@@FreddieFictionOfficial holy shit don’t you get tired of being an old minded loser? it takes two seconds looking at people like the weeknd, Ariana grande, etc. to know there’s still plenty of talent without needing autotune. get your head out of your ass.
Love John's voice. When he was a teenager, in a crappy skiffle band where no one else had a stitch of musicality, one of his teachers sarcastically asked him what he thought he planned to do with his life "IM GOING TO BE A ROCK 'N' ROLL SINGER!!!" John bellowed in his face. So true!
Love this song. The drumming is really something. And what brought it over the top for me was learning that omnipresent Beatles go to guy Mal Evans performed chimes, handclaps and backing vocals on it. And why not? He was also the anvil hitter on Maxwell's Silver Hammer...😊
@@stevenhollingsworth733 the odd fills at 0:56 and another later in the song break rhythm and still work fine for the song and the band stays with it. Same production today would be scrapped. Mechanically perfect timing is not the absolute recipe for great music.
Alan White. Who, a couple few years later would save Yes’ bacon when he agreed to replace Bill Bruford for their upcoming world tour supporting the album Close To The Edge. He had like 3 days to learn some pretty complex and demanding material. As a Yes fan, this made Alan White a hero of mine. Oh, and he occupied the drum seat in Yes for nearly the entire next half a century.
@@frankhoulihanfh4972 Yeah, but he sounds like he's playing on the boxes the drums came in on this "mix." I'd love to hear someone really dig into this and do it some justice. The bass is error prone and way too forward in the mix as are John's vocals. Yeah, John's vocals are too forward. He's singing with such power that it outruns it's support. Maybe that's why Spector put it on a whirligig.
1971 - Last Beatles Album "All things must pass" All songs credited to Lennon-McCartney-Harrison Imagine Maybe I'm amazed Jealous guy My sweet lord Working class hero What is life Give peace a chance The long and winding road Paul's version Instant Karma Junk All things must pass God Not bad ;))
@@inmundo6927 I'm a longtime fan, I love the four of them equally. But as I was describing a dystopia in which the Beatles had not broken up, it was amusing to see that they had definitively integrated Georges as their official composer, given his recent hits and his recent rants on this subject. But at the moment some people's brains seem to only be able to function in binary mode and only recognize haters and fan boys.
@@nxs0152 You're right I added Working class hero. And God sounds like the perfect last track for a last Beatles album. But my point was : what a f... album that would have been.
@@zaziou711 that would have never happened. Lennon-McCartney was an established partnership and there would have been no reason to change that. At most Harrison would have gotten a few more songs... maybe, but from there to put his name into the most famous partnership in the world...just because.. is ludicrous. More chances that they would have credited all the songs to "the Beatles" (as in flying)... Like I said, a nice fantasy.
It sounds like John Lennon giving his best to write a Gospel song. The produced version sounds like a Gospel choir giving their best to perform a John Lennon song. Both great works of art.
Good song, but Spector did make this sound better with more echo and reducing the vocals to make them sound distant. Not a huge fan of Spector, but I have to give him credit on this one.
Check out the Elements Mix of this track on streaming services, it's this but without sounding like it was recorded with a McDonalds American Idol microphone toy.
The song doesn't deal with karma at all; rather, it refers to John Lennon's resentment because he was being attacked by many people for the things he was doing with Yoko Ono. In other words, the last thing this song is about is karma; it's used as a "defense" method, as if to say, "you'll get what's coming to you later." Perhaps Lennon was suffering from paranoia at that time; that's the most likely explanation. Let's remember that in 1969, he said in an interview that he thought he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, which is why he grew a beard and long hair. That was the reason, unbelievable as it may seem; that's how messed up his mind was at that moment. But well, that's the idol of many, and it's understandable for some of the other things he did.
(This is Tom, not Sandra.) "Instant Karma" is my absolute favorite John Lennon solo single. It's waaay better than ANYTHING else he did solo-wise, that is, IMO!!!!
