Wooo, 100k subscribers! Thank you so much for being a part of this incredible journey through The Beatles musical library. I hope you enjoy this special new episode about one of my favorite (and tragically overlooked) Beatles songs: It's All Too Much. And as always, let me know what you think in the comments!
I read years ago that the lyrics represent George’s reaction to a particularly strong acid trip. Having taken acid myself, I can definitely see that being accurate.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I have always felt the song is a comment on the overloading of 'experience' that led George to ditch psychedelia for a religious 'pure' high. For a while the others tried that as well (see trip to India) but the others quickly dropped that to return to more individual experimentation via drugs. The others became DISGUSTED by the predatory 'guru' which led to another of my favorite Beatles song. The sublime, hilarious 'Sexy Sadie'. Drug abuse was fatal for some but it also evolved musical genius.
@@groaningupright The song was originally called “Maharishi” but they later changed it to “Sexy Sadie” to make it less obvious they were slamming Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and calling him a fraud.
It was as usual John and George - Guitar, Vocals / Paul - Bass / Ringo Starr Drums and Tambourine. Paul added Handclaps aside from George and John. George added the Hammond Organ to the song, Paul played Cowbell and John played the big G power chord intro of that song before the riff - According to Wikipedia.
I was on a Beatles binge going through every song in their catalog looking for gems and this was the one that floored me that I had to stop and listen again. Such an insane song.
Its amazing that such an amazing song - up there with Tomorrow Never Knows - is so relatively unknown. It's a great surprise to Beatles fans of a certain era.
I was just thinking the exact opposite. If I was learning English I’d appreciate the speed and careful enunciation. But the narration makes me feel like I’m five.
I think he was speaking to George saying "to your muff," as in "this song is dedicated to your woman," with muff as a slang and bawdy term for "woman." George wrote the song for Patti, and John had that kind of sense of humor.
I was blown away when I saw Yellow Submarine at the theater, not only by "It's All Too Much", but by "It's Only A Northern Song" & "Hey Bulldog"! At that point, I thought I had heard (and owned) every Beatle song made. The opening of "All Too Much" actually gave me chills!
I heard ''It's All Too Much'' for the first time in 1977 when I was 11 years old, almost a year later I had my first blowing mind Hendrix moment with ''VooDoo Child''.
What's truly astonishing (although hardly surprising) is that we still analyse Beatles tracks in minute detail after 50+ years (You wouldn't think there was anything left that hadn't been analysed to death) and do it in a way that reminds us how new and fresh those tracks were and somehow still are. Thank you.
They’re a band that’s truly worth analyzing to death, they were really something special. And as was alluded to in this video, there really are still unsolved mysteries regarding the recording process and the various roles that were played. You might think we’d have it all nailed down by now, who played what, etc.. but there are still some things that we still don’t know for sure, and we’ll probably never know. Even asking the Beatles themselves doesn’t always yield solid answers, as in many instances they don’t remember, or- they “remember” incorrectly. But it’s all in fun, as I said, they were really something special. Me personally, I can’t get enough of videos like this... I love it. They’ll always be my favorite band.
If you listen to the guitar parts John plays on "The End," where John, George, and Paul are all taking turns playing lead, you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
Inconclusive. If you listen to the guitar parts Paul plays on "The End," you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
Unlikely. If you listen to the guitar parts George plays on "The End," you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
Incoherent. If you listen to the guitar parts Ringo plays on “The End,” you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on “It’s All Too Much.”
Muddled. If you listen to the guitar parts Yoko plays on "The End" you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much"
Hard to say. If you listen to the guitar parts Stu Sutcliffe plays on "The End," you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
The one time I did mushrooms I watched this movie and this song made me cry, it just felt so beautiful and it was explaining exactly what I was feeling both in that moment and about life in general.
“Overlooked and underappreciated” because The Beatles themselves didn’t care much for the _Yellow Submarine_ project after _A Hard Day’s Night_ (French New Wave-esque mockumentary masterpiece) and _Help!_ (fun if nonsensical Bond spoof). That was especially so since they weren’t tasked to contribute much beyond new music and others were voicing them in this animated project.
@Sid Patankar Listen to the slowed-down ballad version of the song by the great Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Close your eyes and imagine it as a farewell song to Paul's soulmate Linda McCartney. Just might bring a tear to your eye. ruclips.net/video/_vTPa4G1aBA/видео.html
My guess is john. This is because I saw him at the one-to-one concert in 1972. He did a section of about 10 or 15 minutes with just Him and yoko. Yoko was doing her usual routine and Lennon was playing a Gibson Firebird and did nothing but unbelievable feedback for 10 or 15 minutes long. It was beyond Hendrix feedback. He really knew how to get incredible feedback and that would be my guess that he's doing it on this track. I know there are not a lot of Yoko fans out there and that's probably why that part of the concert was never released but it really was something to hear especially live.
You can tell from the sound that it's a single coil guitar, most likely a Strat because it also definitely has a floating bridge trem. John and George both played such Strats at that time (John had the pale blue Strat, George had "Rocky".) Paul McCartney's single coil guitar of choice with The Beatles was a Tele with no trem. Also, it's definitely him on bass, probably the Ricky 4001. For it to have been anyone else in the band they'd have needed a right-hand strung bass. And that little octave play at the end is VERY McCartney. So, by default, I reckon it was John on guitar. And he did like the Fender amp fuzz sound a LOT.
Yep. Because John’s voice is heard shouting just before the feedback, it would make more sense. It totally sounds like Lennon starting it off with a crazy burst of energy.
Good catch on the Fenders. Both John and George had 1962 Sonic Blue Fender Stratocasters. They had fatter necks that year. Fenders were hard to come by in the UK, back in those days, so it was a big deal for a Brit to own one. George later painted the front of his in a psychedelic pattern and would dub it "Rocky", as you mentioned. Only the front was painted, as the back still had the Sonic Blue finish. George played this same Strat for the recordings of, "And Your Bird Can Sing", "All You Need Is Love" and "Nowhere Man". "All You Need Is Love" is from the same album and recording sessions as "It's All Too Much". George didn't get his Rosewood Fender Telecaster until 1969, just in time for the "roof top concert" in December of that year. They have a beautiful tone, but boy are they heavy!
No opinion on whether you're right or wrong, but it's easy to approximate a floating bridge on a fixed bridge guitar by just bending the whole neck. Depending on the guitar, you can drop maybe a semitone and a bit. Not that I recommend it.
Thank you for adding your input as someone familiar with their instruments. It’s one of the few holes in my Beatles knowledge. I love the fact that there are still people out there who are passionate about them and their history and also have important knowledge.
Agree. The original mix of "It's all too much" was pretty bad though so maybe listeners at the time didn't catch on to the power of the song. Also, the "Yellow Submarine" album was probably a disappointment to the record buying audience since it contained only one side of Beatles originals. This might have contributed to the relative obscurity of "IATM" and "Hey Bulldog".
Four songs all considered throwaways plus two previously released didn’t give much value for money. The liner notes on the UK release were basically “Ignore this one and buy the White Album”.
I love this track, also Hey Bulldog, that piano riff is brilliant, and Old brown shoe,by George,too good for a b-side,I also like his demo version on anthology 3.
What a treat that I can love this song, know the song, discover it a first time, then because of the sheer mass of genius held out for me to take, I lose track of it, only to be reacquainted with it months later and fall in love again. I just love love love The Beatles
The opening sounds like he was just playing with the "too much" lyric as he does for the rest of the song. Whether on purpose or not, I think he's saying "to your much" instead of "you're too much."
I've always thought it was "Too Your Much" and never even heard the "Muff" part before. Sounds like he started singing it backwards by mistake and stopped but tried to make it sound like he was saying something else deliberately to make it look like he hadn't made a mistake?
With George providing an Indian-style drone on Hammond organ, John on distorted lead guitar, and Paul and Ringo on their usual instruments of bass and drums, the group recorded four proper takes of the song once they were fully acquainted with it. 'Take four' was deemed the best, which at this point was 8:09 long. At 2:30 am the next morning the session was complete, the full rhythm track for what was then called “Too Much” being put to tape.---Beatles Music History
Impossible for John to be playing guitar on this. There is a vibrato arm used to lift the guitar in the intro. The only guitar John had with a vibrato arm at the time was the Black Strat, and it’s got to be a hollow body with the heavy feedback. Paul and George’s casinos both had Bigsbys, and since George was playing organ and wasn’t playing that much guitar in 67 anyway (since he was busy studying the Indian sitar), it’s Paul by process of elimination.
@@Henry3Studios Could John have been playing one of their guitars? Though not impossible, I think it would have been easier for John to cop a bit of Paul's guitar style than Paul's bass approach.
It's all too much is one of my favorite Beatles songs, "Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for tea" is one of George's best lines, it really sums up his whole aesthetic
If it’s John on guitar, he’s playing George’s guitar. There’s clearly some vibrato bar work going on, and John’s Epiphone didn’t have a bar on it. Paul’s did, but it would have been strung lefty. George’s also had a bar, strung righty.
To me the whammy bar sounds like on a Fender strat. You can't get that sort of speed etc going with a Bigsby. Maybe it was George's Rocky, but could have been Lennon's strat (I was surprised that they both had strats and used far more than we knew, per George interview). I've got strats and I've got Bigsby equipped guitars... or maybe just lots of coffee...? ;)
@@jamesjames9275 double hmm... well, I do like the feedback with hollow bodies, but has a very Hendrixy more in control to me... we'll never know. Personally, I prefer hollowbodies.... That interview with George saying lots of times thought it was a Ric 12 and he was playing strat! Cheers!
