How The Beatles Changed Album Covers
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Sources for research:
Beyond the Music: Rethinking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
volume.revues.org/1305#text
'Nothing You Can See That Isn't Shown': The Album Covers of the Beatles
www.jstor.org/stable/853696?
Read More: Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's' Cover Art: A Guide to Who's Who
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The beatles literally made 4 guys walking down the street the most iconic album cover of all time
Nope dark side of the moon
@@-Scrapper-I'd say both covers are pretty close together in that regard
@@PercyPanleo nevermind is closer
@@-Scrapper- xdddddddddd
Technically, they are walking "across" the street, not down it.....😮
Lets not forget the real best album cover... the white album.
so true
Can't believe one song on that album inspired a murderer and laid the foundation of Heavy Metal . . .
StephySon which one?
+pelusrubiusdospuntocero Helter Skelter
BritishBanjoWolf lol i love that one
Video ends with A Day in The Life. I click like.
I click like.
vrafiqa I click like.
Yup
My favorite song ever
Gabriel In another comment thread below a specific video of the song "A Day In The Life", someone stated his opinion that the song was the best song on the best album of the best band in history., Amen to that!
Now time to analyse the white album ay
Ahah, see how everything is a cycle - at first all album covers were bland carton, then the industry innovated with artworked covers... Then it was considered innovative to have a bland white carton ahah!
So many symbolisms wow
Yes that would be so cool
you mean a doll's house?
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-beatles-a-dolls-house.200834/page-3
Just wanted to save inks
That last sentence, and the way you faded in A Day In The Life. Perfect. Thank you!
@Jeevan M R Yeah, and the Patreon commercial that followed immediately. Goosebumps.
it made me cry omg
holy shit was bout to say that
Turtle Vision Films PERFECT
got goosebumps and made me want to cry. I'm so glad to know and love what I do on my free time and what I study about
Fun fact: The stretched effect on the "Rubber Soul" album cover was a happy accident. The photographer was projecting the photos onto a piece of card to show the Beatles how the album cover would look, when the card fell back slightly, giving the appearance of the photo being stretched. The Beatles liked this effect and asked the photographer if they could have it like that, to which he said yes.
Pretty common knowledge to a lot of folks...but thanks for sharing anyways
PacificRimNZ - I never knew that! One occasionally thinks one knows everything about something, and every now and then one learns that one doesn't!
I will now go back to believing I know everything - until next time. :-)
@@worschtee1 Maybe, maybe not. I didn't know that previously so I appreciate OP pointing that out.
worschtee1 The world’s as big as it is small. I’m glad they posted-it was new to me.
@@worschtee1 Always going to be people discovering The Beatles for the first time, and they certainly wouldn't know these behind-the-scenes facts. No need to gatekeep, the more the world knows about The Beatles, the better!
"Just a photograph of the band..." While showing the The Band album cover for The Band. Liked, and subscribed.
yeah i laughed at that reference :D brilliant
Couple of those moments in here.
R.I.P John Lennon
R.I.P George Harrison
You will never be forgotten.
R.I.P. George Martin
João Augusto Soares dos Reis- and RIP Brian Epstein
Rick Astley my overlord ~ Yeah,
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R.i.P Paul McCartney
James Guy- really? He ain’t dead lolllll
R.I.P ♥️
did anyone else notice that when he said "just a photograph of the band" it's a picture of the band called "the band" goddamn this guy is clever
Damn
And it's The Band's cover photograph of their album "The Band".... just layering it on, eh!
You don't just make me smarter - you make me cooler. Thanks, Evan.
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There will never be another band like them
Machiel de Groot No need to be pessimistic of course there will. I patiently await the day.
Timothy is right, the Beatles are amazing, but there is high caliber music still being created today.
nah they where far surpassed by multiple bands and artists during the 60s. As pop culture icons I agree, there will never be a band as influential as the beatles. They set the standard for pop music, how to market yourself with album covers and personalities.
