First listen to A Hard Days night - The Beatles - The song writing takes flight 

I envy someone who is going to discover every Beatles song as it was released for the first time

As you progress through their albums, keep in mind that only 7 years passed between the first and the last. Then you will realize the true genius of The Beatles.

That first chord in 'It's A Hard Day's Night' has got to be the most famous chord in popular music!

Lennon and McCartney's voices are perfectly paired together and made for each other.

Good grief, these reactions are fantastic. I can’t wait for her take on Revolver, Rubber Soul and Sgt. Peppers!

In my opinion IF I FELL is one of their greatest songs.

Yes, John had a bitter sweet personality and was not shy about expressing exactly what he felt. "I'll Cry Instead", "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" and a host of other songs reveal that troubled youth and sweet hearted man all in one sandwich!

'I'll Be Back' is one of their greatest ever songs. Major/minor, with a beautiful melody. And what a John vocal!

Their harmonies in "If I Fell" are just phenomenal.

Everyone enjoying this series is on pins and needles anticipating what you're about to discover. I personally love the early albums, especially A Hard Days Night and Help! But they don't prepare you for what's over the horizon.

So, let's talk about Paul's walking bass playing for a moment shall we? Setting aside his superb songwriting, setting aside his beautiful tenor voice, that guy's bass playing is universally regarded by literally every musician in the history of music as off the dial spectactular. As you move through all their albums (lucky you, you're going to enjoy it) Paul's bass playing will mesmerise you. Every band on the planet would kill for a bass player as good as Paul McCartney in their band.

For your own amusement and pleasure you should watch the film A Hard Day's Night. It adds a whole new dimension to the Beatles phenomenon watching them interact at work and play. It is organised up to a point, as all films are, but it really does give you a great snapshot of the four personalities of the main players and they never seem less than entirely genuine and completely themselves. I am spending a Sunday bingeing on your Beatles reactions and I am loving every minute of it. Thank you.

I'll Be Back is an understated minor masterpiece: another sign of what was to come.

The nice thing about the early albums is that they basically just went into the studio and played the songs live as a band rather than each recording their parts separately. So, the live performances sounded exactly like the studio performance. They were very comfortable playing live, especially after all of the trips to Hamburg where they played for hours every single night.

“Things We Said Today” is such a gem off this album. My favourite off a Hard Days Night

As an oldie who's known and loved the Beatles for over 40 years, it's so refreshing to see a young person's initial reactions to their music! Thanks! Almost 60 years on, it's easy to underestimate how different the Beatles were to anyone else when they arrived on the recording scene, and how much they changed things - the musical palette for pop/rock music, the explosion of recording performers writing their own songs, the way it was recorded, even the audience listening to popular music... It's worth remembering that by 1963 when they hit the national big-time in the UK, they were probably the most experienced live rock performers on the planet in terms of stage-hours performed - they were incredibly hard-working, playing well over a hundred gigs a year (in '61 and '62 they'd sometimes play 3 times a week just at The Cavern, never mind all the rest). Even before they had a recording contract they were by far the hottest band in Liverpool, with many devoted followers, male and female, even an official fan club. And for your future reference, for their original songs the principal writer of the song almost always sang lead vocals.

I hope you know how much we all love you for doing this. This is Beatle reaction heaven.

"I'm happy just to dance with you" has one of the most complicated Beatles guitar parts. It's one of many songs that made me really appreciate John's rhythm playing. It's brilliant.

Love watching your reaction when you caught those chords in the chorus of "Things We Said Today," and then the modulation in the bridge. One of my great memories is seeing Paul McCartney at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1989, a tour where he was really bringing back a lot of Beatles music into his setlist. Sitting in a stadium with some 50,000 fans and hearing him sing this song with his amazing band at the time was just ALL THE FEELS.

"Tell Me Why" is, perhaps, the most underrated Beatles song of all time. It is just a great song, plain and simple. It perfectly encapsulates the early Beatles sound.

