Ringo, Ringo, Ringo. His percussion & bass drum placement is like a heartbeat in this song.. that & his playing exactly what the part needs & not more... There are technical drummers but most people forget what Ringo NEVER forgets...the song is the most important thing, not ego. :)
I am a drummer and always thought Ringo sux. It is only in the last 20 years that I have matured enough to appreciate his genius. He is the most thoughtful and intuitive drummer of all time.
If you read John's books, or even just listened to him talk, you can see that he was a big fan of absurdist word association, similar to what Monty Python always did to great effect. Weed and LSD only magnified that in him.
John was sick of music critics trying to read the meanings of his songs so he,d confuse them and laugh at there interpretation.". Lets see em read the meaning of this Paul " 😂😂
Instruments in that intro bit - bass (doing the riff), wurlitzer or rhodes electric piano, electric guitar, and awesome under-rated drum pattern by Ringo - most under-rated drummer in rock n roll!
@@IAMCAVE yeah I guess so. Back in the late sixties and early 70's the junkies that shot up cocaine used to refer to it as shooting Coca Cola. I Didn't do it but it was common knowledge. If I'm wrong in this instance, so be it. What is your interpretation?
And unique instrumentation with that bizarre sounding clavioline - with the oboe sound. They only used that instrument one time. One thing about the Beatles is that every song is different and unique, but still sounds like them.
Interesting 🤔. I’m leaving a comment here in case anyone else wants to elaborate on this idea. (And Paul certainly was the best looking one, although George turned out to be a very handsome man.)
Each verse in the song is supposedly about each of the four members of the Beatles.There's a breakdown somewhere on RUclips about the lyrics and how they apply to each of the Beatles.
"Come Together" is on the Beatles' 1969 album "Abbey Road". This is one of my favorite albums. All the songs are great on it such as "Something", "Here Comes The Sun", "Oh! Darling", "Because", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" etc.
"come together" was a rip off of a blues song, "golden slumbers" was a rip off of another song, the only good original songs were "something" and here "comes the sun" by george harrison, and all the other songs were crap
@@natmanprime4295 John got the "here come ole flattop" from Chuck Berrys "Here come a flat-top...", from You Can't Catch Me. Rock and Roll, not a Blues song. The songs sound nothing alike, it's just that one lyric. Chuck did not win the lawsuit. He is not credited as a writer of Come Together.
@@debjorgo ok rocknroll, whatever. but didnt they come to a settlement where john had to release a "rocknroll" album to make up for it? also, the rhythm of it is the same but at a different speed. its more than the lyric.
@@natmanprime4295 Yeah. Many songs start off another song. It was changed enough to get around any plagiarism claims. Why they left those opening lyrics, I don't know. The "Come together right now over me" sounds close to "if you get too close, I'm gone like a cool breeze". They could had gotten away with it but John had given an earlier interview saying Come Together was "written around and old Chuck Berry song". John actually records You Can't Catch Me on his Rock and Roll album. A settlement side-steps a decision. I just think it is well short of being a "rip off". A hater don't have to hate.
@@debjorgo great artists steal, as the saying goes. what i'm sayng is john and paul ran out of ideas on abbey road. their only 2 good songs were "taken" (shall we say), and their original songs werent that good. only george stands out. you can tell it's their last album.
From what I’ve heard about this song ,John was getting tired of every song he had written getting dissected and analyzed to death.So he wrote this to mess with everybody’s mind.
Yeah, that's Walrus. Timothy Leary's political campaign's slogan was Come Together. John got in trouble with the owner of Chuck Berry's song You Can't Catch Me for lifting a lyric.
Originally intended as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, a kind of drug pope at the time, with the main line "Come together", Lennon added these cryptic lyrics to a Chuck Berry line. There were and are many interpretations, e.g. that someone sits on a chair and is sprayed with ejaculate by other people present (Come together). One shouldn't think too much about it. Sometimes musicians just put a few words together, that somehow sound good in the context of the music. Come Together is now the second most streamed Beatles song on Spotify and the video was produced by Melon Dezign in 2000 for the official launch of the Beatles website.
