It’s interesting to hear your out of context sort of outside observer take on this album. When it came out we were all just blown away at what they were doing , like nothing else that was out there at the time. They were one step ahead and set the pace.
Yeah, it is so fun. I cannot understand how you can dislike it. I get it not being like amazing in anyway. I think it is a precursor to ABBA in a lot of ways. So fun and upbeat, it makes me laugh and I think that is a good thing.
This was actually a really good review because each person gave their brutally honest opinion. I found myself agreeing and disagreeing with each one of you at different points. Subbed!
The lyrics are about rich people having only problems about their lunch. You guys are horrible destroyers of joy. In your misery you are the people who sit at a movie in the movie theater and laughs when you are meant to cry, and point out all the stuff that looks unreal or seems impossible. "That is not Harrison Ford!" Stay away from me.
@@3idiotstalking100 Another of my top 3 is "Beatles for Sale" -- another great LP; but one must have grown up with 1940s-50s -- pre-"Beatles" -- music to appreciate it in context. Despite all the negative talk, their performances on it are relaxed and warm. The other in the top 3 is "Rubber Soul" -- that's where the "revolution" began. And it has a deeper emotionalism than "Revolver".
Sexy Sadie was Lennons attack on the Marahishi, Lennon wanted to use his name but was advised by lawyers told him not to, because of the chance of being sued Helter Skelter, there's one take where The Beatles play the song for 27 minutes nonstop, that's why Ringo said " I've got blisters on my fingers"!
This is how respected the Beatles were for my generation. Our music teacher had us singing "Back in the USSR"(!) and "Michelle" in middle school music class (do they even have that anymore?) in the 70's.
@@baronroaster404 I'm beyond fed up with the bigot's smear "Boomers". Clue: we "Boomers" know stuff you have yet to learn -- and that includes history before you were born.
Sexy Sadie is a sarcastic song about the Maharishi. He was supposed to be their teacher but he was trying to fool around with their women. Lennon changed the lyrics to make them more palatable which he did a lot
Sexy Sadie is about the Marahishi Yogi they were taking lessons with in India, where they wrote most of the album, tons of songs. Thats why some songs seem random, others lead towards nature. John Lennons Jealous Guy was also written there, but as "Child Of Nature".
@@PaulFormentos There has never actually been a way to play records backwards. The "PID" was a HOAX by several upper Midwest college students MOCKING fans who found "clues" in "Beatles" songs that didn't actually exist. Lennon himself said that he put in "bits of nonsense" -- see "I Am the Walrus" -- for those fans.
Julia was John's mother, by whom he'd been abandoned, and who, as he was getting to know her, was killed by an off-duty drunk-driving cop when he was 17.
Companion to "Rocky Racoon": "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" in "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All" by "The Firesign Theatre" in which "Everyone knew her as Nancy".
Helter Skelter is considered metal by most critics. And there is nothing do-woppy about Honey Pie. Y'all seem genre-challenged and limited in your appreciation of different styles. It's like listening to 3 ijits.
They didn't do "genre". They made music. And then later hide-bound generations endeavor to squeeze their songs into one or another "genre". "Genre" is irrelevant: they were a kick-ass rock band -- but weren't ONLY a rock band. Their first LP was when they were still a rhythm-and-booze band.
It’s nice that we can all agree to disagree!😂😂 I can count the Beatles songs I don’t like on one hand - one of them is on this album, and it is not Revolution 9! (“Wild Honey Pie”) and yet, this is my favorite Beatles album and in fact, it would be my desert island album!
This is their only album which includes bits of their humor -- "jokes". One is "Wild Honey Pie," and another is, "Why Don't We Do It In the Road". There is also humor in their music: the frantic piano in either "Back In the U.S.S.R." or "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da" is a GIGGLE. Much is in the PERFORMANCE -- they were ALWAYS about FUN -- _joy de vivre._ One of the reasons they broke up is that it was no longer fun.
At the risk of over staying my welcome, Revolution 9 is John's attempt at the tape experiments by "Serious" as in Classical Music artists using "found" sounds and words. Actually it was Macartney who started them with the tape loops on Tomorrow Never Knows and Lennon's backwards guitar. I've read one expert about this knd of "music" who thinks highly of Revolution 9 and how it speaks of the dislocations of modern life. Think of it as a soundtrack to doom scrolling through your phone.
This is my favorite album of all time. So damn quirky, inventive and fearless. I'm loving your honest takes, good and bad. I recommend you revisit this album every 10 years for the rest of your lives. I think you'll find, like all long time Beatles fans know,......no one holds up and matures like The Beatles. Gonna check out more of your videos. Great job.
This is like the half air and half water glass of albums. Whether you think it's a good album or not entirely depends on whether you focus on what you consider to be the good songs or the bad songs. It's an album full of experiments and not all of those experiments work, but the ones that do are brilliant. If you took just the good songs and cut out the bad I'd argue there are more good songs than any other Beatles album, so that should make it the best album.
Substitute "Maharishi" for "Sexy Sadie". Lennon and the rest The Beatles went to India to meditate and study transcendental meditation. Lennon soured on the experience and wrote this song. The title became Chatles Manson's nickname for family member Susan Atkins.
