As someone who grew up in that era, I can assure you that the Beatles represented a style no one had ever heard before. They exploded out of the radio, sounding completely unique. By taking the best of R&B, skiffle, rockabilly, Motown girl groups, and putting it all together in a fantastic new way, they changed pop music forever.
Agreed. One thing that is generally missed by reactors to the Beatles is the music "environment" in which they appeared. Just take a listen to some of the UA-cam videos of top songs in the years leading up to the Beatles and you can see how different they were. Songs don't exist in a vacuum -- you have to consider the time frame and the world around them to get a proper perspective. I'm convinced that so much new music appeared in the 60s and 70s because of the general unrest caused by the Vietnam War, the racial inequalities and subsequent demonstrations. They weren't just restricted to the U.S. -- it happened worldwide. As things calmed down the music seemed to stagnate -- fewer good bands and good music.
@@hurricane1951It was also generational change. The music-buyers are those between childhood and marriage/kids. And if one goes back and listens to the music of 1962-63 it was stagnant, moribund. Major Lance, as example, had two dance song hits about the "Monkey". The music for both was exactly the same -- the only thing "different" were the lyrics. And Chubby Checker's last hit was the Gadawful "Hooka Tooka". And then there was that screechy "French Nuns" thing.
I was born in 1963. My older sisters had all the early Beatles albums. I new all the lyrics. Yet, George's guitar in It Won't Be Long, is what hooked me into the guitar. From then on, lyrics and vocals became background music for the electric guitar. 😊. Just an old guitar player here. ❤
@@hurricane1951 Plus rock and roll was still Young and had a long way to go....now it IS stagnate, everything really good was already done, in my opinion.
@@hurricane1951 Very well said. I grew up through the 60's also and found the change in music they introduced to be very different for "most" radio stations to play. There were a few exceptions from the mid 50's to early 60's but most of the 'top 40' stuff played was pretty mundane.
Totally disagree, that is a Beatle rookie mistake. Paul's Am-Em template which he started on Things We Said today, set the table for a hundred melancholy rock songs to follow, Eleanor Rigby? Yeah, that's light. You cannot pigeonhole the Fabs. John's great upbeat songs are too numerous to name.
@@stevepotocin9501 Agree, human tendency is to categorize people to make things convenient and simple. We are all guilty of that. similar in the press very early on and for years was the belief that Lennon wrote the ;lyrics, McCartney wrote the melodies. this was out of habit and the history of songwriters of the traditional "American Songbook" and musicals, The Gershwin bothers, or Lerner and Loewe, or Rogers and Hammerstein for example. Someone said it and wrote it long ago and suddenly it becomes "fact." Sinatra announced live at a concert before he sang Something" was a beautiful song by Lennon and McCartney, without checking the facts first. Duh!
@@stevepotocin9501 McCartney wrote “For no one”, “She’s leaving home”, “Fool on the hill”, and many other dark songs. I think Syed will change his mind once he goes through all the Beatles albums.
Lennon's rythm guitar on All My Loving is incredible. those triplets played effortlessly at speed is so difficult. When you watch them do this song live Lennon is often smiling and, in one concert talking to George, while he's playing that part. quite stunning.
@@citizenghosttown Years later Harrison's solo in All My Loving suddenly sounded like a country song solo to me lol. It fit right in to the song. I had heard a yodeling song by a Cowboy that sounds quite like the notes of that guitar solo if you dumb it down to the basic notes and chords. But then I'm that weird ex- music teacher that instantly looks for musical relationships between songs, pieces of songs and phrases. Yes, I KNEW I had heard the melody to My Sweet Lord before when I was a kid in 1970/71 and just couldn't place it at the time lol. Geez, George, you'd think somebody would have warned you, like Phil Spector who was probably in the same room while you recorded it lol...
@@thomastimlin1724 I agree completely. George's solo is definitely country-sounding and twangy -- especially that cool lick at the very end. That's the Carl Perkins influence. And yes, he did lift the melody for "He's So Fine" for "My Sweet Lord" --- but in his defense, that sort of thing happens all the time in rock 'n' roll and is often inadvertant -- there's a fine line between paying homage and stealing!
Watch John the first time they were on "Ed Sullivan". First song "All My Loving, and just after it begins Lennon grins and says to the others, "YEAH!!"
The guitar in "All My Loving" that you liked so much was played by John on his Rickenbacker Capri. He was playing those chords in triplets, which is very hard to maintain for a 3:00 song.
The difference in sensibilities between Paul and John: Paul sang, "I have to admit it's getting better," to which John responded, "It can't get no worse."
It's brilliant that you are going through the discography in order.... very soon I hope you will also pick up that every single song is different. And the fact that they didn't put the singles on their albums was different too. They wanted to give their fans value for money. An innovative band in every single way... Listening to them this way is the most rewarding way of learning why they made such a HUGH impact on the music scene.
I absolutely thought the same thing - the conttrast between using the closed hi-hat and the openness of the ride for alternating parts of the song. It's very simple, but simple can be really great.
@@barrycowan3540 And always...the drum fills at the right place...Ringo, the human metronome...When Jeff Lynn wanted him to use a click track years later, Ringo said "I AM the f-ing click track..." hahahha
Hi. John was playing the rhythm guitar (at speed). Just think they did the last album, this album and the next and all the singles and EPs all in 12 months. While you are right between the two, they both wrote great love songs and very sad songs. But yes John had the dark edge, Paul the optimist Looking forward to the next songs (also George writes his first one!)
And they made a movie, toured from June 4th - 30th (world tour), American tour August 19th - September 20th, and British tour October 9th - November 10th.
@@jnagarya519 I didn’t want offend anyone by calling John out more than I did, but I agree with you. I think I am one of the few that interpreted the meaning of the last line of Norwegian Wood (“So I lit a fire. Isn’t it good Norwegian wood” as John’s clever way of saying ‘he burned the bitch’s house down.’