You hear John and Georges Guitars Paul's base. Ringo put dishcloths on his drumheads to give it that petty patty sound and the great Billy Preston on keys.
Sometimes good music doesn’t need meaningful words. The Beatles have other songs that lyrically don’t make sense yet somehow they the do make sense rhythmically. The Beatles could be very abstract, especially John.
Come Together added to the “Paul is Dead” conspiracy. It was believed that the part, "One and one and one is Three" was a hidden clue implying there’s only 3 living Beatles
Yes, and the part "come together over me" like at the gravesite. And, as for Paul's replacement, "got to be good-looking cause he's so hard to see" meaning he'd have to be good-looking like Paul to not see he was a double. I've probably left some out, too.
And the lyrics, . . . At that time there were numerous "gurus" to be found on all sorts of communes, what today would be called Cults. Anyway these gurus would spout really deep concepts like 1+1+1=3. If you are higher than a kite, simple things appear very deep.
Michael, the song is mainly John's and it was about his desire to keep the group together. They were going through break-ups at the time and actually broke up after this album was recorded. Each of the 4 verses is about the individual Beatles - "Hair to his knees" is George, "No shoe-shine" is Paul - he likes going barefoot, "Ono-sideboard" is John and "So hard to see" is Ringo (he's behind the drums....) - the weird words are typical of John's lyrical imagery. At one point in their history everyone except John left the band. Ringo left for a while during the White Album. George left during Let It Be, and even had a solo Album by then, and then finally Paul quit and the Beatles ended. Come Together over me... means, let's keep the band together... That's how I saw it back then and still see it now...for what it's worth...
If you fancy a brilliant live performance take a look at the rooftop "concert" from back in 1969. They set up on the roof of their Apple HQ in central London and practically caused a riot when the general public realised what was happening above them. They did a few songs but the best was Get Back.
This song is very much like his later song "Give Peace a Chance". "Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Madism, Ragism.... All we are saying, is give peace a chance." The verses don't matter. The chorus is the point.
Lennon was a huge Lewis Carroll reader (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass) and that comes through here and with I Am the Walrus. Sometimes he just wrote things to confound those who kept trying to find meaning in his lyrics.
"I am the Walrus" is also a very trippy song by John Lennon. And also "Strawberry Fields" is similar, by John Lennon. He has quite a way with his lyrics and probably inspired by LSD.
If you think this is psychedelic animation, do not wait! Find yourself a copy of The Yellow Submarine, the last movie that they endorsed. They had little to do with it, as it was conceived in order to fulfil the three movies contract they'd signed in 1963. They endorsed it because it was done under the supervision of Joe Orton and other well known counterculture London artists at the time. It fun, it's trippy and it's The Beatles. I promise you'll smile...🧓🎭😎
May I suggest that you keep in mind that John said he was often just making rhymes. There was often very little meaning intended. Enjoy your reactions!
You want a Beatle trip. Try I am the Walrus or Strawberry Fields... or It's all Too Much, or Across the Universe... or just about every song of theirs. Their catalog is huge. lol
Oh, yeah...this was a trippy one for sure! The guitars, the keyboard and...Ringo is just so amazing! John Loved word play, and absurd wording .He wrote 2 small books of funny poetry and sketches in '64 and '65 that were a bit 'Python-esque' , looking back. (his voice is great, too)
They were the first to figure out music needed to be laid down in tracks to do away with mono we were ready for hi fi . I think the background is a sitar from India. This was when they were getting into psychedelic drugs like LSD. The other thing that the Beatles did was put their new album out on the 1 December great marketing strategy.
The funny thing about this song is that the original lyric was Hold you in his arms and you can feel his physic. not hold you in his arms and you can feel his disease lol.
Early in the Beatles career, John wrote a couple of well-received books. If you read those, it will give you a sense of his use of the absurd. The song started as a political song for a Timothy Leary run for president, but that didn't work out.
I believe Lennon originally wanted to release this as a Plastic Ono Band release. Regardless, it blasted the AM wavelength when it came out, and then some
John explained this song as a Word Salad, and Come Together was the sexual fashion of the time he lived in. Got sued by Chuck Berry for using some of his lyrics.