This has always been my favorite Beatles album. I'll leave whether it's their "best" to others. Ask Cole what Beatles LP wasn't "just a collection of songs with no cohesion"? Even their supposed concept album Sgt Pepper's was not actually a themed disc. If it weren't for the bookended title song and reprise no one would ever have thought it had any "concept" because their wasn't one. Lennon admitted that whole "concept album" thing was BS.
None of their work was a "themed disc" per say. Not every album is, but most beatles albums had a central logic to them. White album sort of just doesnt'.
@@3idiotstalking100 The lead guitar work in "Beatles for Sale" is a tribute to George's guitar hero Carl Perkins. I also read somewhere that Perkins was in the studio during the making of the LP to show George how he played the lead on the two Perkins' covers.
Dude is right- On "Ob-la-Di" it's a group chorus, but Lennon is mixed way out in front (of a McCartney's song!)..Maybe reading too much into it, but Lennon admitted later that they (he?) would sometimes subtly "sabotage" each other's song (and he particularly hated this one), and this might be an example..except Lennon doesn't succeed, because he was incapable of putting a bad performance on a Beatles record. Also, all the criticisms Noah has, consider that was on purpose by McCartney (and probably with a heavy amount of smoke) and maybe you'll get it?
"No one has ever loved a cat that much to write a fuckin' song about them." Hmmmm.... Freddie Mercury wrote "Delilah" about one of his cats, not only as a love song, but as a farewell to her when he was dying. In a way, it's a bittersweet song.
They made the faster version of Revolution afterwards for the single with Hey Jude to sound more catchy. The live version was done afterwards with faster but also shoo be doo wop
I read(I think it was the Playboy Interview)where Lennon loved "Why Don't We Do It In The Road",I'm not crazy about it,but that was the Beatles being the 1st again!
@@3idiotstalking100 GUYS HERE YOU GO-FROM THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER 1980 WiTH JOHN LENNON PAGE 199-Why Don't We Do It In The road,JOHN"s REPLY-That's Paul.He even recorded it by himself in another room,that's how it was getting in those days,we came in and he;d made the whole record even him drumming,playing piano,singing,but he couldn't,make the break from the Beatles,I don't know what it was,BUT I ENJOYED THE TRACK.
That was a JOKE -- this is the only LP that included overt instances of their HUMOR. "Wild honey Pie" is another. Always listen for their humor, as it is even in the music.
I don’t think that “Piggies” is specifically about the police. I believe it’s about how rich elites have no problem devouring, and destroying others, especially those who are less fortunate.
The creative process is a process of experimentation. It is openness to experience that most reject as "nonsense" or whatever -- which is why they are not creative: their first anxiety is to avoid being seen to be making mistakes.
And Prince butchered this song, pissing off Tom Petty at a Tribute for George concert where Prince showboated endlessly on simple pentatonic phrases, and dancing, making it a Prince show instead of a tribute. It was insulting. (gently weeps.)George wrote many of the greatest Beatles songs, including the most streamed Beatles song, Here comes the Sun and Something. Warm Gun is Lennon's new found Heroin song.
@@mikefetterman6782 “You see me nodding at him, to say, ‘Go on, go on,’” Petty said. “I remember I leaned out at him at one point and gave him a ‘This is going great!’ kind of look. “He just burned it up. You could feel the electricity of ‘something really big’s going down here.’” Doesn't sound pissed to me.
@@mikefetterman6782 "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is (also) about SEX, and in various positions -- "Mother superior jump the gun". "Happiness is a warm gun, mama". And then there's "Come together/Over me". And "Please Please Me" is about oral sex -- not getting any. And in "Get Back": "She done me good" -- oral sex. In that same period ("Two Virgins") Lennon's explicit drawings about his sexual relationship with Yoko, exhibited in a London gallery, was busted for obscenity. Those same drawings were published in a book.
I'm old enough to remember the context of some of these songs - Back In The USSR and Birthday - crazy Beatles humor. No one else would have risked making fun of the Cold War that way.
"Back in the U.S.S.R." is rich with influences -- it is a tribute to Chuck Berry ("Back in the USA") and Ray Charles ("Georgia On My Mind"). And, of course, is a kick-ass performance.
@@jnagarya519 It’s a surfer song about the Soviet Union. It was directed at Brian Wilson wanting full credit, because of Good Vibrations, for the innovations they used in Sgt. Pepper.
I can't believe you cut Why Don't We Do It In the Road? That was so lame and unprofessional I had to fast forward to hear Savoy Truffle. I won't listen to anything more from you.
Great reaction guys. However. While I love BITUSSR . It's not a better opener to. Come together, help, ahard day's night, I saw her standing there ,sgt pepper
Hey guys, if you wanna get into more post rock, i recommend an album by Yndi Halda called Enjoy Eternal Bliss (one of the best post rock album of all time). And if you still havent listen to this album, i recommend In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson😊.
