The Beatles "The White Album" (Side 2) First Time Reaction

[@L33Reacts]

This video has been deemed not worthy by the copyright holders and will be deleted by the end of the day. Watch it while you can. I don’t get it, there are a hundred reactions to this album on this platform. Is it because I’m a pretty dude? Is that why? Makes no sense lmao

[@kweile4339]

It makes no sense to me either but I am so glad you put it here today!

[@Bigdong-kl2fh]

If you eyedropped some LSD everything will be alright.

[@sirajaxl]

Getting it while it’s here…

[@pookiemartinez1745]

Paul doing his hero Elvis impression intro in Rocky Raccoon. Brilliant

[@lizze490]

So sorry Lee- but thank you ❤

[@redadamearth]

It's just very hard to imagine that another band will come around with this kind of songwriting magic. They weren't just once-in-a-generation, they were once in all generations.

[@NickNack-l4q]

Rocky Racoon is such a great example of 'you never know what you're gonna get' with the Beatles. I love it!

[@susanscott3333]

Imagine how we felt the first time we heard this in 1968!

[@mikewa2]

Every song totally different from every other song. Reinventing themselves on every occasion. Who else? Such variety and such excellence

[@James-c8s9z]

Just about every genre of music on this album. A masterpiece!!

[@BecomeConsciousNow]

Totally agree Lee. Julia is so beautiful. That song is like a beautifully tragic dream. Lennon is so good at capturing raw real emotions in such a deep and meaningful way. Just a gorgeous dream like song.

[@hoppers13]

When you let four geniuses loose in a studio with unlimited time, you get a double album that blew the socks off the world. Can’t wait for side 3 (the best side 3 of all time). Woohoo! Loving this, Lee.

[@fineasfogg1461]

This is all gold to me. Thank you🎉

[@gillwaugh7212]

What a great way to end the day. Thank you so much xx

[@ianlaker9161]

Rocky Racoon always makes me smile. Just another effortless piece of brilliance covering another musical genre to add to all the others that The Beatles shifted to restlessly to keep everyone guessing. ALL THE TIME!

[@RJ-oy7cq]

The sheer variety and breadth makes this their best album...brillant!

[@michaelbriefs9764]

Lee, great reaction. You should check out the film "Nowhere Boy". It's about John Lennon's boyhood-into-Teenhood life, right around when he met Paul. The film is not without its faults but it does get many things right. One thing it gets right is Julia, John's Mom. The actress who plays her is great and so is Kristen Scott Thomas, the actress who plays his Aunt Mimi. The film is well done but sad. Quite sad. But it is cathartic because John survives this time to go on to achieve his dreams, with his friends Paul, George, and, eventually, Ringo. God bless him.

[@YN97WA]

For me, the 60s was the Beatles, the 70s the Eagles, and all the great music in between. Now that I'm rounding third and heading for home, I believe I was lucky enough to have grown up during music's golden age. Love your reactions, Lee.

[@larshenrikfabrin7640]

You did a great job on this one (as usual) I think my favorites on this side are 'Blackbird' , 'Rocky Raccoon', 'I will' and 'Julia'.

[@jimwillride]

You rock so hard dude. Can't believe you got three sides up today (so far). I really think you are the most devoted about getting deep, and are listening really widely too. I am starting to come here to find the knowledge bank. Happy week brother. ❤❤❤

[@rbking9296]

After 60 years of their music I would say they have already stood the test of time it seems that every generation seems to find them and the majority seems to love them and understand why they were as big and innovative and influential they wereAnd still are today

[@Grizazzle]

Thanks, Lee for sharing this with us. I'm certain that I speak for everyone, that listening to this album with you brings us back to our first time as well. This is definitely one of the best if not THE best albums of all time. Thanks again for sharing your first full listen.

[@johndavids4780]

WE used to sing Bungalow Bill for cadence when we marched in basic training. Our DI was a Beatles fan if you can believe that.

