@Bipbop66 it is on patreon! He just puts it on UA-cam for the likes of me who shouldn't spend what little money they have on Patreon, and I'm very grateful 🙏
…unbelievably productive- And the handwringing around the breakup😳 George once said of them that they’d ’given their never systems’ So I still get irritated when I read about John being ‘lazy’ - While I’m still endlessly enriched by their work to this day. I think they could’ve used a vacation! And in a way, trip to India was a ‘short’ one, whereupon the six or whatever weeks spent there birthed 30+ songs - unbelievable ❤
Some people, including George Martin, wanted to cut songs and make it a single album. As for me, I'm glad we have all these songs. The more Beatles, the better.
It was chock full of filler by Beatles standards but by the standards of everyone else? Pure gold at every turn. Yes as a 15-track single LP it would be their best ever. But even at 30 it may still be that! And there were still a few good tunes written along the way that didn't make the cut but showed up later on Beatles or solo LPs
The thing is, what I have learnt from reading many comments on the subject over the years on YT, is that: 1) everyone thinks they know for sure which those 'filler' songs are, and 2) nobody thinks it's the same songs - one person's definite 'throwaway song' always turning out to be amongst someone else's favourites... So maybe keeping nearly all of them in was the right decision after all...
sexy sadie was about the Maharishi. When in north India at the Maharishi transcendental meditation retreat with many top names Mia Farrow's sister Prudence was inappropriately groped by the Maharishi who claimed he was looking for her center of breathing.. The Beatles decided to leave and John was given the task of telling him. Apparently he told the Maharishi w're leaving the Maharishi said why? and Lennon said if you're so fucking cosmic you tell me. Apparently the song sexy sadie was going to be 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool of everyone'
John wanted to name it Maharishi and the others talked him out of it, changed it to Sadie. At some point John had the C U Next Tues word in there as well. Even John had to know that wasn't going to fly. Some believe Magic Alex made the whole groping thing up because he wanted to go home.
Yeah, the bass sound all over The White Album is unique and never repeated on any other Beatles album. Apparently McCartney would often play Keyboards or guitar during the original tracks and get George or John to play along on bass with the newly purchased Fender 6 string bass. And then Paul would overdub the bass part again on his Fender Precision to beef up the more trebly 6-string sound. So the sound we hear more often than not is 2 basses played together. Very different sound from Paul's earlier Hofner/Rickenbacker sound - Although the Hofner & Fender 6 reappears on Let It Be and then we are back to the Precision & the 6-string on Abbey Road (but this time not usually playing at the same time together).
Back in the day we had been spoiled by years of torrential production of incredible music from the Beatles. I think I was numb or a bit jaded by the time the White album came out. It’s only after revisiting decades later that I now give it the respect it deserves. I am not enamored by every track, but as I always say: The Beatles’ song you like least is still better than 95% of the songs released at the time.
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
People always say that Sgt. Peppers was the most influential album of all time. But I think it was the White Album. Because it contains all the musical styles that defined rock music from that point (1968) until well into the 1970s. The White Album is the root of 70s rock.
Abbey Road, maybe, with its high polish and early use of synthesizers, perhaps. If you listen to The Cars first album (1978) it has Abbey Road all over it, for example.
Helter Skelter was the hardest song ever made, up to that point in time, and Paul made it that way to prove a point, and show up a musician friend who said his band had recorded the hardest song yet. Paul said, basically, "Hold my joint." 😂 This album proves just how great The Beatles truly were, even more than Sgt. Pepper's, IMO, because of the diversity of styles and wild experimentation. I love Sgt. Pepper's but the White Album is a whole other ball of wax. Thanks, for posting this, even if it won't stay up for long. ❤👍✌️
They jammed for another 20 minutes at the end of Helter Skelter. So they edited most of that out and brought it back with true ending of the jam, when Ringo's decalres, "I got blister's on my fingers".
The long take of Helter Skelter (27 minutes) was the first version. There is a 13 minute take of the first version on UA-cam from The Beatles. The released song was version 2.