@@atomeyes99: For starters, the bass and drums wouldn't have sucked. I know Klaus Voorman and Alan White weren't virtuosos, but you'd think they'd at least be able to keep better time.
@@jaelge Who are you replying to about the bass and drums? Noone mentioned them. Also Alan White went on to join Yes and was a longtime member known as one of the five from their most legendary classic line up. How can you be in Yes and not be a virtuoso of whichever instrument you play? Ridiculous.
@@NowhereMan7: It was to @atomeyes99 but the comment I thought I was responding to doesn't seem to be here anymore. But irrespective of what White did after, or before, his timing seemed inconsistent here, and his drum tone sounds terrible. In his defense, it might've been Lennon throwing him off. Who knows.
The bassist in this and many other John solo songs is klaus voorman. I always thought his playing was very plodding and flabby. Jealous guy as another example
@@stampede4107 Voorman either knocks it out of the park or plays the most boring nothing-lines of all time. I think All Things Must Pass and Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) are great examples of his good stuff.
@@CosmicMapping Bear in mind Klaus also came up with the intro of Carly Simon's _You're So Vain._ It was a fingering exercise he used to warm up in the studio, and they asked him to play it on the recording.
it´s just different, and to me: Fresher, since it´s new to me, and yes, John goes all in! The Mic has a lot to handle there :D the tops clip a litte too much... But Cool! Love it! Phil was Crazy and got really bad, but what he produced, was a reference. He brought it over the top. Funny Sidenote: John did not want to Master his/the beatles Music on the "new" altec a7 monitors that where essential since then.
@@jimhackleberry3614 Hi Jim, I think the clipping was part of the show and really adds expression, I really like the the way he almost screams. Way cool. Way innovative. That's John Lennon.. He screams on purpose, he was audio aware, he knew the effect that the acoustical overload would have on us. very bright man John Lennon was. The Bach of our times.
@@gregb8565 Respect is the important issue. I disagree with you, this version is much better. I think Spector's 'Wall of Sound' is only a Wall of Compression.
So many people continue to prove they have no clue what Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” was. It had nothing to do with the echo on John’s vocals. That was John’s choice, harkening back to old Gene Vincent records. Google “Wall of Sound” before you misuse it and look foolish.
Definitely misses the echo: sounds clunky and loosey goosey without it. But it sounds cleaner and rawer without the choir and the extra pianos. I love how John's voice gave out at the end. He really gave it his all a la "Twist and Shout"
That was a good look for John.. The unshaven look.. I see Klaus Voorman there too on the top of the pops pics. Yoko was knitting blindfolded if I remember rightly
This is his vocal before effects were added. Most are recorded dry in the studio before adding reverb or echo to make the voice sound more natural like singing in a room. With that said it was Lennon that always asked for more ketchup - code word for Echo and reverb lol
I never got the fascination with Phil Spector. Be My Baby was a great record but he ruined The Long and Winding Road with all those strings and choir. The Let it Be album was a murky sounding mess. All Things Must Pass is over done with reverb and echo. River Deep Mountain High has every instrument on earth piled on top of each other. I think he’s overrated. Brian Wilson had a better ability to get a beautiful sonic quality.
Lennon, whose singing tended to be passionate and committed, often chose to use effects on his voice during his solo career. These didn’t usually seem to mask the intensity, but often, as here, actually accentuated it.
@@ANDROLOMA No, I like it, but I don't like what Spector did to it, except extend I, Me, Mine. I prefer the Naked version and the wonderful outtakes on the new remix. The outtakes sound so much better than the original album.
The Long And Winding Road just seems so hollow in the non-Spector version. It's also to do with what you are used to hearing. This was my childhood, so other versions don't feel as significant.
@@HolidayInGuantanamo I heard that song on the radio before the record was released, so that is all I heard for many years. I like the non-Spector version better. But I also agree with Spector cutting the first "All I need is you" from "Dig a Pony".
