And yet, confusing tracks were skipped on some of MY first listens, but I came back. LOVE YOU TO and INNER LIGHT remain shameful first-skipped-over, and now adored. The few cover-bands that include those always get the crowd roaring.
The strides this band made- From I want to Hold your Hand to Tomorrow Never Knows in just three years! No one could touch them, they changed music and culture effortlessly
This is one of the huge losses for fans that avoid the Beatles' early work - they refuse that benefit - cheating themselves of the growth of Albums vs. being spoonfed on someone else's idea of 'hits'. 'Tis a shame. And the confusing mistakes with the Doors' THE END, but with a little research, hopefully Ace will discover this IS from a meditation experience.
“We are still learning to be James Joyce’s contemporaries,” said his biographer. I think the same statement is true of the Beatles. The bands that came after them have planted in the soil the Beatles plowed.
This is one of my favorite Beatles song. Psychedelic is right. This song jump started their experiment with the studio and really opened the door for rock to expand. And it has a great beat, Ringo's drumming pulls the song together.
I don't find the Beatles oh-so revolutionary or unique. They invented very little - every technique was used and available to everyone else. It's just that the Beatles made money from it. Few others did. The outward appearance of Easy Abundant Money gave everyone else a license to proceed. It gave record companies the need to succeed. Tape loops had been common for decades in both film and radio. Indian Music was invented by George - but he brought it onto a successful album - and suddenluy 'everyone' had to try it. And those with previous skills (maybe Brian Jones and Yardbirds) told their record-labels "We can be just as successful with ME playing that." Then there were gadget makers who said, "Use this setting or my new guitar-pedal to create that twangy loose-jangly sitar effect." And thank goodness - if the Beatles did revolutionize anything, it was the wide-open sound-effects for guitar pedals and the energizing of the keyboard synthesizers. "Hey - if the Beatles can make money using those simple effects, what can WE make using even more?!!" Not revolutionary - it was more like door-opening.
@@Cbcw76 Well well well three holes in the ground and by the very -un -unique sound you seem to make Your opinions seem a little fake and not so popular as you might think. Time for 'Nursey' to bring you another 'drink'?! And yay bye for now and on and on and on This bird has flown... Am gone!
John Lennon demo’d this song with just his voice and a guitar strumming a single chord. Ringo came up with that drumbeat and Paul (who was very into musique concrète at the time) made a bunch of weird tape loops that were faded in and out during the mix. John told George Martin he wanted his voice to sound like a chant from a distant mountaintop, so Martin fed the signal through the rotating speaker from a Leslie organ.
This song (and this album) were a landmark, where current music became truly art, and equal to anything that came before. The Beatles created prog rock, and all of the others who followed were inspired by them (and have said so).
This was maybe the most important track in music history. It’s the first ever “soundscape” in popular music, created using a variety of innovative studio techniques. It hugely influenced so much which came after, including bands like Pink Floyd and The Doors. Music was never the same after this.
This was recorded on 4 track, using tape loops going forwards and backwards. John’s voice was put through a rotating Leslie speaker because he wanted to sound like a Dali Lama on a mountaintop singing to his Tibetan monks.
Re "this reminds me of The Doors' 'The End." TNN was recorded in April 1966 and released on Revolver at the beginning of August 1966. The Doors recorded 'The End' towards the end of that same month. It came out on their debut album in Jan 1967. Some influence from the Beatles is possible.
The Beatles started changing their sound, becoming more mature and more experimental, around '65, with Rubber Soul. This - Revolver - is the album after it. The Sgt. Pepper album comes in the following year ('67). A very interesting time in music, if you want to zoom in and analyze. Innovation of sound was somewhat limited at the time, with very few effects available. They played games with the tape recording, changing the speed and so forth, and they used a Leslie, which is a loudspeaker that rotates on its base, creating a sound that changes volume like a siren. These became basically signature sounds of a psychedelic style.
The Beatles were evolving through 1965, and by the time of this recording in 1966, John Lennon was definitely using LSD and this is an example of how it influenced his music. The real challenge fell to George Martin and his engineers, who weren't drug users, but had to somehow put on tape the wild sounds Lennon was hearing in his head! I think they did a phenomenal job, while expanding music technology.