Dude. A 30 song double album. THIRTY! Are you kidding me? And other than Revolution #9 which a lot of folks didn’t care for, including me, all the tunes were so amazing, so different, so, just so fuckin Beatles. I will never tire of them, even after 60+ years, their shit just gets better. It is so crazy. But anyway- thx Lee. Fun times as always. Even though I have 2 copies of every Beatles album, plus the vinyl stuff, I still love comin here and listening with you. Peace my brother.🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹✌️😎
Maybe this is controversial, but I am glad Revolution No. 9 is on this album. I mean it’s not even a song and it lasts far too long and there isn’t really anything redeemable about it EXCEPT for the fact that it’s there and the Beatles did something crazy and different AGAIN!! Only the greatest band in the world could produce the most hated track there is, and I love it for that very reason. Even there worst thing gets all the attention
Almost all the White Album was composed in India and worked on once back in England. Birthday has Patti Boyd Harrison in the studio. It might have been her birthday. Yer Blues was done live in a small, closet size room. One of Lennon's best vocals. To hear you call out Big Momma Thorton was a treat. My how you've grown musically of late, my friend. Kudos. On Mother's Nature Son I think it's Ringo slapping his thighs keeping time. No need to explain Me And My Monkee; Sexy Sadie was about slandering the Maharishi due to John's mistrust of him in the end. Love the sound of the piano in the opening. Lennon's singing is also great. Magic Alex visited them in India and left the impression that he had a mission to get the Beatles out of there and back to England. It has been suggested by Cynthia Lennon herself, that Magic Alex is the person that started the rumor about the impropriety between the Maharishi and Prudence. And Lennon ate it up, left and wrote a song about it. So as you can see, many more versions to that story than wiki page cares to explore. Helter Skelter is a slide in the UK and Paul is just making loud hard and heavy rock. The song got used by Charles Mansion as a McGuffin to incite his "family" to commit murder thus making the song infamous in its day. George Harrison once stated that the name of his song initially was 'It's Been A Long Long Long Time' but he thought it a bit too long long long. Side 3 is epic. Side 4 is the closure. Great react Lee. Thanks for posting it.
John actually had Maharishi in the lyric. It was George Harrison who said you can’t say that right out like that and suggested using Sexy Sadie, which John liked.
Comparing earlier albums to this shows their progression and experimentation with different instruments. Obviously they had free reign to do whatver they wanted here. Love to see how much you're into them Lee - can you imagine being around at the time and living it. As you can see by the comments our generation listened to this album over and over and over again. Pure genius.
Let's start a side with Martha My Dear and the next with Birthday. Just to show everybody that we can do everything. I'm always in two minds about which album is my favourite of all time, Abbey Road or The White Album. As much as I appreciate experimentation and unpredictability, Revolution no 9 is not something I enjoy in the mix of me rocking, swaying and grooving to the rest of the songs. But then I hear Mother Nature's son, Blackbird, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps etc etc etc and think: "Wow, that is an incredible album!"
Helter Skelter is a perfect illustration of what I mentioned earlier. You are encountering it a second time a long time later while this huge amount of experiencing context grew up around you. I think it's fantastic.
I remember getting the cassette of the white album and listening to it on my boom box. It was magical. I sat up and thought, why hasn’t anyone told me about this album? Why am I just now hearing it? People should be telling everyone to listen to this album. It is by far the best album of all time.
It really does my heart good to see young music fans getting into the Beatles.I was born in 1957 and they were the soundtrack of my youth.I see you are also into many artists from the 60s and 70s,there is plenty to choose from,though the Beatles are the pinnacle.Keep listening 👍
I'm your age, and I tell people I imprinted on the Beatles , although I do remember some earlier music (Sealed With a Kiss, Roses are Red ). For me, all rock music is in comparison to the Beatles. And they led every year with their latest album and we would think, oh, OK, this is what we are doing now.
The crazy thing is that they all played different instruments. Some songs Paul plays drums. Ringo can play piano and John and George played some bass on some songs.
Bought this album for my 1st girlfriend, Christmas '68. It was a kingly gift, around $6.99! I had jus turned 15. Mind-blowing album with so much to react to and dissect and enjoy!