John came in one day with this song in a simpler form, when Paul noticed that the lyrics were a direct rip off of CHUCK BERRY"S ----YOU CAN'T CATCH ME. Sorting out John's legal nightmare, he added a cool bass riff, Ringo changed up the rhythm, and Paul and George helped him change a few lyrics to make it less like a potential lawsuit. This is the result. The "video" is from a rock band video game since there were no such things as videos in the 1960s.
Lennon likes to play with words to create imagery in the mind. Most of his words, mean absolutely nothing except a cool turn of phrase, or a clever rhyme.
They did promotional films and sent them to Ed Sullivan to play on his Sunday night variety show. I recall seeing the film of "Hey Jude" on the Sullivan show. Then there were their full length films.
i think that video has nothing to do with the beatles or the song, it looks like nintendo wii fit characters. Michael Jackson made a pretty good cover of this song, check it out if you like
It's a play on words. You have to look good vs you have to look well. Good looking is used as you really have to look with focus because otherwise you don't see him. Lennon loved absurd jokes and word play. Check out his books. A spaniard in the works is one of the titles. The Beatles were big Monty Python fans, shared similar sense of humour. Harrison ended up financing Life of Brian.
John wrote a little book back in the early Beatles days called, "In His Own Write" (q.v.). It was a compilation of little stories and essays, which were mostly nonsense language. He was a lover of nonsense poetry and prose. He loved stories written by O. Henry, Lewis Caroll, Edward Lear, Edward Gorey, and so on. Look them up sometime. He had other Beatle songs with nonsense lyrics, too, such as "I Am The Walrus". He just liked the sounds of certain words coupled with other words. No meaning, just sounds. John was funny that way. The lyrics in "Come Together" are mostly nonsense. Read into them what you will, it's just mainly a bunch of meaningless sounds.
That's bass guitar in the background. Played masterfully by Paul McCartney. Bass guitars usually have four strings and are lower in pitch and smoother. It's not the first thing most people notice in a band, but you'd miss it if it wasn't there.
PS There is a great movie with all Beatle songs called “across the universe”. Tells the story of the 1960s. Then you’ll get their music. Check the history of Coke
John was asked to write a lyric when Drug (LSD) advocate Timothy Leary thought of running for political office in California in 1968 - phrase "Come Together" -Lennon ended up write this song, stream of conscious lyrics. The first lyric was cribbed from a Chuck Berry song - John paid a fee, to not be sued. Ringo has said this is one his favorite Beatles songs. The Lads had some personal discord in the year before, and in the Spring of 1959 they overcame some of their problems, and recorded the "Abbey Road" album, their last. This video was done for a Greatest Hits set, after 2000.
Paul plays the iconic bassline in this song! The video was made in 2009 (approx) when the remix was done. If you look at the Abbey Road album cover, you will notice that the cartoon Beatles are wearing the same clothes! This song is what we call SWAMPY! Piece of advice: Don't try to understand John Lennon 's lyrics! He was a poet and writer and he loved to wordplay and experiment with lyrics. Listen to I Am the Walrus, if you don't believe me!
You need to check out the Aerosmith version from the Sgt. Pepper movie. They were so young. I know this movie got bad ratings, but I still like it because of all the famous people in it.
It could all mean something or it could all be obviously absurd. John is the king of the absurd. I’ve heard this song thousands of times. I have no idea what it’s all about. I don’t think too much about it. Some songs are just like that.
Trying to make linear sense out of some of John's more Dada lyrics will only frustrate you. A lot of times he was just having fun with word play while laughing up his sleeve at anyone who took it too seriously. Other times, of course, he was devastating in his rapier command of language, and had few peers in that regard. John was a gifted and respected writer with quite an impressive range, R.I.P.
I always loved this song and still do. But it always bothers me now that I found out that it starts out with John saying"shoot me" as well as in between the verses. More than ironic, it's absolutely heartbreaking.
Don't get caught up with John's lyrics. He had an impressionist rather than direct lyric style. It creates a mood without literally meaning anything in particular.