Music wise is however a different story. In the 60s Frank Zappa, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground and of course Bob Dylan surpassed them with boundary pushing sounds and ideas together with satirical, cryptic and memorable lyricism. When Beatles where producing pop jingles for the masses Zappa was bending genres.
Hannes Samuelsson um, the Beatles are known for their revolutionary techniques in the studio. they weren't just pop jingles.
Hannes Samuelsson
Dude, I love Zappa and captain beefheart, as well. Both great and experimental as hell.
But you know what they didn't have, what Beatles had ?
The idea and sublime talent of songwriting.
Zappa did experiments just for the sake of these experiments, when behind all that stuff was just eagerness to be extreme and "edgy". Beefheart was weird and crazy dude. He could come up with these awesome avant gard'ish tunes, like no one else, but he lacked the idea and songwriting skills.
Beatles had that idea within their music and they had much more superior skills in songwriting.
For instance, Zappa's "freak out" was released less then two months prior to "Revolver". Take the most experimental song from "freak out" and compare it then to tomorrow never knows.
Feel the difference?
Beatles didn't just do some crazy experimentation. They knew what stands behind these experiments and they REALLY tried to push boundaries.
That's why, Tomorrow never knows sounds so fucking ahead of its time and in fact, even nowadays sounds quite fresh.
When experiments of Zappa and Beefheart (amazing songs, no doubt) sounds great only for it's time.
Damnit, Evan! your closing statement combined with the amazing audio mix made me shed a tear of joy.........how dare you make me cry during working hours.
Jr Andrade What were you even doing watching this at work hours!?
watching it for Inspirational purposes
Jr Andrade Well, that's good enough for me.
Modest mouse mate.
"the designer" The Sgt. Pepper cover was designed by two pop artists, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, just as the album credit said it was.
Brilliant. Your commentary on art is some of the best material I've seen on youtube.
ScriptureSketches Thanks, ScriptureSketches.
+Nerdwriter1 Yeah seriously dude, your doing humanity a great service by breaking down art so that the simple man can understand it. Ive learned so much, thank you!
how du you explan gore metal allbum covers!
It's less interesting, really. Shock value, a particular niche aesthetic and the like. I highly doubt there is any intended intellectual material in, say, Cannibal Corpse covers.
Theroadtoawe The simple man can in fact "understand" art.. even though it's more of interpreting then understanding..
"all music is invisible"
cut to
White Album cover
(there true masterpiece and perfection of this idea)
+maketimmycry I agree with you wholly on the idea that The Beatles is the perfection of the idea that "all music is invisible". The Beatles is a great album but, in my opinion, it ranks below Rubber Soul and Let It Be. Also, did you mean 'their' when you wrote 'there'?
I heard that the White album was pretty much their follow up to the mastery that was Sgt. Pepper. And instead of trying to come with another concept for an album that would top the preceding album, they literally just threw together whatever they could write and had literally no concept at all. That's why I love the White Album.
@@MattteusLet it Be lol wasn’t even released. That’s Mid tier Beatles. Revolver, Abbey Road and White Album for me
Sometimes I like to think they were high as hell and were like " hey wouldn't it be awesome if we had random people joining us in the photo?" and then hours later they created a masterpiece without knowing it.
Agreed. I think half the things considered groundbreaking by them were created when they were blitzed out of their minds and over time has been assigned cultural value. But it still works bc it's honest.
Larry O Well.... Paul and Ringo did say that "they were on acid when they made everything for Sgt. pepper". This is the actual reason for this album cover
+Pigsrock93 so if someone was tripping when they made the album that's the whole point of it?
Troncoso I did, I'm just saying that they were on acid when they made the cover.
+Troncoso well it does have something to do with drugs, I'm sure they came up with the concept while tripping. But aside from that the concept has nothing to do with drugs. It was just drug inspired
I am a simple person, I see the Beatles, I click.