Hearing these songs in their proper context makes such a massive difference - remember this is the way they wanted them heard and was the only way at the time to hear them
Yeah, I haven’t listened straight thru the sides like this in decades. You’re right it’s a mind trip of the Beatles and sounds and music, an adventure, a tour de force
How crazy is it that Manson called his revolution Helter Skelter and the whole scheme was blown when Susan Atkins (aka Sadie, yes that’s right, Sadie) blabbed to her cellmate. “Sexy Sadie, what have you done. You made a fool of everyone”
I have been with you since you started this...(I should give you some support...I'm piling up sponsorships...) and I have been rewarded with your growth. I really enjoy your Beatles and Steely Dan reactions. I've come to look forward seeing your posts. The fact that you remarked in passing that C. Manson was likely a CIA project gave me pause; I didn't expect, and am delighted that you are aware of this! When you open your mind to the possibility, and read the research on this (mostly by Tom O'Neil, but also by Mae Brussell) and put into perspective just how much resistance there is to positivity in the advancement of the human project- well, I love an open mind. Fare thee well, young brother.
I used to lie on my back with my head between the speakers on our "Radiogram" so I could feel the bass on Long Long Long. You bring back such great memories for us old guys. I wish you could have been there. You would have loved it. It was a blast. Thanks!
This may be my fave side of the whole thing. I don't think a song warped my young, impressionable brain like "Sexy Sadie" did. It opened me up to odd cadences, metaphors, subversive pop music... I was ruined for life!
McCartney said that “Everybody’s …Monkey” is the last time The Beatles improvised, jammed, and had a blast in the studio together. As far as the future goes? We all expected we’d have domed cities and flying cars by now!
Part of the weirdness at the end of "Long, Long, Long" was an accident. An empty bottle on the top of a speaker started rattling during a take, so they incorporated the effect into the song.
Nilsson does a nearly spot on exact cover. It's almost like Paul wrote it for Harry. It's such a beautiful song and it takes me back to my childhood playing outside without a care in the world.
As a kid of 8 or 9 I only listened to sides 1 and 2. I discovered this side when I was 14 and or 15, after I really got into harder rock (for the most part) and went crazy over it. Helter Skelter was my big favorite, followed by Yer Blues. The contrast from song to song is just wild, most of this side is constant extreme changes - Yer Blues to Mother Natures Son to Everybody's GOt Something... to Sexy Sadie to Helter Skelter to Long Long Long, just all over the place. You can't really categorize this album, other than insanely diverse. Not another band in the world who can do all those styles and do them so well. A lot of bands from that era were really diverse, but The Beatles were at the top.
Finished 3of 3. You have to understand when us boomers first listened to these albums, we were listening on “crappy” hi fi. Now through high tech equipment, it’s like we’re listening for the first time. Keep up the good work sir.
I always think that Yer Blues is pure John, screaming his heart out about being suicidal, followed by pure Paul with Mother Natures Son, singing sweetly about daisies in the sunshine. It’s kind of a perfect juxtaposition.
Your reactions to The Beatles mean a lot to old geezers like me. They are truly special. It's impossible to have a favorite song. I loved Rocky Raccoon like I knew him as a kid when this came out. Paul's I Will is a masterpiece among many but especially brilliant. The whole album is so all over the place it is amazing. Arguably their best album along with Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Let it Be, Abby Road, Rubber Soul, and Revolution. Truly amazing ... These for lads from Liverpool. Thank you, my young friend.
This side is right up there with side 2 of Abbey Road as the Beatles finest. Absolutely echo your reaction at the end of 'Monkey', I always felt cheated that this didn't go on for another couple of minutes
there was a restaurant in chelsea (manhattan) in the 80s that would shut off the lights and blast this (Birthday) when it was someone's birthday and they were bringing out a cake.......loved it. forgot the name, 23rd st bet 8th and 9th.
For me Long Long Long is the sleeper on this side. For many years I listened but didn't fully appreciate. Then finally it clicked-this is a fantastic, surreal endin' to side 3.
The story told by Farrow was about Dear Prudence was they were all out socializing and she wanted to stay in the room, she didn’t want to join the group. Hence Dear Prudence won’t you come out to play
Ever since this Album came out, me and a couple of my friends played Birthday for each other now, for over 50 years !!! Damn that's a lot of birthdays.
