How The Beatles Changed Album Covers

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Sources for research:
Beyond the Music: Rethinking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
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'Nothing You Can See That Isn't Shown': The Album Covers of the Beatles
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Read More: Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's' Cover Art: A Guide to Who's Who
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@nateds7326 3 жыл бұрын

The beatles literally made 4 guys walking down the street the most iconic album cover of all time

@-Scrapper- Жыл бұрын

Nope dark side of the moon

@PercyPanleo Жыл бұрын

@@-Scrapper-I'd say both covers are pretty close together in that regard

@-Scrapper- Жыл бұрын

@@PercyPanleo nevermind is closer

@nicolasayalagomez3104 Жыл бұрын

@@-Scrapper- xdddddddddd

@sx20Ramar 7 ай бұрын

Technically, they are walking "across" the street, not down it.....😮

@rodgersmythe6579 8 жыл бұрын

Lets not forget the real best album cover... the white album.

@bennywise410 8 жыл бұрын

so true

@StephySon 8 жыл бұрын

Can't believe one song on that album inspired a murderer and laid the foundation of Heavy Metal . . .

@bennywise410 8 жыл бұрын

StephySon which one?

@perryoparsonneseatingjuicy8738 8 жыл бұрын

+pelusrubiusdospuntocero Helter Skelter

@bennywise410 8 жыл бұрын

BritishBanjoWolf lol i love that one

@Howl14 7 жыл бұрын

Video ends with A Day in The Life. I click like.

@Gordon_Freeman_PhD 7 жыл бұрын

I click like.

@soymilk841 7 жыл бұрын

vrafiqa I click like.

@udayandwivedi3353 7 жыл бұрын

Yup

@gabrielgian8988 7 жыл бұрын

My favorite song ever

@semireckless 7 жыл бұрын

Gabriel In another comment thread below a specific video of the song "A Day In The Life", someone stated his opinion that the song was the best song on the best album of the best band in history., Amen to that!

@L.O.Hammmm 7 жыл бұрын

That last sentence, and the way you faded in A Day In The Life. Perfect. Thank you!

@MartinJohnZ 5 жыл бұрын

@Jeevan M R Yeah, and the Patreon commercial that followed immediately. Goosebumps.

@caitlynwilson9263 5 жыл бұрын

it made me cry omg

@harleybfilms 5 жыл бұрын

holy shit was bout to say that

@melanieespriu5809 5 жыл бұрын

Turtle Vision Films PERFECT

@eminem7152 5 жыл бұрын

got goosebumps and made me want to cry. I'm so glad to know and love what I do on my free time and what I study about

@TheJulianifyBTS 7 жыл бұрын

Now time to analyse the white album ay

@Seskoi 5 жыл бұрын

Ahah, see how everything is a cycle - at first all album covers were bland carton, then the industry innovated with artworked covers... Then it was considered innovative to have a bland white carton ahah!

@jaykeii 5 жыл бұрын

So many symbolisms wow

@meghandorris9966 5 жыл бұрын

Yes that would be so cool

@futuramayeah 5 жыл бұрын

you mean a doll's house? forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-beatles-a-dolls-house.200834/page-3

@williampow69 5 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to save inks

@ScriptureSketches 9 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Your commentary on art is some of the best material I've seen on youtube.

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

ScriptureSketches Thanks, ScriptureSketches.

@Theroadtoawe 8 жыл бұрын

+Nerdwriter1 Yeah seriously dude, your doing humanity a great service by breaking down art so that the simple man can understand it. Ive learned so much, thank you!

@lamyisdaeadxd9853 8 жыл бұрын

how du you explan gore metal allbum covers!

@antonlefaivre4327 7 жыл бұрын

It's less interesting, really. Shock value, a particular niche aesthetic and the like. I highly doubt there is any intended intellectual material in, say, Cannibal Corpse covers.

@samguy7654 7 жыл бұрын

Theroadtoawe The simple man can in fact "understand" art.. even though it's more of interpreting then understanding..

@darkhero-3097 7 жыл бұрын

"Just a photograph of the band..." While showing the The Band album cover for The Band. Liked, and subscribed.

@AldrigEvigt 5 жыл бұрын

yeah i laughed at that reference :D brilliant

@Ryattt81 5 жыл бұрын

Couple of those moments in here.

@paulmccartneystoenail4897 5 жыл бұрын

R.I.P John Lennon R.I.P George Harrison You will never be forgotten.

