Got to get you into my life was also recorded in the 60s by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers. Their version got into the UK Top Ten. It's good. You should listen to it.
if you listen with attention - this was the first "Drum & Bass " Drum Loop, combined with the first sound samples. - it was and is my favorite track on Revolver.
Its funny. When statements are made like that it almost sounds unbelievable even to me and I was there for it all. Its all true. We were blessed growing up with them.
@@Friend_Of_The_Muse Yes! It sounds weird all these years later, but it’s true. Beyond their studio experiments, no other artist had EVER sold so many records! All the British record “stamping plants” had to be retooled! They were a huge financial windfall for the Brits, and a huge part of their recovery, even 20 years after the war. At one point, the UK government took over 90% of the revenues made by the Beatles! Keep on rock’n! Peace (from another old dude) lol
Not everything. Much of Paul and John's motivation and inspiration for their "revolutionary" music was them trying to one up their contemporaries. They often seem to be the first for this or that technique, because they were bigger (and better) than the artists they were copying.
The crazy thing is there's less than 3 years between The Beatles writing songs like I Want To Hold Your Hand and Tomorrow Never Knows. It's the evolution that's the wild to me. Usually when bands hit it big they stick with a winning formula, or they maybe deviate slightly. Beatles 1963 and 1966 were like completely different bands.
@@notabritperse The producer & engineer are the vital ingredients to any quality group's sound - they can make or break a group. Without Rick Rubin most well known 80's bands would have faded into obscurity before they ever entered a studio. The Beatles would never have achieved what they did without _G.M._
Here is the thing and take it from a guy who was 13 in 1963. All of the music from Revolver on would have never happened without I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You and the rest of their early work. It gave them the freedom to do what they wanted. They were the first band that legitimized recording their own compositions. Mos music was written and given to the artists to record. They were revolutionary in so many ways. They were one of the biggest gifts this 75 year old man ever received.
Got To Get You Into My Life was Paul's song with him singing and was his ode to pot. They'd been introduced to pot by Bob Dylan around the summer of 1964. As far as the horns go, Paul said he'd been listening to artists like Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, etc., and wanted to get a sound like that. I absolutely *adore* Tomorrow Never Knows. It's title came from one of Ringo's whimsical sayings (such as "a hard day's night") and the lyrics/vocals came from John's taking a bit from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It was quite an elaborate production; each went off to create a bunch of musical tapes of whatever they wanted to play; then took the tape spools and slowly wound them out in order to splice together. Some of the spools were hand-held, some held up by pencils through the center of the spool, so that they'd have space to run them together. George Martin would manipulate the sound, slowing parts down, speeding them up, etc. For example, the bits that sound (to my ear) like seagulls squawking are actually sped up bits of Paul laughing. The final product became the avant-garde mosaic you heard. True Art!
Agree. Paul said he was the one directing the tape splices arrangment, Ringo's drums were miked in an unusual fashion made them sound huge, I want to say by Geoff Emerick but can't recall offhand. And they said they wanted a one chord song, people disagree on this since there is a clear Bflat.
No matter how deep you dive, this album gets better and crazier and more to appreciate. I’ve been listening and finding out about Revolve4 for decades but just realised the backward guitar solos on Tomorrow Never Knows (the album closer) are backward tape samples of the guitar solos from Taxman (the album opener). That ALONE is enough to blow your mind … bookending the album like that with a mirror image riff, but add in the Ringo drum innovation, the sampled symphony orchestras and classical Indian music and John’s lyrics inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead… shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit these guys were centuries ahead of their time. We are still catching up!
Can you imagine hearing Tomorrow Never Knows in 1966??? No one had ever heard anything like it. It's a trip without the acid, even better with it. They were playing with backward tape loops, which all had to be done by hand then - cut the tape, turn it upside down, patch it into the rest of the tape, play it again, etc.
Extremely ground breaking song - backwards guitar, tape loops, unique beat, manipulated vocals, and on and on. I was waiting for you to get to this song. There wasn't anything like this before. No, we all never made it home after Tomorrow Never Knows.
It’s true, the technology had to get this easy to trigger it. Even I, who knew almost every damn note they recorded😉 and I haven’t listened in ~40 years, am astonished how PERFECT their production always was - a big reason they sound recorded yesterday. ✊🏽
06:52..."hold on, I'm in a trance!" 🤣😎 This has been my favorite Beatles song for a very very long time and it's so cool to see you all getting off on it too.
