FIRST REACTION: The Beatles - Revolver

[@lifeofdariius]

BOB DYLAN REACTION: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJioYptsmqyGm5osi=pQV4ZTi8jdMgqo4G Taxman* (4:49) Eleanor Rigby* (6:48) I'm Only Sleeping* (10:08) Love You To (13:15) Here, There & Everywhere* (17:37) Yellow Submarine* (22:30) She Said She Said (25:56) Good Day Sunshine (30:07) And Your Bird Can Sing (33:19) For No One (35:52) Doctor Robert (38:43) I Want to Tell You (40:38) Got to Get You Into My Life (43:22) Tomorrow Never Knows (46:52) UNCUT REACTION: www.patreon.com/dariusdevon Like, Comment & Subscribe ✅

[@419HLR]

Awesome to see u back

[@IsaacWale2004]

@@419HLR I was genuinely worried about him... but I missed his content. I was genuinely so happy to see this.

[@sally2shoes]

😅 I’m SO glad you’re okay! 🤗 Happy for the Beatles reaction but mostly just relived you’re all good. 🥳💚😎

[@MichaelGris-u2o]

Again, please google search Howard Goodall Beatles a Musical Analysis-----40 minutes in, he breaks down Tomorrow Never Knows. You will be blown away!! I guarantee it!

[@IsaacWale2004]

The fact that "Tomorrow never knows" was recorded and released in 1966 still shocks me.

[@jamesleblanc7437]

It’s really unbelievable. Couple that with their progression in only 3 years from Please Please Me.

[@morpher44]

Agree. It does seem way ahead of its time. It's brilliant.

[@scatterkeir]

What REALLY blows my mind is, it was the first track they recorded for Revolver!

[@danieldaniel2]

i dont believe that. I sure they use time machine

[@tommyzai7038]

That was the first EDM-style track. The Beatles invested the genre . . . along with other genres.

[@alterdino]

For No One is one of the most beautiful songs The Beatles ever wrote, idk why it is so rarely mentioned.

[@tommyzai7038]

Probably the best McCartney song . . . better than Yesterday for sure.

[@terryhorowitz7076]

Incredible song. No words.

[@TonyLovell]

@@tommyzai7038 They are a great pairing.

[@DeKevers]

what do you mean, i hear it as one of the most popular "underrated" tracks

[@cjsm1006]

For No One is among the best lyrics ever written in popular music over the last 100 years..

[@jorgeb555]

The thing I am most impressed about with you, Darius, is how you are able to process in REAL TIME what has taken the rest of us a LIFETIME to understand. And that is that this music is special with all its nuances, intricacies, and amazing sounds.

[@joescott8877]

Yes, he's great at that, as is Crystal Shannon, another very perceptive reactor out there. Her review of how gobsmacked she was by Abbey Road, for ex., should have any Beatles fan going "OMG, why didn't **I** think of that?" LOL. Ditto for some of her reactions to The Who and Zeppelin! And, also like our friend Dariius, a fair amount of time can pass between her dropping videos, which can be frustrating, yes (tho it IS, of course, THEIR time), but makes the arrival all the sweeter, like Revolver here!

[@althealligator1467]

​@@joescott8877 Oh I remember watching her videos in like 2022 when she did her Beatles reactions! Never kept up with the earlier albums reactions and afterwards though

[@joescott8877]

@@althealligator1467 Yeah, she just did Paul's "Venus & Mars" solo album, and is almost done with her "Zepathon" (she's on "Presence" next) I wish she had a pateron like Dariius, so we could check out her longer reactions (not that I've done that with ANY reactor, lol, but I still might, heh), but yeah she can go months without a new vid, but she does, as you allude to, have a decent back catalogue. She makes really sharp comments sometimes, and gives us little lessons on what minor chords are and how they work, she loves her some minor musical chords, lol.

[@bradgames97]

haha not a lifetime. he ain’t even appreciating all the songs fam

[@sadie8737]

That's a beautiful comment!

[@OroborusFMA]

They began as the world's biggest touring band for teenage girls, got bored with that, stopped touring, and became an experimental psychedelic band, then got board with that and became a mature rock band, and finally got bored with that and on their last album laid down a sonic template for the 1970s and broke up.

[@octurn]

They began by playing 12hrs a night for the crims, whores & existentialists of Hamburg's red light district.

[@GBURGE55]

Well said. That about sums it all up in one sentence.