@Braud04 5 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. George Martin

@paulmccartneystoenail4897 5 жыл бұрын

João Augusto Soares dos Reis- and RIP Brian Epstein

@jamesguy1030 5 жыл бұрын

Rick Astley my overlord ~ Yeah, Check out the amazing short video Called = “Paul to Faul 1966/1967 interviews more differences” By Sandpit123 R.i.P Paul McCartney

@paulmccartneystoenail4897 5 жыл бұрын

James Guy- really? He ain’t dead lolllll

@HaSabeanies 5 жыл бұрын

R.I.P ♥️

@TomRNZ 8 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The stretched effect on the "Rubber Soul" album cover was a happy accident. The photographer was projecting the photos onto a piece of card to show the Beatles how the album cover would look, when the card fell back slightly, giving the appearance of the photo being stretched. The Beatles liked this effect and asked the photographer if they could have it like that, to which he said yes.

@worschtee1 6 жыл бұрын

Pretty common knowledge to a lot of folks...but thanks for sharing anyways

@anthonyryan998 6 жыл бұрын

PacificRimNZ - I never knew that! One occasionally thinks one knows everything about something, and every now and then one learns that one doesn't! I will now go back to believing I know everything - until next time. :-)

@mikeexits 5 жыл бұрын

@@worschtee1 Maybe, maybe not. I didn't know that previously so I appreciate OP pointing that out.

@UltimateKyuubiFox 5 жыл бұрын

worschtee1 The world’s as big as it is small. I’m glad they posted-it was new to me.

@schuckdaddy1318 3 жыл бұрын

@@worschtee1 Always going to be people discovering The Beatles for the first time, and they certainly wouldn't know these behind-the-scenes facts. No need to gatekeep, the more the world knows about The Beatles, the better!

@allxtarmusic 9 жыл бұрын

You are the Vsauce of culture and arts. Beautiful

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

allxtar music Thanks! A lot of poeple say that. I wonder if he would collaborate with me...?

@allxtarmusic 9 жыл бұрын

A total dream being able to do this full time.. Sick of the drudgery of corporate work,,,

@kurtduvel4345 8 жыл бұрын

+Nerdwriter1 I almost thought you were him for a moment - you two have very similar speaking styles.

@kaiesalmahmud6782 7 жыл бұрын

Show Me That Riff Couldn't agree more.

@Dr.Vinnie 7 жыл бұрын

best comment

@machiel5888 7 жыл бұрын

There will never be another band like them

@timothywright3130 7 жыл бұрын

Machiel de Groot No need to be pessimistic of course there will. I patiently await the day.

@legoresources 7 жыл бұрын

Timothy is right, the Beatles are amazing, but there is high caliber music still being created today.

@datura7883 7 жыл бұрын

nah they where far surpassed by multiple bands and artists during the 60s. As pop culture icons I agree, there will never be a band as influential as the beatles. They set the standard for pop music, how to market yourself with album covers and personalities. Music wise is however a different story. In the 60s Frank Zappa, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground and of course Bob Dylan surpassed them with boundary pushing sounds and ideas together with satirical, cryptic and memorable lyricism. When Beatles where producing pop jingles for the masses Zappa was bending genres.

@trevorhouck4544 7 жыл бұрын

Hannes Samuelsson um, the Beatles are known for their revolutionary techniques in the studio. they weren't just pop jingles.

@toxa35 7 жыл бұрын

Hannes Samuelsson Dude, I love Zappa and captain beefheart, as well. Both great and experimental as hell. But you know what they didn't have, what Beatles had ? The idea and sublime talent of songwriting. Zappa did experiments just for the sake of these experiments, when behind all that stuff was just eagerness to be extreme and "edgy". Beefheart was weird and crazy dude. He could come up with these awesome avant gard'ish tunes, like no one else, but he lacked the idea and songwriting skills. Beatles had that idea within their music and they had much more superior skills in songwriting. For instance, Zappa's "freak out" was released less then two months prior to "Revolver". Take the most experimental song from "freak out" and compare it then to tomorrow never knows. Feel the difference? Beatles didn't just do some crazy experimentation. They knew what stands behind these experiments and they REALLY tried to push boundaries. That's why, Tomorrow never knows sounds so fucking ahead of its time and in fact, even nowadays sounds quite fresh. When experiments of Zappa and Beefheart (amazing songs, no doubt) sounds great only for it's time.

@quincbot8831 6 жыл бұрын

I am a simple person, I see the Beatles, I click.

@kjedsomhett 5 жыл бұрын

Lol samee

@paulmccartneystoenail4897 5 жыл бұрын

Same

@theresasnakeinmyhiney994 4 жыл бұрын

Shut the fuck up dude. That shit is getting old.

