15/15 mate

This was easier than I expected, there are key elements that sound very similar when played backwards: tempo, percusion, voices, to some extent chords and even some melodies are easy to figure out..

I missed 2, but I'm 64-yrs old and started obsessing on The Beatles at age 5. David, you amaze me. A youg, trained musician who totally gets why the Beatles were so great AND you know their songs! I wish there were more musicians like you!

The vocal textures are SO distinctive. Even when the instrumentation doesn't give the song away, the vocals have such strong signatures.

The riff from track 13 appears in both 'You never give me your money' and 'Carry that weight', so not a bad guess at all!

Next video: Can you guess these Beatles songs with negative harmony? Superb as usual

15/15. I guess all those thousands of hours of listening to Beatles songs paid off! This was really fun, I I'd love to see more of these

13/15 for me. Great idea for a quiz! If David Hartley ever does this for you again, maybe one of the songs could be a bit of backmasked track (Rev 9, Rain, etc.). It would make that particular one easy to get, but would be a fun surprise to hear something sounding forwards in the middle of all these backwards clips.

This was by far the most entertaining episode. Totally engaged to the information. Great game! Thanks much, David.

I got 14 out of 15. I was stumped by "Can't Buy Me Love". A couple of others, I had to hear twice. But it was surprisingly easy for the most part!

Great stuff as always. I’ve loved every one of your Beatles quiz videos! As a giant Beatles nerd myself, If you ever want to do a fun live or prerecorded head to head version of this kind of challenge, I would love to! In this challenge I found tempo, key, and most of all bass line to be the biggest giveaways. If you can remember 5-6 notes of the reversed bass line and flip then back around in your head, it’s a dead giveaway for a lot of them. A testament to how unique Paul’s bass arrangements were.

I got 12/15, but the thing that made me happiest, is because I had the exact same trouble as you, when I knew that I knew the song and just COULD.NOT.THINK.OF.THE.NAME! The difference for me is that I am 63 years old, so I attribute my brain lock to age. But seeing a young guy like you have the same problem on virtually the same songs made me feel better! Thanks!

12 out of 15, i based my guesses off of vibes, i never noticed how each album has its own distinct sound until you have to recognize the songs just off of the instruments

''All My Loving'' in reverse sounds like a bit like ''With A Little Help From My Friends'', the part from 6:04 to 6:06 especially, when ''With A Little Help'' changes to the f-sharp minor chord in the verse.

15/15 but damn this was weird! I couldn't tell the name of each song based on the reversed recordings but it somehow recalled the actual song in my mind and after singing it to myself I could easily name them. It's insane how recognisable each and every single one of their songs is. I don't consider a single Beatles track as bad or forgettable and they are the only band whose entire catalogue I can at least hum along. That's why they will always hold a special place in my heart and are surely one of the greatest bands of all time.

All My Loving in reverse has a very interesting melody!

15 out of 15! Woo! This was trickier than hearing a couple of seconds, but super fun. I definitely had to rely more on the instrumentation textures and voices to tell which songs were which.

Good Day Sunshine was easy for me. The rhythm of “I took a walk…” got me there.

Thanks, David! Another interesting quiz. 14 out of fifteen for me. Extraordinary how deeply involved people are in compositions by the Beatles. Being 72, they were the meat and potatoes on my music menu. Beatles forever!

David, Would love to hear your take on what made John and Paul’s songwriting so far above everybody else’s music at the time. Why are their songs so recognizable and enjoyable still when so many other good songs have been forgotten. Everyone at the time tried to copy them but few succeeded. Enjoying your videos, thanks

Always love a David Bennett Beatles video

It's interesting how you can still get the general feel of the album when it's reversed, especially those first two. I thought "oh, this one's from Rubber Soul/Let It Be, but I can't remember which one". When you can't actually tell which song it is, you get the pure, concentrated feeling of the album itself. I got 13/15, messed up on I'm Looking Through You and Can't Buy Me Love.

14/15, Lovely Rita threw me but this was very entertaining and a lot of fun! Would love to see more quizzes like this on the channel!

Being 68 years old, I've had a lot longer to listen to them. I got them all except "Can't Buy Me Love". It actually has a decent melody backwards. That's probably what threw me off.

14/15, Can't Buy Me Love was surprisingly tricky so I dropped the ball on that! This was even more fun than the 1 second ones, please do more!

7 of 15. Same problem on some where I recognized a part, but couldn't quite place the right song. This could definitely be a nearly endless quiz topic.

15/15, yay! here's how i did on the ones David missed #7 - Almost thought it was a different Revolver track, but noticed it was Paul singing here and not George. #8 - The choice of song section was strange but once I heard those backing vocals they were unmistakable. #12 - That infectious bassline works even in reverse #13 - Just a matter of remembering which part of the Abbey Road Medley has that passage WITH lyrics. #15 - It's okay David, some of the song titles blend together for me as well, especially with Rubber Soul cause that one's less hook-heavy and more storytelling.