According to "The Beatles Bible" web site: George Harrison: vocals, Hammond organ John Lennon: harmony vocals, lead guitar Paul McCartney: harmony vocals, bass Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine David Mason and three others: trumpets Paul Harvey: bass clarinet
This song and album have always flown under the radar compared to most Beatles hits. Its trippy, very creative & experimental. This was right in the middle of their psychadelic phase. It influenced other artists of the time.
The guitar feedback on the beginning of "I feel fine" was produced by what I believe to have been a guitar leaning against an amplifier/speaker, (possibly the bass amp) A bass string was plucked. The guitar string vibrated in sympathy with the bass, through the guitar. The guitar string vibrated excessively, rattling against a fret, causing the sound we hear. I experienced the exact same phenomenon quite by accident in the same circumstances with my bass and an acoustic guitar leaning against my amp. (2×15" speaker cab.) The feedback on "All too much" is a different type and I'm pretty sure it's Paul on his Epiphone Casino, which he used on "Taxman". It has a Bigsby tremolo fitted which action can be heard. John's Casino didn't have a tremelo.
I accidentally created the "feedback" on "I Feel Fine" by letting the top e string ring and then softly resting the flat part of my fingernail on the string. When I discovered that it made me realize it might not be feedback on the record at all.
How did they leave 2 of their best songs( Too Much and Bulldog), almost as Easter eggs, for their best fans only practically, to be found on YS? Brilliance. Kindness. A great gift.
I recall John and Paul worked on "You Know My Name, Look Up the Number" off and on for YEARS, having fun with its satirical approach and nature. Finally, after several years, they released it.............almost unnoticed, as the B side of "Let It Be", or, at least, not discussed or taken seriously, it seems, until some years later. I love it now..............it's funny and makes fun of lounge music etc.
I've always thought George was referring to Patty when he said "with your long blond hair and your eyes of blue." The bass part is very simple (I can play it in my sleep) and would perfectly line up with John's very simplistic, basic style of bass playing. I am sure it is Paul on guitar, it is very much his style. 'I Feel Fine' is not John or anybody else. The Beatles had laid their guitars & bass against the amps that were turned up and Paul's bass started feeding back, being a hollowbody. It caused the guitar to start vibrating and the note started buzzing. George Martin captured the sound on tape. It's All too Much also has backward vocals on it, that's why you cannot understand them. The extra verse in the movie, I've been told, was written by Donovan. Whether this is true or not, I'm not sure. This is one of my favourite Beatle songs of all and I certainly regard this as one of the greatest Psychedelic songs ever written.
He mistakenly assumes that a base riff must be John's if it sounds like John, but in fact it could be John playing Paul's base riff while Paul plays Paul's lead guitar riff. And this is exactly what we see in the early days of Wings, when Paul does all the creative and uses his wife and another guy to back him.
The bass part is simple in the sense that it's a pedal for the entire song. But within that very strict framework, the bass does some pretty creative & somewhat technically difficult stuff. I don't think John was a good enough bass player to pull that off, IMO.
Wrong, it's well documented it's John and anyone who understands guitars and playing styles knows it. Not even close to Macca's style but of course there are those that love him so so much, right?
Paul played the guitar part. Paul played an Epiphone Casino; a hollowbody guitar he bought specifically for its' ability to feed back. His Casino had a Bigsby tailpiece which allowed the wild and wide vibrato bends. And, besides, Paul frequently played lead on George's songs.
When I was a kid, my oldest brother would play Beatles records on the family stereo for us when my parents were out playing bridge with the neighbors (it was the only time he could get away with it). The two albums he played the most were Sgt Pepper and Yellow Submarine, so I grew up with It's All Too Much. it's my favorite Beatle song
1st of all, in my humble opinion, this is arguably your best episode yet, although the song is in my Top 3 favorite Beatles songs, so, there’s that. And I could not agree with you more, when you say that even as we discuss, debate, and speculate the possible & probable answers to these random ‘Beatle Mysteries’, the more important aspect is that we the people are still enthralled by the topic, 50-some years after It’s inception. I loved that you pointed that out. Thank You
All these years, I have always heard the opening shout as "Too you're much!" a sort of inverted "you're too much." I never tried to listen closely or thought about it that much, but that's what it's always been for me.
well it just wasn't that. They already had a vivid imagination and LSD just amplified it by a bit but the majority was their extraordinary imagination and God-given talent.
It certainly is not an overlook-able performance. I feel it's incredible that it was played live, all of them at once. The soaring power of it is gigantic. I love the song AND the track. Did you say there is an 8 - minute version? Now THAT, I gotta hear.
The recording of the song begins with the tape being cut, while George was in mid-sentence. It's clearly George, not John, and it's just George talking to one of the others as the tape starts rolling. This happens when bands are in the studio, they talk to each other - and often, the Beatles just left that sort of studio chatter in. In this case, it's clearly not a "hidden message," it's just studio chatter.
@@lee-e1767 I as well...speaking of studio chatter, the first Lp by The James Gang (with Joe Walsh) "Yer Album" features a couple sections of chatter between Joe (mostly) and producer Bill Szymczyk. Joe even breaks into a short "Wipeout" riff. Funny stuff. Bill telling Joe "be careful of that squeaking in your sleeve noise." I think it referred to the sound of dragging a pick along one of the strings...
While I think John overall had more interesting lyrics and incredible 'woah dude' compositions, Paul was hip and dabbled in so many different sounds. Incredible duo.
I appreciate your comment. Paul was much more musically experiments than he was given credit for. Paul was also more interested in production than John was. I think nearly every Beatles song had a little Paul magic spread over it. John even said that he thought Paul and George Marting sabotaged Strawberry Fields. That song is one of his most celebrated.
I agree Tanguo, for me, Lennon had much more interesting lyrics,I am the Walrus, Come Together, Happiness is a warm gun,John had a great imagination, and was into his poetry, like, Across the Universe,he was a true genius. My favourite is obviously John, but Paul was a genius aswell,he wrote some classic tracks, and when they bounced ideas off each other they came up with probably the greatest track ever A Day in the Life.Lennon and McCartney each added their own unique songwriting to the group,it wouldn't be The Beatles without either of them,it's just we all have our favourites, and mine is John, but that doesn't mean I think lesser of Paul,I don't understand the argument of who was the best John or Paul, they were both as important as each other, and George aswell,he became a brilliant songwriter from Revolver onwards,he just got better and better. I love all The Beatles,I just prefer Lennon's songs mostly, but there is tracks by Paul that I think are amazing, and I love some of George's songs. What a band.
@@stellapolanco6860 I think Lennon is more interesting than McCartney,as I've already posted,he wrote I am the Walrus, Come Together, Happiness is a warm gun, Across the Universe, Tomorrow Never Knows,he had great imagination.
I would propose that John is saying, "Too Much," in the beginning. That was the original name of the song and might have been John's joke or a way of getting into it before the song really got going.
I totally agree with you. One, if not THE most underrated song out of their entire catalogue. The perfect psychedelic song. Ringo’s drums in the intro are monstrous, and the vocals are simply amazing, and a LOT of fun, like that ‘toooooo mu-cha’ mantra, or when John and Paul repeat in unisson the borrowed ‘With your long.... ...of blue’ line right after George. I also enjoy the brass, though I believe George mentioned in an interview in later years that he wasn’t a big fan of their contribution.
Just about everything they recorded has been covered by others. Whether it's Cry For A Shadow, Please Don't Bring Your Banjo Back, Revolution #9, and all the rest, you can find cover versions.
I think John's saying "to your mother" because they recorded "Your Mother Should Know" just a few months later. Paul had possibly been playing around with an earlier version of it in the studio at the time.
This has John written all over it. And it's obviously John talking. I think it's two separate tracks smashed together to create a sort of a shock intro! George played organ on lots of his own tunes, so it makes sense that the basic track would have John on Gtr and George on organ
Great question and video! Speaking a bassist who's spent MANY hours studying Paul's style (I probably owe him royalties for how many times I've copped his idioms on a session) I'll say the bass is John: other than the fact that it sounds like Paul's physical bass, the note choices, attack, time-feel, and even the flubs are all too dissimilar to Paul.
Off-topic, but it was years before I knew that George played bass on "Oh! Darling" - it wasn't until I heard an iso that I noticed how many flubs there were. Anyway, Paul played piano, John played guitar on Oh Darling, and all four of them were tracking it at the same time ("I Want You" was NOT the last time the four of them played together)
Good lordy, I love your channel so much. Thank you for caring so deeply for this music, and for treating it seriously, but also so, so lovingly. And congratulations for hitting 100K six months ago. Now you’re at 118K... and soon you’ll be at a bazillion.
Almost any other 60's or 70's band had released this track it would be one of their most loved tracks and closed their concerts for the last 40 odd years. As it's the Beatles it's an unloved song on their most obscure (proper) album that I'm sure a good percentage of people who consider themselves Beatles fans haven't even heard.
Interesting theory! I definitely hear an “ff” at the end of whatever john is saying, but given how weird it is already, I’m also open to alternate interpretations...
I always heard that too...but if you want to get the "ff" in there, perhaps given that it is a song for Patti, maybe John is giving a ribald slang dedication, "to your muff."
George had previously twisted “I’ll make LOVE TO YOU” into the title “Love You To”, so it wouldn’t be the first time. However, personally, I definitely hear a “th” or “f” sound.
The group taped four takes of the basic track, the final version of which extended to over eight minutes, with Harrison playing Hammond organ, Lennon on lead guitar, Paul McCartney on bass, and Ringo Starr on drums. The following day, they added overdubs, comprising vocals, percussion and handclaps.