@arnasleseta2890 4 жыл бұрын

Ok kiddo

@pogobat 9 жыл бұрын

You don't just make me smarter - you make me cooler. Thanks, Evan.

@mapleblock941 8 жыл бұрын

@joereece6988 6 жыл бұрын

Gay

@patrickdab6665 6 жыл бұрын

@mosesthiago3468 2 жыл бұрын

Instablaster

@maketimmycry 8 жыл бұрын

"all music is invisible" cut to White Album cover (there true masterpiece and perfection of this idea)

@Mattteus 8 жыл бұрын

+maketimmycry I agree with you wholly on the idea that The Beatles is the perfection of the idea that "all music is invisible". The Beatles is a great album but, in my opinion, it ranks below Rubber Soul and Let It Be. Also, did you mean 'their' when you wrote 'there'?

@jadedjimmy 7 жыл бұрын

I heard that the White album was pretty much their follow up to the mastery that was Sgt. Pepper. And instead of trying to come with another concept for an album that would top the preceding album, they literally just threw together whatever they could write and had literally no concept at all. That's why I love the White Album.

@hw343434 4 ай бұрын

@@MattteusLet it Be lol wasn’t even released. That’s Mid tier Beatles. Revolver, Abbey Road and White Album for me

@jrandrade7850 7 жыл бұрын

Damnit, Evan! your closing statement combined with the amazing audio mix made me shed a tear of joy.........how dare you make me cry during working hours.

@afonsolucas2219 7 жыл бұрын

Jr Andrade What were you even doing watching this at work hours!?

@jrandrade7850 7 жыл бұрын

watching it for Inspirational purposes

@afonsolucas2219 7 жыл бұрын

Jr Andrade Well, that's good enough for me.

@joshdot9244 7 жыл бұрын

Modest mouse mate.

@thebrazilianatlantis165 7 жыл бұрын

"the designer" The Sgt. Pepper cover was designed by two pop artists, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, just as the album credit said it was.

@LarryOfilms 7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I like to think they were high as hell and were like " hey wouldn't it be awesome if we had random people joining us in the photo?" and then hours later they created a masterpiece without knowing it.

@milkflavored 7 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I think half the things considered groundbreaking by them were created when they were blitzed out of their minds and over time has been assigned cultural value. But it still works bc it's honest.

@pigsrock93 7 жыл бұрын

Larry O Well.... Paul and Ringo did say that "they were on acid when they made everything for Sgt. pepper". This is the actual reason for this album cover

@neighbor472 7 жыл бұрын

+Pigsrock93 so if someone was tripping when they made the album that's the whole point of it?

@pigsrock93 7 жыл бұрын

Troncoso I did, I'm just saying that they were on acid when they made the cover.

@neighbor472 7 жыл бұрын

+Troncoso well it does have something to do with drugs, I'm sure they came up with the concept while tripping. But aside from that the concept has nothing to do with drugs. It was just drug inspired

@charlescain6729 8 жыл бұрын

did anyone else notice that when he said "just a photograph of the band" it's a picture of the band called "the band" goddamn this guy is clever

@gecafe 6 жыл бұрын

Damn

@WordslingingStephen 6 жыл бұрын

And it's The Band's cover photograph of their album "The Band".... just layering it on, eh!

@danielhenrysilver6607 9 жыл бұрын

Your videos are of such a uniquely high quality for youtube.

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Henry Silver Thanks Daniel. That means a lot.

@coreytk 9 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@danielhenrysilver6607 9 жыл бұрын

No, thank you.

@euphospug 8 жыл бұрын

+Maha Bilal 120k now :-)

@AmazingQguy 7 жыл бұрын

check lemino out, he makes quality content too!

@notmontyburns 7 жыл бұрын

I love a Day in the Life, it's such a beautiful song.

@KungaMatata 7 жыл бұрын

Well I mean A Day In the Life is already a pretty damn high standard for music lol

@dennydarkko 4 жыл бұрын

Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"

@dennydarkko 4 жыл бұрын

Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"

@joehackney8110 3 жыл бұрын

@John Cavanaugh carry that weight is in my top 5 favourite Beatles songs

@hw343434 4 ай бұрын

@johncavanaugh1911Abbey Road medley is nothing compared to A Day in the Life. Both masterpieces tho, no need to compare

@bhornung11 6 жыл бұрын

CHILLS AT THE END

@kdags2001 5 жыл бұрын

I feel you there

@1Henrink 8 жыл бұрын

The "A day in the life" playing in the end was just ... cruel man I was not able to not cry hearing it.