More Beatles please. More solo details please! 💟All good thanks for the tunes. PLEASE will you consider the following…. Run to Me by the BeeGees Casanova70 by Air Train by Goldfrapp Song to the Siren by Robert Plant S-S-S Single Bed by Fox I’m Gonna Crawl by Led Zeppelin Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump Lucky Man by The Verve Devil Woman by Cliff Richard Apache by the Shadows Ride a White Swan by T Rex Cathy’s Clown by The Everly Brothers Let’s Stick Together by Brian Ferry Over You by Roxy Music Music by John Mills The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack Sweetheart Like You by Bob Dylan You’re So Vain (studio version) by Cary Simon Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club Power of Love-Frankie Goes to Hollywood Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel Mr Myself and I-Joan Armatrading Senses Working Overtime by XTC State of Independence by Donna Summer I’ll Find My Way Home by Jon and Vangelis Chung Kuo by Vangelis Oxigene part 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre La Femme d’argent by Air Golden Brown by the Stranglers Swinging Safari by Bert Kempfert Love spreads by The Stone Roses
Now that you watched this. Pleas react to Michael Jackson's version of this song. He had just bought the rights to the entire Beatles catalog and recorded a version of come together. Imo its far better than the beatles version. Let me know
The coca cola plug was probably more of a drug metaphor than actual pop. He shoot coca cola, yeah, definitely drugs, i have a feeling a lot of this was about drugs.
After you hear this song about 8000 times, what really stands out is Ringo's outstanding percussion.
Truth.
Church!
.....and Paul's outstanding bass, George's white hot guitar, and that John is effectively inventing rap.
One of the most difficult drum accompaniments in The Beatles' Catalog, both to play & arrange, but once again, Ringo rose to the occasion.
I've heard this a trillion times and I never get tired of it. It's just genius.
Ringo, Ringo, Ringo. His percussion & bass drum placement is like a heartbeat in this song.. that & his playing exactly what the part needs & not more... There are technical drummers but most people forget what Ringo NEVER forgets...the song is the most important thing, not ego. :)
I am a drummer and always thought Ringo sux. It is only in the last 20 years that I have matured enough to appreciate his genius. He is the most thoughtful and intuitive drummer of all time.
I understand. Same here. Being a musician myself you'd think I'd get it earlier but age taught me appreciation of his genius. @@skiptrace1888
The lyrics did exactly what they were meant to do.
1 an 1 an 1 is 3 so damn simple but why it sounds so damn cool since 1969 is amazing with no explanation
If you read John's books, or even just listened to him talk, you can see that he was a big fan of absurdist word association, similar to what Monty Python always did to great effect. Weed and LSD only magnified that in him.
John was sick of music critics trying to read the meanings of his songs so he,d confuse them and laugh at there interpretation.". Lets see em read the meaning of this Paul " 😂😂
Precisely his mindset with I Am The Walrus.
It certainly was brother.
1:38 "What is that instrument in the back..?" It's Paul McCartney playing his bass guitar. It's one of the most famous bass lines in history.
Instruments in that intro bit - bass (doing the riff), wurlitzer or rhodes electric piano, electric guitar, and awesome under-rated drum pattern by Ringo - most under-rated drummer in rock n roll!
Fender Rhodes, played by Paul.
No other group can touch these dudes
I love the lyrics! So trippy! It does not matter what the words mean. The whole vibe is soooo cool.
The reference to "He shoot Coca Cola" is a reference to shooting cocaine intravenously.
Is THAT your interpretation? 😂
@@IAMCAVE yeah I guess so. Back in the late sixties and early 70's the junkies that shot up cocaine
used to refer to it as shooting Coca Cola. I Didn't do it but it was common knowledge. If I'm wrong in this instance, so be it. What is your interpretation?
One of my favorite Beatles songs that usually get overlooked is Baby Your a Rich Man. It has a funky vibe with an Indian/Oriental twist. Great stuff!
And unique instrumentation with that bizarre sounding clavioline - with the oboe sound. They only used that instrument one time. One thing about the Beatles is that every song is different and unique, but still sounds like them.
The four verses are a description of the four Beatles. "Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see is Paul.
Interesting 🤔. I’m leaving a comment here in case anyone else wants to elaborate on this idea. (And Paul certainly was the best looking one, although George turned out to be a very handsome man.)
