Hip Hop Fan REACTS to The Beatles' "REVOLVER" Album For The First Time

This is my First REACTION/REVIEW to The Beatles' 1966 Album, "Revolver". Come on this journey with me.
Tracklist:
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I’m Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want to Tell You
13. Got to Get You into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
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Outro song: • The Faith
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[@keekaynene]

The Beatles Go Too Hard!!!

[@JD43232]

You should react to Paul McCartney and BECK - Find My Way. Its a young deepfake Beatle Paul in a psychedelic videoclip with a groovy slick track. Its surreal!! Its like Paul from The Beatles is a Young modern artist in 2021. And yes The Beatles go hard!

[@timbaker6540]

I really enjoy your take on music. Your a funny guy with great insight

[@BRGKasumi77Main]

Yesss!

[@SAK1855]

What can’t be understood listening now is what this sounded like at the time. “Tomorrow Never Knows” was the first use of loops/samples in mainstream pop music - and the engineers broke all the rules (literal rules back then about where to place mics etc) to get totally unusual sounds. It must have been mind blowing.

[@MsAppassionata]

It certainly was to me (and probably most everyone else) when I first heard it. I didn’t understand it and it took me awhile to really appreciate it but I absolutely love it now.

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

you nailed it when you pointed out that the songs don't overstay their welcome....each song contains a unique musical idea, and a unique sound, and puts it out there with no extra baggage, and gets on to the next fresh musical idea.... the Beatles can do that because they were bursting with musical ideas.. also, in those days of AM radio, they created songs to be under 3 minutes long hoping to get airplay on AM radio which is how we listened to music in the 1950's and 60's... and AM radio wanted to play three or four songs between commercial breaks which came about every 10 minutes... so longer songs wouldn't get played on the radio... the Beatles were the ones who broke that mould with their song "Hey Jude" which was 7 minutes long, but by then the Beatles were so huge, and the song so great, that radio had to play it.... FM radio which broadcast in stereo took over by the early 70's and at first they would play longer tracks and whole albums until it became commercialized as well.... the AM hit songs from Revolver were Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby, and I've Got To Get You Into My Life... for your next Beatles video you might want to watch the live version of Hey Jude from the David Frost Show...

[@neilsun2521]

Yeah I love that tight, lean way '60s songs do their thing in such a compact way. I've never been into proggier rock much myself.

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

@@neilsun2521 part of the punk rock of the second half of the 1970's was a reaction against prog rock, and the CBGB's bands like the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads went back to writing shorter songs with an AM radio feel... same in the UK with the Sex Pistols and Clash and X Ray Specs, etc.

[@MsAppassionata]

Dylan did it first with “Like A Rolling Stone” in 1965.

[@renechateaubriand2645]

EFFING Brilliant Beatles: the diversity of sounds and styles--Indian Raga, Guitar Rock, Proto-Funk/Soul, Avant Garde, Classical, Jazz-Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental: the wonderful weirdness of it all impacted and influenced future wonderful weird artists ranging from Prince to Wu Tang. It's all there...THERE.

[@chamoychicken2122]

1966!!!

[@jnagarya519]

"The Beatles" became a studio band with "Rubber Soul" -- songs that couldn't be played live.

[@renechateaubriand2645]

@@jnagarya519 : That is something of a myth: In their last world tour in 1966, the Beatles played quite a few songs from Revolver, particularly the guitar-oriented rockers, whereas they eschewed the studio experiments such as "Tomorrow Never Knows" and the orchestral numbers such as "Eleanor Rigby," in that the technology did not exist in the day to recreate the labyrinth of aural textures on the first and traveling with a string section made little sense, given that even as late as 1966, the Beatles' audiences' hysteria resulted in a non-stop blast of screams that drowned out whatever the Beatles played. To the point of the myth, bootleg videos and live recordings of the Beatles 1966 tour show them playing such complex Revolver-era material as If I Needed Someone, Paperback Writer, And Your Bird Can Sing, et al.