More than anything, every Beatles song had a unique sonic footprint, different drum sounds, vocal treatments, etc. Made this fun little quiz incredibly easy. 15 out of 15

Hey! I've literally only found your channel today, loved it and then this video comes out :D I'm a Beatles fan since i was a kid. Too bad I don't know all their songs by heart, so didn't score much

I got 11! Wow, you could make some awesome songs out of the backwards progressions!

10/15, you had some problems with obvious ones to me, and you instantly got a few I couldn't even guess

11/15 - I recognized all 15, but couldn't come upon with the names of four. These were more well-known songs, so on general it was easier than the short-clip quiz, which featured some more obscure tracks. For the same level of notoriety, I think short and forward is probably easier. Thanks for this, it was a lot of fun!

Full marks Can't Buy Me Love was the hardest to get, that and Oh! Darling

This was absolutely brilliant , can’t believe you didn’t get good day sunshine . Keep up the great work ❤

Holy shit. Got 15/15. I was not expecting that. All those years of obsessing over their music finally paid off.

I just enjoy watching a young musician not only being as knowledgeable if not more then those who grew up with their music, but as big of a fan as well. The Beatles music will always be timeless and inspirational. They were that rare of a group.

I only got seven of these, but I did manage to guess one that you missed. My main takeaway is that it's been too long since I listened to many of the Beatles albums, because I had forgotten that a lot of these songs existed.

I got 10/15 too, but got different ones wrong. It's a testimony to how many songs they recorded, that I'm *still* hearing Beatles songs I don't recognise at all 😂

Here there are some good ideas for new songs lol it is incredible how paul songs in reverse are melodically and harmonically consistent

Track 7 is from the time when Paul started experimenting with "misterious" clues to entertain superstitious people. "I buried Paul" and "Turn me on, dead man" came later. But in 1966 the game was more innocent. He was thinking of palindromes, that's why he initially proposed REVOLOVER as the title for that album. He also started thinking of the USSR. Hence he seems to be singin in Russian when reversed. Добрый день, солнышко.

15 out of 15 for me!!! This is fun, keep them coming! :)

Whoever did these really dislikes John

That was a lot of fun! 14/15 so I'm pretty proud of myself.

15/15!!! I love that you do these, they're always so fun!

15/15 🙂 I think I missed one in the one second clips. The formant of each Beatles song is so distinctive, they really tried something else with every song. So backwards is easier I guess.

14/15! I missed Can't buy me love, mistook it for She's a woman

14 out of 15. I blew the second one, but David was on point about just listening to the backing track. Once I did that, I got them all.

11/15, that's all right I think haha this was very fun to watch because we also can participate on the video. I'd like to see more of this soon :)

As someone who has recently been obsessed with "I've Got a Feeling," specifically the bass part, I recognized it almost immediately, even backwards. It's funny which parts stand out in each clip to help identify it.

First one is I'm looking through you, I can identify it by the tone of Paul's voice and acoustic backing

The `organ' sound in "Baby You're a Rich Man" was a Clavioline, an early synthesizer instrument. I would love to own one! ~

i found it easy. you just have to care on the beat and the sound and it is almost as easy as not in reverse. i found them all. thank you david for the video !

I didn't get Rita but I got Oh Darling and Good Day Sunshine, so I am so weirded out and impressed with myself. This was fun! A couple I couldn't recall the song name but I was singing along with the lyrics as it played. 😂 12/15, not bad for me! I'm better at recognising bits of musical makeup than lyrics and song names any way 😂

I never realised John imitated Bob Dylan's voice in You've Got To Hide Your Love Away! Took a backwards playback to hear it! EDIT: I typed the above before I heard you say this! NEVER heard this before! Wow!

Every single one of those were extremely easy for me. But then again I've been listening to them all non-stop, inside and out, backwards and forwards, from 1964 onward. I got them all within seconds except for track number 12. That one I had to listen all the way through before I got it. There are definitely some distinctive characteristics that give it away. For example, vocal harmony isn't going to sound that unusual in reverse. Great upload!

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Hahaha you people do realize how sick we are of listening to these noises and recognizing almost all of the songs hahaha. Ive made 13 of 15. It was really fun! And...is it me or these reversed songs sound also great? They should publish them as a reversed beatles album collection hahaha I would definitely buy it. They should name it SELTAEB EHT 😂

I got 13. The only one I didn't recognise as a song was I've Got a Feeling, though I also didn't know that part of the medley was from You Never Give Me Your Money - I got Good Day Sunshine immediately though. I did pause your video a couple of times so I could drag out the names before you revealed them!

jeez that was fun! 13 from 15 , missed one really obvious big early hit and was utterly convinced one mid period song was another. Harder than the one sec clips for sure. Thanks.