As a bass player myself, the bass playing throughout the song is quite poor and sounds as if the player has not played much bass. The bass is very simplistic and loses the timing on occasions. Paul is an excellent bass player and his timing is always spot on. Paul also plays melodic and inventive bass lines and i think he would have instinctively added more variation. This suggests strongly that John is playing bass here and Paul lead. The unsophisticated bass actually adds to the unusual feel of this great song, which has been a long time favorite.
Ever since I heard this song while watching the Yellow Submarine movie, It's All Too Much has been a favorite of mine. Its chaotic nature in terms of composition along with the oddities that you've pointed out in the video give this song an otherworldly experience compared to other Beatles songs.
I don't think it gets pointed out enough that when Paul does his modal, fuzzy leads on "Good Morning Good Morning" and "Taxman", he is VERY clearly inspired by what Jeff Beck was doing in the Yardbirds (R.I.P. Mr. Beck)
@@Pokafalva pretends to know John Lennon’s intentions, then it created it’s own personal “sense of humor” to act pompous when anyone disagrees with it’s delusional insights to John Lennon’s thought process... cool, got it
@@glenzig07 It's more like mocking a friend's typical behavior but in a sense of a way sarcasm can be seen. It's actually "to your mother", but in a half way the distorted guitar riff starts playing.
It’s All Too Much is the most underrated Beatles song, not necessary the best of the lesser known category, but the number one that deserves more attention
I think John's shout in the beginning is more to do with his penchant for babbling/shouting total gibberish for comic effect. See also the Esher demo for "Glass Onion" and the infamous "oh my god it sounds like he's saying Paul is dead backwards" babbling at the end of "I'm So Tired." It's just - you know - what he did.
There were quite a few songs that were left off of the Anthology packages. I would have liked to have seen Bad to Me (John's demo) and Love of the Loved from the Decca sessions, to name a few.
I've never thought of that and this has got to be the right answer. John was well known for spouting off phrases immediately before songs started. It sounds like it and its themed around the song much like "sugar plum fairy. sugar plum fairy" which he says before strumming A Day in the Life to the same cadence/rhythm on guitar.
Just ask Paul who did it. I've always been a big Beatles fan and I've seen Yellow Submarine more than once, however, I just don't recall this song. Anyway, I'm still in shock at learning that Paul performed some of my favourite guitar licks that I always attributed to George (Taxman, Good Morning).
Thanks for this. I believe George is expressing the love he felt on LSD trips, not exclusively for Patty Boyd. I agree that the exuberance in the performance of the song is priceless.
@@THINJIMI Yes but John wasn't very capable on the bass guitar and since they were on the same track, that would mean John either played the bass here or he sat out on the track and someone than the Beatles played bass, which is highly unlikely.
@@JesperSalama - Oddly enough I just saw a picture of John sitting with a five string bass or something the other day. So I imagine he does play bass. But Johns lead’s are not very developed, in my opinion. Give me an example of a lead that John did that is as developed as what Paul could do. I can’t even think of another lead other than the trade-off at the end of Abbey Road?
I agree that the psychedelic Yellow Submarine songs, "It's All Too Much," "Hey Bulldog," and "Only a Northern Song" represent a peak in The Beatles' career. The songs were too weird to fit on Sgt. Pepper, they never got much in the way of AM airplay, so mostly how they came into the lives of me and my peers (I was 8 when Yellow Submarine came out) was when our parents bought us the Yellow Submarine soundtrack for Christmas that year. For me and plenty of others, it was the first non-children's album they owned. Older teens took it as a kids' record, paid more attention to Sgt. Pepper and The White Album. The songs on Submarine were considered castoffs and outtakes, not worthy of making it onto the regular records. It's only been in the past 20 years or so that they've become so widely loved. But MAN, us kids back then sure loved them. On one level, it was cool to have Beatles songs that were sort of "ours," it was our first taste of the classic thrill of digging something that's not on the mainstream radar (or that you think isn't!). Then the songs themselves were playful and weird and kind of scary and funny all at the same time. How could a kid not love John and Paul singing about jackknives and wigwams and barking like dogs? George singing about birthday cake? I'm in. And sounds we'd never heard in any kind of music anywhere, but they sounded bad ass. The terrifying Strat whammied feedback wailing and then turning into the sweet churchy-sounding organ? It was like a Halloween scare. We'd sing along with the "ugh ooh ooh" stuff on the fadeout. I'd do the "whaddaya say? I said 'ruff.' You know any more?" bit with my friend. 15 years later I went to see an underground band play at a dorm party and was amazed when they ripped into a ferocious version of "It's All Too Much." I drunkenly jumped on the stage and sang along on the fadeout. Wound up playing bass in the same band a couple of years down the road but they didn't want to do the song anymore. 😞
"Hey Bulldog" should have been on the "Lady Madonna" single. (Instead, they backed it with George's "The Inner Light" and it became the first Beatles single not to hit #1 on the charts.) Backed with "Bulldog," it would have. In fact, in the video for "Lady Madonna" the band are actually recording "Bulldog". One of their best songs and unbelievably neglected at the time.
This is a fascinating analysis of one of my favorite Beatles recordings! I would like to suggest that it is George who is playing the underlying guitar parts, but, perhaps, not the opening feedback section. I say it is George because the guitar voicing, and riffs sound very much like a D major chord transposed to G major with the use of a capo at the 5th fret. I believe that George often played and composed around that D major chord shape. For example, he recorded and performed “Here Comes the Sun” in A major with a D major chord shape using a capo on the 7th fret and the sixth string tuned downed to A with the capo on. Just a suggestion from my ears to yours. By the way, are we absolutely sure that the “ To your (young) ………” at the very beginning ISN’T George? Peace
I love how you escort me through each Beatles song - bringing back old memories and revealing secrets that previously were hidden to me. I love the Beatles so much that listening over and over to every little sound or sound gap still amazes me as much as it did the first time I ever heard any Beatles treasure. The only reason I own a high quality set of headphones is to hear this music - to hear the breath taken between words while picking out each individual voice in the harmonies, to the beat, the bass, the guitars. It is like heaven entering your mind through your ears.
There is a guitar pedal called a Big Muff. If they were using that pedal, maybe that was why he says "to your muff". However, that pedal wasn't released until 1970 so unless they had an early prototype, this theory doesn't work. He could be saying "to your Mum", or it could just be more Lennon gibberish.
I believe it was 'To your Mum' as John was friends with Louise Harrison, George's mum, and sent her letter and postcards in a 'Stanley Unwin' mode, which she loved. As for the guitar, unquestionably also John That level of repetitive discord is very John....plus Ken Scott remembers it being John as John asked for the guitar to be 'brighter'.
@@Mancfish In America too, although it means a nice hairy vag. For that reason, you don't seem to hear it used very much. Guys used to brag about being Muff Divers.
I never asked myself those questions but always felt that sheer joy and "cohesive unit" thing you mentioned here while listening to this song. But it's also in many other songs from that mid-to-late Beatles period... The first example that pops in my head is "You know my name, look up the number", but I know I heard it in many other songs and also earlier on in their "Christmas records" from 1965-1966. There was indeed a time when the Beatles were really just a group of very talented friends having FUN and, this song is one example among many, of that time. But, from what I've seen and heard so far of Peter Jackson's soon-to-be-released documentary... Perhaps that time lasted longer than we thought...
Thanks for a deep dive into my favorite band’s intricacies. I was a boy of ten when The Beatles burst onto the scene, and their musical and cultural progression coincided with my coming of age. Oh, what a wonderful time it was!
The guitar is Paul. Pauls vibrato was exaggerated typical of him in the period. The tone as well. More gritty than George’s at the time. Sounds like Paul’s Epiphone Casino, which he liked for feedback, through an AC30 Vox amp.
Can’t be the casino- there’s clearly a tremolo arm being used. I think that adds weight to the idea that John is playing it as he had and used a Lake Placid Blue Stratocaster around 65-67, and every photo I've seen he has the trem arm on.
@@kennygardner5041 I was not aware of that....! Still sounds more like a fender style than a bigsby to me...but that is entirely subjective and unscientific.... On the other hand, I think John is saying 'to your muff' which if he is telling the guitarist (presumably not himself) that the time has come to stomp on the Big Muff Pedal and fire up the feedback as the tape is now rolling...would make sense...
@@blakewhittington4336 yes you are right - Big Muff is 69. I believe that the original Muff Fuzz was around a good bit earlier though so it might have been one of those...although to be fair its far more likely that the fuzz tone was the one built in to the Vox Conqueror amp (which I believe they used rather than the AC30 around the Sgt Pepper's period for sure) so maybe all this is is pointing to @UCrY0F6zLt9KN9S_J3BzK8uA's argument for Paul on the Bigsby equipped casino through a Vox
I have always been fascinated by this song, and I agree that it is much underrated. Your analysis is very interesting, as is the amazing creativity in this song on all levels. A true masterpiece.
It's John. Feedback done first time ever; John. Feedback screaming on Revolution; John. The three trading solo's on Abbey Road; John is the third soloist. Which is also has the most feedback grunge? John.. BTW, it's such a cool song, you never hear it unless you have it on CD in the car or house.
I've always loved this song. Another underrated Beatles/George Harrison song I've always thought it was John Lennon at the beginning, saying "To your mother" but was never really sure. The "We are dead" part I've always misheard as "Clear your head"! Ian MacDonald's excellent book "Revolution in the Head", has the instrument credits for this song as: Harrison - organ; lead guitar Lennon - lead guitar McCartney - bass Starr - drums So according to his research, it's Lennon and Harrison on guitars. The intial take with Lennon on guitar and Harrison's guitar overdubbed after and the two blended together. Who knows? I always found that, especially in the later years, these guys could mimic each other styles really well. I mean, here we are 53 years later, still speculating on who played what! Another example, also from ""Yellow Submarine, is that wicked solo in "Hey Bulldog", for years I thought was John Lennon but in recent times, I've heard it's actually George Harrison. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, it sounds great. What a band!