Imagine being a beatles fan and hearing this song for the first time as you let the album play😮 shock and awe👍 and poof there you are changing the style of clothes wear❤️🤘no turning back; you became “far out” in the grooviest way
'Different'...'interesting'...'psychedelic', you say? Definitely all three, but perhaps the term you were searching for is 'abstract'. They were all set to make a different song altogether with this recording. The vocals, the sound loops, the drum pattern, and, ofc, the guitar lead in the middle was intended to be nothing like they ever done before. This song was totally unexpected to all their fans, and it certainly blew a lot of people away. The entire Revolver LP was the beginning of their 'studio magic' years where they could do whatever they desired bc, since they stopped touring, they knew they didn't have to worry about replicating these songs on stage. It was uncharted territory for The Beatles and they never looked back.
the first line of the song "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" is from Timothy Leary's psychedelic version of 'The Tibetan Book Of The Dead'
What I find interesting is that there were all sorts of avant garde compositions using modes, backwards sounds, non European instrument etc kicking around, but it was basically unlistenable to. Whereas the Beatles took all those ideas and put them into an accessible 3 minute pop song :-)
If you listen to their catalog you’ll discover they weren’t afraid to record whatever they felt like. This song predated The Doors first LP by 2 years.
This track was unique in its day and still sounds amazing. I think if you listen to it a few times you'll find it grows on you...big time. I love and understand your reaction.
One of the techniques that they used was to play a tune backwards, and then play the track backwards to get the song forwards but each note with a backwards envelope. One of the musically deepest songs they ever did.
It's almost bound to be different from what you've heard before. Beatles - so many genres - so many different sounds. This Beatles's track predates the Doors. One of Ringo's finest moments. Based on Lennon's reading of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead'. 'It's okay though,' ???? understatement of the century.
i agree. Theres several different reasons. one of them which not many people talk about is the fact that none of them had a seious foundation in any musical genre. imo. yes john loved chuck berrys style but he wasnt fixated on it. same with the rest of the group. they had influences but their attachment to any style of music was fleeting at best.
this could be classified as one of the first psychedelic songs. released the same year, 1966, of zappa and the mother's album "freak out." a very strange song indeed. lennon wrote it during his "book of the dead" period. btw, there's a very good song on "freak out" called "help, i'm a rock/it can't happen here." its one song with 2 parts to it. be sure to listen to the full song. if you want to hear something really trippy and funny check it out.
I am sitting on a balcony in Shell Cove NSW Australia 🇦🇺..10 minutes ago after you posted this MY DEAR FRIEND..GIVE IT UP..Acknowledge that in 1966 ..NO ONE HAD DONE THIS B4..This was actually the FIRST SONG RECORDED FOR THIS ALBUM..so do a deep dive as to when this was recorded and when it was released...everything was Obsolete b4 the Album was released..the first time recording loops was used..EVER..Think
Research how they put the song together in the studio (backward tapes, etc, etc.) ....waaaaay before its time > still is. Short summary > Song is based on the Tibetan 'Book of the Dead'
You’re thinking too much, bro. Listen to Lennon: Turn off your mind Relax, and float downstream It is not dying It is not dying Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void It is shining, it is shining That’s when the song really catches fire
Definitely was a different experience back when it came out. Revolver is still the best album ever. No filler songs and the next level, after Rubber Soul. Great review, as always.
There is a version of this song on UA-cam that was time stretched to be 800% slower. Sounds even more amazing. I put it on my Smaug the dragon playlist because the symbols sound like dragon’s breath.
1960's whenever... could have been made today. Whatever it reminds you of- Beatles got there first..Expect the unexpected with the Fab Four. Listen to the white album.
The thing that connects tomorrow never knows with the doors' the end is called creativity and originality. That may be the thing that's confusing to you, as it is to many other people.
You’re ok it’s both meditative/mesmerizing and psychedelic -there’s a lot of overlap there 😉 Many of those sounds were backward-running tapes, of which they did many more after. The Doors first album (including The End) was released in 1967, and they absolutely would have known this Beatles album. Every musician did.
I always get this song confused with chemical brothers - let forever be. You should check it out and then listen back to back. Also chemical brothers and basement jaxx are rarely suggested to reactors. Worth a listen.
So, if Lennon called Rubber Soul "the pot album", can we call Revolver "the LSD album"? This song I offer as evidence. John coming off multiple acid trips in his "Tibetan Book of the Dead" phase.