Isn't it amazing how quickly their music is already maturing? They were just that good. You can already hear their songwriting was a step above the first two albums. Their confidence in their own abilities, too, as they began to really play off one another. Harmonies are smoother, yet slightly more complicated. Minor chords begin to infiltrate their sound. Add that to the fact that very few acts were allowed by their labels to grow out of what had been selling. The Beatles lucked into the absolute perfect producer for them in George Martin who, while never having recorded Rock 'n' Roll before this time, had an instinctual feel and understanding of what worked and what didn't. Martin encouraged them to try new styles and progressions, new sounds and structures, to never stay with the status quo. Please Please Me, for instance, was originally written as a ballad. They played it for Martin and he told them it would work much better with a faster tempo. They did as suggested and it became their first #1 hit. He was, for all intents and purposes, the true "fifth Beatle". That's Martin playing all the piano parts on this album and it was his input to add it. The band, being very fast studies, began thinking of how to expand their sound in ways that Martin had set them on the path towards. Every album, they just kept getting better and coming up with the next sound that the rest of the acts had to follow or lose their places in the charts. Ringo Starr has never been a flashy drummer like Keith Moon of The Who or John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. Yet he's always steady and very creative. Almost from the beginning, he made a point of changing what he did for every song on the albums so his back end never sounded repetitive. Toms, bongos, tympani, tambourines, maracas, clave, anything was fair game to use to change things up. The tighter vocals you're hearing are a result of how creative The Beatles were and how they even pushed their engineers to make things better. The traditional way to double track a vocal was to sing it again over the first recording of it. This was time consuming and not always easy to do, trying to duplicate exactly what had been done in the first track. They challenged their engineer, Geoff Emerick, to make this easier and faster. His solution was to rig a second board to the first, set slightly behind the first. The result was that they would sing the line once and it was being recorded twice, simultaneous to the other, yet minutely later. The norm in The Beatles recording studio was answering "but you can't do that" with "why not?" It wasn't just the band who were growing, it was their production staff, as well. If you want to hear a great walking bass line on a Beatles song, check out Joe Cocker's 1964 recording of I'll Cry Instead. To enhance the walking line, a double bass was played for that single. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SAZm9H_hN5U.html

Caroline, there are so many things I want to say on each one of these I watch, but all I can say is that watching you listen to these and seeing your ears perk up or your face light up absolutely brightens my day. I know you'll get lots of Beatles fanatics out there pointing out things you might have missed (and I'm going to try to not be one of them), but at the end of the day your videos make me feel something, and that's worth so much more than any amount of listening to the Beatles :)

How young they were! Without knowing how to "write" music, they created a body of work that will live as long as there are people who love music.I really love your enthusiam!

I was just like you a few months ago. After hearing so much about the Beatles in my life I though I owed it to myself to really sit down and see what all the fuss was about and now I'm a huge Beatles fan haha. This is album has to be one of my favorites because every song is good and it's just plain FUN to listen to.

Caroline, you're an interesting girl, in that you have a musical background to analyze The Beatles on first hearing. As a lifelong musician and someone who has seen the Beatles live in person (at Boston's Suffolk Downs Racetrack, August 18, 1966), I know what it was like to live and breathe Beatlemania. The Beatles were a gift that will never happen again. If you were a teenager in the 1960's your delight and surprise at the Beatles now would have been magnified a thousand fold like every other teenage girl (and boy) back then, I can see it in your face. For your reference, to find the source of the Beatles' harmonies and song styles just listen to the people they idolized and toured with early on, like The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, and Del Shannon. I'm looking forward to your future reviews of Beatle albums, as you will see their growth as song writers and how they changed the direction of rock music with each new album. By the way, George Harrison almost single-handedly introduced the world to electric 12 string guitar on the Hard Day's Night album.

The "percussion element" is a cowbell which we need more of.

Johns singing is so beautiful

When you listen to the singles, don't forget to check out the B-sides too. The Beatles never skimped on quality, even for those tracks.

"A hard day's night" is actually a Ringoism. He'd say things like that, or "Tomorrow never knows," and John/Paul would make song titles out of them. So, while John/Paul wrote it, Ringo had a hand in it too.

I wish I was half as astute as you are when I was your age. You're picking up on stuff most people would only notice after dozens and dozens of listenings. Well done Caroline! Amazing ears.

It's always interesting for old blokes like me who grew up hearing the Beatles to hear young people realise just how damn good they were. Keep on working through the albums consecutively - I'm looking forward to hearing your reactions to the next few, as the Beatles progressed. No two Beatles songs were ever the same, and the albums just got better and better. And as an added bonus, you're another Aussie :-)

Caroline! You literally missed the most beautiful song of the whole album, and one of the most gorgeous songs ever recorded!!!!

"Things We Said Today" has always been one of my favourites from the early years of the Beatles

Did you notice the key change near the start of If I Fell? Me neither, that's how smooth it is. Their music is a lot more sophisticated musically than at first you realise.