It's certainly not "We are dead". The first consonant is "M", and if you listen carefully, the phrase ends with "Deva Krishna-aa-aa". Deva Krishna was a much-admired guru, or perhaps it's addressed to the Hindu god Lord (Deva) Krishna. George in particular was heavy into Indian religion at the time. "Miya" means "temple" in Sanskrit; that doesn't really go with the Deva Krishna part. The band may have intended to say something else, but what?
"Underappreciated" is an understatement! That vocal bit by Paul sounds reversed. I think the guitar is shared by John & Paul in bits. Maybe they played with our heads and switched up while recording! Wouldn't put it past them! Great vid!
John is clearly saying...."Yoko Ono makes lousy coffee" if you play it backwards at half speed on the 2nd Tuesday of March, 2021.Wow that date is coming up, so you better start preparing. Ron Nasty is supposed to sing "I Buried Stig" on "I Am the Waitress". In fact he sings "E Burres stigano" which is very bad Spanish for "Have you a water buffalo?". Since Nasty and Lennon are both no longer with us, the debate will continue.
🎶hold my hand yeah yeah hold my hand hold my hand - and I'll lead you home!🎶 that's the song that changed my life ... Prefab Four - for a lunchtime!!!! 💥🤯😎😎😎😎
I'm glad to have found this. Indeed, "It's All Too Much", as on the Yellow Submarine LP, is one of my favorite Beatles and George Harrison songs, and, yes, I always wondered why it did not and has not gotten the attention it deserves. I, for one, was and am impressed by it. This discussion does not discuss the guitar licks that must have been dubbed after the basic track was done. I love those quick licks, and always imagined Paul played them. They are quite precise and have a good range of notes in them. I'm thinking of the ones with notes mostly of the G chord (the key of the song), except for a 'passing' note C. Hard to describe here. But they are prominent right in the body of the song. They are bold and awesome, and psychedelic.
@@elementrypenguin3116 I LOVE Paul the song writer, the human being not so much... I mean, will he EVER get tired of throwing shade on John? Or Yoko for that matter. I wasn't AS IF John was DEMANDING Yoko become the bands NEW manager the way Paul was DEMANDING Linda's father be the NEW manager so Paul could PUSH the other 3 around even MORE! Paul jumping onto Ringo's drum kit during the recording sessions of Hey Bulldog was DISGUSTING. Paul USURPING the guitar leads from George and basically STIFLING George's now SUPERIOR songs those last couple of years is what lead DIRECTLY to the band's break up.
@@donaldcarpenter5328 like the drumming on BITUSSR. It’s sloppy and muffled. Not good for a Beatle record. Good song but…. They couldn’t wait for Ringo to get back? What if Ringo stayed away for a month or two? It would have been Paul on most songs on the White Album? Everything’s about him. And I’m tired of reading posts from trolls on YT every time there’s comments about Ringo’s drums on a particular song. Someone always comes up with ‘oh, it’s really Paul on drums.’ I’m sick of reading it. Every Beatle song we hear on YT there’s always a comment about Paul playing the drums. Ringo made a comment saying would leave the studio for whatever reason and he’d come back and who’s on the drums? Paul. So I don’t think he he liked Paul on his Drum kit. And who really knows why he left the band during WA sessions? Maybe that had something to do with it.
Thanks for your analysis of this song. I too have been immensely impressed by the music that the Beatles made (Bought the White album, my first Beatle album, in 1979). i recently watched the "Get Back" mini-series on a popular streaming channel and was blown away by watching their creative energies captured on film in a candid fashion.
"To young muck" muck is a Liverpudlian slang phrase like 'geezer', 'love', 'guy', 'mate' etc. 'Alright muck' means ''alright mate'. Me old mucker. That's what I heard anyways
Add this: There are some backwards vocals, here. Well, John's opening statement "It's All Too Much" is not backwards, but randomized Malapropism/Ringoism-like comment.
12:20 the always excellent steve hillage did a scintillating version of "it`s all too much" on his album "L" in september 1976...never mind the flaming lips!
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Wooo, 100k subscribers! Thank you so much for being a part of this incredible journey through The Beatles musical library. I hope you enjoy this special new episode about one of my favorite (and tragically overlooked) Beatles songs: It's All Too Much.
And as always, let me know what you think in the comments!
Congrats for 100K! 🥳
Right when we were needing you!
I thought yous was dead
Dude I hope you keep growing, these are so good because I’m a huge Beatles fan and your doing a lot for me, thank you
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I read years ago that the lyrics represent George’s reaction to a particularly strong acid trip. Having taken acid myself, I can definitely see that being accurate.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I have always felt the song is a comment on the overloading of 'experience' that led George to ditch psychedelia for a religious 'pure' high. For a while the others tried that as well (see trip to India) but the others quickly dropped that to return to more individual experimentation via drugs. The others became DISGUSTED by the predatory 'guru' which led to another of my favorite Beatles song. The sublime, hilarious 'Sexy Sadie'. Drug abuse was fatal for some but it also evolved musical genius.
@@vladdrakul7851 Always thought some of the lyrics referred directly to Pattie Boyd though.
@@groaningupright The song was originally called “Maharishi” but they later changed it to “Sexy Sadie” to make it less obvious they were slamming Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and calling him a fraud.
Yes you are correct. This song is a celebration of his experiences with LSD.
Yes!!
It was clearly Ringo, finally showcasing his distinctive lead guitar prowess
Nah, there's no way it's Ringo on guitar. That's daft.
It was Pete Best!!
Wrong mate, it's clearly Keith Moon on the guitar !
yoko?
It was as usual John and George - Guitar, Vocals / Paul - Bass / Ringo Starr Drums and Tambourine. Paul added Handclaps aside from George and John. George added the Hammond Organ to the song, Paul played Cowbell and John played the big G power chord intro of that song before the riff - According to Wikipedia.
I was the janitor in the studio that day. It was definitely Ringo on guitar
I was on a Beatles binge going through every song in their catalog looking for gems and this was the one that floored me that I had to stop and listen again. Such an insane song.
Its amazing that such an amazing song - up there with Tomorrow Never Knows - is so relatively unknown. It's a great surprise to Beatles fans of a certain era.
Not sure what era you’re referring to??
@@feelthejoy maybe this era
It IS one heck of a song. One of my favorites.
Well said, along with "Tomorrow Never knows" "it's all Too Much" is one of the best psychedelic anthems ever created🎉
this channel is the definition of ''quality over quantity''.
Hell yeah!! These vids take so long to arrive, but are soooo worth the wait!!!!
There's not enough of this on youtube now.
@V MO i have it agree!
I was just thinking the exact opposite. If I was learning English I’d appreciate the speed and careful enunciation. But the narration makes me feel like I’m five.
I think this channel is the definition of "ridiculous analysis".
The world is a better place because of those four lovely lads from Liverpool.
I KNOW RIGHT
A pocket is better because of them for certain . Much better. But as a whole it’s marching toward the final battle.
I think he was speaking to George saying "to your muff," as in "this song is dedicated to your woman," with muff as a slang and bawdy term for "woman." George wrote the song for Patti, and John had that kind of sense of humor.
That's my theory too
Moeuf is also the French verlin slang for woman.
I'd agree with this.
good one!
That is plausible.
Definitely the most hidden of the gems.
It’s accompanying scene in Yellow Submarine is joyfully mesmerizing
I was blown away when I saw Yellow Submarine at the theater, not only by "It's All Too Much", but by "It's Only A Northern Song" & "Hey Bulldog"! At that point, I thought I had heard (and owned) every Beatle song made. The opening of "All Too Much" actually gave me chills!
.....it's to your muff.......Liverpool slang for .........er........(ah go look it up)...
I heard ''It's All Too Much'' for the first time in 1977 when I was 11 years old, almost a year later I had my first blowing mind Hendrix moment with ''VooDoo Child''.
Yes, this song is truly alll too much.
Same here, I love these songs. George is ridiculously underrated.
@@frankhornby6873 That has to be it. Typical Lennon word play. And hilarious.
The Yellow Submarine soundtrack album was released as an almost novelty album and yet it contains five of their best songs.
Hey Bulldog one of my top 10 by them.
Very true
What's truly astonishing (although hardly surprising) is that we still analyse Beatles tracks in minute detail after 50+ years (You wouldn't think there was anything left that hadn't been analysed to death) and do it in a way that reminds us how new and fresh those tracks were and somehow still are. Thank you.
Ditto.
They’re a band that’s truly worth analyzing to death, they were really something special. And as was alluded to in this video, there really are still unsolved mysteries regarding the recording process and the various roles that were played. You might think we’d have it all nailed down by now, who played what, etc.. but there are still some things that we still don’t know for sure, and we’ll probably never know. Even asking the Beatles themselves doesn’t always yield solid answers, as in many instances they don’t remember, or- they “remember” incorrectly. But it’s all in fun, as I said, they were really something special. Me personally, I can’t get enough of videos like this... I love it. They’ll always be my favorite band.
that's the Beatles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Timeless
Mozart-like
There was that ONE track that IF you play it backwards it said Paul's career is DEAD , turned out to be true......
If you listen to the guitar parts John plays on "The End," where John, George, and Paul are all taking turns playing lead, you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
Inconclusive. If you listen to the guitar parts Paul plays on "The End," you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
Unlikely. If you listen to the guitar parts George plays on "The End," you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
Incoherent. If you listen to the guitar parts Ringo plays on “The End,” you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on “It’s All Too Much.”
Muddled. If you listen to the guitar parts Yoko plays on "The End" you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much"
Hard to say. If you listen to the guitar parts Stu Sutcliffe plays on "The End," you can definitely hear a stylistic similarity to the guitar work on "It's All Too Much."