I like the song, but I think it suffers from over production. Too many tape loops and reversed effects. There was an artist in the eighties who covered it and had a smoother sound. I forget who that was, but it was a female artist.
Imagine being a beatles fan and hearing this song for the first time as you let the album play😮 shock and awe👍 and poof there you are changing the style of clothes wear❤️🤘no turning back; you became “far out” in the grooviest way
If you’re confused today, try to imagine how we felt in 1966. Truly revolutionary. The Beatles changed the playing field.
And yet, confusing tracks were skipped on some of MY first listens, but I came back. LOVE YOU TO and INNER LIGHT remain shameful first-skipped-over, and now adored. The few cover-bands that include those always get the crowd roaring.
Released in 1966 - are you kidding me?? - and this song STILL feels like it's from the future.
Put it this way, when this come out it was only 21 years after WW2.
From now (2024), 21 years ago was 2003.
The strides this band made- From I want to Hold your Hand to Tomorrow Never Knows in just three years! No one could touch them, they changed music and culture effortlessly
This is one of the huge losses for fans that avoid the Beatles' early work - they refuse that benefit - cheating themselves of the growth of Albums vs. being spoonfed on someone else's idea of 'hits'. 'Tis a shame. And the confusing mistakes with the Doors' THE END, but with a little research, hopefully Ace will discover this IS from a meditation experience.
Radiohead from "Creep" to "Idioteque" comes close
@@condimentking414 Now THAT is funny-!
@@Cbcw76 and yet real
“We are still learning to be James Joyce’s contemporaries,” said his biographer. I think the same statement is true of the Beatles. The bands that came after them have planted in the soil the Beatles plowed.
This is one of my favorite Beatles song. Psychedelic is right. This song jump started their experiment with the studio and really opened the door for rock to expand. And it has a great beat, Ringo's drumming pulls the song together.
It's the first psychadelic song
@@garfle1959 it's amazing and still is!
THE BEATLES don't sound like anybody else, others sound like THE BEATLES
The Beatles doing the heavy lifting of all music - pulling them into the future, stamping the okay to experiment. Thank God
God had little if anything to do with it. The Beatles deserve your thanks, not some manmade deity!
The Beatles certainly did the heavy lifting for all future music and those that know …..know
I don't find the Beatles oh-so revolutionary or unique. They invented very little - every technique was used and available to everyone else.
It's just that the Beatles made money from it. Few others did. The outward appearance of Easy Abundant Money gave everyone else a license to proceed. It gave record companies the need to succeed.
Tape loops had been common for decades in both film and radio. Indian Music was invented by George - but he brought it onto a successful album - and suddenluy 'everyone' had to try it. And those with previous skills (maybe Brian Jones and Yardbirds) told their record-labels "We can be just as successful with ME playing that."
Then there were gadget makers who said, "Use this setting or my new guitar-pedal to create that twangy loose-jangly sitar effect."
And thank goodness - if the Beatles did revolutionize anything, it was the wide-open sound-effects for guitar pedals and the energizing of the keyboard synthesizers. "Hey - if the Beatles can make money using those simple effects, what can WE make using even more?!!" Not revolutionary - it was more like door-opening.
@@Cbcw76
Well well well three holes in the ground
and by the very -un -unique sound
you seem to make
Your opinions seem a little fake
and not so popular as you might think.
Time for 'Nursey' to bring you another 'drink'?!
And yay bye for now and on and on and on
This bird has flown... Am gone!
@@Cbcw76
p.s. are really 76 ?
John Lennon demo’d this song with just his voice and a guitar strumming a single chord. Ringo came up with that drumbeat and Paul (who was very into musique concrète at the time) made a bunch of weird tape loops that were faded in and out during the mix. John told George Martin he wanted his voice to sound like a chant from a distant mountaintop, so Martin fed the signal through the rotating speaker from a Leslie organ.
Very interesting.
This song (and this album) were a landmark, where current music became truly art, and equal to anything that came before. The Beatles created prog rock, and all of the others who followed were inspired by them (and have said so).
"This is different." This song changed music.
This was maybe the most important track in music history. It’s the first ever “soundscape” in popular music, created using a variety of innovative studio techniques. It hugely influenced so much which came after, including bands like Pink Floyd and The Doors. Music was never the same after this.
