She's so..... HEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Love you all!!
Paul and John were the perfect ying and yang. When John would get too experimental and abstract, Paul would be there with the pop sensibility. When Paul would get melodious and dainty, John would get gritty and dark. When John would write something about love and beauty, Paul would scream about Helter Skelter. Such a great duo.
Billy on that organ added a lot to this song, of course it was already great but he made it extra special! It's articulating John and his vocals beautifully, magnifying it in a way. So much soul and raw emotion! Billy's contribution to this song can't be overstated imo
Always loved the white noise at the end. Lennon was right on this one. It makes the song much more interesting. It also stops at exactly the right time which I read was at John's choosing. He had a knack.
I read that they just got an engineer to cut the tape at a random point at the end? I don’t even think Lennon was there at that point. Either way, it’s a great way to end it!
Gage Grossman yeah, I find it better than the Phil Spector version, too. It’s just.. nicer since it’s more acoustic. Same with strawberry fields, it’s an incredible song, but there’s a certain novelty in the acoustic/less edited versions.
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) was also the last Beatles song where all four Beatles were together in the recording studio. There were additional Beatles songs worked on and recorded, but it would be the last time all four Beatles were working together as a group.
Saved the best2gether4last being just that but does Ringo n Paul reflect on that fact is entirely their knowing lovingly so remain? Only they no that n all of us texting this n that is entertainment their feelings r among themselves deep down inside but they have so many it's hard2say unless we're them ok!
The same album had "Come Together," which is very complex lyrically. The critics saying John had lost his lyrical touch clearly didn't get it. It's the repetition that makes the song work.
When I heard this song for the first time, it was the coolest thing that I ever heard with that bluesy, jazzy and very sexy melodic lines that had a touch of romanticism. John was in his element employing a radical and experimental approach to his songwriting with change in the timing that sandwiched parts of his songs with something new unheard before in popular music. His employment of the Epiphone guitar with those P-90 pickups with sounds that just melt like butter as he performed his guitar solo. It was erotica in its execution. John is a pure master of musical and lyrical expression that defies the standards in popular music. He was the one that steered the Beatles to greatness. He may have been the "Nowhere Man" who needed "Help", but he sure convinced nearly everyone that "All You Need is Love".
What I always loved about I Want You is that it goes on and one, noise piled onto noise, seemingly endlessly, and then there's the abrupt cut. And the the next song - Here Comes The Sun - washes all that tension away with just the first few notes. It's a brand new day!
For the first time in forever, I listened to this song earlier today. I got a sudden urge and listened to it on repeat. And now this. I wonder if the universe is trying to tell me something. I think the ending is the invention of doom metal. The whole mood of it all screams doom. The repeating haunting melody, the wall of darkly distorted guitar, the increasingly loud white noise etc. It’s incredible that such a thing came out of 1969. Such an experimental twist of the blues genre.
Yes, Lord Ithkos, the universe is, indeed, trying to tell you something! It is saying, " Dude, either use fewer drugs or think less often. These two are incompatible." Maybe you should listen...
Lord Ithkos, thanks for your response to my previous message! I wanted to reply to it, but I inadvertantly deleted it instead. Would you please be so kind as to repost your last reply so that I can reply? (This time I'll be more careful and will try not to delete it!) Thanks so much!
Fun fact: Abbey road was my first beatles album I listened to front to back. Needless to say I was wondering what this prog rock, blues, psychedelic, hard rock masterpiece was doing on a record from a band I was told did corny love songs. Seriously though, this song is unimaginably good its debatable if it's even in the Beatles top 10. That's how good they were.
Dark Side of the Moon is another album that MUST be listened to end to end. I too could not just listen to one song on this album, but I'm sure if I did, it was this one!
This song has so much Blues riffs, elements of proto-punk and metal as well as progressive rock, in 1969 no less, Billy Preston's organ Paul's bass and of course the final 3 minutes One of the most original songs from the boys Holy, this is probably my favourite of your facts videos while the funny facts to balance out, the information here was outstanding I am sorry I am totally wiped so I had to limit myself when it came to the fancy language and choose the most boring words, but hey, simplicity in language is pretty appropriate for the video Amazing work
4:18 I love that clip, specially when Paul yells “it’s his own fault for getting a house in such a lousy district”. And the take itself is pretty much gold, and the scream , oh my god!!! it’s so good
@@kingberzerk Revolution #9 was likened to like being on an actual acid trip common to the era of that time. Acid heads most likely got it but those who were wise not taking chances taking that drug probably were confused by this, naturally saying.
Revolution #9 was released, ironically, when I was nine years old. Naturally, it confused the hell out of me, because it is clearly not a song for a nine year-old mind. Years later, while I was in my "experimental phase" (yes, kiddies, I'm referring to drugs here) I listened to Revolution #9 a LOT. I remember trying to isolate and decipher each and every little bit of the song, attempting to truly understand "the deeper meaning" of it all. Strangely, the one little bit that seemed to me to be the most profound is the part that says, "Every one of us knew that as time went on we'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower." Well, now, I am, indeed, a little bit older, and I am, in fact, a little bit slower, as well. (Okay... more than a "little bit" of both!) But to this day, it seems to me that all those years ago, The Beatles were trying to warn me that this was gonna happen! Damn! I should have paid their warning more heed! I could have prevented both of these results simply by dying sooner! Oops! My bad! Sorry, lads! Sorry, John-o! I promise I'll never do it again! Honest!
@@hbarwickjr Ten years later I had these LSD experiences, But confusion was not a bad thing per se for a curious 11-year old that I was. And looking back, I prefer this #9 statement any time over Maxwell's Silver Hammer or Obladi Oblada. And I Want You struck Immediately, even though I was a young boy.
Excellent stuff. I can't believe how much new info I learn from this channel. I always wondered about the organ. It sounded more sophisticated and jazzy and vampy than any of the Beatles could be expected to do. But I didn't know until today that it was Barz .. Billy all along.