“Tomorrow Never Knows” was a quantum leap forward and a glimpse of what was to come. There’s a little of everything on this album, including one of the most beautiful vocal performances ever, for my money, with Paul’s “Here There and Everywhere” This album was truly the bridge to the future!
Guys...f***** great reaction .... Tomorrow Never Knows... 1966 ... Nineteen sixty f****** six !!!! Your reaction was mint in 2024, but imagine buying the album back in '66 and the stylus hits that track ...imagine the reaction back then. The ultimate timeless song. It could be released today and folk would think it was written today. I keep saying it...The Beatles GOAT and they f****** knew it !!!!!!!
I was all of 21 yrs old when the EWF version came out. As a Black girl who listened to all genres of music, I had to argue many times with those who looked like me that this was a remake of a Beatles song...
Tomorrow Never Knows is the first psychedelic pop song and was recorded several months before before both Hendrix and Cream debut albums and a year before Pink Floyd's debut. The production they used was a huge technological leap forward.
This is why bands like Pink Floyd regarded the Beatles as Music GODS! When a band has gone past "really good" to reach "great" those future Music Gods who follow do so by building on the foundations u built.
Rubber Soul (which came out in 1965, one year before Revolver), would be an excellent choice to do next. The two albums are often mentioned in the same breath.
Tomorrow Never Knows freaked out everyone when they first heard it in 1966. Kudos to George Martin for all that went into making it, that was not normal music, neither to make, produce or listen to. They were beyond genius and opened up everyone's eyes and ears to future possibilities. Great album! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
This album (and Rubber Soul right before it) is where you see The Beatles actually CHANGING young peoples taste in music. You don’t know it now but back then, (I was in college when this was released) we would rush to get a new Beatles album and have a “listening party” with several others. When they started their “big change”, we would look at one another and go “what the hell was THAT?”. After more listens and lots of radio play, within weeks everyone loved it. You had to, it was The Beatles. They were the gurus of popular music. They literally changed our taste in music and made us much more sophisticated consumers of it.
I so, so love you guys! You get it. You both recognise genius when you hear it. Two hip hop dudes vibing on tomorrow never knows gives me so much hope for music. Great reaction. Totally dope.
Tomorrow Never Knows was so far ahead of its time. It just blew us away. Little did we know that it was a harbinger to come. No one had any idea that Sgt. Pepper held in store.
None of the noise of today could not even begin to be compared to this. Done with a speck of the technology we have today, . . . . . and there are actually about 100, ONE HUNDRED MORE songs just as innovative and beautiful.
For eight years they led the way. Tomorrow Never Knows could be released today and considered way ahead of its time. One more unrelated fact that will always astound me- when they broke up in 1970, none of them were 30 yet.
Paul McCartney wrote "Got To Get You Into My Life" in 1966 and he sings the song too. Paul wrote it, influenced by marijuana. John wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" after reading "The Tibetan Book Of The Dead". The title of "TNK" is one of Ringo's sayings.
At the end of last year I went to Paul's show on the "Got Back" tour here in Brazil. Seeing him sing "Got To Get You Into My Life" live was a unique experience, the magic of a Beatle is still there ❤
"No one mentioned this!" Love it!! Definitely puts one in a trance. Imagine listening to this album when it first came out. It blew my mind. One of my favorite Beatle albums.
Beetles with horns..yes.. Wow, man..this is about as McCartneyesque as a song could possibly be...and yeah..Sgt. Pepper is next..Tomorrow Never Knows is a psychedelic preview of it...
I still think Revolver is my favourite Beatles album, it's the one I always come back to. Tight, great tunes, flows from beginning to end...and topped off with Tomorrow Never Knows at the end. Marvellous. The white album is for losing yourself in, Abbey Road is the warm goodbye, Rubber Soul and Sg. Pepper have some bangers. Ach, they're all genius. But this is the one for me.
With 'Tomorrow Never Knows' the Beatles really embrace experimental and eastern/Indian music. No synthesizers. Sitar. Recorded on only 4 tracks. Essentially playing tape loops, reversing them, slowing them down, speeding them up. All by the most popular 'Pop' group in the world then. It's a real watershed moment in popular music. True masterwork. Thanks for the reactions. Was waiting to see what you had to say about this. Glad you liked it.