@MoonAlongMyHead 8 жыл бұрын

It was on point u_u

@paragajg 6 жыл бұрын

Same here mate

@skatemetrix 9 жыл бұрын

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is one of hell of a cover.

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

skatemetrix I love all the Floyd covers, particularly Wish You Were Here, which I think goes as far toward pure art as an album can go. The first editions were sold in a black plastic wrapping, almost to refute the idea of the record as a commodity.

@skatemetrix 9 жыл бұрын

Nerdwriter1 Wish You Were Here cover is purely surreal. Also you must know your Pink Floyd, you see the band's idea was to issue album covers in pure black but the music corporations thought Pink Floyd were fucking crazy- paraphrasing Storm Thorgerson.

@jamiestimpson7763 7 жыл бұрын

Dark Side of the Moon is one hell of an album!!

@iammad3490 7 жыл бұрын

Nerdwriter1 whats up with Animals? Or Ummagumma?

@culvernile2255 7 жыл бұрын

the most profitable.

@CoinOpTV 7 жыл бұрын

nice job putting this together -- sometimes the kids forget about the greatest of the fab four

@welsh_Witch 3 жыл бұрын

My friends say the only good song john wrote was here comes the sun and I'm like are you ok?

@niyomi_pU 3 жыл бұрын

@@welsh_Witch oh no.......

@jccanizal6410 3 жыл бұрын

What?

@jccanizal6410 3 жыл бұрын

Dude a lot of kids are doing the "I was born in the wrong generation" without realising that a lot of kids to listen to these stuff too

@enshen2190 3 жыл бұрын

@@jccanizal6410 yep, but I think it’s like that because of this quote I heard once “People don’t want to appreciate what they have right now, they just want to live in the past”

@gjh468 8 жыл бұрын

Ive been a Beatles fan my whole life, from staying home "sick" from grade school to find deeper and deeper cuts of the Beatles till i had heard everything they ever recorded to wearing a Beatles shirt every day all four years of high school and so on. It has been a long time sense ive learned something new about this group, or even had the opportunity to look at them in a different way. You just did that for me. the way you have opened my eyes i can now rediscover the band that changed my live. now i will be able to connect my self to their timeless music on a much deeper level than i ever had before, Thank you...

@torger8305 7 жыл бұрын

"It's in the mind y'know" -George Harrison

@jamiewilliamson1588 8 жыл бұрын

That ending gave me goosebumps

@arenawarfare2584 6 жыл бұрын

Jamie Williamson saammme

@jakehadlock8092 4 жыл бұрын

“A photograph of the band” *shows a photograph of the band

@xXSellizeXx 8 жыл бұрын

Oh my god... That was perhaps the greatest KZfaq video I've ever watched.

@morissmor 7 жыл бұрын

Jake Whitton actually you're wrong. The best video on this site is zlad's music video for elektronik supersonik. And that's objective truth.

@SpaceFlye 6 жыл бұрын

Ending on "A day in the life" was perfection.

@howtubeable 4 жыл бұрын

How many KZfaq videos have you watched? This is pleasant, but not a favorite.

@larryinc64 8 жыл бұрын

2:20 - 'Photo of The Band' I see what you did there

@GreenSnowleaf 8 жыл бұрын

+larryinc64 I don't, please explain it to me.

@larryinc64 8 жыл бұрын

Joop Hooijmans The photo used there is of the band 'The Band' from their self titled album 'The Band' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band_(album)

@JimmyS.25 5 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. Ohhh wow.

@christopherbishop6172 5 жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard that I had to find another person in the comments section who got the joke as well

@tedmills 9 жыл бұрын

Another great video, which just so happens to be about one of the best bands of all time, and you still manage to point to something new about it (including a crowd on the cover as a way to include fans). BTW, I'm not sure about the use of the phrase Holy Grail to describe this album. Surely, 'holy grail' means something that is heavily sought after but is most probably lost to time. (A Beatles holy grail would be the master tapes of She Loves You, which nobody can locate.)

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

ted mills good point

@TheGroucho66 8 жыл бұрын

+ted mills Or the 'Carnival of Light' - or even that half an hour long take of 'Helter Skelter'.

@fausto8265 7 жыл бұрын

or even Brian Wilson's original concept of SMiLE. That is surely something that has been lost over time.

@paperviewcast 7 жыл бұрын

SMiLE, it can be argued, is the Holy Grail of all music humans have ever made.

