Abbey Road Sessions First Impressions | Vinyl Rewind

[@bradfilms8278]

"And George was in there too".

[@shockzilla0364]

Ouch.

[@egthethird6081]

1:10

[@andydporter5136]

While recording 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' some guy outside the building complains about the noise and asks them to quieten down a little! Which prompts John to ask "What are they doing here at this time of night?"

[@helterskelter2927]

Paul says in the background, "Well, it's their fault for choosing a lousy district!" Edit: typo.

[@LordStarscream-]

John: "Well we'll try it once more very loud and then if we don't get it we'll try it quiet like it might do it the other way."

[@CBrolley]

Quieten?

[@andydporter5136]

@@CBrolley It's a bona-fide word. I'm not sure what you're getting at? It may be borderline tautological to tack on the "down" but still in my experience "quieten down" is a very common expression.

[@CBrolley]

@@andydporter5136 I notice on Google that quieten is a British verb. It’s an extremely obscure word here in America. That explains my confusion. I am not British. Nonetheless isn’t it easier just to say quiet down? The added “en” makes the word very awkward to say out loud. Now that I’ve said the word several times it’s starting to sound like one of those drugs we see advertised on television...”Take QUIETEN twice a day for fast relief from tinnitus.”

[@stevenfloury6351]

your channel is criminally underrated.

[@braydencoversbeatles4029]

It’s impossible not to smile when Paul says “let it be known unto the people”

[@rodrigomendonca1777]

“I’m loosing my cool”LENNON, John

[@claudec2588]

The Abbey Road Sessions make this purchase for me an absolute great buy. I don't agree with your final assessment. These 2 records are not meant to be an alternate to the finished product. They are an insight into the Beatles creative process. As such for me this is a great success. After hearing these two records I had to go out and buy the White Album Esher Tapes. By comparison I enjoyed the Abbey Road Session discs infinitely more than the Esher tapes. The final two instrumental tracks on side 4 were very poignant. The Beatles are gone, forever, and we are left with just the music. I loved the insertion of Her Majesty in the middle of the "Long one". It's a dramatic and effective break, and then back to the Rock of the medley.

[@maxlove8894]

This is by far the best remastered version of Beatles albums. Just everything sounds so much clearer and the main mix is much better. Billy’s keyboards were turned up which I was happy with. But the vocals were especially fantastic

[@thomascars1]

The Piano part of the Demo version of Something is the most gorgeous piano piece I’ve ever heard

[@timlazar9030]

yes, it was so beautiful, I wonder who was playing piano, Paul or John? Or George played it and over-dubbed the guitar later?

[@elmolewis9123]

The Beatles were never complete without George Martin. He was the magic ingredient.

[@themole2024]

Could not agree more. The magic was in the production.

[@rileyalt1251]

i’m a big fan of the Let it Be album, but i gotta say, without George Martin, it feels like something’s missing.

[@Gardosunron]

It was the four , Martin, and I would add Geoff Emerick.

[@whitsundaydreaming]

There may never be another moment in music quite like Abbey Road. In my opinion they saved their best till last. This production lets me peek in the studio and hear the inner workings of these masterpieces.

[@razorsharp6198]

From what I've been hearing so far, this sounds great! How lucky are we as Beatle fans to be able to hear outtakes and demos from songs we know and love?

[@ClarenceFisher]

I love it on the remix album when the brass really kicks in toward the end of "Carry That Weight". Goosebumps, folks.

[@joaobrunini99]

I always laugh when you say "You never gave me your money" instead of "you never give me your money"

[@LordStarscream-]

You never give me your coffee!

[@davidbanan.]

Whats funny enough for you to laugh about. That?

[@joaobrunini99]

@@davidbanan. him just getting the song title wrong I think is funny

[@darrinlawton2748]

I really enjoyed this analysis of arguably the greatest Beatles record.....thank you.