I wish there was a mix where it's in the middle and doesn't drown the performance. This one is too raw, though I like the natural distortion at points.
I’ve always wondered whether those opening piano notes were a conscious reference to “Tin Soldier” by the Small Faces, or simply coincidence. The two songs are nothing alike otherwise, but begin so close to identically, that it’s virtually impossible to know which one of them it is until the next bit kicks in.
@@markv.5962 I never noticed that before. Are you saying it’s a conscious self-reference (a la the “she loves you” quotation in “All you need is love”), or just a coincidence? Did Lennon ever address it, to your knowledge? Have you heard the opening of “Tin Soldier” back-to-back with “Instant Karma”, though? The fact that it’s the same instrumentation and the same key (and also just octaves, or at least just power chords, rather than full chords) makes the resemblance far more uncanny than it is with “Some other guy”. When either song came on the radio (back when radio stations actually played songs that old), you really couldn’t tell which one it was until that third chord arrived, because until that point they sound exactly the same.
Well, he knew he was good, but he also knew fan-boys like you would exaggerate about how good... "the greatest rock voice in history" is just lionizing. John had a richly emotive voice and he certainly made the most of it, but his range wasn't great and he wasn't a naturally great singer, or even the kind of technician that could blow you away with the first take, like Elvis or Roger Daltry or Paul Rodgers or others. Paul was a better technician as a singer than John, but I get it, we all love Lennon, "and your bird can sing". But your comment about "burying" his voice with recording effects also makes no sense because if you listen to some vocal tracks with no backing, his voice sounded better blended in with the rest of the recordings.
@@johnhitz1185 Well, Damn, you broke that down better than anybody else. I won't lie, I love John mostly with the Beatles. Never got into his solo work. I almost get annoyed when I hear people say he was the Beatles as if he was the sole composer of the group. And he mastered the emotive vocal style you just explained. Especially on Yer blues from the White album. My bad for going off subject.
Instant Karma has a lot of delay effect but it does not have the wall of sound technique. The wall of Sound was produced by adding a bunch of instrument on top of each other. Here there is only piano drums and bass and a delay effect that Lennon used to love.
Wondering if there is a way to blend this with the released version and a more practiced bass track. Yes, the released track was way to echo-soaked, but this is unmastered and unrehearsed. Alan White sounds like he's hitting cardboard boxes.
@@blackprimeministerI wish Kurt had. Both Lennon and Cobain had perfect rock voices if we measure rock by intensity, which is what it has to offer and which is different to any other kind of singing.
Spector's version is fantastic. This rough, pre-production version makes me realize that John's voice was giving out during this recording. Lennon probably switched to talking over the chorus at the end because his voice was becoming unreliable. Spector did a great job masking John's vocal troubles by adding echo and a chorus.
Like so many others, I prefer the version that I am familiar with. One of John's greatest songs. It is incredibly political yet spiritual at the same time. We all shine on.
A Buddhist (and other traditions) tenant: Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear? Why on earth are you there when you're everywhere? Come and get your share
Love this version--the raw, emotive raspiness of Lennon's voice is superb here.
John has one of my favorite singing voices. Nice to hear him here.
Kurt Cobain levels of shriek!
@@jstdrv good analogy, accurate too.
For me he's one of the greatest voices ever
@@jstdrv Primal scream therapy, also John voice was not strong, he would lose it easily.
I’m not sure I can decisively say I prefer this version, but I think it’s amazing.
Love the vocals.
I enjoyed hearing this, but I do think the Wall of Sound treatment worked well on Instant Karma.
What an incredibly tuneful voice he had. He hit those notes perfectly even when screeching at the top of his voice.
He was losing his voice all the way thru.. lost his voice by the end of the song and dropped a whole octave.
@@richardthelionheart01 Yeah but still in tune. Singers now a days can’t live without autotune.