Glad you noticed the cover. Back then it was VERY different from the typical cover of a pop music band. And, sure enough, this is the first cover the group had direct input on. There was a lot of cross pollination going on in those days. Back to the cover -- "Impressed with Robert Freeman's black-and-white pictures of John Coltrane, Epstein invited the photographer to create the cover image.[10] Harrison later said that, whereas the cover of Please Please Me had been "crap", their second LP was "the beginning of us being actively involved in the Beatles' artwork ... the first one where we thought, 'Hey, let's get artistic.'"[11] The group asked Freeman to take inspiration from pictures their friend Astrid Kirchherr had taken in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962, featuring the band members in half-shadow and not smiling.[12] To achieve this result, on 22 August 1963, Freeman photographed them in a dark corridor of the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth, where the band were playing a summer residency at the local Gaumont Cinema.[13] To fit the square format of the cover, he put Starr in the bottom right corner, "since he was the last to join the group. He was also the shortest".[14] McCartney described the result as "very moody", adding: "people think he must have worked at [it] forever and ever. But it was an hour. He sat down, took a couple of rolls, and he had it."[13] The original concept was to paint the picture from edge to edge, with no bleeding, title or artist credit - a concept that went against music industry practice and was immediately vetoed by EMI. The first album to carry an edge-to-edge cover was the Rolling Stones' self-titled debut, released five months later.[15] EMI also objected to the fact that the Beatles were not smiling; it was only after George Martin intervened, as head of Parlophone, that the cover portrait was approved.[15] "
Every new thing I learn about George Martin makes me respect him even more. I'm firmly convinced that The Beatles would NOT have reached the heights they did without his guidance.
I love "It Won't Be Long" so much, definitely one of the best tracks from their early period. A great rocker, love those wonderful "yeah, yeah, yeahs", and the fact that he sings "'till I belong to you", not the basic "till you belong to me". At younger age I pretty much dismissed almost all the early Beatles songs, but this track changed my mind and made me dig deeper in their early catalogue.
The Beatles were ground breakers in that they not only wrote their own songs, but just as importantly they played the instruments as well, to this point that had not been done in pop/rock music. Obviously they went on to be trend setters in many other areas too, clothing, hair style, willingness to change their music from album to album, usage of different instruments and orchestration, and on and on. They were truly among the greatest music innovators of all time!
‘All My Loving’ is def in my top 5 songs. Fun Facts: Paul is harmonizing with himself on the record but when they played it live, George did the harmony with Paul. It was the very first song Americans saw them play live (on The Ed Sullivan Show.) And it was one of the many songs of Paul’s that John said he wished he had written. “A damn good piece of work.” 💙 Nice reaction.
That guitar that you liked in 'All My Loving' was played by John. You were talking in an earlier video about how they sometimes answered their fan mail with songs, you could probably put 'All My Loving' in that category.
You pretty much are spot on here. It takes some time to get used to the tone and soon after you're comfortable, the dramatic changes in songwriting quality kicks in. Then it's banger after banger after banger until you finally wake up one day and question everything you ever knew about music. This is fun to watch. 😁👍
I don't interpret (and never did) that "IT WON'T BE LONG" as a nightmare for John, he's just missing his girl but she is coming home soon and he will be back with her again. She didn't break up with him. PAUL is NOT day dreaming in "ALL MY LOVING" HE is the one going away for awhile, kissing his girl goodbye, telling her he'll miss her, be true to her and write to her (a letter, NO laptops, cell phone messaging then, sitting down and actually writing a letter with pen and paper) until he returns. NO daydream.
To repeat a comment from below...That was John on the guitar that you liked so much. George did the solo in the middle. This was the very first Beatles song most of us in America heard, when they played it to open their first segment on The Ed Sullivan Show Feb 9,1964. I was 7 years old at the time, and even at that young age, I, and all my siblings knew we were listening to something special. Little did I know that 60 years later, I would have loved The Beatles all of my life from that point on.
Later in life, John said that It Won't Be Long was an attempt at being a single but he didn't think that it worked. I would disagree - it's a fantastic album track and could have been a huge single. I love it! As to All My Loving, that was one of the Beatles biggest earliest hits. And George's out of the blue country riffs in the middle make it even better!
Paul has a few darker, earlier songs but not many. Later he had hits like Yesterday, Blackbird, Eleanor Rigby, Helter Skelter, and quite a few more darker songs. That is Lennon on that fast rhythm guitar on All my loving. He has a couple rhythm peculiarities that are unique to him. Most of their harmonies were learned from the Everly Brothers. George adds the Gretsch twang on the end of the phrases but most of the guitar you hear on My loving is John.
Paul is not in a daydream, he is going away for awhile and he kisses his girl goodbye (with his eyes closed, which MOST people do when they kiss), and tells her he will miiss her and will write every day and be true. It's not a daydream. Every time I hear "IT WON'T BE LONG," I think of the week before the BEATLES CONCERT here in Cleveland on Sept. 15, 1964 because the radio station that was sponsoring it, would play that first line before talking about the upcoming concert! I was at that concert and when they came again in 1966 on Aug. 14th.
I like both of these songs and they were on the radio a lot and I've heard them so many times in my life. That second one got covered a whole bunch as well. I mean a lot. I was in grade school when I heard these, and I just loved the energy and the color to it.
😁If people were passed out in my basement room, "It' Won't Be Long", cranked, would have them leaping up. I was a bit evil. 😇 Great song though. All My Loving is just such an excellent song, and a true classic.
I love it when you get a hint of what we felt at the time. You have no idea how it was so impactful at the time. There has been nothing else like in my 74 years. Hearing it makes me feel 15 again if only for a few minutes. No, the Beach Boys sound like them.
The main thing about the Beatles is their seemingly endless ability to write great melodies.... John didn't write All My Loving, but that rhythm guitar part is John
"The more I hear of them the more I like " ..... ahh, Grasshopper, your journey will be very rewarding; and it brings me much pleasure. You seek to grok the cosmic Lennon/McCartney symbiosis and the Four-Headed Monster. Chronologically is the only way. Strap in, big changes are coming fast! ☯🎶
Glad you are doing this in chronological order. They were revolutionary. Look at other singers and artists at any moment the Beatles existed and the Beatles look nothing like the others and sound nothing like the others. Everyone followed and copied them....everyone.
Great rhythm guitar by John Lennon on "All My Loving". Paul commented on John's driving guitar pushing-energizing this song. Then we have the very C7W solo from George. It's all still so alive a fresh!
Enjoying your journey through the Beatles catalogue you'll find the growth in their music and writing as you progress ,good luck you've only got about 150 songs or so to go.Even so their early songs were great,you have to start somewhere and they were only young but were smart enough to target the teen-age girls with all those love songs,went to top of the charts and created Beatlemania,remember according to Paul they only wanted to make some money and pull some birds ,I think they went a bit beyond that,cheers🇦🇺
"It Won't Be Long" is one of the greatest Beatles songs of them all, in my correct opinion. The band may have written more sophisticated songs later on, but nothing compares with the sheer thrill of their early numbers like this one. Lennon arguably never sang better in his entire life.
This may have been the first album that I ever bought when it came out around 1963/4. The first track (It won't be long) was knackered due to it being played on umpteen Dansettes with crappy styllii. There weren't many people in the sixties that didn't like the Beatles. Thanks for your series on the Beatles I've really enjoyed every one. 😁👍
John once said he wished he’d written this Paul song himself, he admired it so. His rhythm guitar adds so much to it, instrumentally. The genius of Lennon/McCartney is that they perfectly balanced each other.
