, but there are so many artists out there and often people don’t know quite where to look to find new stuff. It’s all kind of random, as opposed to when we used to hear things on the radio. There’s no guarantee that we’ll hear new good songs and performers. I’ll see about the rate your music board you mentioned. Thanks.
On the White Album I have to disagree, I think every song is great and perfectly placed in the track listing. The way the album ranges in style with each song is exhilarating to listen to. Personally I wouldn't call any of it filler. Yes even Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie are perfect lol
A thing I Love about the White Album is: When you don't skip Revolution 9 and then suddenly the Strings and Ringo's Voice, of Good Night, come in. It just feels so calming and all the tension of Revolution 9 slowly seep away. That's why I always try not to Skip it.
"Producer Phil Spector was brought on, who was know for just KILLING IT when it came to production, just absolutely MURDERING IT. With instincts as SHARP AS A KNIFE."
I can't stop laughing. Once you know about Spector, you know. Well played Mike, well played.
Well, he gave it his best shot, I guess...
I'm ootl. Did he do something murdery?
@@popegeorgeringo840he was convicted of murder.
@@cyndaxero3363 fucking convicted?! Holy shit
As a Filipino, it makes sense that the Beatles' Philippines tour dates were terrifying. We were living under a terrible dictatorship and the president's wife was something like a Lady Macbeth kind of figure. But yeah they were ousted back in '86 after a revolution.
Many years later, David Byrne from Talking Heads worked with Fatboy Slim on Here Lies Love, an album based on that first lady.
Yeah when I saw that I was like "Lady they just didn't want to come for breakfast they didn't spit on your grandmothers grave or anything chill tf out".
Like maybe you could argue it's a bit in bad taste or whatever but like it's not worth making the Beatles public enemy #1 like jesus christ. I feel so bad for them knowing how bad this went for them now.
Shit me pwede nang iblast pag dumating si bongbong para mangampanya sa lugar
Yah the Marcos regime was kind of hellish lol
Sorry, but calling someone like that "president" is a little bit of generous 😅
And sadly in May 2022 the son of the dictator was elected president. With Duterte's daughter no less. What a world.
The Bassline on Dear Prudence is exceptional.
As a MASSIVE Beatles nerd I was super excited when this popped up in my inbox, and I gotta say, it did not dissapoint. This was a great deep dive. Also, as an aside, I totally agree with you about the 2009 stereo mixes, and I really hope we get Giles Martin mixes of the older albums someday - especially Revolver (aka, the best one!).
The fourth best one*** 😤😤😤
@Rock Mork the third best one*** 😩
Yes - and Rubber Soul. I guess it's a harder ask pre Sgt Pepper, with the four-track masters. At least on Pepper there was some 'bouncing down', so there was more to play with. And the rest of Magical Mystery Tour would be nice (mainly I am the walrus). And while I'm at it, Hey Bulldog.
will have to say the rant about the 2009 remasters being so unlistenable on headphones was quite cathartic and I agree with every single word of it
Except for Help! and Rubber Soul (that were remixed in 198x), the 2009 releases are the original stereo mix, as heard on the 60s. They started remixing the canon albums in 2017 (?) with Sgt. Peppers and so on.
I don't agree with his take because he missed one way of listening to the Beatles: with actual speakers.
@@braulioacosta6816 will not deny that all of said 2009 mixes are perfectly fine playing out of speakers and the way they originally did it makes sense given the technology they had available to them at the time, but imo that's kind of a moot point. I don't think your particular setup should impact the listening experience of a given mix in the first place, I think it'd be much more preferable for an album to sound good both on headphones and speakers than for it to only sound good on speakers, and I can't just give them a pass given how I've heard plenty of other albums from that era that still sound good in both settings by today's standards (The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed for instance)
@@braulioacosta6816 It is worth noting though that the Beatles themselves were only involved in the mono mix, the stereo mix was more of an afterthought. So if you want to be a purist, you have to listen to the mono mix. And Giles Martin even took the mono mix as a base for his new remixes, so you could argue that they are closer to the original vision of the Beatles.
It has been 60 years and I can not get tired of their music. That includes bootlegs, Star Club tapes and all their individual efforts. It’s not all good but it is so diverse and entertaining. Thank you. I watched the whole hour.
I was literally watching beatles interviews for the last hour, how did you read my mind 🤯 Bless you for this video lol
I was thinking "Hmm, it's Friday, surely the DDD will be out by now." I checked the MTS Twitter, found nothing new, came back here, it's uploaded.
