IF YOUR LONELY YOU CAN TALK TO MEEEEE🗣️ •[Audio Issue]: 14:59-15:19 Yellow Submarine* (4:39) Only a Northern Song (6:55) All Together Now (11:11) ⭐️Hey Bulldog (14:20) It's All Too Much (19:07) All You Need Is Love* (24:36) 🚨Second Channel: youtube.com/@dariusdevon1 Uncut Reaction: patreon.com/dariusdevon
As I mentioned previously, I'd love to see you react to my joint fave band, The Who. Who's Next is a great starting point, unless you check out The Kids Are Alright movie, which is pretty much the complete picture. Then A Quick One and The Who Sell Out...
@@IsaacWale2004 The video of them recording it is so fun!! It’s Paul doing the barking. Watching Lennon snd McCartney singing together is always special , this one even more!
'Only a Northern Song' was a 'statement song' by George. Northern Songs Ltd was the publisher/owning company of all the Beatles songs. At this time, John & Paul would tell George his songs weren't 'Beatle-y enough'. So George countered with, 'I wear my hair the same as you, I wore the same clothes, etc.' I'm just as much a Beatle as you, so if I I write a song, it's a Beatle song. Also, it's a nice play on words/pun, because Liverpool is considered a Northern town in England.
Still sounds like ass. I appreciate the meta quality of the song but it doesn’t sound very good. None of the other Beatles and GM didn’t care about it, and George didn’t even care about it that much
I'm excited for you to hear Past Masters 2 cause it's crazy to think after listening to all their discography, you're still missing great songs. You'll dig it
Knew you’d love “Hey Bulldog” and glad you liked George’s “It’s All Too Much.” Yes, this was the soundtrack to a required contract “film”‘which became a cartoon. …and posting this before I watch, but I’m preparing myself for your reaction to “All Together Now” 😅
yo, darius, i've been binging your beatles reactions for the past week. i'm a huge beatles fan, and it's awesome to see other people my age who appreciate their music. keep these reaction videos going mah boi, and i'd love to see you react to their solo works
I do appreciate their music and I’m 11 my grandad showed me the Beatles when I was three that was the first time I can remember listening Then I was just a Beatles fan
I was 8 in '66. Yellow Submarine was instantly the go-to song we sang on school trips when getting there and back by bus. It is very much a football (soccer) crowd chant; you can sing on to infinity. Liverpool is both a major port and home to two Premier League football teams.
In 1999, they released The Yellow Submarine SONGTRACK album, which included all of the songs used in the movie REMIXED. This was the first time any of the Beatles songs got the remix treatment. Some of those mixes are the best mixes, imo. Definitely check that out. It’s available on streaming.
You should watch the video of the recording of Hey Bulldog! It’s very uplifting seeing John and Paul having genuine fun together in a period with a lot of ups and downs in their relationship. That outro is something special!
I believe All You Need is Love was the first Live worldwide broadcast by satellite. There were many live television broadcasts within individual countries before that, going back to the beginnings of television, but the technology to do a worldwide live broadcast wasn't available until satellite technology allowed it. And the Beatles were the first. Peace
You don't have to believe anymore, you are absolutely correct. i will add the other activates and things were involved in the Satellite broadcast as well.
Re: "All Together Now" -- it's a good, old fashioned, British sing-along! For the Brits, "Pub-life" is a real thing. They actually do put the "public" in Pubs because they do gather together to enjoy the company of the community, around some Pints, Pub games, conversation, and music! And, a lot of times, that music is sing-alongs. That's just a deep part of their culture, especially in Liverpool, which is a sea-port town. So, that is where that song comes from, along with songs like "Hey Jude" and "Yellow Submarine".
Only A Northern Song is so underrated imo, they did things with that song that I don’t think anyone else has since. It’s All Too Much might be their most uplifting too imo
The song Yellow Submarine came out in the summer on 1966, and was played repeatedly on the radio, and made that summer a very fun, carefree time. When I hear it I am always reminded of that summer and being 12 years old
It's All Too Much is a seriously underrated Beatles song. So glad you liked it Darius! Looking forward to your Let It Be reaction and I really really hope you'll finally get onto Past Masters Volume 2. It's been too long since you did Volume 1!
I’m not a huge classical guy, like, at all, lol. But I do think it’s worth giving George Martin’s score a chance. It’s genuinely beautiful melodic psychedelic-adjacent arrangements that I think goes beyond the “standard-issue orchestral soundtrack” fare.