[@JOHNNYRADIO]

Excellent job walking us through these tracks! I love how you use the same word to describe the album as I do.. "magical"

[@GregWurth]

If anyone hasn't read "Solid State" by Kenneth Womack it's a great companion to have when listening to these sessions from the new Abbey Road boxset. So much information in there that helps understand what you're hearing even beyond the included book from this box set.

[@robfriedrich2822]

I can imagine that with "this is the last album we record" in the mind, they were relaxed a bit. When I stop to keep a relationship, I can do it differently, doesn't fight, haven't in mind "What is with the next album" and so

[@mjallenuk]

This is utterly fab and just what I needed. Thanks!

[@artist2739]

Love hearing these Abbey Road outtakes & demos!! (also fun to see the Apple Vinyl spinning!!)

[@prettyshinyspaghetti8332]

After 1964, with the exception of Let it Be, the Beatles rarely recorded their proper vocals at the same time as the backing track. Typically they sang along as a guide, and redid the vocals later. Hence why some tracks here have a "lack of feeling"

[@freebretth]

Paul's gibberish on the "Silver Hammer" take made me burst out laughing 🤣🤣🤣

[@rascal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you are so right. Great insights and thoughts

[@dixielandfarm]

It's a great set, really shows you how the songs come together (pun intended), plus my two favorite Paul demos that I had on boots for years...

[@mojojojojuniper6122]

I'm english the Beatles were imprinted in me from birth from my parents and brothers 1972 born. Abby road was played everyday on vinyl in our house amongst other great music

[@ClandestineRecords]

Nice taste :)

[@travisoliver6889]

Love the Beatles chatter

[@SpaceCattttt]

Yeah. "I went wrong."

[@goldenvinylspin]

I like what your doing here. Pushing the envelope and risking playing some bits for us and it helps me. I'm still on the rope about buying this but now I think I may. Thanks

[@dangvanchuong5646]

love your videos

[@gregharvey98]

Love the 50th Anniversary box set got it myself for a birthday gift I'm on the fence about the new mix of the original release but I love the demos

[@carly885]

I love this version of something

[@kevindoran9389]

I'm so glad I live in this timeline Yep the fab 5 is all I need John, Paul, George, Ringo and Clancy The old reliable

[@robertsaul234]

Paul McCartney on Oh! Darling was working toward the released version by roughening his voice with repeated takes. Thanks for the video. You have to get the cd box set if just for the book.

[@JJaJamesftw]

Thought this album was amazing really enjoyed all the outtakes are great if your a huge Beatles fan.

[@mrssamwinchester100]

I just loved your comments and bits from the album. Thank you SO MUCH!

[@carly885]

Me too, it's so nice to hear all their input

[@FrankEPotts]

It's just amazing to listen to how these songs came together to get the finished product......wow just amazing 🤗❤👀

[@JamesGowan]

Paul’s vocals on OH DARLING... with them doing take after take, it made sense for Paul to just give 50% instead of 110% which we got in the Final take that was used on the album. Studio time for the Beatles was incubation time for every song. As you well know, many times in the early years, the songs recorded had been played hundreds of times in clubs all over the UK, Germany, etc. they were finished songs. These newer songs were simply created once they got to the studios with a bare-bones idea of the song.

[@luciferlost1999]

It's good to see what you are doing since they stopped filming Lazytown....👍👍

[@toucan221]

just been watching at least TEN of your lovely little videos over the last couple of days and got to say never seen this new version of Abby Road so I must thank you giving us all the chance hear tiny bits to know difference of this album set, Thank you very much, while I haven't subscribed yet I'm sure I will do soon thanks again 😎🌞🌈🎶🎵👍😊💗

[@TheProgrammerGuy]

Someone may have already pointed this out, but if you get the CD-only version of this the second CD is arranged in the order of the original, so you can get the Escher Demo effect here as well.

[@TheFireSword87]

12:35 just a small correction. Paul didn't make the song for Badfinger, but rather it was a song that Paul rejected for Abby Road and then later gave to Badfinger as Paul felt guilty about how the band wasn't charting very well at the time. Fortunately the Badfinger version of the song was a hit when it released.