[@martifingers]

Yes for sure artistic progress was their antidote to stagnation and boredom and we all gained as a result. Two caveats though - one was that, while of course their musical sophistication grew as they progressed even the early work had great originality. The second was that it seems that right up to the end another spur was competition both from other bands (they seemed acutely aware of what others were doing) and within the band (mainly between John and Paul - the dynamic with George was somewhat more complicated as is well known.)

[@scottamichie]

“They began…touring band for teenage girls.” Nope. That’s not what it was. You really think Beatlemania-a worldwide phenomenon-was just teenage girls? Not the way it was. To put it in one sentence: with all the “girls” in cavern club seats there were guys lining the walls…there for it all.

[@cuebj]

No. They began a few school friends that morphed into teenage John, Paul, George, and Stuart with different drummers or none. They lucked out to go to the reddest red light gangster port town of post-war Germany playing 12-hour shifts at the sleaziest club on the street, The Indra Club, before moving to the next sleaziest, The Kaiserkeller. They persuaded Pete to go with them as drummer. George was underage. Stuart fell in love with Astrid and left the group to further his brilliant fine art studies. As teens, they learned very fast to entertain tooled up adult gangsters and prostitutes for 4 hours with a short break in between. Stuart died soon after of a brain bleed possbily the result of a beating after a gig in Liverpool but a gang of teddy boys. They were the hardest, toughest garage punky band that ever existed... as teenagers. When they returned to Liverpool, they had transformed from kids messing about to something very different and very tough. When it all looked like they couldn't take it any further, Brian Epstein, a local record store owner-manager, became their manager. He persuaded them to smarten up and soften their show to appeal to a wider audience than thrill seekers and real hard men. They had two eras before pop stardom: kids messing about; then the toughest punk ever; then pop 'boy band' before the term was invented while being in control of their singing, playing, arrangements; then studio-based inventing the concept of studio as instrument; then all of them had productive post-Beatles careers. But they were always evolving and rarely repeated themselves. It's just that they were doing it before anyone else so they were also inventing genres for others to devote whole careers to something The Beatles did once or twice brilliantly before moving on

[@DustyElmore-um4my]

Your reactions are the best on KZbin for 3 reasons: 1) You are honest about the songs you like and the songs you don't like. Most reaction video creators pretend to like every song. 2) You react to both the music and the lyrics. 3) You share how the song relates to your life. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

Point one is on point. And it's the reason I don't watch most music reaction videos any more.

[@IsaacWale2004]

This was their biggest leap as musicians. Easily. Still blows my mind away.

[@lifeofdariius]

happy to see you here Isaac! Revolver was certainly the perfect title of this album, I walked away with my mind completely blown

[@screamap1llar697]

Eleanor rigby is about all of the people who are forgotten to time; Eleanor Rigby waiting for a lover; Father McKenzie preaching to nobody; and Eleanor Rigby passing away while nobody cares

[@lifeofdariius]

Literally the perfect piece of music. I knew it was dark lyrically but sheesh..

[@Isleofskye]

@@lifeofdariius Good Reaction,My Friend from London. The year was 1965/66 and I was walking with my Parents past a caravan site in Kent,50 miles from South London and the radio played this and I still remember that first time that I heard it,59 years later:)

[@chetcarman3530]

THANK YOU!! I met The Beatles in 1964, got a set of drums & have been a musician & Beatles fan all my life. At 77 & nearly done, I love seeing your reactions -- new generation, new culture, new world... Thanks for validating my journey. Good to know you guys feel it 💜🩵💙💚

[@peterzimmer9549]

Tomorrow never knows was the first song recorded for revolver. The Beatles kicking off the psychedelic era with sounds never heard before such as sitars and instruments being played backwards. Truly avant garde. You have to remember that nothing like this had ever been heard before.

[@arich97]

Paul was so inspired by John’s idea, he rushed home and recorded all kinds of household sounds for them to use frontwards and backwards for the song.

[@mistabook]

It STILL sounds radical, that's the crazy thing! As much as music became psychedelic in the years after Revolver, most of it just sounded like fairly standard groovy rock n roll music. This song sounds like it's being transmitted from another dimension.