The _Yellow Submarine_ album has a pretty long story behind it. It all started in 1965, when American cartoon producer Al Brodax decided to launch a Saturday morning TV cartoon series about the Beatles. Beatles manager Brian Epstein gave him the OK, and he went ahead with it. The mainstay of each half-hour episode was a pair of five-minute cartoon story segments, each built around one particular Beatles recording, using their actual music, but having the "Beatles" characters in the accompanying stories voiced by others (the John and George characters were even voiced by one AMERICAN voice actor). There was a "primary" animation team that did OK work, but in order to fulfill the contracted 26 half-hour episodes for the 1965 fall season on their shoestring TV-cartoon budget, a bunch of segments were "farmed out" to different animators in various countries, the quality of whose animation varied considerably. A team from Australia, in particular, tended to do very shoddy work. When the Beatles got to see some of the episodes, probably including some of the Australian segments, they reportedly HATED what they saw. But, they were stuck with it, and probably figured anyway these were airing in the U.S., where they themselves wouldn't tend to see them. For the 1966 fall season, a smaller number of episodes were called for, and the primary animation team handled all of them, so there was no more outright "junk". At the same time, the Beatles music itself started to become more sophisticated, and some of the new cartoon segments reflected this in a small way. Then, for the 1967 fall season, the final year of new episodes, the small number of episodes required were again all handled by the primary team. By now the songs used included several from the _Revolver_ album, as well as the early-1967 single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever. The innovation of these songs was not loat on the animators, and some pretty entertaining segments were turned out, inspired by the Beatles music. Al Brodax decided to create a full length animated feature film based on the song Yellow Submarine. Early plans were to use the same "Beatles models" they'd been using on TV since 1965, but that idea was scrapped, and new models for the Beatles were designed based on the Beatles of the _Sgt. Pepper_ era. For the planned feature film, it was arranged that the Beatles would provide four songs that would have their exclusive debut in the new film. (As with the TV series, the Beatles were not otherwise involved with the film's creation, and again did not voice their animated selves.) There would also be other "existing" Beatles tracks used, spanning from Nowhere Man to All You Need Is Love. The Beatles, for their part, remembering their dislike of the TV series, decided to donate songs they weren't thrilled with, but figured were good enough for "that film". In mid-1967, after completing recording of _Sgt. Pepper,_ they provided for the film the songs Only a Northern Song, All Together Now, and It's All Too Much. From that same period, I believe they also were also going to donate Baby, You're a Rich Man as the fourth song. In short order, however, they released that song as the B-side of the All You Need Is Love single, meaning it would not be a promised film-exclusive. A fourth song was thus needed, but the Beatles dragged their feet on choosing one. Finally, they had recording sessions in early 1968 where they recorded four songs: Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, Across the Universe, and Hey Bulldog. The first two songs were released as a single, and the last one, with the animation studio now champing at the bit for their last contracted song, was donated as the fourth and final film-exclusive song. Not long afterward, the finished animated film was screened for the Beatles, who were unexpectedly delighted with what they saw. They even agreed to appear in a short live-action scene at the end of the film. The film debuted to the public in July 1968, and was generally well-received. The matter of releasing the four film-songs on disc was still up in the air at that time, however. The Beatles went to work on the "White Album", and it was around this time that, with their old manager Brian Epstein having died the previous year, they took on Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein as THEIR new manager, on the Stones' recommendation (relations between Klein and both the Stones and the Beatles would sour later on, but that had yet to happen). As it also happened the Beatles' recording contract with their record company, EMI, had been renegotiated in early 1967, but by late 1968 they had grown to realize they were not happy with the new contract, wishing they'd gotten a better deal. At Klein's suggestion, they released 30 tracks on the double-disc White Album, which fulfilled their contractual obligation to EMI for the next 2½ years. Shortly after that, they released the four film songs on the _Yellow Submarine_ soundtrack album, which also included, as could only be expected, the title track, plus, as _Magical Mystery Tour_ had not been released as an LP in the UK, what they regarded as the album debut of All You Need Is Love to complete one side of the YS album, with side two consisting of just George Martin film score instrumentals. The Beatles let EMI know that, if the company would NOT renegotiate the group's contract, this was the best they could expect from the Beatles for the next 2½ years! Thus EMI agreed to renegotiate their contact for a much better deal for the group! BTW, if you'd like to see some of the better segments made for the Beatles' TV cartoon series (mostly from 1967 episodes), I have posted several of them on my UA-cam channel. I also posted a couple original segments of my own, mostly mashing up existing bits to fit the new songs, which are I Am the Walrus and Back in the U.S.S.R.!
Hey Darius, I do love the way you listen to these songs, not only giving a first impression in front of the camera, talking things that may satisfy the audiences, but going back to the context, studying the message and theory without taking LSD:)
I think it’s really smart to try to finish out each decade before moving on. It’s really cool to watch the evolution of music as you’ll start to notice the bands that came after expanding and taking stuff from the bands before them
The film Yellow Submarine is a trippy film…people used to drop LSD or smoked pot before watching this film. It’s an animated feature cartoon. The Beatles wrote these songs for the film. The song, Yellow Submarine became a big hit! It was really a children’s film. And All Together Now is a children’s song.
yo ive been really enjoying your reactions, seems like you’re really on that classic rock wave right now and im glad to see how all this music (especially the beatles) is really touching you. once you’re over the whole classic rock stuff i suggest you react to these two bands: radiohead and TOOL. they are in my opinion as profound and transcendant as the beatles can be. also their fanbases would definitely flood to your channel because they love shoving them down people’s throats lmao its a blessing and a curse. if you do decide to dive in to either of their discographies please remember this comment, you will thank me.
Hey Darius, love the reactions! been watching since you first started your Beatles journey on your channel. Let it Be is a very controversial album among Beatles fans. Often regarded as one of the weaker albums like Beatles for Sale. Personally this is one of my favorites. And I feel in recent years its popularity has increased and is starting to be appreciated more. This is particularly due to the Get Back documentary released back in 2021 on Disney+ with previously unreleased footage of the creation of most of the songs off the album. I think you will enjoy Let it Be. The band decided to return to its roots by creating songs using only traditional rock band instruments. It gives the album a live performance feel. They wanted to record their creative process from start to finish ultimately for a live performance. This would endear up being the Let it Be MOVIE, which did not get released in 1970 ,a year after being recorded. After much debate one where/what the final performance would be, the band decided to play on the roof of their studio in London. This became the iconic Rooftop Performance. They played with keyboardist Billy Preston, who also appears on the album as the only artist ever to be credited by name on a Beatles record. His playing brought so much to many of the songs, the band members contemplated inviting him in the band. Ultimately the movie’s release in 1970 was overshadowed by the break up of the band and didn’t perform too well. Plus some of the band members were dissatisfied with the final mixes of the songs. I think you’ll really like this album, it has many hidden gems. I hope this was a good amount of context to hopefully give you a better listening experience.