George Martin once said his least favorite Beatles’ recording was ‘She’s So Heavy’. He said ‘the boys’ were so angry with each other that it comes through in the recording and was difficult for him to listen to. He also said that he felt The Beatles had reached a dead-end at this point. As stated, the final work on this song was the last time they were together in the studio.
I love this song... it's so epic. I really enjoyed the way George Martin combined it with Benefit of Mr Kite on "Love" too. Only problem is how short it is.
THIS video does 'I Want You (She's so Heavy) proud! Good Job! I remember the first time I listened to 'Abbey Road' all the way through (I was in my early 20's then in the late 1980's), and this song suddenly ended. I went over to see if something was wrong with my turn-table!! This is why Beatles albums, and others that were released as L.P.'s need to be listened to on the ANALOG RECORD FORMAT!! L.P.'s had 'SIDES', and that MATTERS!!
The second half instrumental conclusion is the most daunting dreary dream state of darkness that is perfection. I wish it was 20 minutes long. My favorite grooving bass playing by Paul from any song and Lennons slightly crackling voice screams his love is uncontainable.
You could have included that this song was the first to: 1.) use a massive amount of guitar tracking (8 guitars, if I remember correctly, played by John and George) to create a HUGE sound. 2.) put to record the first example of heavy Doom Metal. Black Sabbath’s first album came out after Abbey Road.
Good video, thank you. She's So Heavy is one of my best loved songs by John. Sometimes I've thought it would of been cool to of blended up slowly in the white noise the sound of the ocean from the beach and when the white noise abruptly stops you hear the sound of the waves crashing as they do. However it's all Beatles, the greatest of all bands I had the privilege of growing up with. :)
One music fact of interest: the song is largely in A, B form. "I want you.." is largely in one style and chord progression, while upon hearing the word "Heavy", we enter a new section, always the same, which is based on a ground bass, or passacaglia. This is a classical form that employs a repeated melodic pattern, usually in the bass (here it is "heavily" reinforced with guitars an octave above the bass). This section has some improvising above it as each melodic pattern repeats over and over, and is truly an odd and amazing feature from the Baroque era, here guiding us up and out for the last 3 minutes! I used to teach a college music theory course, and always played the last 3 minutes to demonstrate ground bass.
Why are all my favorite Beatles songs solely by John during the last two years of their existence: "Dig a Pony", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Because", "Sun King", "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)", "Sexy Sadie", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "I'm So Tired", "Hey Bulldog", "Across the Universe", "Glass Onion", etc.
Yeah!, Paul had all the "hits" but John's songs were every bit as good. I heard John was pissed at all the time spent on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", a silly little tune.
@@paulspears715 Perhaps John was pissed off about that. And why not? He was perpetually pissed off about something or someone! I always wondered, "Dude, seriously, wtf have you got to be so pissed off about? You're rich as hell, more famous than Jesus Christ (according to John), and you never worked a day in your life!" What a smug, egocentric ass munch! Sure, he either wrote or co-wrote some truly amazing music and lyrics, and there's no denying that. But to lionize the man or to attempt to elevate him to sainthood is really, REALLY stretching it! And so what if Lennon got his pompous little panties in a wad because McCartney spent a little extra time getting one of his songs the way he wanted it? It took The Beatles eight freakin' *months* to finish "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" because *John* kept changing his mind about this or that part, how the song should end, etc.!!! So, when I read or hear everybody just gushing about Lennon's "genius of simplicity," I feel compelled to ask, "What is 'simple' about taking *8 months* to write *one* song?" Doesn't seem very "simple" to me!
@James Brice yes John rules the White Album but “Blackbird” and “Helter Skelter” belong there too. And don’t forget George with arguably the best song on the album (again) with “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”. “Long long long” another great one by George there. That said, “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, “Dear Prudence”, “Julia”, “Sexy Sadie”, “Yer Blues” and “Revolution” are all masterpieces by John from that album. Even the transition from “Revolution 9” to “Good Night” is a brilliant way to close the White album
@James Brice wow that’s a GREAT song by George! Had never heard it before! Why did they not record “Sour Milk Sea”??? Or did George eventually release it as a solo artist??
Well done, man. Really appreciate the professional attitude of this lecture. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Besides: "Art is an expression of oneself and is subject of the will of the artist. You experience art. You either enjoy it or you don't. But to dismiss it because it doesn't live up to your arbitrarily defined quota of words is asinine, considered a song is composed holistically" was a very interesting line for someone like me, because English is not my native language.
Oh love it. They weren’t little boys anymore. I love the fact that we watched them grow from songs like Love Me Do to I Want You (She’s so Heavy) and Savoy Truffle.
It may lyrically be very simple, but musically, it's anything but. I'd argue that it's one of the band's most complex pieces, since it's probably the only time they truly embraced both progressive and jazz influences. In fact, the whole thing sounds like "psycho jazz" to me, and it's always been one of John's most interesting songs to me. The first time I heard it, I thought there was something wrong with my record player. But then I realized the white noise was deliberate, and since then, it's become the highlight of the Abbey Road album for me, because I also love white noise. It was a pretty brave song to make for the biggest band in the world. Today, I highly doubt that any big band would be allowed to make their music sound damaged.
So as a super fan I understand there is no more Beatles coming so I have to ration them for the rest of my existence so far I’ve listened to just revolver, Sgt pepper, magical mystery tour and white album in full. I plan to listen to a Beatles album every year on my birthday for the next 7 years.... can’t watch this video but will leave a like 😃☘️
Rhett, I only share this with respect: if, God forbid, you were hit by a bus next month or next year, would you want your last thought to be "I didn't get to hear all the Beatles Albums!"? Many of the more cryptic songs actually had mundane origins. I could give some back round to several songs of theirs.