@helga7986 7 жыл бұрын

"The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and messages from beyond the mind."-an excerpt from "the Present" on the truth contest site. What do you guys think?

@Jfran-nj3dz 7 жыл бұрын

Oh shit nigga that was deep

@eladbari 7 жыл бұрын

Jfran2013 got the chills when his final words hit "a day in a life"...

@oneseagullflock 4 жыл бұрын

Peter Blake didn’t fully create the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover: he co-created it with Jann Haworth. She was the main pop artist. Don’t just give him all the credit.

@isleofwightdave2286 8 жыл бұрын

I love that they included Stuart Sutcliff, peering out from a long forgotten Hamburg night.

@joeschmo7834 4 жыл бұрын

I know Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road are touted as the Beatles’ best album covers, but Revolver was just as amazing as both in my opinion

@carlosmontilla1804 7 жыл бұрын

This video made me cry

@youresohot1392 7 жыл бұрын

Are your serious?! I mean I'm only a minute into the video so I wouldn't understand but did it really make you cry?? If so then damn this must be one good video.

@carlosmontilla1804 7 жыл бұрын

YOU'RE SO HOT it's not that I like the Beatles or something it just made me cry at the end

@SamSveistrup 7 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@noramarkham3719 7 жыл бұрын

you should like The Beatles! Give them a proper listen if you haven't yet (:

@mertinho 8 жыл бұрын

This is definitely one of the best content on KZfaq. The depth and range of how you examine specific topics is remarkable.

@canadianstudmuffin 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent video!

@mycubiclepenguin868 6 жыл бұрын

Canadian Studmuffin funny seeing you here...

@phatato 5 жыл бұрын

A Day in the Life seriously STILL gives me goosebumps every time I hear it

@carbono12videos 8 жыл бұрын

Hello there, Evan! The last sentence of this video ("all music... is invisible") has inspired me to name a piece of music I had been working at for a while. It´s a very meaningful piece of music to me for a number of reasons, and I would like to share some of them if you had the time to read about it. Thanx a bunch for the inspiration & for the great videos. Greetings from Brazil!

@agustinamansur5665 3 жыл бұрын

Onde podemos escutar a sua música? 😊❤🙈😜

@carbono12videos 3 жыл бұрын

@@agustinamansur5665 aqui no KZfaq mesmo, ou no Spotify!

@carbono12videos 3 жыл бұрын

@@agustinamansur5665 só buscar "music is invisible"! 😉

@agustinamansur5665 3 жыл бұрын

@@carbono12videos obrigado ❤😜 mais tarde eu vou te escutar 🙈

@agustinamansur5665 3 жыл бұрын

@@carbono12videos não encontrei nada kkkkkk pode me enviar o link se quiser?🙈🙈❤

@billymiskimmin 7 жыл бұрын

I love the play on words at 2:20 when you say "just a photograph of the band", and show a photo of The Band!! Absolutely brilliant

@efp722 8 жыл бұрын

Damn. That got deep. Now I'm sad.

@Jolgeable 4 жыл бұрын

Well I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph...

@ModestEgg 8 жыл бұрын

Surprised you didn't mention "Yesterday...and Today", the cover that had the usual band photo, but with them covered in meat and decapitated baby dolls.

@michaelwertzy9808 5 жыл бұрын

That was the U.K.'s version. Hard to believe because E.M.I. stifled it along with B.B.C.!

@paulagosling5777 5 жыл бұрын

The Beatles history

@bouch2442 5 жыл бұрын

thought this was a joke lmao

@GabzitoHD 7 жыл бұрын

4:59 ... the Beatles never reused the same chords, they were very creative early on

@thefaminedenier5199 3 жыл бұрын

GabzitoHD hello

@finnhaney7432 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they actually never even played the same note more than twice per album

@krisengelaar1928 2 жыл бұрын

@@finnhaney7432 idk if your joking but that sounds highly unlikely

@benchambers1305 7 жыл бұрын

Every Radiohead album has amazing artwork like Kid A and In Rainbows

@pastywhiteboy9393 7 жыл бұрын

Ben chambers kid a especially

@bix3622 7 жыл бұрын

Ben chambers Moon Shaped Pool artwork is beautiful

@50ShadesOfEndo 7 жыл бұрын

Pablo Honey, honestly

@teethgrinder83 7 жыл бұрын

I really love the artwork on ok computer-handy that it's one of my favourite albums ever too lol

@user-rv6py8cd6p 7 жыл бұрын

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS THREAD

@usernameTheInnerTube 9 жыл бұрын

I watch a lot of things on You Tube, Probably more than I should, but nothing gives me pause to think and reflect quite like any of your videos. It's hard to explain, it's more of a deep seated visceral reaction than anything else. And I mean that in a good way. Keep up the good work.