Someone give me someone popular who hasn't uploaded in a while, I want to use my powers for good.
Ringo narrated the first few UK releases of Thomas the Tank Engine. Those were among my most treasured VHS cassettes in my very very early years.
So between that and the early US releases, Thomas was my first exposure to the Beatles and George Carlin.
Feels weird to watch this video after the Get Back documentary. But It makes me happy to realize that those times in the band's lifespan weren't as bad and unhappy as we were lead to believe for so many decades.
The first Harrison-penned song was actually "Don't Bother Me" from With the Beatles. That one always seems to slip people's minds. I've seen magazines, articles, etc. mistakenly credit other George songs as being his first. Just wanted to point that out.
This is an incredible video. Thank you making great stuff!
Which is really too bad because it’s actually a great George song!
@@t8tertotsp it’s one of my favorite Beatles songs
@@MultiWTFGamer Mine too. Definitely doesn't seem any worse that anything else on With the Beatles.
@@jefferyhoelscher “Do You Want to Know a Secret” was sung by George but written by Lennon-McCartney. Not a George original.
@@jefferyhoelscher Andy played on Love Me Do (the single version), not Please Please Me, so you are correct.
for some reason everyone forgets about the song "long, Long, Long" on the white album. i listened to the beatles my whole ass life and didn't find it until a few years ago, and it's soo good. one of the best george songs no one knows.
The drums on that song are fantastic. I love it so much, the whole thing sounds like it's underwater
There are so many fantastic deeper cuts off the White album and this is for sure one of them. The serene guitar, synths, swells of drums and the uplifting hook in the middle. All perfection!
Amazing song. My favourite from George.
That song is severely underrated, and I don't understand why it's not talked about more. It's so beautiful, I listen to it twice in a row to take it all in.
It's absolutely buried on the third side of 'The White Album', that outro is something to behold.
The most underrated beatles song is "it's all too much"
Maybe so. It is relatively obscure. Very cool psychedelic rocker. It goes on a bit too long for me. They could have trimmed a good minute or so off the end.
@@catsofsherman1316 true
Art is subjective.
This observation is,
paradoxically,
objectively true
George Harrison's work in the band is consistently underrated. 'Blue Jay Way' and 'It's All Too Much' are absolutely incredible.
I bought Yellow Submarine to complete the collection and I only bought it because of Hey Bulldog and It's All Too Much
also "long long long"
And Within You, Without You is my favorite.
I Need You is my favorite Beatles song.
And It’s Only A Northern Song
i've always had this deep love for paul's quiet, almost domestic tracks? martha my dear & when i'm sixty-four are prime examples of paul finding beauty in simplicity and i love them. also, i love ob la di, ob la da-- four year old me thought it was absolutely jammin' and it's been a fave ever since.
I Will is also sort of in the same vein as Martha My Dear for me, love them both
I think Paul deserves more credit for his more light hearted songs he manages across every album. He does music hall to folk really well and has a real talent for melody to make these ballads vibrant and lively.
And he’s marvellous For No One.
You are the best documentary maker on the internet. That Prince thing was INCREDIBLE
Honestly my favourite LP of theirs is Rubber Soul. Revolver and Pepper are more inventive, but Rubber Soul feels like a warm, comfy blanket, there's just a very inviting quality to it. It's definitely the one I return to the most.
Yes, i love it too - with John's superlative chronometers:
1. In My Life
1. Girl
1. Nowhere Man
2. Norwegian Wood
3. Run for your life
Plus Paul's
6. You won't See Me
7. Michelle
8. I'm lookin' thru you
And George's
9. If i needed someone
I prefer Revolver over Rubber Soul. I wore the LP out.
yes Rubber Soul would be my be all album if I had to pick
(it's weed)
I fell the same about abbey road it’s my favourite Beatles album even if it wasn’t as inventive as Sargent peppers
The anthology versions of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Something" are just so gorgeous, definitely worth a listen
I love the official version of Something. It is one if my favorite songs ever. But I may actually like the Anthology version even better.
Crazy almost 2 years later when this video was made, the final Beatles song was released
I've voted for The Beatles for so long to be covered on the DDD and voted for them every time they were in the polls and I'm SO HAPPY to see them getting covered. At last.