[@Alpha_7227]

@@jnagarya519 Revolver was so far ahead of its time. They couldn't possibly play them live unless you totally rearrange them. I can't imagine being a Beatles fan back then listening to their poppish stuff like Can't Buy me love and then being presented with Tomorrow never knows.

[@tikilocklin]

it's all here there and everywhere 😏

[@TheGroucho66]

Revolver might be my favourite album by The Beatles. Chronologically in terms of their career, you find The Beatles here on the cusp of their creative peak. Fun fact: The backwards guitar in 'I'm Only Sleeping' is the first-ever use of a backwards instrument on a song (as in a recording of guitar that is then played in reverse). At the time, The Beatles were looking for psychedelic techniques to give them a trippy/alien sound and one evening after a session, John Lennon got high on weed and accidentally put in the tape of that day's recording into the tape machine the wrong way when trying to listen back to it and the result was the audio being played in reverse. It sounded so unique and strange that he rushed into the studio the next day like "Lads, LISTEN TO THIS!". This led to the backwards guitar solo in 'I'm Only Sleeping' and the backwards vocals at the end of 'Rain'. I would also, in your own time, check out the songs 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain' which were the singles released in conjunction with the album since The Beatles, at the time, would keep the singles off the album as they felt like leaving the singles on the album would cheat fans and make them waste money by them buying the same two songs twice in single form and in album form. In this sense, the singles WOULD have been on the album had it not been for that philosophy. This album is considered the first of their 'LSD' inspired/psychedelic albums (the other two being Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour). Many of the songs on this album were inspired by psychedelia and acid such as the hazy/stoner feeling of 'I'm Only Sleeping', the fact that the lyrics for 'She Said She Said' were directly based on Lennon's interaction with Peter Fonda (whilst Lennon was high on LSD when the Beatles had a party in LA with The Byrds and Fonda kept wanting to show Lennon his gunshot wound he got as a child and kept saying "I know what it's like to be dead" and Lennon, not wanting to get a bad trip, was like "You're making me feel like I've never been born! Who put all those things in your head?" and kept trying to get away from him), the feelings of being misunderstood and intellectually/emotionally at odds with someone in 'And Your Bird Can Sing', the difficulty in trying to express how you're feeling (under the influence) in 'I Want To Tell You', 'Doctor Robert' (not need to point out why that's drug related lol), and 'Tomorrow Never Knows' with its lyrics taken from 'The Tibetan book of the Dead' which tries to guide you through an acid trip). Also the fact that they incorporated both classical music (Eleanor Rigby) and Indian music (Love You To) in the same album is pretty amazing too.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

If the Album had the Singles tracks on it they would only buy the Album.

[@poiesist]

Asterisk *The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bardo Thodol, is a Tibetan Buddhist Religious text which is meant to be recited above the body of a dead individual to guide their spirit through the space “between” (Bardo) lives. In 1964, Timothy Leary, an ex-Harvard psychologist and figurehead for the psychedelic counterculture, co-wrote with his brilliant former colleagues Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, an adaptation of the Bardo Thodol that guided a user of psychedelics through the symbolic psychic death and rebirth processes that can accompany drugs like LSD and psilocybin. John Lennon, having found a copy of this book, bought it, went home, and followed the instructions written in the front of the book to take LSD and follow along, wherein he read, “Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.” He wrote the lyrics from that experience, and the backing track was built from there. Of all the Beatles’ sonic contrasts across their catalogue, I’ll never get over the fact that they did both Love Me Do and Tomorrow Never Knows. TNK can still give me goosebumps

[@dwcinnc]

From Wikipedia: "Tomorrow Never Knows" was featured during the final scene of the 2012 Mad Men episode "Lady Lazarus". Don Draper's wife Megan gives him a copy of Revolver, calling his attention to a specific track and suggesting, "Start with this one". Draper, an advertising executive, is struggling to understand youth culture, but after contemplating the song for a few puzzled moments, he shuts it off. The track also played over the closing credits. The rights to the song cost the producers around $250,000, "about five times as much as the typical cost of licensing a song for TV"

[@enshen2190]

Fun Fact: Tomorrow Never Knows was the first track finished for the album, which set the path for more of their experimental years

[@jimdev81]

Great reaction! Knowing all these songs forwards/backwards, I can’t wait for each song to watch your reactions, and you don’t disappoint! Great taste and good ear for fabulous music!