In an alternate timeline, Sgt Pepper would have included It's All Too Much as well as Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. Now THAT would have been an unsurpassable album
No it would’ve included Only A Northern Song and not It’s All Too Much. OANS was written for Sgt Peppers and was rejected but when IATM was made Sgt Peppers was just around the corner from release date.
For some reason Nothern Song is one of my favorites. Idk what it is exactly, but most probably the combination of the melody, strange psychedelic arrangement and the irony in the lyrics.
Hey Bulldog is so awesome -- there's a video on YT of them doing it in the studio (which shows Paul is the one barking). Re Yellow Submarine, there is a demo (songwriting work tape, pt. 1) on the super deluxe version where John is singing and it is way darker -- worth a listen
You gotta listen to the Love album too! I believe it’s the second best selling remix album of all time if I remember right. It was also the passing of the torch in terms of The Beatles production. It was George Martin’s last and his son Giles Martin’s first Beatles album. …also just gotta say go cubs go!!!!
I don’t know if anyone has told you about it yet but before getting into music Ringo was a gang member in a gang called the Teddy Boys. Gorge was nervous about him joking the group because of that rep.
I recommend the video “The Lingering Mystery in the Wildest Beatles Song” by You Can’t Unhear This. It’s about who’s playing which instrument in It’s All Too Much, which has been debated among fans for decades.
When John sang "You think you know me, but you haven't got a clue", he was not only speaking to the world at large, I think he was also speaking to himself. John and Paul bonded, at least partially, over the shared trauma of losing their mothers at a young age. Other than that, Paul's home life was relatvely stable, whereas John's wasn't. John was always very vulnerable, and looking for something to fill that void Searching for an answer. A sense of place. His first solo album proper takes that as its central theme. George was so liberated by the band's breakup that his 1970 solo debut was a TRIPLE album. There were various albums before the breakup from John and George, but only George's "Wonderwall Music" is listenable. Before getting to the solo albums--which I think are best appreciated in the order of release ("McCartney", "All Things Must Pass", "Plastic Ono Band", "Ringo"--Starr's two 1970 LPs are more like vanity projects to keep busy while the others were arguing)--you should check out "Love", which is a brilliant mashup of Beatles songs, and "The Rutles", a hilarious but reverent rewriting of Beatles history. Finally, both films are acid trips. YS is a good one. MMT is a bad one. I love revisiting my own sense of discovery through your reactions! Keep up the good work, young man!
you've got to listen and react to Jefferson Airplane too! Surrealistic Pillow album is one of the best. Also Odyssey and Oracle by The Zombies deserves a listen
It wasn't the first live television broadcast. Most TV was live when it first started in the 40s and early 50s. It was the first live satellite television broadcast. It was the first time live TV could be broadcast globally.
Dre, you have to do a separate reaction to the music video for Hey Bulldog! Interesting story about the video for that song. Originally, the record company released the video of the Beatles recording "Hey Bulldog" with the song "Lady Madonna" playing over it to promote that particular song. It wasn't until sometime in the 1990's (it was a big news story at the time), that the full footage was found in a drawer somewhere and they realized the footage wasn't for the recording of Lady Madonna, but was actually documenting the Beatles in the recording studio recording "Hey Bulldog". If I were you, I would make one reaction video watching both music videos in it. I would start out with the "Lady Madonna" promo video, then follow it up with the "Hey Bulldog" video next. I've shown it to friends that way and they thought it was really cool. I'll attach links below: The Beatles Lady Madonna promo video: ua-cam.com/video/uLRiGX3L-kw/v-deo.html The Beatles Hey Bulldog promo video: ua-cam.com/video/M4vbJQ-MrKo/v-deo.html Peace
"It's All Too Much" is an under-appreciated song that was denied the legacy it deserves by the timing of it's release. It was recorded a few weeks after Sgt. Pepper's was finished (and as it was being released) in May/June 1967, but didn't get into the public's hands until January 1969 when the Yellow Submarine film soundtrack was released. A lot happened in those 18 months, and IATM had come out in summer/fall 1967, between All You Need Is Love, and Hello Goodbye it would be viewed much differently as the top tier celebratory psychedelic freak-out song it is.
This album is the soundtrack from the movie under the same name bro. Original album released on January 13, 1969 CD first issue: 1987 Songtrack edition: 1999 Remastered version CD: Sept. 9, 2009
Now you need to watch Yellow Submarine the movie!!! (on mushrooms or L if possible lmao) its what made me fall in love with the beatles and get more into philosophy and spirituality
I mentioned Hey Bulldog as one you had to check out on one of your last Beatles vids so I feel like I played a part in this (I'm sure many others did too of course). Really glad you liked it as much as you did!
OANS was one of the first songs written for Pepper but rejected. It’s a cool mellow song. Interesting instrumentation. All Together Now is basically Yellow Sub part II with its childish song along. Love the return of John’s harmonica. Hey Bulldog is one of my favorites. Not a well known song at all. The section of the movie with that song was removed for the US release so no one really heard it. George had three songs on Revolver and four on the White Album
Only A Northern Song, It's All Too Much, and All Together Now had previously been recorded and discarded by the band.... when they were asked for "new" songs for the cartoon, they resurrected these. Explains a lot.