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

Dr_Boom Thanks again, Dr_Boom.

@fozzie51 9 жыл бұрын

So good, every time I'm impressed with your content!

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

Grant Foster Cheers, Grant!

@claudiabailey8629 7 жыл бұрын

honestly gave me goosebumps

@Crashoverall 7 жыл бұрын

Gotta give it to st peppers to be the most important album in history. Gotta give it to you the title of best content around here. Great video.

@carlosmontilla1804 7 жыл бұрын

Crashoverall I go for the dark side of the moon but st peppers it a masterpiece

@Crashoverall 7 жыл бұрын

i hear ya....

@datura7883 7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's Velvet Underground and Nico you're thinking of.

@Crashoverall 7 жыл бұрын

pretty amazing album that one

@DavidMFBowie 7 жыл бұрын

That album truly challenged popular culture, 10 fold of that of the Beatles.

@IndyDefense 8 жыл бұрын

2:20 I see what you did there.

@HosamSherif 8 жыл бұрын

Missed it. What was the reference?

@IndyDefense 8 жыл бұрын

Hosam Sherif He slyly name dropped The Band.

@HosamSherif 8 жыл бұрын

IndyDefense Thanks, pissed that I missed that. :)

@thomasponzio8345 8 жыл бұрын

the student has become the teacher

@GoldenTV3 8 жыл бұрын

I don't get it what did you mean.

@glomerdian 9 жыл бұрын

After listening to this video I think I fell in love with you. I'm not gay I swear. Just for you.

@TRFAD 8 жыл бұрын

+meatlog I was thinking something similar haha.

@DeshaunIsAmazing 8 жыл бұрын

Don't fear being any sexuality. Sex is only ones expression of love and passion for another. If you love another male, then love him with the entirety of your heart. Some people don't get the joy of falling in love at all.

@nousseirbahlous3387 8 жыл бұрын

+Deshanles Did you have to take a joke and turn it into a tumblr post.

@andisadiku1819 8 жыл бұрын

+meatlog gay is ok bro XDDDD

@glomerdian 8 жыл бұрын

Nousseir Bahlous Did you have to take a comment and post it 3 times.

@avaloncolours 7 жыл бұрын

Dude! Love this- as an art history student and a huge music lover, the analysis of album covers an the visuals of music videos and concerts are sooo fascinating to me. And your last statement was so lovely!

@willowecker9285 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, you are so good at this, like, my god. The end almost made me cry. I love this so much

@javierprieto1250 9 жыл бұрын

wow this guy made album covers a science

@adamnanista819 8 жыл бұрын

THEY did... he just told you

@NotQuiteFirst 8 жыл бұрын

+Javier Prieto Science is Art that you understand the rules to

@buddha4tw 8 жыл бұрын

I remember looking at this album cover and listening to their music, it seemed very sad to me at the time.

@okike.4573 7 жыл бұрын

the beatles changed a lot of things

@countalucard4226 5 жыл бұрын

Okik E. Mainly the world

@anthonychiulli7736 5 жыл бұрын

Yes the world

@LPChipi 4 жыл бұрын

No, the 60's changed a lot of things. They were just popular enough to get the credit.

@johnnymoondogs1816 4 жыл бұрын

Juan Inchauspe lol you dont know nothing about music

@sergeantpepper2737 3 жыл бұрын

@@LPChipi nooooooob idiot

@adamwebb241 7 жыл бұрын

Literally cried at the end of this video

@noramarkham3719 7 жыл бұрын

same here

@lizzym1112 5 жыл бұрын

me too!

@phatato 5 жыл бұрын

A day in the life does that

@federicobonifazi9954 8 жыл бұрын

i'm....i.....this is fantastic...

@SpaceFlye 6 жыл бұрын

Gosh damn, this was beautifully made. Did not expect this to get so meaningful towards the end. Got a bit emotional there too. Bravo.

@skysmindgarden 4 жыл бұрын

That ending was perfect and so theatrical. You wrapping it up with a beautiful bow of tone and poetic touch, and Day In The Life playing in the background. Absolutely beautiful

@smolcat786 7 жыл бұрын

Ive just discovered your channel, and im so glad. I love it. How you introduce the subjects, the pics you use. the research and effort you put in it, it all, is just amazing. congrats

@MikeyBrown99 8 жыл бұрын

I concur with your point about having no need for music videos as I myself would rather just listen to the music and just let the instruments, vocals and samples take me to that place. This is amplified when I engage in the recreational and meditative herb.