Haven't had a chance to look into Enjoy Eternal Bliss but I can tell you that In the court of the crimson king is in the schedule to be done in the near future hopefully. - Noah
If you ever do Let it Be, you should listen to the naked version as well, the new perspective and track listing really raises the album to a 9. Also any chance at reviewing They Might Be Giants?
the naked version sounds too dead clean, also the idea was to sound live, why where the speaking vocal snippets cut out? Also the Get Back version is better on Let It Be.
If you were alive and politically involved when this was released you wouldn't think it's "dumb". Unless you were pro-war/Nixon. And the "Bop-Shoo-Wop" background is their humor -- never taking themselves too seriously.
@@3idiotstalking100 well, seeing as none of you had any idea what the song was about, and one of you thinks Ob La Di Ob La Da is a great song, I feel your disagreement only reinforces my position.
the White album is so amazing i think side 3 and 4 are very underrated alot of songs that get overlooked id put this album as my number 3 best beatles album! Back in the USSR is my fav beatles song to listen to when i go to eastern europe! The only part I disagree is with the ringo hate I like his songs and his solo stuff is for sure better but that’s okay we all have our own opinions! Ringo is a Beatle i understand you guys wished they “paid for someone else to sing instead of him” but that’s kinda just cruel to constantly put down only one person in the whole band for every album
@ no problem I loved the listen along check out ringo’s first solo album I think u guys may warm to his style of singing! I loved the listen along great video!
On Honey Pie all the corny, show tune elements are DELIBERATE., including the spoken intro. I't's a brilliant throw back to the pop music of the 1920's and a gift to Paul's father, who played in a band in those days. Every detail, thanks to George Martin, is perfect to it's time. In 67/68 their was a fad in Britain for 20's/30's music and this was Paul's version fo that. As such you're free to dislike it but at least understand where the song is coming from. Otherwise, great reactions.
Was Stockhausen a musician? How about John Cage? At what extent of expansion does music cease being music? And it is said that McCartney was most responsible for their "dabbling" in avant-garde. The last track -- "Goodnight" -- was written by Lennon.
Lennon was the avante garde Beatle as is clear on this album and Sgt Pepper and throughout. Paul has ZERO avante garde Beatles songs. John has plenty dating back to Revolver
This is probably the worst so-called reaction I have ever seen on UA-cam. You people have no understanding of basic genres or history. Goodbye and good riddance.
Guys, it's not fair for your "reactions" to be tainted by interviews and other people's opinions! At one point John's writing became a little stunted and Paul was pushing out one song after another. John wanted his songs to have substance and that's hard. He was jealous and started calling Paul's little ditties "Granny songs" ...
It's not tainted, we've heard this album before. We're listening to it again live with our audience. WE know the songs, doesn't mean we can't change our opinions :D
Everything "The Beatles" did includes HUMOR. "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" is a JOKE. It was based on seeing two monkeys "doing it" in the road. HOW do you miss the fact that "The Beatles" are also HUMOROUS. That's ome f the great things about this LP -- it includes their HUMOR.
No its not there best album, not by a long shot. There's at least 5 tracks that are just filler. As George Martin said it would be much better as a single and not a double album.
@@3idiotstalking100 This LP is unique in that it shows the larger "Beatles" personality by including bits of their humor -- "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" is an example. That means it isn't actually to be rated as a "song" -- it is a JOKE.
This album is soooo overrated! If they had any sense of decency for their fans, it’d have been a single.. possibly enough decent songs for that.. revolver , Sgt pepper, rubber soul, abbey road , let it be, are all better… rev9 is a waste of vinyl - self- indulgent Lennon/ yoko -almost a whole album side..
@@3idiotstalking100 I was 15 when they hit the US. I bought "The Beatles" (aka "White Album") on first day of release. And that was after the prior two weeks when an FM station played the entire L, all 4 sides, without commercials, and the DJ only announcing the changing of the sides, every week night. Then played it at random during the other hours and weekends mixed in with all their earlier releases. That's how massive "The Beatles" were. So massive that from the beginning Top 20/40 AM radio played every track on every LP, so their LPs were #1 on BOTH LP and Singles charts.
Obla di Obla da is meant to be annoying. It is meant to be plastic. It is mocking the lifestyle! It is making a laugh of it like a black comedy! Listen to the fake happy laughter in the song and it is pretty clear.
@@MsAppassionata Personal appearing in the lyric. But he never actually reveals anything personal. "And I Love Her" has a lyric to die for. But look at his life as a constantly calculating "lover": verging on marriage to the gorgeous Jane Asher he gets caught in THEIR bed with another woman. So how much, really, was he committed, emotionally invested, in his relationship with Jane Asher? How much could his beautiful promising words actually be relied upon? Sure: "We Can Work it Out" is "personal," about his ongoing conflict with Jane Asher: she wanted to continue having her career; he wanted her to be his stay-at-home house frau. It reveals Paul being self-centered ("The Beatles" were male chauvinists): he had to win every argument; he had to have the last word; his view had to prevail over whatever the woman's objections. And we see that in the impression during the "Get Back" sessions that he was "bossy" -- controlling.