My dad passed away 9 years ago and I've always wished that I could show him your videos. Never has that feeling been stronger than right now. He was the one who helped me to fall in love with music, and he was a huge fan of the Beatles. We watched A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarine together when I was a young kid (the glove traumatized me too, I feel you there). I got really nostalgic listening to all of these songs again and reliving those memories of driving around town with my dad and listening to these albums. He really would have loved the heart and humor you bring to all of your videos. Thanks for helping me remember the good times I had with him, and great video as always.
Magical Mystery Tour is my favourite. I was born in 1964 during the Beatles’ second Ed Sullivan show. My older sisters had the MMT album with the included picture book and I played it all the time before i knew anything about anything. The movie would play on UHF tv a few times a year on Saturday afternoons. Timing is everything…
So someone's probably said this but George's first original officially released song is "Don't Bother Me" off of With The Beatles.
Great video, sorry to be pedantic.
I love "Let It Be" specifically because it does feel like an extended epilogue of sorts. It feels like a fond farewell after a decade of crazy success and Spector production adds a certain finality to the whole thing. Plus it has "I Me Mine" and "Don't Let Me Down" on it both of which are bangers.
@@RonMishra ok came to the album late where that was on the set list
Don't Let Me Down was added back on the album for the Let it Be- Naked version... which is the superior version... though I like the original recording of the song Let it Be better than the Naked version.
I think of Let It Be is a "lesser masterpiece"...as in most artists would give up a pinky to have an album that good, but it has some flaws that diminish it's greatness. Some weaker songs, and the production could have been better, but damn there are some brilliant pieces there.
My favorite is Across the Universe. I first listened to it during my junior year of high school, but it really hit me during graduation. I saw my growth in this song when comparing it to the lyrics and compositions of earlier Beatles songs. The line "Nothing is gonna change my world" is particularly meaningful to me since it represents graduation, marking the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. It marks a big change that occurs in a normal day.
The white album is their best and I will die on that hill screaming Wild Honey Pie.
Also, to echo what some other people have said, the earliest memory I have of learning the beatles existed (Im 24) was watching Ringo narrated Thomas the tank engine VHS's as a kid and my mum saying; "oh yeah, he was in a big band".
It was also many a millennial's introduction to George Carlin.
*HHHHUUUNNNNEEEE PAAAAAAAH*
I know people tend to really hate "Wild Honey Pie", but I'd be lying if I said McCartney screaming "Honey Piiiiie!!!" wasn't absolutely hilarious. That's one of my guilty pleasures for sure.
Hot take: Revolution 9 is a good track.
She's leaving Home is a favorite in my family because my Grandmother was a professional cello player. My mother tried to play her the song but she was dismissive of that ruckus rock music noise. But when one of her students played it for her she liked it. Anyway, when I hear the song it makes me think of a woman who died before I was born and feel closer to her a little bit.
Actually, 'Let It Be' sounds like an excellent bonus album for the fans, and it succeeds brilliantly as just that, and I think it has been so positively reevaluated justly.
Honestly, while Abbey Road is the perfect Masterpiece for the Beatles to end their time as a band, I'm glad Let It Be was the final album, it reads like an album for the end credits. It's the epilogue, the winding down of a decade or so of nonstop hit making.
Honestly, I don't know if I can ever hear the title track without getting emotional, something about it just hits me in the ways only the finales to some of my favorite TV shows ever have hit me.
So… Amphibia Ik you’re channel
wtf why are you here
@@horseradish2184 let him enjoy his music, ffs
@@kostajovanovic3711 glad he’s got you around to protect him from harmless RUclips comments. Very brave.
Apart from let it be and long and winding road,the album stank.
Hot take: The Beatles are actually _underrated_ . Cause they were a lot more groundbreaking and inluential than most people believe.
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it's weird to say that the Beatles are underrated, but I have to agree with you.
As a musician, I can tell that people who didn't study pop's and rock's history don't get (or maybe they just don't know) what The Beatles actually did for music.
It's not about liking their voices or whatsoever, someone could not like the Beatles but saying they're overrated is just wrong.
It's not an opinion, it's just false. Not everything can be questionable.
Music history at some point is not so different from history itself or science.
Someone can dislike the Beatles but that doesn't allow them to claim bs just because of that.
@@LucaTalkinBout being overrated =/= not being influential 🙄
Yeah… no. The Beatles' influence is very well-known, they’re the most famed & acclaimed band in history after all- they’re not underrated in the slightest, and I love them to bits myself.