[@cuebj]

@@arich97 Except Paul was the Beatle into avante garde and all sorts of current stuff in London as he was living in his girlfriend's family home in central London while John had a wife and baby in a country house. The others weren't interested until John caught the bug and started meeting Yoko. John getting into it enabled Paul to do what he'd been wanting to do for some time

[@videoclub6899]

And all of it was analog. No shortcuts to get where they were going.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Tomorrow Never Knows is The best and most ground breaking piece of music of the 20th Century

[@taylorjohnson763]

still amazes me that Tomorrow Never Knows came out only 2 years after I Want to Hold Your Hand. the beat, the drone and the usage of samples was so far ahead of it's time

[@CBGB_1977]

When I got married, I walked down the aisle, we played an orchestral version of “Here, There and Everywhere”. Our first dance was to “I Will”.

[@robertsaul234]

Taxman is f'n great. Spiritual George was really pissed about losing 90% of his income. Paul really shreds on lead guitar too. "My advice to those that die, declare the pennies on your eyes." Brilliant!

[@eyezaggeh777]

That song bumps, the riffs, the production especially on the 2022 mix just hits like a hip hop track - insane

[@gassie62]

Pumping bass line too

[@First-Name--Last-Name]

95% even

[@zarzaparrilla67]

​@penderyn8794yeah, except George was never a buddhist

[@LoriMills-k4s]

And they name 2 politicians in the song. LOL.

[@peterzimmer9549]

In case anyone is interested, bassist Klaus Voorman drew the cover for the revolver album.

[@robertsaul234]

He later illustrated the covers for the Anthology project in the 90s.

[@Nickel1147]

Friend from Hamburg of course

[@sergei_mikhailovich]

And he played the bass in some of John's solo albums

[@robertsaul234]

@@sergei_mikhailovich ...and a member of Manfred Mann.

[@sergei_mikhailovich]

@@robertsaul234 Underrated artist and bassist, IMO

[@owenorwhatever7629]

Great to see you back man

[@peterflynn7152]

It is important to realize that Revolver was released as a vinyl album. You listened to side 1 on your record player, then it ended, your turned it over and listened to side 2. So side one ends with "She Said, She said". Stop. Flip. Drop the needle. BAM! "Good Day Sunshine"! Brilliant!

[@thecarrierpigeon6657]

yeah, the same exact can be said for Abbey Road, and in a way the white album too.

[@bravetherainbow]

Those cuts between 1963 Beatles and 1966 Beatles you did at the end: comedy gold

[@sillycatmovies]

On I’m Only Sleeping that noise in the middle is a backwards guitar solo, George Harrison spent weeks working on a guitar solo that would sound good reversed!! That’s why he is my favorite, always doing my favorite work 😎

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

Hours, not weeks.

[@sillycatmovies]

@@thomaspappalardo7589 yes that is my mistake, I just looked it up and it took him only five hours which is even more impressive!

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

@@sillycatmovies Five hours is forever! 😂

[@mistabook]

And the one in Tomorrow Never Knows is Paul's solo from Taxman reversed!

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

@@mistabook It’s actually not, if you listen to it played forward, it’s got some similarity but not the same solo.

[@anarcovision]

About the bass in Revolver: up until then Paul recorded the bass together with the basic track, the band playing altogether. Starting here, he will record the bass afterwards, alone, that will give him more room to create these wonderful basslines, and also the bass can be treated in the mixing separately, pumping up the sound in an incredible way. Then the drums here. The Beatles had a new engineer here, Geoff Emerick, who was eager to experiment. And he set up a new way to place microphones in drums, that was revolutionary, and still today is the standard way to record drums. Then about Tomorrow Never Knows. They had been playing with tapes on small tape recorders at home, and decided to use tapes as what 15 years later would be know as "samples". This was very laborious and precarious in 1966. So what you hear in TNK is drums, bass, tambura (an indian instrument that produces that cool buzzing drone), and the first ever use in pop music of samples.

[@IsaacWale2004]

Eleanor Rigby is a song conceptualising the idea of how everyone has a different story but most will be forgotten and die with the holder.

[@lifeofdariius]

sheesh...

[@IsaacWale2004]

@lifeofdariius I know, Paul was really deep... And another thing, you mentioned near the end of the video about whether the original mixes sounded as good. Well, for the most part, yes, but the biggest difference was in "For no one" :)

[@lifeofdariius]

@@IsaacWale2004 Okay nice I'm gonna listen to that version just to see how different

[@IsaacWale2004]

@@lifeofdariius It literally blew me away hearing the 2022 version for the first time (having only heard the 2009 remaster and a few live versions prior)

[@mistabook]

It's so profound. It has the depth of a novel, crammed into a pop song barely over 2 minutes long by people still in their mid-20s. It's hard to believe it exists.