[@lizze490]

That's awesome, John

[@glenndespres5317]

That is the coolest thing i’ve heard!

[@lizze490]

Julia, so sad, lovely and devastating 😢

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Fantastic album❤❤❤❤

[@lizze490]

🥂Cheers Beatles, cheers Lee and All 🍾

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

Also, it shows how the Beatles just were so inventive and how they tried so many different styles. Most artist just stick with a formula. It is partly what make the Beatles so good and the White Album so great, so many greta songs, what the hell songs and fun songs.

[@yournamehere6002]

John on bass and harmonica and George Martin on piano for "Rocky Raccoon"

[@fineasfogg1461]

Heehee I am smiling so big listening to all this with you. 🎵Rocky racoon🎵🤣😁

[@robertdupuis3300]

On this album, you can tell they're becoming individuals. The songs happen to be written while they were The Beatles and the result is magical.

[@glenndespres5317]

Anyone else want to show Lee some love for doing this for us? Come on! ❤

[@lizze490]

Blackbird breaks my heart every time.

[@AlBarzUK]

There’s a lovely video of Paul playing this solo. The guitar picking is so superb. The voice isn’t perfect but I love it still. ✌️

[@fineasfogg1461]

Isn't it much better to spread music instead of hate or disruption?

[@Bigdong-kl2fh]

Yes

[@lizze490]

Spot on, Fineas

[@reneelyons6836]

Watching before deleted!!!!!! 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

McCartney brings the melodies from a happy place

[@MrRiverfeverwa]

On the song Julia, Donovon Leitch taught John Lennon this unusual strum pattern and cadence....

[@MTB-Idle]

Oooh side 2 so quickly. Standouts for me on this side were always Julia, Bungalow Bill and Why don’t we do it in the road. The album I had came with the four pics shown here as separate A4 colour prints and these adorned my bedroom walls during my teenage years.

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

As you probably know, Julia was John's mother. I've always loved The White Album; bought it when it first came out.

[@carundle-ds1op]

I Will is one of McCartney's best love songs, but it doesn't get the appreciation many other do.

[@brianvernon249]

And that creepy coda of Cry Baby Cry. It freaked me out age 8 when I memorized this album. Sexy Sadie never gets old. Oh! *side 2* ha! Thought Disc 2.

[@haranbanjo8024]

Rocky Rackoon is one of the greatest song of their catalogue cause is the only song you are like inside a movie; and the storytelling is amazing! I think Rocky Rackoon together Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Happines warm gun, Helter Skelter, while my Guitar gently weeps is the pinnacle of the White Album.

[@yes_head]

The psychedelics were mostly put away and they went off to India to clear their heads and get a new perspective on life and the cosmos. It sort of worked in that by the time they were ready to record again they were a very different band. IMO the one thing the four of them agreed on about making this album was that they weren't going to take the songs or themselves so seriously anymore (but don't tell Paul McCartney not to put 150 percent into every song, even something like "Blackbird".) But there's a spontaneity to these songs that would resurface on 'Let It Be'.

[@richgaluppo4417]

There used to be a Gideon's Bible in the bedside table of every hotel room in the USA. Not sure when that practice ceased. Rock on.

[@philippamalherbe4111]

Thank you Lee!

[@stamatiskon3049]

I don't know why Paul chose to sing the bass line in I Will instead of playing it but it's always so fun to listen to it.

[@glenndespres5317]

Wait, what?…. Dude. Duuuuuuude! Still learning new stuff after listening my whole life! Awesome. 😅

[@ChannelSseb]

@@glenndespres5317This may be the first Beatboxing song, Paul is a genius!

[@walterlippmann6292]

go birds

[@ericwilliams1031]

Everytime I hear Piggies I think of Manson

[@perrymalcolm3802]

I had a friend who learned to play Rocky Racoon in the 70s n had to play n sing it all the time!! Therefore I DESPISE IT!!

