What I love about this song is the unison singing of the melody by both John & Paul. Early Beatles had a lot of songs of them singing the melody in unison but John's voice always seemed to be the dominant one. In this song, perhaps they brought Paul's microphone up in the mix or maybe Paul just sang louder than usual but unlike other songs, it really is a 50-50 split. And it's almost like it created a 3rd singer that was neither John nor Paul but had qualities of both their voices. Also I love Paul's descending walking bass line that David was talking about.
I always loved singing it and every band I was in we covered it. I've even lead a room full of people doing it as a sing-a-long including the clapping parts. It's so joyful, everybody loves it. I remember I was at a party when it was first released and I ran home and wrote a song titled, Twenty-five Hours A Day. It was terrible and I never took it any further. But I also loved the flipside just as much, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party. Great guys.
Paul had lost his driver’s licence after being booked for speeding 3 times and so when he went over to John’s place to write a song he got a taxi, he got talking to the driver and this phrase came up. You guys should know all this!
The guy on the left - the so called Beatles expert - knows nothing. It's embarrassing. David Bennett is great and the host is cool, but lose the guy on the left.
His role is to be the old guy that is old enough to remember the Beatles which is good, but when he talked about the ground-breaking album cover he should have had on hand to show the audience.
@@stephenrutherford1143 Seriously, this is some petty bullshit. If anybody dropped the ball on showing the record cover he describes, it’s the editor not cutting to it. Why on earth would he physically bring it in? He didn’t have to bring in the “Beatles for sale” cover for us to see it, did he. Nobody but you gives a fuck if they didn’t mention that Paul had lost his licence, and that’s why he was being driven. It’s a completely irrelevant detail. We’ve got a guy here who was an original Beatle fan club member from 1963, and most people who aren’t complete twats can appreciate the valuable insight someone like that brings to this discussion, regardless of whether he knows (or, more to the point, thinks worth mentioning in context) every little detail of trivia that you happen to know.
I learned the song from my Beatles for easy piano and they have it in F. The key of D (the correct key) sounds so much better and brighter. I have the Compleat Beatles song book volumes 1 and 2 and they have all the proper keys. Now I want to relearn Eight Days a Week in D, plus add David's intro embellishment. That sounded great!
I love how the chords revolve around I - II - IV - I. You don't get the dominant chord until end (penultimate bar) of the chorus, and only for one bar. It's like they're hiding it. I think this is great songwriting.
As a guy who enjoys dancing, 8DAW is my favorite Beatles song to dance to. Beatles songs weren't always the easiest to dance to. Amongst the 50's kids, they were known as the band who ruined the sock-hop. But this one is a great little dancer. My parents (USA) bought it for my 7th birthday. It had I Don't Want to Spoil the Party on the flip. I LOVED it too.
I'm South African. The Beatles were banned in this country after John's "more popular that Jesus" comment. My mom bought a Beatles For Sale as soon as they were unbanned, but was sadly the only Beatles album we had had in our house when I was growing up. I loved the photos and liner notes.
I like that it's not following a chronological ordering, you never know what's gonna be next. Beatles for sale is a solid album but I doubt they'll do another song from it.
Didn't they tour such a lot because the royalty rate was so low on the discs? Always a shame that it took so long for their cover of "Leave My Kitten Alone" to emerge instead of being on the album.
Thanks for the analysis! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
I think John and Paul are right! Not one of their best…Pure POP . I mean they do it great but way down on my list of great Beatle originals . Good analysis ..it’s a piece of work..churned out..I love the intro and outro!
Great thoughts guys . But it's interesting I feel fine was a single in the U.S as well. So both could of being released in U.K. to bad I feel fine not on Beatles for sale.
It's because The Beatles didn't like putting singles on albums, to them it was cheating the public to buy a song twice. With The Beatles, Beatles For Sale, Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, The Beatles didn't have singles. Most albums had singles released to accompany them in the UK. The US were different leaving songs off of albums and releasing them as singles.
'Scraping the barrel'? I know that's become one of these canards that gets sanctified by repetition over the years, but really? No Reply, I'm A Loser, Baby's In Black, I'll Follow the Sun, Eight Days A Week, Every Little Thing, I Don't Want To Spoil the Party, What You're Doing... Eight terrific tracks.
A truly underrated album, having to put covers on because of the working schedule (A feature film, which J&P wrote every song on that album, plus touring America. Rock n Roll music was every bit as good as Twist and Shout also done in one take.
Describing “EDAW” as an example of 32 bar form is a bit of a stretch. The AABA form David describes is really just the A section alone. The actual middle eight comes later. Each chunk of the part he breaks down there is only four bars, not eight. And taken all together as the A section, it’s sixteen, not eight. So looked at either way, it still doesn’t conform to 32 bar AABA form.
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What I love about this song is the unison singing of the melody by both John & Paul. Early Beatles had a lot of songs of them singing the melody in unison but John's voice always seemed to be the dominant one. In this song, perhaps they brought Paul's microphone up in the mix or maybe Paul just sang louder than usual but unlike other songs, it really is a 50-50 split. And it's almost like it created a 3rd singer that was neither John nor Paul but had qualities of both their voices. Also I love Paul's descending walking bass line that David was talking about.