[@gabrielzeifman8602]

Been a long time but we're glad to have u back brother 🥰 Also great reaction as always!

[@langdonalger2005]

Please come back Darius!! We miss you!!

[@IsaacWale2004]

Facts

[@mdf3962]

I’ve watched TONS of reaction channels over the last couple years. Yours is the best I’ve seen. Keep going!!!

[@michaelbriefs9764]

Yes, Tomorrow Never Knows is NEXT LEVEL. That song was completely ahead of its time, y'all. It was a psychedelia Tour de Force!! It was much more than what many people could handle, but then...they needed to smoke some good weed and then put that joint back on!! Yes, listen to this album many times and let these brilliant songs sink in, including "Good Day Sunshine"!! This is The Beatles version of "Pictures at an Exhibitions". All 14 had their own artistic signatures. By the way, songs like "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Dr. Robert" are straight up guitar-driven, super-tight, Beatles badass songs! It's all about drums-bass-and guitar on those songs! Super-tight!

[@ferpiopiogm]

The guitar solo of Taxman is made and played by Paul. He knew George was really into indian music, So he asked him if he could do the solo, so he tried to do it in indian fashion...For me is one of the best solos beatles has in their cataloge, It has energy, spark, and it's innovative...

[@ferpiopiogm]

Btw, Got to Get You Into My Life is an ode to Marihuana, and For No One is also Paul's song

[@pepeluis3850]

Don’t forget the bass it’s George Harrison himself. Imagine a sport team where the players are so amazing they can play amazing in different positions… that’s an analogy I like to use to explain Taxman and these monsters!!!

[@JennyWhite-i8f]

I love how enthusiastic you are when listening to the Beatles. I have loved their music since I was a teenager and will always love them.

[@rager1969]

Rubber Soul inspired Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds inspired Sgt Pepper's.

[@matthall7359]

Sgt peppers then inspired Smile… please listen to Smile Sessions the uncomplete album is almost better than all of them!!

[@thomassommerfeld8494]

​@@matthall7359personally think smile is nearly equal to Revolver. Just plain great

[@matthall7359]

@@thomassommerfeld8494 full agree my friend, which is why it’s crazy that it was never finished… but surfs up and child is the father of man are life changing tracks

[@jamesswindle5253]

Talk sense the Beatles did not have to inspired by anyone they made their own music . Beeach Boys were a silly surf band if it had not been for the Beatles the Beach Boys were gone. America tried to make the beach Boys more than what they were. Beach Boys have very few songs to remember.

[@matthall7359]

@@jamesswindle5253 mouthbreather ass take, incredibly uneducated with terrible taste. Go listen to surfs up from smile sessions and learn something about music

[@adamcompton4031]

"The f*ck does that mean, John??" On She Said She Said had me laughing out loud, this has got to be the first Beatles reaction video that ive seen that added meaningful commentary ever. Im loving your interpretations and reactions! The way you described Eleanor Rigby as being a moment you werent supposed to see really hit me

[@adamcompton4031]

"Paul out here doing his Paul sh*t" on Good Day Sunshine lmao I couldn't have said it better myself

[@m.lillith]

we’re always happy to see you. we’re glad you’re back! don’t push yourself too much, we’ll be here when you’re ready to post 🪲💓

[@lifeofdariius]

🙏🏾❤️

[@bryanfouts287]

You are the first person I’ve ever known that’s listened to the first half of this album and was like “Taxman thumbs down Love You To thumbs up” it’s a testament to your musical sensibility and I’m here for it. Glad to see you back in action

[@joeybauer3154]

Here there and everywhere is a song I can never listen to just once, I gotta replay it over and over and it usually gets me crying. One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and it never loses its power. Love your reactions by the way

[@barbarjinx3802]

Good Day Sunshine is a great song to wake up to. I’m a dark John guy. I hate the sun. I use relight inside. It’s a great track to wake up to. Positivity is key, especially if you’re in a. Relationship.

[@lifeofdariius]

I probably do need more of that in my life Barbara you're right 😂 Can't be a gloomy day everyday

[@cain666]

Not to ruin it, but I think this is another pot song, like Got to Get You Into My Life

[@Phenixmars]

@@cain666Boo!

[@peterzimmer9549]

According to Paul himself, “got to get you into my life” is about his discovery of marijuana.