The one time I did mushrooms I watched this movie and this song made me cry, it just felt so beautiful and it was explaining exactly what I was feeling both in that moment and about life in general.
"Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for tea"
Excellent !
Just one of the many overlooked and underappreciated beatles songs
“Overlooked and underappreciated” because The Beatles themselves didn’t care much for the _Yellow Submarine_ project after _A Hard Day’s Night_ (French New Wave-esque mockumentary masterpiece) and _Help!_ (fun if nonsensical Bond spoof). That was especially so since they weren’t tasked to contribute much beyond new music and others were voicing them in this animated project.
I love this period of George, "Blue Jay Way", "It's only a Northern Song", "it's All Too Much"
Maybe yer rubbish no??
George's songs were criminally overlooked, by John and Paul especially.
@Sid Patankar Listen to the slowed-down ballad version of the song by the great Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Close your eyes and imagine it as a farewell song to Paul's soulmate Linda McCartney. Just might bring a tear to your eye. ruclips.net/video/_vTPa4G1aBA/видео.html
My guess is john. This is because I saw him at the one-to-one concert in 1972. He did a section of about 10 or 15 minutes with just Him and yoko. Yoko was doing her usual routine and Lennon was playing a Gibson Firebird and did nothing but unbelievable feedback for 10 or 15 minutes long. It was beyond Hendrix feedback. He really knew how to get incredible feedback and that would be my guess that he's doing it on this track. I know there are not a lot of Yoko fans out there and that's probably why that part of the concert was never released but it really was something to hear especially live.
Im seriously jeleous!
A Gibson Firebird?
Surely that was his modified Les Paul Jr, that was his main guitar during 1972
I highly doubt he played a Firebird.
@@supersonicsroots He played a firebird shaped guitar...i sat right in front of him and saw him play it. Lay your doubts to rest.
You can tell from the sound that it's a single coil guitar, most likely a Strat because it also definitely has a floating bridge trem. John and George both played such Strats at that time (John had the pale blue Strat, George had "Rocky".) Paul McCartney's single coil guitar of choice with The Beatles was a Tele with no trem. Also, it's definitely him on bass, probably the Ricky 4001. For it to have been anyone else in the band they'd have needed a right-hand strung bass. And that little octave play at the end is VERY McCartney. So, by default, I reckon it was John on guitar. And he did like the Fender amp fuzz sound a LOT.
George also once said John did things on guitar no one could do, probably referring to this song.
Yep. Because John’s voice is heard shouting just before the feedback, it would make more sense. It totally sounds like Lennon starting it off with a crazy burst of energy.
Good catch on the Fenders. Both John and George had 1962 Sonic Blue Fender Stratocasters. They had fatter necks that year. Fenders were hard to come by in the UK, back in those days, so it was a big deal for a Brit to own one. George later painted the front of his in a psychedelic pattern and would dub it "Rocky", as you mentioned. Only the front was painted, as the back still had the Sonic Blue finish. George played this same Strat for the recordings of, "And Your Bird Can Sing", "All You Need Is Love" and "Nowhere Man". "All You Need Is Love" is from the same album and recording sessions as "It's All Too Much". George didn't get his Rosewood Fender Telecaster until 1969, just in time for the "roof top concert" in December of that year. They have a beautiful tone, but boy are they heavy!
No opinion on whether you're right or wrong, but it's easy to approximate a floating bridge on a fixed bridge guitar by just bending the whole neck. Depending on the guitar, you can drop maybe a semitone and a bit. Not that I recommend it.
Thank you for adding your input as someone familiar with their instruments. It’s one of the few holes in my Beatles knowledge. I love the fact that there are still people out there who are passionate about them and their history and also have important knowledge.
This is one of my favourite songs. I've never understood how this, Hey Bulldog and Old Brown Shoe aren't right up there among their most beloved.
Old Brown Shoe totally rocks. I never realized how much it rocked till I was much older. It's a screamer.
Agree. The original mix of "It's all too much" was pretty bad though so maybe listeners at the time didn't catch on to the power of the song. Also, the "Yellow Submarine" album was probably a disappointment to the record buying audience since it contained only one side of Beatles originals. This might have contributed to the relative obscurity of "IATM" and "Hey Bulldog".
Four songs all considered throwaways plus two previously released didn’t give much value for money. The liner notes on the UK release were basically “Ignore this one and buy the White Album”.
I love this track, also Hey Bulldog, that piano riff is brilliant, and Old brown shoe,by George,too good for a b-side,I also like his demo version on anthology 3.
Joe Walsh learned how to play “And Your Bird Can Sing” on ONE guitar.
It's one of my favourite Beatles songs, extremely underrated, VERY unknown.
One of the most well knows songs in my opinion by anybody who has at least seen the yellow sub
But it amazes me when I play things like this around people for instance who do like the Beatles but haven't heard song like this or hey bulldog
What a treat that I can love this song, know the song, discover it a first time, then because of the sheer mass of genius held out for me to take, I lose track of it, only to be reacquainted with it months later and fall in love again.
I just love love love The Beatles
Along with Hey Bulldog, one of my favorite Beatles tracks just because it hasn't been played to death.
the guitar riff is one of their best
You might want to give Hey Jude a listen.
Rain is my favorite - similar reasons.
Hey Bulldog is def a fun song and underrated
@@tcaudiobooks737 you're missing the point.
The opening sounds like he was just playing with the "too much" lyric as he does for the rest of the song. Whether on purpose or not, I think he's saying "to your much" instead of "you're too much."
Yes, I have thought that too. It makes sense, knowing how playful John could be.
Exactly!
Ya know, that's pretty spot on for what John would do.
I've always thought it was "Too Your Much" and never even heard the "Muff" part before. Sounds like he started singing it backwards by mistake and stopped but tried to make it sound like he was saying something else deliberately to make it look like he hadn't made a mistake?
Great response. I tend to agree.
With George providing an Indian-style drone on Hammond organ, John on distorted lead guitar, and Paul and Ringo on their usual instruments of bass and drums, the group recorded four proper takes of the song once they were fully acquainted with it. 'Take four' was deemed the best, which at this point was 8:09 long. At 2:30 am the next morning the session was complete, the full rhythm track for what was then called “Too Much” being put to tape.---Beatles Music History
Impossible for John to be playing guitar on this. There is a vibrato arm used to lift the guitar in the intro. The only guitar John had with a vibrato arm at the time was the Black Strat, and it’s got to be a hollow body with the heavy feedback. Paul and George’s casinos both had Bigsbys, and since George was playing organ and wasn’t playing that much guitar in 67 anyway (since he was busy studying the Indian sitar), it’s Paul by process of elimination.
@@Henry3Studios Could John have been playing one of their guitars? Though not impossible, I think it would have been easier for John to cop a bit of Paul's guitar style than Paul's bass approach.
@@jerrylev59 I doubt John would have turned one of Paul’s guitars upside down as he had plenty of right handed guitars to choose from
@@Henry3Studios Could one of George's guitars been at hand?
@@Henry3Studios What bass would John have been playing? Didn't sound like the Fender VI, isn't that more in the baritone range?
It's all too much is one of my favorite Beatles songs, "Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for tea" is one of George's best lines, it really sums up his whole aesthetic
I always heard it as " too your much " , which I took as a cheeky way of switching around the words " you're too much "
It's 'to your muff'.
@@duhusker4383 wtf is a muff.
what is it
what's a muff
tell me costa
tell me
That makes sense
@@shadejamison4118 a term for a woman, in which George had wrote it for Patti
Yes. For Years I thought it was "Too young much" but yours sounds better.
If it’s John on guitar, he’s playing George’s guitar. There’s clearly some vibrato bar work going on, and John’s Epiphone didn’t have a bar on it. Paul’s did, but it would have been strung lefty. George’s also had a bar, strung righty.
To me the whammy bar sounds like on a Fender strat. You can't get that sort of speed etc going with a Bigsby. Maybe it was George's Rocky, but could have been Lennon's strat (I was surprised that they both had strats and used far more than we knew, per George interview). I've got strats and I've got Bigsby equipped guitars... or maybe just lots of coffee...? ;)
@@lauranceemory4448 Hmmm. That sure sounds like feedback from a hollow-body guitar rather than a Strat.
@@jamesjames9275 double hmm... well, I do like the feedback with hollow bodies, but has a very Hendrixy more in control to me... we'll never know. Personally, I prefer hollowbodies.... That interview with George saying lots of times thought it was a Ric 12 and he was playing strat! Cheers!
@doubleheadergr everybody forgets george had a SG with a maestro vibrola on it and
@@lauranceemory4448 for me, it's either the SG or the casino.
According to "The Beatles Bible" web site:
George Harrison: vocals, Hammond organ
John Lennon: harmony vocals, lead guitar
Paul McCartney: harmony vocals, bass
Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine
David Mason and three others: trumpets
Paul Harvey: bass clarinet
Bass is unmistakably Paul.
@@peterdeep
I think so too.
This song and album have always flown under the radar compared to most Beatles hits. Its trippy, very creative & experimental. This was right in the middle of their psychadelic phase. It influenced other artists of the time.
The guitar feedback on the beginning of "I feel fine" was produced by what I believe to have been a guitar leaning against an amplifier/speaker, (possibly the bass amp) A bass string was plucked. The guitar string vibrated in sympathy with the bass, through the guitar. The guitar string vibrated excessively, rattling against a fret, causing the sound we hear. I experienced the exact same phenomenon quite by accident in the same circumstances with my bass and an acoustic guitar leaning against my amp. (2×15" speaker cab.)