The invention of TAPE LOOPING and Backward guitar with Tomorrow Never Knows right here. The Godfathers of SAMPLING. John read the Tibetan Book of the Dead and this was the result!!!! John wanted to sound like a monk shouting from the mountain so they put his voice through the Organs Leslie Speaker Cabinet.
Ian Paice developed the drum pattern on Deep Purple's song The Mule after listening to Ringo's pattern on Tomorrow Never Knows. What an incredible song to be released in 1966!!! In my view this is one of the first (if not the very first) progressive rock songs. It set the stage for everything coming after it. Astounding achievement!
Frank I love this song Tomorrow Never Knows. ( who wouldn't ❓) Just for kicks I scrolled on RUclips to see if anyone COVERED it .. YES ❗ Check out LOS LOBOS performing this song Live. Bravo❗
Tomorrow never knows” is a Lennon song, written and sung by him. John used only one chord in this whole song, which gives it a hypnotic, trippy, trance like feeling. The vocals were forced through a Leslie speaker because John wanted the effect that the listener could hear the words but not hear him, if that makes sense. . For his vocals, he asked producer George Martin to make him “sound like the Dali Lama chanting on a mountain top”… truly sublime.
The EW&F version is from the Movie Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Also had Aerosmith doing COme Together and Peter Frampton on Long and Winding Road.
Everyone hated that movie, except for me who was a teenager at the time and 😍😍😍 Peter Frampton. In the days before MTV & music videos, I loved being able to see everyone perform w/o begging one of my older cousins to take me to a concert (which is how I saw Peter for the first time).
Love your videos guys! Revolver is probably my favorite Beatles record, because of how groundbreaking songs like these 2 were. Paul basically wrote an E,W,&F song years before they existed. And Tomorrow Never Knows is pretty much the first psychedelic song by a mainstream artist. The variety on this record is stunning! I'm 56, so I've basically been listening to The Beatles since I was in the womb. My mother loved them and played all of their records. As a lover of all music, and a music historian, the year that songs came out is crucial to appreciating the greatness of them. Most young people today don't realize how Earth shattering their music was to society and culture. Like others have commented on this, to think that they were singing basic songs like I want to hold your hand and she loves you just two years before this is insane. Bob Dylan turned them onto oot in 1964, so I believe that he had a great part in expanding their minds, and making their music more sophisticated and complex.
Okay guys, if you love Ringo’s drum fills then you definitely need to listen to Rain. It was recorded during the time of Revolver but was released as the B-side to Paperback Writer. This song is fire. And it’s one of the best Ringo drum sessions ever. You’ll love it, guaranteed.
Ha ha, I saw the titles and I could not wait to see your reaction to "Tomorrow Never Knows". Ages beyond their era as always. The 1-chord song written by John, full of tracks played backwards!
Psychedelia at it's best. So far ahead of it's time. George played the guitar solos and they were recorded backwards to give you that weird eerie sound. Sooooo cool.
"Got To Get You Into My Life" a Paul McCartney song credited to Lennon-McCartney. "Tomorrow Never Knows" a John Lennon song credited to Lennon-McCartney.
The guitar on 'Tomorrow Never Knows' was essentially a take from Paul's lead work that appeared on the first track, George's 'Taxman', only played backwards. This track does hint at their next album 'Sgt Pepper'. If you want the continuity, that is what you should review next. They also managed to slide in the double A-side 'Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever'. They seemed to churn out great tracks without effort.
Tomorrow Never Knows was the first time looping had been used. When I was researching this song during my Masters Degree, I discovered that many hip-hop producers credit this song with the birth of hip-hop. Funnily enough, the drums aren't looped, that's pure Ringo playing live.
Got to Get You Into My Life is the only song Paul admitted was about weed. Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the first Psychedelic songs. An absolute classic. Onto Sgt. Pepper. Prepare to have your minds blown again
It's gorgeous and hypnotic.Now that I watched La & Che go into a Beatles trance 😊 I scrolled RUclips to see if anyone COVERED it. Wow...check out LOS LOBOS performing this song Live 🔥🔥🔥
John singing on Tomorrow Never Knows. I recall reading he was inspired to write this jam by Eastern philosophy (although drugs probably played a role, too)
Love you guys reactions you feel like how we felt in the day.. and we all smoked to BEATLES ALBUMS .. well l did and still doing it I'm 70 years old now say no more ☮️🇦🇺🇺🇸
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Revolver is the album where the Beatles became a serious band.
