ahh I see

You could have stopped at the first eleven words. They say it all.

Listen to the entire White Albua must.must.

I feel bad for all of the people who grew up after the era of the album.

The first metal song.

For some reason I always thought that was George

It's John.

Don't know for sure, but I thought that sounded like John too.

@@rbmtn4879 it's Ringo

@@danallanson5990 It's 100% Ringo as any simple Internet search would tell you 😉 (no reason for Lennon to be shouting it anyway)

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Ozzy Osbourne says he thinks “Helter Skelter” is the first heavy metal song. 🤘🏽

He did it years before in Songs like "Long tall Sally" (1964), "She's a woman" (1964) or "I'm down" (1965).

Watch out!, There's this dude, "dsfddsgh", who really disagrees with that! He's been hounding me about it. I guess I really hit a nerve saying exactly what you said, except I didn't mention "Black Sabbath".

I’ve always thought of this as the first punk song.

imagine how the people in the 60s felt. specially older people. if "she loves you" or "help" was "too loud" or "too hard" or "that noise kids are into these days" to parents and grandparents, imagine their face when this came out.

when i'm super-surprised by something, i get stuck for words

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They are fantastic

They actually got quite a lot of heavy songs.

The last 3 minutes of I Want You (She’s So Heavy) are essentially the blueprint for doom metal

This wasn't the first heavy metal song. Anything off of the 1st Jimi Hendrix Experience album is as hard as this and Blue Cheer's version of Summertime Blues is way heavier and is truly a heavy metal song.

@@dsfddsgh Here, I got a couple of quotes for you that I looked up on google, just for this purpose. #1.(in heavy black print) "Considered BY MANY to be the first heavy metal song in history" #2. Swiss industrial black metal band "Samael" covered the song on their 2017 album "Hegemony" with a music video in 2021 where they credit "Helter Skelter" as being the "first song ever recorded". So, as factual as your info. maybe be, what I had stated in my original comment has a firm foundation, according to google anyway. I know that what you said about "Blue Cheer" (named after a detergent, that's great) "Summertime Blues", does happen to be also stated as the first metal song but, maybe it was because they weren't that well known in the mainstream, I mean, both songs came out in the same year (1968) but, The Beatles had already been a band for at least 8 years at that point and were the biggest thing going at the time. Jimi Hendrix? Well, he pretty much just got his career started with the whole "The Jimi Hendrix Experiment", (YES I KNOW HE WAS WORKING BEFORE THEN) and once again The Beatles were already a well established band here in the states. The Beatles formed in 1960, well before these other 2 and they came through like a hurricane, you can't really say that the other 2 had that kind of impact. Sorry so long but, lots to say on the matter. I think, The Beatles got that recognition because of always being under a microscope, ya know what I mean, always keyed up to what's next by them. Anyway, yeah, I just put down what I find so, it's not that I'M WRONG, It's what's on the net., and everybody has their opinions however, again, this IS NOT MY OPINION, it's what I found on the internet.

@@seiraeiramasil2302 Why does it matter how well known or when the Beatles started as a band the question is what was the first metal song or artist not when Jimi Hendrix started his band or how well known Blue Cheer were.

I see there are uncult musical guys. This is the first metal song. Why? To make heavy metal u need at least 4 (not 3) musicians : a drum, a bass, a lead guitar and a rhythmic guitar. Even Hendricks Experience did similar things it cannot be heavy metal. Maybe hard rock, or psychedelic (the right choosen) but not heavy metal . If u wanna talk about music (30 years Dj and many bands) call me....

And the cherry on the cake : Black Sabbath was in 1968 the beginners of hard rock, not heavy. Find me in 1968 something similar as Healter Skelter.... With 4 musicians. Good luck :)

You are right, the term "heavy metal" didn't exist, I KNOW because I was 21 years old in 1968 and listened to the radio a LOT, plus I worked in the record (vinyl) department at Higbee's Dept. Store during breaks and summer breaks when I was a student at Kent State.