Kind of reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the late, great Groucho Marx: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
I always thought that after John's Big Scream, a couple of the guys in the studio or maybe a couple The Beatles themselves we're cheering on an approval.
One of Lennon's best screams. A lot more lyrics in the song would of messed it up. John's choice of just these few lyrics over and over with one of his best ever guitar riffs made it what it is, fantastic!
There's a pause in the rhythm track and it's paul counting the stop "One, two". This video is the first I've ever heard of a controversy over this bit.
The song is actually 14 words since “so” appears in 2 sentences. I love this song so much, and it turned me on to blues rock and is one of my favorite Beatles songs. It’s so simple but so complex.
Joshua, good eye there, mate! I also noticed the repetition of "so" and wondered why it would be counted as two words. But you're right, it's 14 and not 15 words! But, as far as the song being "complex," well, I can only say that if a group as directionally diverse and innovative as The Beatles invests eight months to record, mix, re-mix, and re-re-mix a song, as they did with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" then yeah, that song is gonna be complex! Still a great song from the greatest band of all time!
It' so funny that, after six years of musical world dominance, that critics, engineers, and sometimes fellow musicians ('Revolution #9' notwithstanding), still thought that they could build a better John Lennon, or get into his head as to what he was after. When you have a genius artist in the room just hand him his brushes, move when he tells you, and wait until the canvas is covered in his choice of colors and patterns. In an album that is as completely musically masterful as Abbey Road is, 'I Want You (She's So Heavy') remain my favorite track to this day. It is both other worldly and right down here on the basic level of human desire and emotion. If you don't feel this way about the love in your own life, you probably aren't with the right person...
Hold the phone Plato, John is the perennial trickster; She's so heavy is his way of saying "Can't have sex with my woman, because she is so pregnant!" Sorry to burst a thought bubble you and many here are having.
It's hilarious how Paul was upset about the white noise at the end of the track considering that he was the Beatle most interested and actively involved in the avant-garde scene in London during the mid-to-late sixties lol. He was devouring the ideas of John Cage and Stockhausen among countless others in that scene and attending numerous art galleries and parties filled with that crowd, all the while making bizarre tape loops/collages at home and goofy homemade faux radio commercials for fun...but a little white noise on a Beatles track, even after recording the experimental orchestra section for A Day In The Life two years earlier, made him feel uneasy. 😆 Gotta love Paul.
And for this song, Paul was wrong. The white-noise bit is brilliant and for me made "I want you" a go to song during my adolescence. I felt it was extremely romantic because the lover is willing to brave all levels of weather and wind and noise. It is ear-candy that is necessary here in my opinion.
When playing this masterpiece I find the one note that sets the tone is the F atop the Dm chord that remains played throughout the whole riff as the vocals sing "She's so heavy"in that eerie Beatle harmony.,over and over.It doesn't seem to belong at first and many musicians fail to include it as it seems unnaturally placed,giving a sense of dis-ease or some kind of impending doom to come.When the white noise(Theoretically all sounds combined)begins it begins to make the listeners mind imagine as it sweeps in intensity creating a movie like collage in the mind and thus a song that begins so simple becomes overwhelming in complexity.
This was one of the greatest Beatles songs ever. The fact that Paul did not like it is probably why I liked so little of his solo stuff. Paul needed John more than John needed Paul.
Fun fact, it’s only 14 words! The word “so” was double counted, making this even more impressive. I HATE songs that just repeat the same thing over and over again, but this one is just so… well, heavy, that it works so well!
@@markukeley2924 You are far to kind, sir, but thank you very much, indeed! However, you may rest assured that I have no intention of nudging you from your rightful and quite deserved place at the podium! I consider it a genuine honor as well as an absolute delight to have had the opportunity to engage in genteel discourse with such a cerebrally gifted gentleman as yourself! Please, by all means, feel at complete liberty to proceed at your leisure, my gracious sir! All the very best to you and yours!
I've been really enjoying your videos since I discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Everything you do comes from a place of love and appreciation, and it really shows.
Oh Thankyou for this, this is amazing.. I really love this song, just yesterday I was rambling to my brother the absolute masterpiece that this song is.. so seeing this made me really happy😄👏👏..
Because was the masterpiece. It’s of course overlooked. But it’s THE most perfect ever “pop” song. “Because” it’s the most classical song BACKWARDS. A rock-n-roll band playing Moonlight Sonata backwards is absolutely GENIUS. There’s no words to describe it. Just listen. And TRY to appreciate what is going on. 3 voices. Overdubbed 3 times. No one can ever come close to replicating it. It was sent from above.
Was 6 when this came out and listening to the record on my older brother's Panasonic stereo console with record player, radio and cassette player. Not as much rock and roll is performed in a minor key (more serious and tragic sounding) like classical music is, so nice to hear it as a "change" from the usual.
Andres C: I'm sorry, but I fail to see how telling a sound engineer - who was being paid by The Beatles to work on the production of the music they'd written and were in the process of recording - how and where to end a song he'd written in any way constitutes John as being a legend! Of course, Lennon was a legend! All four of The Beatles were legends, and their entire body of work was legendary, due to the incredible influence that their music had on the world! That much is a given, and is undeniable and irrefutable! But how does a *boss* giving an *employee* instructions on how to do his damned *job* make the boss a "legend"??? 🤔 Dude! My boss, your boss, and everybody else's boss tells us what to do all the fecking time... and I seriously doubt that any of us have ever thought of our boss as a "legend"!!! A legendary ass, perhaps. A legendary pain in the ass, for sure! But can you honestly imagine this scenario? BOSS: "Do this." EMPLOYEE: "What a legend!" I rest my case, Your Honor.