My favorite is probably “I Should Have Known Better”, but “If I Fell” and “And I Love Her” are up there two. I’ve been loving these videos by the way!

i had a similar experience before COVID. I bought a vinyl copy of BB King live at the regal at a flee market .... when I got it home it had turned into Hard Days Night (wrong sleeve) ... now one of my favourite records...

I stumbled upon your first album review a couple of weeks ago, and have been following this. I'm 65, and was fortunate enough to 'grow up' with the Beatles. As such, I kind of take it for granted they were the pinnacle of rock music of the time. I didn't agree with everything they chose to publish, but isn't that a facet of artistic growth anyway? It's so refreshing watching someone of this generation discover their magic for the first time! I'll be looking forward to the revelations which are coming your way, Caroline! The arc of this band over eight short years is truly unbelievable. Enjoy the ride!

I'd say 'I'll Be Back' is quite a precursor to the sound of the next two albums

That reaction to I’ll Be Back brought a tear to my eye. Music has an amazing ability to move you on first hearing. That shift from minor to major grabs your heart strings and pulls on them, fitting the mood of the lyrics perfectly. What a terrible loss to the world that man’s death was.

A lot of people said this already but these videos are so delightful that I'm heartbroken I've watched them all in a row and now I have to wait so long for the others - Beatles for Sale is one of my favorites and in my opinion very underrated so I'm so excited what you'll think of it, and it almost makes me really sad that you've decided to put them out one every 3 weeks haha but I'll wait patiently as it's completely worth it. One of my biggest desires as such a big Beatles fan is for people to listen to them in order, you know, to hear the entire thing and tell me what they think. Since I can't live through that feeling again, I crave to see them go through that journey and live it again through them. And it's so rare to see not only someone doing it, but someone with such a good musical ear recording their first comments and reactions like you're doing. It's truly a great gift for me as a fan and it makes me go through the joy of discovering their music once again, even though those very songs are such a part of me already I feel like I know them like the back of my hand. It's truly wonderful to watch someone be captured by the magic and the miracle that is this band. I can't wait to see your reactions as the discography progresses. And you've created such a good community in these videos! I love reading the comments and getting insight and seeing the discussions as they come. I hope you know that you are very appreciated. Thank you so much for doing this. You are so smart and charming and again, it's truly a gift. Can't wait for the next video!

This is one of those rare albums (from any artist) where each and every track is at a quality level that any band would be proud to put out as a single.

In my eyes the best Beatles Album, mainly because it’s all of their own music and you simply can’t pick one to be your favourite, they’re all simply genius songs.

"Tell Me Why" always just amazes me with how much SONG is packed into that tight little time. Intrumental intro-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus-outro.

Hi Caroline, your reactions to the first three Beatles albums are extremely interesting and they work really well. As I'm sure you know, the first side of A Hard Day's Night are the tracks used for the movie. It s worth watching it sometime as it was considered ground-breaking when it came out in 1964. It's a shame that "And I love Her" was missed out, as it was one of the key songs in the movie and that scene in the film works really well.

I have seriously been checking in on a weekly basis waiting for this video!!! You're the only one on RU-vid who is listening to the Beatles in order. Genius idea for a series! Can't wait to see your reaction as they progress. Keep it up!

I love the passion for music that comes through in your nerdy explanations! It speaks to a passion. Awesome dont change it!!!!

Cute to watch. Disclosure: I bought this album when it was first released. Adorable, the young Merrel Streep of music reviews! Bravo!

I'm addicted to these reaction videos because seeing fresh ears hear Beatles songs for the first time takes me back to when I was a kid and I first heard these songs. I was blown away, just like my parents' generation had been when the songs first came out.

The World was such a better place, when John and George were in it!

You Can't Do That: Very much early Lennon. Later he talked about how abusive he was to women. But it's very much a teenage angst song as well.

I am 64, and this album is in my top 5 that most listened to records that I have owned. Great work Caroline!