@@FreddieFictionOfficial holy shit don’t you get tired of being an old minded loser? it takes two seconds looking at people like the weeknd, Ariana grande, etc. to know there’s still plenty of talent without needing autotune. get your head out of your ass.
…just John’s voice without the embellishments….raw and beautiful…like the man…
Thank you...thank you very much.
Brilliant. Bloody brilliant!!!
His voice is great. He gave it everything.
Never heard this cut before Phil Spector mastered it. John used his prodigious singing talent in the most remarkable way. What a master artiste!
This is most likely some sort of front channel isolation from a 5.1 mix rather than a specific mix.
@no it’s from the Plastic Ono Band Ultimate Boxset
Oh my god, what a voice, what a talent! John is definitively the best rock singer and songwriter of all time, most original and inventive as well.
@@michelottaviani3296 Totally agree with every word you said.
Isn't this amazing. The feeling and energy is incredible.
That there drummer is Alan White later of Yes ! Those fills are amazing , aren’t they ?
John never liked his voice and always wanted it to sound different. Strange since he's got one of the greatest singing voices in rock history.
Really raw and great.
It's raw and wild, very John!😊
John's low voice is so fascinating.
Definitely 1 of Lennon's greatest solo songs
It’s so great to hear your voice so up close and personal…you are missed , sir! ✌🏼❣️ Thank you ScottJoseph!
i love hearing the bass line so clear.
Was that mistake at 1.02 left in ??
Yes
@@martindavies4155 also at 2:30 and 2:32, and probably other places
The bass player was all over the place.
klaus voormann I think
Love John's voice. When he was a teenager, in a crappy skiffle band where no one else had a stitch of musicality, one of his teachers sarcastically asked him what he thought he planned to do with his life "IM GOING TO BE A ROCK 'N' ROLL SINGER!!!" John bellowed in his face.
So true!
Absolutely beautiful to hear John's clear voice !
Love this song. The drumming is really something.
And what brought it over the top for me was learning that omnipresent Beatles go to guy Mal Evans performed chimes, handclaps and backing vocals on it.
And why not? He was also the anvil hitter on Maxwell's Silver Hammer...😊
Alan white on drums before he joined YES.
@@stevenhollingsworth733 the odd fills at 0:56 and another later in the song break rhythm and still work fine for the song and the band stays with it. Same production today would be scrapped. Mechanically perfect timing is not the absolute recipe for great music.
I thought it was Lennon playing the drums himself.i may be wrong
@@paulwooton4390
Yes! Great observation...
Very cool to hear it this way!
Actually, I like both versions. Though the added echo does add a cool edge. I can see why they did that. 👍
Love the drums
Love the Lennon
❤
Alan White.
Who, a couple few years later would save Yes’ bacon when he agreed to replace Bill Bruford for their upcoming world tour supporting the album Close To The Edge. He had like 3 days to learn some pretty complex and demanding material. As a Yes fan, this made Alan White a hero of mine.
Oh, and he occupied the drum seat in Yes for nearly the entire next half a century.
@@frankhoulihanfh4972 Yeah, but he sounds like he's playing on the boxes the drums came in on this "mix." I'd love to hear someone really dig into this and do it some justice. The bass is error prone and way too forward in the mix as are John's vocals. Yeah, John's vocals are too forward. He's singing with such power that it outruns it's support. Maybe that's why Spector put it on a whirligig.
The drums make this song. I would of loved to hear Ringo play this one.
@@frankhoulihanfh4972 I'm yes fan too !
Squashed tomato 🍅
Great song. With or without the wall of sound.
Mal Evans on tambourine… 🌎🕊️
For real??
Yep… for real 😮!!!
Wow, so parched without that Godlike echo! Sounds like a desperate radio show guest.
Thats what makes it better for me
The one time I agree w/ Spector's choice
Me too. Its funky
The drumming!!!