[@aestheticaltwat]

Great banter, it really is.

[@robfriedrich2822]

In the footage I know, Preston appears a bit cautious - in a later concert with the "All Starr Band" he was more confident, a man that impresses by the way he communicates with the audience. A shame, that the Beatles broke, because a Beatles band with Billy Preston would be so nice

[@andrewvelasquez3040]

Such an awesome video , Beatles for life !!!❤️❤️❤️🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@rileyalt1251]

i’d definitely say that “The Long One” is one of (if not the greatest) Rock Medley, but you’ve also got your “dark side of the moon”’s and “echoes” to get in the way. But 100% the best project by the band itself.

[@SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand]

6:06 This sounds EXACTLY like something that would be on The Wall.

[@kevindeibert3369]

Fascinating! I love it !

[@daytonsMusicRoom]

The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7) is my favorite song

[@JosephWolfson]

2:27 Sounds like Pink Floyd

[@anuragdeshpande6918]

Rick Wright keys

[@Adam-ro8vj]

It sounds like the Beatles- I want you (she’s so heavy)

[@helterskelter2927]

I actually like Paul's vocals on Oh! Darling.

[@LordStarscream-]

Very nice video! I decided to get the 2 CD set because I already have an original Australian pressing of "Abbey Road" and I liked how they ordered the tracks to play like an early version of the album. Also to answer your question about "Her Majesty": After comparing the two tracks, my best guess is that they used Take 3 of "Her Majesty" on the album.

[@jobarrios]

Excellent, thank you!

[@nubworthycigars6682]

This version of I Want You ends interestingly based on the stories of the albums take, but it’s not worth losing the single greatest record transition in history. The dark wind moog sound abruptly ending after blowing the clouds away and bam! Her Comes the Sun. Would never make that trade but fun to finally hear for sure Some of these tracks were from the anthologies which was a little disappointing for me personally, but still amazing.

[@lechdabrowski4346]

Loved it. Especially “Come Together” - John’s voice is very natural here. You can say it’s John. In studio version it doesn’t sound like Lennon very much.

[@saborlord123]

hey man did you hear about the beatles singles box set announcment?

[@alfching2499]

Ain’t they got enough money,if fools like you want to make 2 Old men Richer then go ahead Mug.

[@riskybus9925]

@@alfching2499 As a young Beatles fan, I'm glad about the re-release of the singles as finding originals in good condition for a reasonable price, so these reproductions are brilliant in my opinion

[@thomasrichmond601]

Thanks Vinyl Nerd, but I’m always surprised when the younger generation gets really excited not knowing about little things like the 5th Beatle Billy Preston 😂 some say it was George the producer, he wasn’t a musician okay 😂 but laughing aside, seriously you make my Days “considering the world today as it is” so much happier! Thank You 🙏 - Thomas

[@sjaool]

George Martin studied piano and hobo at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama so he is also a musician. 😉

[@thomasrichmond601]

sjaool Yes you are correct! I forgot about that, Good memory ✌️

[@stitchgrimly6167]

I know it's been a while but I guess you didn't actually listen to Mean Mr Mustard. The vocal is hilarious, and the overall performance is positively narcoleptic. I at least thought some of John's vocal interjections or the chatter at the end were worth mentioning.

[@davidkornblatt991]

What im upset about, is that theres no remastering/remixing of single Ballad of.../Old Brown Shoe. Maybe in another 50years we get that on next Box of Abbey Road

[@danerd8978]

Ballad of John and Yoko got a Remix for 1 a couple of years ago. That's what started the whole Stereo Remixing the Albums. Oh on Past Masters Vol. 2 Remasted in 2009 there's a Remaster of Old Brown Shoe.

[@joshmagee1]

I prefer 'The Long One' to the actual medley. There's just something about it, feels so transcendent to me - that raw feeling really hits home.

[@maloz63]

John ask Paul could he sing Oh Darling, as it fitted his vocal range, but because Paul wrote it he wanted to sing it

[@MrLovell1971]

Wow this sound amazing love the rawness of Something these sessions blows me away❤😉

[@carly885]

Yeah Something sounds so good here!