Only A Northern Song can be more appreciated by listening to the version on the 1999 YS Songtrack album that featured the song in stereo for the first time ever. It’s also in true stereo on the 1999 release of the Yellow Submarine film and has very trippy graphics to go along with the song. It’s worth a watch!
I like the way you say you're not gonna review the orchestral parts of this album. They're good but I can't remember the last time I could be arsed to listen to them. My particular faves off this album are All Together Now, It's All Too Much and one of my all time top Beatles tracks - Hey Bulldog.
Let it be naked is clear of let it be imo but would recommend you listen to both to see what Paul wanted vs what happened when Phil Spector got involved
Also is definitely worth watching the Get Back documentary 9 hours of footage of them in their prime desperately trying to make an album in a month at a time when they were drifting apart creatively
The Beatles had to make a promtion film for Lady Madonna. Paul said they didn't want to play that Song again and again. So they worked on a new idea of John called Hey Bulldog. At the end of the day the song was done, but John considered this as an throw away song and they put it on the yellow submarine project. Even worse. The section with that song was cut in some version (I think this includes the USA version). This is all so crazy. I think the Beatles have reached their peak around that time. They had still fun, they still worked as band like well oiled machine and they were full of great ideas they wanted to shape together.
Side note: Andre 3000 did a cover of “All Together Now” and The Roots have a version of “Thought @ Work” that uses the main riff from “Hey Bulldog”. They weren’t able to get the sample cleared for the Phrenology album, so it dropped the riff from the album version. It’s on UA-cam tho. Check it out. It’s sick.
Most of those songs would have been on Magical Mystery Tour, except that that album was an "EP": not long enough to be an album. The Beatles' singles were often not on their albums. In effect, Daytripper/We Can Work It Out was the single for Rubber Soul, Paperback Writer/Rain was the single for Revolver, Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane was the single for Sgt. Pepper, and Hey Jude/ Revolution was the single for the White Album. So people who just listen to the albums are not hearing the songs that the Beatles themselves had picked out as their best. It is certainly worthwhile just to listen to their singles. 20 number ones, as I recall.
Hey, I noticed that you mentioned an orchestral arrangement at the end of the song 'Eclipse' in your review of *The Dark Side of the Moon*. Did you know that this arrangement is actually a direct orchestral version of the song 'Ticket to Ride' by The Beatles?
IF YOUR LONELY YOU CAN TALK TO MEEEEE🗣️
•[Audio Issue]: 14:59-15:19
Yellow Submarine* (4:39)
Only a Northern Song (6:55)
All Together Now (11:11)
⭐️Hey Bulldog (14:20)
It's All Too Much (19:07)
All You Need Is Love* (24:36)
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React to the movie next
I knew you would love Hey Bulldog haha
As I mentioned previously, I'd love to see you react to my joint fave band, The Who. Who's Next is a great starting point, unless you check out The Kids Are Alright movie, which is pretty much the complete picture. Then A Quick One and The Who Sell Out...
@@JohnMoores-t1f The Who is great!! I would love to see him reacting to them too
I think Kids Are Alright would blow his mind; they rock hard, do great harmonies and it's funny too!
hey bulldog is such an underrated gem!!
Its All Too Much is definetly underrated
"Hey Bulldog" is one of the main songs that got me into the Beatles.
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The video of them recording it is so fun!! It’s Paul doing the barking. Watching Lennon snd McCartney singing together is always special , this one even more!
It’s the only reason I bought Yellow Submarine
my dad would play it on piano when i was a kid and i thought it was so cool
Hey Bulldog is probably the #1 most underrated Beatles song.
I still think either it’s all too much and only a northern song are the most underrated I mean hey bulldog had a promotional film
"George-ing around" 😄
"British Alladin"!!!! 🤣
"3 songs left, only 2 new ones. I hope they're both bangers"
Oh, trust me, they are.
'Only a Northern Song' was a 'statement song' by George.
Northern Songs Ltd was the publisher/owning company of all the Beatles songs. At this time, John & Paul would tell George his songs weren't 'Beatle-y enough'. So George countered with, 'I wear my hair the same as you, I wore the same clothes, etc.' I'm just as much a Beatle as you, so if I I write a song, it's a Beatle song.
Also, it's a nice play on words/pun, because Liverpool is considered a Northern town in England.
@@samuelmiller7987 one of my fav songs ever
The pun comes into play with the fact that he was getting into “Eastern music” at the time, or Indian classical music
Still sounds like ass. I appreciate the meta quality of the song but it doesn’t sound very good. None of the other Beatles and GM didn’t care about it, and George didn’t even care about it that much
also to my ear seems to vaguely spoof the structure of Strawberry Fields
Hey Bulldog is hard af
I'm excited for you to hear Past Masters 2 cause it's crazy to think after listening to all their discography, you're still missing great songs. You'll dig it
omg yes, hey bulldog is one of my favourite beatles songs ever
Knew you’d love “Hey Bulldog” and glad you liked George’s “It’s All Too Much.”
Yes, this was the soundtrack to a required contract “film”‘which became a cartoon.
