@@chazbustos6790Zep? the Masters of plagiarism??? (do some research). Not even top 4!!! 1º - and far (but so, so , so far) above any other artist/band, The Beatles!!! A different league; a galaxy apart! 2º - Pink Floyd 3º - Bob Dylan 4º - Rolling Stones- Zep have to discuss the 5º position with Queen, Doors...
@GabrielSoares-lj9rv well its my subjective taste in music. I don't really care if Zeppelin plagiarized, they made some damn great music. Zeppelin Hendrix and Floyd are my 3
Wtf! 30 minutes ago since last comment?! Anyway - Pink Floyd comes close. In my canon, they took the stick and run with it. Abbey Road happened. And the Floyd took up their mantle...
I was amazed many yea 0:03 rs later to find out Paul played lead on some of my favorite Beatles tracks - Good Morning Good Morning & The Sgt. Pepper Reprise for one.
@@ChasBeauregardeit’s crazy how many famous Beatles guitar solos weren’t played by George and actually played by Paul and John. Paul’s guitar solos in particular are incredible, he’s an incredible guitar player that sometimes gets lost because he’s such a great bass player, singer, keyboard player etc
@@steelyd2 Many famous Beatles bass guitars were played by George : She said, she said; old brown shoes, hey jude, oh darling, maxwell silver hammer and two of us. (This last track on his telecaster)
@@2JorgeBeat oh yeah, definitely a bunch but I don’t think that’s as surprising as the amount of incredible guitar solos by Paul. I heard him say in an interview that he didn’t really want to boast about how much of the actual instrumentation he was contributing on those Beatles albums. If you look at the liner notes and stuff sometimes there aren’t even real official credits but of course it’s come out since then who played what on each track
Paul could bang the skins too...he played drums on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence (both on the White Album, when Ringo quit the band for awhile) and The Ballad of John and Yoko.
Norwegian Wood was never released as a single, hence no chart placement. But still a remarkable Beatles classic and one of pop culture's first forays into world music (if not the first ever).
I’m really a fan of taking the very best bands chronologically. It’s impossible to understand how a band goes from “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” to “I Am The Walrus” “A Day in The Life” or “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” without hearing the material between and the changes coming. Same with the 3 latter songs listed and even later material, say “Come Together”, “Here Comes The Sun” or “Oh Darling”. Then there’s The White Album which absolutely defies description! From beautiful ballads like “I Will” and “Julia” to hard rockers like “Helter Skelter” and “Glass Onion” to quirky ditties like “ Rocky Raccoon”, “Piggies” and “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” it’s just a double set of brilliance that is ALL OVER THE PLACE! There simply has never been a bigger force in modern music! I’ve been listening intently since 64 and still am!!
Every Beatles song sounds different, yet they are all identifiable as The Beatles. Let's open with a rocker and then switch gears completely - and it works!
If there is a better blend of voices than Lennon - McCartney - and Harrison, I've yet to hear it. I'm 60 years old and have NEVER known a world without the Beatles. BEATLES FOREVER....!!! 😃
This album and Revolver were two of the best albums ever made. They were game changers for making albums. Stunning and transformational to me as an 11 year old kid.
George Harrison said that Rubber Soul and Revolver were Part 1 and Part 2! Same mindset yet different, and yes it would have made an astounding dual LP.
Hey fellas. "George brought out his Batman utility belt". Loved that one. This song is one of the reasons why my generation loved the Beatles so much. You never knew what you were going to get, but you knew it would be great. You would buy a Beatles album without even hearing one song and you were never disappointed. Shout out to you guys for reacting to this. Peace.
This album was the turning point in the Beatles as a Band, and the type of music they wrote and recorded etc. They went from the sort of innocent good guys from Britain, to more of a reflection of the culture of the world. Drugs, Vietnam, their music matured, and reflected the times, beginning with this album, and then into Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album.
Probably true. For most creatives in whatever field from computer software through research science, painting, theatre, you'd say they hadn't yet found their thing and advise them to focus on one thing and develop that for a bit before moving on (even Picasso worked that way). But Beatles flipped from one style to another brilliantly while inventing their own genres that gave whole careers to other people
@bundywaters5988 because the Beach Boys were in the U.S. although they easily could have had the British version as well given they were on the same label and friends with the Beatles
actually this video had a cut so they talk about Nowhere Man with the non hit early sounding tune, and yes this was also a hit, even more than the first two. Top 3 in the charts I think.
You guys are fantastic!!!!! Paul was the lead vocal on Drive My Car. John on Norwegian Wood. You ought to watch the new release of Let It Be on Disney+!
