@jamesgibbons5552 😆 Sorry. I was watching a reaction to Helter-skelter just before I watched this. And I thought I was commenting on that. You are right, of course . Lennons' vocal and McCartneys bass playing are both excellent.
I don’t know. I just listen to a bass isolation for this song. It seems like Paul just followed the guitar part of this song. Bass in a group is so overrated, so far behind lead guitar, drums, and vocals.
I don't know any other group that is as playful as The Beatles were in the studio. They joke around and riff in the studio and during the recording, and the next thing you know, it's part of the song and it works perfectly! The Beatles were just magic together. That chemistry of John and Paul, and the way they all fed off each other when they played. And, mostly, the way they loved each other like brothers. Has any other band written songs about their deceased band mates? Paul wrote one about John, and Ringo wrote one for George. It just touches my heart how they all were just these four working-class lads who went through this Beatlemania and all came out the other side changed. But after all was said and done, they all loved each other. Maybe that's why 60 years later we still obsess over them and dissect their songs. We feel the love.
One of my all time favorite Beatle songs. It was originally cut from the theatrical release of the film due to pacing issues, but remained on the soundtrack album. Decades later, the scene (and song) was restored to the film for home video release. So we finally got to see how this song fit into the movie.
I thought that was only in America. I remember hearing Hey Bulldog in the film when I saw it in 1968 in the UK. It was one of the few new tracks in the film. Even Yellow Submarine itself is from Revolver.
You can tell they had a great time recording this, that's what makes this song so cool to me! John's voice is great. Pauls bass, Ringos drums. Lead guitar solo. All very casual, cool and fun!
Lennon was truly a master with lyrics. He could cut deep into the jugular of a listener's mind with just one phrase if he wanted. his purposeful juxtaposition of lyrics, at first sound 'totally off the wall', but became totally fascinated how he could take this seeming words, and they made sense. I am also a musician as was a young teenager when their music dominated the charts in the US. I was very influenced by them and the music they made. The more you listen to this song, the more 'hooks' you become aware of . Pretty much everything in some of their songs were hooks. The guitar solo is totally amazing. The adlibbing at the end gives you a sense also of who they were - constant joking, obtuse references to things. One time McCartney was being interviewed about the sheer brilliance of his song "Yesterday' . The interviewer was making a huge deal of how deep, wonderful, thought provoking the song was. McCartneys final ward was 'Hey, it's only a song'.
They grew up together and started with each other at a very young age. The chemistry they developed will never be matched! Ever! So, enjoy! Cause the human race will never hear better music.
Best song on the album , absolutely loved it since it came out. John on his heavier side. Paul was joking near the end he could do dog sounds, that was him and John bantering about it at the end.
Love this song. I'm glad you listened to the version off the Yellow Submarine remix edition. All the songs on this LP were enhanced with perfection and sound far better than the original release. Two songs that benefited the most, imo, were Yellow Submarine and It's All Too Much (one of my all-time favorite Harrison songs). That dialog at the end of the song was Lennon and McCartney having a bit of fun, and it was purely adlibbed. McCartney started it off by barking, and then Lennon responded with a few words before he went into that maniacal laughter. Listening to that laugh of his always puts a smile on my face.
One of my favorite Beatles songs. I like everything about this song, musically and otherwise and I really love the fact that it's piano driven. But I agree, I first got to know this in junior high and you know how those times can be, and in John Lennon's voice you could hear his sincere offer that if you're lonely you can talk to him, and simultaneously you can hear the immense pain and loneliness in his voice. It's so powerful. And I think it's hilarious that he is framing it in a context of having a one-sided verbal conversation with a dog, you know we've all done that and what it's like. And yeah, at the end when they are kind of enacting a humorous conversation with a bulldog, John Lennon is saying things like, no you don't understand kind of like the whole Lassie thing, what is it girl, is it a fire? And the dog just barks, doing its best to have a conversation. And so then he says, do you know any more? And then he does kind of an exuberant bulldog howl, lol. It's so brilliant and funny and it reminds me a lot of David Byrne more than a decade later doing his song Animals on the iconic Talking Heads album, Fear of Music album, produced by Brian Eno. I love the lyrics of that but mostly I love his humorous paranoid delivery and it's so clever, and musically it just hits. But yeah, that is such a funny great moment and the whole thing is so poignant because it conveys such real and desperate emotion and yet it is in this humorous framework. I just subscribed.