…and posting this before I watch, but I’m preparing myself for your reaction to “All Together Now” 😅
…and the reaction did not disappoint! 😂
yo, darius, i've been binging your beatles reactions for the past week. i'm a huge beatles fan, and it's awesome to see other people my age who appreciate their music. keep these reaction videos going mah boi, and i'd love to see you react to their solo works
I do appreciate their music and I’m 11 my grandad showed me the Beatles when I was three that was the first time I can remember listening Then I was just a Beatles fan
My goat done disappeared again 💔
I was 8 in '66. Yellow Submarine was instantly the go-to song we sang on school trips when getting there and back by bus. It is very much a football (soccer) crowd chant; you can sing on to infinity. Liverpool is both a major port and home to two Premier League football teams.
It's All Too Much is the song that for me SOUNDS like the summer of love
Aka Very Jimi Hendrix
It's All Too Much!!!...one of my fav. songs of all time.
In 1999, they released The Yellow Submarine SONGTRACK album, which included all of the songs used in the movie REMIXED. This was the first time any of the Beatles songs got the remix treatment. Some of those mixes are the best mixes, imo. Definitely check that out. It’s available on streaming.
All You Need is Love was part of the first WORLDWIDE live television broadcast utilizing satellite transmission, something we take for granted now.
I agree, you certainly MUST watch the yellow submarine movie.
someone show this man the cartoon series of the band, he'll be laughing like crazy, i bet!
Lol, as much as I love Paul Frees as a voice actor from the era's cartoons, he sounded completely UNLIKE John 😅
Only a Northern Song is one of my favourite songs by the Beatles. Many don’t like it but I love it. Psychedelic poppity pop pop!
You need to watch the “Anthology” documentary. It’s amazing to hear the Beatles story from the Beatles themselves.
Paul's Bassline on Hey Bulldog 😍
The Yellow Submarine movie is a TRIP!!
I dressed as a Blue Meanie for Halloween back in the day. 😂😂😂😂 I was like, 6? 7?
I watched it just the other day while high and it was one of the best experiences honestly.
You should watch the video of the recording of Hey Bulldog! It’s very uplifting seeing John and Paul having genuine fun together in a period with a lot of ups and downs in their relationship. That outro is something special!
I believe All You Need is Love was the first Live worldwide broadcast by satellite. There were many live television broadcasts within individual countries before that, going back to the beginnings of television, but the technology to do a worldwide live broadcast wasn't available until satellite technology allowed it. And the Beatles were the first.
Peace
It was broadcast to 24 countries and 400 million people watched.
You don't have to believe anymore, you are absolutely correct. i will add the other activates and things were involved in the Satellite broadcast as well.
Underrated gem of an EP.
Re: "All Together Now" -- it's a good, old fashioned, British sing-along! For the Brits, "Pub-life" is a real thing. They actually do put the "public" in Pubs because they do gather together to enjoy the company of the community, around some Pints, Pub games, conversation, and music! And, a lot of times, that music is sing-alongs. That's just a deep part of their culture, especially in Liverpool, which is a sea-port town. So, that is where that song comes from, along with songs like "Hey Jude" and "Yellow Submarine".
Yeah, pub song is more accurate than kids' song, since the lyrics are bit risque.
Only A Northern Song is so underrated imo, they did things with that song that I don’t think anyone else has since. It’s All Too Much might be their most uplifting too imo
Yellow Submarine! You made my Sunday 🎉
The song Yellow Submarine came out in the summer on 1966, and was played repeatedly on the radio, and made that summer a very fun, carefree time. When I hear it I am always reminded of that summer and being 12 years old
It's All Too Much is a seriously underrated Beatles song. So glad you liked it Darius! Looking forward to your Let It Be reaction and I really really hope you'll finally get onto Past Masters Volume 2. It's been too long since you did Volume 1!
George’s frustration (as you mentioned) is what “while my guitar gently weeps“ is all about.
we miss you bro!
Oh man no Past Masters 2 yet? Can't wait for you to hear You Know My Name
Love your singing along on these videos by the way
Man I need to see your Past Masters Vol. 2 reaction
YES PLEASE SIR
I’m not a huge classical guy, like, at all, lol. But I do think it’s worth giving George Martin’s score a chance. It’s genuinely beautiful melodic psychedelic-adjacent arrangements that I think goes beyond the “standard-issue orchestral soundtrack” fare.
Agree! Its extacly what George added to the Beatles like on She‘s Leaving Home etc
Yellow submarine was a number 1 hit. And my youngest son favorite Beatles song. So YES it should be on Revolver 😊
The _Yellow Submarine_ album has a pretty long story behind it. It all started in 1965, when American cartoon producer Al Brodax decided to launch a Saturday morning TV cartoon series about the Beatles. Beatles manager Brian Epstein gave him the OK, and he went ahead with it. The mainstay of each half-hour episode was a pair of five-minute cartoon story segments, each built around one particular Beatles recording, using their actual music, but having the "Beatles" characters in the accompanying stories voiced by others (the John and George characters were even voiced by one AMERICAN voice actor). There was a "primary" animation team that did OK work, but in order to fulfill the contracted 26 half-hour episodes for the 1965 fall season on their shoestring TV-cartoon budget, a bunch of segments were "farmed out" to different animators in various countries, the quality of whose animation varied considerably. A team from Australia, in particular, tended to do very shoddy work. When the Beatles got to see some of the episodes, probably including some of the Australian segments, they reportedly HATED what they saw. But, they were stuck with it, and probably figured anyway these were airing in the U.S., where they themselves wouldn't tend to see them.