[@mikefetterman6782]

This is considered by some to be the BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME>

[@stevegirard-voiceaudiopodcasts]

Hey, check out Earth, Wind & Fire's version of Got to Get You Into My Life... very cool. All the Beatle albums were simply great: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's, White Album, Abbey Road, Let it Be... each one defined the year that it was released, because everyone listened to them. It was like Boston having their debut album success on every release, or Fleetwood Mac having Rumours-level success on every release. That's why they were the Beatles.

[@BryceVoelkel]

Sgt Peppers should be the next Beatles album you do Rolling Stone Magazine named it the best album of all time

[@enshen2190]

My mans room be right next to heaven

[@hungfao]

By this time in their career, they were proven hit makers and were allowed a lot more leniency in the studio to 'experiment'. This and the influence of LSD started changing the way they approached sound. They also introduced real social commentary in their lyrics. 'Taxman' referred to them being in the 92% tax bracket in Britain, for example. They even put the names of two politicians in the lyrics. This album is on many lists, including mine, as the best pop album of all time. It successfully covers several genres and still sounds as fresh today as it did in 1966. The songs were short because back then they were designed to be played on commercial radio which allowed 3 minute songs in their format. Anything longer was mostly ignored. The Beatles would change that about two year later when they dropped 'Hey Jude' as a single.

[@MsAppassionata]

So far as I know, Bob Dylan was actually the first to break the time barrier in 1965 with his song “Like A Rolling Stone” which was over 5 minutes long but you are correct about most songs, at the time, being under 3 minutes.

[@hungfao]

@@MsAppassionata Plenty of artists had long songs breaking the 3 minute barrier, but they didn't get Top 40 commercial airplay. Bob's song is a revered track even today, but I don't recall it getting its fair share of radio play. I followed the Top 40 intently at the time with an eye on becoming a disk jockey. Bob's song didn't get airplay the way it should have in 1965. Despite all of the reluctance from the record company and the radio stations, it still managed to climb the charts, but I can't recall hearing it on our Top 40 stations until sometime in 1969. Meanwhile, I was listening to 'Hey Jude' while I was walking home from school in 1968. Longer songs became a trend, FM radio was born, and I quit listening to the Top 40 in the early 70s preferring the longer tracks the FM stations weren't afraid to play.

[@2cupsoforangejuice]

Funny how you said yellow submarine gave you images of like a 60s cartoon, cause there was actually an animated yellow submarine movie in 68

[@johnandrews3151]

Got To Get You Into My Life was released as a single six years after the Beatles broke up to commemorate the release of the Beatles album called Rock n Roll Music, which contained many previously released songs. The song became a top 10 hit in 1976 and was covered a couple of years later by Earth, Wind & Fire who also hit the top 10 with their very different version. Check it out!

[@B.R.0101]

Got to get you into my life "Ooooohh" moment os so hilarious!!!!! Btw he's the same McCartney who wrote the depressing songs Eleonor Rigby and For No One.... Lol

[@keekaynene]

Paul a legend for sure 🔥🔥🔥 glad you enjoyed the video my gee 🙏🏾

[@makeadifference4all]

@@keekaynene Once you started in with the oohs, it got an Earth, Wind, and Fire vibe from when they covered this song in 1978 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3zWnIysiax4fqc&ab_channel=EarthWindandFireVEVO There aren't many songs that are hits for different bands.