Craig Cerny jaja the difference is in INSTRUCTIONS! The instructions John gave are legendary. Not because he was the boss, but because of his revolutionary idea of “Cut the Tape”. Nobody had or has ever ended a song like that!!!! Legendary production by John there
@@hw343434 Ah... now *that* makes more sense! And honestly, I'd have to agree with you, at least, for the most part. I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to call his instructions "legendary," but they were certainly innovative! The truth is that just about everything The Beatles did was new, different, and ahead of its time... expanding horizons, pushing the envelope, cutting edge... in a word: innovative! The reason I took issue with your initial comment was that - given the context in which it was written - it appears that you were saying that *John himself* (and not his *instructions* to Geoff) was the "legend." I mean, your post literally said, "What a legend John"... which I believe most people reading your post would reasonably infer to mean that you were saying that *John* was a legend in your opinion simply because he gave Geoff instructions to cut the tape. After all, the only thing a reader of your comments had to go on was what you *wrote* ... and the reader is then tasked to discern what you *meant* by the few words you wrote. Just a bit confusing, ya know? Anyway, thank you so much for clarifying what you intended to say... that helps a *LOT* !!! 👍 And thank you even more for realizing that I was *not* in any way attacking *you* personally or your *right* to express your opinion! I was merely attempting to prompt you just a bit to *explain* your views, which you subsequently did. And for that, I sincerely thank you! 👍 All the best to you, sir! 😁
Wow. Artistic rendering of a deep think piece -- or a deep think piece of an artistic rendering. With, a perfect finale -- an abrupt mirror of the song itself. Well done.
She's so.....
HEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Love you all!!
Hey. What about Billy Preston?
I love this song and honestly I love your channel, thank you for still uploading
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Can you keep it down a little please? :)
What an elite comment
Paul and John were the perfect ying and yang. When John would get too experimental and abstract, Paul would be there with the pop sensibility. When Paul would get melodious and dainty, John would get gritty and dark. When John would write something about love and beauty, Paul would scream about Helter Skelter. Such a great duo.
It's "yin" and yang
@@donparsons3197 I like ying and yang better.
I guess the experimental side was from Macca
@@PedroAmA the band along with George Martin was a perfect laboratory for experimentation
"Yin" Lennon and "Yang" McCartney.
From ‘She Loves You’ to ‘I Want You’ in less than a decade...what a career. Great episode and congrats on 100k subs!
@Baylor Nelson (Student) yes please! Do that!
6 years..
6 years, 1 month, and 3 days to be exact.
Love your channel btw ❤️
Or how about I Want To Hold Your Hand to Why Don’t We Do It In The Road in even less time?
This song is so haunting but amazing
Wow this is what I get for being like the only comment in the first hour
i thought i was the only who thinks this song is kinda haunting and doom
@@raihanavindi9364 Yeah it sounds pretty dark/gothic to me. Maybe it’s Yoko’s spell on Lennon :P
This is my favorite song on the Abbey Road album. The guitars, the ending, and especially the bass
same!!
Idk what you mean about the ending man. Every single version I've listened to just cuts abruptly.
@@jollygrapefruit786 By the ending I mean how the song just gets heavier and heavier with more and more instruments and that white noise thing
@@Will-en3kn yeah I cannot enjoy the song because of how it just cuts. Like they couldn't even just fade it out? Lazy.
Oh the bass 😰
she’s so *insert about 10 seconds of music* HEAVYYYYY
Billy on that organ added a lot to this song, of course it was already great but he made it extra special! It's articulating John and his vocals beautifully, magnifying it in a way. So much soul and raw emotion! Billy's contribution to this song can't be overstated imo
Was Billy on the OG release of this song? I can’t remember
Definitely one of my favourite Beatles riffs to play, it’s just so badass
Too right...I play it on a 12 string acoustic! If you have a looper you can build up the final section crescendo and then cut.
Always loved the white noise at the end. Lennon was right on this one. It makes the song much more interesting. It also stops at exactly the right time which I read was at John's choosing. He had a knack.
I read that they just got an engineer to cut the tape at a random point at the end? I don’t even think Lennon was there at that point. Either way, it’s a great way to end it!
"You can cut it,if you want it;cut it,cut it,cut it!"That was can you cut it by Geoff Emerick,and now we'd like to do,harj the scissors come".
@@Superdelphinus nah, John ordered engineer geoff emerick to "cut the tape"! against all conventions
@@SuperdelphinusLennon was there and called cut exactly at the length of the final track.
@@Superdelphinus John picked the exact point where it finnishes!
It's the best Beatles song along with A Day In the Life imo
I agree. Along with revolution and don’t let me down
I feel like no one talks about across the universe, it’s such an underrated and beautiful song.
natalie . • * . Yea it really is. The version on let it be naked is my favorite
Gage Grossman yeah, I find it better than the Phil Spector version, too. It’s just.. nicer since it’s more acoustic. Same with strawberry fields, it’s an incredible song, but there’s a certain novelty in the acoustic/less edited versions.
Their are better but all Beatles songs are great rlly
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) was also the last Beatles song where all four Beatles were together in the recording studio. There were additional Beatles songs worked on and recorded, but it would be the last time all four Beatles were working together as a group.
Saved the best2gether4last being just that but does Ringo n Paul reflect on that fact is entirely their knowing lovingly so remain? Only they no that n all of us texting this n that is entertainment their feelings r among themselves deep down inside but they have so many it's hard2say unless we're them ok!
i bought a cassette player and abbey road as it came out.
that swan song was evident.
i knew it was the last of them.
the clear pleasure that he just took in going “F***” is honestly me on a daily basis, i respect that.
The same album had "Come Together," which is very complex lyrically. The critics saying John had lost his lyrical touch clearly didn't get it. It's the repetition that makes the song work.