For the 1966 fall season, a smaller number of episodes were called for, and the primary animation team handled all of them, so there was no more outright "junk". At the same time, the Beatles music itself started to become more sophisticated, and some of the new cartoon segments reflected this in a small way. Then, for the 1967 fall season, the final year of new episodes, the small number of episodes required were again all handled by the primary team. By now the songs used included several from the _Revolver_ album, as well as the early-1967 single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever. The innovation of these songs was not loat on the animators, and some pretty entertaining segments were turned out, inspired by the Beatles music. Al Brodax decided to create a full length animated feature film based on the song Yellow Submarine. Early plans were to use the same "Beatles models" they'd been using on TV since 1965, but that idea was scrapped, and new models for the Beatles were designed based on the Beatles of the _Sgt. Pepper_ era.
For the planned feature film, it was arranged that the Beatles would provide four songs that would have their exclusive debut in the new film. (As with the TV series, the Beatles were not otherwise involved with the film's creation, and again did not voice their animated selves.) There would also be other "existing" Beatles tracks used, spanning from Nowhere Man to All You Need Is Love. The Beatles, for their part, remembering their dislike of the TV series, decided to donate songs they weren't thrilled with, but figured were good enough for "that film". In mid-1967, after completing recording of _Sgt. Pepper,_ they provided for the film the songs Only a Northern Song, All Together Now, and It's All Too Much. From that same period, I believe they also were also going to donate Baby, You're a Rich Man as the fourth song. In short order, however, they released that song as the B-side of the All You Need Is Love single, meaning it would not be a promised film-exclusive. A fourth song was thus needed, but the Beatles dragged their feet on choosing one. Finally, they had recording sessions in early 1968 where they recorded four songs: Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, Across the Universe, and Hey Bulldog. The first two songs were released as a single, and the last one, with the animation studio now champing at the bit for their last contracted song, was donated as the fourth and final film-exclusive song.
Not long afterward, the finished animated film was screened for the Beatles, who were unexpectedly delighted with what they saw. They even agreed to appear in a short live-action scene at the end of the film. The film debuted to the public in July 1968, and was generally well-received. The matter of releasing the four film-songs on disc was still up in the air at that time, however. The Beatles went to work on the "White Album", and it was around this time that, with their old manager Brian Epstein having died the previous year, they took on Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein as THEIR new manager, on the Stones' recommendation (relations between Klein and both the Stones and the Beatles would sour later on, but that had yet to happen). As it also happened the Beatles' recording contract with their record company, EMI, had been renegotiated in early 1967, but by late 1968 they had grown to realize they were not happy with the new contract, wishing they'd gotten a better deal. At Klein's suggestion, they released 30 tracks on the double-disc White Album, which fulfilled their contractual obligation to EMI for the next 2½ years. Shortly after that, they released the four film songs on the _Yellow Submarine_ soundtrack album, which also included, as could only be expected, the title track, plus, as _Magical Mystery Tour_ had not been released as an LP in the UK, what they regarded as the album debut of All You Need Is Love to complete one side of the YS album, with side two consisting of just George Martin film score instrumentals. The Beatles let EMI know that, if the company would NOT renegotiate the group's contract, this was the best they could expect from the Beatles for the next 2½ years! Thus EMI agreed to renegotiate their contact for a much better deal for the group!
BTW, if you'd like to see some of the better segments made for the Beatles' TV cartoon series (mostly from 1967 episodes), I have posted several of them on my UA-cam channel. I also posted a couple original segments of my own, mostly mashing up existing bits to fit the new songs, which are I Am the Walrus and Back in the U.S.S.R.!
Hey Darius, I do love the way you listen to these songs, not only giving a first impression in front of the camera, talking things that may satisfy the audiences, but going back to the context, studying the message and theory without taking LSD:)
I think it’s really smart to try to finish out each decade before moving on. It’s really cool to watch the evolution of music as you’ll start to notice the bands that came after expanding and taking stuff from the bands before them
It's All Too Much is one of catchies and best songs. It can make your day better!
Darius, light one up and watch the YS film!! Now THAT will be a trip
Only a Nothern Song, Hey Bulldog and It's All To Much are very good. certainly the best of this Beatles "album"
Yes, it was an animated film. The soundtrack was released in 1966. Watch the movie. You’d enjoy it.
The film Yellow Submarine is a trippy film…people used to drop LSD or smoked pot before watching this film. It’s an animated feature cartoon. The Beatles wrote these songs for the film. The song, Yellow Submarine became a big hit! It was really a children’s film. And All Together Now is a children’s song.
Its all too much is a fire song from this one
When I was five, I’d crawl under my bed with my tape of this soundtrack and vibe to Northern Song and Hey Bulldog
let it be is one of their best albums don’t let anybody convince u otherwise
“It’s All Too Much” along with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is my favorite Beatle-era George song.
DARIUS.. your a real good guy.and l would love to sit down and smoke with you and listen to music your a good bloke mate... say no more ☮️🇦🇺🇺🇸
All of these songs were recorded in 67 or early 68.
Darius this Beatles trip has been memorable. Love it dude. When you are done you need to get on Rush and Radiohead.
yo ive been really enjoying your reactions, seems like you’re really on that classic rock wave right now and im glad to see how all this music (especially the beatles) is really touching you. once you’re over the whole classic rock stuff i suggest you react to these two bands: radiohead and TOOL. they are in my opinion as profound and transcendant as the beatles can be. also their fanbases would definitely flood to your channel because they love shoving them down people’s throats lmao its a blessing and a curse. if you do decide to dive in to either of their discographies please remember this comment, you will thank me.