[@senovar]

I thought it was the discovery of LSD.

[@paddymeboy]

@@senovar Yeah, acid - they'd already being doing weed for years at this stage.

[@mikecavaretta2621]

No, it was marijuana. Paul hadn’t even tried acid yet.

[@sehfnrerhdhfbfbd28]

@@paddymeboy no it’s definitely weed I read his book

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

​@mikecavaretta2621 That's right. Paul was the last Beatle to try it, but the first to publicly admit to having done it

[@marypittman5821]

Absolutely love Taxman.

[@JC-rb3hj]

Welcome back, and I mean it. You are my favorite Beatles reactor. You remind me of how I felt when these gems were released and these sounds were fresh and new. Revolver is the marker where the Beatles exploded in then studio. Tomorrow Never Knows, I'm Only Sleeping, Got to Get You Into My Life, Eleanor Rigby we're like nitro glycerine. Innovation, boldness, creativity off the charts. Yeah, Revolver signals their move to another level.

[@lifeofdariius]

Thanks JC, this album is the first since The White Album where it was almost a challenge listening. There's just so much to unpack with each track, every instrument is played to perfection, the writing is otherworldly, this was an experience more than a first reaction 😂 And I enjoyed every second

[@michaelakkerman407]

Tomorrow never...is ONE NOTE!!! Greatest song ever put on tape. Still gives me chills.

[@briansammond7801]

One CHORD, not one NOTE

[@michaelakkerman407]

@briansammond7801 sorry nit picker. It's C & Bb, my bad.

[@commentputter5283]

Rubber Soul is THC Revolver is LSD

[@MsAppassionata]

What is Sgt. Peppers then?

[@Bestintheland4]

@@MsAppassionataboth

[@langdonalger2005]

@@MsAppassionata Pepper was Paul's coke days, and I'm not joking

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

@@langdonalger2005It was his everything days lol

[@MsAppassionata]

@@langdonalger2005 Never heard that one, though I certainly wouldn’t be surprised. Got any proof?

[@gabrielzeifman8602]

Here there and everywhere was a direct response to the beach boys “God only knows” so that’s why it has a similar vibe. It’s also the song that paul currently considers his best (I think)

[@otisdylan9532]

I don't know what Paul cinsiders his best song,but I do think that "Here, There & Everywhere" was John's favorite song of Paul's.

[@vietnamcatfish]

For no one is Paul. And not John. Loved your reaction!

[@WendyDarling1974]

I don’t get how anyone can not like “Taxman” but it’s a reaction channel so that’s why we watch, right? The fact it makes reference to the count at start of “I Saw Her Standing There” is hilarious - it’s the Jared version.

[@overdriveslipkinotch4712]

Cant wait MAGIC MYSTERY TOUR

[@eyezaggeh777]

Darius gotta react to the 2023 mix of I am The Walrus tho

[@UESide]

You’re gonna love George’s first solo album

[@liamwestley8692]

masterpiece

[@thebelen2359]

It'd probably take 2 videos to do, but I'd love to see this one

[@IsaacWale2004]

"Pet sounds" sounds like somebody mixed Revolver and Rubber soul together. It's good.

[@rolandluth2098]

It's the best album ever made

[@joexpoe]

Your best reaction, "Got to get you into my life" charted for the first time ever, on May 31, 1976 on the billboard top 100 charts, at number 6, ten years after the album's release. A song for the ages, then, and even now.

[@samguberman2288]

One of my favourite tracks on the album.

[@charliemac64]

Coincided with the release of the compilation "Rock and Roll Music" LP.

[@mistabook]

​@charliemac64 My dad had that when I was little and it was my first exposure to the Beatles. It was an unauthorized release (I think?) and the art and packaging were so ridiculous that even Ringo said he hated it in an interview, but the songs were of course amazing.

[@MaximusMikhailo]

I hope your doing good Darius, I miss you man please post soon I love your content 😔🙏

[@JettBrando]

I really enjoyed this. Thanks, man. I was lucky enough to get into this album, or at least the U.S. version, around age 3 circa 1977-1978.

[@theyearsshallrun6641]

Yellow Submarine is Paul proving that he can write a hit in any genre. “Let’s do a kids song! Why not?” That’s what makes it psychedelic - that freewheeling, no rules any more, vibe.

[@pemp9606]

Great song, they made music for everyone

[@lifeofdariius]

great description 👌🏾

[@gettinhungrig8806]

Written by John and Paul. John the verses, Paul the chorus.