"All My Loving" is one of their classic hits. It only got as high as #48 on the _Billboard_ (U.S.) charts, but that was without even being issued on a U.S. single - only an imported single from Canada! On the Beatles' 'Red Album' greatest hits, it's the first "album track" to be included (in the UK it was the 'title track' of an EP also).
All My Loving: The lead guitar at the break was George. The triplet rhythm guitar pattern was John. This track is a banger, one of the songs they played live on the Ed Sullivan show. George sang lead on the harmonized 2nd verse so Paul could take the high harmony part, something he excelled at.
Excellent insight as always, Syed. There's a song on the "Sgt. Peppers" album called "Getting Better" that was mostly Paul's creation. He had a line, "it's getting better all the time " that needed a response line, to which John added, "it can't get no worse". That says everything about the Lennon & McCartney ying and yang dynamic you spoke of. Paul was lighter; John was darker. John was more of a risk taker; Paul kept the band more true to their roots. Paul was more steady; John was more eccentric. The Beatles were John Lennon's band. He gathered the members and was a natural leader that the other 3 looked up to. After the halfway point of the band's recording career, Paul gradually became slightly more dominant as a song writer as John's interest began to fade. Paul, however, was not John's equal as a leader, and Paul caused friction with George and Ringo as he became more dominant. The biggest influence on the Lennon / McCartney partnership was each of them on the other. Neither of them would have become as great creatively without the inspiration and healthy competition they provided each other. On a personal note: John and Paul were both geniuses as song writers, but Paul was more likely to write a song I didn't care much for, and John was more likely to write a song I loved. It could be because of what's called "the tortured artist effect". John was more open in expressing his emotions, so he was easier for me to relate to.
Listen again and follow Ringo, his bopping and playful beat on It Won't Be Long, then All My Lovin'....such a simple, perfect beat....gives the frenetic guitar the bedrock it needed to hold it together......always Ringo...
Some of the difference can be understood by comparing their childhoods. Paul’ s family, though lower working class, stayed together and Paul had a pretty happy childhood. John’s parents had a difficult relationship and he suffered for it. After his parents split he was raised by his strict (but kind) Aunt Mimi. He missed his mother, Julia, who visited occasionally. When he was 17 Julia was struck by a car and killed which devastated John. Besides his darker moods John also had a more pressing need for a strong woman to fill the void of missing his mother. A lot of his music reflects that.
Are you forgetting that PAUL'S mother Mary, died when Paul was 14 years old, that was also pretty devastating. That was ONE of the things John and Paul BONDED over, both of their mothers died when they were young.
It Won’t Be Long is such a great album opener and All My Loving was the first song they played on their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th 1964 which was when 73,000,000 people in the US tuned in to see The Beatles for the first time and from then on there was no stopping them. Obviously they were huge in Britain by then but we in North America had only just started to hear their music a month or two before that TV appearance and the hype before and after was huge. The British Invasion was on and we were all better for it. Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album were hugely influenced by The Beatles 1965 Album Rubber Soul which Wilson considered to not just be a collection of songs but a cohesive, artistic musical statement. Keep up the great work and enjoy your Beatles journey Syed as we enjoy your perspective and analysis too.
But "IT WON'T BE LONG" was NOT the album opener in the "MEET THE BEATLES" album in the U.S. It had the same cover photo, but the track listing was different from the UK "WITH the BEATLES" album. The OPEINING track on the U.S. MEET THE BEATLES was their first hit single in the U.S. "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND," followed by "I SAW HER STANDING THERE" (which was on the UK "PLEASE PLEASE ME" album), then "THIS BOY," "IT WON'T BE LONG" was the 4th track on side one. The UK "WITH THE BEATLES " was not available in the U.S. then.
@@patticrichton1135 Capital Records messed with the original albums. The British releases all have 14 songs each which was mandated by law in the UK. I’m not from the US and I prefer and always refer to the original Parlophone releases because they were released with the songs and the order the Beatles intended. That was why It Won’t Be Long was placed first on the original album. Because it is such a great opening track.
The facts of how "The Beatles" got control of their LP covers with the second LP have yet to be told. But the black-and-white (see also "Revolver" cover, by Hamburg friend Klaus Voormann) was based on black-and-white photos by Hamburg friend Astrid Kirscher, which John said captured "the spirit of The Beatles".
The guitar triplets that you like so much were actually by John, with the country-ish bridge coming from George. Another interesting innovation was that Paul overdubbed the harmonies onto his own lead vocal.on the final verse.
The thought is, that you may need to go back a few years and listen to the music that everyone was listening to before the Beatles broke. In the UK there was the supergroup of Cliff and the Shadows, the skiffle bands, plus the remnants of the rock roll and crooner eras. The Beatles exploded onto the scene and was listened to almost everyone, as everyone listened to the radio, as many still didn’t have tvs in 1963. The Beatles suddenly was everywhere, and almost every track of their albums were played on radio back then. Once the Beatles broke through, then many bands were signed up who were already gigging, like the Rolling Stones, The Animals and the Kinks, plus the other Mersey Beat bands from Liverpool, and loads more. Today things are so different, it’s another era and another world, and honour to you that you are taking this journey trying to understand, even though you never can, although you will get a perspective of the development of the Beatles music, and that remarkable progression from 1965/66 and 67, when they changed everything and brought music into the modern era, which we still live in (musically speaking) today.
The second song had a real California feel. Beach Boys /Surf rock and lead guitar section was pure Buck Owens California country. Both songs show a noticeable growth on all levels. They were bringing in element from outside the pop rock genre of the day.
I remember buying With The Beatles quite a long time after I'd bought Please Please Me (this is going back to the late 80s and early 90s), and I was immediately struck by how "different" the original songs on With The Beatles were, especially considering they were written in 1963. They didn't follow the standard chord progressions or melody lines of most early 60s rock or pop, and there were even a couple of songs that I wasn't sure if I liked or not at first listen - they just weren't going where I expected songs from that time to go. The second album was the one that got the first serious (and sometimes over-the-top) reviews and commentary from older critics and journalists, eg. the "Aeolian cadences" and all that.
Lennon's childhood was quite painful. He was adopted by his aunt when he was 5 or 6 and he never knew his father. If you ever react to his solo work, the song Mother on the John Lennon/ Plastic One Band album is worth a listen, but the whole album is really good.
Namaste, Syed. Thanks for the excellent reactions. John commented on the rough upbringing he had, so what you've said in this video about John's lyrics makes sense.