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he’ll be back september 4th or 5th
Hey Darius, love the reactions! been watching since you first started your Beatles journey on your channel.
Let it Be is a very controversial album among Beatles fans. Often regarded as one of the weaker albums like Beatles for Sale. Personally this is one of my favorites. And I feel in recent years its popularity has increased and is starting to be appreciated more. This is particularly due to the Get Back documentary released back in 2021 on Disney+ with previously unreleased footage of the creation of most of the songs off the album.
I think you will enjoy Let it Be. The band decided to return to its roots by creating songs using only traditional rock band instruments. It gives the album a live performance feel. They wanted to record their creative process from start to finish ultimately for a live performance. This would endear up being the Let it Be MOVIE, which did not get released in 1970 ,a year after being recorded. After much debate one where/what the final performance would be, the band decided to play on the roof of their studio in London. This became the iconic Rooftop Performance. They played with keyboardist Billy Preston, who also appears on the album as the only artist ever to be credited by name on a Beatles record. His playing brought so much to many of the songs, the band members contemplated inviting him in the band.
Ultimately the movie’s release in 1970 was overshadowed by the break up of the band and didn’t perform too well. Plus some of the band members were dissatisfied with the final mixes of the songs.
I think you’ll really like this album, it has many hidden gems. I hope this was a good amount of context to hopefully give you a better listening experience.
I feel like the Edge from U2 heard ITS ALL TOO MUCH and said to himself “I shall base my entire career around that guitar style!” And then he did 😂
The new 2023 mix of hey bulldog may be the hardest thing I’ve ever heard. Definitely recommend giving that a listen
Great reactions !!
Very genuine
In an alternate timeline, Sgt Pepper would have included It's All Too Much as well as Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. Now THAT would have been an unsurpassable album
No it would’ve included Only A Northern Song and not It’s All Too Much. OANS was written for Sgt Peppers and was rejected but when IATM was made Sgt Peppers was just around the corner from release date.
Only a Northern Song was recorded during the Pepper sessions but It’s All Too Much was recorded a month after it came out
Would've been a bit long... best to remove a few tracks if you do that...
when youre done with the beatles you NEED NEEEEED to listen to the LOVE album
Oh, add Talking Heads to your list for the late-70s, 80s. Incredible band.
Hell yeah. Remain In Light and then start form beginning.
@@JC20XX This is the way to do it!
For some reason Nothern Song is one of my favorites. Idk what it is exactly, but most probably the combination of the melody, strange psychedelic arrangement and the irony in the lyrics.
Hey Bulldog is so awesome -- there's a video on YT of them doing it in the studio (which shows Paul is the one barking).
Re Yellow Submarine, there is a demo (songwriting work tape, pt. 1) on the super deluxe version where John is singing and it is way darker -- worth a listen
Yeah, the song was changed from “Hey Bullfrog” to “Hey Bulldog” when John heard Paul barking and thought it was so funny it should be in a song.
You gotta listen to the Love album too!
I believe it’s the second best selling remix album of all time if I remember right.
It was also the passing of the torch in terms of The Beatles production.
It was George Martin’s last and his son Giles Martin’s first Beatles album.
…also just gotta say go cubs go!!!!
You’d love the Concert for Bangladesh. George, Ringo, Bob Dylan, and more. The first benefit concert that led the way for all others.
I don’t know if anyone has told you about it yet but before getting into music Ringo was a gang member in a gang called the Teddy Boys. Gorge was nervous about him joking the group because of that rep.
I recommend the video “The Lingering Mystery in the Wildest Beatles Song” by You Can’t Unhear This. It’s about who’s playing which instrument in It’s All Too Much, which has been debated among fans for decades.
Hey bulldog is a throw away for a animated film and to most other bands it would be their best song ever. Thats how good they are.
First darius video with my new headphones let's go
When John sang "You think you know me, but you haven't got a clue", he was not only speaking to the world at large, I think he was also speaking to himself. John and Paul bonded, at least partially, over the shared trauma of losing their mothers at a young age. Other than that, Paul's home life was relatvely stable, whereas John's wasn't. John was always very vulnerable, and looking for something to fill that void Searching for an answer. A sense of place. His first solo album proper takes that as its central theme.
George was so liberated by the band's breakup that his 1970 solo debut was a TRIPLE album. There were various albums before the breakup from John and George, but only George's "Wonderwall Music" is listenable.
Before getting to the solo albums--which I think are best appreciated in the order of release ("McCartney", "All Things Must Pass", "Plastic Ono Band", "Ringo"--Starr's two 1970 LPs are more like vanity projects to keep busy while the others were arguing)--you should check out "Love", which is a brilliant mashup of Beatles songs, and "The Rutles", a hilarious but reverent rewriting of Beatles history.
Finally, both films are acid trips. YS is a good one. MMT is a bad one. I love revisiting my own sense of discovery through your reactions! Keep up the good work, young man!
you've got to listen and react to Jefferson Airplane too! Surrealistic Pillow album is one of the best. Also Odyssey and Oracle by The Zombies deserves a listen
It wasn't the first live television broadcast. Most TV was live when it first started in the 40s and early 50s. It was the first live satellite television broadcast. It was the first time live TV could be broadcast globally.
When you watch the movie, be sure to watch the one with Hey Bulldog included. That scene was cut on the original release.
Another great video Darius! Looking forward to the Let It Be album review.