This is great fun! Now I have to listen to all of our Beatle's vinyl back from the days of our youth.

Too bad that we did not hear Rain where you would suddenly hear a lyric in the correct direction . . . 😀

I expected to hear "I buried Paul" and "Turn me on dead man". I had my tin hat on extra tight.

I think it’s actually insane how easy this was for me

I began listening to reverse music 50 years ago. I had a 4-track, ie 2x2 stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder. I discovered that if I twisted the tape and read the recording through the back, I could listen to the music backwards. As soon as I was able to record my own music, I loved using reverse guitars and drums.

Six or seven. You know the band a LOT BETTER than I do. Well done. The reverse HELTER SKELTER is pretty neat.

it's interesting how the timbre of an instrument, even for a moment, can give it away.

I, too, an enthralled with all of your Beatles quizzes. I only got 5 right, but 4 of them were ones you missed!

I was honestly really hoping for the reverse guitar in "im only sleeping" to be un reversed in this video

10/15 for me. Some songs I could not guess were the same as the host's, some were different. But oftentimes I struggled with the same dilemma: knowing the song but having forgotten the title.

12/15. Its incredible how some songs can be so recognisely in reverse

I got number seven because I figured Paul was saying two words at the 'start' and those two words and the duration of their pronunciation gave it away.

Paul's bass gave CAN'T BUY ME LOVE away.

This is amazing!!!! I was wrong in two of my guesses, but I nailed all the others very quickly. 🙂 Your performance was superb as usual, David. I particularly loved the way you were able to establish the style and different phase each song belonged to. This one was way more interesting than the last Beatles challenge. And way more doable. Thank you!

I got 'em all too, except for the first song that I don't know (or have forgotten). I distinctly heard "turn me on dead man" in one of them, won't say which song!

It was fun playing along with you, because I ended up with the exact same score (10/15), but we got nearly all the different ones wrong! At one point, you had a perfect score and I had already missed three!

Good Day Sunshine and Can't Buy Me Love eluded me, but the rest of them had at least one little element that stood out and gave it away.

15/15. Each song had some distinctive element that gave it away

Great! I missed "Can't buy me love" and "You won't see me", what is much better as I have expected. For some reason, songs in reverse seem quite recognizable.

It's fascinating how in reverse it's exactly the same amount of information, but our brains can't make sense of it, taking in only those parts that aren't changed much by the transformation. It illustrates how much processing there is in normal listening.

Strange, in this one I had absolutely no trouble getting nearly everything from the first seconds

100% I found this one WAY easier than the ultra-short clips game.

14.5 b/c Carry That Weight refrain is the SAME chords as the outro to You Never Give Me Your Money...!!!! Great video. Thank you so much for all you do! You channel is definitely one of my favorites.

When you don't think you're a fanatic, but then you get 15/15 lol

13/15. Arrangements help a LOT. This is the first quiz on which I've gotten a respectable score.

That was very difficult! I got 5 out of 15 right, and I think I just got lucky on those 5. The biggest clue for me was a small part of an instrumental section that I could recognize (if one existed), such as on "For No One" and "Good Morning". Definitely harder than the 1-sec forward Beatles' clips.

I felt so proud knowing "good day sunshine" when he didn't

it was easier than I thought. Maybe hearing these songs for several decades burns it into your brain further than you realize.

I feel like I just went through this journey with you, I literally talked back to the video lmao great video

I got 11, 4 on the drum quiz, a mere 1 on the baseline quiz. These videos are so much fun!

In a parallel universe the Beatles were a band from Holland singing in Dutch and this is what they sound like.

Got a perfect score, it’s easy to figure out as long as you recognize distinct elements

Amazingly, I answered them all! I loved this challenge as well, as the others.

That was fun! “Can’t Buy Me Love” was the only one I couldn’t get.

I stared at the wall for like 10 minutes trying to figure out which song number 4 was from, until it finally clicked lol

Perfection. Nearly got the last one wrong, but the backing vocals helped. Guess my mind works in reverse sometimes.

14/15...I couldn't recognise "I've Got A Feeling" at all, and struggling a bit with "Oh Darling" and "You Never Give Me Your Money", but remembered them after repeating the samples few more times.

Wild how the human brain works. For a lot of these I was totally lost, and yet others that stumped you ("Good Day Sunshine" , "Oh Darling!" , "You Never Give Me Your Money") I picked up on in seconds flat.

This was so much easier than I thought it would be. 15/15

These are so fun to play along to! Loved the video

I recognized 12 songs out of 15! I did not recognize “you never give me your money”, “I’ve got a feeling” and “all my loving”