Lol samee
Same
Shut the fuck up dude. That shit is getting old.
Ok kiddo
You are the Vsauce of culture and arts. Beautiful
allxtar music Thanks! A lot of poeple say that. I wonder if he would collaborate with me...?
A total dream being able to do this full time.. Sick of the drudgery of corporate work,,,
+Nerdwriter1 I almost thought you were him for a moment - you two have very similar speaking styles.
Show Me That Riff Couldn't agree more.
best comment
Your videos are of such a uniquely high quality for youtube.
Daniel Henry Silver Thanks Daniel. That means a lot.
Couldn't agree more!
No, thank you.
+Maha Bilal 120k now :-)
check lemino out, he makes quality content too!
I love a Day in the Life, it's such a beautiful song.
Well I mean A Day In the Life is already a pretty damn high standard for music lol
Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"
Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"
@John Cavanaugh carry that weight is in my top 5 favourite Beatles songs
@johncavanaugh1911Abbey Road medley is nothing compared to A Day in the Life. Both masterpieces tho, no need to compare
CHILLS AT THE END
I feel you there
The "A day in the life" playing in the end was just ... cruel man I was not able to not cry hearing it.
It was on point u_u
Same here mate
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is one of hell of a cover.
skatemetrix I love all the Floyd covers, particularly Wish You Were Here, which I think goes as far toward pure art as an album can go. The first editions were sold in a black plastic wrapping, almost to refute the idea of the record as a commodity.
Nerdwriter1
Wish You Were Here cover is purely surreal. Also you must know your Pink Floyd, you see the band's idea was to issue album covers in pure black but the music corporations thought Pink Floyd were fucking crazy- paraphrasing Storm Thorgerson.
Dark Side of the Moon is one hell of an album!!
Nerdwriter1 whats up with Animals? Or Ummagumma?
the most profitable.
Ive been a Beatles fan my whole life, from staying home "sick" from grade school to find deeper and deeper cuts of the Beatles till i had heard everything they ever recorded to wearing a Beatles shirt every day all four years of high school and so on. It has been a long time sense ive learned something new about this group, or even had the opportunity to look at them in a different way. You just did that for me. the way you have opened my eyes i can now rediscover the band that changed my live. now i will be able to connect my self to their timeless music on a much deeper level than i ever had before,
Thank you...
nice job putting this together -- sometimes the kids forget about the greatest of the fab four
My friends say the only good song john wrote was here comes the sun and I'm like are you ok?
@@welsh_Witch oh no.......
What?
Dude a lot of kids are doing the "I was born in the wrong generation" without realising that a lot of kids to listen to these stuff too
@@jccanizal6410 yep, but I think it’s like that because of this quote I heard once “People don’t want to appreciate what they have right now, they just want to live in the past”
Another great video, which just so happens to be about one of the best bands of all time, and you still manage to point to something new about it (including a crowd on the cover as a way to include fans). BTW, I'm not sure about the use of the phrase Holy Grail to describe this album. Surely, 'holy grail' means something that is heavily sought after but is most probably lost to time. (A Beatles holy grail would be the master tapes of She Loves You, which nobody can locate.)
ted mills good point
+ted mills Or the 'Carnival of Light' - or even that half an hour long take of 'Helter Skelter'.
or even Brian Wilson's original concept of SMiLE. That is surely something that has been lost over time.
SMiLE, it can be argued, is the Holy Grail of all music humans have ever made.
"The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and messages from beyond the mind."-an excerpt from "the Present" on the truth contest site. What do you guys think?
That ending gave me goosebumps
Jamie Williamson saammme
"It's in the mind y'know"
-George Harrison
“A photograph of the band” *shows a photograph of the band
2:20 - 'Photo of The Band'
I see what you did there
+larryinc64 I don't, please explain it to me.
Joop Hooijmans The photo used there is of the band 'The Band' from their self titled album 'The Band'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band_(album)
Oh wow. Ohhh wow.