[@richardrobinson4020]

Putting my mark here again from KZbin and not Patreon

[@thewalrus6833]

McCartney sang the bass sound on ' I Will ' with his mouth - Dum, Dum Dum Dum etc.

[@robertdupuis3300]

Nice to see you got in the mood just before. ;o)

[@kweile4339]

One more time...

[@fineasfogg1461]

I like Ringos track. He has just been totally hood winked and that sad crazy fiddle. And that his hand is moving and he's by himself.😮

[@robertsaul234]

The sequencing of all the animal named songs in a row is the group having a little laugh.

[@willswalkingwest7267]

Paul saw monkeys "doing it" in the road in India. Hence the song.

[@davidrauh8118]

George Martin wanted to condense the album to a single disc, selecting the best tunes. They refused and wanted it all out. John even said if Revolution 9 wasn't included he would take all his songs off. So George's Not Guilty didn't make the cut. Personally I think Hey Jude should have replaced Revolution 9.

[@1noyk]

Apparently “Sexy Sadie” was written by John after he decided to leave Rishikesh… The Maharishi was the inspiration for the song…John said, “ I just called him Sexy Sadie.”

[@akahina]

I feel the same about John.

[@TheodoreWeiser]

Piggies was glommed onto by Manson, and as such it was overlooked since then and George didn't like it much

[@rbking9296]

While the Beatles A lot of serious songs and deep songs they also knew how to have fun with their music as they did on this rocky raccoon and several other tracks

[@gazzap6776]

John's reference on I'M SO TIRED' to cursing Sir Walter Raleigh is because he invented the cigarette. GAZ

[@AlBarzUK]

Well he brought tobacco back from America to England, at least. ✌️

[@ferpiopiogm]

Why don't we do it in the road? At least while we can, can´t we?

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

Nice

[@jaylevy2108]

I always thought Rocky Racoon and Don't Pass Me By - benefited from country influence

[@reneestewart9425]

👏🏼

[@tomtortolani8082]

Rocky Raccoon, a karaoke favorite

[@DrStrangelove3891]

Why Don't We Do It In The Road has some amazing lyrical content, pure poetry 😄

[@sarahfullerton6894]

😂😅

[@pookiemartinez1745]

Paul drums Martha My Dear. Let's get it.

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Side 2 of Abbey Road!!!!!

[@rhwinner]

We used to clean our weed on this album cover....

[@richardmartin9565]

Martha was his dog. Notice the "prancing" beat and the "panting dog" sound?

[@Manicpanicanticant]

Please read About 70% of the time the 2009 remasters are better as they retain the finer details of the music. Just one example is in the song 'everybody's got something to hide' There's a break in the song at 2:06 where John steps away from the mic at a good distance and lets out this manic scream multiple times, it's extremely faint (use earphones), I always loved that part. It's completely drowned out in the new remixes. But a song like all my loving has been improved from the 2009 remasters. I don't understand why Giles didn't start off with remixing the older albums, recorded with more primitive technology as these are the albums that would have benefitted more from it. Not abbey road, it's perfect the way it was! In 10 years time they'll come up with another excuse to remix these albums and tinker with the music, until each time a instrument here or there is completely buried. Also look at she said she said and helter skelter 2009 vs super deluxe

[@TedCrimeLord]

May I recommend Talk Talk, Gary Numan and Japan..

[@jeffw.england]

The real beatles are the original albums mono and stereo.

[@ianlaker9161]

Piggies, I'm sure was a dig at the spurious drug busts by bent police of famous rock stars in the 60s.

[@johncurtis7186]

My favorite Beatle album, except when it’s not 😂 On a different note, what happened to your Commanders on Sunday? A loss at home, to a beat up Dallas team 🤮

[@glenndespres5317]

You mean the Skins? Don’t hate on me, Bro! 😅

[@johncurtis7186]

@ : No hate. Whether the name should have been changed, is a whole different discussion. That being said, the Washington team, IS, nicknamed the Commanders 🤷🏻‍♂️