The Beatles - The Music LEGENDS

[@hulagirl.kailua]

Having entered my teen years when the Beatles arrived, I think I should place a personal perspective on this video narration...very good video by the way, although from the perspective of 50+ years after the fact. In 1963 ("I want to hold your hand" first started being played on KFWB Los Angels in around October of that year) the majority of music was a single singer with a single guitar in front of a mike, with a backup of drums and another guitar who didn't provide additional vocal accompaniment...think Elvis, the Everly brothers, Dion, Bill Haley and the Comets. With the Beatles you had sometimes all 4 singing and playing their instruments at the same time, and this was new. When I heard "I want to hold your hand" on the radio for the first time, I was literally stunned...electric shock shot through my entire body...I had NEVER heard anything that even came close to this sound before, and immediately went to the record store and bought the "Meet the Beatles" album (this was the first one released in Los Angeles...not "Please Please Me", which was released maybe a month later when I bought that one as well.) Several of the songs on both albums were 'cover' songs, since they were trying to break into the American market, but even the 'cover' songs were different from the originals (think 'Twist and Shout' and 'Roll over Beethoven'). Remember too, that the record companies dictated what an artist could or couldn't sing, so they didn't have the freedom of their own choices until an album or two later. Additionally, every new album that came out had sounds that were different from the previous album, and not just one or two songs (like other artists' albums) but almost all the songs were fantastic, if not hits in their own right. At one point the Beatles had #1 through #5 spots on the Top 100 hits chart. Also, they were writing their own music, and not just one writer, but THREE at that time....Ringo didn't start writing songs until around 1965 or 6, although he did contribute ideas and lyric phrases on the other writer's tracks. After they took the US by storm in 1964, other bands started copying some of their techniques and sounds, which is why kids born after 1975 don't see the Beatles as innovative. Since they don't know their music and didn't grow up on the music during the '60s they can't see the progression the Beatles innovation adopted by other and future artists. At least 3 music genre were invented by the Beatles, but taken to higher standards of greatness by future bands. As to the drugs always touted by current reactionists...let me explain about one particular drug which wasn't considered dangerous and was actually touted as "the" drug back in the mid '60s....LSD. When I was a junior in high school, Timothy Leery, then a visiting professor at Berkley, went on record telling young people that taking LSD just before taking final exams would "open" their minds to everything they had heard and learned during the class....LITERALLY! The drug wasn't considered dangerous until around 1968, so the issue of the Beatles taking LSD during this period, is part of what was actually considered okay at the time....after that time period, I don't have an opinion on, but I don't know if they did or didn't keep taking the drug. Like the Beatles music or not, current generations need to remember that what might seem "simplistic" or juvenile or not expanded to current genre acceptance, was innovative and unknown at the time it was created and performed. Future musicians and artists would take the Beatles innovations to new and more expanded levels of greatness. Just an observation from someone who lived the music at the time it was introduced.

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Beautiful. I totally see and respect your opinion. My main goal with this video was hopefully for Gen Z peeps like me to acknowledge the brilliance of The Beatles, even if kids don't listen to them, to at least respect how they paved the way for music of today. Thank u for this wonderful reply.

[@milomuffs7513]

bro actually convinced me to listen to the beatles 🙏

[@PaulQuintanaJr]

Most Beatle fans would call Beatles For Sale their "step back" instead of A Hard Day's Night. Mainly because it included covers whereas A Hard Day's Night was all original songs. The only album with ALL Lennon/McCartney written songs.

[@sunsunavery4237]

Ken “keesy” is legit. I don’t know much by him outside of One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. If you’re serious about life, then you should watch the film adaptation of One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. 10/10 movie

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

It's funny you say that because I actually have watched the film (one of my favs, gonna read the book), I talked about it briefly too in my first ever vid. Fantastic film 🤘🏽

[@isah6189]

I always forgot how ahead of its time Revolver was. Tomorrow never knows sounds like an aphex twin beat with how drum machine like Ringo’s drumming is along with those crazy sound effects droning all throughout the track.

[@Minnepopin]

Great job! I’m making a Beatles discography deep dive too and it was very interesting seeing someone else’s take on the subject! I’m now a subscriber!

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Thanks, I'll be sure to check out ur vid :3

[@Minnepopin]

@@ItzSonnyBoy it’s gonna be a while but thank you! And keep up the great work!

[@lokomotion726]

Cool video man. I dont know who you are but good on you for taking care of your mental health and stuff 👍

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Much appreciated, that means a lot.

[@ItzRobbie05]

This is one of the videos of all time

[@braemtes23]

Well done video, but let me point out that the Beatles early music had a unique sound that no-one else of that era had. I lived through that time period and people were blown away by that early music. By today's standards, they are seen as simplistic and old-fashioned, but during the early sixties there sound was fresh and new.

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Thanks for informing me, that's quite interesting to hear, I also agree though that I think it's unfair for the band to be "overrated" from other ppl my age due to how influential their music is, thx for the feedback :D

[@joshua7849]

Great video really enjoyed it, weird question but when you’d play a bit of the title track for each song before talking about that album, did you edit the pitch in the music yourself or did you find a specific video that had the different pitch

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

I edited the pitch myself, I like enhancing it to sink into the section and than when I talk, obv to lower it for my voice to be clear. My editing software allows me to play around with the audio.