I laughed so hard that I had to find another person in the comments section who got the joke as well
Oh shit nigga that was deep
Jfran2013 got the chills when his final words hit "a day in a life"...
Oh my god...
That was perhaps the greatest UA-cam video I've ever watched.
Jake Whitton actually you're wrong. The best video on this site is zlad's music video for elektronik supersonik. And that's objective truth.
Ending on "A day in the life" was perfection.
How many UA-cam videos have you watched? This is pleasant, but not a favorite.
This is definitely one of the best content on UA-cam. The depth and range of how you examine specific topics is remarkable.
I love that they included Stuart Sutcliff, peering out from a long forgotten Hamburg night.
Peter Blake didn’t fully create the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover: he co-created it with Jann Haworth. She was the main pop artist. Don’t just give him all the credit.
I know Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road are touted as the Beatles’ best album covers, but Revolver was just as amazing as both in my opinion
I love the play on words at 2:20 when you say "just a photograph of the band", and show a photo of The Band!! Absolutely brilliant
This video made me cry
Are your serious?! I mean I'm only a minute into the video so I wouldn't understand but did it really make you cry?? If so then damn this must be one good video.
YOU'RE SO HOT it's not that I like the Beatles or something it just made me cry at the end
Agreed
you should like The Beatles! Give them a proper listen if you haven't yet (:
I watch a lot of things on You Tube, Probably more than I should, but nothing gives
me pause to think and reflect quite like any of your videos. It's hard to explain, it's more of a deep seated visceral reaction than anything else. And I mean that in a good way. Keep up the good work.
Dr_Boom Thanks again, Dr_Boom.
Hello there, Evan!
The last sentence of this video ("all music... is invisible") has inspired me to name a piece of music I had been working at for a while. It´s a very meaningful piece of music to me for a number of reasons, and I would like to share some of them if you had the time to read about it.
Thanx a bunch for the inspiration & for the great videos. Greetings from Brazil!
Onde podemos escutar a sua música? 😊❤🙈😜
@@agustinamansur5665 aqui no UA-cam mesmo, ou no Spotify!
@@agustinamansur5665 só buscar "music is invisible"! 😉
@@carbono12videos obrigado ❤😜 mais tarde eu vou te escutar 🙈
@@carbono12videos não encontrei nada kkkkkk pode me enviar o link se quiser?🙈🙈❤
A Day in the Life seriously STILL gives me goosebumps every time I hear it
Excellent video!
Canadian Studmuffin funny seeing you here...
Damn. That got deep. Now I'm sad.
Well I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph...
Dude! Love this- as an art history student and a huge music lover, the analysis of album covers an the visuals of music videos and concerts are sooo fascinating to me. And your last statement was so lovely!
I am so happy to finally find a 1 million subscribers channel with amazing content. So many other channels just follow trends to become popular. But your channel, and this video in particular, shows that some people do youtube for the sake of making videos. And it shows that some people understand videos and film as what they are: art.
So good, every time I'm impressed with your content!
Grant Foster Cheers, Grant!
wow this guy made album covers a science
THEY did... he just told you
+Javier Prieto
Science is Art that you understand the rules to
That ending was perfect and so theatrical. You wrapping it up with a beautiful bow of tone and poetic touch, and Day In The Life playing in the background. Absolutely beautiful
Amazing video, I was so captivated. The visuals of your videos are awesome, and the commentary is very intriguing. Had me interested from the very start until the very end.
Gotta give it to st peppers to be the most important album in history.
Gotta give it to you the title of best content around here. Great video.
Crashoverall I go for the dark side of the moon but st peppers it a masterpiece
i hear ya....
Pretty sure that's Velvet Underground and Nico you're thinking of.
pretty amazing album that one
That album truly challenged popular culture, 10 fold of that of the Beatles.