@@LucaTalkinBout
Saying that they’re overrated is dumb, but imo it’s still a little less illogical than saying they’re underrated.
I always thought the transition between I Want You (She's So Heavy) and Here Comes The Sun was absolutely perfect. Are you kidding me?? When George says "it's been a long, cold, lonely winter", it's almost like he's referring to the outro of I Want You (She's So Heavy). It couldn't possibly be better than that.
It's worth noting that the segue between She's So Heavy and Here Comes The Sun isn't so abrupt on the record because Here Comes The Sun is the first track on Side B!
I got excited when you started talking about using the Beatles as an example of how music recording and engineering progressed, I would love a video focused on that
@revonine3099 You would really enjoy the series “Soundbreaking” (originally on Apple TV) - all about the effects of recording technology on the development of music. The first two episodes in particular focus a lot on George Martin and the Beatles. I learned a lot from it.
Ask any guitar player if they know what the flange effect is... They of course will say yes. Ask them when it was first used.. most will not know... It was first used on Tomorrow never knows on John Lennon's vocal... Then ask the guitar player where the name 'flange' came from... Most likely they will not know... The effect was originally called artificial double tracking or ADT... John Lennon asked Geoff emerick how he achieved the effect... Emerick proceeded to explain how he ran the tape over a flange wheel and used a verispeed to slow down a second recording of the same track to give it the impression of the two playing together being two different tracks... Lennon did not understand what he was saying because it was all just technical mumbo jumbo to him... So whenever Lennon wanted that affect he just asked emerick to 'flange' it. That's where the famous guitar effect gets its name.... John Lennon off the cuff remark
From UK...Nice one Mic - I was a Beatles fan from aged 9 (1963) and saw them live that year...Almost all you said positive and negative was spot on...Your research was admirable for a whipper-snapper (check that one out)...Just stumbled on your site...I became a guitarist and enjoyed playing live gigs for over 40 years ...Cheers !
I can’t believe you don’t like she’s leaving home that much, I always thought of it as one of their legendary storytelling songs up there with a day in the life
I have trouble gwtting behind that one, too. In fact, Pepper might be my least favorite Beatles album. I don't like "Kite" at all, not a fan of LSD, and a lot of the tunes are snappy riffs in search of a song, like Abbey Road's medley.
Love that description of "Yesterday". Proves whoever chose it as our senior prom song made a...choice...
A midi version of "Her Majesty" is the perfect way to end a very enjoyable retrospective on the music of the Beatles. Thank you for an in depth analysis of their music and the times they were living in. I smiled, I laughed, I cried too.... Thank you so much.
Why oh why did you leave out "Mr. Kite" when discussing Sgt pepper? That is such an underrated masterpiece, and one of my fav Beatles songs. Seriously.
Not to mention "She Said, She Said" when Revolver was discussed.
@@dry5555 it’s because all of revolver is perfect 😩
Agree! "Being for the Benefit", and "Lovely Rita" which he neither mentions, two of my fav Beatles songs.
Also, another thing George did was produce movies! In 1979 the studio behind Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” backed out at the last minute. George, a good friend of the Pythons, started the production company “Handmade Films” that produced it and would later go on to produce films like “Time Bandits” and “Withnail and I”.
It wasn't "The Meaning of Life". It was "The Life of Brian".
Don't forget 'The Ruttles', a 70s comedy documentary film which charts a famous British band, starring Eric Idle & Neil Innes (as well as a cameo from George Harrison).
@@pedromarques7457 You are absolutely right and I went "well that's what I wrote!" but my head mixed up the two Life movies.
Happiness is a warm gun is actually one of my favorite songs in the white album
The only reason the Beatles are famous is for their generation defining song: Revolution 9
Hahahahaha
Number 9
i would like but its at 69
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall ☺️
I Want You (She's So Heavy) apparently works better when it's a record.
Because you get a second to breathe after the hard cut, and then when you flip it over you get the pallet cleanser.
That’s gotta be one of the most satisfying record flips in all of music
Only critique is that abbey road wasn’t named and given a cover that easily. They originally were gonna do something around Everest but they didn’t wanna travel for a photoshoot at Everest and just went outside
A new Mic The Snare dive??
Hold my silver hammer.
More like "Hold my silver beatle"
what the White Album lacks in cohesion it makes up for in generosity. There's just so many damn songs! It's also probably the funniest album. John is so sneering throughout, especially on Bungalow Bill and Warm Gun (the former just has so many laugh out loud lines like, "In case of accidents, he always brought his mum" and "if looks could kill it would have been us instead of him")
It’s always been one of my lesser favorites, but even the worst songs off the White album always have great aspects imo. It’s a funny fucking song!