Hey man, I appreciate that a lot. Even if all these beautiful views don’t mean a thing since I I have to delete them. 😂🫡 I’m glad I got to share it with yall. Side 4 will be out in 1 day. Basically Saturday morning.
There were many tracks that either they jammed to or demoed during The Beatles (White Album) recording sessions like Let It Be, Jealous Guy, Junk, Not Guilty, Oh My Love and Gimmie Some Truth.
This will only be up for a short time.
Loving it while it's here!
Consider patreon, then?
Making hay…
@Bipbop66 it is on patreon! He just puts it on UA-cam for the likes of me who shouldn't spend what little money they have on Patreon, and I'm very grateful 🙏
@@RoadienicknamedRory I’m making hay while the sun shines..not critical of Lee at all.
When they say nobody was doing this sort of stuff before the Beatles, they mean NOBODY was doing this stuff before the Beatles
Like Mozart and Beethoven these people will be remembered for 500 years.
There is no telling how Great The Beatles were.
There will never be another band like the beatles.....500 years from now they will still be playing beatles music.....greatest band ever!!!
McCartney's bass playing on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide except for Me and my Monkey" is phenomenal.
Yeah, boy!
His bass playing on the whole album!!
No one comes close to them-as Paul Simon once said “What planet are they from?” Helter Skelter- first Metal song 1968!
It’s crazy to have this album with 30 songs and then have singles lady Madonna, hey bulldog ,Hey Jude and revolution as singles in the same year.
Humanity will be unpacking the quality and quantity of the Beatles' output for a long, long, long time.
…unbelievably productive-
And the handwringing around the breakup😳 George once said of them that they’d ’given their never systems’
So I still get irritated when I read about John being ‘lazy’ -
While I’m still endlessly enriched by their work to this day. I think they could’ve used a vacation! And in a way, trip to India was a ‘short’ one, whereupon the six or whatever weeks spent there birthed 30+ songs - unbelievable ❤
The B-side to "Lady Madonna" was "The Inner Light".
"Hey Bulldog" was released on the "Yellow Submarine" album.
@@waynec3563The single that should have been!
The most versatile band in the world
They really could write and sing in any style perfectly
There's such an edge to The White Album. It's unnerving but fucking amazing
Some people, including George Martin, wanted to cut songs and make it a single album. As for me, I'm glad we have all these songs. The more Beatles, the better.
It was chock full of filler by Beatles standards but by the standards of everyone else? Pure gold at every turn. Yes as a 15-track single LP it would be their best ever. But even at 30 it may still be that! And there were still a few good tunes written along the way that didn't make the cut but showed up later on Beatles or solo LPs
The thing is, what I have learnt from reading many comments on the subject over the years on YT, is that:
1) everyone thinks they know for sure which those 'filler' songs are, and
2) nobody thinks it's the same songs - one person's definite 'throwaway song' always turning out to be amongst someone else's favourites...
So maybe keeping nearly all of them in was the right decision after all...
There's no filler on the White Album. The volume and eclecticism is what makes it so brilliant. Removing any track would weaken the best album ever.
@@thetoadsong
You're absolutely right!
sexy sadie was about the Maharishi. When in north India at the Maharishi transcendental meditation retreat with many top names Mia Farrow's sister Prudence was inappropriately groped by the Maharishi who claimed he was looking for her center of breathing.. The Beatles decided to leave and John was given the task of telling him. Apparently he told the Maharishi w're leaving the Maharishi said why? and Lennon said if you're so fucking cosmic you tell me. Apparently the song sexy sadie was going to be 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool of everyone'
@l33reacts must-read comment!
John wanted to name it Maharishi and the others talked him out of it, changed it to Sadie. At some point John had the C U Next Tues word in there as well. Even John had to know that wasn't going to fly.
Some believe Magic Alex made the whole groping thing up because he wanted to go home.
Sexy Sadie is also sampled in Karma Police
@@IvanFlavin No it's not, the piano line is just a bit similar
@@petersilktube I shouldn't have said sampled, I guess. It's inspired by sexy Sadie but not exactly the same.