Each verse in the song is supposedly about each of the four members of the Beatles.There's a breakdown somewhere on RUclips about the lyrics and how they apply to each of the Beatles.
Lennon wrote it. It even has a sideways reference to his wife.
"Come Together" is on the Beatles' 1969 album "Abbey Road". This is one of my favorite albums. All the songs are great on it such as "Something", "Here Comes The Sun", "Oh! Darling", "Because", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" etc.
"come together" was a rip off of a blues song, "golden slumbers" was a rip off of another song, the only good original songs were "something" and here "comes the sun" by george harrison, and all the other songs were crap
@@natmanprime4295 John got the "here come ole flattop" from Chuck Berrys "Here come a flat-top...", from You Can't Catch Me. Rock and Roll, not a Blues song. The songs sound nothing alike, it's just that one lyric. Chuck did not win the lawsuit. He is not credited as a writer of Come Together.
@@debjorgo ok rocknroll, whatever. but didnt they come to a settlement where john had to release a "rocknroll" album to make up for it?
also, the rhythm of it is the same but at a different speed. its more than the lyric.
@@natmanprime4295 Yeah. Many songs start off another song. It was changed enough to get around any plagiarism claims. Why they left those opening lyrics, I don't know. The "Come together right now over me" sounds close to "if you get too close, I'm gone like a cool breeze". They could had gotten away with it but John had given an earlier interview saying Come Together was "written around and old Chuck Berry song". John actually records You Can't Catch Me on his Rock and Roll album. A settlement side-steps a decision.
I just think it is well short of being a "rip off". A hater don't have to hate.
@@debjorgo great artists steal, as the saying goes. what i'm sayng is john and paul ran out of ideas on abbey road. their only 2 good songs were "taken" (shall we say), and their original songs werent that good. only george stands out. you can tell it's their last album.
From what I’ve heard about this song ,John was getting tired of every song he had written getting dissected and analyzed to death.So he wrote this to mess with everybody’s mind.
No, that's "I Am the Walrus." This one actually started life intended to be used in a political campaign.
When Lennon brought this song into the studio, he played it fast like the tempo of Revolution, Paul and George Martin got him to slow it down to this.
I heard that too, song is meaningless. But still love it ❤❤
Yeah, that's Walrus. Timothy Leary's political campaign's slogan was Come Together. John got in trouble with the owner of Chuck Berry's song You Can't Catch Me for lifting a lyric.
You gotta just feel the groove Man.
Originally intended as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, a kind of drug pope at the time, with the main line "Come together", Lennon added these cryptic lyrics to a Chuck Berry line. There were and are many interpretations, e.g. that someone sits on a chair and is sprayed with ejaculate by other people present (Come together). One shouldn't think too much about it. Sometimes musicians just put a few words together, that somehow sound good in the context of the music.
Come Together is now the second most streamed Beatles song on Spotify and the video was produced by Melon Dezign in 2000 for the official launch of the Beatles website.
You hear John and Georges Guitars Paul's base. Ringo put dishcloths on his drumheads to give it that petty patty sound and the great Billy Preston on keys.
Sometimes good music doesn’t need meaningful words. The Beatles have other songs that lyrically don’t make sense yet somehow they the do make sense rhythmically. The Beatles could be very abstract, especially John.
Come Together added to the “Paul is Dead” conspiracy. It was believed that the part, "One and one and one is Three" was a hidden clue implying there’s only 3 living Beatles
Yes, and the part "come together over me" like at the gravesite. And, as for Paul's replacement, "got to be good-looking cause he's so hard to see" meaning he'd have to be good-looking like Paul to not see he was a double. I've probably left some out, too.
That instrument you asked about is Paul’s bass. Legend.
Your next Beatles reaction......Day Tripper
The bass, drums and John saying: Shoot Me combined make it sound like an old rotary phone.
And the lyrics, . . .
At that time there were numerous "gurus" to be found on all sorts of communes, what today would be called Cults. Anyway these gurus would spout really deep concepts like 1+1+1=3. If you are higher than a kite, simple things appear very deep.
A very hippie and drug hidden message to these lyrics. Written at a time when it was popular to hear such a message.