[@patticrichton1135]

"For No One" is a BEAUTIFUL song,

[@MrDiddyDee]

Great reaction. 'Tomorrow never knows' threw you, but then it always did for everyone 's first listen, particularly when it was first released, it will grow on you. 'Yellow submarine' isn't for everyone either, it's designed as a kids song, and some light relief from the deep stuff, a lot of their albums from this period on had a silly song on there for the kids and their grandparents. BTW 'Yellow submarine' was later the inspiration for a full length surreal cartoon film with the same title, featuring The Beatles and their songs, it also broke new ground by mixing design styles and taking you on a wild psychedelic trip. For anyone who just hears a couple of The Beatles songs and then says they don't like them, well, they're either being contrary or just hasn't heard their range yet. You don't like that one? Well, here's something completely different then! They crossed into so many genre's, and created many more of their own along the way. They broke new ground and created so many melodic and memorable songs that have been reimagined and adapted for the past six decades and are still drawing in and inspiring every new generation.

[@skipjackdoesstuff7110]

i loved your comments and insight lol. i actually enjoyed! felt like we were really vibing

[@johnlorinc2081]

Revolver....not only my fave Fab album (Abbey Road is in the runner up slot).....I think it is the great rock album ever, by anyone. It's the story of life from childhood: (Yellow Submarine), anger (Taxman), confusion (She Said She Said) love (Here There and Everywhere) the future (Tomorrow Never Knows) death (Eleanor Rigby). and everything else in between. Great video once again!

[@narlycat]

By the way I saw your Sgt. Peppers reaction too. On that LP you referred to Within You Without You as an Arabian Nights type feel. And on Revolver here you said the same thing about Love You Too. The twangy sound, however, is not Arabian it is an Indian Sitar.

[@SG-js2qn]

This was the perfect follow up to Rubber Soul, with the band continuing to explore the idea of art rock, adding orchestral arrangements, like the violins on "Eleanor Rigby," which was a huge, huge hit. "Yellow Submarine" is a trippy nonsense song developed in collaboration with their friend Donovan. "Taxman," "Here, There, and Everywhere," "Good Day Sunshine," and "Got To Get You Into My Life" were all solid hits for the band. "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a trippy exploration of sound effects that fans really enjoyed. The backward vocals on this song and another ("Rain") stirred up all kinds of controversy, as people imagined all sorts of weird things being said. Revolver is one of the favorite albums of Beatles fans.

[@nikolozsuladze7446]

Definitely react to white album

[@enshen2190]

And rubber soul and abbey road

[@nikolozsuladze7446]

@@enshen2190 definitely

[@MsAppassionata]

I read that the dissonant sound of that repeating piano chord in “I Want To Tell You” reflects the turbulent confusion mentioned in the line “I feel hung up and I don’t know why.” Also, I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this already but “Got To Get You Into My Life” is really about Paul’s increasing fascination with marijuana, not about a woman.

[@neilsun2521]

Most Beatles songs were written in 'The Western Classical Tradition'. With some other elements added in. 'For No One' is written in the 'Lutheran, Anglican Tradition' according to the composer Howard Goodall. Even some Italian Neapolitan elements in songs like Yesterday and Hey Jude.

[@scottchapin2323]

I have to say, I love your reaction to The Beatles music. Pick an album, any album, they are all different, and great on to it's own.

[@jallakka7149]

Unconventional rainforest! Man you nailed it. I like this description.

[@richardbeaton7324]

Yellow submarine was for kids and , Got to get you into my life was about pot , Love the reaction bro , Could you do their first couple of albums , hear how they started.

[@tove8719]

These are my top 3 Beatles albums: 1. Magical mystery tour 2. Sgt. Pepper's 3. Rubber Soul Since you liked Love you to you might like some other of George's indian inspired songs such as Within you without you, The inner light and Blue jay way!

[@jnagarya519]

Listen to their first four LPs in order of release.

[@RadioReactiveOne]

"Yellow Submarine" was an animated motion picture by the Beatles, and the song, of course, was in the movie.

[@MsAppassionata]

You hit the nail right on the head with “Yellow Submarine”. It was a song written for children for the film “Yellow Submarine” which was a psychedelic cartoon that came out in 1968.

[@jordan390a]

Got to get you into my life is a song about weed...!!!!!