'It won't be long' is pretty original in being the bloke moping at home waiting for the girl to return. And he belongs to her, not the other way around.
As a life long Beatles fan I urge you to listen to the Dave Clark 5. They were HUGE competitors to the Beatles in the early days and had a very exciting sound.
God awful. They were "competitors" in the MEDIA that hyped the "horse race". No way to tak "Dave Clark Five" seriously as a comparison. And that drumming was ham-fisted.
A good rule of thumb listening to The Beatles. Whoever sang the song, wrote the original, raw lyrics. It was Lennon and McCartney for a reason. They would work these raw lyrics together: syntax, meter, rhyme, etc. They uniquely were always open to each other's input. The music is The Beatles. Showing up with the lyrics and a very basic tune, the magic then took place, with every member adding their touches. George Martin was the conductor, using velvet gloves with his vast knowledge of instruments and sounds, answering their questions. The Let It Be documentary vividly shows the process at work.
‘All My Loving’ was not released as a single in the UK or the US. Nevertheless it reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 due to people crossing the border to get it in Canada where it was released as a single, as it was in Australia. In those countries it was a #1 hit. It was also one of Lennon’s favorite McCartney songs.
It wasn't necessary for anybody to cross the border. The Canadian single was available in the U.S. as an import. Same thing with "Roll Over Beethoven" (prior to its LP release in the U.S.).
That's John playing guitar triplets on All My Loving. Apparently he was very proud of having mastered that... as a guitarist, I can say that's not easy!
Someone below may have already mentioned this - Harrison did play the guitar "solo" on this song, but the guitar sound you're referring to - the fast repetitive strums - is Lennon playing.
That fantastic guitar in All my loving actually is John's. He is a great rythm guitarist. It's pretty hard to play the way John delivered this one. So cool!
They had me at "I Want to Hold Your Hand", so taking this intellectual journey with you is already a fascinating trip down Mammary Lame (what I call the wife. Kidding.) McCartney is a Southpaw (like Ringo, the other survivor), so that dichotomy with John will also create a Yin-Yang whole to dig on. George and Ringo were, so to say, Reconciling forces. The Beatles were a living system.
The Beatles first single in the UK was released in 1962. All of the Beatles earliest hits in the US at the beginning of 1964 were released in the UK in 1963. The Beatles may have been aware of the Beach Boys at this time, but they were not among their influences. The harmonies you are hearing were influenced by the Everly Brothers. Producer Quincy Jones complained that he couldn’t figure out how to classify the genre of music to which their music fit. This is because their music is its own genre, Beatles music. It is unique to them. No one else can really do it because it requires their unique genius to make it.
This was my first Beatles LP; their musical evolution was fascinating & had me rushing out to buy their next albums as soon as they were in the shops. There were always one or two tracks on each one that pointed the way, so to speak, & they were usually obviously Lennon style ones; as you say, darker, less straightforward, unhappier with life. The 2nd track - All I've Got to Do - is John comforting himself with a delusion about a girlfriend which he knows is really only wishful thinking. Which is pretty damn sad, & indicative of their increasing emotional range.
Paul's dad asked why they couldn't have said "yes, yes, yes" . I am so glad you can hear it all coming together. It's a trip, a magical mystery tour, you might say! So worth it. They are not the GOAT, even now, for nothing. You should read a really good biography, it would explain so much. "Can't Buy Me Love"" by Jonathan Gould, is excellent, and I've read them all because I'm a Beatles nerd. Go to World of Books and get it cheaper. Also, whenever you are listening to them, you are always smiling.
It won't be long is different indeed, I always noticed that as a fact. There's a few chords in there which are not standard, which makes it very interesting.
It’s not really a jump. The US version of this album called Meet The Beatles was the first Beatles album most of us in the US were exposed to. I was in second grade. Will never forget it.
I think you’ve misunderstood The Beach Boys timeline in this and a few of your videos. The Beach Boys first album was in 62 and they were popular well before the Beatles got to America. Pet Sounds was like their 10th album…
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As someone who grew up in that era, I can assure you that the Beatles represented a style no one had ever heard before. They exploded out of the radio, sounding completely unique. By taking the best of R&B, skiffle, rockabilly, Motown girl groups, and putting it all together in a fantastic new way, they changed pop music forever.
Agreed. One thing that is generally missed by reactors to the Beatles is the music "environment" in which they appeared. Just take a listen to some of the UA-cam videos of top songs in the years leading up to the Beatles and you can see how different they were. Songs don't exist in a vacuum -- you have to consider the time frame and the world around them to get a proper perspective. I'm convinced that so much new music appeared in the 60s and 70s because of the general unrest caused by the Vietnam War, the racial inequalities and subsequent demonstrations. They weren't just restricted to the U.S. -- it happened worldwide. As things calmed down the music seemed to stagnate -- fewer good bands and good music.
@@hurricane1951It was also generational change. The music-buyers are those between childhood and marriage/kids.
And if one goes back and listens to the music of 1962-63 it was stagnant, moribund. Major Lance, as example, had two dance song hits about the "Monkey". The music for both was exactly the same -- the only thing "different" were the lyrics.
And Chubby Checker's last hit was the Gadawful "Hooka Tooka". And then there was that screechy "French Nuns" thing.
I was born in 1963. My older sisters had all the early Beatles albums. I new all the lyrics. Yet, George's guitar in It Won't Be Long, is what hooked me into the guitar. From then on, lyrics and vocals became background music for the electric guitar. 😊. Just an old guitar player here. ❤
@@hurricane1951 Plus rock and roll was still Young and had a long way to go....now it IS stagnate, everything really good was already done, in my opinion.
@@hurricane1951 Very well said. I grew up through the 60's also and found the change in music they introduced to be very different for "most" radio stations to play. There were a few exceptions from the mid 50's to early 60's but most of the 'top 40' stuff played was pretty mundane.
Love his take on John being the darker one with Paul being the lighter one with a touch of a darkness. They really were the best songwriting duet
Totally disagree, that is a Beatle rookie mistake. Paul's Am-Em template which he started on Things We Said today, set the table for a hundred melancholy rock songs to follow, Eleanor Rigby? Yeah, that's light. You cannot pigeonhole the Fabs. John's great upbeat songs are too numerous to name.
@@stevepotocin9501 Agree, human tendency is to categorize people to make things convenient and simple. We are all guilty of that. similar in the press very early on and for years was the belief that Lennon wrote the ;lyrics, McCartney wrote the melodies. this was out of habit and the history of songwriters of the traditional "American Songbook" and musicals, The Gershwin bothers, or Lerner and Loewe, or Rogers and Hammerstein for example. Someone said it and wrote it long ago and suddenly it becomes "fact." Sinatra announced live at a concert before he sang Something" was a beautiful song by Lennon and McCartney, without checking the facts first. Duh!