Alan White.
Drummer for Yes from 1972 thru 2022
Imagine all of the songs on their first solo albums on one Beatle's album.
1971 - Last Beatles Album "All things must pass"
All songs credited to Lennon-McCartney-Harrison
Imagine
Maybe I'm amazed
Jealous guy
My sweet lord
Working class hero
What is life
Give peace a chance
The long and winding road Paul's version
Instant Karma
Junk
All things must pass
God
Not bad ;))
No songs from John's first solo album?
@@inmundo6927 I'm a longtime fan, I love the four of them equally. But as I was describing a dystopia in which the Beatles had not broken up, it was amusing to see that they had definitively integrated Georges as their official composer, given his recent hits and his recent rants on this subject. But at the moment some people's brains seem to only be able to function in binary mode and only recognize haters and fan boys.
@@nxs0152 You're right I added Working class hero. And God sounds like the perfect last track for a last Beatles album. But my point was : what a f... album that would have been.
@@zaziou711 that would have never happened. Lennon-McCartney was an established partnership and there would have been no reason to change that. At most Harrison would have gotten a few more songs... maybe, but from there to put his name into the most famous partnership in the world...just because.. is ludicrous. More chances that they would have credited all the songs to "the Beatles" (as in flying)... Like I said, a nice fantasy.
Fucking great. Love this song and this vocal performance
Fucking soul
Great with soul
Man, wot power this man still has!
Eines seiner besten Lieder ich finde das beste!!
Really like the raw sound here. Just Lennon's voice and Ringo's amazing drumming.
It’s not Ringo playing drums on Instant Karma, it’s Alan White.
Outstanding. Thank you.
So raw. Miss you, Johnny.
He would have punched you if you called him Johnny
@@da1247 only if he was drunk. Besides, I'm Mal Evans size.
@@da1247 what about "Johnny boy"
Good ole Mal playing the tambourine!
It sounds like John Lennon giving his best to write a Gospel song. The produced version sounds like a Gospel choir giving their best to perform a John Lennon song. Both great works of art.
😂 Interesting yeah! Very good .
Awesome 👍
Love this version
Message well sent to the receiver ! ❤
Good song, but Spector did make this sound better with more echo and reducing the vocals to make them sound distant.
Not a huge fan of Spector, but I have to give him credit on this one.
Yes,this take is more 'demo ' like than the spectorized version. The initial piano still has the "wall of sound' effect,though.
i prefer ‘let it be… naked’ to the fluffy orchestra and choir on spector’s version.
@@thedivineedgar3029 me too but what does that have to do with this song
Check out the Elements Mix of this track on streaming services, it's this but without sounding like it was recorded with a McDonalds American Idol microphone toy.
Great lyrics 😊
John Lennon taught me all about karma
Really? ..... dare to explain ....?
The song doesn't deal with karma at all; rather, it refers to John Lennon's resentment because he was being attacked by many people for the things he was doing with Yoko Ono. In other words, the last thing this song is about is karma; it's used as a "defense" method, as if to say, "you'll get what's coming to you later." Perhaps Lennon was suffering from paranoia at that time; that's the most likely explanation. Let's remember that in 1969, he said in an interview that he thought he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, which is why he grew a beard and long hair. That was the reason, unbelievable as it may seem; that's how messed up his mind was at that moment. But well, that's the idol of many, and it's understandable for some of the other things he did.
@@EthanWombat13-om1en totally wrong
@@Lennonlover06 do research, i did and i found many information about it.
@@EthanWombat13-om1en do research?? Silly boy
(This is Tom, not Sandra.)
"Instant Karma" is my absolute favorite John Lennon solo single. It's waaay better than ANYTHING else he did solo-wise, that is, IMO!!!!
thanks for clarifying. but we want Sandra, not Tom.
@@atomeyes99:
For starters, the bass and drums wouldn't have sucked. I know Klaus Voorman and Alan White weren't virtuosos, but you'd think they'd at least be able to keep better time.