[@keekaynene]

Oh... 😳 Well the point still stands 😉

[@axelbaker8737]

I believe John said that Rubber Soul was the “pot album” (because they started smoking marijuana around that time) and that Revolver was the “LSD album” (because they discovered LSD around this time). Actually the Beatles were introduced to LSD when Paul and George went to some dentists house for dinner and the guy (kinda a shitty move but turned out for the best) put LSD in their drink without them knowing. The two actually liked it, introduced it to the others and it quickly became a huge influence in their music moving forward.

[@niggato23]

No it was John not Paul

[@axelbaker8737]

@@niggato23 oh that’s what I meant, John and George.

[@daudder]

Another great reaction/review. Your enthusiasm and enjoyment is very evident. Interestingly, you are going "backwards" in your exposure...Revolver was such a leap in their music, one in which they take a deeper, more complex exporations. Excellence indeed....(and FYI, "bird" is British slang for "girl/woman"....and Dr Robert was their drug dealer...:)

[@nikkilev78]

Love your reacts! If no one has mentioned it... "Got To Get You Into My Life" is Paul McCartney's love song to WEED. His new love at the time. :D

[@HehehemynamesTom]

First use of sampling was in Tomorrow Never Knows.

[@mikeevans4585]

Revolver is Chuck D's (& my) favorite Beatles album. Tomorrow Never Knows is Sampling unleashed onto an unsuspecting world of music listeners who would see a Prophecy of Pop Music and Hip Hop -- if they lived long enough to witness it -- unfold before their very eyes

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Dope shirt dude

[@keekaynene]

Thanks my gee 😁

[@jaredf6205]

You should react to Earth Wind and Fire’s cover of Got To Get You Into My Life, you said it’s your favorite one. Also Paul said it’s his favorite Beatles cover of all time.

[@johnandrews3151]

The British government had a 96% tax rate for the rich while the Beatles were together in the 1960's. After taxes, the group had 4 cents per dollar to split between. This is why George Harrison wrote the song Taxman. After the Beatles broke up, the British government went into a deep recession partly because they no longer had that revenue coming in from the Fab Four!

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

96%!,How is that Possible? So if you made $1 million you would have only $40 000 left in your pocket while someone who made $100 000 with a 50% tax rate would have $50 000 !

[@chriswright4349]

Marginal rates, not on the whole sum earned. Only the higher income bands would be highly taxed. At the time, Sterling was pre decimal, with 20 shillings to the pound. Hence 19 for you and 1 for me.

[@jordanconstantinou]

Yeah bro Frank Ocean sampled Here, There, and Everywhere. Greatness recognises greatness!

[@nelsonmaud1]

This one's one of my faves of them

[@williamhenning4700]

"You shouldn't be taking any." Based.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

The final cut "Tomorrow Never Knows" was probably the most psychedelic they'd ever been, and as others have noted "broke all the rules". Compare it to "She Loves You" or "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and see how far they had gone in just a few years.

[@debbiekringle4474]

Love for you to listen to their earlier album Meet the Beatles to see how far they evolved...love that album:)))

[@BrianOates]

In Australia and the UK women are called “bird,” it’s like in the US when we call a women a “chick.” The Beatles often used “bird” when they were talking about a woman. “And your bird can sing” and “Blackbird” both had double meanings. Paul McCartney said he wrote “Blacbird” about the mistreatment of black women in America.

[@Realbillball]

Revolver has been tested by 56 years of time and it still sounds fresh. Quality never dies.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

Has MJ's Thriller stood the test of Time?

[@Realbillball]

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 In my personal opinion Thriller was a stinker then, just like it still is. So in that respect quality hasn't changed much for that one either.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

@@Realbillball I'm not a fan of MJ either but Thriller Songs are still being played on the Radio after 40 years. A stinker can't sell 50 million Copies. I actually love the Guitar Riff on MJ's Black or White. I know people who hate Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon but it has stood the test of time.

