THE BEATLES - ELEANOR RIGBY AND NO REPLY (REACTION)

[@ricknbacker5626]

You need not apologize for your speaking voice. Young lady, you are speaking a second language. That is most impressive and shows you have a very organized mind. I can barely speak English and it's my first (and only) language. One of Paul original unused lyrics for Eleanor Rigby was "Ola Na Tungee, blowing his mind in the dark with a pipe full of clay.' Keep up the fine work A R. You're doing great!! RNB

[@ricknbacker5626]

Are you by chance from the Yoruba tribe. I have noticed people from the Yoruba do not pronounce the "H" sound. For instance where the Igbo say "Help", the Yoruba say "elp". I have always been interested in dialects. Thank you Dearie, for pinning my comment. That is twice in a week!!! RNB

[@debbiechang5781]

No need to apologize for your accent. I admire anyone who can speak in a language other than their native tongue. I thoroughly enjoy your reactions. These are both great songs by the best band on earth 🥰

[@ittamandarano289]

'A face by the door' means she acts differently and hides her true feeling of sadness and loneliness. We all do it. React to I'LL BE BACK AGAIN and IT WON'T BE LONG

[@daletwin1]

Those are two great Beatles songs to listen and react to. I was just listening to both of them yesterday. I've been telling reactors to listen to I'll be back for a while and nobody's done it yet. Hopefully she will soon. I love playing that song on the guitar it's a great guitar song.

[@kevinstarr516]

The "face that she keeps in the jar by the door" is the makeup she puts on her face for whoever comes over to see her, but no one ever comes.

[@peterblood50]

This makes the most sense out of that line I have ever heard.

[@kathleensmith3555]

To me the face she keeps in a jar by the door means she puts on a personality and way of presenting herself for the public when in private she is much different --- She is sad and lonely and probably very depressed but if someone comes to visit her she smiles and is cheerful and gracious -- no one would recognize her true state of being--- thats what makes Eleanor so tragic

[@mikaelzakrisson5514]

@@kathleensmith3555 Yes, this is exactly how I see it! A variation of "putting on a (happy) face".

[@patticrichton1135]

@@kathleensmith3555 that is the way I interpret it too, because in reality, many of us are like that to a greater or lesser degree, I know I am.

[@janettomlinson389]

No disrespect meant but the face in the jar is the face she puts on when she has to face the world and other people that’s why it’s by the door. It not lipstick and mascara. It is a song about intense loneliness. She isn’t invited to the wedding she picks up the rice afterwards

[@trevorholden7423]

'Eleanor Rigby' was a very deep and sad song to come out in 1966 about the plight of elderly people who were not able to find love in their life. A companion piece to this one is 'She's leaving home' which again deals with a sad topic but has a happy ending...

[@albertscanlon2005]

Thank you for a great, thoughtful response. You are so right ...like so many Eleanor Rigby puts on a brave face at times in this difficult world . I loved the song No reply...so catchy and energetic. Terrific story telling and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.. The Beatles are so far ahead of the rest in musicality. thank you for a lovely reaction. Do not apologise for listening to Eleanor Rigby.. i must have heard No reply about 50 times in a week😀

[@brentlund2272]

the jar .....yes .....heard the song 1,999 times...........this is new to me......good show !

[@williamjordan5554]

"Face in a jar by the door" is a metaphor.

[@edgarsnake2857]

I love your voice, your accent...and your reactions!

[@MrDiddyDee]

One of Paul's songs on loneliness. He wrote a few of these songs where he shows a great understanding of the characters he created. I would group 'Eleanor Rigby' with some of his other ballads like 'Yesterday', 'For no one', and 'She's leaving home', all extraordinarily mature writing, both lyrically and melodically, for someone still in their 20's. I think he felt deep empathy with his characters. Paul McCartney lost his mother at a young age (like his bandmate John Lennon did too) , and throughout his life he appears to have held things in and put on an upbeat face. He never showed grief, at least not in public, when their first manager, Brian Epstein, died or his first wife, Linda, and even when his best friend John Lennon was shot. His response to George Harrison's death was also very reserved but you can tell he is keeping it together for the cameras. I think he has been unjustly criticised for this lack of a public display of his feelings, I think he was acutely aware the press wanted to exploit his reactions just to get headlines. Paul more than shows he has deep emotions by expressing them through his music, he has given more than enough already to the world, his inner feelings are his own private affair,

[@albertscanlon2005]

well said....grief is very personal.