The raspy voice John Lennon has, and Paul was the Dominating voice in the harmony. But John says the part, And Baby I love you! This is for Drive My Car. Norwegian Wood was sung by John Lennon!!!
Don't forget to hit the singles that came from each album recording session. They refused to put them on the albums because they thought it unfair for their fans to pay twice for the same song. And though they changed the game from selling singles to selling albums, that transition hadn't really taken hold yet (until Sgt Pepper's) so the best songs were released as singles. The singles releases also served as a teaser for the upcoming album and as such, often had a commercial "A" side backed with a more challenging/experimental "B" side. The singles from the "Revolver" session's "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" is a good example, the single from "Rubber Soul" is "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work it Out". Keep up the great work, I love your reactions !
Rubber Soul, and then followed by Revolver, were really the pair of albums that marked the Beatles’ transformation from their original Fab Four “mop top lads” persona, into the band that would revolutionize music, recording, culture, fashion, really all of it. When you consider that the next leap after Revolver was Sgt. Pepper, it’s just mind blowing to realize their total evolution as a band took place in the course of only 6 short years. ❤
My cousin used to wear a killer jacket with a Nehru collar, which was popularized in the west by the Beatles. It was corduroy with a 60s print and it fit him like a glove. He always told me it came from The Apple Store in London, but his mother who was an excellent seamstresss made it. He didn't fool me. I still have a picture of him wearing it.
No. they had been together as J&P then JPG from the 1950s then to Hamburg where they really did develop as John, Paul, George, Stuart & Pete. Back then, they were teenage rockers and ultra tough. Hamburg and post Hamburg saw them learning hundreds of US records, adding their own spin, playing hundreds of gigs and testing them in live shows where they were in strong competition with all the other acts on the bill who stole their material so they had to keep developing new stuff. McCartney says how that helped: they built up to superstardom from local fame to regional fame to national fame to European fame then to USA. They also benefited from no recording and smart phones so, if they came up with a tune one day, it had to be stuck in their heads ready for the next day or it got dumped. They only became moptops when they finally got a manager, Brian Epstein, who told them to ditch the leathers or they'd be stuck in a niche. Moptops was their third or fourth existence
George Harrison was just starting to learn the Sitar, and John Lennon asked him if he could play it on Norwegian Wood. The first time an Indian instrument was used on a pop song.
Harrison also created the bouzouki sound for "Girl". It has been and still is a matter of contorversy whether he played an actual bouzouki or used a capo on an acoustic guitar to simulate bouzouki sound.
Of Norwegian Wood John said: “I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences - girl's flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell.”
Great reaction gentleman. What can you it’s the Beatles? One of the greatest bands of all time. Keep up the phenomenal work La/Che. Can’t wait for your reaction to Black Pumas and finishing up the original soundtrack Song Remains The Same….
This album and Revolver were 2 sides of the same coin, fantastic, transitional albums, leading into psychedelia and rock explorations to come. Fantastic stuff, the very best, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎤🎹🎶
Everyone was listening to Bob Dylan in 1965 and his album Freewheelin' changed lyric writing for ever. That album, from 1963 is a benchmark that you might want to explore those songs to better understand the evolution of all other bands! 1964-1966 was a time of radical transformation. (Those harmonies brought light into a dark world!)
Paul could literally play anything. Early on, when Pete Best wasn't always showing up to play the drums, Paul would play them, besting Best at the job. He played every instrument on his very first solo album. When they lost their bass player, neither John nor George had any intention of playing bass, so Paul was elected, by default. I'm sure he never imagined himself being the band's regular bass player. He was probably just as good as George at playing lead riffs, but still decided to see what he could do for the band while playing bass & writing half the songs & being THE key harmonizer in the Beatles' vocal harmonies. I didn't care for many of the schmaltzy songs he wrote, but when he applied himself to John's & George's songs, he produced some of his greatest contributions, on both bass & vocals...
It's a great album, It's what inspired Brian Wilson (after listening to the US version of Rubber Soul) to make Pet Sounds, which in turn inspired The Beatles to make Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. A good healthy competition.
I’m old enough to have been around when the Beatles first became popular and this is my favorite album of theirs. I know it’s not considered by a lot of people to be their best record (probably top 5 for many), but it’s still the one that I like the best. Also, my two all time favorite Beatles song (“I’m Looking Through You” and “If I Needed Someone”) are both on this album. Thanks for the music and the memories, fellas!