When I heard this song for the first time, it was the coolest thing that I ever heard with that bluesy, jazzy and very sexy melodic lines that had a touch of romanticism. John was in his element employing a radical and experimental approach to his songwriting with change in the timing that sandwiched parts of his songs with something new unheard before in popular music. His employment of the Epiphone guitar with those P-90 pickups with sounds that just melt like butter as he performed his guitar solo. It was erotica in its execution. John is a pure master of musical and lyrical expression that defies the standards in popular music. He was the one that steered the Beatles to greatness. He may have been the "Nowhere Man" who needed "Help", but he sure convinced nearly everyone that "All You Need is Love".
There’s that word again -“heavy”.. Why are things so heavy in the future - is there something wrong with the earth’s gravitational pull?
"Hasn't affected me yet!" said a man in the future who is only two feet tall but six feet in diameter.
Great Scott!!!
Lonnie D. Toth 10th Legion
The pull of gravity plus LSD , weed and whatever else John was doing . John's been a naughty boy !
Runny Marty, it's the Libyans!!!
It has something to do with the fact that as you approach the speed of light, mass increases.
Wonderful job Mr. Hobbs.
You're getting heavier and heavier all the time.
He couldn't get no lighter lol
I’ve always loved this song and still do. The louder it’s played the better.
... and if the neighbors don't like it, it's *their* fault for getting a house in such a lousy district! 😉
What I always loved about I Want You is that it goes on and one, noise piled onto noise, seemingly endlessly, and then there's the abrupt cut. And the the next song - Here Comes The Sun - washes all that tension away with just the first few notes. It's a brand new day!
Right.
For the first time in forever, I listened to this song earlier today. I got a sudden urge and listened to it on repeat. And now this. I wonder if the universe is trying to tell me something.
I think the ending is the invention of doom metal. The whole mood of it all screams doom. The repeating haunting melody, the wall of darkly distorted guitar, the increasingly loud white noise etc. It’s incredible that such a thing came out of 1969. Such an experimental twist of the blues genre.
Your onto something great as the Beatles are. You mentioned universe so if you never heard it, check out the Beatles song Across the Universe by John.
Yes, Lord Ithkos, the universe is, indeed, trying to tell you something!
It is saying, " Dude, either use fewer drugs or think less often. These two are incompatible."
Maybe you should listen...
Craig Cerny Yeah, cause you definitely seem quite the thinker. I always appreciate an open mind.
Have a good day!
Lord Ithkos, thanks for your response to my previous message! I wanted to reply to it, but I inadvertantly deleted it instead. Would you please be so kind as to repost your last reply so that I can reply? (This time I'll be more careful and will try not to delete it!)
Thanks so much!
Regarding the ending of the song being the invention of doom as you said - that's what I've always thought too :-D
it’s such a beautiful song, it means so much without even saying that much
So glad you made this, such an awesome song
Fun fact: Abbey road was my first beatles album I listened to front to back. Needless to say I was wondering what this prog rock, blues, psychedelic, hard rock masterpiece was doing on a record from a band I was told did corny love songs.
Seriously though, this song is unimaginably good its debatable if it's even in the Beatles top 10. That's how good they were.
Dark Side of the Moon is another album that MUST be listened to end to end. I too could not just listen to one song on this album, but I'm sure if I did, it was this one!
Mine too!😁
This song has so much
Blues riffs, elements of proto-punk and metal as well as progressive rock, in 1969 no less, Billy Preston's organ Paul's bass and of course the final 3 minutes
One of the most original songs from the boys
Holy, this is probably my favourite of your facts videos while the funny facts to balance out, the information here was outstanding
I am sorry I am totally wiped so I had to limit myself when it came to the fancy language and choose the most boring words, but hey, simplicity in language is pretty appropriate for the video
Amazing work
From now on I am George Guja this red picture is the old account
I’m obsessed with this song, can’t explain it but it speaks to my soul
Same mate, same. It just…………a can’t explain.
Never stop making these!! They’re fun to watch and packed with a lot of great info
My favorite song of The Beatles. That 3 min ending is epic.
4:18 I love that clip, specially when Paul yells “it’s his own fault for getting a house in such a lousy district”. And the take itself is pretty much gold, and the scream , oh my god!!! it’s so good
So glad you did this one.
One of the greatest endings to a song as far as i'm concerned, it sets such an intense atmosphere.
This song is insanely, ridiculously good.
Hearing the Beatles as a kid when I was 5 or 6 years old, this song actually scared me at the end.
I was confused by Revolution No9 when I first heard it on tape. My guess was that I maybe might have broken the tape machine. I was 11 or 12.
@@kingberzerk Revolution #9 was likened to like being on an actual acid trip common to the era of that time. Acid heads most likely got it but those who were wise not taking chances taking that drug probably were confused by this, naturally saying.
Revolution #9 was released, ironically, when I was nine years old. Naturally, it confused the hell out of me, because it is clearly not a song for a nine year-old mind.
Years later, while I was in my "experimental phase" (yes, kiddies, I'm referring to drugs here) I listened to Revolution #9 a LOT. I remember trying to isolate and decipher each and every little bit of the song, attempting to truly understand "the deeper meaning" of it all.
Strangely, the one little bit that seemed to me to be the most profound is the part that says, "Every one of us knew that as time went on we'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower."
Well, now, I am, indeed, a little bit older, and I am, in fact, a little bit slower, as well. (Okay... more than a "little bit" of both!)
But to this day, it seems to me that all those years ago, The Beatles were trying to warn me that this was gonna happen! Damn! I should have paid their warning more heed! I could have prevented both of these results simply by dying sooner!
Oops! My bad! Sorry, lads! Sorry, John-o! I promise I'll never do it again! Honest!
@@hbarwickjr Ten years later I had these LSD experiences, But confusion was not a bad thing per se for a curious 11-year old that I was. And looking back, I prefer this #9 statement any time over Maxwell's Silver Hammer or Obladi Oblada. And I Want You struck Immediately, even though I was a young boy.
Me too... I picture a whirlwind or a cosmic tornado
The different styles of John, Paul and George is what makes The Beatles a great band.