Lennon’s lyrics in the Beatles were mostly NOT PERSONAL, but rather SURREALIST! “I am the Walrus”, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “For the Benefit of Mr kite”, “A Day in the Life”, “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, “Dear Prudence”, “Because”, “Across the Universe”etc… he started writing more personal songs in his SOLO career. And “In My Life” with the Beatles is perhaps his best personal lyric ever. “help” is great as well
It’s interesting to hear your out of context sort of outside observer take on this album. When it came out we were all just blown away at what they were doing , like nothing else that was out there at the time. They were one step ahead and set the pace.
glad you appreciated it!
Ob La Di Ob La Da will NEVER be bad, annoying or ANY OF THAT. SUCH A SMASH RECORD.
Facts it’s a happy-go-Lucky banger
the most overrated song of all time, absolutely shit, kid's song
Yeah, it is so fun. I cannot understand how you can dislike it. I get it not being like amazing in anyway. I think it is a precursor to ABBA in a lot of ways. So fun and upbeat, it makes me laugh and I think that is a good thing.
@@rggonc-n3dUnderrated* Absosutely goat* Adult’s song*
i agree, but they're both allowed their opinions as well - Ryan
This was actually a really good review because each person gave their brutally honest opinion. I found myself agreeing and disagreeing with each one of you at different points. Subbed!
Much appreciated Shadow!
43:18
Cole: No one has ever loved a cat enough to write a song about them.
Syd Barrett: I beg your pardon?
Ayyy, a fellow Syd fan! 😁
LMAO
Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family) ;)
@@andrewherreraulloa1172 the beatles have an unreleased track where they mention their pets (also a cat)
@@ricardo_miguel13 "There You Are Eddie" from Get back sessions
You're overlooking Lennon's gutsy aggression re. his lead guitar work in "Yer Blues".
The lyrics are about rich people having only problems about their lunch. You guys are horrible destroyers of joy. In your misery you are the people who sit at a movie in the movie theater and laughs when you are meant to cry, and point out all the stuff that looks unreal or seems impossible. "That is not Harrison Ford!"
Stay away from me.
clearly u didn't watch the full review, thx for watching!
This has been one of my three top "Beatles" LPs since 1968.
truly is a great album
@@3idiotstalking100 Another of my top 3 is "Beatles for Sale" -- another great LP; but one must have grown up with 1940s-50s -- pre-"Beatles" -- music to appreciate it in context. Despite all the negative talk, their performances on it are relaxed and warm.
The other in the top 3 is "Rubber Soul" -- that's where the "revolution" began. And it has a deeper emotionalism than "Revolver".
My recurring comment. I think this is objectively (subjectively) their "best" album, but my favorite will always be Abbey Road.
1-revolver
2-white
3-rubber soul
For me
Sexy Sadie was Lennons attack on the Marahishi, Lennon wanted to use his name but was advised by lawyers told him not to, because of the chance of being sued
Helter Skelter, there's one take where The Beatles play the song for 27 minutes nonstop, that's why Ringo said " I've got blisters on my fingers"!
This is how respected the Beatles were for my generation. Our music teacher had us singing "Back in the USSR"(!) and "Michelle" in middle school music class (do they even have that anymore?) in the 70's.
that's awesome!
Yes... music class exists, boomer
@@baronroaster404 I'm beyond fed up with the bigot's smear "Boomers". Clue: we "Boomers" know stuff you have yet to learn -- and that includes history before you were born.
Glad y'all listened to the vintage stereo mix not the recent "remix".
always sir!
Sexy Sadie is a sarcastic song about the Maharishi. He was supposed to be their teacher but he was trying to fool around with their women.
Lennon changed the lyrics to make them more palatable which he did a lot
true! been told this alot!
Also sadie nickname for one of the Manson girls, funny that
The darkness to Helter Skelter came a year later when the Manson Family wrote the title in blood on the walls of their victims.
He interpreted Revolution 9 as Revelation 9 in the Bible, which in fact does seem to describe the Beatles.
@@binxbolling Also both tunes yield dark backmasking clues and such
@@binxbolling Nope.
long long long is George not john
oh! good to know!
Ob-la-di Is a funny song. A very well Made funny song. Music, lyrics and effects. But it’s not shit.
It’s a waste of space just like Maxwell’s on Abbey Road
@@hw343434 You overlook their continual sense of humor..
Sexy Sadie is about the Marahishi Yogi they were taking lessons with in India, where they wrote most of the album, tons of songs. Thats why some songs seem random, others lead towards nature. John Lennons Jealous Guy was also written there, but as "Child Of Nature".
It makes much more sense if you sing "Maharishi" instead of "Sexy Sadie". It was a last minute substitution for legal reasons.
"Birthday" is a spontaneous jam. The lyrics are what they are -- sufficient. The spirit matters above "serious concern" about lyrics.
A throwaway track for sure but still has some fun moments
@@hw343434 Reversed has brilliant PID clues
@@PaulFormentos There has never actually been a way to play records backwards.
The "PID" was a HOAX by several upper Midwest college students MOCKING fans who found "clues" in "Beatles" songs that didn't actually exist.
Lennon himself said that he put in "bits of nonsense" -- see "I Am the Walrus" -- for those fans.