@connorhalleck2895 8 жыл бұрын

Dude this is so good, love the cut to black.

@herr_fuchsnews5630 7 жыл бұрын

I am so happy to finally find a 1 million subscribers channel with amazing content. So many other channels just follow trends to become popular. But your channel, and this video in particular, shows that some people do youtube for the sake of making videos. And it shows that some people understand videos and film as what they are: art.

@TheSweBoo 6 жыл бұрын

You make some of the most refined, well-thought and interesting videos on this website. Hats off to you

@mr.e... 8 жыл бұрын

You've just become one of my favorite KZfaq channels of all times.

@sharmmmmmmm 8 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful! Thank you for this :)

@jayshah6620 4 жыл бұрын

Very well done Evan. Thank you. My aunt liked your All Along The Watchtower Analysis a few years ago and emailed you about it thanking you. Keep it up man. The visual and audio connection in this video are extremely good, and your presentation at the end as you said The Beatles put all these people to show that music is really invisible felt like a full circle no one realized. So many people, so many faces, but no one. No real face. And underneath all those changing faces, the music.

@ryanbrink4390 7 жыл бұрын

I love how at 2:20 when he says the words "the band" the image is a photograph of The Band from the cover of their 1970 self-titled album. Brilliant piece of editing, Nertwriter!

@GnomeChomsky12 8 жыл бұрын

My grandfather designed the typeface for rubber soul!

@kaitlynreynolds5192 5 жыл бұрын

Omg really? Cool!

@Skokapus 5 жыл бұрын

r/thathappened

@MrSinghisking24 5 жыл бұрын

My grandfather invented the COBB salad

@Aurora-oe2qp 4 жыл бұрын

@@Skokapus Can you please stop linking to subreddits outside of Reddit? They don't quite work outside there, you see. And it's not even that unbelievable.

@Skokapus 4 жыл бұрын

@@Aurora-oe2qpyeah i've learned that since this comment is old

@jamesrodriguez3593 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nerdwriter1, awesome job here it's great to pay a tribute to the most amazing spectacular creative and artistic band of all time

@zacharywilson9596 5 жыл бұрын

I love your video essays. You're great at bringing them full circle for maximum effect - you talk about how you like to concentrate on the music and not the visual at the beginning, and then at the end you come full circle by saying how the Beatles knew that all music was invisible. Brilliant!

@emmanuelortega3708 7 жыл бұрын

This is such a good video, I've watched it like 4 times, and absolutely love it, especially the ending

@Avalyn_Wu 9 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. I've always enjoyed what an album cover can bring to music but sadly a lot of people don't pay as much attention. Happy to know that you have something to say about the matter. Keep up the awesome work!

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

ASENBAISEN Will do.

@99thTuesday 9 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that primarily the cover is not a Band using Art to make commentary but an Artist using the Band to make commentary, albeit with the Band's permission and collaboration. What I mean to say is that the Pop Art movement in Visual Arts had been around for years before the Beatles and at least a decade before Sgt. Pepper. The Beatles were genuinely experiencing their commodification but chose to tap into an existing visual movement to express this, while their music continued to break other musical barriers. Maybe the Visual Arts had become radicalised earlier than Music and so had the maturity as an artform to convey the necessary critique or maybe it was just another string in the bow of what the Beatles wanted to achieve.

@davidc3857 7 жыл бұрын

Evan, you're a brilliant writer and commentary! You've got an amazing gift to see past the obvious and into the core of our brains, I salute you! I'm somewhat amazed that you're not a commentator on a weekly news forum on television, but at the same time I'm glad that you're here to give us your views and thoughts on contemporary issues and art. 😀

@beesareLameWasps 4 жыл бұрын

Man, your videos give me chills. awesome pacing, visuals and analysis.

@MinorCirrus 7 жыл бұрын

You MUST do the same with Pink Floyd (and Hipgnosis as a whole). You HAFTA.

@CloroxBleach-cq7tj 4 жыл бұрын

Dark Side is the most iconic Album Cover

@jibran2846 4 жыл бұрын

@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj it's definitely up there, but I think Abbey road, Sgt pepper, and mj's 'bad' album are too.

@jibran2846 4 жыл бұрын

@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj also nevermind is pretty noteworthy.

@jorgecurti8712 8 жыл бұрын

Almost cried in the end.

@KonflictYT 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing video, I was so captivated. The visuals of your videos are awesome, and the commentary is very intriguing. Had me interested from the very start until the very end.