[@walrusonion]

I hope you do a review of the 50th anniversary set for Kinks, Arthur. Great vid as always.

[@davidcatalano3781]

John Lennon said and I'm just paraphrasing. We're a great little rock and roll band! Thank you for a wonderful review

[@alsantanna]

Dude, you're good!

[@theevildalek5425]

Vinyl Geek, what would you want for the 50th Anniversary release of Let It Be?

[@graemeking7336]

George, the 'economy class' Beatle

[@AngelSutcliff]

After listening to it over again I think they chose take 3 of her majesty

[@djhavickofficial]

i found a Rare original pressing of a All white Vinyl of The Beatles: The White Album any info on value or history would help thnx #cheers

[@davidbanan.]

All white? With serial number?, IF yes it could have some worth if no its not to valuable, the original VERSIONS are not really rare

[@wheelie63]

i have a white vinyl version too..... Capitol label.......not Apple......bought new in 1982 or so....

[@Jafezy_JD]

Can you review Beatles bootlegs/beatlegs?

[@baberoot1998]

Was that Paul, doing vocals on Polythene Pam? Did not sound like John to me. Hmmmm...

[@jbognap]

While the remastered album is wonderful, I listen to the demos and outtakes much more. It's interesting to note, the demo stuff is in the order that the bits were recorded. It provides insight to how the pieces were built.

[@gernblanston3363]

At 7:40 that's not just banter, John is singing kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWnSmn2Zbryfqsk

[@albertochalico7906]

Magnífico!

[@benido326]

Please do another Bob Dylan record. He has a new bootleg series album coming out this week.

[@nathanverdin89]

They picked Take 3 of Her Majesty for the album.

[@julioproductions8847]

If you have the CD of Abbey Road Sessions, it's the Esher Demos but Abbey Road.

[@daytonsMusicRoom]

I Did A Medley Of The 2009 Remaster Versions

[@ethanelston2840]

Abbey road was recorded last, but technically Let it Be is the last released album.

[@PolythenePam0451]

You look like Pete Best

[@simonstclare]

A fantastic, passionate review and i'm now keen to listen to this version of Abbey Road...on vinyl, but...at the risk of sounding like a pedant, to avoid confusion 'Esher' should be pronounced to sound like the word 'refresher' without the 're' ;-)

[@PaulinaAngel]

Remind me to hunt down a copy of The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. After you read it, then I think you’ll want to reshoot this video.

[@genemars5158]

Very interesting.

[@kenlee1416]

There're so many more sessions material that were not included in the (CD) so-called ''Super Deluxe'' box set. Under 90 minutes on 2 CDs is way too skimpy. Worse, they mention some of these takes in the thick book but don't include them in the ''deluxe'' set. Been listening to those omitted sessions/banter from various sources and they are a revelation and enjoyable.

[@neilsun2521]

"Her Majesty was put on the finished album by mistake". You actually believe them when they say that?! A major label album by the biggest band in the world doesn't end up with unwanted tracks on it!! There's a lot of BS in the official Beatle Story.

[@markcollins9903]

Nice

[@FeverDreamTheOneAndOnly]

Vinyl Rewind: Maxwell's Silver Hammer is not one of my favorites. Maxwell: CLANG CLANG MAXWELLS SILVER HAMMER CAME DOWN UPON HIS HEAD #darkhumor

[@shaide5483]

The complaint I have: Not enough demos? The outtakes are excellent, but there were barely any home demos, because they show how John & Paul's songs developed other than the outtakes (& I believe George's song 'Window Window' was recorded during the Abbey Road sessions & Let It Be sessions)

[@JudePittingerMusic]

sadly no good quality demos of those solo george songs including window window and others until his all things must pass sessions with phil spector. the only recordings are rough outtakes from the twickenham sessions which could be released with the let it be 50th anniversary. there was that all things must pass demo on anthology 3 but as far as i know that’s the only solo george tune that made it onto official beatles discography

[@shaide5483]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnLUhKdoaZh3o5Y Could’ve remastered this.