"Long, Long, Long" is my favorite song on the album. There's just something very special about that recording.
It’s super chilled.
I agree completely
The bass sound on this album is so chunky and meaty. One of my favourite bass sounds. It really shines on Yer Blues.
Yeah, the bass sound all over The White Album is unique and never repeated on any other Beatles album. Apparently McCartney would often play Keyboards or guitar during the original tracks and get George or John to play along on bass with the newly purchased Fender 6 string bass. And then Paul would overdub the bass part again on his Fender Precision to beef up the more trebly 6-string sound. So the sound we hear more often than not is 2 basses played together. Very different sound from Paul's earlier Hofner/Rickenbacker sound - Although the Hofner & Fender 6 reappears on Let It Be and then we are back to the Precision & the 6-string on Abbey Road (but this time not usually playing at the same time together).
'I got blisters on my fingers!'
Ringo!
This also happens when you play the Guitar to much.
@@AlBarzUK Yes, a spontaneous exclamation of real pain!
Back in the day we had been spoiled by years of torrential production of incredible music from the Beatles. I think I was numb or a bit jaded by the time the White album came out. It’s only after revisiting decades later that I now give it the respect it deserves. I am not enamored by every track, but as I always say: The Beatles’ song you like least is still better than 95% of the songs released at the time.
Birthday is the best birthday song of any era.
Birthday….often taken for granted, but man it rocks!!
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
One of the best albums of all time... ❤❤❤❤
It made UA-cam! Thank you for covering this album the right way, all the way through. ✌️❤️🎶
People always say that Sgt. Peppers was the most influential album of all time. But I think it was the White Album. Because it contains all the musical styles that defined rock music from that point (1968) until well into the 1970s. The White Album is the root of 70s rock.
Abbey Road, maybe, with its high polish and early use of synthesizers, perhaps. If you listen to The Cars first album (1978) it has Abbey Road all over it, for example.
Oh yeah, the White Album is all that. The progression from one Beatles phase to another. Mind blowing.
I absolutely agree. 70's and even part of 80's music owe a lot to the White Album.
The Beatles kicked the door in and everyone else followed!🙏
Helter Skelter was the hardest song ever made, up to that point in time, and Paul made it that way to prove a point, and show up a musician friend who said his band had recorded the hardest song yet. Paul said, basically, "Hold my joint." 😂
This album proves just how great The Beatles truly were, even more than Sgt. Pepper's, IMO, because of the diversity of styles and wild experimentation. I love Sgt. Pepper's but the White Album is a whole other ball of wax. Thanks, for posting this, even if it won't stay up for long. ❤👍✌️
Well, kind of. Paul *read* someone from The Who saying they had made the raunchiest loudest noise ever (I Can See for Miles, I believe).
They jammed for another 20 minutes at the end of Helter Skelter. So they edited most of that out and brought it back with true ending of the jam, when Ringo's decalres, "I got blister's on my fingers".
Why oh why has their studio jamming not been edited and issued? The little I heard in Get Back was simply amazing and I wanted more of it.
The long take of Helter Skelter (27 minutes) was the first version. There is a 13 minute take of the first version on UA-cam from The Beatles.
The released song was version 2.
Dude. A 30 song double album. THIRTY! Are you kidding me? And other than Revolution #9 which a lot of folks didn’t care for, including me, all the tunes were so amazing, so different, so, just so fuckin Beatles. I will never tire of them, even after 60+ years, their shit just gets better. It is so crazy. But anyway- thx Lee. Fun times as always. Even though I have 2 copies of every Beatles album, plus the vinyl stuff, I still love comin here and listening with you. Peace my brother.🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹✌️😎
Maybe this is controversial, but I am glad Revolution No. 9 is on this album. I mean it’s not even a song and it lasts far too long and there isn’t really anything redeemable about it EXCEPT for the fact that it’s there and the Beatles did something crazy and different AGAIN!! Only the greatest band in the world could produce the most hated track there is, and I love it for that very reason. Even there worst thing gets all the attention
@@AnthonyMinsky#9 was surpassed on the dislike list by John and Yoko with Kiss, Kiss, Kiss, at least #9 will send you sleep!