Have really enjoyed your explorations through this album!
Love your reactions to all the songs here!
Got to get you into my life was also recorded in the 60s by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers. Their version got into the UK Top Ten. It's good. You should listen to it.
I think you should do “The White Album” next. It has some of my favorite songs on it.
To me, Tomorrow Never Knows is the biggest leap forward in the history of music.
You’re not wrong. Purple Haze is up there too.
I agree! Even in 2024 it sounds soooooo different and progressive as a song.
Easily, 60 years ahead of its time!!!
if you listen with attention - this was the first "Drum & Bass " Drum Loop, combined with the first sound samples. - it was and is my favorite track on Revolver.
YES!!!! well said.
Even in 2024, "Tomorrow Never Knows" STILL sounds like it's from the future -- more than half a century after its release!!
I was born in 66, you know it lol 😂 😂
The earth is over a billion years old. I was luck enough to be born at the same time as these lads. I got to experience it all, from beginning to end.
And you've got a big dong? Lucky bastard!
I agree, same for me!
Here here! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Yessir..me too
I think of this ALL THE TIME! How lucky are we?!
There is NO modern music industry without the Beatles. They did EVERYTHING first!
Exactly.
Its funny. When statements are made like that it almost sounds unbelievable even to me and I was there for it all. Its all true. We were blessed growing up with them.
@@Friend_Of_The_Muse Yes! It sounds weird all these years later, but it’s true. Beyond their studio experiments, no other artist had EVER sold so many records! All the British record “stamping plants” had to be retooled! They were a huge financial windfall for the Brits, and a huge part of their recovery, even 20 years after the war. At one point, the UK government took over 90% of the revenues made by the Beatles!
Keep on rock’n!
Peace (from another old dude) lol
@@cherrypickerguitars ✌
Not everything. Much of Paul and John's motivation and inspiration for their "revolutionary" music was them trying to one up their contemporaries. They often seem to be the first for this or that technique, because they were bigger (and better) than the artists they were copying.
Gentlemen, Tomorrow Never Knows was decades ahead of its time! This is an apex tune!
Great comment - apex tune!
We still haven’t caught to it! Beatles were a gift from God! The Mozart of our time.
It's simply a masterpiece, which is why their albums are still being bought 50 years later.
Tomorrow Never Knows....is the song that CHANGED everything!!!!!!
Boom
The crazy thing is there's less than 3 years between The Beatles writing songs like I Want To Hold Your Hand and Tomorrow Never Knows. It's the evolution that's the wild to me. Usually when bands hit it big they stick with a winning formula, or they maybe deviate slightly. Beatles 1963 and 1966 were like completely different bands.
"Tomorrow Never Knows " is the beginning of Psychedelic Beatles.
I'd say "Rain" - which came out a couple of months earlier, though it was recorded during the same sessions in 1966,
I'd go with Rain
Rubber soul had psychedelia. Tomorrow never knows is the beginning of experimental/avant-garde music.
She Said She Said.
Rain was definitely the beginning
So imagine in '66 as a 15 year-old hearing this for the first time! One truly WTF moment!
I remember.
@@freddylubin What was it like? Like entering another dimension perhaps?
Rubber Soul, which preceded this album, was the real beginning of the change.
This is a great album too
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, White Album....the greatest 4 album run ever!
I had them on 2 sides of an audio cassette, you can' t do one without the other. They turned a corner with those albums.
@@urbangardener66You have to have Abby Road in there! To leave that out WOW!!
Hard agree for this.
Tomorrow never knows still sounds like the future, 66 is mind blowing 👌
It's hard to believe that they went from I Want to Hold Your Hand to Tomorrow Never Knows in 2 years! Who does that?!
The Beatles and only the Beatles!
Their producer! Total studio band.
@@dancarter482 George Martin didn't have the ideas. He helped execute them.
LSD, that who.