Thank you so much for going back to do Rubber Soul ... after Abbey Road it's probably my favourite Beatles album. SWEET! By the way, the high voice on Drive My Car is McCartney. And Norwegian Wood is probably the first instance of sitar being used in Western popular music.
Rubber Soul was always my absolute favorite of theirs, I was around when it came out, I was in my late teens. Also my all time favorite album cover photo.
This is the way to go, Gentlemen. Follow the progression if the Beatles album to album. This was 1965 and was the second album they did this year! Help! was recorded earlier this year as well as making the film of the same name. Then they recorded this album, just incredible! Thanks La and Che!
Rubber Soul was the transition album for them, preparing us for Revolver. If you check out the Wiki page for the album, it explains all the innovative techniques they employed in the studio. As noted below, this song was a HUGE hit for them on the radio. And you'll notice the more adult lyrics in both songs, a far cry from I Want to Hold Your Hand. Amazing album!
The Beatles changed the world. I was nine years old , when that day in March I got on the school bus and everyone was abuzz talking about the Beatles who performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. All the previous top ten music that I listened to on my transistor radio was replaced . Music changed on the flip of a coin . I learned to play quitar . I became a singer and musician. The Beatles influenced the next decades of upcoming musicians , bands and singer songwriters .
I used to think John was building a cozy fire in the fire place. Paul later said that It was a pyromania ending with the whole place, being made from NW, was going up in flames 🔥🔥🔥
Please do Paper Back Writer and Rain the non-album single released at the time of Revolver. Great game changing songs in their own right. Great reaction guys best channel on You Tube.
And in an achievement unlikely to ever be equaled, for the week of 4 April 1964, The Beatles occupied the top five positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In all, they had 12 places on the US chart.
@@Straydogger That's history. Drake equalized that in September 2021. In November 2022, Taylor Swift took the entire top 10 and last week Swift surpassed herself and took the songs from her new album in positions 1 - 14! Of course, today with downloading and streaming it's easier, to release many songs at the same time and for the leading artists it's almost a disappointment, if at least 3 songs from the new album don't appear in the top 10.
Think of this; excluding the Beatles listen to almost any songs from before Rubber Soul anywhere and you will see the quantum leap this album was from anything in existance. Not Revolver, the white album or whatever but this album in 1965 no less broke even their mold. Think of the titles of their first five albums, been done since music began, then say the name Rubber Soul, huh? What? A concept title and years before the complete first concept album cover EVER in Sgt. Pepper which changed album covers to this day. They were revolutionary from She Loves you and Please Please me. Great reaction guys.
An amazing thing about this album is that the band had nearly no time to write the songs and record them. They were in the middle of a long tour and had a few weeks off. Get into the studio, boys, write and record some hits. So, they did what they do best. Amazing. It is also my understanding that John was getting annoyed with the way 'Norwegian Wood' was being recorded so he played his acoustic aggressively. This is what ended up on this track.
What's also interesting about Rubber Soul is that in the UK and much of the world, it had 14 tracks while in the USA, Capitol Records held back two tracks as they did with Revolver and other albums to be compiled on the USA release Yesterday and Today. Finally, in USA when it got to Sgt Pepper, Capitol records stopped the hack-a-shaq to their LP's and the albums were then all the same, track for track, worldwide.
Drive My Car was a paul song and Norwegian Wood a John song. Whoever took lead vocals was the one who wrote it. Only on a few songs did they truly collaborate
Since the breakup of the Beatles, Ringo Starr has released 20 solo studio albums. Ringo's son Zak Richard Starkey (born 13 September 1965) is an English rock drummer who has performed and recorded with the Who since 1996.
The way I heard it, John wrote the song about a one night stand, and changed sleeping with her to sleeping in the bathroom, to keep the peace at home. So he wakes up alone, and lights up a joint. Rubber Soul is when The Beatles, still a happy, united team, began innovating in style, subject, and production, breaking their cute boy band image, and further innovating and revolutionizing music. Harrison called it "the weed album", and his favorite. The joy, creativity, and optimism are as sweet as the music. The folk/acoustics on Norwegian Wood and other RS tracks isn't a callback to their earlier work, but tribute/respect for Dylan, who was huge at the time. Please react to the whole album, and please follow it with Sgt. Pepper, the album after Revolver, to hear the Beatles at their united best, NOT the White Album. The White Album was released 3 albums AFTER Revolver, and is a great album, but is a different Beatles--fragmented and fighting. Sgt. Pepper is widely regarded as one of the best/most influential albums in rock history. All my best to you and your family.