Julia was John's mother, by whom he'd been abandoned, and who, as he was getting to know her, was killed by an off-duty drunk-driving cop when he was 17.
Companion to "Rocky Racoon":
"The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" in "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All" by "The Firesign Theatre" in which "Everyone knew her as Nancy".
You people are acting your ages... Come back in twenty years-
I doubt if that will make any difference. I loved their music when I was still in my teens.
Very fascinating your honest reaction. I didn't find a reaction to Revolver, if you do, try the 2022 Mix, it's better suited for headphones.
The longer version of Revolution 1 actually turns into parts of Revolution 9
Paul plays drums on Back In The USSR and Dear Prudence, because Ringo left
Helter Skelter is considered metal by most critics. And there is nothing do-woppy about Honey Pie. Y'all seem genre-challenged and limited in your appreciation of different styles. It's like listening to 3 ijits.
yall should go back to critiquing justen beaber i am bored now
They didn't do "genre". They made music. And then later hide-bound generations endeavor to squeeze their songs into one or another "genre". "Genre" is irrelevant: they were a kick-ass rock band -- but weren't ONLY a rock band.
Their first LP was when they were still a rhythm-and-booze band.
George sings with Paul on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Layla is a fire song tho
"Sexy Sadie" was about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the scandal involving him while they were in India.
Eff the whiners. Loved watching you react honestly and having fun. Crazy work. Subbed.
It’s nice that we can all agree to disagree!😂😂
I can count the Beatles songs I don’t like on one hand - one of them is on this album, and it is not Revolution 9! (“Wild Honey Pie”) and yet, this is my favorite Beatles album and in fact, it would be my desert island album!
indeed! we love that for the channel & it's why we do what we do!
"I'll Be Paul" reverse of Wild Honey Pie, and indeed Billy has been Paul since late 66
This is their only album which includes bits of their humor -- "jokes". One is "Wild Honey Pie," and another is, "Why Don't We Do It In the Road".
There is also humor in their music: the frantic piano in either "Back In the U.S.S.R." or "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da" is a GIGGLE.
Much is in the PERFORMANCE -- they were ALWAYS about FUN -- _joy de vivre._ One of the reasons they broke up is that it was no longer fun.
At the risk of over staying my welcome, Revolution 9 is John's attempt at the tape experiments by "Serious" as in Classical Music artists using "found" sounds and words. Actually it was Macartney who started them with the tape loops on Tomorrow Never Knows and Lennon's backwards guitar. I've read one expert about this knd of "music" who thinks highly of Revolution 9 and how it speaks of the dislocations of modern life. Think of it as a soundtrack to doom scrolling through your phone.
No risk! We love when you guys come out w/ all the back-story we might not know!
This is my favorite album of all time. So damn quirky, inventive and fearless. I'm loving your honest takes, good and bad. I recommend you revisit this album every 10 years for the rest of your lives. I think you'll find, like all long time Beatles fans know,......no one holds up and matures like The Beatles. Gonna check out more of your videos. Great job.
thx!
Worse reactions Ive ever seen.
thx for watching!
This is like the half air and half water glass of albums. Whether you think it's a good album or not entirely depends on whether you focus on what you consider to be the good songs or the bad songs. It's an album full of experiments and not all of those experiments work, but the ones that do are brilliant. If you took just the good songs and cut out the bad I'd argue there are more good songs than any other Beatles album, so that should make it the best album.
LMAO wow. Love the spicy takes
"Honey pie" = "The Beatles" actually included their HUMOR.
Substitute "Maharishi" for "Sexy Sadie". Lennon and the rest The Beatles went to India to meditate and study transcendental meditation. Lennon soured on the experience and wrote this song. The title became Chatles Manson's nickname for family member Susan Atkins.
Long Long Long is written and sung by George!
This has always been my favorite Beatles album. I'll leave whether it's their "best" to others. Ask Cole what Beatles LP wasn't "just a collection of songs with no cohesion"? Even their supposed concept album Sgt Pepper's was not actually a themed disc. If it weren't for the bookended title song and reprise no one would ever have thought it had any "concept" because their wasn't one. Lennon admitted that whole "concept album" thing was BS.
None of their work was a "themed disc" per say. Not every album is, but most beatles albums had a central logic to them. White album sort of just doesnt'.
@@3idiotstalking100 The lead guitar work in "Beatles for Sale" is a tribute to George's guitar hero Carl Perkins. I also read somewhere that Perkins was in the studio during the making of the LP to show George how he played the lead on the two Perkins' covers.
They made multiple versions of most of their songs by this time. That got out of hand with the "Get Back"/"Let It Be" sessions.
the "take 17" of Helter Skelter ...is Amazing
FAX
Dude is right- On "Ob-la-Di" it's a group chorus, but Lennon is mixed way out in front (of a McCartney's song!)..Maybe reading too much into it, but Lennon admitted later that they (he?) would sometimes subtly "sabotage" each other's song (and he particularly hated this one), and this might be an example..except Lennon doesn't succeed, because he was incapable of putting a bad performance on a Beatles record. Also, all the criticisms Noah has, consider that was on purpose by McCartney (and probably with a heavy amount of smoke) and maybe you'll get it?
lmao im sure lennon was sabotaging each other's songs...