[@joshua7849]

@@ItzSonnyBoy what software do you use if you don’t mind me asking

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

PowerDirector365 :P

[@joshua7849]

@@ItzSonnyBoy thanks bro 👍👊

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

@joshua7849 Anytime :P

[@jordandwiggins1026]

Appreciate getting to hear fresh perspectives on this kind of thing, but man I have never heard anyone say With the Beatles or Beatles For Sale are way better than Please Please Me and Hard Day’s Night before. Not saying there’s anything wrong with your opinion it was just definitely not expected 😅 And honestly I kind of agree that Please Please Me is one of the weakest ones. I’d choose Beatles For Sale over it too but I’ve always found that to be a very rare take.

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Wow, I didn't know that'd be an interesting take 😭 Ye, I guess those ones just had a better range of tracks for me. Thx for the feedback, luv ur pfp

[@monaural2.988]

It needs to be interjected here that the band actually began in 1957-58, which is when they recorded the cover of Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day” on a local 78 RPM disc. NOT “Please Please Me”.

[@kmanthecoolest9304]

ask me why as the beginner song.. such a great underated early beatles song.

[@MrTwixraider]

I like your review about all the Beatles albums and agree on most of your criticism but even if I agree on your your review on yellow submarine, still Hey Bulldog is a great song.

[@josuepon0318]

Incredible video !

[@chargree]

You need to not just say whatever comes to mind as you go along, especially when you are making historical points. You cant judge these albums based on what music is like now. There are people that call the first few albums bubble gum pop or things like that. They changed the course of music. Their songs and recordings were fresh, unique, and new from the very beginning. People say that they didnt get artistic or creative until Rubber Soul. Ignorance. You can go down a list from their very first song released and have achievement after achievement, innovation after innovation, cultural impact and cultural impact, first time thing after first time thing. There are people, including famous recording artists, that said when they heard Love Me Do(their first single, released before their first album) for the first time, it immediately caught their attention as something completely new and unique. It impressed some to the point that they pulled over in their cars to hear it and things like that.

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

A lot of ppl have replied with this statement and I totally respect it. Honestly as I look back at those records, it wasn't even if like they're like music now, it's moreso that I just enjoy the more creative distinction of their later LPs, yet I still enjoyed their debut stuff alot, just as an entire discography, they got better and better overtime. I do love the charm of their early stuff. Thx for the feedback

[@Weft32u-rt4ou]

I think that this video was great! White Album is definitely my favorite. Yellow Submarine was definitely not the best, but it has my favorite from them, Hey Bulldog

[@ogpandamonium]

Good video but the backing music is a bit loud and have lyrics so you have to focus alot to hear all the words and in some sections there are two songs at the same time which is just really distracting.

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Yah the two songs part is because of copyright, which was rlly annoying since the vid got copyrighted after I released it despite me doing everything, thx for the criticism tho, I'm planning to make another music vid and hope to improve my audio there. ^ ^

[@JeremiasKochhan]

The first half of yellow Submarine is fire the rest is crap

[@janvrolijk9126]

Why is the music too slow in this video?

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Some of the songs had copyright, so I slowed it down.

[@LouisFortin-p5r]

nice video !

[@philowens7680]

I disagree with your characterization of the Beatles first three albums as derivative. As the phenomenal sales figures show, they were ground-breaking. Can you find a recording released before "I saw her standing there" that has that pulsating bass-line and drum groove? Why do you think they had the top five fastest-selling singles in the same week in the USA? How do you explain how the single "She Loves You" was a gold record in the UK before it was released? Their covers of 'standards' like "Twist and Shout" and "Mister Postman" are great examples of the new dynamism they brought to the music.

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

Your point is totally valid. I guess it's just for me, though I did notice that it still sounded Beatles, I guess it just felt a lil too much like the general vibe of music at that time, tho I still enjoyed the albums overall and I guess their later releases sounded more distinct. Respect ur feedback tho.

[@philowens7680]

@@ItzSonnyBoy I suppose it is impossible to imagine what the music scene was like sixty-or-more years ago. Analog recording. Analog amplifiers. Most music was first heard through a transistor radio with a one-inch speaker. Also, in some ways it isn't really fair to evaluate the pre-66 and post-66 Beatles using the same yardstick. From the album "Revolver" on, they and the EMI/Parlophone/Abbey Road staff, Martin, Emerick and others started the studio recording technology revolution, so recording quality changed very rapidly over the last five years of their careers together. I think of that as the "second" Beatles revolution.

[@DragosBlackmilk]

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[@fabrizio4190]

W the Beatles are the best band ever

[@PaulQuintanaJr]

You should do The Monkees next. The Monkees & More of the Monkees: producer controlled music created for the TV series. Headquarters: the band takes control and (with Chip Douglas) play every note. Pisces etc & The Birds etc: two albums of AMAZING music. Return to the formula of the first 2 albums but with the band in control. Head: with their TV show canceled they make a movie with Jack Nicholson and a soundtrack SOOO psychedelic, you get the contact high. Instant Replay & Present: Peter Tork leaves the band and now they are a trio. Mike Nesmith is on fire with doing writing. Outtakes are better than the albums. Changes: Mike leaves the band and down to a duo.

[@fabrizio4190]

Great video bro

[@ItzSonnyBoy]

🤵 Why thank you.