[@navareeves8976]

@@lifeofdariius theres actually a version of yellow submarine while paul and john were still very much in the process of writing it with a completely different feeling. On spotify if you listen to "Yellow Submarine - songwriting work tape/ part 2" you can hear it. It is very sweet and much less "lets all sing together kindergarden class" type vibes and more something else im not sure how to describe. i would reccomend giving it a listen if you havent yet

[@TheRoldanics]

Your reactions to these albums are fucking refreshing, I'm watching from 0:00 till the video ends g, every video.

[@rewquioprewquiop]

I love the reaction to "Love You To"... thanks for reminding me how much I love that song too! They take us on such a journey don't they?!

[@Aegloo2K]

I honestly think this is a better sitar song than tomorrow never knows. The build up is incredible

[@PanarchyInTheUK]

Tomorrow Never Knows is one of my all time favourite Beatles songs.

[@TheFoolInTheWall]

Waiting on your comeback 🙏

[@bradgames97]

“Your Day breaks Your Mind Aches You find that all the words of kindness linger on when she no longer needs you” one of the most perfect verses

[@reddoxx4754]

Just a minor quibble--"all her words of kindness"

[@nofishinmydiet]

"Squiggly Noises!" YAssssssssss!That's the SECOND time you perfectly put words to sounds I hear!

[@silvermoon8757]

Missed you darius!!! your videos make my day

[@lifeofdariius]

thats love 🙏🏾 more on the way

[@lesliecermak6473]

lol, re: learning Eleanore was Paul’s. You have grown - so glad you’re hearing the distinct voices better and what each member contributed. Happy you’re back!

[@lesliecermak6473]

Returning after hearing the whole reaction to say I enjoyed this do much and the realization of the rapid transformation in three years. So insightful!

[@davidbowman6740]

Tomorrow Never Knows was the first ever recorded “soundscape” in popular music. It changed music forever and may well be the most influential track ever recorded.

[@Olivesarmy]

I am SO happy to have been served this video in the algorithm! Darius you’re such a breath of fresh air. It feels like getting to retake the Beatles adventure with you. She said she said is incredible and sonically!? Just WAIT till the next album. Don’t forget the context of when this album came out and the time in the world. The hyperchanging 60s. The new adventures the expansion of your mind. Keep going. Keep going 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@levilevi9621]

Glad you’re back. Life never really gets easier, but it’s a good thing we’ve got some great tunes to discover to keep us going.

[@josuepon0318]

Love You To never gets enough attention, ITS A BANGER

[@sarahfullerton6894]

I LOVE "Good Day Sunshine"! Please listen to it again. Beatles songs have a way of growing on you!

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

The number of innovative musical moments created by the Beatles in a few short years continues to astound

[@michaelkornegay4846]

@1967PONTIACGTO They landed in '64 with "I want to hold your hand" "She loves you" and "All my lovin'". They started the Sgt. Pepper sessions in Feb of '67. Man, let that sink in.

[@fortepiano4491]

Man went from deaf allegations to DEATH allegations 😂

[@lifeofdariius]

😂😂😂

[@mikecaetano]

"Tomorrow Never Knows" kicked the psychedelic era in rock music into high gear. John Lennon pinched the lines in the first verse from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which LSD guru Timothy Leary translated into English as part of the manual for acid trips he published back in the sixties. I met Leary once in the nineties when he was touring his last book. One thing important to note about The Beatles is that radio stations continued to play their music well into the seventies, so the kids born in the late sixties more or less "absorbed" many of these songs by osmosis when they were little. My earliest musical memories were hearing Beatles songs, including "Eleanor Rigby". And "Yellow Submarine" was one of the songs we played musical chairs with when I was in kindergarten in 1972. The Beatles impact back then was huge.

[@mariomf1644]

It is clear to me that people who think that the Beatles are overrated is because they have definitely not listened to all of their albums. Here you can see why they are considered the most influential band in history, they created sounds that no one had ever made before and to give an example we have Tomorrow Never Knows who, despite having been released 57 years ago, still sound like the future.

[@ryban1001]

Darius, I love your reactions to the Beatles albums. Your excitement about tracks you like is infectious!

[@IsaacWale2004]

I love how excited you are!