[@Realbillball]

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 In my ears it's a stinker. It's a personal opinion and no attempt to make it into an objective and universal law. I have noticed that millions of my fellow human beings will strongly disagree, and I get it. It's perfectly all right. If they love it, bless them. Plenty of room for all of us. :)

[@chamoychicken2122]

Apparently I’m Only Sleeping is a song John and Paul wrote about being high, only a rumor but 😂

[@bobbobbins4877]

Nah, it was actually about sleeping, because he was lazy

[@stephenqualtrough7322]

Try Rubber Soul sometime by The Beatles

[@tikilocklin]

"unconventional rainforest" is my favorite thing I've ever heard

[@betsyab121]

John Lennon was a notorious sleeper who never wanted to get out of bed to write songs when Paul would call him, hence he wrote I'm Only Sleeping.

[@mitchellwilliam95]

All thriller, no filler!

[@enshen2190]

Idk if you have but you should also listen to some Pink Floyd, I recommend something like Echoes or Pigs or the album “Dark Side of the moon”

[@keekaynene]

Yeah I have actually 🤗 dark side of the moon is up on the channel right now 👌🏾🔥

[@enshen2190]

@@keekaynene oh nice

[@jstock2317]

Got to get you into my Heart was also redone by Earth Wind and Fire. You gotta check it out.

[@thewizard6077]

Awesome reaction! I Subscribed! I would definitely, keep with the Beatles album reactions, but I would also highly recommend reacting to Led Zeppelin albums. Led Zeppelin are the 5th biggest selling musical artists of all time (behind only #4 Michael Jackson, #3 Garth Brooks, #2 Elvis Presley, and of course, #1 The Beatles). I would start with the album Led Zeppelin I, then proceed to the albums Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV, and so on. Peace

[@keekaynene]

Thank you for watching man, and that doesn't sound like a bad idea at all 🤔

[@destroyerkitty9434]

Mini Hypothesis / Theory: The Beatles: Revolver is an album who’s main theme is cycling through little snippets of different individuals lives. The way different people live them, and what different people are up to around the world, hence the title Revolver. Each song is a small chapter of a different person or people’s lives, each story revolving like bullets in a gun.

[@edwardthorne9875]

I have also heard it said that 'Revolver' was named simply for the fact that that is what the album did. It sat on the turntable and revolved. (It also may have been British slang for a record album) Of course, the gun image didn't hurt. This album threatened the world.

[@destroyerkitty9434]

@@edwardthorne9875 Thats so cool! I love multi-layered meanings

[@aquamarine99911]

I personally think Revolver would have been even better if they had stretched some songs out. But in 1966, bands couldn't really do that. Beatles made up for it in 1967. Two things about "Got to Get you Into My Life". #1 McCartney wrote it not to a girl, but as a homage to marijuana. #2 You gotta hear the Earth Wind and Fire version. It's the best ever cover version of a Beatles track, for my money.

[@user-xb5zc5or7x]

'Rubber soul' is the best album of The Beatles...

[@futurereflections4097]

Interesting opinion, can't say you're wrong though.

[@ZaphiroAnejo]

Any album can be their best if you are in the mood

[@davidglass4227]

Funny you thought of a cartoon for Yellow Submarine. 2 years later, the Beatles made a full length animated motion picture of Yellow Submarine.

[@narlycat]

And Your Bird Can Sing was John Lennon singing about Mick Jaggers (Rolling Stones) new girlfriend. Girls were called birds in UK slang.

[@dabig25]

Beatles later years material was really good. Watch the new McCartney 3,2,1 documentary on Hulu that just came out

[@benoitrenaud519]

That album changed the world of popular music.

[@slawssson9447]

hell ya bro this album is wild if ur trippin 😳

[@keekaynene]

Well looks like it'll never get wild for me then 😅😅😅

[@slawssson9447]

@@keekaynene understandable

[@davidschecter5247]

These things are reminding you of so many other songs because everybody ripped off The Beatles! They did almost everything... FIRST! Fun watching you go over this classic album. Every song is pretty much different on this album from every other one. The Beatles covered so much territory. You are right about the song length. In the 1960s the writers could get so much into a two-or-three-minute length. These days, all the songs are stretched out beyond what their creativity can handle.