@@jaelge Who are you replying to about the bass and drums? Noone mentioned them. Also Alan White went on to join Yes and was a longtime member known as one of the five from their most legendary classic line up.
How can you be in Yes and not be a virtuoso of whichever instrument you play? Ridiculous.
@@NowhereMan7:
It was to @atomeyes99 but the comment I thought I was responding to doesn't seem to be here anymore.
But irrespective of what White did after, or before, his timing seemed inconsistent here, and his drum tone sounds terrible. In his defense, it might've been Lennon throwing him off. Who knows.
I always thought the echo on this track was unnecessary and this proves it.
No it wasn’t. No it doesn’t.
The Spector version is far superior.
You've got your opinion I've got mine
So good
What fantastic singing. How I wish Paul would have played that bass.
The bassist in this and many other John solo songs is klaus voorman. I always thought his playing was very plodding and flabby. Jealous guy as another example
@@stampede4107 Voorman either knocks it out of the park or plays the most boring nothing-lines of all time. I think All Things Must Pass and Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) are great examples of his good stuff.
@@CosmicMapping Bear in mind Klaus also came up with the intro of Carly Simon's _You're So Vain._ It was a fingering exercise he used to warm up in the studio, and they asked him to play it on the recording.
I thought Voorman was amazing on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Look at 2'40.
I think, it is Paul on drums.
Also George at 3'17.
But of course, these are here only pictures. So, maybe I'm wrong. 😞
awesome upload, you got my sub
Wow, this is really different! I like this version.
We all have the light inside us, not out of us ❤
Right you are, brother.
so much better than the Wall of Sound version. This is Lennon at his best.
it´s just different, and to me: Fresher, since it´s new to me, and yes, John goes all in! The Mic has a lot to handle there :D the tops clip a litte too much... But Cool! Love it! Phil was Crazy and got really bad, but what he produced, was a reference. He brought it over the top. Funny Sidenote: John did not want to Master his/the beatles Music on the "new" altec a7 monitors that where essential since then.
@@jimhackleberry3614 Hi Jim, I think the clipping was part of the show and really adds expression, I really like the the way he almost screams. Way cool. Way innovative. That's John Lennon.. He screams on purpose, he was audio aware, he knew the effect that the acoustical overload would have on us. very bright man John Lennon was. The Bach of our times.
I have to politely disagree
Yes, Phil specter was a nut, but that echo is everything I remember most prominently on that track
@@gregb8565 Respect is the important issue. I disagree with you, this version is much better. I think Spector's 'Wall of Sound' is only a Wall of Compression.
Rip sweetheart 💋💋💋💋😅💋 👄👄👄👄 John Lennon ❤❤❤❤❤ love ❤ you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
love it
this is great
Дякую друже!
Awesome
So many people continue to prove they have no clue what Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” was. It had nothing to do with the echo on John’s vocals. That was John’s choice, harkening back to old Gene Vincent records. Google “Wall of Sound” before you misuse it and look foolish.
Yeah.
The drums sound like someone smacking some buckets
Its not a bad thing
That was the popular "cardboard box" tone back then. No bottom skins and loosely tightened skins on the top.
It sounds like they just have a room mic and no close up mics for the drums. But yeah, Alan White sounds wimpy here and he's no lightweight.
Definitely misses the echo: sounds clunky and loosey goosey without it. But it sounds cleaner and rawer without the choir and the extra pianos.
I love how John's voice gave out at the end. He really gave it his all a la "Twist and Shout"
Shine on John
Great!
That was a good look for John.. The unshaven look.. I see Klaus Voorman there too on the top of the pops pics. Yoko was knitting blindfolded if I remember rightly
Cool.. I still prefer the released version tho 😊
Because the released version doesn't suck, (as bad). The drums and bass are horrible here.