The Beatles music is surprisingly filled with death and violence, e.g. Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Revolation no.9(played backwards), Helter Skelter(backwards) and Its Getting Better are just a few. There are some strange connections with The Beatles! look up The Winged Beatle and look into their ties with Tavistock and The Church of The Final Judgment of The End Times(Manson was involved with them)

This is a dark and threatening-sounding song about a playground slide. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is a bouncy, cheerful-sounding song about a serial killer.

@@Steve_Stowers You can see a picture of the Helter Skelter amusement park ride on line. Simply a light house shaped structure with a slide winding around it.

@@Steve_Stowers and the song can metaphorically describe the intense ride of chaos= "Helter Skelter"

​@@knightscroftsquire-muldoonRun for your life*

ABSOLUTELY!!!

Thank you my friend, a simple but most intelligent response with no labels or parroting others to conveniently categorize this song into a musical preference, versatile being the key word here or using "they say" as a qualifier...

Same in Hamburg, Germany :)

There are many musicians in their 70s (including those that have passed aged 70+ - eg. Lemmy) who play metal in their 70s. For up to 2 1/2 hours A NIGHT.

US audiences get crazy over everything, so that's not saying much.

He still does it at 80 and sounds great!

Yes, the Beatles were masters at contrasts.

The White Album remastered has got the bluesy version. There's supposed to be a 26min version out there somewhere 🙂

@@robertmills8640 Oooh!

@@AlBarzUK Just what I'd heard. It's a 26min jam session. That where the "I've Got Blisters on My Fingers" comes from. Ringo was worn out by the hard drumming during it.

Forgot about that slide...plus it as you say, was in response to the Who, and people thinking the Beatles couldn't do this kind of music, according to a McCartney interview I saw...the hindsight Heavy Metal label is overplayed and parroting others as far as I'm concerned. there were so many other bands even form the 1960's that one could say contributed to the decades long morph wave into "Heavy Metal." Labels, labels, labels...yawn...always can depend on Rick N Backer for the facts without all the labels and parroting!

@@thomastimlin1724 Happy New Year Thomas🍻 My older brother who was around 15 in 1966 has always claimed that The Seeds were the 1st Heavy Metal band. Do you remember them? They had a couple big hits with Pushing To Hard and Can't Seem To Make You Mine. He drove my Mom nuts playing the Seeds over and over again. I thought they sounded pretty dreadful. But I was only 7 at the time. Take care my friend, Rick

Everyone used to say John Lennon was the rocker and Paul McCartney was the crooner, but nothing is further from the truth, because Paul proved many times that he can rock and John proved he could sing the most romantic music.

@@josephtingley654 100 % correct.....it was always RIDICULOUS putting each of them in one niche.....they could do it all

That is SO ridiculous, I was 16/17 years old when the Beatles arrived here in the U.S. and I certainly was NO GRANDMOTHER at that time, and I LOVED all of Paul's music, sweet, screamy, rocking, however his voice would sound on all of them. I AM a grandmother NOW, but back then during their popularity and time as a group, I was 16 through 23 years old when they broke up in 1970

Oh wow really

It’s not based on a roller coaster. A helter skelter in the uk is a tall lighthouse-shaped building with a chute running concentrically around the outside, from the top to the bottom. You experience great acceleration until you suddenly stop at the bottom. It’s exhilarating: Hence the line, “when I get to the bottom, I go back to the top!”.

@@jimimev You are absolutely correct! I have BEEN on one, when I was in England many years ago. There are photos of it on line.

@@THEJAYYSHOW As JIM MEV in the comment below me stated. Helter Skelter is not the name of a roller coaster. It is the name of an amusement park ride that JIM MEV describes in his comment. I rode one years ago when I was in England.

Have you also heard Paul's "MONKBERRY MOON DELIGHT"? Talk about a "full throated screamer" ! That's exactly what "Monkberry..." IS!!

@@patticrichton1135 yes, that's another excellent , crazy Paul song, from his excellent Ram album.

Yep back when he could sing

@@sarahfullerton6894 IT SURE IS, and I LOVE IT!!!....

@@patticrichton1135 same here! I love the versatility, the depth of sound, and the added counter-melody Paul sort of scat-sings in the middle-to-end of the song! Adds another beautiful layer to it!

Not just “The Fool on the Hill”😁

I had Fun!