The Beatles, Nowhere Man - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction / Excerpts

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The Beatles, Nowhere Man - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction / Excerpts

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2 ай бұрын

#thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #georgeharrison #ringostarr #virginrock
How nice that the 50th song is this series feels like such a landmark moment! I truly enjoyed this lovely piece, as it puts John’s melody-writing skills on full display.
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@1967PONTIACGTO 2 ай бұрын

As an 11 year old, I bought the 45, got home, and played Nowhere Man in our rec room over and over again for over an hour... somewhere in the middle of hour #2 my father screamed down at me from upstairs to "turn that bloody thing off!".. and so I did.

@Hartlor_Tayley 2 ай бұрын

Welcome to the middle period Beatles. This song was a game changer in a year of game changers. John’s Dylan obsession is evident here. Everyone talked about this song. The plaintive chords and rhythm with introspective lyrics and natural melody. So many elements that might have started with Dylan but the magical Beatle treatment is just beyond what others were doing in a pop format. Interesting that the music doesn’t really go anywhere and just sort of ruminates around in this feeling, this style would be expanded upon by many artists especially the Grateful Dead with melodic guitar solos and of course Dylan himself. You can feel in this song that something was changing, Everyone felt it and it was happening in music. The Beatles were the most noticeable and reflected much of the changes in their songs. This was an important song and you did a wonderful and long analysis, you picked up the subtle things that make this song and the folk rock of the period so special. Thanks Virgin Rock great job !

@buddyneher9359 2 ай бұрын

"the Magical Beatles Treatment (TM)" yep. Often imitated, never duplicated!

@LeeKennison 2 ай бұрын

I love that sustained harmonic in this one. The icing on the cake of an already great song.

@Hartlor_Tayley 2 ай бұрын

@@LeeKennison it is the icing on the cake. Its kind of the high point of the song

@jasonremy1627 2 ай бұрын

Rubber Soul is a unique album in the Beatles catalog. It's got a real folk-rock vibe

@LeeKennison 2 ай бұрын

Congratulations on reaching the 1/3 mark in the series. A great and iconic song to mark this milestone. You are making good progress, although to put things in perspective we have two more years of Beatles songs to look forward to at a rate of one episode per week, in order to get through the remaining 100. Interesting that this is seen as a transitional song for Lennon, moving into a more philosophical phase, and Paul saying they were starting to gain more freedom in doing what they wanted to do. Likely a big part of why this is considered a landmark album. Great commentary and observations, such as on how despite this being Lennon's work, it doesn't have his signature triplets or melisma techniques. Great reaction!

@XFLexiconMatt 2 ай бұрын

I have always identified with "Nowhere Man", I think most people have felt like they were going Nowhere and felt like they were stuck at various points in their lives. Amazing vocals.

@rodneygriffin7666 2 ай бұрын

It's a bittersweet song for me. Even now, sometimes I feel like a Nowhere Man. I have to remind myself that the world is at my command. Or at least, my own life is. I was born in 1965, the year this album was released. ✌️♥️🍏

@yutopia7 Ай бұрын

21:52 as you articulated this section it immediately brought me back to the moment I heard this song the first time. That background vocals is “so painful it’s beautiful!” Yes oh my god, that brought me tears. The Beatles are so magical and I really love listening to your analysis.

@iamtoothewalrus 2 ай бұрын

I remember being very young, and this song being played in a Yellow Submarine scene along with the Jeremy character. It broke my 8 year old heart.

@markfilla9305 2 ай бұрын

Yes! I've always associated this song with Yellow Submarine. And the context in which it's used is so sad and poignant.

@reneolthof6811 2 ай бұрын

Nowhere Man as a landmark is an excellent choice. Their live rendition was groundbreaking!