Adults have always written children's songs. "Bungalow Bill": Read Lennon's two books.
"No one has ever loved a cat that much to write a fuckin' song about them." Hmmmm....
Freddie Mercury wrote "Delilah" about one of his cats, not only as a love song, but as a farewell to her when he was dying. In a way, it's a bittersweet song.
that did come across my mind when that was said, along with all dead, all dead written by brian may about his cat too. -Noah
Wasn't there a Roman Emperor called Caligula who elected his horse Senator*?
yes!
They made the faster version of Revolution afterwards for the single with Hey Jude to sound more catchy. The live version was done afterwards with faster but also shoo be doo wop
Julia was John's mother.
indeed
We are waiting for revolver!
My mom used to sing me revolution 9 to help me sleep. I love you mom ❤️
Sometimes your wrong sometimes your spot on
I read(I think it was the Playboy Interview)where Lennon loved "Why Don't We Do It In The Road",I'm not crazy about it,but that was the Beatles being the 1st again!
very unique song, not sure if lennon's on point w/ that tho
@@3idiotstalking100 GUYS HERE YOU GO-FROM THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER 1980 WiTH JOHN LENNON PAGE 199-Why Don't We Do It In The road,JOHN"s REPLY-That's Paul.He even recorded it by himself in another room,that's how it was getting in those days,we came in and he;d made the whole record even him drumming,playing piano,singing,but he couldn't,make the break from the Beatles,I don't know what it was,BUT I ENJOYED THE TRACK.
That was a JOKE -- this is the only LP that included overt instances of their HUMOR. "Wild honey Pie" is another.
Always listen for their humor, as it is even in the music.
@@jnagarya519 AGREE
Savoy Truffle is about Eric Clapton's sweet tooth. Piggies is about police. Martha My Dear is about Paul's sheepdog.
I don’t think that “Piggies” is specifically about the police. I believe it’s about how rich elites have no problem devouring, and destroying others, especially those who are less fortunate.
@MsAppassionata Just reporting what I read somewhere.
clapton got a massive sweet tooth
"Piggies" is about the decadent wealthy.
The creative process is a process of experimentation. It is openness to experience that most reject as "nonsense" or whatever -- which is why they are not creative: their first anxiety is to avoid being seen to be making mistakes.
13:20 Glass onion, how i love that song! 🚬🗿
The drop down melody from Aminor down to G, and so on Zeppelin got from Joni Mitchell. It was also used on dozens of other songs.
And Prince butchered this song, pissing off Tom Petty at a Tribute for George concert where Prince showboated endlessly on simple pentatonic phrases, and dancing, making it a Prince show instead of a tribute. It was insulting. (gently weeps.)George wrote many of the greatest Beatles songs, including the most streamed Beatles song, Here comes the Sun and Something. Warm Gun is Lennon's new found Heroin song.
@@mikefetterman6782 “You see me nodding at him, to say, ‘Go on, go on,’” Petty said. “I remember I leaned out at him at one point and gave him a ‘This is going great!’ kind of look.
“He just burned it up. You could feel the electricity of ‘something really big’s going down here.’”
Doesn't sound pissed to me.
@@mikefetterman6782 "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is (also) about SEX, and in various positions -- "Mother superior jump the gun".
"Happiness is a warm gun, mama".
And then there's "Come together/Over me".
And "Please Please Me" is about oral sex -- not getting any.
And in "Get Back": "She done me good" -- oral sex. In that same period ("Two Virgins") Lennon's explicit drawings about his sexual relationship with Yoko, exhibited in a London gallery, was busted for obscenity. Those same drawings were published in a book.
I'm old enough to remember the context of some of these songs - Back In The USSR and Birthday - crazy Beatles humor. No one else would have risked making fun of the Cold War that way.
It was a shot at Brian Wilson.
I appreciate what ur trying to say, but a lot of artists did risk that
@@lymphomasurvive Right, which was funny in itself, but choosing the Soviet states gave it a real zing.
"Back in the U.S.S.R." is rich with influences -- it is a tribute to Chuck Berry ("Back in the USA") and Ray Charles ("Georgia On My Mind"). And, of course, is a kick-ass performance.
@@jnagarya519 It’s a surfer song about the Soviet Union. It was directed at Brian Wilson wanting full credit, because of Good Vibrations, for the innovations they used in Sgt. Pepper.
I can't believe you cut Why Don't We Do It In the Road? That was so lame and unprofessional I had to fast forward to hear Savoy Truffle. I won't listen to anything more from you.
ok, thx for watching!
Marmalades reached #1 on The UK charts with Obladi-Oblada, just for you know
Great reaction guys. However. While I love BITUSSR . It's not a better opener to. Come together, help, ahard day's night, I saw her standing there ,sgt pepper
thank you! great picks!
peep the impractical jokers weezer tapestry in the back🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hey guys, if you wanna get into more post rock, i recommend an album by Yndi Halda called Enjoy Eternal Bliss (one of the best post rock album of all time). And if you still havent listen to this album, i recommend In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson😊.