I always loved singing it and every band I was in we covered it. I've even lead a room full of people doing it as a sing-a-long including the clapping parts. It's so joyful, everybody loves it. I remember I was at a party when it was first released and I ran home and wrote a song titled, Twenty-five Hours A Day. It was terrible and I never took it any further. But I also loved the flipside just as much, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party. Great guys.
Paul had lost his driver’s licence after being booked for speeding 3 times and so when he went over to John’s place to write a song he got a taxi, he got talking to the driver and this phrase came up. You guys should know all this!
The guy on the left - the so called Beatles expert - knows nothing. It's embarrassing. David Bennett is great and the host is cool, but lose the guy on the left.
that’s what they said except without the speeding context (and writing instead of “recording or rehearsing” as they said). who cares
His role is to be the old guy that is old enough to remember the Beatles which is good, but when he talked about the ground-breaking album cover he should have had on hand to show the audience.
@@stephenrutherford1143 Seriously, this is some petty bullshit. If anybody dropped the ball on showing the record cover he describes, it’s the editor not cutting to it. Why on earth would he physically bring it in? He didn’t have to bring in the “Beatles for sale” cover for us to see it, did he. Nobody but you gives a fuck if they didn’t mention that Paul had lost his licence, and that’s why he was being driven. It’s a completely irrelevant detail. We’ve got a guy here who was an original Beatle fan club member from 1963, and most people who aren’t complete twats can appreciate the valuable insight someone like that brings to this discussion, regardless of whether he knows (or, more to the point, thinks worth mentioning in context) every little detail of trivia that you happen to know.
I learned the song from my Beatles for easy piano and they have it in F. The key of D (the correct key) sounds so much better and brighter. I have the Compleat Beatles song book volumes 1 and 2 and they have all the proper keys. Now I want to relearn Eight Days a Week in D, plus add David's intro embellishment. That sounded great!
I love how the chords revolve around I - II - IV - I. You don't get the dominant chord until end (penultimate bar) of the chorus, and only for one bar. It's like they're hiding it. I think this is great songwriting.
As a guy who enjoys dancing, 8DAW is my favorite Beatles song to dance to. Beatles songs weren't always the easiest to dance to. Amongst the 50's kids, they were known as the band who ruined the sock-hop. But this one is a great little dancer. My parents (USA) bought it for my 7th birthday. It had I Don't Want to Spoil the Party on the flip. I LOVED it too.
Beatles for Sale has perhaps the most amazing harmony singing of their career, in mu opinion. Toss in "I Feel Fine" with all of the others.
Can’t wait!
For a moment @ 6:01 I thought David Bennett was going into "Let's Spend the Night Together."
I'm South African. The Beatles were banned in this country after John's "more popular that Jesus" comment. My mom bought a Beatles For Sale as soon as they were unbanned, but was sadly the only Beatles album we had had in our house when I was growing up. I loved the photos and liner notes.
I like that it's not following a chronological ordering, you never know what's gonna be next. Beatles for sale is a solid album but I doubt they'll do another song from it.
Didn't they tour such a lot because the royalty rate was so low on the discs? Always a shame that it took so long for their cover of "Leave My Kitten Alone" to emerge instead of being on the album.
Thanks for the analysis! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
If you dont go clap-clap-clap-claclap-hold me!-claclap-Love me-claclap while listening to EDAW, you are not a Beatles' enjoyer
I'd have mentioned the contrasting middle eight of Eight Days a Week. Very dramatic, very Beatles.
I think John and Paul are right! Not one of their best…Pure POP . I mean they do it great but way down on my list of great Beatle originals . Good analysis ..it’s a piece of work..churned out..I love the intro and outro!
Great thoughts guys . But it's interesting I feel fine was a single in the U.S as well. So both could of being released in U.K. to bad I feel fine not on Beatles for sale.
It's because The Beatles didn't like putting singles on albums, to them it was cheating the public to buy a song twice. With The Beatles, Beatles For Sale, Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, The Beatles didn't have singles. Most albums had singles released to accompany them in the UK. The US were different leaving songs off of albums and releasing them as singles.
'Scraping the barrel'? I know that's become one of these canards that gets sanctified by repetition over the years, but really? No Reply, I'm A Loser, Baby's In Black, I'll Follow the Sun, Eight Days A Week, Every Little Thing, I Don't Want To Spoil the Party, What You're Doing... Eight terrific tracks.
Hear hear
excellent point: even Prog masters YES did a great cover/tribute to Every Little Thing back in 1969 (one of their many nods to the fab four) 🙃
A truly underrated album, having to put covers on because of the working schedule (A feature film, which J&P wrote every song on that album, plus touring America. Rock n Roll music was every bit as good as Twist and Shout also done in one take.
Describing “EDAW” as an example of 32 bar form is a bit of a stretch. The AABA form David describes is really just the A section alone. The actual middle eight comes later. Each chunk of the part he breaks down there is only four bars, not eight. And taken all together as the A section, it’s sixteen, not eight. So looked at either way, it still doesn’t conform to 32 bar AABA form.