@Bassman2353 2 ай бұрын

Maturity. No musical tricks. Simply a gorgeous song about introspection. Think about the connection of the lyrics to this from Strawberry Fields Forever: "I think ah no. I mean, oh yes - but it's all wrong. That is, I think I disagree". Nowhere Man indeed. And George's solo is an impressionistic sound painting of the melody - just close enough, but just slightly different (the ending harmonic is perfect). A giant step forward in their musical and lyrical growth. Did you also notice that the previous song on the album was "You Won't See Me" and the lyric "Can you see me at all" in this is an echo? No idea if one influenced the other or if it's another example of how Lennon and McCartney shared the same wavelength.

@davidgagne3569 2 ай бұрын

Glad you are going through these sequentially. In those days, when we heard Nowhere Man Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane and Hey Jude and Tomorrow Never Knows hadn't come into existence. As time went on and new Beatles songs came to be it was always so exciting to here the new song. We never knew what to expect. But we knew it would be really good.

@stlmopoet 2 ай бұрын

Glad you're getting into the more substantive songs. I even love the early stuff, but I know you're looking for more depth. Your insights are appreciated, as always. Thanks for teaching me more about things I thought I already knew.

@sombra1111 2 ай бұрын

It was a brand new sound back then. There was nothing like it.

@ronrago2696 2 ай бұрын

Rubber Soul was a gift to me when I was like 15 and started my Journey into the Beatles. Thank you Joanne, RIP.

@IvorPresents 2 ай бұрын

1965 and I was seventeen when this came out. a year before they had released, "A Hard Days Night" in 1964. So when Rubber Soul came out, I had to get it. Every song broke new ground.

@martinrenzhofer8241 2 ай бұрын

I truly loved the way you concluded the video. I've been there, waiting and lost, and usually someone has given me a hand.

@susanaltman5134 2 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed your musical and lyrical breakdown. The lyrics are compassionate, at a time when counter-cultural types were becoming increasingly condescending to those "less enlightened" than them. John's feeling for the Nowhere Man really elevates this song!

@squidkid2 2 ай бұрын

After the acapella intro and the end of the first verse the little guitar part in the background plays the melody and resolves it in a more conventional way as you expected. That little guitar detail is important because that's what resolves the melody and removes the tension from the way the vocal line ends. And don't get me started on the brilliant way the bridge modulates to a minor feel. I think one of the truly masterful things about Lennon and MacCartney's songwriting are the bridges. They are like a fancy icing on an otherwise basic cake. Without those bridges the songs would be so much more pedestrian but with them they become timeless classics. It's part of the magic of their songwriting.

@rhwinner 2 ай бұрын

John and Paul told the recording eng's to 'turn up the treble' on the guitars. That's the max, they said. John was like, we need more treble. So they fed the tape back into the machine and turned up the treble, post recording. They had to do this twice to get the effect John was after. If you listen to the track, you can hear how 'trebly' the guitars are.

@rewquioprewquiop 2 ай бұрын

So great to hear articulated why I enjoy this material so much. I have never joined anyone's patreon page, but I might just have to take the leap with you guys. In the vacuum that is KZfaq, there is a place with substance...and it is here.

@andymccabe6712 2 ай бұрын

Er..... don't you mean 'vacuous'... !?!? .... although, with 30 Million + uploads a day... there's a HUGE amount of amazing stuff here.... !!!!

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Virtuostic tumbling down. Amy, you are a treasure.

@voodooacidman 2 ай бұрын

please never stop being amazing! big love to all people :)

@jenscee7679 2 ай бұрын

Wait until you hear the harmonies on Because…

@yes_head 2 ай бұрын

This may have been the first psychedelic song from any group. My first exposure to this song was in the "Yellow Submarine" movie, and it was only much later that I learned it actually dated back to 1965! I thought it fit perfectly in "Yellow Submarine", with the psychedelic lyrics and overdriven guitar breaks that predated Jimi Hendrix. The only downer is that the Beatles just couldn't quite pull it off in concert, not that the screaming fans could tell anyways. The only thing I'd disagree with Amy about is that there's no instrumental hook. Those strident guitar leads were radically bright and in your face for 1965, and grabbed my attention the first time I heard them. It just blows my mind that this was recorded in October of 1965 and six months later they'd be working on "Tomorrow Never Knows". The Beatles were on a roll!