The feedback on "All too much" is a different type and I'm pretty sure it's Paul on his Epiphone Casino, which he used on "Taxman". It has a Bigsby tremolo fitted which action can be heard. John's Casino didn't have a tremelo.
To be specific, the feedback in "I Feel Fine" is the D (4th) string- just listen!
I accidentally created the "feedback" on "I Feel Fine" by letting the top e string ring and then softly resting the flat part of my fingernail on the string. When I discovered that it made me realize it might not be feedback on the record at all.
How did they leave 2 of their best songs( Too Much and Bulldog), almost as Easter eggs, for their best fans only practically, to be found on YS? Brilliance. Kindness. A great gift.
They were just that creative. It's like picking up Picasso's drawings discarded on the studio floor. They just got lost in the shuffle.
"You know my name" - Another unappreciated song that deserves your analysis :-)
Good evening and welcome to Slaggers
@@wyssmaster Yes exactly :-) By the way what does "Slaggers" mean?
I recall John and Paul worked on "You Know My Name, Look Up the Number" off and on for YEARS, having fun with its satirical approach and nature. Finally, after several years, they released it.............almost unnoticed, as the B side of "Let It Be", or, at least, not discussed or taken seriously, it seems, until some years later. I love it now..............it's funny and makes fun of lounge music etc.
You Know My Name is an even worse effort than Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Rather than being under appreciated, I would say it's over appreciated.
I've always thought George was referring to Patty when he said "with your long blond hair and your eyes of blue."
The bass part is very simple (I can play it in my sleep) and would perfectly line up with John's very simplistic, basic style of bass playing. I am sure it is Paul on guitar, it is very much his style.
'I Feel Fine' is not John or anybody else. The Beatles had laid their guitars & bass against the amps that were turned up and Paul's bass started feeding back, being a hollowbody. It caused the guitar to start vibrating and the note started buzzing. George Martin captured the sound on tape.
It's All too Much also has backward vocals on it, that's why you cannot understand them.
The extra verse in the movie, I've been told, was written by Donovan. Whether this is true or not, I'm not sure.
This is one of my favourite Beatle songs of all and I certainly regard this as one of the greatest Psychedelic songs ever written.
He mistakenly assumes that a base riff must be John's if it sounds like John, but in fact it could be John playing Paul's base riff while Paul plays Paul's lead guitar riff. And this is exactly what we see in the early days of Wings, when Paul does all the creative and uses his wife and another guy to back him.
Beatlesrgear - Great post!
The bass part is simple in the sense that it's a pedal for the entire song. But within that very strict framework, the bass does some pretty creative & somewhat technically difficult stuff. I don't think John was a good enough bass player to pull that off, IMO.
The guitar is too messy to be Paul he is too meticulous for that to happen, especially in this period.
Wrong, it's well documented it's John and anyone who understands guitars and playing styles knows it. Not even close to Macca's style but of course there are those that love him so so much, right?
Paul played the guitar part. Paul played an Epiphone Casino; a hollowbody guitar he bought specifically for its' ability to feed back. His Casino had a Bigsby tailpiece which allowed the wild and wide vibrato bends.
And, besides, Paul frequently played lead on George's songs.
Frequently?
On a guitar, Paul couldnt play his as.
Every member of the group had an Epiphone Casino by that point.
Ringo lived in Monte Carlo and went to the casino quite a bit
The sound of the intro is less caused by feedback and more by a vibrato bar, like a Bigsby.
When I was a kid, my oldest brother would play Beatles records on the family stereo for us when my parents were out playing bridge with the neighbors (it was the only time he could get away with it). The two albums he played the most were Sgt Pepper and Yellow Submarine, so I grew up with It's All Too Much. it's my favorite Beatle song
Interesting that Apple Music has the opening line as being definitive “To Your Mother”
Your mother should know
Hm. There's definitely an "fff" at the end of that excerpt.
@@drewcampbell8555 I have no idea but maybe John said mother then a second word that got cut off
@@drewcampbell8555 There's a London accent that pronounces th as ff -- As in "Word to y'or muffa..." I think John is goofing on this accent.
Obviously George saying "to your mother". Really, Jorma?!?! You guy-- are out of your mind!
1st of all, in my humble opinion, this is arguably your best episode yet, although the song is in my Top 3 favorite Beatles songs, so, there’s that.
And I could not agree with you more, when you say that even as we discuss, debate, and speculate the possible & probable answers to these random ‘Beatle Mysteries’, the more important aspect is that we the people are still enthralled by the topic, 50-some years after It’s inception. I loved that you pointed that out.
Thank You
All these years, I have always heard the opening shout as "Too you're much!" a sort of inverted "you're too much." I never tried to listen closely or thought about it that much, but that's what it's always been for me.
LSD did absolute WONDERS for their songwriting.
Maby LSD should file a law suite.
keep dreamin ...
Not the drug. The drug only opens doors to spirits.
Totally! It changed them. From a teenybopper band to a group of adult musicians, LSD was a miracle.
well it just wasn't that. They already had a vivid imagination and LSD just amplified it by a bit but the majority was their extraordinary imagination and God-given talent.
I always thought, and still think John is saying, "To your mother!"
If the next Paul interview I hear doesn't include the question about the lead work of this song I'll be ticked
It certainly is not an overlook-able performance. I feel it's incredible that it was played live, all of them at once. The soaring power of it is gigantic. I love the song AND the track. Did you say there is an 8 - minute version? Now THAT, I gotta hear.
The recording of the song begins with the tape being cut, while George was in mid-sentence. It's clearly George, not John, and it's just George talking to one of the others as the tape starts rolling. This happens when bands are in the studio, they talk to each other - and often, the Beatles just left that sort of studio chatter in. In this case, it's clearly not a "hidden message," it's just studio chatter.
I thought it sounded like George too, i agree with you
@@lee-e1767 I as well...speaking of studio chatter, the first Lp by The James Gang (with Joe Walsh) "Yer Album" features a couple sections of chatter between Joe (mostly) and producer Bill Szymczyk. Joe even breaks into a short "Wipeout" riff. Funny stuff. Bill telling Joe "be careful of that squeaking in your sleeve noise." I think it referred to the sound of dragging a pick along one of the strings...
Absolutely correct.
While I think John overall had more interesting lyrics and incredible 'woah dude' compositions, Paul was hip and dabbled in so many different sounds. Incredible duo.
That you said is stupid ! Into Lennon/McCartney partnership, Lennon composed more 58% of the songs, words and music.
I appreciate your comment. Paul was much more musically experiments than he was given credit for. Paul was also more interested in production than John was. I think nearly every Beatles song had a little Paul magic spread over it. John even said that he thought Paul and George Marting sabotaged Strawberry Fields. That song is one of his most celebrated.
I agree Tanguo, for me, Lennon had much more interesting lyrics,I am the Walrus, Come Together, Happiness is a warm gun,John had a great imagination, and was into his poetry, like, Across the Universe,he was a true genius. My favourite is obviously John, but Paul was a genius aswell,he wrote some classic tracks, and when they bounced ideas off each other they came up with probably the greatest track ever A Day in the Life.Lennon and McCartney each added their own unique songwriting to the group,it wouldn't be The Beatles without either of them,it's just we all have our favourites, and mine is John, but that doesn't mean I think lesser of Paul,I don't understand the argument of who was the best John or Paul, they were both as important as each other, and George aswell,he became a brilliant songwriter from Revolver onwards,he just got better and better. I love all The Beatles,I just prefer Lennon's songs mostly, but there is tracks by Paul that I think are amazing, and I love some of George's songs. What a band.
@@stellapolanco6860 I think Lennon is more interesting than McCartney,as I've already posted,he wrote I am the Walrus, Come Together, Happiness is a warm gun, Across the Universe, Tomorrow Never Knows,he had great imagination.
this is a George song
I would propose that John is saying, "Too Much," in the beginning. That was the original name of the song and might have been John's joke or a way of getting into it before the song really got going.
Yep. I agree.
Except that 'too much' has only got two syllables.
I totally agree with you. One, if not THE most underrated song out of their entire catalogue. The perfect psychedelic song. Ringo’s drums in the intro are monstrous, and the vocals are simply amazing, and a LOT of fun, like that ‘toooooo mu-cha’ mantra, or when John and Paul repeat in unisson the borrowed ‘With your long.... ...of blue’ line right after George. I also enjoy the brass, though I believe George mentioned in an interview in later years that he wasn’t a big fan of their contribution.
I’m playing the Guitar, hope that clears things up
Just about everything they recorded has been covered by others. Whether it's Cry For A Shadow, Please Don't Bring Your Banjo Back, Revolution #9, and all the rest, you can find cover versions.
Jerry Smith LOL ! I thought so ! There's a distinctive Twang to your font. But, what prompted you to fess up ? Cheers !
Love your work lol
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@@keensoundguy6637 Wild Honey Pie
Not only did I now hear what this mystery is, I got to know this song. Thanks YCUT!
I love how you say "too much" in the right time
I think John's saying "to your mother" because they recorded "Your Mother Should Know" just a few months later. Paul had possibly been playing around with an earlier version of it in the studio at the time.
“I see your muff!”
Ringo's drum intro makes it worthwhile to listen to this one, apart form all of the other interesting aspects
This has John written all over it. And it's obviously John talking. I think it's two separate tracks smashed together to create a sort of a shock intro! George played organ on lots of his own tunes, so it makes sense that the basic track would have John on Gtr and George on organ
Great question and video!
Speaking a bassist who's spent MANY hours studying Paul's style (I probably owe him royalties for how many times I've copped his idioms on a session) I'll say the bass is John: other than the fact that it sounds like Paul's physical bass, the note choices, attack, time-feel, and even the flubs are all too dissimilar to Paul.