[@jemchurch1260]

When Taxman is your least favorite Beatles album intro, you know the bar is set super high 🙂

[@rb9628]

"Tomorrow Never Knows" was the first track recorded for Revolver. Originally Lennon wanted to call it "The Void." According to Lennon he accidentally pushed rewind on his tape recorded guitar parts, and he thought it sounded pretty cool, so snippets of it are in the song. He also wanted the studio engineers to make his voice sound distant, like he was shouting from a mountain top, and you hear that in the later part of the song. My favorite lyric is "that ignorance and hate may mourn the dead."

[@denysmace3874]

I was away with friends, and I saved this reaction for when I got home. I'm really surprised how much I'm looking forward to this.

[@denysmace3874]

Just throwing in random comments as I go through your reaction.. a reaction on a reaction! So, Love You To, the look on your face of, what's this?, then that spontaneous smile of, oh yes! made me laugh and left me with a huge smile. It's a real shame George didn't get more of his songs released under The Beatles' name, as he had so many great songs.

[@denysmace3874]

So glad I waited for this reaction. Possibly my favourite reaction video ever. I love your honesty with your first listening. Some songs didn't work for you, but there were a load of songs your face was, what's this, followed by a big smile. And then, finishing off with Tomorrow Never Knows! Always leave your viewers smiling! And you left me with something to think about: George's impact in this record.

[@jakemcdonald2783]

Darius, you’re AMAZING! Thanks again for your incredible reactions and insights and for keeping it real! Like the Beatles themselves, You inspire me! ❤

[@OscarCloud]

What a treat Been waiting for this one- I think it’s their best

[@Pajko-g2y]

On Anthology 1, 2 and 3 there are a lot of unreleased songs, also Live at the BBC has a lot of covers that are not on any album, you should also think about those opportunities for reaction. We're very glad you're back.

[@sara.val3ncia]

Missed your vids! Glad you’re uploading again. Hope to see the rest of the Beatles discography soon!

[@nomanatcore]

"Rubber Soul makes the earlier albums sound better" YES BRO

[@2009kygal]

I loved Good Day Sunshine!

[@jorgeb555]

Your honesty is so refreshing. It’s so sincere. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@michaeloliver8021]

Hey man I love your videos lol seeing you vibe with the Beatles n shit brings me joy

[@AGETheGawdYT]

I'm glad your bringing up "The Word" from Rubber soul g that song is too underrated 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Dr.Fiendish]

As an old codger I love watching young people really appreciating The Beatles.

[@CrankyGrandma]

Ringo is going on tour this year at age 84… and he’s still got it. I’ve been to three of his “All Starr Band” concerts and they are so much fun. Go if you can! Nothing like singing Yellow Submarine with Ringo. If you think yellow submarine isn’t psychedelic watch the movie. Btw Ringo wasn’t the one ad libbing on the song.

[@bitdropout]

Ringo was a sickly child. In hospital for a year at one stage. Left school barely literate. What a life!

[@mark4262]

Gold..welcome Back My Brother

[@MichaelBeckman]

This makes me so happy to see you back and reacting to my favorite band of all time The Beatles.

[@drevan1138]

You're back! Thanks again for another amazing reaction video.

[@peterzimmer9549]

And your bird can sing…I love the main guitar line being played simultaneously by two different guitars.

[@Trendyflute]

My fav part is the _and you think you've heard every sound there is_ ...sung in a descending harmony you've never heard before. It's confident, it's meta, it's self-aware, it's cognizant of everything else going on, all in a moment. Masterful command of sound and emotion. It's hard to pick favorites with the Beatles but _And Your Bird Can Sing_ ranks very highly for me. Even though, in a weird way, it seems like it showed up "late" to Revolver and could've been in their discography a year earlier. No matter. Still brilliant.

[@Tix000]

Welcome back man missed your vids

[@samuelmiller7987]

I've been waiting 5 months specifically just to watch the expression on your face as your brain melts during 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. LOL! Classic Darius. You didn't disappoint. By the way, 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is one of the best songs on the album; it just might take multiple listenings to appreciate it as such.

[@lifeofdariius]

It's already grown on me, John's haunting melody sucks me in every time now

[@samuelmiller7987]

@@lifeofdariius When listening to 'Tomorrow Never Knows', it's best to turn off you mind, relax and float downstream.

[@julianmassaldi]

I was gonna wite the same thing, been waiting for Darius to come face to face with Tomorrow Never Knows ever since he began his chronological journey. It was great to be reminded through him of what a mindfuck of an audio experience that song is, even over half a century later! It STILL sounds like the futur to me, can't even fathom what it must have sounded like to 1966 ears

[@samuelmiller7987]

@@lifeofdariius 2 months later, do you like 'Tomorrow Never Knows' any better?