Interesting history this song. They were in the lstudio because they hsad to do a video for their latest hit Lady Madonna. John said since they were there they should write a song. So they did this one while the guys around them filmed them and turned it into the Lady Madonna video. Year's later, somebody figured it out and rearranged all the cuts in the video back in the correct order and made the hey bulldog video
The song was virtually complete when John brought it to the studio apart from a few words. An asserive John hijacked the planned video to have his song recorded instead, and even wanted if to replace 'Lady Madonna' as the next single believing it was a better song but George Martin had to tell him it was too late to change. See Emerick book. There's also a home tape of John working on the song.
Even as a Beatles fan, I didn’t hear this track until the Rock and Roll album was released. Always been a fav ever since. Bass, drums, guitar and ‘big man’ vocals sending shivers..
One of my top five Beatles tracks. I think you should check out these too: Yer blues, A day in the life, Come together, Happiness is a warm gun and I want you (she’s so heavy).
This song was the only thing on the Yellow Sub album that was not drek. And not only is it not drek, it's one of my top 5 Beatles songs. Absolute genius. Concentrate on the bass line; you'll understand why Paul is widely considered to be a musical savant.
never by me, since the first time i've heard this song, I think it was 1967 , since then I love this one, and still do, I always thought this is one of the greatest rocksongs ever
I was 15 years old working as a dishwasher at the Nassau Col. Concert hall, when I met Rob H. art a concert and he looked ate me and I said ti him, "does your mother know what you do for a living?!" He laughed and went back to his Green room....True story....
Interesting fact, Lady Madonna and Hey Bulldog, were basically Paul, and John’s variation on a theme. The video they produced for Lady Madonna was actually excerpts from Hey Bulldog or vice versa
I don't always like Beatles covers, but I really enjoyed the rendition of "Hey Bulldog" by Dave Grohl and Jeff Lynne (along with Peter Frampton, Steve Lukather, and other great musicians) at the 2014 Grammy awards, with Paul and Ringo in attendance; I miss Lennon's voice and the general playfulness of the original track (and the fact that Grohl and Lynne's vocals weren't totally in time with each other), but it's still a great performance: ua-cam.com/video/sxqzMYjjkW8/v-deo.html
This is definitely my favorite track off of Yellow Submarine. As for more stuff to react to, Paul McCartney’s solo career is a veritable treasure trove. Starting from RAM (1971) to McCartney II (which is probably his most experimental album) to his career with Wings (especially their album Band On The Run) to everything after it, especially Memory Almost Full, Flaming Pie and McCartney III. As for the other Beatles, I admit I haven’t perused their solo albums much, but Ringo has a beautiful song called Photograph and another called Liverpool 8 (kind of cheesy but very tender), George had one called I’ve Got My Mind Set On You and another called My Sweet Lord (plus he was a part of a super-group called The Traveling Wilburys and they are great too), John had Imagine, Beautiful Boy, Jealous Guy, Mother, Watching The Wheels… If you want recommendations for the Beatles as a band… dude, I’d just say listen to their whole discography, starting from Please Please Me to Let It Be. Because the evolution of their style is very apparent from one album to the other, and by all means they are all great. Maybe, you know, you could listen to a compilation of singles, figure out what singles you like the most and find out on which album(s) they were. Personally I recommend all of Abbey Road, but that’s because it’s my favorite album. The Beatles (colloquially known as The White Album) is great too, and so are Revolver and Rubber Soul, but if I had to go on I’d also say Magical Mystery Tour and early albums such as Please Please Me, A Hard Day’s Night and Help! are very well worth checking out. So, yeah, you know… just take a few days to listen to their albums top to bottom and in chronological order, because 99% of it all is genuinely great stuff. Yellow Submarine is an odd one out because it was fundamentally the soundtrack for the animated movie they were in, but it also has some orchestral pieces by their producer, George Martin, which are really good too. And Hey Bulldog and Yellow Submarine are in it, so there’s that.
Originally this song was called Bull Frog but during rehearsal McCartney started making the barking noises during the outro so Lennon changed it to Bulldog.