That was truly amazing, thank you so much for making this
Excellent stuff. I can't believe how much new info I learn from this channel. I always wondered about the organ. It sounded more sophisticated and jazzy and vampy than any of the Beatles could be expected to do. But I didn't know until today that it was Barz .. Billy all along.
George Martin once said his least favorite Beatles’ recording was ‘She’s So Heavy’.
He said ‘the boys’ were so angry with each other that it comes through in the recording and was difficult for him to listen to.
He also said that he felt The Beatles had reached a dead-end at this point.
As stated, the final work on this song was the last time they were together in the studio.
Epic
I love this song... it's so epic. I really enjoyed the way George Martin combined it with Benefit of Mr Kite on "Love" too. Only problem is how short it is.
That three minute finale of this song is my favorite part. Such a dramatic and powerful buildup, that abrupt ending gets you by surprise.
Before metal was truly formed...an awesome song from an awesome album
It’s a brilliant, powerful track... building and building and building, lyrics be damned. Lennon constantly pushed the envelope of the Beatles.
THIS video does 'I Want You (She's so Heavy) proud! Good Job! I remember the first time I listened to 'Abbey Road' all the way through (I was in my early 20's then in the late 1980's), and this song suddenly ended. I went over to see if something was wrong with my turn-table!! This is why Beatles albums, and others that were released as L.P.'s need to be listened to on the ANALOG RECORD FORMAT!! L.P.'s had 'SIDES', and that MATTERS!!
One of Paul’s best bass lines
The second half instrumental conclusion is the most daunting dreary dream state of darkness that is perfection. I wish it was 20 minutes long. My favorite grooving bass playing by Paul from any song and Lennons slightly crackling voice screams his love is uncontainable.
You could have included that this song was the first to:
1.) use a massive amount of guitar tracking (8 guitars, if I remember correctly, played by John and George) to create a HUGE sound.
2.) put to record the first example of heavy Doom Metal. Black Sabbath’s first album came out after Abbey Road.
Good video, thank you. She's So Heavy is one of my best loved songs by John. Sometimes I've thought it would of been cool to of blended up slowly in the white noise the sound of the ocean from the beach and when the white noise abruptly stops you hear the sound of the waves crashing as they do. However it's all Beatles, the greatest of all bands I had the privilege of growing up with. :)
One music fact of interest: the song is largely in A, B form. "I want you.." is largely in one style and chord progression, while upon hearing the word "Heavy", we enter a new section, always the same, which is based on a ground bass, or passacaglia. This is a classical form that employs a repeated melodic pattern, usually in the bass (here it is "heavily" reinforced with guitars an octave above the bass). This section has some improvising above it as each melodic pattern repeats over and over, and is truly an odd and amazing feature from the Baroque era, here guiding us up and out for the last 3 minutes! I used to teach a college music theory course, and always played the last 3 minutes to demonstrate ground bass.
actually smiled when I saw this as the first thing on my recommendation
Why are all my favorite Beatles songs solely by John during the last two years of their existence: "Dig a Pony", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Because", "Sun King", "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)", "Sexy Sadie", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "I'm So Tired", "Hey Bulldog", "Across the Universe", "Glass Onion", etc.
Yeah!, Paul had all the "hits" but John's songs were every bit as good. I heard John was pissed at all the time spent on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", a silly little tune.
@@paulspears715 Perhaps John was pissed off about that. And why not? He was perpetually pissed off about something or someone!
I always wondered, "Dude, seriously, wtf have you got to be so pissed off about? You're rich as hell, more famous than Jesus Christ (according to John), and you never worked a day in your life!" What a smug, egocentric ass munch!
Sure, he either wrote or co-wrote some truly amazing music and lyrics, and there's no denying that. But to lionize the man or to attempt to elevate him to sainthood is really, REALLY stretching it!
And so what if Lennon got his pompous little panties in a wad because McCartney spent a little extra time getting one of his songs the way he wanted it? It took The Beatles eight freakin' *months* to finish "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" because *John* kept changing his mind about this or that part, how the song should end, etc.!!!
So, when I read or hear everybody just gushing about Lennon's "genius of simplicity," I feel compelled to ask, "What is 'simple' about taking *8 months* to write *one* song?"
Doesn't seem very "simple" to me!
@James Brice yes John rules the White Album but “Blackbird” and “Helter Skelter” belong there too. And don’t forget George with arguably the best song on the album (again) with “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”. “Long long long” another great one by George there. That said, “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, “Dear Prudence”, “Julia”, “Sexy Sadie”, “Yer Blues” and “Revolution” are all masterpieces by John from that album. Even the transition from “Revolution 9” to “Good Night” is a brilliant way to close the White album
@James Brice hmmm i Don’t know this one. Where is that song from??
@James Brice wow that’s a GREAT song by George! Had never heard it before! Why did they not record “Sour Milk Sea”??? Or did George eventually release it as a solo artist??
By far the best track on CD. Brilliant. I class it as the early stages of prog rock.
Great video. I love the insight into what it could have been like in the studio during the creation of this amazing song
Man! You create some of the best videos on this entire format! Superb!!!
Well done, man. Really appreciate the professional attitude of this lecture. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.
Besides: "Art is an expression of oneself and is subject of the will of the artist. You experience art. You either enjoy it or you don't. But to dismiss it because it doesn't live up to your arbitrarily defined quota of words is asinine, considered a song is composed holistically" was a very interesting line for someone like me, because English is not my native language.
That was such a clever intro lmao
The noise after John's scream is "What was that about ?" presumably in response to the scream. Listen closely and you'll hear this.
This is my favorite song on Abbey Road.
Dude I really like your breakdowns and you’re a really interesting guy. Thank you for bringing this awareness of the Beatles to us
Oh love it. They weren’t little boys anymore. I love the fact that we watched them grow from songs like Love Me Do to I Want You (She’s so Heavy) and Savoy Truffle.