[@timholt9948]

No reply very underated

[@patticrichton1135]

Yes, dear, you just gave the correct interpretation of the line "wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door"

[@tcac1687]

Unbeleivable the same group 18 months apart

[@paulstage8077]

Eleanor Rigby is a spinster woman who lives alone. With no family to speak of. She is very poor and picks up the rice at weddings to bring home and cook so she can have something to eat. Father McKenzie, from the church, and Eleanor Rigby's lives intersect after she passed. The good Father reads the Last Rights, to no one. Since nobody came to pay their last respects to the now departed Eleanor Rigby. I love your channel Annoited Reaction..

[@brandonflorida1092]

In 55 years, the idea that she eats the rice has never once occurred to me. I think she just wishes it was her getting married.

[@paulstage8077]

@@brandonflorida1092 There is no reason both interpretations could be true.

[@katarina4986]

best reaction for this song your heart is pure sista 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@williamjordan5554]

Top selling musicians ever. John sang the 1st song. Paul sang the 2nd.

[@dougsusie2319]

This is a John Lennon song, great vocals and lyrics. Eleanor Rigby is Paul McCartney. No Reply was released in December,1964 and Eleanor Rigby in August 1966, just listen to the growth of this band in 20 months, it's phenomenal.

[@spreet65]

The great thing about the Beatles & when they split & went their separate ways, is that collectively there are at least 100 magnificent songs that need reviewing.. I hope to see you review all of them. This is great stuff.

[@GrouchyMarx]

When you get a lot of early Beatles songs heard, those up through 1964, you'll be ready to experience their first cool movie, "A Hard Day's Night" (1964). It's best to know the songs you'll hear in the movie first, just as we when it came out back then. For more earlier songs like Eleanor Rigby try, "Can't Buy Me Love", "And I Love Her", "I Feel Fine", "I Should Have Known Better" and the song itself "A Hard Day's Night". You'll like these!! ✌️😎

[@accam6734]

Best. Song. Evver.

[@peterblood50]

Eleanor Rigby was a real person. She died at the age of 44 and her gravestone is located in St.Peters' Graveyard Woolton, Liverpool England. The significance of this is that, way back in 1957, Paul met John at a 'party' that was held on the grounds of the church. John and Paul would take shortcuts through the church grounds and graveyard in their "Quarrymen" days before they became the Beatles.

[@hungfao]

When a door is partially opened it is referred to as being 'ajar'. However, most of the places you will go to for lyrics will print it as 'a jar'. This gives it a happily and possibly unintentional surreal quality. Basically, Eleanor was likely a lonely spinster who spends her days peeking out her doors but rarely venturing out. Either that or she can take it off and store it for freshness in a Mason jar by the door.

[@mikek5958]

No it's "a jar by the door." Paul is describing a jar of cold-cream that she wore in an effort to look younger. "Who is it for?" because she was a lonely, old woman and there was no one to really care what she looked like.

[@timstrobel7828]

This was a. John song. Definitely showed talent and his raw voice in the early days. Eleanor is a Paul song. Big difference in the songs that was the Beatles....especially with George coming into his own. Keep them coming!❤❤👊

[@charlesking4780]

You can ask a dozen people how they interpret a Beatles song and you'll get a dozen different answers and they're all good.😁

[@johnnybarstow8950]

You are wonderful

[@roberth6009]

The best Beatles song is the one you are listening to at the moment

[@christinesmith7592]

Hello AR. The lyrics, "Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door" are a reference to the cold-cream she wears in an effort to look younger.

[@davisworth5114]

You have a good heart, love your thoughtful reactions.

[@chuckyoneil2853]

I love how you used agape love,wow.

[@extdiso]

Excellent reaction! I like your interpretation of the lyrics!!!

[@chuckyoneil2853]

They were sent from GOD.

[@jeffmartin1026]

I think you got the meaning behind Eleanor Rigby fairly spot on. "All the lonely people....". She picks up the rice where a wedding has been, lives in a dream, who is "her face" for- no one. The Beatles do not play any instruments on the song, it is just Paul and John on vocals. The strings were hired in and their music was composed by George Martin, the producer. The video for this song from their movie Yellow Submarine actually captures the song quite well. As for No Reply it seems to me the girl has moved on with her life and found someone else/better. The singer wants to control her, he stalks her and claims no one could love her more/better. She should confront him and tell him their relationship has ended instead of just walking away from him, but I think the song shows her having good reason to move on. Carry On!!

[@fredneecher1746]

George also sang on the chorus, "I Look at All the Lonely". Interestingly, he did not sing "people", that was just John and Paul (by design).