4:59 ... the Beatles never reused the same chords, they were very creative early on
GabzitoHD hello
Yeah they actually never even played the same note more than twice per album
@@finnhaney7432 idk if your joking but that sounds highly unlikely
Very well done Evan. Thank you. My aunt liked your All Along The Watchtower Analysis a few years ago and emailed you about it thanking you. Keep it up man. The visual and audio connection in this video are extremely good, and your presentation at the end as you said The Beatles put all these people to show that music is really invisible felt like a full circle no one realized. So many people, so many faces, but no one. No real face. And underneath all those changing faces, the music.
Dude, you are so good at this, like, my god. The end almost made me cry. I love this so much
Gosh damn, this was beautifully made. Did not expect this to get so meaningful towards the end. Got a bit emotional there too. Bravo.
After listening to this video I think I fell in love with you.
I'm not gay I swear.
Just for you.
+meatlog I was thinking something similar haha.
Don't fear being any sexuality. Sex is only ones expression of love and passion for another. If you love another male, then love him with the entirety of your heart. Some people don't get the joy of falling in love at all.
+Deshanles Did you have to take a joke and turn it into a tumblr post.
+meatlog gay is ok bro XDDDD
Nousseir Bahlous
Did you have to take a comment and post it 3 times.
You make some of the most refined, well-thought and interesting videos on this website. Hats off to you
Ive just discovered your channel, and im so glad. I love it. How you introduce the subjects, the pics you use. the research and effort you put in it, it all, is just amazing. congrats
Every Radiohead album has amazing artwork like Kid A and In Rainbows
Ben chambers kid a especially
Ben chambers Moon Shaped Pool artwork is beautiful
Pablo Honey, honestly
I really love the artwork on ok computer-handy that it's one of my favourite albums ever too lol
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS THREAD
Surprised you didn't mention "Yesterday...and Today", the cover that had the usual band photo, but with them covered in meat and decapitated baby dolls.
That was the U.K.'s version. Hard to believe because E.M.I. stifled it along with B.B.C.!
The Beatles history
thought this was a joke lmao
Evan, you're a brilliant writer and commentary! You've got an amazing gift to see past the obvious and into the core of our brains, I salute you! I'm somewhat amazed that you're not a commentator on a weekly news forum on television, but at the same time I'm glad that you're here to give us your views and thoughts on contemporary issues and art. 😀
Thanks for the clear, right to the point presentation! Cannot ask for any better, explaining their Master Piece in so much detail is a huge plus! Thanks again i will share this multiple times!!
Literally cried at the end of this video
same here
me too!
A day in the life does that
Dude this is so good, love the cut to black.
I love how at 2:20 when he says the words "the band" the image is a photograph of The Band from the cover of their 1970 self-titled album. Brilliant piece of editing, Nertwriter!
I love your video essays. You're great at bringing them full circle for maximum effect - you talk about how you like to concentrate on the music and not the visual at the beginning, and then at the end you come full circle by saying how the Beatles knew that all music was invisible. Brilliant!
2:20 I see what you did there.
Missed it. What was the reference?
Hosam Sherif He slyly name dropped The Band.
IndyDefense Thanks, pissed that I missed that. :)
the student has become the teacher
I don't get it what did you mean.
honestly gave me goosebumps
this video essay gave me goosebumps at the end. brilliantly presented. keep up the good work. best content on youtube.
This is such a good video, I've watched it like 4 times, and absolutely love it, especially the ending
You've just become one of my favorite UA-cam channels of all times.
I remember looking at this album cover and listening to their music, it seemed very sad to me at the time.
This is brilliant!! Gave me chills in the ending. Keep doing what you do.
Man, your video popped up on my recommendations list several weeks ago and I watched it out of curiosity. After watching the whole video I started to actually listen to the Beatles, which I have never done before (I didn't like their early stuff and I thought it's the only thing they did). OMG have I listened to anything else since then! I became a fanatic at this point, thank you so much for properly introducing me to the Beatles!