@@notabritperse The producer & engineer are the vital ingredients to any quality group's sound - they can make or break a group. Without Rick Rubin most well known 80's bands would have faded into obscurity before they ever entered a studio. The Beatles would never have achieved what they did without _G.M._
Here is the thing and take it from a guy who was 13 in 1963. All of the music from Revolver on would have never happened without I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You and the rest of their early work. It gave them the freedom to do what they wanted. They were the first band that legitimized recording their own compositions. Mos music was written and given to the artists to record. They were revolutionary in so many ways. They were one of the biggest gifts this 75 year old man ever received.
Don't forget, this is all analog. I think this was their first experiment with tape loops.
Tomorrow never knows is so genius it’s amazing how modern their songs sound despite being recorded in 1966 on a 4 track. Amazing
It's mind blowing that Revolver is 1966. What a great record.
I was12 in 1966 when this came out, no one who listened to Revolver back then was quite the same after. Talk about ahead of their time...
Revolver is amazing.
Almost as good as The Best of The Beatles.
@@daverowntree5737 I prefer Wings, they're the band The Beatles could have been.
@@jabbawonger6572 LOL!
Tomorrow Never Knows is just one chord and signifies The Beatle’s beginning interest in psychedelia and Indian music.
Airplay Beats is the best reaction channel on YT. Knowledgable, open to new things, and so much fun! Another terrific reaction!
100% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I look forward to their updates. He said they have more Beatles coming. I told them they have to do a reaction on the Walrus. LOL
Oh yeah! Walrus, FOR SURE! Goo goo ga joob!
Yup
Agree!!!
There is an argument to be made that Tomorrow Never Knows is the most important musical composition of the twentieth century.
Got To Get You Into My Life was Paul's song with him singing and was his ode to pot. They'd been introduced to pot by Bob Dylan around the summer of 1964. As far as the horns go, Paul said he'd been listening to artists like Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, etc., and wanted to get a sound like that. I absolutely *adore* Tomorrow Never Knows. It's title came from one of Ringo's whimsical sayings (such as "a hard day's night") and the lyrics/vocals came from John's taking a bit from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It was quite an elaborate production; each went off to create a bunch of musical tapes of whatever they wanted to play; then took the tape spools and slowly wound them out in order to splice together. Some of the spools were hand-held, some held up by pencils through the center of the spool, so that they'd have space to run them together. George Martin would manipulate the sound, slowing parts down, speeding them up, etc. For example, the bits that sound (to my ear) like seagulls squawking are actually sped up bits of Paul laughing. The final product became the avant-garde mosaic you heard. True Art!
Great trivia, which I can verify.
@@CuriousGeorge1111 Thank you! I adore The Beatles.
Agree. Paul said he was the one directing the tape splices arrangment, Ringo's drums were miked in an unusual fashion made them sound huge, I want to say by Geoff Emerick but can't recall offhand. And they said they wanted a one chord song, people disagree on this since there is a clear Bflat.
No matter how deep you dive, this album gets better and crazier and more to appreciate. I’ve been listening and finding out about Revolve4 for decades but just realised the backward guitar solos on Tomorrow Never Knows (the album closer) are backward tape samples of the guitar solos from Taxman (the album opener). That ALONE is enough to blow your mind … bookending the album like that with a mirror image riff, but add in the Ringo drum innovation, the sampled symphony orchestras and classical Indian music and John’s lyrics inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead… shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit these guys were centuries ahead of their time. We are still catching up!
Ode to pot.? Mmmmm...
When this song came out, it was considered the first psychedelic song for the hippy era.
Tomorrow Never Knows is when the Beatles lift off and get wonderfully weird❤❤❤❤
Can you imagine hearing Tomorrow Never Knows in 1966??? No one had ever heard anything like it. It's a trip without the acid, even better with it. They were playing with backward tape loops, which all had to be done by hand then - cut the tape, turn it upside down, patch it into the rest of the tape, play it again, etc.
Even with all the super computerised electronic gimmicks in use today...they still could not create anything as revolutionary as TNK!...🤔
Extremely ground breaking song - backwards guitar, tape loops, unique beat, manipulated vocals, and on and on. I was waiting for you to get to this song. There wasn't anything like this before. No, we all never made it home after Tomorrow Never Knows.
“Hold on, I’m in a trance” my dude feelin it and I’m here for it
A whole new world of Beatle fans is emerging, listening to the Greatest band ever, bar none. Enjoy.
It’s true, the technology had to get this easy to trigger it.