@eduardocervantesaca 2 ай бұрын

I leaned to speak English through these songs. I vividly remember holding the red album. I was 7 or 8. I would read the lyrics and sing along. Somehow I really started to pick up English words. They became mine deep inside, just like their songs.

@wesleyrodgers886 2 ай бұрын

A lennon song. A delightful lennon song. 😊😊😊😊

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Can you imagine? A choir could perform this song, each instrument gets a singer and of course the choir multi-tracks the harmonies. I always considered this song perfect for pure accappella. Jesus give me a choir!

@celt67 2 ай бұрын

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@andymccabe6712 2 ай бұрын

My mind is still blown by the MASSIVE contrast between me.. Knowing this song SO well after 50+ years hearing it..... and Amy - hearing it for the first time...!!! It's so familiar that, if it was playing as Muzak in a supermarket... I probably wouldn't even hear it.....!!!

@gustavogutierrezsuarez2051 2 ай бұрын

Lennon's Nowhere man and Dylan's Mr. Tambourine man are like twin poetic experiences

@manny4552 2 ай бұрын

Another stunning lennon song.

@richardfehlmann4593 2 ай бұрын

I was waiting for this 😃👍🏻

@bertram2505 2 ай бұрын

Me too!

@DeadheadYates 2 ай бұрын

One of my all time favorites by them, my sister amd I grew up watching a VHS tape of Yellow Submarine and this song/the character of Jeremy Hillary Phd. will always remind me of her

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Just as my Virgo critic was about to type "Amy, you are missing a crucial aspect of this song..." she uttered the word "tenderness".

@carlproctor9101 2 ай бұрын

Virgo ♍ me 2

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

@@carlproctor9101 - Shadow Virgos are OCD Critics. Good Virgos do the shitework and strategies and organizing and cleaning and engineering and ask for no credit.

@Vrealita 2 ай бұрын

Now it begins

@altair8598 2 ай бұрын

That was great, Amy. A couple of things I take from this, 1) it is another example of Beatle member comes up with song idea-the others serve the song-democratic agreement regards the finished product (with George Martin), 2) John goes gentle on the Nowhere Man; the exact opposite is Bob Dylan on Ballad of a Thin Man. He excoriates him!

@calichamber 2 ай бұрын

This is a song I never get tired to listen to. Rubber Soul is my favourite Beatles' album. Regards,

@zzzaphod8507 2 ай бұрын

There is a typical Beatlesque trait in here--the "three times and out" ending (which has been done before, Schubert Impromptu Op 142 No 3 for example).

@bobtaylor170 2 ай бұрын

As George Gershwin said, "We only steal from the best."

@mattymcmatterson3007 2 ай бұрын

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@roryinparadise 2 ай бұрын

I never noticed the melodic similarity to ‘Across the Universe’ until you played it on the harp. I loved your description of the taunt nature of the vocal line and harmonies. Really enjoy your breakdowns of music that impacted me greatly in my youth, thanks for doing what you do. God bless.

@douglasbarrera951 2 ай бұрын

Amy I’m glad you are starting to notice one of the major differences between Paul and John. John has an elite way of conveying emotions with his voice and lyrics. Paul is more musical and instrumentalist

@alundavies1016 2 ай бұрын

My Dad played the guitar a bit, and loved the Beatles, and this was one of his favourite songs to play.

@marty48 2 ай бұрын

Great analysis. I think you are going to enjoy the big development they had in this album and the next two or three

@Jaxy451 2 ай бұрын

It's starting to get more interesting. The Beatles from here on starts getting my attention. Before this period, not so much. It will still take a couple of albums till I'm truly on board with this band.

@babyfacemichael1 2 ай бұрын

Love video Amy of a really beautiful song . The song Nowhere Man applies to everyman , it just does. Perhaps when you have done some more songs, you could do the animation ` Yellow Submarine` 1968 film on Amys Cut , it is also a fabulous piece of work.

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Ebb and flow, like the ocean.

@cojaysea 2 ай бұрын

Classic Beatles album Rubber Soul . Classic Lennon song Nowhere Man . The harmony and the vocals are so good .