This is his vocal before effects were added. Most are recorded dry in the studio before adding reverb or echo to make the voice sound more natural like singing in a room. With that said it was Lennon that always asked for more ketchup - code word for Echo and reverb lol
I love, mistakes and all!
John's voice is the rocker of rockers
still great
PHIL SPECTOR IS A GENIUS AS WELL AS LENNON. ENHANCED THIS TRACK AND MADE IT FAR BETTER
I agree. Spector takes a lot of heat but he did a great job on Let It Be, and this (pre-Spector) track is almost unlistenable as far as I'm concerned.
@@jaelgeAll Spector does is wack a ton of reverb on. This is miles better.
@@jaelge You can buy Let It Be "naked" without Spectors fingers in the jar. Sounds much better
@@Knards:
I´ve heard samples of it and can appreciate both versions.
I never got the fascination with Phil Spector. Be My Baby was a great record but he ruined The Long and Winding Road with all those strings and choir. The Let it Be album was a murky sounding mess. All Things Must Pass is over done with reverb and echo. River Deep Mountain High has every instrument on earth piled on top of each other. I think he’s overrated. Brian Wilson had a better ability to get a beautiful sonic quality.
Lennon, whose singing tended to be passionate and committed, often chose to use effects on his voice during his solo career. These didn’t usually seem to mask the intensity, but often, as here, actually accentuated it.
Are you an AI?
Spector! 🎶🎤
Fantastic. 😊 Great to hear it.
For me, Spector earns genius status just for what he did with this song.
Well, I think this is the only Beatle song that I like what Spector did to it.
@@judmcc Hated Let it Be?
@@ANDROLOMA No, I like it, but I don't like what Spector did to it, except extend I, Me, Mine. I prefer the Naked version and the wonderful outtakes on the new remix. The outtakes sound so much better than the original album.
The Long And Winding Road just seems so hollow in the non-Spector version. It's also to do with what you are used to hearing. This was my childhood, so other versions don't feel as significant.
@@HolidayInGuantanamo I heard that song on the radio before the record was released, so that is all I heard for many years. I like the non-Spector version better. But I also agree with Spector cutting the first "All I need is you" from "Dig a Pony".
Wow!
Fav Lennon tune…
the bassline seems to sound so much clearer in this version
Blessed to be a witness!!!!wont be too long we vanished in oblivion
I do like the echo version better, it actually always suit Lennon’s voice
I wish there was a mix where it's in the middle and doesn't drown the performance. This one is too raw, though I like the natural distortion at points.
Laughing in the face of love. Words of wisdom.
Liked the version. Very raw John.
Thank you:)
It feels like I'm sitting in the room with hin
John liked the echo. Spector didn't make the decisions.
Oh, you were there?
@@kendallevans4079 No, and neither were you.
@@greenatom Agree, that's why I don't pretend to know what John and Phil did in the studio. You might do the same and STFU
@@greenatom But you just pointed out who made the decisions, like you were there. It's hard to unsay that.
Yeah man all of history was made up because no one alive was there back then
The great Alan White on drums. Was a Seattle resident.so glad to have performed with him and meeting Gigi
There is no mistaking the great “White” fills in this one. Such a great track.
@@Wisesongs24 Amen
This is much better.
Even those who know nothing of John or this song use the phrase"instant karma'. Very interesting take on this song.
I’ve always wondered whether those opening piano notes were a conscious reference to “Tin Soldier” by the Small Faces, or simply coincidence. The two songs are nothing alike otherwise, but begin so close to identically, that it’s virtually impossible to know which one of them it is until the next bit kicks in.
its from some other guy
@@markv.5962 I never noticed that before. Are you saying it’s a conscious self-reference (a la the “she loves you” quotation in “All you need is love”), or just a coincidence? Did Lennon ever address it, to your knowledge?