One of my fav Beatles songs honestly. The way they recorded it is wild in itself
This was recorded on 4 track, using tape loops going forwards and backwards. John’s voice was put through a rotating Leslie speaker because he wanted to sound like a Dali Lama on a mountaintop singing to his Tibetan monks.
Re "this reminds me of The Doors' 'The End." TNN was recorded in April 1966 and released on Revolver at the beginning of August 1966. The Doors recorded 'The End' towards the end of that same month. It came out on their debut album in Jan 1967. Some influence from the Beatles is possible.
he said, "This is different. "
The Beatles started changing their sound, becoming more mature and more experimental, around '65, with Rubber Soul. This - Revolver - is the album after it. The Sgt. Pepper album comes in the following year ('67). A very interesting time in music, if you want to zoom in and analyze. Innovation of sound was somewhat limited at the time, with very few effects available. They played games with the tape recording, changing the speed and so forth, and they used a Leslie, which is a loudspeaker that rotates on its base, creating a sound that changes volume like a siren. These became basically signature sounds of a psychedelic style.
Still in 2024, the future of music
Absolutely Brilliant lyrics, sounds, performance and production. a 10's 10.
The Beatles in the sixties were collectively the Pied Piper and we were the children, enthralled by their music, happily following their every mood.
The Beatles were evolving through 1965, and by the time of this recording in 1966, John Lennon was definitely using LSD and this is an example of how it influenced his music. The real challenge fell to George Martin and his engineers, who weren't drug users, but had to somehow put on tape the wild sounds Lennon was hearing in his head! I think they did a phenomenal job, while expanding music technology.
Imagine being a beatles fan and hearing this song for the first time as you let the album play😮 shock and awe👍 and poof there you are changing the style of clothes wear❤️🤘no turning back; you became “far out” in the grooviest way
'Different'...'interesting'...'psychedelic', you say? Definitely all three, but perhaps the term you were searching for is 'abstract'. They were all set to make a different song altogether with this recording. The vocals, the sound loops, the drum pattern, and, ofc, the guitar lead in the middle was intended to be nothing like they ever done before. This song was totally unexpected to all their fans, and it certainly blew a lot of people away. The entire Revolver LP was the beginning of their 'studio magic' years where they could do whatever they desired bc, since they stopped touring, they knew they didn't have to worry about replicating these songs on stage. It was uncharted territory for The Beatles and they never looked back.
the first line of the song "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" is from Timothy Leary's psychedelic version of 'The Tibetan Book Of The Dead'
What I find interesting is that there were all sorts of avant garde compositions using modes, backwards sounds, non European instrument etc kicking around, but it was basically unlistenable to. Whereas the Beatles took all those ideas and put them into an accessible 3 minute pop song :-)
If you listen to their catalog you’ll discover they weren’t afraid to record whatever they felt like. This song predated The Doors first LP by 2 years.
Outstanding track, still sounds like the future! Existence til the end... Of the beginning 🔥
Psychedelic trance is what you're thinking of. Another genre invented by the Beatles.
I love Ringo's drums in this.
Sublime.
My fav Beatles track
"Better living through chemistry". It all changed after that.
This track was unique in its day and still sounds amazing. I think if you listen to it a few times you'll find it grows on you...big time. I love and understand your reaction.
One of the techniques that they used was to play a tune backwards, and then play the track backwards to get the song forwards but each note with a backwards envelope. One of the musically deepest songs they ever did.
The seagull sound is a tape of Paul McCartney laughing sped up.
..then played backwards
This is my favourite Beatles album... Especially the songs by John snd George. 😊♥️♥️♥️♥️😊🖖
It's almost bound to be different from what you've heard before. Beatles - so many genres - so many different sounds. This Beatles's track predates the Doors. One of Ringo's finest moments. Based on Lennon's reading of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead'. 'It's okay though,' ???? understatement of the century.
The Beatles threw the rules out the window.
i agree. Theres several different reasons. one of them which not many people talk about is the fact that none of them had a seious foundation in any musical genre. imo. yes john loved chuck berrys style but he wasnt fixated on it. same with the rest of the group. they had influences but their attachment to any style of music was fleeting at best.
I have never really liked this one, but you sure can not deny how genius it was for the time and the bands uniqueness.
this could be classified as one of the first psychedelic songs. released the same year, 1966, of zappa and the mother's album "freak out." a very strange song indeed. lennon wrote it during his "book of the dead" period.
btw, there's a very good song on "freak out" called "help, i'm a rock/it can't happen here." its one song with 2 parts to it. be sure to listen to the full song. if you want to hear something really trippy and funny check it out.