@PaulBrown-kg3qw 2 ай бұрын

Your reviews are very informative and entertaining

@richardfehlmann4593 2 ай бұрын

Wow, so great to hear your thoughts on this iconic Beatles songs, one of my favourites! Downward spiral quality of the melody ... so well put 👌 I love to follow your explanations while you're going through it on the harp 👍 Our ears are not catched by a riff but instead by the voices, stringent observation I never thought about 🤔 Multiple vocals setting in, that's also what I love so much. This tension with the two crashing chords ... yeah, that's what pleases the ears there so much. The spark by the guitar going from top to the bottom note is also something I enjoy every time 😃👌❤️🎸 Thank you for this fascinating reaction again 👌😃 Can't wait for the next one 😊👋

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Dear Paulie: There are no boring circumstances, only bored minds. I Saw Her Standing There is high in my repertoire.

@bobwoolerOriGinal 2 ай бұрын

Nowhere Man was recorded before You Won't See Me👍

@bobtaylor170 2 ай бұрын

NM late '64/early '65; YWSM, late '65.

@menopausalmusician414 2 ай бұрын

My Favorite Group and My Favorite Channel. Peace

@stertim 2 ай бұрын

I have heard this song for about 100 years, but until you replicated George's guitar hook line( without the rhythm) on the harp, I never noticed how close that is to 'strawberry fields'. Did anyone else catch that( 39:58)?

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Long John Baldrey does a fantastic version of "in the pines...". He's a Brit performer from the sixties. That's the version I first learned and it is brimming with soul.

@BigSky1 2 ай бұрын

He was.

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

@@BigSky1 - Nice to know that anybody else knows who Long John is.

@richardrobinson4020 2 ай бұрын

Geroge Martin's contributions can not be overstated

@ifandwhen-kl2cr Ай бұрын

Now notice from this song forward chronologically how John’s obsession with Carroll becomes more and more evident to the ears.

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

"...bass walking around..." - yup.

@gabrielfalcao3760 2 ай бұрын

Finally!!

@Eduardo-Ferreira1982 2 ай бұрын

I really would love someone react to the studio version of Crucifixion, by Phil Ochs. Don't have money nor hope, but here's my greatest desire.

@AlonzoTG 2 ай бұрын

The Nowhere Man is a character in the movie of Yellow Submarine and has his own animated sequence. =P

@dVb9 2 ай бұрын

I think this is actually number 51, as you counted two songs as number 45: "I've Just Seen a Face" and "Yesterday".

@user-zd3ll4mm1d Ай бұрын

私は70歳　このLPをレコードの版が擦り切れるほど聴きました。

@fernandodeleon7466 2 ай бұрын

I can't help thinking of The fool on the hill by Paul,and if Amy would remind NM by the time she discover it

@terben7339 2 ай бұрын

It's time for another Beatles' cover. Let me recommend a different version of Help! by John Farnham with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

@deborah9454 2 ай бұрын

Have you ever talked with Paul McCartney? I would love to hear a conversation with you and Sir Paul

@asmo_1929 2 ай бұрын

I think you should react to something like Dream Theater - Octavarium, it's a metal band with ambitious harmonies and structure, I think your analysis would be very insightful

@grahamtravers4522 Ай бұрын

It's a couple of weeks since I watched this, but I've been thinking about it since. You remark that John doesn't use triplets. Musically, that may be so; but, have you considered the rhythm of the lyrics ? For example, "He's a real / no-where man / sitt-ing in / his nowhere land / mak-ing all / his nowhere plans / for no-body." Don't you think these are triples, if not actual triplets ? [BTW, you have yet to reach it, but I think Paul's "Fool on the Hill" may be his response to this song.]