It does my heart good to see you two digging this music. And just think -- this was just over a year removed from "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You" and "Thank You, Girl." I just wish I could convey to you the feeling I had of seeing their creative output increase at such an incredible rate. In 1965 I was 13 years old, and I had seen pop music go from The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and Tennessee Ernie Ford singing "16 Tons" (just pre-Beatles) to this incredible record! Dig how the vocal harmonies, especially the "Beep Beep, Beep Beep YEAH!" are stacked in such a way that their voicing approximates a car horn! Brilliant!
As someone who watches a frankly embarrassing amount of Beatles reactions on RUclips...this channel is a good one.
Beatles, Zep, Sabbath, these guys are on point.
Same 😂
Same❤❤❤😂
No embarrassment in watching lots of Beatles reactions, I do the same for tons of bands, especially the Beatles
The instrumentation, the lyrics, the voices, the production.... All changed... started here!
The Beatles are the GOATS. No one comes close to them.
Zeppelin comes close. Wouldn't argue with some Floyd either
Listen to Norwegian Wood by Mahogany Rush their version
@@chazbustos6790Zep? the Masters of plagiarism??? (do some research).
Not even top 4!!!
1º - and far (but so, so , so far) above any other artist/band, The Beatles!!! A different league; a galaxy apart!
2º - Pink Floyd
3º - Bob Dylan
4º - Rolling Stones-
Zep have to discuss the 5º position with Queen, Doors...
@GabrielSoares-lj9rv well its my subjective taste in music. I don't really care if Zeppelin plagiarized, they made some damn great music. Zeppelin Hendrix and Floyd are my 3
Wtf! 30 minutes ago since last comment?! Anyway - Pink Floyd comes close. In my canon, they took the stick and run with it. Abbey Road happened. And the Floyd took up their mantle...
They didn’t change the game, they changed the world.
Quote of the day "Paul can play any damn thing he want to" . 😎
I was amazed many yea 0:03 rs later to find out Paul played lead on some of my favorite Beatles tracks - Good Morning Good Morning & The Sgt. Pepper Reprise for one.
@@ChasBeauregardeit’s crazy how many famous Beatles guitar solos weren’t played by George and actually played by Paul and John. Paul’s guitar solos in particular are incredible, he’s an incredible guitar player that sometimes gets lost because he’s such a great bass player, singer, keyboard player etc
@@steelyd2 Many famous Beatles bass guitars were played by George : She said, she said; old brown shoes, hey jude, oh darling, maxwell silver hammer and two of us. (This last track on his telecaster)
@@2JorgeBeat oh yeah, definitely a bunch but I don’t think that’s as surprising as the amount of incredible guitar solos by Paul. I heard him say in an interview that he didn’t really want to boast about how much of the actual instrumentation he was contributing on those Beatles albums. If you look at the liner notes and stuff sometimes there aren’t even real official credits but of course it’s come out since then who played what on each track
Paul could bang the skins too...he played drums on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence (both on the White Album, when Ringo quit the band for awhile) and The Ballad of John and Yoko.
They didnt change the game. THEY INVENTED THE GAME. Thats George on the SITAR. Paul is usually the high harmony. Norwegian Wood WAS HUGE HIT
Well said!
Norwegian Wood was never released as a single, hence no chart placement. But still a remarkable Beatles classic and one of pop culture's first forays into world music (if not the first ever).
Dude...YES, well put!
Norwegian Wood wasn't a "huge hit". Lol It was never released as a single.
@@braudabo Norwegian Wood b/w Nowhere Man was the single from the album in some countries. Demand required it. ✌
Beep beep beep beep yeah!
Beep beep*M*beep beep yeah! 😎
I love that fun addition to the chorus!
Used on every radio station.
I’m really a fan of taking the very best bands chronologically. It’s impossible to understand how a band goes from “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” to “I Am The Walrus” “A Day in The Life” or “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” without hearing the material between and the changes coming. Same with the 3 latter songs listed and even later material, say “Come Together”, “Here Comes The Sun” or “Oh Darling”. Then there’s The White Album which absolutely defies description! From beautiful ballads like “I Will” and “Julia” to hard rockers like “Helter Skelter” and “Glass Onion” to quirky ditties like “ Rocky Raccoon”, “Piggies” and “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” it’s just a double set of brilliance that is ALL OVER THE PLACE! There simply has never been a bigger force in modern music! I’ve been listening intently since 64 and still am!!
❤️🥁🔥
Every Beatles song sounds different, yet they are all identifiable as The Beatles. Let's open with a rocker and then switch gears completely - and it works!
Norwegian Wood is legendary. Great song.
agreed! ♥
YES SIR!