Haven't had a chance to look into Enjoy Eternal Bliss but I can tell you that In the court of the crimson king is in the schedule to be done in the near future hopefully. - Noah
If you ever do Let it Be, you should listen to the naked version as well, the new perspective and track listing really raises the album to a 9.
Also any chance at reviewing They Might Be Giants?
Have not thought about it, but I'll add it to our very long list :D
the naked version sounds too dead clean, also the idea was to sound live, why where the speaking vocal snippets cut out? Also the Get Back version is better on Let It Be.
Let it Be is still one of the weaker Beatles albums. Very good just not on this level
1:13:30 such a lovely McCartney track, makes me feel pregnant 🥹
wow
Top!!!!!
top!
Before trashing Clapton too much , give Derrick and the Dominoes Album a listen
who trashed clapton? we've all also heard derrick & the dominoes album
It's about Eric Clapton's bad teeth.
If you were alive and politically involved when this was released you wouldn't think it's "dumb". Unless you were pro-war/Nixon.
And the "Bop-Shoo-Wop" background is their humor -- never taking themselves too seriously.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps isn't even George's best song on this album. That honor goes to Savoy Truffle. Turn it up to 11!
"Savoy" is my favorite Harrison track of all. No it's not his "best" of course, but for me it brings the biggest joy.
completely & totally disagree. but thx for watching!
I've always preferred "Long Long Long". George's condescending judgmental religiosity is annoying.
@jnagarya519 condescending???
@@3idiotstalking100 well, seeing as none of you had any idea what the song was about, and one of you thinks Ob La Di Ob La Da is a great song, I feel your disagreement only reinforces my position.
22:53 por eso son los más grandes, se podían dar el lujo de poner Honey Pie después de Ob La Di Ob La Da 🤫🔥🔥
Of all US music Ringo most loved "Country and Western". Thus "Don't Pass Me By".
Helter Skelter got dark a year later because Charles Manson murdered people in the name of Helter Skelter
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"Savoy Truffle" is not a metaphor. It is a toss-off having fun with nonsense.
Their fun with language begins and goes back to Lennon, and the "Goons".
the White album is so amazing i think side 3 and 4 are very underrated alot of songs that get overlooked id put this album as my number 3 best beatles album! Back in the USSR is my fav beatles song to listen to when i go to eastern europe! The only part I disagree is with the ringo hate I like his songs and his solo stuff is for sure better but that’s okay we all have our own opinions! Ringo is a Beatle i understand you guys wished they “paid for someone else to sing instead of him” but that’s kinda just cruel to constantly put down only one person in the whole band for every album
thx for being honest!
@ no problem I loved the listen along check out ringo’s first solo album I think u guys may warm to his style of singing! I loved the listen along great video!
On Honey Pie all the corny, show tune elements are DELIBERATE., including the spoken intro. I't's a brilliant throw back to the pop music of the 1920's and a gift to Paul's father, who played in a band in those days. Every detail, thanks to George Martin, is perfect to it's time. In 67/68 their was a fad in Britain for 20's/30's music and this was Paul's version fo that. As such you're free to dislike it but at least understand where the song is coming from. Otherwise, great reactions.
Was Stockhausen a musician? How about John Cage? At what extent of expansion does music cease being music?
And it is said that McCartney was most responsible for their "dabbling" in avant-garde.
The last track -- "Goodnight" -- was written by Lennon.
Lennon was the avante garde Beatle as is clear on this album and Sgt Pepper and throughout. Paul has ZERO avante garde Beatles songs. John has plenty dating back to Revolver
@@hw343434 "Tomorrow Never Knows," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "I Am the Walrus".
This is probably the worst so-called reaction I have ever seen on UA-cam. You people have no understanding of basic genres or history. Goodbye and good riddance.
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Guys, it's not fair for your "reactions" to be tainted by interviews and other people's opinions! At one point John's writing became a little stunted and Paul was pushing out one song after another. John wanted his songs to have substance and that's hard. He was jealous and started calling Paul's little ditties "Granny songs" ...
It's not tainted, we've heard this album before. We're listening to it again live with our audience. WE know the songs, doesn't mean we can't change our opinions :D
Gave a 'like' for The Beatles content; subscribed for the Real Madrid flag in the background.
my man!
on the 2018 mix the transition on Yer Blues is much better. Only Helter Skelter is superior on the 2009 mix.
Everything "The Beatles" did includes HUMOR. "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" is a JOKE. It was based on seeing two monkeys "doing it" in the road.
HOW do you miss the fact that "The Beatles" are also HUMOROUS.
That's ome f the great things about this LP -- it includes their HUMOR.
ryan giving sexy sadie a 7.5 almost made me cry that is easily a ten for me
im sorry :(
You guys gotta listen to the new mixes. The 2009 remasters sound bad.
like to stick to the originals when doing reviews
Rocky Raccoon is definitely also my baby boy
banger
The Beatles 65 is their greatest album
a compilation album?