I just discovered you by accident and I watched this video expecting to just hear some young person hear The Beatles for the first time and maybe put them down for not being modern enough -or to really like them. I was pleasantly surprised by how knowledgeable you are about music and how you REALLY listen and catch things!!!! Hard Day’s Night has always been one of my very favorite Beatles albums. I first heard it when I was 7 years old in 1964 so, of course, I know the album well. It was so refreshing watching you listen to the songs for the first time and seeing the joy on your face when the rhythms or the harmonies surprised you! I also loved hearing your very observant comments about the “walking base” and the harmonies etc. You’re a very amazing listener and you pointed out things that I never consciously noticed as a 7 year old! (I just knew I loved their harmonies and singing with them!). I can understand your objections to the lyrics in “You Can’t do that”. Very chauvinistic and controlling as you mentioned but I still love the song musically. It’s a really fun song to sing with! lol. Anyway, Lennon later admitted to having some misogynistic attitudes towards women. Fortunately, he changed his views as he grew as a man and a musician (I think Yoko helped him change some of his attitudes too). I love how all the Beatles were not afraid to learn, grow, admit their mistakes, and change. Anyway, you’re very refreshing and i loved your video. I hope you are enjoying the Beatles because, of course, I think they’re awesome!!! I hope you become a true fan of theirs. I’m looking forward to seeing more of your videos!

She’s back! Enjoy the album that sucked me into the Beatles. The first Beatles album I bought on record as well. Brilliant album

I can't wait for her to get to Rubber Soul and then Revolver, she'll be blown away.

I’m a lifelong Beatles fan and love it when younger people discover them. Another band you should investigate is the Electric Light Orchestra. Lennon called them the Son of the Beatles. From 1974 to 1980 they utilized orchestras extensively in their pop/rock music. Their concept album, Eldorado, is a masterpiece. Also Concerto For A Rainy Day from their Out of the Blue album is a 4 song medley with their hit, Mr. Blue Sky, as the grand finale. Incredible stuff.

The interesting thing about the song "A Hard Day's Night" is that the film was finished, the songs were ( obviously ) done already, and then the producer came up and asked them to write a song for the opening credits which would have something to do with the title. When John asked him "like what ?", the producer replied "you know, like, it'e been a hard day's night 'till I come home to you", to which John said "that's terrible !", and the producer replied "that's why you're the song writers and I'm a film producer". Anyway, the VERY NEXT MORNING, John and Paul called the producer over to their dressing room, and wriiten on a matchbook cover were the words, and they proceeded to play and sing for him "A Hard Day's Night". Now, remember, he had just asked for it the night before, and here, the very next morning, they had another hit song.

For how long I waited this, I'm so happy for the people who get to know my favorite band for the first time ever :D! Greetings from Mexico!

'If I Fell' is such a gorgeous song melodically. I hope you listen to that one again (and the whole album again) so that you can appreciate aspects of it that most miss in the first listen

A note on 27:31: I have been listening to the Beatles for half a century, but until I watched this video, I didn't recognize an alternate interpretation of the lyrics to I'll Be Back. Thanks to this insightful young lady (whether intentional or not) I will for the remainder of my life hear "I'm the one who haunts you," in the chorus. I like that. Props to you, Miss Caroline.

If I Fell is the song that started my Beatles obsession, even though they'd been present for my entire life at that point.

yay, finally first on something!!! Beatles is the ultimate musical journey from start to finish!

What you were hearing on the guitar on I Should Have Known Better was an electric 12-string guitar. It was a relatively new thing at the time but bands like The Beatles and The Byrds made it a iconic sound of the 1960s. A Hard Day’s Night was the first appearance of the 12-string on The Beatle’s work and it’s prominent on the next couple albums Really enjoying watching you in this musical journey! Can’t wait for the next one!!

I can't believe this series isn't 5 years old and I actually have to wait 3 weeks for the next one and I can't binge watch every album. I can't wait to see your reaction to the later albums. It's night and day.

Listening to their LPs in order is a trip! Of course I bought them as they came out but more than once I’ve listened to them in order and it always amazes, their journey. Who would have thought that 50 plus years later they are still the best.

"I'll Be Back" featured not one, but two bridges in the song. I am glad you really liked that one, it is one of my favorites, also! I love watching you discover and analyze these songs for us, Caroline.

"I'll Be Back" has a great arrangement, with the rhythm guitar adding quarter-note triplets to introduce a feel of "dragging" the 4/4 meter. The downer aspect of the clashing rhythms reflect the downer aspect of the lyrics perfectly. Another example of pretty sophisticated arranging in an early Beatles song.

There's a Beatles song for everything we go through... This video really adds to the song.. The song itself emotes emotions...add the video and it complements it... ❤❤❤

Always LOVED, loved, loved "You can't do that". "Leave you flat" doesn't mean he's going to beat her up!!! He will just "flat out" leave her.

Especially glad you enjoyed "I'll be back" - a song often overlooked in the canon. Major/minor, tonally ambivalent with two different bridges. All that complexity yet sung so beautifully.