Have you heard the opening of “Tin Soldier” back-to-back with “Instant Karma”, though? The fact that it’s the same instrumentation and the same key (and also just octaves, or at least just power chords, rather than full chords) makes the resemblance far more uncanny than it is with “Some other guy”. When either song came on the radio (back when radio stations actually played songs that old), you really couldn’t tell which one it was until that third chord arrived, because until that point they sound exactly the same.
@@fromchomleystreet yes, john has talked about it. google it
I cannot for the life of me understand why the greatest rock voice in history didn't like his voice and always tried to bury it in FX.
Record yourself and then play it back. Sounds weird, right? Imagine hearing that daily. That and John became contrarian later in life.
I think it's only😢natural when you strive for perfection.
It’s a common thing among singers, believe it or not. Some have it worse than others.
Well, he knew he was good, but he also knew fan-boys like you would exaggerate about how good... "the greatest rock voice in history" is just lionizing. John had a richly emotive voice and he certainly made the most of it, but his range wasn't great and he wasn't a naturally great singer, or even the kind of technician that could blow you away with the first take, like Elvis or Roger Daltry or Paul Rodgers or others. Paul was a better technician as a singer than John, but I get it, we all love Lennon, "and your bird can sing". But your comment about "burying" his voice with recording effects also makes no sense because if you listen to some vocal tracks with no backing, his voice sounded better blended in with the rest of the recordings.
@@johnhitz1185 Well, Damn, you broke that down better than anybody else. I won't lie, I love John mostly with the Beatles. Never got into his solo work. I almost get annoyed when I hear people say he was the Beatles as if he was the sole composer of the group. And he mastered the emotive vocal style you just explained. Especially on Yer blues from the White album. My bad for going off subject.
No one has this passion anymore.
I wonder what this would've sounded like with George, Paul, And Ringo on this instead of Klaus and company
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Who are all of the musicians here??
Wow, so much more immediate and urgent. John said “I want records to be like newspapers". Spector made this song remote and ghostly.
much better !
Possibly the GREATEST Lennon song! I love it!
This song is directed at paul ot even says here there and yesterday
Instant Karma has a lot of delay effect but it does not have the wall of sound technique. The wall of Sound was produced by adding a bunch of instrument on top of each other. Here there is only piano drums and bass and a delay effect that Lennon used to love.
Wondering if there is a way to blend this with the released version and a more practiced bass track. Yes, the released track was way to echo-soaked, but this is unmastered and unrehearsed. Alan White sounds like he's hitting cardboard boxes.
Guarantee he did that vocal, only in one take! Sounded good with out the Echo!
This shows that there is a direct line from Lennon's voice to that of Kurt Cobain...well, i like to think that.
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@@TheIndependentLenshehe yes, you can have enough, that's true.
I actually had the same passing thought, that I could imagine Kurt singing this.
@@blackprimeministerI wish Kurt had. Both Lennon and Cobain had perfect rock voices if we measure rock by intensity, which is what it has to offer and which is different to any other kind of singing.
Does anybody know who the two guys are in the photo with Paul playing the drums? Looks like 1968 era.
Look at 2'40.
I also think, it is Paul on drums.
Also George at 3'17.
But of course, these are here only pictures. So, maybe I'm wrong. 😞
Spector's version is fantastic. This rough, pre-production version makes me realize that John's voice was giving out during this recording. Lennon probably switched to talking over the chorus at the end because his voice was becoming unreliable. Spector did a great job masking John's vocal troubles by adding echo and a chorus.
Like so many others, I prefer the version that I am familiar with. One of John's greatest songs. It is incredibly political yet spiritual at the same time. We all shine on.
A Buddhist (and other traditions) tenant:
Why in the world are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear?
Why on earth are you there when you're everywhere?
Come and get your share
The phrasing and spacing suggest a delay/echo would work. Producers look out for that.
Phil Spector: destroyer of beauty.
The best thing Phil Spector ever did was inspire Brian Wilson to become a better producer than him.