She’s Leaving Home and Good Morning Good Morning are two of the best tracks (besides Day In The Life) off Sgt Pepper. Both severely underrated!
agreed. she's leaving home is great and gives me mother-by-pink-floyd vibes
@@katieyoung4737 omg same!
I don't agree with 'She's leaving home' but I certainly do with 'Good Morning Good Morning'
People make fun of Your Mother Should Know and I guess I understand why but I've always been astounded that Paul could write a melody like that just on command and then throw it away like nothing. An insane talent
Abbey Road also has the banger that is Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Finally someone who agrees
That song broke the beatles
Bang bang banger
I love how everyone of them absolutely hated it, except Paul of course.
@@gclip9883 fun fact: during the original recording, when you hear Paul say 🎵writing 50 times🎵 he cracks up a little bit, and it's because John mooned him from outside the recording booth due to hating the song so much
Omg please do a Electric Lights Orchestra dive literally one of my fav bandsss!
I don’t know about y’all, but I love music. It’s my passion. But part of me has always been afraid to say things like that because I’ve never been read truly drawn to the Beatles. This helped them become a little bit more accessible to me
Their discography is definitely beefy enough to be hard to enter, but it is so so worth it in my opinion. I think the Beatles are the most highly regarded band that isn’t overrated. Have fun with them!
I LOVE the jump from I Want You (She's So Heavy) to Here Comes The Sun.
To me it always felt like the calm after the storm. The long stormy hypnotic noise clearing to a sunny quiet guitar, and that song's slow build up to the drop when the drums kick in.
I was introduced to the Beatles in the mid 2000s after my grandmother went to Vegas and saw the cirque du soliel Beatles Love show. She brought me the CD from that show as a souvenir and my life changed. My dad had the anthology in CD and I delved into the studio deep cuts and it's corny, but it was a comfort for me during some of the worst parts of my life. The Beatles will always be special to me as someone who is enamored with music and the way it can influence your emotions, the Beatles make me feel nostalgic and excited and bittersweet. Also Rubber Soul is my favorite album.
You have a similar joke/interjection/editing style to Scott the Woz but not quite as hyperactive and a lot more grounded. I love your shit, insightful stuff here. You got me back into Floyd! This video is great
John & Paul yelling She Loves you over the ending of All You Need. You can hear the orchestra play Greensleeves and In the Mood in the background too. Shout out to You can't unhear this Beatles YT channel for solving the mystery. 👍
The thing about that hard cut at the end of I Want You (She’s So Heavy) is that it’s the end of side A. So, side A culminates in a roar of heavy sound, leaving you speechless with it’s dark, groovy, grinding heaviness, and then silence…. And then, in a Beatles stupor, you turn that record over, and Here Comes the Sun comes in like a ray of pure white light, like a morning stroll through the garden….
When I was in college one of my teachers told us about a friend of hers that had a terminal illness and that he was a massive Beatles fan. I don't remember exactly how it happened, I think someone turned on Hey Jude on a little music player in the room, and the whole class ended up singing along to it. My teacher recorded it and sent it to her friend and later told us that it brought a huge smile to his face. He died not too long after, and quite honestly I haven't listened to the song since. But it's a strange little Beatles adjacent story I've always got in the back of my head.
Other than that the day we got Beatles rock band in the house was a very exciting day.
@ghost mall 😂😂
The albums ranked:
13: Yellow Submarine
12: Beatles for Sale
11: With The Beatles
10: Please Please Me
9: A Hard Day's Night
8: Help!
7: Let It Be
6: Magical Mystery Tour
5: Rubber Soul
4: Sgt. Pepper
3: White Album
2: Revolver
1: Abbey Road
How come Sgt. Pepper is the last of your top four? Why Revolver over the White album and why is Abbey Road your favorite? I’d love to hear your opinions
@@killme9534 okay I got a lot of thoughts on this, so this'll be a two-parter. Bear with me.
1. I think Sgt. Pepper is massively overrated. Look, it's a good album. A Day in the Life is one of the greatest songs they ever did. However, going through the track list, there's quite a few flawed songs:
Getting Better: The jump from "I didn't like school and I used to get angry" to "I physically abused my wife, boy, what a jerk I was" is pretty excessive. It's also ignorant of how horrific the act of beating your wife is. I know attitudes were quite different in the 60s, but still.