@@iainsmith2434 Then there's the unreleased What's The New Mary Jane
Ok, I got thru all three sides, and I'm now waiting for the fourth
This has been awesome thx
The greatest album side of any album ever. Period.
I just want to yell with my arms up in the air during Helter Skelter. I love it so much. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘.
Listen closely and you will hear a rubber ducky in Helter Skelter.
The best side three ever recorded. Play LOUD and dance yourself into oblivion. BLISTERS!!!!!
Lennon's Vocals on Sexy Sadie!
Still sends Shivers up my spine!
My Desert Album!
So much diversity.
Almost all the White Album was composed in India and worked on once back in England. Birthday has Patti Boyd Harrison in the studio. It might have been her birthday. Yer Blues was done live in a small, closet size room. One of Lennon's best vocals. To hear you call out Big Momma Thorton was a treat. My how you've grown musically of late, my friend. Kudos. On Mother's Nature Son I think it's Ringo slapping his thighs keeping time. No need to explain Me And My Monkee; Sexy Sadie was about slandering the Maharishi due to John's mistrust of him in the end. Love the sound of the piano in the opening. Lennon's singing is also great. Magic Alex visited them in India and left the impression that he had a mission to get the Beatles out of there and back to England. It has been suggested by Cynthia Lennon herself, that Magic Alex is the person that started the rumor about the impropriety between the Maharishi and Prudence. And Lennon ate it up, left and wrote a song about it. So as you can see, many more versions to that story than wiki page cares to explore. Helter Skelter is a slide in the UK and Paul is just making loud hard and heavy rock. The song got used by Charles Mansion as a McGuffin to incite his "family" to commit murder thus making the song infamous in its day. George Harrison once stated that the name of his song initially was 'It's Been A Long Long Long Time' but he thought it a bit too long long long. Side 3 is epic. Side 4 is the closure. Great react Lee. Thanks for posting it.
'Everybody's Got Something...Monkey' is such an underrated banger. Love that track.
He wrote it after someone drew a cartoon depicting Yoko as a monkey on John's back distracting him. It pissed him off
John actually had Maharishi in the lyric. It was George Harrison who said you can’t say that right out like that and suggested using Sexy Sadie, which John liked.
The variety, the music, the moods, the legends. Beatles White Album.
Comparing earlier albums to this shows their progression and experimentation with different instruments. Obviously they had free reign to do whatver they wanted here. Love to see how much you're into them Lee - can you imagine being around at the time and living it. As you can see by the comments our generation listened to this album over and over and over again. Pure genius.
Let's start a side with Martha My Dear and the next with Birthday. Just to show everybody that we can do everything. I'm always in two minds about which album is my favourite of all time, Abbey Road or The White Album. As much as I appreciate experimentation and unpredictability, Revolution no 9 is not something I enjoy in the mix of me rocking, swaying and grooving to the rest of the songs. But then I hear Mother Nature's son, Blackbird, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps etc etc etc and think: "Wow, that is an incredible album!"
One of my favorite albums
Helter Skelter...they invented heavy medal too!
Heavy metal. Although they should have got a heavy medal for inventing it.
Got the album for Christmas of 1968, i was fourteen, and wore the grooves off!
Was known as the Christmas album in our house because my brother got it one year. For a long time I thought all fans called it that, hah!
56 years later "Helter Skelter" is still one of the most kick ass songs ever recorded!!!
The Beatles LET LOOSE on this album!
Man! I love all the Beatles albums, but this one takes the cake!!
My parents bought me this album for my 18th birthday and a new stereo to play it on (many, many years ago). Birthday has always been a favourite!
This side is sensational!
Helter Skelter is a perfect illustration of what I mentioned earlier. You are encountering it a second time a long time later while this huge amount of experiencing context grew up around you. I think it's fantastic.
I remember getting the cassette of the white album and listening to it on my boom box. It was magical. I sat up and thought, why hasn’t anyone told me about this album? Why am I just now hearing it? People should be telling everyone to listen to this album. It is by far the best album of all time.
Thank you Lee!!!