I never understood what that song did on the original YS album until I got a copy of the restored movie on DVD. Still think it would have fitted better on the White Album.
I loved your reaction. It’s a fantastic song. If you like Ringo’s drumming and Paul’s bass than you have got to listen to ‘I want you ( she’s so heavy)’ from the magnificent Abbey Road album.
It might be useful to know that in Britain the bulldog was associated with a certain type of Britishness. There was a breed called the British bulldog and certain types of people were likened to the bulldog: they were belligerently nationalistic/patriotic/imperialist, they were right wing - later associated with skinheads - they were obviously full of machismo, not that bright or compassionate or artistic or sensitive! It wasn’t all negative - they were admired in come circumstances for stubbornness and courage (Churchill was associated with the ‘bulldog spirit’). But here Lennon is likely addressing a broadly right wing, angry, aggressive, somewhat manic person - or strand of British culture. That’s why the song’s lyrics are so ambivalent. They switch between mockery, some anger, an understanding of the psychological insecurity and weakness of this type and an offer to reach out to them, but ultimately a ‘we understand you and your aggression and limitations and we’re not intimidated by your old games anymore’ type of vibe. (And they are using humour to show their own masculine bravado but also to subvert this manic aggression with ridicule.) The Beatles in this song present themselves as a rebellious young pack of dogs and their energy is reflected in the semi-silly bass and guitar riff.)
I LOVE "HEY BULLDOG" I have LOVED it since it first came OUT ! SO many people don't KNOW it, it was NEVER given a lot of air play on the radio back then. Here is the official video for it.... ua-cam.com/video/M4vbJQ-MrKo/v-deo.html I HOPE you will REACT to the video, it's great!! Hey Bulldog is one of my top 5 favorite Beatles songs. THANKS for reacting to it!
What I like about this song is that the piano and bass guitar are carrying this tune. The piano is used as a rhythm instrument like in many Beatles tunes. It only needed the drums for tightness and guitar for window dressing.
Hey Bulldog has just been included on The Beatles Blue Greatest Hits album & has a 2023 remaster. It's definitely worth a listen. I'm a Beatles nut but only discovered this song a few years ago. I think after Dave Grohl & Jeff Lynne sang it at the Kennedy Centre in front of President Obama. It's on UA-cam. Worth a listen also - definitely makes you appreciate John Lennon's vocals!
I have the new remix 2023 album also and it sounds amazing and much better than the original release. Best to listen to it on headphones to hear the difference.
A brilliant underrated song. Pauls bass riff and Johns vocals are amazing.
Actually its the other way around on this song. Lennon is on bass and McCartney is on vocals
@@paulevans9036 Not sure if you're joking here but it's Lennon on vocals.
@jamesgibbons5552 😆 Sorry. I was watching a reaction to Helter-skelter just before I watched this. And I thought I was commenting on that. You are right, of course . Lennons' vocal and McCartneys bass playing are both excellent.
@@paulevans9036 No worries, easy mistake to mate, we've all done it 😁
YES! the bass line is just unbelievable. Paul plays very long scales in this song, which i think it might be quite difficult to reproduce live
I haven't listened to the Beatles in a while, and I forgot how they are on a whole different level👍
Paul's bass is just batsh!t crazy. He doesn't get enough credit for how innovative he was.
Indeed he is a master of these kind of basslines.
Paul's been getting accolades for his bass playing for years. Of course, I've been listening to The Beatles since 1964. 😎
@ktcarl Right you are. Compliments on his bass playing is something Macca is definitely not lacking!
I don’t know. I just listen to a bass isolation for this song. It seems like Paul just followed the guitar part of this song. Bass in a group is so overrated, so far behind lead guitar, drums, and vocals.
This song has one of the best bass lines EVER! Love it and the lead guitar riff.
The lead guitar on this was Paul too :)
Killer riff. I really like Ringo's drumming on this too. Paul's bass is going crazy in the backround.
George's guitar is way better than Paul's bass, but it's more trendy to mention Paul.