Off-topic, but it was years before I knew that George played bass on "Oh! Darling" - it wasn't until I heard an iso that I noticed how many flubs there were. Anyway, Paul played piano, John played guitar on Oh Darling, and all four of them were tracking it at the same time ("I Want You" was NOT the last time the four of them played together)
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Almost any other 60's or 70's band had released this track it would be one of their most loved tracks and closed their concerts for the last 40 odd years. As it's the Beatles it's an unloved song on their most obscure (proper) album that I'm sure a good percentage of people who consider themselves Beatles fans haven't even heard.
You’re right, lol
"Too your much" at the beginning maybe? He couldve just been saying gibberish combined with lyrics to get into the vibe of the song
This is the correct answer! Thank you. I’ve always heard it as “too your much.” 👍🏼
Interesting theory! I definitely hear an “ff” at the end of whatever john is saying, but given how weird it is already, I’m also open to alternate interpretations...
That's what I always thought.
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Same with me.
I always heard that too...but if you want to get the "ff" in there, perhaps given that it is a song for Patti, maybe John is giving a ribald slang dedication, "to your muff."
I always heard the beginning as "To Your Much". Maybe an intentional mix of words "Your Too Much" or a tribute to the title of the song?
Interesting! Never heard it that way before, but I suppose it's as possible as any of the other explanations...we might never truly know :)
That's always been my thought too
@@YouCantUnhearThis I’ve always heard it as “too your much” - just John being cute.
George had previously twisted “I’ll make LOVE TO YOU” into the title “Love You To”, so it wouldn’t be the first time. However, personally, I definitely hear a “th” or “f” sound.
I've always thought so too. With the "Ch" sound cut off by the guitar...
The group taped four takes of the basic track, the final version of which extended to over eight minutes, with Harrison playing Hammond organ, Lennon on lead guitar, Paul McCartney on bass, and Ringo Starr on drums. The following day, they added overdubs, comprising vocals, percussion and handclaps.
Truly one of the greatest gems of the catalog...sparkling and immersive.
As a bass player myself, the bass playing throughout the song is quite poor and sounds as if the player has not played much bass. The bass is very simplistic and loses the timing on occasions. Paul is an excellent bass player and his timing is always spot on. Paul also plays melodic and inventive bass lines and i think he would have instinctively added more variation. This suggests strongly that John is playing bass here and Paul lead. The unsophisticated bass actually adds to the unusual feel of this great song, which has been a long time favorite.
Yea, I loved to play this "simplistic and unsophisticated" Thanks for the laugh. You've got balls my friend.
I find the bass AND the guitar to sound like Paul, but very sloppy. Stoned perhaps? Maybe Lennon wasn't on the sessions at all.
Ever since I heard this song while watching the Yellow Submarine movie, It's All Too Much has been a favorite of mine. Its chaotic nature in terms of composition along with the oddities that you've pointed out in the video give this song an otherworldly experience compared to other Beatles songs.
I don't think it gets pointed out enough that when Paul does his modal, fuzzy leads on "Good Morning Good Morning" and "Taxman", he is VERY clearly inspired by what Jeff Beck was doing in the Yardbirds (R.I.P. Mr. Beck)
Sounds like "to your muff," which would be a particularly John thing to say.
Agree. Lennon throwing in a rude comment...!
Nah
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@@Pokafalva pretends to know John Lennon’s intentions, then it created it’s own personal “sense of humor” to act pompous when anyone disagrees with it’s delusional insights to John Lennon’s thought process... cool, got it
@@glenzig07 It's more like mocking a friend's typical behavior but in a sense of a way sarcasm can be seen. It's actually "to your mother", but in a half way the distorted guitar riff starts playing.
It’s All Too Much is the most underrated Beatles song, not necessary the best of the lesser known category, but the number one that deserves more attention
Definitely
It isn't underrated in the slightest! Who thinks this song isn't very good?
I think John's shout in the beginning is more to do with his penchant for babbling/shouting total gibberish for comic effect. See also the Esher demo for "Glass Onion" and the infamous "oh my god it sounds like he's saying Paul is dead backwards" babbling at the end of "I'm So Tired." It's just - you know - what he did.
i know John liked to baffle people who looked for meaning in his lyrics, especially in I Am the Walrus.
we need an Anthology 4 for shit like this… we need this full 8 minute cut, and theres tons of other stuff that i know Beatles fans are dying to hear!!
Giles Martin has said that they are waiting for technology to catch up to remaster the earlier albums so maybe one day we will hear it all.
Look up the 'Secret Songs in Pepperland' bootleg
There were quite a few songs that were left off of the Anthology packages. I would have liked to have seen Bad to Me (John's demo) and Love of the Loved from the Decca sessions, to name a few.
The beginning feedback of the guitar sounds like John's "The End" solo to me
I think it's a re-ordered "You're Too Much" into "Too You're Much!"
That's plausible. Johns type of wordplay that
Is the right answer..
Huh
I like that !
I've never thought of that and this has got to be the right answer. John was well known for spouting off phrases immediately before songs started. It sounds like it and its themed around the song much like "sugar plum fairy. sugar plum fairy" which he says before strumming A Day in the Life to the same cadence/rhythm on guitar.
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@@jeffreymcfadden9403 I'm all over! And unfortunately, no, I didnt.
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Just ask Paul who did it. I've always been a big Beatles fan and I've seen Yellow Submarine more than once, however, I just don't recall this song.
Anyway, I'm still in shock at learning that Paul performed some of my favourite guitar licks that I always attributed to George (Taxman, Good Morning).
Also on Another Girl and Drive My car.
Thanks for this. I believe George is expressing the love he felt on LSD trips, not exclusively for Patty Boyd. I agree that the exuberance in the performance of the song is priceless.
Definitely on my list of "Best Beatles Songs that never Get Put on any List of Best Beatles Songs"
I’ve never wondered this question. Now it’s all I think about, “who DID play the guitar in Its All Too Much”
John!
I believe it was Paul. he has quite a wild side to his leads.
@@THINJIMI Yes but John wasn't very capable on the bass guitar and since they were on the same track, that would mean John either played the bass here or he sat out on the track and someone than the Beatles played bass, which is highly unlikely.
That means the only logical lineup is
PAUL: Bass guitar
GEORGE: Organ
JOHN: Lead guitar
RINGO: Drums
@@JesperSalama - Oddly enough I just saw a picture of John sitting with a five string bass or something the other day. So I imagine he does play bass. But Johns lead’s are not very developed, in my opinion. Give me an example of a lead that John did that is as developed as what Paul could do. I can’t even think of another lead other than the trade-off at the end of Abbey Road?
Probably the first song that comes to mind when I think of hidden gems in the Beatles' catalog. Should get much more attention than it does.
I agree that the psychedelic Yellow Submarine songs, "It's All Too Much," "Hey Bulldog," and "Only a Northern Song" represent a peak in The Beatles' career. The songs were too weird to fit on Sgt. Pepper, they never got much in the way of AM airplay, so mostly how they came into the lives of me and my peers (I was 8 when Yellow Submarine came out) was when our parents bought us the Yellow Submarine soundtrack for Christmas that year. For me and plenty of others, it was the first non-children's album they owned. Older teens took it as a kids' record, paid more attention to Sgt. Pepper and The White Album. The songs on Submarine were considered castoffs and outtakes, not worthy of making it onto the regular records. It's only been in the past 20 years or so that they've become so widely loved. But MAN, us kids back then sure loved them. On one level, it was cool to have Beatles songs that were sort of "ours," it was our first taste of the classic thrill of digging something that's not on the mainstream radar (or that you think isn't!). Then the songs themselves were playful and weird and kind of scary and funny all at the same time. How could a kid not love John and Paul singing about jackknives and wigwams and barking like dogs? George singing about birthday cake? I'm in. And sounds we'd never heard in any kind of music anywhere, but they sounded bad ass. The terrifying Strat whammied feedback wailing and then turning into the sweet churchy-sounding organ? It was like a Halloween scare. We'd sing along with the "ugh ooh ooh" stuff on the fadeout. I'd do the "whaddaya say? I said 'ruff.' You know any more?" bit with my friend. 15 years later I went to see an underground band play at a dorm party and was amazed when they ripped into a ferocious version of "It's All Too Much." I drunkenly jumped on the stage and sang along on the fadeout. Wound up playing bass in the same band a couple of years down the road but they didn't want to do the song anymore. 😞
"Hey Bulldog" should have been on the "Lady Madonna" single. (Instead, they backed it with George's "The Inner Light" and it became the first Beatles single not to hit #1 on the charts.) Backed with "Bulldog," it would have. In fact, in the video for "Lady Madonna" the band are actually recording "Bulldog". One of their best songs and unbelievably neglected at the time.
This is a fascinating analysis of one of my favorite Beatles recordings! I would like to suggest that it is George who is playing the underlying guitar parts, but, perhaps, not the opening feedback section. I say it is George because the guitar voicing, and riffs sound very much like a D major chord transposed to G major with the use of a capo at the 5th fret. I believe that George often played and composed around that D major chord shape. For example, he recorded and performed “Here Comes the Sun” in A major with a D major chord shape using a capo on the 7th fret and the sixth string tuned downed to A with the capo on. Just a suggestion from my ears to yours. By the way, are we absolutely sure that the “ To your (young) ………” at the very beginning ISN’T George? Peace
One of my fave Beatles tracks. Transcendent.
I love how you escort me through each Beatles song - bringing back old memories and revealing secrets that previously were hidden to me. I love the Beatles so much that listening over and over to every little sound or sound gap still amazes me as much as it did the first time I ever heard any Beatles treasure. The only reason I own a high quality set of headphones is to hear this music - to hear the breath taken between words while picking out each individual voice in the harmonies, to the beat, the bass, the guitars. It is like heaven entering your mind through your ears.