Totally....Supposedly about John bangin' around with Ronnie Spector.
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081 Lol. I thought it was about Brigitte Bardot. 🤷🏽♀️
Lennon doing Dylan... successfully
Behind every Beatles song there is a story, a theme or a subject. All the Beatles wrote with terrific imagination both musically and lyrically!😁😁🇬🇧
The Beatles invented World music encompassing many genres of music from the world over.
This is the album that completely changed the direction of the band. It is one of the best albums in history.
George's favorite record
Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Norwegian Wood" number 83 on its 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
Rolling Stone is a joke. They now make lists and insert records for DEI rather than music content
If there is a better blend of voices than Lennon - McCartney - and Harrison, I've yet to hear it. I'm 60 years old and have NEVER known a world without the Beatles. BEATLES FOREVER....!!! 😃
One of my earliest memories of anything was sitting with my mom watching them on the Ed Sullivan Show.
The Beatles changed music history. Although they weren’t together for a very long time they had more hits than any band ❤
Norwegian Wood was a hit and is a classic
The Beatles took our hands and moved us along gently.
The GOATS of music
This album and Revolver were two of the best albums ever made. They were game changers for making albums. Stunning and transformational to me as an 11 year old kid.
Got to give Abby Road a shout.
@@elih9700 Sargent Pepper wasn't too tacky either.
Revolver and Rubber Soul are my top 2 Beatles album, in that order.
George Harrison said that Rubber Soul and Revolver were Part 1 and Part 2! Same mindset yet different, and yes it would have made an astounding dual LP.
Beatles WERE the game :)
Hey fellas. "George brought out his Batman utility belt". Loved that one. This song is one of the reasons why my generation loved the Beatles so much. You never knew what you were going to get, but you knew it would be great. You would buy a Beatles album without even hearing one song and you were never disappointed. Shout out to you guys for reacting to this. Peace.
This album was the turning point in the Beatles as a Band, and the type of music they wrote and recorded etc. They went from the sort of innocent good guys from Britain, to more of a reflection of the culture of the world. Drugs, Vietnam, their music matured, and reflected the times, beginning with this album, and then into Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album.
Beginning with this album, and then into ... Revolver.
...and ultimately, Abbey Road!
The most eclectic and Progressive band in the history of music❤
Probably true. For most creatives in whatever field from computer software through research science, painting, theatre, you'd say they hadn't yet found their thing and advise them to focus on one thing and develop that for a bit before moving on (even Picasso worked that way). But Beatles flipped from one style to another brilliantly while inventing their own genres that gave whole careers to other people
The Beatles... Music Masters..
The best band ever! 🎶🎶🎶👍
This album inspired The Beach Boys Brian Wilson to write Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds inspired the Beatles to write Sgt. Peppers.
The US version.
Bullshit
@bundywaters5988 because the Beach Boys were in the U.S. although they easily could have had the British version as well given they were on the same label and friends with the Beatles
Fantastic album! Norwegian Wood in my opinion is a classic piece of music! Thanks for the great start to a Saturday. Excellent reaction fellas 👌 😊❤
This and Revolver are their best work IMO. Great reaction as always.
The beatles always set the pace . They blew you away with each new record .
Drive My Car HAS to be one of the catchiest songs ever written.
It’s like busy traffic in a song lol.
True
Yellow Submarine too! The Odi day something like that lol
The piano part of drive my car was used in hundreds of house music tracks in the 90ties
No doubt leave it to them
So glad you are doing this! Lifelong Beatles fan here. Don't give George the short shrift, his contributions were huge.
Rubber Soul is just classic
For whatever reason, Norwegian Wood, is the quintessential Beatles song....just really sounds like the Beatles!
Not just another one of their gorgeous love songs...but listening to it now with La & Che... did I detect a SITAR ❓
Actually, sounds like Beatles doing Dylan... which is what it is. And done successfully
Norwegian wood brought the Indian sitar to the masses
Norwegian Wood is a huge Beatles song. Probably the biggest song from Rubber Soul in terms of popularity, and how widely known it is.
"Michelle" was a huge hit too.
In My Life is a fan favourite too
actually this video had a cut so they talk about Nowhere Man with the non hit early sounding tune, and yes this was also a hit, even more than the first two. Top 3 in the charts I think.
In My Life is the biggest song of the album, just look at the streaming numbers.
okay sorry they talked about You Won‘t See Me, they are right it wasn’t a hit
You guys are fantastic!!!!! Paul was the lead vocal on Drive My Car. John on Norwegian Wood. You ought to watch the new release of Let It Be on Disney+!
the harmonies sound like horns. genius.