@gewhizz985 5 жыл бұрын

that ending literally made me cry. so beautifully put together. -thank you

@luizantonio1050 8 жыл бұрын

The velvet underground and nico it's my favorite album cover

@RumtumtuggerTB 8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful cover, beautiful album

@proletar-ian 8 жыл бұрын

+Luiz Antonio It is a work by Andy Warhol, in case you didn't know. He's an interesting character.

@onwun4292 8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Henderson Could you give me your opinions on why that cover is good ? I don't know that much about Andy Warhol.

@rauleao 8 жыл бұрын

I think the cover of TVU&N is more iconic than Sgt. Peppers

@tasoskontogiannis8260 8 жыл бұрын

+Luiz Antonio And it came out first, Beatle's album came out later that year.

@santaco1125 8 жыл бұрын

by far the most interesting video about the Beatles I have ever seen!!!!

@chrisbeal2804 7 жыл бұрын

This blew my mind. Thank you so much for making this

@yourfrienddea 6 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant!! Gave me chills in the ending. Keep doing what you do.

@kichigan1 6 жыл бұрын

The most intelligent, informed and well-presented review of album covers I've seen.

@Averg_ 8 жыл бұрын

Wow....I'm just speechless, this is a great video.

@micharekosiewicz8660 4 жыл бұрын

Man, your video popped up on my recommendations list several weeks ago and I watched it out of curiosity. After watching the whole video I started to actually listen to the Beatles, which I have never done before (I didn't like their early stuff and I thought it's the only thing they did). OMG have I listened to anything else since then! I became a fanatic at this point, thank you so much for properly introducing me to the Beatles!

@alextakacs768 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clear, right to the point presentation! Cannot ask for any better, explaining their Master Piece in so much detail is a huge plus! Thanks again i will share this multiple times!!

@ABadgerDoctor 7 жыл бұрын

What was that first into song, that was just an eargasm.

@liza19972009 7 жыл бұрын

Did you find it?

@doodle2763 5 жыл бұрын

The cover of Sgt peppers is absolutely amazing

@AhmadHamizanVEVO 7 жыл бұрын

this video essay gave me goosebumps at the end. brilliantly presented. keep up the good work. best content on youtube.

@Maffo__ 4 жыл бұрын

this was fantastically well put toghether! honestly great work

@dmacmcmanus95 8 жыл бұрын

4:03 haha paul is 64! like if you understand.

@jesusm7728 6 жыл бұрын

OMG I have seen it thousands of times in the vinyl but never noticed it

@worschtee1 6 жыл бұрын

Totally done on purpose I'm sure ;-)

@alundberg 9 жыл бұрын

Have you ever played Journey (the videogame) ? It's rather short for a videogame but an amazing philosophical experience as well. I think you would dig it. :)

@Jess-pp4xb 6 жыл бұрын

Dude you smashed this topic good job!!! This was very amazing I’ve looked into the album cover often before but this is great!!

@randomgamers2914 3 жыл бұрын

Dude I got chills at the end but this video explains everything to people you did amazing

@SteelersCardinals1 8 жыл бұрын

"One of those covers where it's just a photograph of the Band." Ha!

@BallotBoxer 9 жыл бұрын

Great video essay! However, I couldn't go along with the speculation at the end. "The third depiction of the band is invisible" line felt like too much of a stretch to bookend the video.

@joshlee1090 9 жыл бұрын

BallotBoxer I didn't think it was a bookend as much as it was the point of the entire video.

@BallotBoxer 9 жыл бұрын

Wellll, I'd say the point of the video was about a popular band leading leading a new trend in inventive album art. Not the preference for music to be heard, rather than seen.

@joshlee1090 9 жыл бұрын

BallotBoxer Yes, but the trend you and the video are speaking about was the progression from unseen(pre-album art), to seen, to parody of being seen.

@popc5245 9 жыл бұрын

BallotBoxer I think the exact words he used are what make it not as a convincing argument as everything else, i try to refraised for myself i think i can cacth better what was trying to say

@Nerdwriter1 9 жыл бұрын

Josh Paulson I like both sides of this argument.

@alecmcgrathofcanada9175 6 жыл бұрын

I keep watching this... over and over. Fuels my inspiration, and continually reinforces my love for The Beatles.

@sicboi 6 жыл бұрын

Sublime video. I remember as a kid, just staring for ages over and over again at his album cover of the vinyl my parents had. I suspect it was this cover and the album then listening to it later, that is responsible for my introduction into music. thank you so much for this video.