[@petersz98]

Making music with tape loops and other experimental techniques was the exclusive preserve of Avant Garde classical composers like Stockhausen. The Beatles were the first to make it mainstream in popular music with Tomorrow Never Knows.

[@djashley2002]

Not really. European radio organisations and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and others had been doing things like that since the early 50s, mainly as background for documentaries and drama, but also occasionally as signature tunes (the original version of the Doctor Who theme was literally assembled from tape samples and a hell of a lot of splicing tape). What the Beatles did was push it even further into the mainstream.

[@michaelbriefs9764]

Re: "Good Day Sunshine": I have four words for you...The Summer of Love. In 1966 and into 67, the Beatles were the Summer of Love and Psychedelia Ambassadors! Good Day Sunshine fits perfectly in with that milieu, circa 1966. Now, this song is one of Paul's "Grannie" songs, as John would say; it does have that ragtime/early-20th century piano sound and solo. It is a throw-back song, admittedly, but in the Summer of Love-ethos of the time, it was a perfect statement by the Maestro himself, Paul McCartney!

[@lifeofdariius]

That's some perspective I needed. I can hear it as an anthem for that era of pop culture instead of just another happy Paul song

[@garyneilson3075]

Eleanor Rigby is one of the most moving songs of theirs..... "all the lonely people"..... And so yeah I get it..... It's like intruding on a private moment... That lonely, sad, people might not like others witnessing.... An unmarried older woman no one apparently wanted in their life picking up rice from some happy woman's wedding.... Such wounded lyrics.....

[@jprq]

I was actually starting to worry about you… So happy this popped up today. Great, as always! One comment on Yellow Sub… I think it would have fit right in on Sgt Pepper… & on Tomorrow Never… it’s STILL ahead of its time. Much appreciation… You’re the best!

[@lifeofdariius]

i've never heard a song like Tomorrow Never Knows in my life and I listen to tons of music man. These guys we're just different 😂

[@jprq]

@@lifeofdariius Mind blowing!

[@joescott8877]

Well, look who's back! LOL, very good indeed to see another drop from you, Dariius! Hey, Life happens, man, I trust that we're all understanding here and just psyched to see you seemingly doing OK and back on our screens and distributing honest, and honestly GOOD, analysis and appreciations!

[@Beatles4Sale.]

For no one was Paul. imho the quality of Paul’s songs reached a peak on this album. Btw, Paul played lead guitar on Taxman. My favorite song is Tomorrow Never Knows by John. It kind of points us into the direction for the next album. Btw, John told Paul that Here, There and Everywhere was a really good one. Yes, this album is amazing. The critics consider it the best Beatles album.

[@matthewfinnegan4482]

So happy you’re back Darius, been looking forward to this one 🔥🔥

[@danieldo169]

I’ll tell you taxman will grow on you Glad to see you back

[@cattaylor2897]

And Your Bird Can Sing is one of my favorite Beatles songs and just favorite songs of all time!! Revolver is the best! It’s so cool seeing you hear it for the first time, love these vids Darius keep it up

[@MaxLevinton]

tomorrow never knows is my all time favorite beatles song, one of the first songs to use a fucn DRUM LOOP, SAMPLES, A FUGN REVERESED GUITAR SOLO???, THIS SONG WAS PLUCKED RIGHT OUT OF THE LATE 90's TRANCE-HOUSE SCENE

[@benlewis6453]

I've never been sure if it is a drum loop, or just Ringo playing with such ridiculously high precision that it sounds like a drum loop

[@sojiwoji]

@@benlewis6453i get u for sure but its definitely a drum loop

[@thewizard6077]

Man, glad to have you back Darius! I was worried about you brother. I was hoping everything was OK. I seen you posted this yesterday, but I play guitar and had practice with my band yesterday, and wanted to wait until I had time to watch your full reaction without any interruptions. Man, I dig every second of your videos. When it comes to analyzing these songs, your words are like gold and I didn't want to miss one! So happy your back, and looking forward to the continuation of your Beatles and Led Zeppelin journey. Peace

[@John-et9yl]

Lennon nails it on this album and took The Beatles to a new level

[@billmonetti2500]

Loved taking "The Revolver" trip with you man....