Yeah that bass line is crazy, Paul is a master of basslines.
unnecessary comment. both are killin it@@nonrepublicrat
btw Paul played the guitar solo ;)@@nonrepublicrat
Geoff Emerick (Engineer for the session) confirmed it was George that played the solo@@bobsbigboy_
I don't know any other group that is as playful as The Beatles were in the studio. They joke around and riff in the studio and during the recording, and the next thing you know, it's part of the song and it works perfectly! The Beatles were just magic together. That chemistry of John and Paul, and the way they all fed off each other when they played. And, mostly, the way they loved each other like brothers. Has any other band written songs about their deceased band mates? Paul wrote one about John, and Ringo wrote one for George. It just touches my heart how they all were just these four working-class lads who went through this Beatlemania and all came out the other side changed. But after all was said and done, they all loved each other. Maybe that's why 60 years later we still obsess over them and dissect their songs. We feel the love.
The shifts from psychedelia,to big band,to soul and jazz is a thing to behold.
One of my all time favorite Beatle songs. It was originally cut from the theatrical release of the film due to pacing issues, but remained on the soundtrack album. Decades later, the scene (and song) was restored to the film for home video release. So we finally got to see how this song fit into the movie.
I thought that was only in America. I remember hearing Hey Bulldog in the film when I saw it in 1968 in the UK. It was one of the few new tracks in the film. Even Yellow Submarine itself is from Revolver.
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You're right.
It was only cut from the American film release.
The UK has always had the full version.
This song has really grown in stature over the years, for a good reason. Great reaction!
It is a song I have really come to appriciate gonna be delving deeper into The Beatles.
Always has been a great song. Video version is worth a watch!
What a great voice John had !
You can tell they had a great time recording this, that's what makes this song so cool to me! John's voice is great. Pauls bass, Ringos drums. Lead guitar solo. All very casual, cool and fun!
Paul, the man of a thousand voices, and occasional barks! Sounds like Paul and John had a great time on this one.
Lennon was truly a master with lyrics. He could cut deep into the jugular of a listener's mind with just one phrase if he wanted. his purposeful juxtaposition of lyrics, at first sound 'totally off the wall', but became totally fascinated how he could take this seeming words, and they made sense. I am also a musician as was a young teenager when their music dominated the charts in the US. I was very influenced by them and the music they made. The more you listen to this song, the more 'hooks' you become aware of . Pretty much everything in some of their songs were hooks. The guitar solo is totally amazing. The adlibbing at the end gives you a sense also of who they were - constant joking, obtuse references to things. One time McCartney was being interviewed about the sheer brilliance of his song "Yesterday' . The interviewer was making a huge deal of how deep, wonderful, thought provoking the song was. McCartneys final ward was 'Hey, it's only a song'.
2 songs the are the most classic Beatles. Hey Bulldog & Dear Prudence. McCartney's bass line is so rich🎸😎
The bass on this is amazing!
Why are the Beatles great? Here is one of their throwaway songs. It's better than any of the Bull Shit now!
They grew up together and started with each other at a very young age. The chemistry they developed will never be matched! Ever! So, enjoy! Cause the human race will never hear better music.
Best song on the album , absolutely loved it since it came out. John on his heavier side. Paul was joking near the end he could do dog sounds, that was him and John bantering about it at the end.
Love this song. I'm glad you listened to the version off the Yellow Submarine remix edition. All the songs on this LP were enhanced with perfection and sound far better than the original release. Two songs that benefited the most, imo, were Yellow Submarine and It's All Too Much (one of my all-time favorite Harrison songs).
That dialog at the end of the song was Lennon and McCartney having a bit of fun, and it was purely adlibbed. McCartney started it off by barking, and then Lennon responded with a few words before he went into that maniacal laughter. Listening to that laugh of his always puts a smile on my face.
Guitar vs. piano. This is what I think of as a signature Beatles song.
Good observation.
Keep in mind, for them this was somehow just a throw away song. Fun song. Many other bands (even today) would be proud.
The all girl group Fanny covered this back around 1970. they have been badly overlooked by history. Very talented ladies and worth checking out.
I saw that video.. good band
Saw them live and it was a great show even though Fanny in the UK has a different meaning😂
The Fanny cover is great.
I will have to check it out.
Hey Bulldog, I Want You, I've Just Seen A Face ... are the most underrated Songs by the Beatles.
Good reaction. Love John’s edge on this one. I appreciate too his sense of humor at the end when he howls.
One of my favorite Beatles songs. I like everything about this song, musically and otherwise and I really love the fact that it's piano driven.