@@stevepotocin9501 McCartney wrote “For no one”, “She’s leaving home”, “Fool on the hill”, and many other dark songs. I think Syed will change his mind once he goes through all the Beatles albums.
@@manuelgaddala1664 Yes.
I don't think there is a clear jump..... psycho babble nonsense tbh bud
Lennon's rythm guitar on All My Loving is incredible. those triplets played effortlessly at speed is so difficult. When you watch them do this song live Lennon is often smiling and, in one concert talking to George, while he's playing that part. quite stunning.
Absolutely. That rhythm Lennon plays is what gives the song its drive. And George's solo is just perfect.
@@citizenghosttown Right. It's John playing that rolling guitar riff.
@@citizenghosttown Years later Harrison's solo in All My Loving suddenly sounded like a country song solo to me lol. It fit right in to the song. I had heard a yodeling song by a Cowboy that sounds quite like the notes of that guitar solo if you dumb it down to the basic notes and chords. But then I'm that weird ex- music teacher that instantly looks for musical relationships between songs, pieces of songs and phrases. Yes, I KNEW I had heard the melody to My Sweet Lord before when I was a kid in 1970/71 and just couldn't place it at the time lol. Geez, George, you'd think somebody would have warned you, like Phil Spector who was probably in the same room while you recorded it lol...
@@thomastimlin1724 I agree completely. George's solo is definitely country-sounding and twangy -- especially that cool lick at the very end. That's the Carl Perkins influence. And yes, he did lift the melody for "He's So Fine" for "My Sweet Lord" --- but in his defense, that sort of thing happens all the time in rock 'n' roll and is often inadvertant -- there's a fine line between paying homage and stealing!
Watch John the first time they were on "Ed Sullivan". First song "All My Loving, and just after it begins Lennon grins and says to the others, "YEAH!!"
The guitar in "All My Loving" that you liked so much was played by John on his Rickenbacker Capri. He was playing those chords in triplets, which is very hard to maintain for a 3:00 song.
Let’s be honest. This is the greatest band of all time without question.
The difference in sensibilities between Paul and John: Paul sang, "I have to admit it's getting better," to which John responded, "It can't get no worse."
That rhythm guitar, all triplets. 12/4 is torture to play. Paul has always praised John for having to play that live every time :)
It's brilliant that you are going through the discography in order.... very soon I hope you will also pick up that every single song is different. And the fact that they didn't put the singles on their albums was different too. They wanted to give their fans value for money. An innovative band in every single way... Listening to them this way is the most rewarding way of learning why they made such a HUGH impact on the music scene.
Ringo's drumming just kills on It Won't Be Long. Great feel, great fills, classic washy hi-hat, changes it up for the chorus.
I absolutely thought the same thing - the conttrast between using the closed hi-hat and the openness of the ride for alternating parts of the song. It's very simple, but simple can be really great.
@@barrycowan3540 And always...the drum fills at the right place...Ringo, the human metronome...When Jeff Lynn wanted him to use a click track years later, Ringo said "I AM the f-ing click track..." hahahha
Hi. John was playing the rhythm guitar (at speed). Just think they did the last album, this album and the next and all the singles and EPs all in 12 months. While you are right between the two, they both wrote great love songs and very sad songs. But yes John had the dark edge, Paul the optimist Looking forward to the next songs (also George writes his first one!)
As one that's been around since they hit the American shores, I've always noted a bit more pain and anger in songs primarily attributed to John.
And they made a movie, toured from June 4th - 30th (world tour), American tour August 19th - September 20th, and British tour October 9th - November 10th.
@@gsparkman John was relentlessly aggressive.
@@jnagarya519 I didn’t want offend anyone by calling John out more than I did, but I agree with you. I think I am one of the few that interpreted the meaning of the last line of Norwegian Wood (“So I lit a fire. Isn’t it good Norwegian wood” as John’s clever way of saying ‘he burned the bitch’s house down.’
@@gsparkman He expressed his aggression through his gritty guitar playing. Note how fond he was of dissonance -- the discordance of 7th chords.
Glad you noticed the cover. Back then it was VERY different from the typical cover of a pop music band. And, sure enough, this is the first cover the group had direct input on.
There was a lot of cross pollination going on in those days. Back to the cover --
"Impressed with Robert Freeman's black-and-white pictures of John Coltrane, Epstein invited the photographer to create the cover image.[10] Harrison later said that, whereas the cover of Please Please Me had been "crap", their second LP was "the beginning of us being actively involved in the Beatles' artwork ... the first one where we thought, 'Hey, let's get artistic.'"[11] The group asked Freeman to take inspiration from pictures their friend Astrid Kirchherr had taken in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962, featuring the band members in half-shadow and not smiling.[12] To achieve this result, on 22 August 1963, Freeman photographed them in a dark corridor of the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth, where the band were playing a summer residency at the local Gaumont Cinema.[13] To fit the square format of the cover, he put Starr in the bottom right corner, "since he was the last to join the group. He was also the shortest".[14] McCartney described the result as "very moody", adding: "people think he must have worked at [it] forever and ever. But it was an hour. He sat down, took a couple of rolls, and he had it."[13] The original concept was to paint the picture from edge to edge, with no bleeding, title or artist credit - a concept that went against music industry practice and was immediately vetoed by EMI. The first album to carry an edge-to-edge cover was the Rolling Stones' self-titled debut, released five months later.[15] EMI also objected to the fact that the Beatles were not smiling; it was only after George Martin intervened, as head of Parlophone, that the cover portrait was approved.[15] "
Every new thing I learn about George Martin makes me respect him even more. I'm firmly convinced that The Beatles would NOT have reached the heights they did without his guidance.
I love "It Won't Be Long" so much, definitely one of the best tracks from their early period. A great rocker, love those wonderful "yeah, yeah, yeahs", and the fact that he sings "'till I belong to you", not the basic "till you belong to me". At younger age I pretty much dismissed almost all the early Beatles songs, but this track changed my mind and made me dig deeper in their early catalogue.
It Won't Be Long and it's "follow up song" Tell Me Why are equally great 1964 rockers👍
So you finally got that they were a great BAND.
"It Wont Be Long " the song that got me into them 52 years ago !! Any other Band would have surely released it as a single.
The Beatles were ground breakers in that they not only wrote their own songs, but just as importantly they played the instruments as well, to this point that had not been done in pop/rock music. Obviously they went on to be trend setters in many other areas too, clothing, hair style, willingness to change their music from album to album, usage of different instruments and orchestration, and on and on. They were truly among the greatest music innovators of all time!