@dougsusie2319 2 ай бұрын

Sorry, I hit send by mistake. In the States we on "Rubber Soul" there was no "Drive My Car", " Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone". We Got 3 "Help" tracks "I've Just Seen A Face", " It's Only Love" and

@metaltildeth6783 2 ай бұрын

Hey Amy. I would like to suggest another Jimi Hendrix song for you to listen and react to. This song was recorded live four months before Jimi's death in 1970. The song is called 'Machine Gun'. There are more than a few versions but my person favorite is the "Live at Berkeley, 2nd show, 10PM" recording. While I love Jimi's studio albums, many of his Live album recordings show you a part of Jimi the studio records do not always capture. Please listen to this song, whether you react to it online or not. It is a very powerful piece.

@epikourosallebook790 2 ай бұрын

ΤΗΕ EVOLUTION IS PERSONIFIED ON THIS SONG

@strathman7501 2 ай бұрын

I like your generous interpretation of "Nowhere man, don't worry..." etc, but I've always taken that to be sardonic: "Take your time, don't hurry, leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand", or in other words, "get up and get going, *don't* expect other people to give you the world on a plate." BTW, I've never before noticed a connection between this and You Won't See Me but now that you mention it I do hear what you mean. Could be. I think Nowhere Man came first in Oct 1965 and YWSM was recorded a few weeks later.

@bobtaylor170 2 ай бұрын

YWSM was definitely late '65, but though I may well be wrong, I think NM was late '64/early '65.

@johnbyrnes7912 2 ай бұрын

@@bobtaylor170 nay bob nm was late 65 as Lennon was having trouble finding inspiration for Rubber Soul now that they had a short time to do a whole Xmas album. 95%certain . 🤡

@billmueller4851 2 ай бұрын

In 1965 John Lennon wrote the song “Help” followed by the song “Nowhere Man” to me both of those songs two was Lennon question life’s meaning the state of the world. He was questioning what am I doing, is it purposeful and where do I go from here. Paul was the bubble gum music writer, George was becoming the mystical - religious writer and John had become wrapped up in the world and politics. For him the days of writing light and snappy love songs was coming to an end. I think this holds out in the later songs that were released. They had become less collaborating on their song writing and more individualized in what the songs represented. In 1966 they stopped making live tours so 1965 was the start of an evolution the Beatles as a group and more as individuals. Less harmony in their songs and more lead singing with the rest of the group playing backup. It just seems to me starting with “Help” that is what John was asking for, help me find life’s meaning.

@Scowinon123 2 ай бұрын

“Paul was the bubble gum music writer”. Wow. Are you talking about Paul McCartney? You know… the guy who is in the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful singer/ songwriter/ musician of all time.

@billmueller4851 2 ай бұрын

Paul wrote the pop rock love songs, when I was young, some 60 years ago that is what is was called. Just like in the 1950’s the music was called sock hop rock because it was played at school dances in the gym and you had to have your shoes off.

@tonytjandra4798 2 ай бұрын

Apart from The Beatles who have a song called Because, Julian Lennon ( son of John Lennon ) also has a song with the same title, namely Because. Thank's.

@user-xq7mh5kg6bvvf3 2 ай бұрын

Hello Virgin rock! I recently subscribed to your channel, and I saw that you reacted to just one Iron Maiden song. I would like to suggest some other pieces that I think deserve attention. I'll tell you a couple: "Afraid to shoot strangers", and "Empire of the cloud". Greetings from Italy!

@mightyV444 2 ай бұрын

@Vlad: PLEASE include 'Blue Jay Way' in this list of 150 Beatles songs! 😃🙏

@gustavofaveronpatriau1816 2 ай бұрын

If we listen to songs following the track list order, without knowing when they were written/recorded, we have no serious way of talking about “landmarks”. And how is this more of a landmark than Yesterday or Norwegian Wood?

@dougsusie2319 2 ай бұрын

I can never choose a favorite Beatles song but this way way up there along with "Here Comes The Sun". I can't explain it except for I can feel it in my heartstrings and through my whole body. Very few songs hit me like this and same with " Here Comes The Sun". The perfect song, perfectly played, perfect lyrically and sung. Goose bump material. In the States I had the single at age eight when it was released. This song was not on "Rubber Soul" in the States. Capitol Records ripped us off, talk about grifting money, it took Trump to equal them. In the UK you got 14 tracks (except with "Help") which had 13 tracks.