Even I, who knew almost every damn note they recorded😉 and I haven’t listened in ~40 years, am astonished how PERFECT their production always was - a big reason they sound recorded yesterday. ✊🏽
There was absolutely nothing like this out then and it blew everybody away.
Beatles were not just a pop band . The pushed, were innovative, experimental and transformational!
She Loves You to this in basically 2 years, mind boggling.
Tomorrow Never Knows is so far ahead of its time its crazy to think it almost 60 years old.
Only the Beatles can drop that song with backwards guitars and shit! Crazy band!
This was 12 years before Earth,Wind and Fire.
Ringo killing it
To me, this is a transition album for the Beatles. The previous album (Rubber Soul) started it and this album cemented it.😊
06:52..."hold on, I'm in a trance!" 🤣😎 This has been my favorite Beatles song for a very very long time and it's so cool to see you all getting off on it too.
Earth, Wind and Fire's cover of this ranks in the all time stratosphere of covers. This song is pure McCartney
They made a lame cover out of a great tune. I love Earth wind and fire but their version is boring and useless all in all. Totally forgettable.
@@fitless Each of us has our own humble opinion.
This is a John Lennon song. Inspired by reading the Tibetan Book Of The Dead. McCartney brought in the tape loops for the mixing session though.
@@dggydddy59 long proven to be a fable
@@fitlessNah, the original sounds incomplete. EW&F pulled a Jimi on that one
Tomorrow Never Knows was released 57 years ago, along with the album obviously, and it still sounds like the future
I love these 2 dudes. Such fun reactions
Most diverse band ever... that's why they still reach people today.
Applause also to Klaus Voorman, old friend from their Hamburg days, who designed the album artwork, AMAZING!!!
and also the Anthology covers
and won the Emmy for best album cover art
The Beatles were unbelievable
“Tomorrow Never Knows” was a quantum leap forward and a glimpse of what was to come. There’s a little of everything on this album, including one of the most beautiful vocal performances ever, for my money, with Paul’s “Here There and Everywhere” This album was truly the bridge to the future!
Goats… Paul’s voice was butter in this era… smooth and clean
Guys...f***** great reaction .... Tomorrow Never Knows... 1966 ... Nineteen sixty f****** six !!!! Your reaction was mint in 2024, but imagine buying the album back in '66 and the stylus hits that track ...imagine the reaction back then. The ultimate timeless song. It could be released today and folk would think it was written today. I keep saying it...The Beatles GOAT and they f****** knew it !!!!!!!
Actually, I don’t think they did know it. When they broke up, people were heartbroken. John’s comment was, “We were just a rock and roll band.”
@vorkosigrrl6047 they knew it alright.
I was all of 21 yrs old when the EWF version came out. As a Black girl who listened to all genres of music, I had to argue many times with those who looked like me that this was a remake of a Beatles song...
"Bucket full of soul"...classic
Tomorrow Never Knows is the first psychedelic pop song and was recorded several months before before both Hendrix and Cream debut albums and a year before Pink Floyd's debut. The production they used was a huge technological leap forward.
Beatles psychedelia mixed with Indian raga sitar music and backwards tape loops!!! PURE GENIUS FROM THE LADS!!!!!
This is why bands like Pink Floyd regarded the Beatles as Music GODS!
When a band has gone past "really good" to reach "great" those future Music Gods who follow do so by building on the foundations u built.
Rubber Soul (which came out in 1965, one year before Revolver), would be an excellent choice to do next. The two albums are often mentioned in the same breath.
The Beatles were first to do almost everything in modern music.🎉
Tomorrow Never Knows freaked out everyone when they first heard it in 1966. Kudos to George Martin for all that went into making it, that was not normal music, neither to make, produce or listen to. They were beyond genius and opened up everyone's eyes and ears to future possibilities. Great album! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
This album (and Rubber Soul right before it) is where you see The Beatles actually CHANGING young peoples taste in music. You don’t know it now but back then, (I was in college when this was released) we would rush to get a new Beatles album and have a “listening party” with several others. When they started their “big change”, we would look at one another and go “what the hell was THAT?”. After more listens and lots of radio play, within weeks everyone loved it. You had to, it was The Beatles. They were the gurus of popular music. They literally changed our taste in music and made us much more sophisticated consumers of it.
Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite Beatles song of all time.
I so, so love you guys! You get it. You both recognise genius when you hear it. Two hip hop dudes vibing on tomorrow never knows gives me so much hope for music. Great reaction. Totally dope.