[@teehee5513]

Ok this is epic

[@seanarthurjoyce7366]

I hate these compilations made from studio out-takes. There's a reason the final versions on the official releases are there-the artists chose them as the best possible versions. Track order to me is also sacrosanct. When you've heard a certain track order on a classic album for decades, it really messes with your head to mix up the order. The Beatles were perfectionists, thank God. I wish Apple would leave this stuff in the vault.

[@psychospeakempire]

With all due respect, I doubt Ringo sang and drummed at the same time on his song. They were done separately usually, as most songs were recorded in the studio, with some exceptions...I enjoyed this video very much...thanks...Paul

[@kamikazepinocchio]

Are you sure on this one? It seems odd that his drumming would cause the take to breakdown, and then they would overdub vocals just to break down in the same spot. My guess would be this was a rehearsal take (which they recorded) and he did both at the same time.

[@psychospeakempire]

@@kamikazepinocchio Of course I am not sure. I wasn't there. However, I do record, and I would say it works that way 80% of the time. Of course I could be wrong. I wish I was there to see for sure.😎...Paul

[@kamikazepinocchio]

Yeah, as a drummer myself, I usually do the drums before any vocals, but on the album the way it breaks down, it seems like a rehearsal take where he was singing and playing...but then again, it is The Beatles, so anything is possible...

[@TheProgrammerGuy]

OK... then how do YOU explain the crash of this song??

[@kamikazepinocchio]

@@TheProgrammerGuy I'm gonna say it's because he skipped a couple of lines getting ready to head into the chorus and the rest of the band was continuing where they should have been so they had to stop.

[@joaobrunini99]

Have you heard about the Beatles single collection? (It is going to release at november 22th)

[@claudec2588]

I'm a big Beatles fan but I don't think I'll buy the singles collection. I have all those songs on the Beatles Masters records that came with the boxed set. On the other hand, are the singles collection in Mono or Stereo? My box set is the stereo version and I wish I could have afforded the Mono version.

[@joaobrunini99]

@@claudec2588 I don't know If they are in stereo or mono I think there Will be both versions (a mono and a stereo one)

[@SpaceCattttt]

I haven't heard the vinyl version, but unfortunately, I thought the CD version was horribly bad. Pepper was fantastic, Whitey was all over the place, but Abbey Road, which is my favourite Beatles album, is where Giles Martin REALLY messed up. Yeah, bring it, kids! I can defend my opinion!

[@sjaool]

How did Giles mess up? Just saying he did is no reason, so explain... 😉

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@sjaool Use your ears.

[@sjaool]

That's too easy an answer... 😉

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@sjaool All the best answers are.

[@baltpit2439]

I got to disagree with you on here comes the sun, i think this is one of those Beatles songs that people listen just cause its popular and don’t pay attention to the genius of George Harrison. I think this remix version is more raw and for that is better for me.

[@davidbanan.]

Its not a remix, IF anything is a remix here It the album version fool

[@trashcity8019]

You should listen to/review dr feelgood, as in the blues band from England. Also the Vapors are fantastic

[@tylerthompson1842]

I really don’t think demos are worthy of a vinyl pressing, a waste of materials really. Cd and digital download sure, but personally I just Listen on KZbin.

[@bishlap]

didn't "MAXWELLS" take almost 100 takes and got everyone so fed up w/ Paul... and it still sucks.

[@pete1759]

I love MSH. The instrumentation is fantastic, the dynamics are great and it a nice foil after two more serious songs.I never understood why this song gets so much hatred.

[@optimisticoutreach1236]

Copyrights must be costing you a fortune playing the music...what gives?

[@manolokonosko2868]

I've heard more interesting and better performed tracks on bootlegs.

[@MarkAndrews12]

Who else thinks this album sucks

[@alfching2499]

Another Yank giving his Opinion,hate to hear them talk makes ya ears bleed Yuk!