‘All My Loving’ is def in my top 5 songs. Fun Facts: Paul is harmonizing with himself on the record but when they played it live, George did the harmony with Paul. It was the very first song Americans saw them play live (on The Ed Sullivan Show.) And it was one of the many songs of Paul’s that John said he wished he had written. “A damn good piece of work.” 💙 Nice reaction.
Live is so much better, I wish they recorded it with George harmonizing.
That guitar that you liked in 'All My Loving' was played by John. You were talking in an earlier video about how they sometimes answered their fan mail with songs, you could probably put 'All My Loving' in that category.
You pretty much are spot on here. It takes some time to get used to the tone and soon after you're comfortable, the dramatic changes in songwriting quality kicks in. Then it's banger after banger after banger until you finally wake up one day and question everything you ever knew about music.
This is fun to watch. 😁👍
That fantastic rhythm guitar is by John, who was rightly proud of his wrist busting work.
Love the call and repeat on the 'yeahs'. on "It Won't Be Long".
Ahhh, thank you so very much for continuing this fantastic ride on learning more and seeing the improvements of the Beatles.
Nightmare. Daydream. Wow! You nailed it!! Lennon McCartney never encapsulated in so fewer words.
I don't interpret (and never did) that "IT WON'T BE LONG" as a nightmare for John, he's just missing his girl but she is coming home soon and he will be back with her again. She didn't break up with him. PAUL is NOT day dreaming in "ALL MY LOVING" HE is the one going away for awhile, kissing his girl goodbye, telling her he'll miss her, be true to her and write to her (a letter, NO laptops, cell phone messaging then, sitting down and actually writing a letter with pen and paper) until he returns. NO daydream.
They also revolutionized the nature of musical groups in that they took the almost unheard of step of writing some of their own music.
I don't hear ANY "darkness" at all, I hear optimism, anticipation, positivity, and BRIGHTNESS.
I agree, there is NO darkness in "It Won't Be Long" we never felt depresses or had dark feelings from it when we first heard it back then.
To repeat a comment from below...That was John on the guitar that you liked so much. George did the solo in the middle. This was the very first Beatles song most of us in America heard, when they played it to open their first segment on The Ed Sullivan Show Feb 9,1964. I was 7 years old at the time, and even at that young age, I, and all my siblings knew we were listening to something special. Little did I know that 60 years later, I would have loved The Beatles all of my life from that point on.
The guitar work you're primarily hearing is John playing rhythm. Stunning playing and beautiful Paul vocal.
Later in life, John said that It Won't Be Long was an attempt at being a single but he didn't think that it worked. I would disagree - it's a fantastic album track and could have been a huge single. I love it! As to All My Loving, that was one of the Beatles biggest earliest hits. And George's out of the blue country riffs in the middle make it even better!
Paul has a few darker, earlier songs but not many. Later he had hits like Yesterday, Blackbird, Eleanor Rigby, Helter Skelter, and quite a few more darker songs. That is Lennon on that fast rhythm guitar on All my loving. He has a couple rhythm peculiarities that are unique to him. Most of their harmonies were learned from the Everly Brothers. George adds the Gretsch twang on the end of the phrases but most of the guitar you hear on My loving is John.
It is rock and Roll.
Paul is not in a daydream, he is going away for awhile and he kisses his girl goodbye (with his eyes closed, which MOST people do when they kiss), and tells her he will miiss her and will write every day and be true. It's not a daydream. Every time I hear "IT WON'T BE LONG," I think of the week before the BEATLES CONCERT here in Cleveland on Sept. 15, 1964 because the radio station that was sponsoring it, would play that first line before talking about the upcoming concert! I was at that concert and when they came again in 1966 on Aug. 14th.
I like both of these songs and they were on the radio a lot and I've heard them so many times in my life. That second one got covered a whole bunch as well. I mean a lot. I was in grade school when I heard these, and I just loved the energy and the color to it.
😁If people were passed out in my basement room, "It' Won't Be Long", cranked, would have them leaping up. I was a bit evil. 😇 Great song though. All My Loving is just such an excellent song, and a true classic.
I love it when you get a hint of what we felt at the time. You have no idea how it was so impactful at the time. There has been nothing else like in my 74 years. Hearing it makes me feel 15 again if only for a few minutes. No, the Beach Boys sound like them.
Keep going on your journey, you will not be disappointed, you have great insights.
The main thing about the Beatles is their seemingly endless ability to write great melodies.... John didn't write All My Loving, but that rhythm guitar part is John
Paul and John complimented each other and its a big reason they were so great.
"The more I hear of them the more I like " ..... ahh, Grasshopper, your journey will be very rewarding; and it brings me much pleasure. You seek to grok the cosmic Lennon/McCartney symbiosis and the Four-Headed Monster. Chronologically is the only way. Strap in, big changes are coming fast! ☯🎶
It's always a fun game to try and figure out a John vs. a Paul song. It actually gets easier the longer they worked together.
While still writing love songs, the growth/maturity is already evident.
Glad you are doing this in chronological order. They were revolutionary. Look at other singers and artists at any moment the Beatles existed and the Beatles look nothing like the others and sound nothing like the others. Everyone followed and copied them....everyone.
Enjoying reliving my childhood with you!
Great rhythm guitar by John Lennon on "All My Loving". Paul commented on John's driving guitar pushing-energizing this song. Then we have the very C7W solo from George. It's all still so alive a fresh!
Enjoying your journey through the Beatles catalogue you'll find the growth in their music and writing as you progress ,good luck you've only got about 150 songs or so to go.Even so their early songs were great,you have to start somewhere and they were only young but were smart enough to target the teen-age girls with all those love songs,went to top of the charts and created Beatlemania,remember according to Paul they only wanted to make some money and pull some birds ,I think they went a bit beyond that,cheers🇦🇺
Most music is targeted to the demographic between childhood and marriage/kids. Always has been.
"It Won't Be Long" is one of the greatest Beatles songs of them all, in my correct opinion.
The band may have written more sophisticated songs later on, but nothing compares with the sheer thrill of their early numbers like this one.
Lennon arguably never sang better in his entire life.
Absolutely !!! It was the song that got me into them. great call !!
This may have been the first album that I ever bought when it came out around 1963/4. The first track (It won't be long) was knackered due to it being played on umpteen Dansettes with crappy styllii. There weren't many people in the sixties that didn't like the Beatles. Thanks for your series on the Beatles I've really enjoyed every one. 😁👍
John once said he wished he’d written this Paul song himself, he admired it so. His rhythm guitar adds so much to it, instrumentally.