The heaviest chunk of heavy metal granite of The Beatles! Par excellence!
I really appreciate your attention to detail and still letting go. You are getting better with each video! Love ya!
Let's collab. It's me from a long time ago, but the video got me my 15 minutes of Warhol fame. lenn9o9n.bandcamp.com/track/asylum-featuring-eyeway
It may lyrically be very simple, but musically, it's anything but. I'd argue that it's one of the band's most complex pieces, since it's probably the only time they
truly embraced both progressive and jazz influences. In fact, the whole thing sounds like "psycho jazz" to me, and it's always been one of John's most interesting songs to me.
The first time I heard it, I thought there was something wrong with my record player. But then I realized the white noise was deliberate, and since then, it's become the highlight
of the Abbey Road album for me, because I also love white noise.
It was a pretty brave song to make for the biggest band in the world. Today, I highly doubt that any big band would be allowed to make their music sound damaged.
So as a super fan I understand there is no more Beatles coming so I have to ration them for the rest of my existence so far I’ve listened to just revolver, Sgt pepper, magical mystery tour and white album in full. I plan to listen to a Beatles album every year on my birthday for the next 7 years.... can’t watch this video but will leave a like 😃☘️
Rhett, I only share this with respect: if, God forbid, you were hit by a bus next month or next year, would you want your last thought to be "I didn't get to hear all the Beatles Albums!"? Many of the more cryptic songs actually had mundane origins. I could give some back round to several songs of theirs.
Are you mad?
FYI, Mel Torme's last name is pronounced "Tor-Mey". Lennon jokingly used the name "Mel Torment" for himself later.
“If you’re a dog you can hear a lot more” - John Lennon😂😂😂
You steal that line from Yogi Berra...not Sexy Sadie.
Funny and profoundly true!
Kind of reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the late, great Groucho Marx: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Yep, would love to have dog ears to discover those hidden frequencies
More proof John hated dogs
“It’s Okay To Leave A Dog In A Hot Car”
I always thought that after John's Big Scream, a couple of the guys in the studio or maybe a couple The Beatles themselves we're cheering on an approval.
One of Lennon's best screams. A lot more lyrics in the song would of messed it up. John's choice of just these few lyrics over and over with one of his best ever guitar riffs made it what it is, fantastic!
There's a pause in the rhythm track and it's paul counting the stop "One, two". This video is the first I've ever heard of a controversy over this bit.
I Want You, Cold Turkey...
what a wonderful thing that you can so much joy from a single track recorded more than 50 years ago...
The song is actually 14 words since “so” appears in 2 sentences. I love this song so much, and it turned me on to blues rock and is one of my favorite Beatles songs. It’s so simple but so complex.
Joshua, good eye there, mate! I also noticed the repetition of "so" and wondered why it would be counted as two words. But you're right, it's 14 and not 15 words!
But, as far as the song being "complex," well, I can only say that if a group as directionally diverse and innovative as The Beatles invests eight months to record, mix, re-mix, and re-re-mix a song, as they did with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" then yeah, that song is gonna be complex!
Still a great song from the greatest band of all time!
You work so hard on these, the quality is amazing. Thank you. :)
It' so funny that, after six years of musical world dominance, that critics, engineers, and sometimes fellow musicians ('Revolution #9' notwithstanding), still thought that they could build a better John Lennon, or get into his head as to what he was after. When you have a genius artist in the room just hand him his brushes, move when he tells you, and wait until the canvas is covered in his choice of colors and patterns. In an album that is as completely musically masterful as Abbey Road is, 'I Want You (She's So Heavy') remain my favorite track to this day. It is both other worldly and right down here on the basic level of human desire and emotion. If you don't feel this way about the love in your own life, you probably aren't with the right person...
...and neither is the other person! 😉
Hold the phone Plato, John is the perennial trickster; She's so heavy is his way of saying "Can't have sex with my woman, because she is so pregnant!" Sorry to burst a thought bubble you and many here are having.
It's hilarious how Paul was upset about the white noise at the end of the track considering that he was the Beatle most interested and actively involved in the avant-garde scene in London during the mid-to-late sixties lol. He was devouring the ideas of John Cage and Stockhausen among countless others in that scene and attending numerous art galleries and parties filled with that crowd, all the while making bizarre tape loops/collages at home and goofy homemade faux radio commercials for fun...but a little white noise on a Beatles track, even after recording the experimental orchestra section for A Day In The Life two years earlier, made him feel uneasy. 😆 Gotta love Paul.
Paul was never avante-garde in his Beatles songs. John was
Fun fact: she’s not heavy
No, not at all. ( in cockney Liverpuldian accent)
Thicc and plump she was
Not physically but mentally she was H E A V Y on all the Beatles members at the time
She's my brother...
Mister Schubert what?
Excellent work. I love hearing about my favourite band, I just can't get enough. Thanks.
I love this song so much!!!! Such a good hard rock tune
My favorite song discussed perfectly. A fantastic video again
And for this song, Paul was wrong. The white-noise bit is brilliant and for me made "I want you" a go to song during my adolescence. I felt it was extremely romantic because the lover is willing to brave all levels of weather and wind and noise. It is ear-candy that is necessary here in my opinion.
When playing this masterpiece I find the one note that sets the tone is the F atop the Dm chord that remains played throughout the whole riff as the vocals sing "She's so heavy"in that eerie Beatle harmony.,over and over.It doesn't seem to belong at first and many musicians fail to include it as it seems unnaturally placed,giving a sense of dis-ease or some kind of impending doom to come.When the white noise(Theoretically all sounds combined)begins it begins to make the listeners mind imagine as it sweeps in intensity creating a movie like collage in the mind and thus a song that begins so simple becomes overwhelming in complexity.
Oh my god honestly one of my favourites.
This was one of the greatest Beatles songs ever. The fact that Paul did not like it is probably why I liked so little of his solo stuff. Paul needed John more than John needed Paul.