There is a guitar pedal called a Big Muff. If they were using that pedal, maybe that was why he says "to your muff". However, that pedal wasn't released until 1970 so unless they had an early prototype, this theory doesn't work. He could be saying "to your Mum", or it could just be more Lennon gibberish.
The Big Muff debuted in 1969. (That's not a joke, though it might sound like one. The pedal came out after this song was recorded.)
I believe it was 'To your Mum' as John was friends with Louise Harrison, George's mum, and sent her letter and postcards in a 'Stanley Unwin' mode, which she loved. As for the guitar, unquestionably also John That level of repetitive discord is very John....plus Ken Scott remembers it being John as John asked for the guitar to be 'brighter'.
I thought it was 'your too much'
@@3John-Bishop That would make sense.
@@Mancfish In America too, although it means a nice hairy vag. For that reason, you don't seem to hear it used very much.
Guys used to brag about being Muff Divers.
I never asked myself those questions but always felt that sheer joy and "cohesive unit" thing you mentioned here while listening to this song. But it's also in many other songs from that mid-to-late Beatles period... The first example that pops in my head is "You know my name, look up the number", but I know I heard it in many other songs and also earlier on in their "Christmas records" from 1965-1966. There was indeed a time when the Beatles were really just a group of very talented friends having FUN and, this song is one example among many, of that time. But, from what I've seen and heard so far of Peter Jackson's soon-to-be-released documentary... Perhaps that time lasted longer than we thought...
To my ears, that is 100% a Paul bass track and a John guitar line.
Thanks for a deep dive into my favorite band’s intricacies.
I was a boy of ten when The Beatles burst onto the scene, and their musical and cultural progression coincided with my coming of age.
Oh, what a wonderful time it was!
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE UDNERSTANDS THE MAGISTY OF THIS SONG
Fucking right!! 🤘It’s majesty, by the way...
Majesty
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
The guitar is Paul. Pauls vibrato was exaggerated typical of him in the period. The tone as well. More gritty than George’s at the time. Sounds like Paul’s Epiphone Casino, which he liked for feedback, through an AC30 Vox amp.
Can’t be the casino- there’s clearly a tremolo arm being used. I think that adds weight to the idea that John is playing it as he had and used a Lake Placid Blue Stratocaster around 65-67, and every photo I've seen he has the trem arm on.
Paul’s Casino has a trem. A Bigsby style Epi unit.
@@kennygardner5041 I was not aware of that....! Still sounds more like a fender style than a bigsby to me...but that is entirely subjective and unscientific.... On the other hand, I think John is saying 'to your muff' which if he is telling the guitarist (presumably not himself) that the time has come to stomp on the Big Muff Pedal and fire up the feedback as the tape is now rolling...would make sense...
Those Big Muffs weren't around until 69
@@blakewhittington4336 yes you are right - Big Muff is 69. I believe that the original Muff Fuzz was around a good bit earlier though so it might have been one of those...although to be fair its far more likely that the fuzz tone was the one built in to the Vox Conqueror amp (which I believe they used rather than the AC30 around the Sgt Pepper's period for sure) so maybe all this is is pointing to @UCrY0F6zLt9KN9S_J3BzK8uA's argument for Paul on the Bigsby equipped casino through a Vox
I have always been fascinated by this song, and I agree that it is much underrated. Your analysis is very interesting, as is the amazing creativity in this song on all levels. A true masterpiece.
Couldn't someone just ask Paul ? I mean, he is still with us thankfully
It's John. Feedback done first time ever; John. Feedback screaming on Revolution; John. The three trading solo's on Abbey Road; John is the third soloist. Which is also has the most feedback grunge? John.. BTW, it's such a cool song, you never hear it unless you have it on CD in the car or house.
I've always loved this song. Another underrated Beatles/George Harrison song I've always thought it was John Lennon at the beginning, saying "To your mother" but was never really sure. The "We are dead" part I've always misheard as "Clear your head"!
Ian MacDonald's excellent book "Revolution in the Head", has the instrument credits for this song as:
Harrison - organ; lead guitar
Lennon - lead guitar
McCartney - bass
Starr - drums
So according to his research, it's Lennon and Harrison on guitars. The intial take with Lennon on guitar and Harrison's guitar overdubbed after and the two blended together. Who knows?
I always found that, especially in the later years, these guys could mimic each other styles really well. I mean, here we are 53 years later, still speculating on who played what!
Another example, also from ""Yellow Submarine, is that wicked solo in "Hey Bulldog", for years I thought was John Lennon but in recent times, I've heard it's actually George Harrison.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, it sounds great.
What a band!
It's certainly not "We are dead". The first consonant is "M", and if you listen carefully, the phrase ends with "Deva Krishna-aa-aa". Deva Krishna was a much-admired guru, or perhaps it's addressed to the Hindu god Lord (Deva) Krishna. George in particular was heavy into Indian religion at the time. "Miya" means "temple" in Sanskrit; that doesn't really go with the Deva Krishna part. The band may have intended to say something else, but what?
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I love this song! Especially the long version. It is in my opinion one of their best and most underrated songs.
Paul had a harder attack than George had. I like that they had two different distinct sounds, which made their music that much more interesting.
"Underappreciated" is an understatement! That vocal bit by Paul sounds reversed. I think the guitar is shared by John & Paul in bits. Maybe they played with our heads and switched up while recording! Wouldn't put it past them! Great vid!
John is clearly saying...."Yoko Ono makes lousy coffee" if you play it backwards at half speed on the 2nd Tuesday of March, 2021.Wow that date is coming up, so you better start preparing. Ron Nasty is supposed to sing "I Buried Stig" on "I Am the Waitress".
In fact he sings "E Burres stigano" which is very bad Spanish for "Have you a water buffalo?". Since Nasty and Lennon are both no longer with us, the debate will continue.
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that's the song that changed my life ...
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I'm glad to have found this. Indeed, "It's All Too Much", as on the Yellow Submarine LP, is one of my favorite Beatles and George Harrison songs, and, yes, I always wondered why it did not and has not gotten the attention it deserves. I, for one, was and am impressed by it. This discussion does not discuss the guitar licks that must have been dubbed after the basic track was done. I love those quick licks, and always imagined Paul played them. They are quite precise and have a good range of notes in them. I'm thinking of the ones with notes mostly of the G chord (the key of the song), except for a 'passing' note C. Hard to describe here. But they are prominent right in the body of the song. They are bold and awesome, and psychedelic.
John gave his feedback sound to George's"That's all too much" saying "To your Much !"
i agree as in "heres our homage too how your loves for me is too much" .i.e. too your "muchness". its hard to explain in a nut shell.
Agree!
To your muff?
I agree. I’ve always thought it was “To (or Too) Your Much!!”
Hasn’t Paul ever been asked about these mysteries?
Seems like that would be the logical thing to do
That would be a bad idea as Paul frequently mis-remembers and deliberately bullshits in interviews.
Paul makes everything about himself. Unfortunately John and George are gone so Paul cannot be challenged on anything he says.
@@elementrypenguin3116 I LOVE Paul the song writer, the human being not so much... I mean, will he EVER get tired of throwing shade on John? Or Yoko for that matter. I wasn't AS IF John was DEMANDING Yoko become the bands NEW manager the way Paul was DEMANDING Linda's father be the NEW manager so Paul could PUSH the other 3 around even MORE! Paul jumping onto Ringo's drum kit during the recording sessions of Hey Bulldog was DISGUSTING. Paul USURPING the guitar leads from George and basically STIFLING George's now SUPERIOR songs those last couple of years is what lead DIRECTLY to the band's break up.
@@donaldcarpenter5328 like the drumming on BITUSSR. It’s sloppy and muffled. Not good for a Beatle record. Good song but….
They couldn’t wait for Ringo to get back? What if Ringo stayed away for a month or two? It would have been Paul on most songs on the White Album? Everything’s about him. And I’m tired of reading posts from trolls on YT every time there’s comments about Ringo’s drums on a particular song. Someone always comes up with ‘oh, it’s really Paul on drums.’ I’m sick of reading it. Every Beatle song we hear on YT there’s always a comment about Paul playing the drums. Ringo made a comment saying would leave the studio for whatever reason and he’d come back and who’s on the drums? Paul. So I don’t think he he liked Paul on his Drum kit. And who really knows why he left the band during WA sessions? Maybe that had something to do with it.
Just yesterday i was wondering and hoping we’d get another you can’t unhear this video. Love this song can’t wait to watch this
Thanks for your analysis of this song. I too have been immensely impressed by the music that the Beatles made (Bought the White album, my first Beatle album, in 1979). i recently watched the "Get Back" mini-series on a popular streaming channel and was blown away by watching their creative energies captured on film in a candid fashion.
That vocal part of Paul's at 2:47 sounds like it was recorded backwards, that's why it's undecipherable
That's because it was.
@@billreid818 that was one of the cool things about recording with tape.
Definitely was
"To young muck" muck is a Liverpudlian slang phrase like 'geezer', 'love', 'guy', 'mate' etc. 'Alright muck' means ''alright mate'. Me old mucker. That's what I heard anyways
That's what I've always heard as well... And frankly, I though it was Harrison...
Preston Horner defo John!
Its actuallu To your Muc, everybody knows John was an avid pokemon fan
@@nesfan8 how could be a fan of something that wasnt about untill after his death????
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Add this: There are some backwards vocals, here. Well, John's opening statement "It's All Too Much" is not backwards, but randomized Malapropism/Ringoism-like comment.
12:20 the always excellent steve hillage did a scintillating version of "it`s all too much" on his album "L" in september 1976...never mind the flaming lips!