But I agree, I first got to know this in junior high and you know how those times can be, and in John Lennon's voice you could hear his sincere offer that if you're lonely you can talk to him, and simultaneously you can hear the immense pain and loneliness in his voice. It's so powerful.
And I think it's hilarious that he is framing it in a context of having a one-sided verbal conversation with a dog, you know we've all done that and what it's like. And yeah, at the end when they are kind of enacting a humorous conversation with a bulldog, John Lennon is saying things like, no you don't understand kind of like the whole Lassie thing, what is it girl, is it a fire? And the dog just barks, doing its best to have a conversation.
And so then he says, do you know any more? And then he does kind of an exuberant bulldog howl, lol. It's so brilliant and funny and it reminds me a lot of David Byrne more than a decade later doing his song Animals on the iconic Talking Heads album, Fear of Music album, produced by Brian Eno. I love the lyrics of that but mostly I love his humorous paranoid delivery and it's so clever, and musically it just hits.
But yeah, that is such a funny great moment and the whole thing is so poignant because it conveys such real and desperate emotion and yet it is in this humorous framework.
I just subscribed.
One of my absoute favorites by the Fab Four!
They were so good it makes me dizzy.
This is one of my top favorite Beatles songs. Such a rocker!
Amazing song.
Interesting history this song. They were in the lstudio because they hsad to do a video for their latest hit Lady Madonna. John said since they were there they should write a song. So they did this one while the guys around them filmed them and turned it into the Lady Madonna video. Year's later, somebody figured it out and rearranged all the cuts in the video back in the correct order and made the hey bulldog video
The song was virtually complete when John brought it to the studio apart from a few words. An asserive John hijacked the planned video to have his song recorded instead, and even wanted if to replace 'Lady Madonna' as the next single believing it was a better song but George Martin had to tell him it was too late to change. See Emerick book. There's also a home tape of John working on the song.
Neil Aspinall was behind piecing it all back together
My ringtone for decade or more.
Love John’s voice.
Amazing song! It’s seems to be getting better all the time.! So many avenues to appreciate it’s a deep piece of Beatles
Even as a Beatles fan, I didn’t hear this track until the Rock and Roll album was released. Always been a fav ever since. Bass, drums, guitar and ‘big man’ vocals sending shivers..
One of my favorite BEATLES SONGS...You should watch the video. It's really fun 😊
Yes!
You should watch the video of them doing it live in studio.
I will check ot out.
Underrated Song Great fun Tune!
It's a great jam.
One of my top five Beatles tracks. I think you should check out these too: Yer blues, A day in the life, Come together, Happiness is a warm gun and I want you (she’s so heavy).
Holy crap those are my five I’d suggest too! You have good taste. I want you/she’s so heavy is my ultimate fave.
@@annakermode6646 Oh yes. To me I want you is almost hypnotic. And I can’t resist three more: Dear Prudence, Weeps and I’m the Walrus.
Helter-skelter is one of my favourite Beatles songs it's a superb heavy metal rock song imho. The voice of John Lennon at his best.
Thank you for the suggestions. I will check them out.
@@ednammansfield8553 helter skelter is actually a Paul vocal. All the other songs mentioned here are Lennon (my preference, for what it’s worth).
I enjoyed your reaction to Hey Bulldog ! These days, this is my favorite Beatles song for the same reasons that you stated.
This song was the only thing on the Yellow Sub album that was not drek. And not only is it not drek, it's one of my top 5 Beatles songs. Absolute genius. Concentrate on the bass line; you'll understand why Paul is widely considered to be a musical savant.
Definately agree about the bass.
Great vocals by John on that one
My second favourite Beatles song right after Don’t Let me Down!
I will have to check that one out.
Pure fire and often overlooked. 🔥
never by me, since the first time i've heard this song, I think it was 1967 , since then I love this one, and still do, I always thought this is one of the greatest rocksongs ever
This one song makes the album worthwhile! Could never understand the rationale behind the preschool song Yellow Submarine.
Guy talking to his shrink. Most catchy riff since Daytripper. Love this one. most overlooked piece.
I was 15 years old working as a dishwasher at the Nassau Col. Concert hall, when I met Rob H. art a concert and he looked ate me and I said ti him, "does your mother know what you do for a living?!" He laughed and went back to his Green room....True story....