She's Leaving Home: Not a bad song, but it's a carbon copy of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Yes, the Beach Boys were inspired by Rubber Soul, but they expanded on that influence. This just sounds like a Brian Wilson impression.
Within You Without You: Sounds way more profound than it actually is. Reading into the lyrics, it's pretty contradictory. Harrison goes from saying "with our love we could save the world" to "you're really only very small" and "life flows on within you and without you". The laughing at the end only adds to that perception. I don't call music "pretentious" often, but this is it.
Lovely Rita: It's not *bad*, per se. There's some catchy instrumentals on there. But it's just really fruity. Kind of obnoxious. "When are you free to take some tea with meeeeeeeeee?" And what is this weird hiccuping sound from Paul at the end? It's just not one of his best performances.
Good Morning Good Morning: Simply put: Pure filler. It feels like a non-song.
2: Additionally, I just don't think Sgt. Pepper is *that* game-changing. When I think of 1967, I think the most game-changing music of that year came from Hendrix and the Velvet Underground (I know the latter took time to gain the acclaim they have now, but still). I also think that the jump from Rubber Soul to Revolver is much, much bigger than the jump from Revolver to Sgt. Pepper. It's not ahead of its time, it's of it's time. Abbey Road, on the other hand, is ahead of its time. It's the band's best-produced album. It sounds more pristine and spotless than any other album I've heard from that era. The melodies, the harmonies, the instrumentation; it's just absolutely fucking gorgeous.
@@jamescarlisle4023 I was only asking because I feel somewhat the same way, though not as strongly against Sgt. Pepper. I do think the concept of it gets overrated when half the bands admitted to not having the concept in mind for most of the recording. That and I feel they would’ve made the same music regardless of said concept, even if it adds to the amazing album cover and some cool transitions. I enjoy the lyrics off of Getting Better and Within You Without You, but I agree in that they aren’t nearly as deep as they come off to be on the latter. I don’t know the word but Sgt. Pepper is probably one of their most schmaltzy? Fruity like you said records, so much so it kind of brings some songs down for me. I think a third of the tracklist certainly was ahead of its time, not a lot sounded like it’s best moments. But I do think those moments like Lucy and A Day overshadow a lot else that’s on the record.
Hard agree with Abbey Road though! I really didn’t think it needed the remaster it got, it seemed pretty pointless just making an already crisp record sound louder than it needed to be. But everyone was really operating at their peak. Some of George’s best songs yet, killer performances by Paul, his bass work is phenomenal, Ringo shines more than ever, his second song is miles better than Don’t Pass Me By, John really owning his blues influence and just adding onto his already great psychedelic sound. What a legendary album.
Put Revolver at number 5, bump Rubber, Sgt. and White all up one spot, and your list is basically perfect!
I love hearing a fan of The Beatles talk about them for an extended period of time, so this video is fantastic!
Please do Swans next! They are my favourite band of all time and with an incredibly diverse set of albums it will be such a joy watching you discuss about them. As always, loved this installment in the DDD series!
Seconding swans
Thirding plz
Fourthing
“Happiness Is a Warm Gun” is one of their best songs ever.
Agreed..out of all of their songs the first part of it is the one I sing out loud just randomly sometimes
absolutely
Yep but he didn’t mention it, maybe because it didn’t fit his narrative of “lines strictly drawn between genres on white album”
Hey Bulldog was way too good for the Yellow Submarine album, it's one of my favourite Beatles tracks
The absolute beauty of The Long and Winding Road really becomes evident in the Let It Be Naked album. No orchestra, no choir, buy rather what Paul had wanted when he wrote the song.
Dear Prudence is one of the most powerful songs by The Beatles. The slow and almost sad beginning which slowly transitions into a lively and, while not quite happy, but upbeat song with that perfect guitar playing. By the end it can either have you smiling and ready to tackle anything, or in tears.
Also, Happiness is a Warm Gun, to me is one of their most underrated songs, I'm not sure why 🤷♂️
John's "Dear Prudence" and "Julia" are devastatingly unmerciful..
Love happiness! Had that one stuck in my head today
Yet Paul doesn't play the Naked version in his concerts and instead sticks w/ the original. Honestly, if he didn't complain, no one else in the world would complain.