Tomorrow Never Knows was so far ahead of its time. It just blew us away. Little did we know that it was a harbinger to come. No one had any idea that Sgt. Pepper held in store.
None of the noise of today could not even begin to be compared to this. Done with a speck of the technology we have today, . . . . . and there are actually about 100, ONE HUNDRED MORE songs just as innovative and beautiful.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Tomorrow Never knows! Enough said. Couldn't stop playing this album when it first came out, especially this track.
Such an honest reaction… you guys are the standard!
For eight years they led the way. Tomorrow Never Knows could be released today and considered way ahead of its time. One more unrelated fact that will always astound me- when they broke up in 1970, none of them were 30 yet.
I'm still not sure the world is ready for Tomorrow Never Knows
The beatles were so high during the 60s , They even let ringo sing a couple of songs.
Paul McCartney wrote "Got To Get You Into My Life" in 1966 and he sings the song too. Paul wrote it, influenced by marijuana. John wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" after reading "The Tibetan Book Of The Dead". The title of "TNK" is one of Ringo's sayings.
At the end of last year I went to Paul's show on the "Got Back" tour here in Brazil. Seeing him sing "Got To Get You Into My Life" live was a unique experience, the magic of a Beatle is still there ❤
The Beatles didn't just do it first, they wrote the song.😅
I was going to point this out, too!
"Hold on, I'm in a trance!" What a perfect reaction😂😂😂 you two are the best, peace ✌🏻
"No one mentioned this!" Love it!! Definitely puts one in a trance. Imagine listening to this album when it first came out. It blew my mind. One of my favorite Beatle albums.
4:25 "That was a bucketful of soul" - perfect
Beetles with horns..yes..
Wow, man..this is about as McCartneyesque as a song could possibly be...and yeah..Sgt. Pepper is next..Tomorrow Never Knows is a psychedelic preview of it...
I still think Revolver is my favourite Beatles album, it's the one I always come back to. Tight, great tunes, flows from beginning to end...and topped off with Tomorrow Never Knows at the end. Marvellous. The white album is for losing yourself in, Abbey Road is the warm goodbye, Rubber Soul and Sg. Pepper have some bangers. Ach, they're all genius. But this is the one for me.
That's a hook, for sure. Mind blowing, even 50+ years later. These guys are musical gods, like Jimi. Thank you for your great reactions. 🙏🙏
With 'Tomorrow Never Knows' the Beatles really embrace experimental and eastern/Indian music. No synthesizers. Sitar. Recorded on only 4 tracks. Essentially playing tape loops, reversing them, slowing them down, speeding them up. All by the most popular 'Pop' group in the world then. It's a real watershed moment in popular music. True masterwork. Thanks for the reactions. Was waiting to see what you had to say about this. Glad you liked it.
the more I think about the more I think that Revolver is the Beatles best album
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They don’t have a best album they’re all hitting. They’re all an adventure!
The Beatles had MANY best albums, not just one!
Beatle records are like other band’s greatest hits albums. No filler.
Perfect post
'They strictly made this for those who do drugs' That is a great quote, thanks for coming out with that. Love it 👍
The invention of TAPE LOOPING and Backward guitar with Tomorrow Never Knows right here. The Godfathers of SAMPLING. John read the Tibetan Book of the Dead and this was the result!!!! John wanted to sound like a monk shouting from the mountain so they put his voice through the Organs Leslie Speaker Cabinet.
Ian Paice developed the drum pattern on Deep Purple's song The Mule after listening to Ringo's pattern on Tomorrow Never Knows. What an incredible song to be released in 1966!!! In my view this is one of the first (if not the very first) progressive rock songs. It set the stage for everything coming after it. Astounding achievement!
Frank I love this song Tomorrow Never Knows. ( who wouldn't ❓) Just for kicks I scrolled on RUclips to see if anyone COVERED it .. YES ❗ Check out LOS LOBOS performing this song Live. Bravo❗
Remember- these guys had to do all these sounds WIHTOUT digital technology! All this had to BE INVENTED
And they could spell WITHOUT auto correct!
They actually recorded Tomorrow Never Knows first before the other songs on this album.