The genius of Lennon/McCartney is that they perfectly balanced each other.
That rolling guitar is John. Not easy to do. He was a fantastic rhythm guitar player.
Briliiant song BRILLIANTLY RECORDED!!!!
"All My Loving" is one of their classic hits. It only got as high as #48 on the _Billboard_ (U.S.) charts, but that was without even being issued on a U.S. single - only an imported single from Canada! On the Beatles' 'Red Album' greatest hits, it's the first "album track" to be included (in the UK it was the 'title track' of an EP also).
This was the first album I ever owned. I was 9, and played it over & over. ✌️❤️🎶
Ditto! Only I was the ripe old age of 10!!😅
The guitar "triplets" in the song was done by John Lennon.
All My Loving: The lead guitar at the break was George. The triplet rhythm guitar pattern was John. This track is a banger, one of the songs they played live on the Ed Sullivan show. George sang lead on the harmonized 2nd verse so Paul could take the high harmony part, something he excelled at.
Excellent insight as always, Syed.
There's a song on the "Sgt. Peppers" album called "Getting Better" that was mostly Paul's creation. He had a line, "it's getting better all the time " that needed a response line, to which John added, "it can't get no worse". That says everything about the Lennon & McCartney ying and yang dynamic you spoke of.
Paul was lighter; John was darker.
John was more of a risk taker; Paul kept the band more true to their roots.
Paul was more steady; John was more eccentric.
The Beatles were John Lennon's band. He gathered the members and was a natural leader that the other 3 looked up to. After the halfway point of the band's recording career, Paul gradually became slightly more dominant as a song writer as John's interest began to fade. Paul, however, was not John's equal as a leader, and Paul caused friction with George and Ringo as he became more dominant.
The biggest influence on the Lennon / McCartney partnership was each of them on the other. Neither of them would have become as great creatively without the inspiration and healthy competition they provided each other.
On a personal note: John and Paul were both geniuses as song writers, but Paul was more likely to write a song I didn't care much for, and John was more likely to write a song I loved. It could be because of what's called "the tortured artist effect". John was more open in expressing his emotions, so he was easier for me to relate to.
Listen again and follow Ringo, his bopping and playful beat on It Won't Be Long, then All My Lovin'....such a simple, perfect beat....gives the frenetic guitar the bedrock it needed to hold it together......always Ringo...
Some of the difference can be understood by comparing their childhoods. Paul’ s family, though lower working class, stayed together and Paul had a pretty happy childhood. John’s parents had a difficult relationship and he suffered for it. After his parents split he was raised by his strict (but kind) Aunt Mimi. He missed his mother, Julia, who visited occasionally. When he was 17 Julia was struck by a car and killed which devastated John. Besides his darker moods John also had a more pressing need for a strong woman to fill the void of missing his mother. A lot of his music reflects that.
Are you forgetting that PAUL'S mother Mary, died when Paul was 14 years old, that was also pretty devastating. That was ONE of the things John and Paul BONDED over, both of their mothers died when they were young.
We actually did this at a dance circa 1979, when we did a secular version of our band. Their music made a big comeback at that time.
It Won’t Be Long is such a great album opener and All My Loving was the first song they played on their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th 1964 which was when 73,000,000 people in the US tuned in to see The Beatles for the first time and from then on there was no stopping them. Obviously they were huge in Britain by then but we in North America had only just started to hear their music a month or two before that TV appearance and the hype before and after was huge. The British Invasion was on and we were all better for it. Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album were hugely influenced by The Beatles 1965 Album Rubber Soul which Wilson considered to not just be a collection of songs but a cohesive, artistic musical statement. Keep up the great work and enjoy your Beatles journey Syed as we enjoy your perspective and analysis too.
But "IT WON'T BE LONG" was NOT the album opener in the "MEET THE BEATLES" album in the U.S. It had the same cover photo, but the track listing was different from the UK "WITH the BEATLES" album. The OPEINING track on the U.S. MEET THE BEATLES was their first hit single in the U.S. "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND," followed by "I SAW HER STANDING THERE" (which was on the UK "PLEASE PLEASE ME" album), then "THIS BOY," "IT WON'T BE LONG" was the 4th track on side one. The UK "WITH THE BEATLES " was not available in the U.S. then.
@@patticrichton1135 Capital Records messed with the original albums. The British releases all have 14 songs each which was mandated by law in the UK. I’m not from the US and I prefer and always refer to the original Parlophone releases because they were released with the songs and the order the Beatles intended. That was why It Won’t Be Long was placed first on the original album. Because it is such a great opening track.
Another great analysis by you. You’re very astute in your observations, and it makes for enjoyable watching. 👍
I love "It won't be long" yeah, yeah
first song played on Ed Sullivan was All My Loving and the rest is history..I'm glad I got to witness it in 1964
The facts of how "The Beatles" got control of their LP covers with the second LP have yet to be told.
But the black-and-white (see also "Revolver" cover, by Hamburg friend Klaus Voormann) was based on black-and-white photos by Hamburg friend Astrid Kirscher, which John said captured "the spirit of The Beatles".
The guitar triplets that you like so much were actually by John, with the country-ish bridge coming from George. Another interesting innovation was that Paul overdubbed the harmonies onto his own lead vocal.on the final verse.
when they did it live in concert and on the Ed Sullivan Show, George steps in to do the harmony.
Did you notice the back vocals in the chorus? Still unexcelled. Thank you so much for the reaction!
The thought is, that you may need to go back a few years and listen to the music that everyone was listening to before the Beatles broke.
In the UK there was the supergroup of Cliff and the Shadows, the skiffle bands, plus the remnants of the rock roll and crooner eras.
The Beatles exploded onto the scene and was listened to almost everyone, as everyone listened to the radio, as many still didn’t have tvs in 1963.
The Beatles suddenly was everywhere, and almost every track of their albums were played on radio back then. Once the Beatles broke through, then many bands were signed up who were already gigging, like the Rolling Stones, The Animals and the Kinks, plus the other Mersey Beat bands from Liverpool, and loads more.
Today things are so different, it’s another era and another world, and honour to you that you are taking this journey trying to understand, even though you never can, although you will get a perspective of the development of the Beatles music, and that remarkable progression from 1965/66 and 67, when they changed everything and brought music into the modern era, which we still live in (musically speaking) today.
The second song had a real California feel. Beach Boys /Surf rock and lead guitar section was pure Buck Owens California country. Both songs show a noticeable growth on all levels. They were bringing in element from outside the pop rock genre of the day.
"The Beatles" TRANSCENDED "genre" -- which latter word needs to be assassinated.