Good song..lennon was the man
Interesting fact, Lady Madonna and Hey Bulldog, were basically Paul, and John’s variation on a theme. The video they produced for Lady Madonna was actually excerpts from Hey Bulldog or vice versa
Such an underrated track. This could have fit on Pepper or The White Album easily. What a great track with all four guys in it 100 percent.
Killer deep track!
I don't always like Beatles covers, but I really enjoyed the rendition of "Hey Bulldog" by Dave Grohl and Jeff Lynne (along with Peter Frampton, Steve Lukather, and other great musicians) at the 2014 Grammy awards, with Paul and Ringo in attendance; I miss Lennon's voice and the general playfulness of the original track (and the fact that Grohl and Lynne's vocals weren't totally in time with each other), but it's still a great performance:
ua-cam.com/video/sxqzMYjjkW8/v-deo.html
As a couple of people have said, you ought to watch the original promo video of this song in the studio. It's fab.
Tout est parfait dans cette chanson .....le solo d Harrison est un des meilleurs qu il a exécuté au sein des Beatles
Pretty sure I’ve seen their live version Bulldog right?
Like Revolution live, it’s shocking how great they are.
Pauls Bass....oh yeah!
Another throw away, was Baby your a rich man, b side of All you need is love
This is the Beatles creating a driving rocker.🎸
My favorite Paul bass line
One of my favorites!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is definitely my favorite track off of Yellow Submarine. As for more stuff to react to, Paul McCartney’s solo career is a veritable treasure trove. Starting from RAM (1971) to McCartney II (which is probably his most experimental album) to his career with Wings (especially their album Band On The Run) to everything after it, especially Memory Almost Full, Flaming Pie and McCartney III.
As for the other Beatles, I admit I haven’t perused their solo albums much, but Ringo has a beautiful song called Photograph and another called Liverpool 8 (kind of cheesy but very tender), George had one called I’ve Got My Mind Set On You and another called My Sweet Lord (plus he was a part of a super-group called The Traveling Wilburys and they are great too), John had Imagine, Beautiful Boy, Jealous Guy, Mother, Watching The Wheels…
If you want recommendations for the Beatles as a band… dude, I’d just say listen to their whole discography, starting from Please Please Me to Let It Be. Because the evolution of their style is very apparent from one album to the other, and by all means they are all great. Maybe, you know, you could listen to a compilation of singles, figure out what singles you like the most and find out on which album(s) they were. Personally I recommend all of Abbey Road, but that’s because it’s my favorite album. The Beatles (colloquially known as The White Album) is great too, and so are Revolver and Rubber Soul, but if I had to go on I’d also say Magical Mystery Tour and early albums such as Please Please Me, A Hard Day’s Night and Help! are very well worth checking out. So, yeah, you know… just take a few days to listen to their albums top to bottom and in chronological order, because 99% of it all is genuinely great stuff. Yellow Submarine is an odd one out because it was fundamentally the soundtrack for the animated movie they were in, but it also has some orchestral pieces by their producer, George Martin, which are really good too. And Hey Bulldog and Yellow Submarine are in it, so there’s that.
I will be reacting to more Beatles songs and definately their solo albums. Yes even Ringo the IV
Nice reaction.
Love the monstera!
Originally this song was called Bull Frog but during rehearsal McCartney started making the barking noises during the outro so Lennon changed it to Bulldog.
He also already had the "You can talk to me" part, which he added to this song.
This son WAS NEVER A SINGLE... Weird world...
I never understood what that song did on the original YS album until I got a copy of the restored movie on DVD. Still think it would have fitted better on the White Album.
I loved your reaction. It’s a fantastic song. If you like Ringo’s drumming and Paul’s bass than you have got to listen to ‘I want you ( she’s so heavy)’ from the magnificent Abbey Road album.
I did and it is a stellar track
Pity you didn't watch the official promo video of this. It's a brilliant piece of video and has them recording it in the studio.
you should watch it recorded live.
Love how Lennon drops an F-bomb at 2M20S! More noticeable on the original mix.
This song is free wheeling and un restrained while still saying things that matter. It is something you don't hear much.
The next song you should react to is I'm Only Sleeping. In my opinion the best song they made.
Already reacted to it.