No its not there best album, not by a long shot. There's at least 5 tracks that are just filler. As George Martin said it would be much better as a single and not a double album.
i mean there's 30 songs, not 5 of them are fillers in our opinion
React or revolver. Make sure there the 2022 mixes
YES
NO! I hope they NEVER, EVER do another Beatles reaction.
truly hate to disappoint you LMAO
will be soon!
John wrote Good Night for his son Julian
"The Beatles" had a sense of humor, were often silly -- nothing wrong with that.
"Bungalow Bill" says something about British imperialism.
indeed, we never said there was anything wrong w/ that
@@3idiotstalking100 You do know that there have always been children's songs, and 99.99999 -- etc. -- were written by adults?
@@3idiotstalking100 This LP is unique in that it shows the larger "Beatles" personality by including bits of their humor -- "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" is an example. That means it isn't actually to be rated as a "song" -- it is a JOKE.
why dont you guys do it in the road
hot
Helter Skelter ! Jesus, Whats darker then a Manson family interpretation??
thx for watching!
why is there no times
times? do u mean time stamps?
@@3idiotstalking100 yeh but hey i watched the whole video it was fun so forget it lol
Bullshit! Obladi oblada is a banger
I agree w/ you for the record... - Ryan
большинству песен я ставлю 10 и некоторым -9
Dont get it do they? bless....
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Bungalow Bill is a Anti Vietnam War song.
@@PeterBuwen I heard it was about a guy while visiting in India at the same time the Beatles were there was residing in one of the bungalos there.
This album is soooo overrated! If they had any sense of decency for their fans, it’d have been a single.. possibly enough decent songs for that.. revolver , Sgt pepper, rubber soul, abbey road , let it be, are all better… rev9 is a waste of vinyl - self- indulgent Lennon/ yoko -almost a whole album side..
just to make sure im catching what ur saying. the whole entire album should've been a single?
Rev #9 ….. shock value?
it is shocking...
Good song turn bad because one stupid review. Stupidest review I ever come across.
wot
Jimmy Cliff was Paul's Jamaican bud who coined Obla di Obla da. He is also a background singer on the tune.
no he doesn't it was a nigerian conga player who coined the phrase and jimmy cliff doesnt song background
I'd put forth Ace Of Spades as a better hard rock song than Helter Skelter. Maybe Seven Nation Army as well. But it's definitely on a very short list.
"Honey Pie" -- 1920's style jazz. If you don't like it then you haven't the range that "The Beatles" had.
They were not ONLY a rock band.
thx for watching!
@@3idiotstalking100 I was 15 when they hit the US. I bought "The Beatles" (aka "White Album") on first day of release.
And that was after the prior two weeks when an FM station played the entire L, all 4 sides, without commercials, and the DJ only announcing the changing of the sides, every week night.
Then played it at random during the other hours and weekends mixed in with all their earlier releases.
That's how massive "The Beatles" were.
So massive that from the beginning Top 20/40 AM radio played every track on every LP, so their LPs were #1 on BOTH LP and Singles charts.
It’s a cheesy song at the end of the day. Not bad cheese though lol
Obla di Obla da is meant to be annoying. It is meant to be plastic. It is mocking the lifestyle! It is making a laugh of it like a black comedy! Listen to the fake happy laughter in the song and it is pretty clear.
Huh???
@@mjames4709 Did I stut-tut-tut-ter?
@@mjames4709 Can't you tell it sounds like a soap opera intro song?
@@vovindequasahi did you?
@@vovindequasahi I e listened to that song since it dropped in ‘68. Never had that impression at all?
McCartney lyrics: often very pretty -- but never personal. Lennon lyrics: almost always personal.
I think “For No One” and a number of other stuff by Paul is highly personal.
@@MsAppassionata Personal appearing in the lyric. But he never actually reveals anything personal.
"And I Love Her" has a lyric to die for. But look at his life as a constantly calculating "lover": verging on marriage to the gorgeous Jane Asher he gets caught in THEIR bed with another woman.
So how much, really, was he committed, emotionally invested, in his relationship with Jane Asher? How much could his beautiful promising words actually be relied upon?
Sure: "We Can Work it Out" is "personal," about his ongoing conflict with Jane Asher: she wanted to continue having her career; he wanted her to be his stay-at-home house frau. It reveals Paul being self-centered ("The Beatles" were male chauvinists): he had to win every argument; he had to have the last word; his view had to prevail over whatever the woman's objections.
And we see that in the impression during the "Get Back" sessions that he was "bossy" -- controlling.
And I love her is not a great lyric lol… Paul was not a lyricist as is evident in his solo career without John
Lennon’s lyrics in the Beatles were mostly NOT PERSONAL, but rather SURREALIST! “I am the Walrus”, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “For the Benefit of Mr kite”, “A Day in the Life”, “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, “Dear Prudence”, “Because”, “Across the Universe”etc… he started writing more personal songs in his SOLO career. And “In My Life” with the Beatles is perhaps his best personal lyric ever. “help” is great as well
@@hw343434 it is certainly a terrific lyric.
Anyone who doesn't like Ob La Di, Ob La Da has a dark soul indeed.
lmao i'll let noah know
It sucks and I’m a happy bright soul, but dumb is dumb