No, really, thank you, Lee !!!
Greatest album of all time!!
You're absolutely right!
It really does my heart good to see young music fans getting into the Beatles.I was born in 1957 and they were the soundtrack of my youth.I see you are also into many artists from the 60s and 70s,there is plenty to choose from,though the Beatles are the pinnacle.Keep listening 👍
I'm your age, and I tell people I imprinted on the Beatles , although I do remember some earlier music (Sealed With a Kiss, Roses are Red ). For me, all rock music is in comparison to the Beatles. And they led every year with their latest album and we would think, oh, OK, this is what we are doing now.
Okay here we go Lee❤ i am on board for all of this. Birthday song is the greatest it's so freaking up there with all the fun stuff.😂
One of the ‘tightest’ groups ever. Their history even before they got to EMI Abbey Road was unbelievably prolific. They were brothers, so close.
I have spent my day dealing with the dentist and two different offices of BS. Thanks for making it easier!
Did you have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle? 😅
Jamming out to The Beatles in the metaverse - what a great turn of phrase.❤
Sadie 😂 love the wah wah background singing❤ its about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It was even going to be called Maharishi...
They could have made six or seven “conventional “ albums, spread out over 10;years with this masterpiece
The crazy thing is that they all played different instruments. Some songs Paul plays drums. Ringo can play piano and John and George played some bass on some songs.
Bought this album for my 1st girlfriend, Christmas '68. It was a kingly gift, around $6.99! I had jus turned 15. Mind-blowing album with so much to react to and dissect and enjoy!
Like I've always said, Lee.
IN THE UNIVERSE OF POPULAR MUSIC, THE BEATLES WERE THE
"BIG BANG!"
Hearing these songs in their proper context makes such a massive difference - remember this is the way they wanted them heard and was the only way at the time to hear them
Yeah, I haven’t listened straight thru the sides like this in decades. You’re right it’s a mind trip of the Beatles and sounds and music, an adventure, a tour de force
How crazy is it that Manson called his revolution Helter Skelter and the whole scheme was blown when Susan Atkins (aka Sadie, yes that’s right, Sadie) blabbed to her cellmate. “Sexy Sadie, what have you done. You made a fool of everyone”
Still up!!
So awesome revisiting this masterpiece with you
I have been with you since you started this...(I should give you some support...I'm piling up sponsorships...) and I have been rewarded with your growth. I really enjoy your Beatles and Steely Dan reactions. I've come to look forward seeing your posts. The fact that you remarked in passing that C. Manson was likely a CIA project gave me pause; I didn't expect, and am delighted that you are aware of this! When you open your mind to the possibility, and read the research on this (mostly by Tom O'Neil, but also by Mae Brussell) and put into perspective just how much resistance there is to positivity in the advancement of the human project- well, I love an open mind. Fare thee well, young brother.
I used to lie on my back with my head between the speakers on our "Radiogram" so I could feel the bass on Long Long Long. You bring back such great memories for us old guys. I wish you could have been there. You would have loved it. It was a blast. Thanks!
This may be my fave side of the whole thing. I don't think a song warped my young, impressionable brain like "Sexy Sadie" did. It opened me up to odd cadences, metaphors, subversive pop music... I was ruined for life!
McCartney said that “Everybody’s …Monkey” is the last time The Beatles improvised, jammed, and had a blast in the studio together. As far as the future goes? We all expected we’d have domed cities and flying cars by now!
Part of the weirdness at the end of "Long, Long, Long" was an accident. An empty bottle on the top of a speaker started rattling during a take, so they incorporated the effect into the song.
Wow!!! So awesome! Thank you Lee. And yes, you do look like Paul.
Paul who?
@TangoEliott uh, Paul McCartney???
@dawnschneider187 sorry, bad joke
I remember when I was a kid loudly jamming out to Helter Skelter and having to turn up Long, Long ,Long, to hear it.
So glad to see all the White Album up. So many amazing tracks. I have a real soft spot for 'Mother Natures Son'. Such a beautiful song.
Nilsson does a nearly spot on exact cover. It's almost like Paul wrote it for Harry. It's such a beautiful song and it takes me back to my childhood playing outside without a care in the world.