Tomorrow never knows” is a Lennon song, written and sung by him. John used only one chord in this whole song, which gives it a hypnotic, trippy, trance like feeling. The vocals were forced through a Leslie speaker because John wanted the effect that the listener could hear the words but not hear him, if that makes sense. . For his vocals, he asked producer George Martin to make him “sound like the Dali Lama chanting on a mountain top”… truly sublime.
The EW&F version is from the Movie Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Also had Aerosmith doing COme Together and Peter Frampton on Long and Winding Road.
Everyone hated that movie, except for me who was a teenager at the time and 😍😍😍 Peter Frampton. In the days before MTV & music videos, I loved being able to see everyone perform w/o begging one of my older cousins to take me to a concert (which is how I saw Peter for the first time).
Sgt. Pepper is the pinnacle of the Beatles
Wonder if the Beatles ever dropped acid? Listens to "Tomorrow Never Knows" That's an affirmative!
You don't need to wonder - all of them confirmed it. George's comments on it are worth searching out.
And now we're doing psychedelic therapy.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, anyone?
Love your videos guys! Revolver is probably my favorite Beatles record, because of how groundbreaking songs like these 2 were. Paul basically wrote an E,W,&F song years before they existed. And Tomorrow Never Knows is pretty much the first psychedelic song by a mainstream artist. The variety on this record is stunning! I'm 56, so I've basically been listening to The Beatles since I was in the womb. My mother loved them and played all of their records. As a lover of all music, and a music historian, the year that songs came out is crucial to appreciating the greatness of them. Most young people today don't realize how Earth shattering their music was to society and culture. Like others have commented on this, to think that they were singing basic songs like I want to hold your hand and she loves you just two years before this is insane. Bob Dylan turned them onto oot in 1964, so I believe that he had a great part in expanding their minds, and making their music more sophisticated and complex.
Got To Get You Into My Life was a love letter to Marijuana. Tomorrow Never Knows is an introduction into LSD.
Tomorrow Never Knows is the song I start my workouts with, I swear. Its sooo uplifting and opening.
A fantastic amount of growth from rubber soul to revolver to Sgt pepper. Just unreal.
revolutionary sounds.
Okay guys, if you love Ringo’s drum fills then you definitely need to listen to Rain. It was recorded during the time of Revolver but was released as the B-side to Paperback Writer. This song is fire. And it’s one of the best Ringo drum sessions ever. You’ll love it, guaranteed.
Ha ha, I saw the titles and I could not wait to see your reaction to "Tomorrow Never Knows". Ages beyond their era as always. The 1-chord song written by John, full of tracks played backwards!
Psychedelia at it's best. So far ahead of it's time. George played the guitar solos and they were recorded backwards to give you that weird eerie sound. Sooooo cool.
"Got To Get You Into My Life" a Paul McCartney song credited to Lennon-McCartney.
"Tomorrow Never Knows" a John Lennon song credited to Lennon-McCartney.
The Beatles absolutely wrote this
The guitar on 'Tomorrow Never Knows' was essentially a take from Paul's lead work that appeared on the first track, George's 'Taxman', only played backwards. This track does hint at their next album 'Sgt Pepper'. If you want the continuity, that is what you should review next. They also managed to slide in the double A-side 'Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever'. They seemed to churn out great tracks without effort.
Tomorrow Never Knows was the first time looping had been used. When I was researching this song during my Masters Degree, I discovered that many hip-hop producers credit this song with the birth of hip-hop. Funnily enough, the drums aren't looped, that's pure Ringo playing live.
Got to Get You Into My Life is the only song Paul admitted was about weed. Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the first Psychedelic songs. An absolute classic. Onto Sgt. Pepper. Prepare to have your minds blown again
Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite Beatles song!!! Waaaaaay ahead of its time despite being so psychedelic.
It's gorgeous and hypnotic.Now that I watched La & Che go into a Beatles trance 😊 I scrolled RUclips to see if anyone COVERED it. Wow...check out LOS LOBOS performing this song Live 🔥🔥🔥
John singing on Tomorrow Never Knows. I recall reading he was inspired to write this jam by Eastern philosophy (although drugs probably played a role, too)
Proof that the pen is mightier than the sword, this album, changed, an entire generation. Thanks for giving the music, it's just props. Good job.
Love you guys reactions you feel like how we felt in the day.. and we all smoked to BEATLES ALBUMS .. well l did and still doing it I'm 70 years old now say no more ☮️🇦🇺🇺🇸