[@davidglass4227]

George wrote Taxman because, at the time, the Beatles were paying between 90 -95% taxes. For every dollar they made, they only received about 4 cents

[@genebaughbba3479]

They were in a VERY HIGH tax bracket.

[@deborahdean]

Yellow Submarine is actually a Beatles cartoon.

[@seandodd6388]

It's the Beatles on acid brother. Their first true attempt into their acid rock venture. 1966 started a lot of bands in that direction and LSD was still legal until October 6, 1966 anyway.

[@jthaw]

You have to play this music LOUD!

[@beatawallace5725]

Got to get you into my life, Earth Wind, and Fire did a cover .

[@davidwhite8220]

A song that ends too soon makes you realize how much you like it. A song that ends too late makes you realize how much you don't like it. The Beatles knew the tricks of the trade. That's a minor one, but still worth doing.

[@davidglass4227]

I'm only Sleeping had the 1st backward guitar solo.

[@slawssson9447]

dr robert was their dentist who gave them lsd

[@keekaynene]

Lmao their dentists? 😅

[@slawssson9447]

@@keekaynene ikr it’s pretty wacky lmao, he didn’t even tell them beforehand either he jus put it in their tea 😳

[@nala203]

Dr Robert was their acid dealer lol

[@keekaynene]

Yeah... Dr. Robert something else 😅

[@mayasagi1385]

You should really listen to sgt pepper it's the best album of their career, potentially of all time

[@gapenewell609]

Bro you’re hilarious 😂 and you have good taste too! Got to get you into my life and good day sunshine are definitely the best tracks on here. And I agree that doctor Robert is probably the weakest song but still good.

[@robertbowman7395]

You seem to be drawn (like me) to the McCartney songs.... the majority of Beatles songs are attributed to Lennon/McCartney..... even though a lot of their songs were written separately

[@keekaynene]

Yeah Paul is something special for real then

[@darshin95]

John says he's miles away in I'm Only Sleeping because he feels disconnected. Sgt Pepper is considered their opus but Rubber Soul and Revolver are both superior.

[@raylenepasquarella7302]

Regarding "l'm Only Sleeping" i also think he's singing about being high in this song.

[@johnr8095]

It was actually about him sleeping.

[@narlycat]

Got to get you into my life is about pot. Written after Paul McCartney met Stevie Wonder

[@beLOey]

Hommage track kzbin.info/www/bejne/fovRoXuMfqqGgbM

[@dronesaur4328]

Revolver is the best Beatles album, and 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is the best Beatles song. Just saying 🤷‍♀️

[@Richjake123]

Never thought I’d hear a song described as an “unconventional jungle” in my life 😂😂😂

[@1nelsondj]

Again I cannot stress how much I hate lesser artists mining the past for a great melody to steal. REAL artists come up with the goods, invent something original, it's what makes them artists instead of dictaphones (dics for short).

[@xxEzraBxxx]

Good artists copy, great artists steal - Picasso

[@FolkSongsEtAl]

I think the Beatles would have been paying about 95% tax back then.

[@robinfoster7597]

At this point in their career, The Beatles were paying 96% tax.

[@davidwhite8220]

Having been a Beatlemaniac for 50 years, I really have little doubt (arrogant bastard that I am) that Sgt. Pepper is their best album. I once played bass in a Beatles band, before the rhythm guitarist fired me for being (get this) arrogant, which is to say clearly more talented than he was ... .

[@dantofthegenxfamily9529]

The 5 dislike are brought to you by Living under a Rock inc.

[@lildeena1]

You need headsets! Your missing so much

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Pathetic that current artists can’t create their own shit…sampling is one thing…that shit is theft

[@timbaker6540]

Got to get you into my life is about weed 🤣

[@youngbloodk]

The Beatles paid a 95% tax rate, hence 1 for you 19 for me.

[@georgesmith8988]

Got to get you into my life is not about a girl, it’s about marijuana

[@robinraan]

You’re very sensitive, a quick study. Thanks keekay