They do?
The raspy voice John Lennon has, and Paul was the Dominating voice in the harmony. But John says the part, And Baby I love you! This is for Drive My Car. Norwegian Wood was sung by John Lennon!!!
Drive My Car was one of the coolest grooviest songs of the mid-60s and that's saying something
Paul is an incredible good multi instrumentalist, playing not only bass and guitar but drums, piano und several other instruments.
Don't forget to hit the singles that came from each album recording session. They refused to put them on the albums because they thought it unfair for their fans to pay twice for the same song. And though they changed the game from selling singles to selling albums, that transition hadn't really taken hold yet (until Sgt Pepper's) so the best songs were released as singles. The singles releases also served as a teaser for the upcoming album and as such, often had a commercial "A" side backed with a more challenging/experimental "B" side. The singles from the "Revolver" session's "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" is a good example, the single from "Rubber Soul" is "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work it Out". Keep up the great work, I love your reactions !
Rubber Soul, and then followed by Revolver, were really the pair of albums that marked the Beatles’ transformation from their original Fab Four “mop top lads” persona, into the band that would revolutionize music, recording, culture, fashion, really all of it. When you consider that the next leap after Revolver was Sgt. Pepper, it’s just mind blowing to realize their total evolution as a band took place in the course of only 6 short years. ❤
Yeah, from I Want to Hold Your Hand to I Want You (She's So Heavy) is 6 short years but eons in music evolution.
@@vicprovost2561The whole West world change, at least for the young generation.
My cousin used to wear a killer jacket with a Nehru collar, which was popularized in the west by the Beatles. It was corduroy with a 60s print and it fit him like a glove. He always told me it came from The Apple Store in London, but his mother who was an excellent seamstresss made it. He didn't fool me. I still have a picture of him wearing it.
No. they had been together as J&P then JPG from the 1950s then to Hamburg where they really did develop as John, Paul, George, Stuart & Pete. Back then, they were teenage rockers and ultra tough. Hamburg and post Hamburg saw them learning hundreds of US records, adding their own spin, playing hundreds of gigs and testing them in live shows where they were in strong competition with all the other acts on the bill who stole their material so they had to keep developing new stuff. McCartney says how that helped: they built up to superstardom from local fame to regional fame to national fame to European fame then to USA. They also benefited from no recording and smart phones so, if they came up with a tune one day, it had to be stuck in their heads ready for the next day or it got dumped. They only became moptops when they finally got a manager, Brian Epstein, who told them to ditch the leathers or they'd be stuck in a niche. Moptops was their third or fourth existence
Rubber Soul was the first album I ever bought, in 5th grade! Norwegian Wood was always one of my favorites.
Paul is a terrific piano player. Trained
Paul is not a trained musician. He learned everything on his own. He was influenced by his dad who was a jazz player but had no formal training.
@@Straydogger He took lessons, but didn't like them, and didn't learn to read music well. After that, he basically worked at it on his own.
Always perfection❤🌟🙂
George Harrison was just starting to learn the Sitar, and John Lennon asked him if he could play it on Norwegian Wood. The first time an Indian instrument was used on a pop song.
Harrison also created the bouzouki sound for "Girl". It has been and still is a matter of contorversy whether he played an actual bouzouki or used a capo on an acoustic guitar to simulate bouzouki sound.
@onsesejoo2605 there's no controversy, it's a guitar with a capo.
I have a bouzouki, Girl doesn't even sound like a bouzouki
Paul does the high harmonies 🤠🎶🎼🎶
Excellent choice. Rubber Soul is a great album!
you guys are so freakin AWESOME!!
Of Norwegian Wood John said: “I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences - girl's flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell.”
Great reaction gentleman. What can you it’s the Beatles? One of the greatest bands of all time. Keep up the phenomenal work La/Che. Can’t wait for your reaction to Black Pumas and finishing up the original soundtrack Song Remains The Same….
why does everyone forget about George Harrison? his vocals are great and so are his harmonies.
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This album and Revolver were 2 sides of the same coin, fantastic, transitional albums, leading into psychedelia and rock explorations to come. Fantastic stuff, the very best, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎤🎹🎶
Two thumbs up for Revolver and Abby Road
I got no car but I got a driver and that’s a start.!!
One of my top 3 Beatles albums! dbl ♥ Norwegian Wood is my fave song off Rubber Soul!
Everyone was listening to Bob Dylan in 1965 and his album Freewheelin' changed lyric writing for ever. That album, from 1963 is a benchmark that you might want to explore those songs to better understand the evolution of all other bands! 1964-1966 was a time of radical transformation. (Those harmonies brought light into a dark world!)