[@chuckyoneil2853]

She put on a front like she was happy.

[@chuckyoneill9029]

My brave face,look it up

[@SatsumaTengu14]

Great review! You are certainly right love, Elenor Rigby is a Paul song. Personally being of a certain older age, lol, when I hear the line , ' wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door', makes me think of people from my grandparents generation. This generation, at least all of the ones I knew, had no teeth. Every night they would place their dentures in Mason jars by the bed.

[@hiphopdylan]

Another fantastic review..! 👏👏 Thank you so much..🙏 Odabo.. 😘

[@fredneecher1746]

Listen to 'Here, There and Everywhere' from the same album as 'Eleanor Rigby'. The most beautiful ballad the Beatles ever did.

[@kevanbodsworth4817]

It is nearly always the main singer who sings the leading lyric line who wrote the song with the Beatles, So with " No Reply" it is john's song,and Eleanor Rigby Paul´s song...

[@musicaficionado2974]

Appreciate you so much!

[@gillcawthorn7572]

About Eleanor Rigby. People say that it is about a lonely woman ,who can`t find love or interact with people . Now that it is Remembrance Sunday yet again ,I am reminded of my teenage years when I was first at work. This was in the 1950s and we teenagers cruelly laughed at women like Eleanor Rigby and there were many of them .We assumed in our immature young ways that the women were too unattractive to have found a partner willing to love them but now I realise that the tremendous loss of lives of young men in the Great War meant that Eleanor ,for example ,may well have lost a fiance in the fighting and never recovered from the loss .If she was elderly when the song was written ,she would have been just of the generation to have been affected.

[@brupic8968]

if you grew up with the beatles, you'd recognize just by the lyrics that it's john lennon--and the voice is classic lennon.

[@glenndespres5317]

Eleanor Rigby is both a song about a particular set of people but also about the Universal Man/Woman. How people are isolated and lonely and put on masks of personality to show certain other people.

[@maxout7306]

Once again the group carve out two songs that stand on their own. A Hard Day's Write (Steve Turner publication) claims that Paul liked the name Eleanor Bron (Actress) and the shop name Rigby & Evens Ltd in Bristol. Did he know about Eleanor Rigby's grave (1895-1939) in Woolton, Liverpool? He claims not but admits it may of been a sub-conscience occurrence? Thanks for sharing - Liked.

[@charlesking4780]

❤

[@timrobinson7373]

AR I also wanted to tell you this quick story I remember years ago a lady I worked with. I remember the other day how you reacted to the Beatles Revolution and it reminded me of this quick story. A lady I worked with was from Poland and was under COMMY rule by the old USSR as part of the Eastern Block of countries and Western culture like Rock and Roll music was forbidden so this lady told me that one time a close family she grew up with down the street from her one of the kids brought home a rock album don't know the band but the whole family was arrested just because one of the kids brought home a record of some rock band from the West and the whole family had to pay the price. Hope you are safe love you always

[@666tubedragon666]

crazy shit

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

interesting how times change... No Reply is basically sung from the point of view of a stalker.... wouldn't be allowed today... but a great song!!!!... this is definitely a John song, and Eleanor Rigby is definitely a Paul song.... these are perfect examples of the two main sides of the Beatles...I think the "face that she keeps in a jar by the door" was an old fashioned expression that means that she wore a lot of makeup.... there won't be videos of these songs that the Beatles had anything to do with, but would be made years later

[@timrobinson7373]

NO REPLY is a John song he seems to be checking on his girlfriend who is cheating on him and he is checking on her seeing that she is home she can see him through the window staring up at her and he sees her with another guy but he forgives her for all these sins and still loves her. RIGBY is a Paul classic a little backstory to this song is that in a graveyard in Liverpool where the young Beatles would hang out in this graveyard Paul says one time he may have seen the name Elinore Rigby and just popped into his head and made the song about it. He wanted the one line to say FATHER MCCARTNEY but thought that was too tacky and changed it too McKinsey

[@marvinc9994]

Many other great bands from the Sixties and Seventies can IMPRESS you, of course. But how many can MOVE you in quite the way The Beatles can ?

[@chuckyoneill9029]

Her wedding that never happened, her funeral no one was there she lived in a dream all the lonely people

[@darost]

Try to watch the movie YELLOW SUBMARINE. Eleanor Rigby wears makeup.💄

[@brandonflorida1092]

This is a Paul song.

[@rosswatson5996]

No Reply is what you call "a filler". The other is a classic!!🔥