I remember buying With The Beatles quite a long time after I'd bought Please Please Me (this is going back to the late 80s and early 90s), and I was immediately struck by how "different" the original songs on With The Beatles were, especially considering they were written in 1963. They didn't follow the standard chord progressions or melody lines of most early 60s rock or pop, and there were even a couple of songs that I wasn't sure if I liked or not at first listen - they just weren't going where I expected songs from that time to go. The second album was the one that got the first serious (and sometimes over-the-top) reviews and commentary from older critics and journalists, eg. the "Aeolian cadences" and all that.
Interesting and mature analysis from an articulate young man - well done 👍
Lennon's childhood was quite painful. He was adopted by his aunt when he was 5 or 6 and he never knew his father. If you ever react to his solo work, the song Mother on the John Lennon/ Plastic One Band album is worth a listen, but the whole album is really good.
Stick with the current LP.
Namaste, Syed. Thanks for the excellent reactions. John commented on the rough upbringing he had, so what you've said in this video about John's lyrics makes sense.
About Paul. Just wait a few years til "For No One" on Revolver.
The Beatles changed the world.
'It won't be long' is pretty original in being the bloke moping at home waiting for the girl to return. And he belongs to her, not the other way around.
As a life long Beatles fan I urge you to listen to the Dave Clark 5. They were HUGE competitors to the Beatles in the early days and had a very exciting sound.
Not that huge! Having two drum kits was a departure but the general opinion at the time was not very impressive to be honest. Soz.
The numbers don't support this claim.
God awful. They were "competitors" in the MEDIA that hyped the "horse race". No way to tak "Dave Clark Five" seriously as a comparison. And that drumming was ham-fisted.
A good rule of thumb listening to The Beatles. Whoever sang the song, wrote the original, raw lyrics. It was Lennon and McCartney for a reason. They would work these raw lyrics together: syntax, meter, rhyme, etc. They uniquely were always open to each other's input. The music is The Beatles. Showing up with the lyrics and a very basic tune, the magic then took place, with every member adding their touches. George Martin was the conductor, using velvet gloves with his vast knowledge of instruments and sounds, answering their questions. The Let It Be documentary vividly shows the process at work.
‘All My Loving’ was not released as a single in the UK or the US. Nevertheless it reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 due to people crossing the border to get it in Canada where it was released as a single, as it was in Australia. In those countries it was a #1 hit. It was also one of Lennon’s favorite McCartney songs.
It wasn't necessary for anybody to cross the border. The Canadian single was available in the U.S. as an import. Same thing with "Roll Over Beethoven" (prior to its LP release in the U.S.).
I've love them since 1964, I was 14 then. Love your analysis. Thank you so much, learned a lot from you.
Strong reaction. Good work.
That's John playing guitar triplets on All My Loving. Apparently he was very proud of having mastered that... as a guitarist, I can say that's not easy!
People who aren't musicians tend to say that John couldn't play guitar. He's the one doing the triplets of the rhythm guitar part.
That's John's guitar part you liked - he was really proud of that performance!
So was Paul.
I learned this in guitar cause the riff is so cool.
Someone below may have already mentioned this - Harrison did play the guitar "solo" on this song, but the guitar sound you're referring to - the fast repetitive strums - is Lennon playing.
That fantastic guitar in All my loving actually is John's. He is a great rythm guitarist. It's pretty hard to play the way John delivered this one. So cool!
They had me at "I Want to Hold Your Hand", so taking this intellectual journey with you is already a fascinating trip down Mammary Lame (what I call the wife. Kidding.) McCartney is a Southpaw (like Ringo, the other survivor), so that dichotomy with John will also create a Yin-Yang whole to dig on. George and Ringo were, so to say, Reconciling forces. The Beatles were a living system.
That was John playing those fantastic rolling triplets on guitar.
Actually the guitar was John, playing triplets. Similar to the way he played in This Boy. Great review ❤ keep them coming.
The Beatles first single in the UK was released in 1962. All of the Beatles earliest hits in the US at the beginning of 1964 were released in the UK in 1963. The Beatles may have been aware of the Beach Boys at this time, but they were not among their influences. The harmonies you are hearing were influenced by the Everly Brothers.
Producer Quincy Jones complained that he couldn’t figure out how to classify the genre of music to which their music fit. This is because their music is its own genre, Beatles music. It is unique to them. No one else can really do it because it requires their unique genius to make it.
The rhythm guitar part played thoughout is expertly played by John Lennon. Looking forward to your continued commentary on the Beatles.
They are still so tight from all the early gigging. Believe it or not, that is John Lennon playing those lightning-fast triplets throughout.
This was my first Beatles LP; their musical evolution was fascinating & had me rushing out to buy their next albums as soon as they were in the shops. There were always one or two tracks on each one that pointed the way, so to speak, & they were usually obviously Lennon style ones; as you say, darker, less straightforward, unhappier with life. The 2nd track - All I've Got to Do - is John comforting himself with a delusion about a girlfriend which he knows is really only wishful thinking. Which is pretty damn sad, & indicative of their increasing emotional range.
I can't wait till you get further in and you can really hear John's darker side with Run For Your Life and Yer Blues.
John is playing that rolling rhythm guitar.
And this song(as you know)was included in their groundbreaking film A Hard Day's Night
A fragment.
Don't get ahead of the LP on which is the focus.
Those triplet chords on All My Loving by Lennon are ledgandary.....
The driving rhythm guitar is John. The twangy solo is George
That's John playing the triplets.
Paul's dad asked why they couldn't have said "yes, yes, yes" .
I am so glad you can hear it all coming together. It's a trip, a magical mystery tour, you might say! So worth it. They are not the GOAT, even now, for nothing. You should read a really good biography, it would explain so much. "Can't Buy Me Love"" by Jonathan Gould, is excellent, and I've read them all because I'm a Beatles nerd. Go to World of Books and get it cheaper. Also, whenever you are listening to them, you are always smiling.
In terms of the Beach Boys, "With the Beatles" was their 2nd album, the Beach Boys had four albums by this point.
That rhythm in the first song has bossa nova or cha cha cha kind of feel.
It won't be long is different indeed, I always noticed that as a fact. There's a few chords in there which are not standard, which makes it very interesting.
It’s not really a jump. The US version of this album called Meet The Beatles was the first Beatles album most of us in the US were exposed to. I was in second grade. Will never forget it.
I think you’ve misunderstood The Beach Boys timeline in this and a few of your videos. The Beach Boys first album was in 62 and they were popular well before the Beatles got to America. Pet Sounds was like their 10th album…
Yes, but Brian Wilson has openly admitted to being influenced by the Beatles when he was writing Pet Sounds, so the larger point remains accurate.