This is now my favourite Beatles reaction channel, you clearly have a wide and knowledgeable music taste and it shows, keep up the reactions
Paul McCartney is a multi-instrumentalist.
You guys are so lucky that you are getting to hear these songs for the first time, Imagine me being like 15 and hearing it, they changed my life!
Good times.
Oh y’all are makin’ me SMILE ear to ear while we listen to great music together. Thank you so much❤
Paul could literally play anything. Early on, when Pete Best wasn't always showing up to play the drums, Paul would play them, besting Best at the job. He played every instrument on his very first solo album. When they lost their bass player, neither John nor George had any intention of playing bass, so Paul was elected, by default. I'm sure he never imagined himself being the band's regular bass player. He was probably just as good as George at playing lead riffs, but still decided to see what he could do for the band while playing bass & writing half the songs & being THE key harmonizer in the Beatles' vocal harmonies. I didn't care for many of the schmaltzy songs he wrote, but when he applied himself to John's & George's songs, he produced some of his greatest contributions, on both bass & vocals...
Sometimes they'd get Ringo, tho, and ALL THREE OF THE FRONTMEN were BLOWN RIGHT OFF THE STAGE.
It's a great album, It's what inspired Brian Wilson (after listening to the US version of Rubber Soul) to make Pet Sounds, which in turn inspired The Beatles to make Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. A good healthy competition.
Brian Wilson is a genius
I’m old enough to have been around when the Beatles first became popular and this is my favorite album of theirs.
I know it’s not considered by a lot of people to be their best record (probably top 5 for many), but it’s still the one that I like the best.
Also, my two all time favorite Beatles song (“I’m Looking Through You” and “If I Needed Someone”) are both on this album.
Thanks for the music and the memories, fellas!
ALL their songs were a hit !!!
No of us had heard anything like it
EVERY song was a hit
The song “because” shows off their vocal harmonies. Their voices were made for each other
Great timing guys . Just what I needed on a lazy Saturday 👍
Favorite Beatles album
Thank you so much for going back to do Rubber Soul ... after Abbey Road it's probably my favourite Beatles album. SWEET!
By the way, the high voice on Drive My Car is McCartney. And Norwegian Wood is probably the first instance of sitar being used in Western popular music.
Rubber Soul was always my absolute favorite of theirs, I was around when it came out, I was in my late teens. Also my all time favorite album cover photo.
Norwegian Wood always makes me think of my Norwegian roots 😊
😂😂😂 “George brought out his Batman utility belt”
This is the way to go, Gentlemen. Follow the progression if the Beatles album to album. This was 1965 and was the second album they did this year! Help! was recorded earlier this year as well as making the film of the same name. Then they recorded this album, just incredible! Thanks La and Che!
Goood reaction. Paul is the high voice.
Rubber Soul was the transition album for them, preparing us for Revolver. If you check out the Wiki page for the album, it explains all the innovative techniques they employed in the studio. As noted below, this song was a HUGE hit for them on the radio. And you'll notice the more adult lyrics in both songs, a far cry from I Want to Hold Your Hand. Amazing album!
The Beatles changed the world. I was nine years old , when that day in March I got on the school bus and everyone was abuzz talking about the Beatles who performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. All the previous top ten music that I listened to on my transistor radio was replaced . Music changed on the flip of a coin . I learned to play quitar . I became a singer and musician. The Beatles influenced the next decades of upcoming musicians , bands and singer songwriters .
Speaking of Paul, he played drums on the Steve Miller song "My dark hour". 😊
OMG - NORWEGIAN WOOD is one of my FAVS....and, I LOVE the lyrics to BOTH THESE SONGS!! HUGS, YA'LL!!
They changed our ears and brains
"Rubber Soul" The Beatles had their own genre back in the day.
You’re not kidding. Listen to Paul’s first solo album. He played all the instruments and produced it himself at home. Incredible
Rubber Soul and Revolver and the best Beatles albums IMO.
Both albums are awesome for sure ! But how about Abbey Road my friend?
@@patrickdutton6056 Not as strong as these IMO.
George said these rwo could have made a great double album.
They have so many. I truly don’t believe they have a bad one.
Wow what’s the third review?! Did I miss something. They’re the greatest of all time! They know how to connect with our souls!
I'm from that time. It was quite a journey.
You can hear the evolution of the Beatles in this album. This is where it really began.
When La’s head starts going back and forth you can tell he’s locked in to the groove
Wife here. Awesome album . Enjoy. In My Life got to hit that best of all time !