I concur with your point about having no need for music videos as I myself would rather just listen to the music and just let the instruments, vocals and samples take me to that place. This is amplified when I engage in the recreational and meditative herb.
This is so beautiful! Thank you for this :)
This is one of the better videos you've done! You seriously got me engrossed, it was really well layed out 'n everything! Keep it up! :)
Man, your videos give me chills. awesome pacing, visuals and analysis.
the beatles changed a lot of things
Okik E. Mainly the world
Yes the world
No, the 60's changed a lot of things. They were just popular enough to get the credit.
Juan Inchauspe lol you dont know nothing about music
@@LPChipi nooooooob idiot
i'm....i.....this is fantastic...
Dude that video was amazing. So Interesting, thought provoking and so emotional. You have definitely earned a new fan
Great videos, I've just discovered your channel and it is full of great analysis and insights. All the best, and keep the good work!
Thank you Nerdwriter1, awesome job here it's great to pay a tribute to the most amazing spectacular creative and artistic band of all time
Fantastic video. I've always enjoyed what an album cover can bring to music but sadly a lot of people don't pay as much attention. Happy to know that you have something to say about the matter. Keep up the awesome work!
ASENBAISEN Will do.
this was fantastically well put toghether! honestly great work
Dude you smashed this topic good job!!! This was very amazing I’ve looked into the album cover often before but this is great!!
by far the most interesting video about the Beatles I have ever seen!!!!
It seems to me that primarily the cover is not a Band using Art to make commentary but an Artist using the Band to make commentary, albeit with the Band's permission and collaboration. What I mean to say is that the Pop Art movement in Visual Arts had been around for years before the Beatles and at least a decade before Sgt. Pepper. The Beatles were genuinely experiencing their commodification but chose to tap into an existing visual movement to express this, while their music continued to break other musical barriers. Maybe the Visual Arts had become radicalised earlier than Music and so had the maturity as an artform to convey the necessary critique or maybe it was just another string in the bow of what the Beatles wanted to achieve.
This is a great video. Loved it, especially the ending. Keep up the work!
that ending literally made me cry. so beautifully put together. -thank you
My grandfather designed the typeface for rubber soul!
Omg really? Cool!
r/thathappened
My grandfather invented the COBB salad
@@Skokapus Can you please stop linking to subreddits outside of Reddit? They don't quite work outside there, you see. And it's not even that unbelievable.
@@Aurora-oe2qpyeah i've learned that since this comment is old
The velvet underground and nico it's my favorite album cover
Beautiful cover, beautiful album
+Luiz Antonio It is a work by Andy Warhol, in case you didn't know. He's an interesting character.
+Ian Henderson Could you give me your opinions on why that cover is good ? I don't know that much about Andy Warhol.
I think the cover of TVU&N is more iconic than Sgt. Peppers
+Luiz Antonio And it came out first, Beatle's album came out later that year.
This is such a beautiful video, I almost cried at the end! Truly great, keep it up
hey man I play bass in American Wrestlers. I'm a big fan of your video essays and it was a nice surprise to see the album cover in this video. keep doing what you do man!
Almost cried in the end.
The most intelligent, informed and well-presented review of album covers I've seen.
Great video! I don't know how you can extract so much information from just an album cover. Its something else.
Great video! It's always a treat to learn about your favourite artists.
You MUST do the same with Pink Floyd (and Hipgnosis as a whole). You HAFTA.
Dark Side is the most iconic Album Cover
@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj it's definitely up there, but I think Abbey road, Sgt pepper, and mj's 'bad' album are too.
@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj also nevermind is pretty noteworthy.
Wow....I'm just speechless, this is a great video.
Sublime video. I remember as a kid, just staring for ages over and over again at his album cover of the vinyl my parents had. I suspect it was this cover and the album then listening to it later, that is responsible for my introduction into music. thank you so much for this video.
This blew my mind. Thank you so much for making this