Cool song! “Long and Winding Road” is still my favorite!!🤘🔥
Oh! Darling! is a phenomenal song.
Michael, the song is mainly John's and it was about his desire to keep the group together. They were going through break-ups at the time and actually broke up after this album was recorded. Each of the 4 verses is about the individual Beatles - "Hair to his knees" is George, "No shoe-shine" is Paul - he likes going barefoot, "Ono-sideboard" is John and "So hard to see" is Ringo (he's behind the drums....) - the weird words are typical of John's lyrical imagery. At one point in their history everyone except John left the band. Ringo left for a while during the White Album. George left during Let It Be, and even had a solo Album by then, and then finally Paul quit and the Beatles ended. Come Together over me... means, let's keep the band together... That's how I saw it back then and still see it now...for what it's worth...
Ringo, Ringo, Ringo! Wow.
This album was played at every party we had in 1970 at Michigan State.
I think everything in that song went over your head.
If you fancy a brilliant live performance take a look at the rooftop "concert" from back in 1969. They set up on the roof of their Apple HQ in central London and practically caused a riot when the general public realised what was happening above them. They did a few songs but the best was Get Back.
Great video. Great song.
Damn it Michael,...What's with the mayonase.................?
😄😆😂
Ringo’s drums and Paul’s bass drive this song .
That famous riff sounds like a sneaky cat😆 very catchy always loved it
This song is very much like his later song "Give Peace a Chance". "Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Madism, Ragism.... All we are saying, is give peace a chance." The verses don't matter. The chorus is the point.
Lennon was a huge Lewis Carroll reader (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass) and that comes through here and with I Am the Walrus. Sometimes he just wrote things to confound those who kept trying to find meaning in his lyrics.
"I am the Walrus" is also a very trippy song by John Lennon. And also "Strawberry Fields" is similar, by John Lennon. He has quite a way with his lyrics and probably inspired by LSD.
If you think this is psychedelic animation, do not wait! Find yourself a copy of The Yellow Submarine, the last movie that they endorsed. They had little to do with it, as it was conceived in order to fulfil the three movies contract they'd signed in 1963. They endorsed it because it was done under the supervision of Joe Orton and other well known counterculture London artists at the time. It fun, it's trippy and it's The Beatles.
I promise you'll smile...🧓🎭😎
That instrument is bass but as cool as it is, the drums and the swells in the background make it even better.
May I suggest that you keep in mind that John said he was often just making rhymes. There was often very little meaning intended.
Enjoy your reactions!
RUclips still has a really cool, old ad for Nortel Networks that uses this song. Well worth a look.
You want a Beatle trip. Try I am the Walrus or Strawberry Fields... or It's all Too Much, or Across the Universe... or just about every song of theirs. Their catalog is huge. lol
Michael Jackson owned the entire Beatles catalog from 1985 to 2009.
Oh, yeah...this was a trippy one for sure! The guitars, the keyboard and...Ringo is just so amazing! John Loved word play, and absurd wording .He wrote 2 small books of funny poetry and sketches in '64 and '65 that were a bit 'Python-esque' , looking back. (his voice is great, too)
If you haven't done listen to hear comes the sun. Legends beatles
They were the first to figure out music needed to be laid down in tracks to do away with mono we were ready for hi fi . I think the background is a sitar from India. This was when they were getting into psychedelic drugs like LSD. The other thing that the Beatles did was put their new album out on the 1 December great marketing strategy.
The funny thing about this song is that the original lyric was Hold you in his arms and you can feel his physic. not hold you in his arms and you can feel his disease lol.
Early in the Beatles career, John wrote a couple of well-received books. If you read those, it will give you a sense of his use of the absurd. The song started as a political song for a Timothy Leary run for president, but that didn't work out.
I believe Lennon originally wanted to release this as a Plastic Ono Band release.
Regardless, it blasted the AM wavelength when it came out, and then some
John explained this song as a Word Salad, and Come Together was the sexual fashion of the time he lived in. Got sued by Chuck Berry for using some of his lyrics.
backround vocals are saying "shoot me" and it's a bass doing that lick. Paul.
its the beatles,,what do you expect!