Dre, you have to do a separate reaction to the music video for Hey Bulldog! Interesting story about the video for that song. Originally, the record company released the video of the Beatles recording "Hey Bulldog" with the song "Lady Madonna" playing over it to promote that particular song. It wasn't until sometime in the 1990's (it was a big news story at the time), that the full footage was found in a drawer somewhere and they realized the footage wasn't for the recording of Lady Madonna, but was actually documenting the Beatles in the recording studio recording "Hey Bulldog". If I were you, I would make one reaction video watching both music videos in it. I would start out with the "Lady Madonna" promo video, then follow it up with the "Hey Bulldog" video next. I've shown it to friends that way and they thought it was really cool.
I'll attach links below:
The Beatles Lady Madonna promo video:
ua-cam.com/video/uLRiGX3L-kw/v-deo.html
The Beatles Hey Bulldog promo video:
ua-cam.com/video/M4vbJQ-MrKo/v-deo.html
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"It's All Too Much" is an under-appreciated song that was denied the legacy it deserves by the timing of it's release. It was recorded a few weeks after Sgt. Pepper's was finished (and as it was being released) in May/June 1967, but didn't get into the public's hands until January 1969 when the Yellow Submarine film soundtrack was released. A lot happened in those 18 months, and IATM had come out in summer/fall 1967, between All You Need Is Love, and Hello Goodbye it would be viewed much differently as the top tier celebratory psychedelic freak-out song it is.
This album is the soundtrack from the movie under the same name bro.
Original album released on January 13, 1969
CD first issue: 1987
Songtrack edition: 1999
Remastered version CD: Sept. 9, 2009
Now you need to watch Yellow Submarine the movie!!! (on mushrooms or L if possible lmao) its what made me fall in love with the beatles and get more into philosophy and spirituality
where did you go off to?
I mentioned Hey Bulldog as one you had to check out on one of your last Beatles vids so I feel like I played a part in this (I'm sure many others did too of course). Really glad you liked it as much as you did!
gotta trip and watch the movie, peak experience
OANS was one of the first songs written for Pepper but rejected. It’s a cool mellow song. Interesting instrumentation. All Together Now is basically Yellow Sub part II with its childish song along. Love the return of John’s harmonica. Hey Bulldog is one of my favorites. Not a well known song at all. The section of the movie with that song was removed for the US release so no one really heard it.
George had three songs on Revolver and four on the White Album
We are so close to him reacting to the movie. I can't wait.
Only A Northern Song, It's All Too Much, and All Together Now had previously been recorded and discarded by the band.... when they were asked for "new" songs for the cartoon, they resurrected these. Explains a lot.
Very good reaction, bro!
Second comment I'm posting but honestly your Beatles journey has been REALLY fun to watch! Happy to be along for the ride :)
Only A Northern Song can be more appreciated by listening to the version on the 1999 YS Songtrack album that featured the song in stereo for the first time ever. It’s also in true stereo on the 1999 release of the Yellow Submarine film and has very trippy graphics to go along with the song. It’s worth a watch!
I just love what ever they do.. say no more ☮️🇦🇺🇺🇸
I like the way you say you're not gonna review the orchestral parts of this album. They're good but I can't remember the last time I could be arsed to listen to them. My particular faves off this album are All Together Now, It's All Too Much and one of my all time top Beatles tracks - Hey Bulldog.
Let it be naked is clear of let it be imo but would recommend you listen to both to see what Paul wanted vs what happened when Phil Spector got involved
Also is definitely worth watching the Get Back documentary
9 hours of footage of them in their prime desperately trying to make an album in a month at a time when they were drifting apart creatively
20:27 that Hoo crazy
Its All Too Much is literal acid rock. As in, George wrote it about an acid trip
Yellow Submarine the movie was an amazing animation achievement for its time.
The Beatles had to make a promtion film for Lady Madonna. Paul said they didn't want to play that Song again and again. So they worked on a new idea of John called Hey Bulldog. At the end of the day the song was done, but John considered this as an throw away song and they put it on the yellow submarine project. Even worse. The section with that song was cut in some version (I think this includes the USA version).
This is all so crazy. I think the Beatles have reached their peak around that time. They had still fun, they still worked as band like well oiled machine and they were full of great ideas they wanted to shape together.
Side note: Andre 3000 did a cover of “All Together Now” and The Roots have a version of “Thought @ Work” that uses the main riff from “Hey Bulldog”. They weren’t able to get the sample cleared for the Phrenology album, so it dropped the riff from the album version. It’s on UA-cam tho. Check it out. It’s sick.
Most of those songs would have been on Magical Mystery Tour, except that that album was an "EP": not long enough to be an album.
The Beatles' singles were often not on their albums. In effect, Daytripper/We Can Work It Out was the single for Rubber Soul, Paperback Writer/Rain was the single for Revolver, Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane was the single for Sgt. Pepper, and Hey Jude/ Revolution was the single for the White Album. So people who just listen to the albums are not hearing the songs that the Beatles themselves had picked out as their best. It is certainly worthwhile just to listen to their singles. 20 number ones, as I recall.
Yes. You have to watch the movie. Enjoy it and don't overthink it. It's premise is simple
Hey, I noticed that you mentioned an orchestral arrangement at the end of the song 'Eclipse' in your review of *The Dark Side of the Moon*. Did you know that this arrangement is actually a direct orchestral version of the song 'Ticket to Ride' by The Beatles?
You'll love Simon and Garfunkel.... really important part of the 60s'.