The Beatles are unbelievable and hypnotizing 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🕊💎🙏👍🩵💚💜
As a kid of 8 or 9 I only listened to sides 1 and 2. I discovered this side when I was 14 and or 15, after I really got into harder rock (for the most part) and went crazy over it. Helter Skelter was my big favorite, followed by Yer Blues. The contrast from song to song is just wild, most of this side is constant extreme changes - Yer Blues to Mother Natures Son to Everybody's GOt Something... to Sexy Sadie to Helter Skelter to Long Long Long, just all over the place. You can't really categorize this album, other than insanely diverse. Not another band in the world who can do all those styles and do them so well. A lot of bands from that era were really diverse, but The Beatles were at the top.
Imagine coming up with a great rock song, as an alternative to “Happy Birthday” 🎂
Sexy Sadie is about the maharishi.
Finished 3of 3. You have to understand when us boomers first listened to these albums, we were listening on “crappy” hi fi. Now through high tech equipment, it’s like we’re listening for the first time. Keep up the good work sir.
I'm a life long professional musician and 'Birthday' was the go to song when we had a Birthday in the crowd. I've played it hundreds of times times .😊
Thanks Lee- sublime White Album- and just in time for my birthday. 🎸🎂🎯🦃❤ I love these guys so much.
"Birthday" was one of the last songs that McCartney and Lennon collaborated on together.
I listened to this album over and over again as a kid, but listening to it again recently, I cannot remember ever hearing "Long Long Long"
I feel ya! I don't remember thinking that it was on this album. I thought it was on some later album; it's ahead of event this record...
I always think that Yer Blues is pure John, screaming his heart out about being suicidal, followed by pure Paul with Mother Natures Son, singing sweetly about daisies in the sunshine. It’s kind of a perfect juxtaposition.
Thank you Lee!
The first and only use that I know of a heavy metal triangle I claim for the Beatles Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
You gotta play the full version of Helter Skelter!
Your reactions to The Beatles mean a lot to old geezers like me. They are truly special. It's impossible to have a favorite song. I loved Rocky Raccoon like I knew him as a kid when this came out. Paul's I Will is a masterpiece among many but especially brilliant. The whole album is so all over the place it is amazing. Arguably their best album along with Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Let it Be, Abby Road, Rubber Soul, and Revolution. Truly amazing ... These for lads from Liverpool. Thank you, my young friend.
They wrote so many songs from so many different genres. Opening the door for many new artist.
Sexy Sadie was my fav of this side
This side is right up there with side 2 of Abbey Road as the Beatles finest. Absolutely echo your reaction at the end of 'Monkey', I always felt cheated that this didn't go on for another couple of minutes
Yeah! 👍
there was a restaurant in chelsea (manhattan) in the 80s that would shut off the lights and blast this (Birthday) when it was someone's birthday and they were bringing out a cake.......loved it. forgot the name, 23rd st bet 8th and 9th.
Love the look in your eye while listening to this. Sometimes, it just hits you, just right. Especially these boys, eh? ❤❤❤
For me Long Long Long is the sleeper on this side. For many years I listened but didn't fully appreciate. Then finally it clicked-this is a fantastic, surreal endin' to side 3.
The story told by Farrow was about Dear Prudence was they were all out socializing and she wanted to stay in the room, she didn’t want to join the group. Hence Dear Prudence won’t you come out to play
Ever since this Album came out, me and a couple of my friends played Birthday for each other now, for over 50 years !!! Damn that's a lot of birthdays.
❤ Thank you Lee. You're the best ❤
Another great reaction. The ending is poweeful.
Bravo for finding a way to share the album listening experience for the album on UA-cam. Even if temporarily. Looking forward to side 4
Hey man, I appreciate that a lot. Even if all these beautiful views don’t mean a thing since I I have to delete them. 😂🫡 I’m glad I got to share it with yall. Side 4 will be out in 1 day. Basically Saturday morning.
There were many tracks that either they jammed to or demoed during The Beatles (White Album) recording sessions like Let It Be, Jealous Guy, Junk, Not Guilty, Oh My Love and Gimmie Some Truth.