I am sitting on a balcony in Shell Cove NSW Australia 🇦🇺..10 minutes ago after you posted this MY DEAR FRIEND..GIVE IT UP..Acknowledge that in 1966 ..NO ONE HAD DONE THIS B4..This was actually the FIRST SONG RECORDED FOR THIS ALBUM..so do a deep dive as to when this was recorded and when it was released...everything was Obsolete b4 the Album was released..the first time recording loops was used..EVER..Think
pay attention its Ringo and George at the front of the album and Paul and John are on the right and left of the album
Research how they put the song together in the studio (backward tapes, etc, etc.) ....waaaaay before its time > still is.
Short summary > Song is based on the Tibetan 'Book of the Dead'
You’re thinking too much, bro. Listen to Lennon: Turn off your mind
Relax, and float downstream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void
It is shining, it is shining
That’s when the song really catches fire
I've never done a trip but I get it. It's mesmerising.
Definitely was a different experience back when it came out. Revolver is still the best album ever. No filler songs and the next level, after Rubber Soul. Great review, as always.
The common thread with the Doors’ The End is the Indian-based raga (basically staying on one chord).
The instruments that you aren't sure about are riffs from guitars, keyboards, and brass being played backwards.
There is a version of this song on UA-cam that was time stretched to be 800% slower. Sounds even more amazing. I put it on my Smaug the dragon playlist because the symbols sound like dragon’s breath.
1960's whenever... could have been made today. Whatever it reminds you of- Beatles got there first..Expect the unexpected with the Fab Four. Listen to the white album.
Beatles took the rule book of what you could do in the studio, demolished it & burned it.
The thing that connects tomorrow never knows with the doors' the end is called creativity and originality. That may be the thing that's confusing to you, as it is to many other people.
4 years before the doors
This song is a cross between the Psychedelic and Indian Meditation Philosophy.
Backward guitars solo". "this is different". Yeah that's the point.
George Harrison used Indian Tambura for the droning sound
You’re ok it’s both meditative/mesmerizing and psychedelic -there’s a lot of overlap there 😉
Many of those sounds were backward-running tapes, of which they did many more after.
The Doors first album (including The End) was released in 1967, and they absolutely would have known this Beatles album. Every musician did.
you know you like it
The lyrics were taken from The Tibetan Book of the Dead:/
Psychedelic, Baby!
It describes the process of meditation, deep serious meditation..............................................................🧘♀😑
Created almost 60 years ago.
I always get this song confused with chemical brothers - let forever be. You should check it out and then listen back to back. Also chemical brothers and basement jaxx are rarely suggested to reactors. Worth a listen.
Listen to it in stereo.
A perfect intro to the next Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper…❤❤❤
This probably the most popular psychedelic song ever made. You should read up on how it was made
Revolver changed music. Best listened to as an album.
So, if Lennon called Rubber Soul "the pot album", can we call Revolver "the LSD album"? This song I offer as evidence. John coming off multiple acid trips in his "Tibetan Book of the Dead" phase.
Musicgods❤
One chord. G. Say no more.
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Haha🤯
❤❤
Sounds like you got a mono version.
Have you ever said you don't like like
I think this is what Captain Beefheart would have sounded like if they had more musical talent.
One of the first drum loops
Not positive, but i heard that the lyrics are from an ancient religious text titled ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’?
LOL, I''ll "Play the game existance" as long as I can cheat death.
The Fantastic Beatles 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🙏💜👍
You haven't tripped yet.
Everybody must get stoned. Not necessarily beautiful, but tripping.
They cut pieces of tape and reversed some of them sped them up ua-cam.com/video/DbiIlfpjmUk/v-deo.html
Drug induced?
I like the song, but I think it suffers from over production. Too many tape loops and reversed effects. There was an artist in the eighties who covered it and had a smoother sound. I forget who that was, but it was a female artist.
This is before Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the song " The End " ..by Doors ... 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏 athem Beatles ❤🎉
Imagine being a beatles fan and hearing this song for the first time as you let the album play😮 shock and awe👍 and poof there you are changing the style of clothes wear❤️🤘no turning back; you became “far out” in the grooviest way