@fredneecher1746 2 ай бұрын

It was A Hard Day's Night that had 13 tracks in the UK. Help! had the usual 14.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

It BEGINS as three-part harmony _acapella._

@patricklarkin6936 Ай бұрын

the anna frank of music ,

@THEREALDANNYD 2 ай бұрын

You didn't play the notes of the melody on your harp! All I heard were fragments, with missing notes. I'm sure KZfaq wouldn't mind if you played isolated phrases. That would be considered acceptable as an analysis.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

Lennon's lyrics were often "plain" conversational. "Ticket to Ride" is a more prominent instance. That also has Lennon's nasal sonority as a kind of continual "hum" tht ties all the word-sounds together.

@EddieReischl 2 ай бұрын

Even though I give McCartney a slight edge for me personally in liking their music, Lennon really shines on Rubber Soul. I really love the guitar break in this song, and even though this song isn't technically an anthem, I think playing a melody-inspired guitar bit reinforces that you want people to sing along with the band, which we pretty much always do when it comes to the Beatles. Imagine how bad/distracting it would be to hear a bunch of testosterone and a string of 32nd notes instead in that space. It would make it almost impossible for a listener to get back into the rhythm that the singing has set up. George serves the song the same way Ringo does.

@-Luka-Brazi 2 ай бұрын

Pfft! Yeah…sure! You have never heard this music before. I hear this music several times a year, the grocery store is playing it, the shopping mall, the car radio and THEY’RE THE BEATLES!

@GerdBurghardt 2 ай бұрын

When did you the single A-side "Day Tripper"?

@BigSky1 2 ай бұрын

She didn’t

@Hartlor_Tayley 2 ай бұрын

Gotta do Day Tripper ! It’s the flip side of this incredible 45.

@patricknelson5151 2 ай бұрын

I am thinking Vlad may be holding off on that one until the end of the album, in order to highlight the evolving guitar sound between Day Tripper and Paperback Writer, songs recorded only about 6 months apart.

@PartTimeBuddhist 2 ай бұрын

Initially, I used to think of "Nowhere Man" as John's sort of hokey attempt to do a Dylanesque "social commentary" song like "Ballad of a Thin Man," complete with faux-poetic syntax that Dylan himself probably would have avoided ("knows not where he's going to"). You know, a first attempt, one that maybe wasn't too profound lyrically, but was certainly arresting musically. However, when I heard John explain that he mostly wrote the song about himself, I found it taking on a more moving, and more powerful quality, one that Dylan songs rarely reach, at least for me. Dylan seemed to spend a lot of time pointing a finger at someone else, but John, in attempting to write that kind of song, instead ended up writing a song about how lost and pathetic he felt inside. And I relate to that a lot more! Also, as a piece of music, it sounds like it's gliding on a magic fluffy cloud, which Dylan songs, for all their virtues, rarely do.

@rodneygriffin7666 2 ай бұрын

Jeremy in the Yellow Submarine movie.😞🙂

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Ascend, descend, repeat.

@richardfehlmann4593 2 ай бұрын

Usually melodies go downwards until they go upwards again and vice versa 😅👌

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

@@richardfehlmann4593 - HA! Another silly hoo-man rule to break. I know John, he knows me. Death is an illusion, surprise.

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

@@richardfehlmann4593 - I had actually never thought of that, it seems so obvious, now. Thank you.

@richardfehlmann4593 2 ай бұрын

@@dennismason3740 😅👍🏻

@fredneecher1746 2 ай бұрын

Some songs go straight for a while.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

At the time John said he'd been trying to write a song, and nothing was working. So he quit and went and lay down -- and the full song came spontaneously to mind. Paul doesn't actually have anything to contribute to the issue -- but he always tries to interject his self-importance where it has no actual part.