I used to think John was building a cozy fire in the fire place. Paul later said that It was a pyromania ending with the whole place, being made from NW, was going up in flames 🔥🔥🔥
Norwegian wood - fancy way to say wood paneling
Please do Paper Back Writer and Rain the non-album single released at the time of Revolver. Great game changing songs in their own right. Great reaction guys best channel on You Tube.
2 of the absolute greatest songs ever. Both in my top 10 all time for over a decade
The Beatles had 20 No 1 hits and 34 Billboard top 10 hits. They had a total of 68 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
They were the real deal.
And in an achievement unlikely to ever be equaled, for the week of 4 April 1964, The Beatles occupied the top five positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In all, they had 12 places on the US chart.
They also held the top five spots on the billboard top 40 at one time
@@Straydogger That's history. Drake equalized that in September 2021. In November 2022, Taylor Swift took the entire top 10 and last week Swift surpassed herself and took the songs from her new album in positions 1 - 14!
Of course, today with downloading and streaming it's easier, to release many songs at the same time and for the leading artists it's almost a disappointment, if at least 3 songs from the new album don't appear in the top 10.
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They'd have had more #1s but they were sometimes kept off the top spot by... The Beatles
3:15 That is so Gangsta!
Think of this; excluding the Beatles listen to almost any songs from before Rubber Soul anywhere and you will see the quantum leap this album was from anything in existance. Not Revolver, the white album or whatever but this album in 1965 no less broke even their mold. Think of the titles of their first five albums, been done since music began, then say the name Rubber Soul, huh? What? A concept title and years before the complete first concept album cover EVER in Sgt. Pepper which changed album covers to this day. They were revolutionary from She Loves you and Please Please me. Great reaction guys.
Hearing Norwegian Wood on the radio in 1965 when I was 12 years old - changed everything -
An amazing thing about this album is that the band had nearly no time to write the songs and record them. They were in the middle of a long tour and had a few weeks off. Get into the studio, boys, write and record some hits. So, they did what they do best. Amazing.
It is also my understanding that John was getting annoyed with the way 'Norwegian Wood' was being recorded so he played his acoustic aggressively. This is what ended up on this track.
I just LOVE 'Drive my Car'!
This album is a HARMONY MASTERPIECE!
What's also interesting about Rubber Soul is that in the UK and much of the world, it had 14 tracks while in the USA, Capitol Records held back two tracks as they did with Revolver and other albums to be compiled on the USA release Yesterday and Today. Finally, in USA when it got to Sgt Pepper, Capitol records stopped the hack-a-shaq to their LP's and the albums were then all the same, track for track, worldwide.
Drive My Car was a paul song and Norwegian Wood a John song. Whoever took lead vocals was the one who wrote it. Only on a few songs did they truly collaborate
Since the breakup of the Beatles, Ringo Starr has released 20 solo studio albums.
Ringo's son Zak Richard Starkey (born 13 September 1965) is an English rock drummer who has performed and recorded with the Who since 1996.
Cool that you mention George Martin, Known as the fifth Beatle and a musical genius, He taught those guys well they all had solo
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The way I heard it, John wrote the song about a one night stand, and changed sleeping with her to sleeping in the bathroom, to keep the peace at home. So he wakes up alone, and lights up a joint. Rubber Soul is when The Beatles, still a happy, united team, began innovating in style, subject, and production, breaking their cute boy band image, and further innovating and revolutionizing music. Harrison called it "the weed album", and his favorite. The joy, creativity, and optimism are as sweet as the music. The folk/acoustics on Norwegian Wood and other RS tracks isn't a callback to their earlier work, but tribute/respect for Dylan, who was huge at the time.
Please react to the whole album, and please follow it with Sgt. Pepper, the album after Revolver, to hear the Beatles at their united best, NOT the White Album. The White Album was released 3 albums AFTER Revolver, and is a great album, but is a different Beatles--fragmented and fighting. Sgt. Pepper is widely regarded as one of the best/most influential albums in rock history.
All my best to you and your family.
It does my heart good to see you two digging this music. And just think -- this was just over a year removed from "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You" and "Thank You, Girl." I just wish I could convey to you the feeling I had of seeing their creative output increase at such an incredible rate. In 1965 I was 13 years old, and I had seen pop music go from The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and Tennessee Ernie Ford singing "16 Tons" (just pre-Beatles) to this incredible record! Dig how the vocal harmonies, especially the "Beep Beep, Beep Beep YEAH!" are stacked in such a way that their voicing approximates a car horn! Brilliant!