FIRST TIME HEARING The Beatles | Ticket To Ride | Commentary | Reaction | Review

[@gigatoob]

Enjoyed ur reaction, cool vibe. Orig Beatle fan here from the 60s. This is the middle Beatle period, a single, not an album release. Any Beatle song you try will be pretty great. Another great songwriting duo is Billie and Finneas. The Beatles is Billie EIlish's favorite band. She and her brother write, produce, play everything, not a room full of writers and producers. Exciting for you to hear Beatles for the first time! Thanks...

[@alpetrocelli4465]

Beatle fact: The line “she’s got a ticket to ride” was first said by John when they were in the red light district of Amsterdam, and he saw the worker in the window, with her health license posted in the window. ✌️❤️🎶

[@walterroma7368]

John was hungover obviously. He refused to take the whole dubbing thing seriously.

[@johnandrews3151]

Try the song called Something by the Beatles, written and sung by George Harrison 😮😊

[@ittamandarano8262]

The inside joke is that they were forced to lip sync and were hinting at it by the overly relaxed posture.

[@lsbill27]

Back in those days they made music videos by just getting the guys to show up at a certain time and they would just wing it.

[@raymeedc]

Pausing the song every 10 seconds to say less than nothing is annoying.

[@papercup2517]

I would imagine it's an attempt to avoid the draconian copyright blocking the Beatles' repertoire suffers under. Many reactors have had to redo their Beatles reaction videos multiple times trying to get it to conform to 'fair use' stipulations and even then it doesn't always work. That's a LOT of time and energy to expend and maybe waste on one song reaction. They all do what they can, since there is generally a good audience for Beatles material. Of course, if we just want to hear the song straight through, we can always listen to it uninterrupted elsewhere on YT or other sources.

[@raymeedc]

Yes, true enough, but most reviewers find that one interruption is enough to avoid getting taken down, two to make sure, but at least have something to say when doing so often, otherwise it just becomes annoying, & the reviewer misses the flow of the song to boot. Just my opinion, of course.

[@brooos]

Agreed - WAY too many pauses. He also skipped over George's guitar transition after the first bridge.

[@brandonflorida1092]

Based on your conversation, you really need to listen to some earlier Beatles, and not just what people who were born long after their career ended hype today. Try their first 3 albums.

[@bobmessier5215]

I think this tune was written by John when his wife, Cynthia, (Julian's mother) kept missing the train that they were on. They divorced soon after. John fell in love with Yoko.

[@gdmyers47]

If you decide to explore The Beatles in more depth, you will find out that George Harrison (the lead guitar player), also, wrote some great songs, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Here Comes the Sun," and "Something," for example

[@thewizard6077]

Cool reaction. I just discovered you. You should consider doing full album reactions for The Beatles. I would start with their first album "Please, Please, Me" and go in chronological order right through to their final recorded album "Abbey Road". Either way, just a suggestion. I subscribed! Peace

[@ittamandarano8262]

Next songs: Help, You've Got vti Hide your Love away...

[@papercup2517]

I'd like to recommend you give A Day in the Life a listen, if you haven't already. Also Helter Skelter and Eleanor Rigby. Oh and Tomorrow Never Knows and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds... and only about 200 more fantastic tracks... The Beatles were extremely diverse and everyone has their favourite songs and albums, and periods in their musical evolution, so you'll just have to discover as you go along which are your own personal favourites and less than favourite.. Ticket to Ride was a single (and not one I'm particularly fond of of), located somewhere in the middle when they were just beginning to transition from focusing on the usual 40s/ 50s/ early 60s subject matter for popular music - romantic love - to exploring more diverse themes. They led the way along with Dylan in the US for all of popular music to become something more serious and enduring as a creative art form and means of expression, opening the doors for countless other bands and artists to walk through, as Brian May (lead guitar, Queen) once put it.

[@lindasalvaterra1304]

This has always been one of my favorites! Eleanor Rigby or Penny Lane or Help should be next.

[@thomastimlin1724]

A better clip is from the movie Help with the skis, the snow, the cable cars, a grand piano in the middle of the snow, etc. Probably the first music video in color, long before MTV. VH1 and all that nonsense.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Some things to listen for: how Ringo's drumming changes between verses. The tempo and rhythm change at the outro.

[@NGKiernan]

George Martin took all the life out of Ticket to ride by Muting the bass guitar and drum.

[@kweile4339]

Anything from The White Album.

[@genebaughbba]

There's the hooker slant but there's an also a town near London named Rhyde that the train goes through and there's a she's got a ticket to Rhyde which is a place The Beatles would go. might be where the idea for the song came.

[@colinsutherland180]

It was a good one to choose. How about Hey Bulldog for next one?

[@johnandrews3151]

Incidentally, the Carpenters covered Ticket To Ride on their first album which also contained their first top 40 and #1 hit called Close To You, which was released after the collosal flop for Ticket To Ride which was released as a single first. Despite not doing well on the chart, Ticket To Ride is a "Must Hear" cover and a true original for the Carpenters, as Karen makes this song her own!😮😊Please hear the lyric video version. The actual music video is terrible quality and will leave you flat.

[@bodato5760]

You are great...❤

[@gregpusczek4473]

Brilliant

[@papercup2517]

A favourite Beatles story (one of many) is when they were doing a Press Conference with a packed room of journos on a US trip. There was a lot of controversy of the religious/ moral outrage kind swirling around them over there at the time, and some of the questions asked were on the confrontational side. Reputedly referring to Norwegian Wood and Ticket to Ride, one journalist asked: "People are saying you've been writing songs about lesbians and prostitutes. What do you say about that?" Such subjects were at the time pretty much taboo, and unheard of as subject matter for 'pop' songs which were supposedly aimed at teenagers and other impressionable youth, so this was quite a shocking accusation.. Not missing a beat, batting his long eyelashes innocently and in his sweetest and most sincere voice, Paul explains it all: "Well, we were just trying to write songs about lesbians and prostitutes...." We loved the Beatles because they cut through all the BS, and told it like it was. And, somehow did it charmingly, with good humour, often highlighting the absurdity of conventional thinking. They changed the world.

[@StuartBiliack]

I also love that a reporter asked, "What do you think about Beethoven?" thinking they wouldn't know anything about classical music. John Lennon replied, "We love him very much, especially his poems." Always the smart-ass.

[@papercup2517]

@@StuartBiliack Indeed, John was certainly never short of a smart retort.. 🙂

[@michaelhollingworth1766]

Too many stops,too much talking at the wrong time

[@ellet6560]

"Help" was released in 1965 on their fifth album, titled "Help". There was also a "Help" movie that probably featured songs from the album. I don't recall much about it as I saw it when I was 8 years old! Their first years were fun as I'm just starting to recall some of my favs since watching this. I Want to Hold Your Hand, Love Me Do, Yesterday, PS, I Love You, She Loves You (YEA YEA YEA). They sort of lost me with the whole "Paul" thing but I do enjoy some of their later tracks. Thanks!