@stlmopoet 2 ай бұрын

Both men had good and bad qualities. Each had ways of being self important. Each had ways of being generous.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

@@stlmopoet John didn't butt in with comments about Paul's songs that hinted that he contributed where he did not. Honestly, the constant uncritical defensiveness of Paul is both childish and tiresome

@stlmopoet 2 ай бұрын

@@jnagarya519You're right. John only abandoned his first son who had to sue Yoko to inherit anything from his father. Everyone had good points and bad points.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

@@stlmopoet And Jane Asher broke up with Paul when she returned to HER home, where Paul was living, and found him in bed with another woman, while he would not have tolerated her sleeping around. And George traded Patti Boyd to Claton in exchange for Clapton's help in getting Patti's sister in bed. And George had an affair with Ringo's wife. And even when John, as example, helped George write a song ("Taxman"), George claimed solo credit and all the royalties. But none of that has anything to do with Paul implying he should be credited for participating in writing songs with which he actually had nothing to do.

@stlmopoet 2 ай бұрын

@@jnagarya519Everyone has faults. Mine is replying.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

Link these harmonies with the harmonies in "This Boy" and "Because". Again the aurality -- the overall SOUND -- being a principle aim. Writing for the EAR.

@Richard2003 2 ай бұрын

Are you skipping Day Tripper and The Night Before. Two of my favorites from the album.

@BigSky1 2 ай бұрын

She has skipped both of those.

@marty48 2 ай бұрын

None of them is in the album though. Day Tripper was a single. The Night Before was in Help!

@Richard2003 2 ай бұрын

She is doing the help album now. So where is the night before song?

@Richard2003 2 ай бұрын

@@marty48 I googled it and both songs are on the help album is what she's doing now

@marty48 2 ай бұрын

@@Richard2003 No, she is doing Rubber Soul now. She finished Help! but she didn't do The Night Before. She doesn't do every song

@bengerson7064 2 ай бұрын

You're right that John's melodies seem to be generated out of speech to the point that the two are inseparable. But the Beatles are such sparkling, clever, and proficient arrangers and performers that occasionally their gifts conceal the mediocrity of the underlying composition, which is the case here. The melody of the verse is trite and way below John's standard, the lyrics as well. The nice touches are, as you say, the adroit harmonies on the bridge, George's fabulous guitar solo and its trebly timbre (borrowed by Alex Chilton of the Box Tops), and the finale, which owes its melodrama to Jay and the Americans' "Cara Mia Mine" and Elvis's "It's Now or Never" (originally "O Sole Mio"), ending with a cha-cha-cha.

@dennisholzbaur3649 2 ай бұрын

Why can others review the Beatles and still play the song being reviewed?

@dennismason3740 2 ай бұрын

Amy is secretly writing songs! Naw, I don't know.

@loveandabcs 2 ай бұрын

Some Beatles songs seem like they could be written for children as well as adults, in both the music styling and the lyrics.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

It is psychological autobiography -- as Lennon would later characterize "Strawberry Fields Forever" -- but we get more bogus "genre" pigeonholing.

@charleskelly1887 2 ай бұрын

It does include one typical Beatlism, which is the A major to A minor.

@tgchism 2 ай бұрын

I still don't understand how you cannot play clips from a Beatles song due to KZfaq restrictions yet I can search "reaction" to any Beatles title and watch several reactions that include edited breaks in the songs! IMO, watching a Virgin Rock Beatles reaction is pointless.

@charlesberton2581 2 ай бұрын

"The world is at your command," to me, says that intention of the will collapses the ambiguity of random quantum mechanics.

@carcarjinks1430 2 ай бұрын

i can imagine that the song might be an easier listen if the instruments were lower in the mix. the vocal harmonies would stand out better.

@richardrobinson4020 2 ай бұрын

I have always taken it as how so many people might look at someone they consider to be a "nowhere man" and yet maybe the nowhere man is actually getting more out of life than those who are criticizing him.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

Lennon was dealing with the disorientation of the rush of success and fame -- and falling through that intended goal into a wholly unfamiliar psychological place.

@jnagarya519 2 ай бұрын

Lennon is the definition of aggressive/abrasive dissonance. McCartney is the definition of smooth -- "bluesy" -- half-steps/off notes. The differences in the two is the differences in their personalities.