First Time Reaction | The Beatles - Rain | That’s Was A DIFFERENT Vibe!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

To me, for the time, this was just a masterful blend of playing with harmony and texture, and then the words are just so simple but evocative.

[@LindaAtchison-qi2fm]

That's the great thing about the Beatles, they have a song for every mood.

[@Niteowlette]

This was a single and never released on an album at the time. The flip side was Paperback Writer. The Beatles had quit touring and wanted to stretch their technical abilities in the studio with the help of their ace producer George Martin. Another great Beatles song! ❤

[@howarddickson8856]

Wow the Beatles don't disappoint.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

That's Paul on bass guitar doing those octaves with the slides up into them but he's also doing really quick finger work between the octaves, he was such an instinctive bass player, even though he started off playing guitar.

[@garfle1959]

No sliding for octaves unless a player only has 1 string LOL. Very simple with 4 strings. He does move up and down a whole step on the chorus.

[@sagan666]

That bass, and Ringos drumming. This song was so ahead of its time.

[@fidge54]

George Martin said that when they decided to have him produce their records the one thing they wanted was for all their recordings to sound like nothing they'd done before

[@beadybaby]

I can never resist this song! ❤

[@CadillacL]

Pure magic.

[@lindasalvaterra1304]

That's John singing!

[@brentlund2272]

John singing lead !

[@pamelawertz498]

Another cool Beatles song (from Rubber Soul) that shows how they were just ahead of everybody else is You Won't See Me. Amazing harmonies of course.

[@jango3014]

I love Pauls bass playing in this song

[@eseslappsfunk]

TEENA MARIE - IT MUST BE MAGIC 🎵🎶🔥

[@theG-man-p2h]

😄Apparently, John mistakenly listened to the tape of this song backwards. He loved the way it sounded so much that he wanted to release the entire song played in reverse. He settled for just the little bit at the end!

[@perrymalcolm3802]

Rain came out when I was home with the Mumps or Measles n my sister had the single 45 (among others), it’s been a favorite since then. Even then, I loved the sound n could even understand the message. End of their first era, transitioning toward Pepper. A Lennon home run!

[@benjclarke5825]

Paul was the more experimental Beatle - BUT he always enjoyed trying out the experiments on John's songs, lol. He kept a tighter reign on the production of his own compositions.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Somehow, back to back with Paperback Writer, Rain, somehow they took incredible strides forward.

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

Ringo rocks!

[@TW-me4lw]

The Beatles loved to write nonsense lyrics, leaving the listener scratching their head, trying to make sense of it (I Am The Walrus, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Why Don't We Do It In The Road). On the other hand, they also sometimes wrote very profound, meaningful lyrics (Dear Prudence, Across The Universe, Eleanor Rigby, Something). Honestly, back in the day, lyrics were rarely available to be studied. What you could make out on the radio was what you went with, as far as lyrics went, and it was often wrong. Most albums didn't even include lyrics in their packaging. I guess what I'm getting at is, song reactors, today, get far more out of the lyrics than we ever really had the chance to, when these songs were contemporary. Because, we had no internet, no computers. The best chance we had to find lyrics was at a public library, if the vinyl LP album didn't include them in the packaging.

[@paulwolf2432]

Think of the lyrics here, as a kind of psychedelic manifesto, “Can you hear me/That when it rains and shines/It’s just a state of mind.” Subjective reality trumps objective reality…”

[@timbaker6540]

Life is what you make of it

[@mgonzales56]

No, before The Beatles, nobody had secret meanings in their lyrics. Everyone wrote about love, and that was about it. Everything changed during The Beatles second phase of their career, when they started writing more complex songs with meaning. Then many bands started to follow suite.

[@darrelmack5185]

Usually whoever wrote the song sings it, unless it was written for George or. Rings.

[@thedogwoods5716]

It’s just about rain and how it’s not bad basically lol

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Oh man their lyrics function on so many levels, there's no need to take things at face value although it's helpful to do it on all levels of course. Nice Kendrick Lamar reference. 👌

[@bobguitarlearner8007]

kendrick, sure, try bob dylan

[@Phillphine]

Rain? Try Led Zeppelin, "the rain song" Stevie Ray Vaughan, "couldn't stand the weather" (head bobber) Patti Griffin "rain" (soft) David Sanborn, "rain on Christmas" (instrumental jazz) Bruce Cockburn "the coming rains"

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

Almost didn't give you the thumbs up for mistaking this for a Paul song😂 So! John this one.

[@SC_Jolly]

Try reacting to Across the Universe and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

[@bobguitarlearner8007]

drugs were illegal and to say the song was about drugs at that time it would have been banned

[@BabbleBebble]

This is where Oasis started!

[@Soundhypno]

It's about non=duality

[@terrenceplunkett]

John is singing a song he wrote. If you’re going to react to geniuses like The Beatles and Bob Dylan, you’re going to have to stop trying to figure out what “it means”. Sometimes it’s just free form poetry. I guess that’s become a lost art among today’s recordings “artists”

[@charliecochran3035]

Who gets mad? Lol kooks.

[@beadybaby]

I can never resist this song! ❤