JOHN LENNON, SIEMPRE FUE EL LÍDER DE LOS BEATLES Y EL MÚSICO MÁS CREATIVO.
My all time favorite Beatles song. Thank you for this breakdown! It's fantastic! :)
I was 16 when i first listened to Abbey Road and I want you, i fall in love immediatly! WOW what a song!! It could go on forever!!
I WANT YOU (SHE'S SO HEAVY) BY THE BEATLES (IN MY OPINION) IS THE GREATEST BEATLES SONG AND GREATEST ROCK SONG OF ALL TIME! LOVE THE VIDEO KEEP IT UP
Bravo! What a great choice of song to discuss, and I love your passion for the band!
the guitars are SO GOOD!
I bought this album in 69 and when I heard this song with head phones blaring it cut off abruptly at the end and scared the shit out of me.
Fun fact, it’s only 14 words! The word “so” was double counted, making this even more impressive. I HATE songs that just repeat the same thing over and over again, but this one is just so… well, heavy, that it works so well!
My favorite Beatles song 💕
Perfectly Imperfect Perfection. Every note, every empty space, is exquisite.
Mark Ukeley: Superb description, sir!
Not unlike the painstakingly planned, deliberately detailed randomness of a simply elegant English garden, no?
@@badczech8485 Well said! Superbly picturesque metaphor--I give up the podium to my esteemed colleague. Cheers, good sir! :) MU.
@@markukeley2924 You are far to kind, sir, but thank you very much, indeed!
However, you may rest assured that I have no intention of nudging you from your rightful and quite deserved place at the podium!
I consider it a genuine honor as well as an absolute delight to have had the opportunity to engage in genteel discourse with such a cerebrally gifted gentleman as yourself!
Please, by all means, feel at complete liberty to proceed at your leisure, my gracious sir!
All the very best to you and yours!
So unique...cant really describe it...but it is a majestic fabulous track...
Every teenage boy with a crush has listened to this song at least once
I've been really enjoying your videos since I discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Everything you do comes from a place of love and appreciation, and it really shows.
one of my favorite beatles songs ever
Oh Thankyou for this, this is amazing.. I really love this song, just yesterday I was rambling to my brother the absolute masterpiece that this song is.. so seeing this made me really happy😄👏👏..
man love your efforts to get us this song
impressive
Because was the masterpiece. It’s of course overlooked. But it’s THE most perfect ever “pop” song. “Because” it’s the most classical song BACKWARDS. A rock-n-roll band playing Moonlight Sonata backwards is absolutely GENIUS. There’s no words to describe it. Just listen. And TRY to appreciate what is going on. 3 voices. Overdubbed 3 times. No one can ever come close to replicating it. It was sent from above.
This is a song that has cut right through me for half a century (in a good way). You did it justice. Thank you. ☮️&❤️
One of my Beatle faves for sure!
11:40 if you listen to the isolated tracks you can tell its actually Paul mouthing his bassline while playing it. "mama mao mao maoooo"
Was 6 when this came out and listening to the record on my older brother's Panasonic stereo console with record player, radio and cassette player. Not as much rock and roll is performed in a minor key (more serious and tragic sounding) like classical music is, so nice to hear it as a "change" from the usual.
“You heard what I said Geoff. Cut the Tape!” What a legend John
Andres C: I'm sorry, but I fail to see how telling a sound engineer - who was being paid by The Beatles to work on the production of the music they'd written and were in the process of recording - how and where to end a song he'd written in any way constitutes John as being a legend!
Of course, Lennon was a legend! All four of The Beatles were legends, and their entire body of work was legendary, due to the incredible influence that their music had on the world! That much is a given, and is undeniable and irrefutable!
But how does a *boss* giving an *employee* instructions on how to do his damned *job* make the boss a "legend"??? 🤔
Dude! My boss, your boss, and everybody else's boss tells us what to do all the fecking time... and I seriously doubt that any of us have ever thought of our boss as a "legend"!!! A legendary ass, perhaps. A legendary pain in the ass, for sure! But can you honestly imagine this scenario?
BOSS: "Do this."
EMPLOYEE: "What a legend!"
I rest my case, Your Honor.
Craig Cerny jaja the difference is in INSTRUCTIONS! The instructions John gave are legendary. Not because he was the boss, but because of his revolutionary idea of “Cut the Tape”. Nobody had or has ever ended a song like that!!!! Legendary production by John there
@@hw343434 Ah... now *that* makes more sense! And honestly, I'd have to agree with you, at least, for the most part.
I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to call his instructions "legendary," but they were certainly innovative! The truth is that just about everything The Beatles did was new, different, and ahead of its time... expanding horizons, pushing the envelope, cutting edge... in a word: innovative!
The reason I took issue with your initial comment was that - given the context in which it was written - it appears that you were saying that *John himself* (and not his *instructions* to Geoff) was the "legend." I mean, your post literally said, "What a legend John"... which I believe most people reading your post would reasonably infer to mean that you were saying that *John* was a legend in your opinion simply because he gave Geoff instructions to cut the tape. After all, the only thing a reader of your comments had to go on was what you *wrote* ... and the reader is then tasked to discern what you *meant* by the few words you wrote. Just a bit confusing, ya know?
Anyway, thank you so much for clarifying what you intended to say... that helps a *LOT* !!! 👍
And thank you even more for realizing that I was *not* in any way attacking *you* personally or your *right* to express your opinion! I was merely attempting to prompt you just a bit to *explain* your views, which you subsequently did. And for that, I sincerely thank you! 👍
All the best to you, sir! 😁
Craig Cerny Blessings
@@hw343434 Thank you, sir! And blessings to *you* , as well! ☮️&♥️
Wow. Artistic rendering of a deep think piece -- or a deep think piece of an artistic rendering. With, a perfect finale -- an abrupt mirror of the song itself. Well done.