LOL this video was done in the last few years,. A lot of these old songs have new videos for you tube. For example "Rocket Man" by elton john etc..
I love that you try to make sense out of this. ❤
sounds like a base playing (paul mccartney) the clicking sound is a dial phone.
That stuttering sound is more likely John saying "shoo" and a studio reverb effect.
When I was telling people about ten years ago that the 'shoot me' sound sounded like a rotary phone dialing a nine, nobody wanted to buy into it.
@@dust4magnet I think it's a dial up phone... either/or both sound good.
John came in one day with this song in a simpler form, when Paul noticed that the lyrics were a direct rip off of CHUCK BERRY"S ----YOU CAN'T CATCH ME. Sorting out John's legal nightmare, he added a cool bass riff, Ringo changed up the rhythm, and Paul and George helped him change a few lyrics to make it less like a potential lawsuit. This is the result. The "video" is from a rock band video game since there were no such things as videos in the 1960s.
Lennon likes to play with words to create imagery in the mind. Most of his words, mean absolutely nothing except a cool turn of phrase, or a clever rhyme.
Well, most of Lennon's lyrics make perfect sense, but he did play with words in a few songs, including this one and I Am the Walrus.
They did promotional films and sent them to Ed Sullivan to play on his Sunday night variety show. I recall seeing the film of "Hey Jude" on the Sullivan show. Then there were their full length films.
i think that video has nothing to do with the beatles or the song, it looks like nintendo wii fit characters.
Michael Jackson made a pretty good cover of this song, check it out if you like
Long live Ringo-George-Paul-John's music!!
It's a play on words. You have to look good vs you have to look well. Good looking is used as you really have to look with focus because otherwise you don't see him. Lennon loved absurd jokes and word play. Check out his books. A spaniard in the works is one of the titles. The Beatles were big Monty Python fans, shared similar sense of humour. Harrison ended up financing Life of Brian.
LSD proponent and California governor candidate Timothy Leary asked John to write a campaign song for him. You just listened to the final result!
John wrote a little book back in the early Beatles days called, "In His Own Write" (q.v.). It was a compilation of little stories and essays, which were mostly nonsense language. He was a lover of nonsense poetry and prose. He loved stories written by O. Henry, Lewis Caroll, Edward Lear, Edward Gorey, and so on. Look them up sometime. He had other Beatle songs with nonsense lyrics, too, such as "I Am The Walrus". He just liked the sounds of certain words coupled with other words. No meaning, just sounds. John was funny that way. The lyrics in "Come Together" are mostly nonsense. Read into them what you will, it's just mainly a bunch of meaningless sounds.
scrap the video, the music speaks for itself
That's bass guitar in the background. Played masterfully by Paul McCartney. Bass guitars usually have four strings and are lower in pitch and smoother.
It's not the first thing most people notice in a band, but you'd miss it if it wasn't there.
PS There is a great movie with all Beatle songs called “across the universe”. Tells the story of the 1960s. Then you’ll get their music. Check the history of Coke
The Beatles also just wrote a lot of songs that had no meaning to them, sounded amazing and came out on top.
It's stream of consciousness lyrics. Michael, did you ever explain the the Hellman's?!
John was asked to write a lyric when Drug (LSD) advocate Timothy Leary thought of running for political office in California in 1968 - phrase "Come Together" -Lennon ended up write this song, stream of conscious lyrics. The first lyric was cribbed from a Chuck Berry song - John paid a fee, to not be sued. Ringo has said this is one his favorite Beatles songs. The Lads had some personal discord in the year before, and in the Spring of 1959 they overcame some of their problems, and recorded the "Abbey Road" album, their last. This video was done for a Greatest Hits set, after 2000.
Everything is relative
The instrument you're hearing that you couldn't identify is a Fender Rhodes electric piano
What you are hearing is a bass guitar. Just so we are clear, the bass is note pronounced like the fish. Bass: "low and deep".
1 an 1 an 1 is 3 and it sounds so exciting
The instrument you are referring to is Paul McCartney's bass line.
This is from 1969, so yeah pretty trippy.