The Naked Version definitely sticks with me occasionally
Now that Let It Be’s Super Deluxe is already released I usually go to that version’s Take 19 Mix (both version should be the same take just different mixes I think)
Honestly could’ve put only subtle more intimate soft sounding strings or violins instead of over the top orchestra honestly the original on top with the whole choir just to cover bad bass playing and hell Paul’s honestly cheesy sounding vocals (in the take the original album used) comes off as so forced to me
@@jp3813 probably got used to it at the time or maybe just complaining about it being so over the top
Your love for “Martha My Dear” explains so much about you and it makes so much sense.
The sound of the lowry organ on Lucy in the Sky is one of my favorite sounds ever
the hate magical mystery tour gets always makes me so sad bc it’s one of my favorite albums of all time :,(
Growing up, I didn’t realize that popular consensus was “yeah the beatles are holistically and actually good” and figured that it was more “the beatles are known as the best band of all time because they were extremely popular and also the “first”, and abbey road, sergeant pepper, and less so rubber soul are good”
I grew up latching onto one album by a band each, and having my entire love of that band be focused on that one album, having little personal knowledge of the artist as a whole. (which i’ve regretfully continued to this day, queue my praise of Concrete and Gold forgetting that all Foo Fighters albums sound the same).
Revolver was that for The Beatles. (I had also been introduced to Sergeant Pepper, but 8 year old me’s response to that was “huh cool they’re in costumes and personas that’s really dorky and kinda embarrassing now time to listen to taxman and eleanor rigby”)
Not realizing how expansive The Beatles’ discography actually was, only hearing Revolver mentioned in passing, it lead me to believe Revolver was some forgotten gem.
It’s been really nice to learn that oh, Revolver is actually hailed as the second to fourth greatest Beatles album, even if by the time I realized that, it was so connected to my early childhood that
I listen more to reminisce than to analyze an art piece.
I think what you said in the conclusion, about The Beatles being the Citizen Kane of bands; having originated so much of modern production and songwriting techniques, they’re a great Lil’ Tykes First Band. With 55 years since Revolver, I known that is changing, but it seems less that any band has taken it’s place, and more that it’s a role that’s never been filled before or since. There’s no “biggest band of all time” or “biggest band right now” except statistically. BTS is, but will BTS become stylistic innovators, or will the fields of most popular band and most inventive band continue to diverge.
Knowing that some day Paul McCartney & Mick Jagger will grow too old to perform has encapsulated my fear of the endless march of time for years now.
I had never realized that Beatlemania came partially from the want for vibrance to return to life after the second world war. Knowing that, it’s easy for them to take on the feel of more joyful times long since past.
Someday Paul, Ringo, and the Rolling Stones are gonna die, and that time will be truly relegated to history.
Also, I know in my heart somewhere in his discography Ringo has his Temporary Secretary/Revolution 9, and some day I will find it.
For me, that album was Abbey Road until I found the time to revisit some of their discography. Learned to love and appreciate a lot of what they’ve done and recorded afterwards. It’s easy to hear music fifty years past and call it overrated, but I can only wish those same people will grow out of that way of thinking. They’re missing out for sure!
I'd love to see an updated version of your thoughts on Let It Be now that the doc is out.
It really changed my mind on an album I thought sounded so flat and uninspired. It's a band trying desperately to find the spark that made them love being in a band together. The messiness of it now makes sense since every song is recorded live and it sounds so organic compared to their more studio wizardry style of albums past. Seeing them perform I've Got A Feeling, Don't Let Me Down, and One After 909 and learning that THOSE WERE THE VERSIONS THAT WERE ON THE ALBUM blew my mind out my ass. And seeing them slowly write Abbey Road songs while making this was so fucking cool too. It is WILD that Let It Be was supposed to be this grounded return to their roots and they instead made a studio masterpiece.
Also the Naked version is far superior to the Spector mix and, if they didn't remaster it last year, would probably be the definitive version of Let It Be to me personally.
But yeah I'd love to hear your thoughts on the album after Get Back released.
I agree - Let It Be has always been, along with Please Please Me, my least favorite Beatles album. Some gems, for sure, but overall just kind of average to me. And while I maybe still don't love the album, it was so fascinating watching those songs just come into being and appreciating the various details.
For the longest time I thought that roughly release year equaled songwriting year; making the entirety of Abbey Road concieved BEFORE Let It Be.
Learning that it was pretty much the opposite blew my mind to pieces. I thought in the beginning of get back that they were using Abbey Road tunes to warm up