Try “ hold on” by Wild Cherry a 1970s tune really nice stings
Thank you for the suggestion. I will check it out.
Play earlier Beatles, with Pete Best on the drums. Ain't she sweet, Hello little girl, Three Cool Cats, Cry for a shadow.
Try "It's All Too Much" on the same album....That...would surprise you!
It might be useful to know that in Britain the bulldog was associated with a certain type of Britishness. There was a breed called the British bulldog and certain types of people were likened to the bulldog: they were belligerently nationalistic/patriotic/imperialist, they were right wing - later associated with skinheads - they were obviously full of machismo, not that bright or compassionate or artistic or sensitive! It wasn’t all negative - they were admired in come circumstances for stubbornness and courage (Churchill was associated with the ‘bulldog spirit’). But here Lennon is likely addressing a broadly right wing, angry, aggressive, somewhat manic person - or strand of British culture. That’s why the song’s lyrics are so ambivalent. They switch between mockery, some anger, an understanding of the psychological insecurity and weakness of this type and an offer to reach out to them, but ultimately a ‘we understand you and your aggression and limitations and we’re not intimidated by your old games anymore’ type of vibe. (And they are using humour to show their own masculine bravado but also to subvert this manic aggression with ridicule.) The Beatles in this song present themselves as a rebellious young pack of dogs and their energy is reflected in the semi-silly bass and guitar riff.)
check out "It's All Too Much" by the Beatles. (Same Album, "Yellow Submarine Soundtrack").
Thank you for the suggestion. I will check it out.
Now check out Savory Truffle. It will blow your mind!
Tomorrow Never Knows
I will check it out.
I LOVE "HEY BULLDOG" I have LOVED it since it first came OUT ! SO many people don't KNOW it, it was NEVER given a lot of air play on the radio back then. Here is the official video for it.... ua-cam.com/video/M4vbJQ-MrKo/v-deo.html I HOPE you will REACT to the video, it's great!! Hey Bulldog is one of my top 5 favorite Beatles songs. THANKS for reacting to it!
Check out I Want You from Abbey Road and Helter Skelter from the White Album
Lennon said that the lyric is nonsense.
The quality is in the edge of Lennon's vocal.
What I like about this song is that the piano and bass guitar are carrying this tune. The piano is used as a rhythm instrument like in many Beatles tunes. It only needed the drums for tightness and guitar for window dressing.
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If you think it means something, you are wrong. John wrote the lyrics in 10 minutes! They mean nothing! That’s how great he was at writing lyrics!
Two of Us. Even though it's not, I like to pretend it's a buddy song between Paul and John
Me too!
Same here!❤
all change for the Beatles after this recording
I believe one of Dave Grohls favourite beatles tracks.
Hey Bulldog has just been included on The Beatles Blue Greatest Hits album & has a 2023 remaster. It's definitely worth a listen. I'm a Beatles nut but only discovered this song a few years ago. I think after Dave Grohl & Jeff Lynne sang it at the Kennedy Centre in front of President Obama. It's on UA-cam. Worth a listen also - definitely makes you appreciate John Lennon's vocals!
I have the new remix 2023 album also and it sounds amazing and much better than the original release. Best to listen to it on headphones to hear the difference.
Musically, maybe the best jam of the Fab Four
That’s a punchy number, innit?
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Focus in on the bass - next time you listen to it. It's one of Paul's best bass lines.
My favorite bass line of their discography
That's not saying much, bass is by far the easiest instrument.
@@nonrepublicrat - Talk about "Not saying much"...
Watch the video!!
The song is fun.. just say it.. IT’S FUN and yet the lyrics are slightly deep…
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Sandwiched between two crazy great George Harrison songs on the original album.
I will have to check those George songs out.
Please react to I've got a feeling (live on rooftop)
I will check it out.
I suggest the strangest Beatle track all, Revolution #9. Few reactors have done it. I hope you’ll have the courage to do so. Thanks.
It would have been funny if, when the song was done, you would have said "wow. Cool" End of video 🤣
It’s cool that you like Ringo.
Could you try remake / remodel by Roxy Music, from their debut LP Roxy Music.
Or if there is something
Every time someone comes up with reactions for a Beatles song they have never heard, I don't know why but I don't believe the thing is true.