If that video true - Mario Cart has some royalty's to pay lol
John loved to play with words and Images. You just got to go along. John wrote it.
Paul plays the iconic bassline in this song! The video was made in 2009 (approx) when the remix was done. If you look at the Abbey Road album cover, you will notice that the cartoon Beatles are wearing the same clothes! This song is what we call SWAMPY! Piece of advice: Don't try to understand John Lennon 's lyrics! He was a poet and writer and he loved to wordplay and experiment with lyrics. Listen to I Am the Walrus, if you don't believe me!
dude don't try to break it apart too much --just close your eyes and enjoy ..🤟
Never asked, but what's up with the Mayo behind you? It's kinda become your signature thing now. Anyway, another good & fun Beatles song 🎵
John wrote it. Most Beatles song are sung by the person who wrote it.
This song led to the rumor that Paul McCartney died.
Its john Lennon who wrote the song with Paul McCartney
You need to check out the Aerosmith version from the Sgt. Pepper movie. They were so young. I know this movie got bad ratings, but I still like it because of all the famous people in it.
John Lennon wrote this one just to mess with the other 3. It describes each one if them.
It could all mean something or it could all be obviously absurd. John is the king of the absurd. I’ve heard this song thousands of times. I have no idea what it’s all about. I don’t think too much about it. Some songs are just like that.
If you think this is "trippy", watch a Banana Splitz video, or Yellow Submarine.
And Lennon was long dead by the time this video was made.
I think this video come out in 2009 when the new remastered albums were released.
Yeah, it just looks less than adequate compared to their previous animated efforts.
The video is years after the song was produced. I don't care for it much!
Trying to make linear sense out of some of John's more Dada lyrics will only frustrate you. A lot of times he was just having fun with word play while laughing up his sleeve at anyone who took it too seriously. Other times, of course, he was devastating in his rapier command of language, and had few peers in that regard. John was a gifted and respected writer with quite an impressive range, R.I.P.
MD, it's time for you to react to the music documentary,
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I always loved this song and still do. But it always bothers me now that I found out that it starts out with John saying"shoot me" as well as in between the verses. More than ironic, it's absolutely heartbreaking.
and that's not talking about Coca-Cola it's talking about cocaine
Don't get caught up with John's lyrics. He had an impressionist rather than direct lyric style. It creates a mood without literally meaning anything in particular.
More Beatles please. More solo details please!
💟All good thanks for the tunes. PLEASE will you consider the following….
Run to Me by the BeeGees
Casanova70 by Air
Train by Goldfrapp
Song to the Siren by Robert Plant
S-S-S Single Bed by Fox
I’m Gonna Crawl by Led Zeppelin
Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump
Lucky Man by The Verve
Devil Woman by Cliff Richard
Apache by the Shadows
Ride a White Swan by T Rex
Cathy’s Clown by The Everly Brothers
Let’s Stick Together by Brian Ferry
Over You by Roxy Music
Music by John Mills
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack
Sweetheart Like You by Bob Dylan
You’re So Vain (studio version) by Cary Simon
Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club
Power of Love-Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel
Mr Myself and I-Joan Armatrading
Senses Working Overtime by XTC
State of Independence by Donna Summer
I’ll Find My Way Home by Jon and Vangelis
Chung Kuo by Vangelis
Oxigene part 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre
La Femme d’argent by Air
Golden Brown by the Stranglers
Swinging Safari by Bert Kempfert
Love spreads by The Stone Roses
Now that you watched this. Pleas react to Michael Jackson's version of this song.
He had just bought the rights to the entire Beatles catalog and recorded a version of come together.
Imo its far better than the beatles version. Let me know
the song is actually about charles manson
The coca cola plug was probably more of a drug metaphor than actual pop. He shoot coca cola, yeah, definitely drugs, i have a feeling a lot of this was about drugs.
Usual Beatles songs? What’s that? There is no such thing. Most Beatles songs were different from one another. They tried never to repeat themselves.
This was a double sided hit with George Harrisons song Something on the A side the single went to number one in october 1969
Okay, why did I only find out now that Obi-Wan Kenobi has a RUclips channel?
Did you hear John humming "Shoot me!" at the start of this song?
No I missed that