So glad you've taken up our suggestion to follow the albums up with the correlating singles! Half of their all-time classic, greatest tracks were originally singles. Love your reactions!!! I don't think I can wait 3 weeks between them!

One of John’s and Paul’s favorite acts was The Everly Brothers, who were well known for their amazing harmonies. You can hear that influence in many early Beatles albums.

Hey, Lennon was one jealous guy! He even wrote a song called Jealous guy. He struggled for years to get rid of that anger that he developed in his youth when he was abandoned by his father and mother, then when his mom died tragically. That created a very conflicted and volatile youngster in Lennon. He later recanted on You Can't do that and Run for your life recognizing they were too personal and negative, and that he was too immature, but that's the wonder of their story telling, you will learn that in their later albums. In my opinion it's great these songs exist because they show the complexities, emotions, and conflicts in relationships (not just the lovey dovey stuff, all sugar and spice), and they wrote them before anyone else.

You're in for a treat when you get around to "And I Love Her"

The chord at the start of the song Hard Day's Night is one of the most famous/controversial chords in rock and roll, because people can't figure out what it's made up of. Rick Beato did an entire video on it.

A Hard Day's Night is as close to a perfect album as it gets, not a weak track in sight, flowed by Help! and Rubber Soul. Amazing.

You need to watch the movie “A Hard Days Night.” The Beatles wrote the album to fit the film. The title track was written in an evening when they decided on the movie’s name. P.S. the movie is hilarious and holds up well almost 60 years later.

Nice review series. It keeps getting better and better, you'll see. And yes: a couple of Lennon's lyrics are definitely mysoginistic... (wait until "Run for your life"). But taken in perspective, The Beatles' music is pure genius.

Oh my goodness you’re reactions are so charming! And smart. You have a great ear. You catch some interesting things I take for granted or hadn’t even noticed before, even though I’ve heard all these songs a million times 😊

14:31 Such a profound observation that really grabbed my focus. I think you were bang-on. They were at the very crux of knowing they were different and special, and confidence in that realisation meant that natural musical inhibitions just fell to the wayside.

The live version (Hollywood Bowl) of Things We Said Today is awesome. You can feel the energy from change of the soft dark part to the up tempo part of the chorus.

And i love her:( the most beautiful song of the album

Looks like Caroline might be a McCartney supremacist! I fall in the same boat myself so I totally get it. His voice and melodies he came up with were just next level. So sad she missed “And I love her” tho 😭 I think that would be another favorite of hers along with “Things We Said Today”

So pleased that you are picking up on the lyrics and what they may mean. Please don't forget around this time John Lennon was already a critically acclaimed writer , In His Own Write, won numerous academic prizes. He was a genius in the truest sense of the word. His irony, sarcasm, word play and provoking lyrics were all of course by design....

The Beatles sure had my ears and with each new release they showed an incredible growth in their material and musicianship and by the time of their last album became the 20th century's best selling band and even into this century have had some impact on sales. The Beatles I enjoy very much and have since 1964 and will probably always enjoy their music. The Beatles have become timeless in the way Beethoven or Wagner have become so they will likely be remembered for a very long time.The Beatles Rocked!!!

It's hard to listen to this album without rocking my head back and forth like Ringo playing the drums.

YEESSSS!!!!! A new Beatles reaction video. I LOOOOVE THEM!!!! I actually missed it yesterday though I check everyday because I checked a few hours before you posted it and then I didn't until today after work 😅. You have such a lovely personality and presence and music theory knowledge and spontaneity and enthusiasm!!! ❤️ Thank you for these videos!!!! I'll Be Back and If I Fell have AMAZING harmonies. If I Fell has such (for me) atypical and 'hard' second voice harmonies where the melody is raised by half notes rather than whole notes. And also there is this one harmony note towards the end which is so hard to hit right (if one is an amateur like I am). You Can't Do That - No, I don't think you'll make anyone angry with being confused by such lyrics... I never really reacted to them negatively but then I didn't reflect upon abuse when I was 13 and that's when I fell in love with The Beatles. Most fans have REALLY HARD TIMES liking and accepting the SONG Run For Your Life for the exact same reasons (the lyrics are even 'worse' and the melody is even happier/catchier). I don't think you can make anyone angry with your critical remarks - you still serve them in such a respectful way, really trying not to hurt the fans' feelings. And you're very sure to show what you do love! When you'll be reacting to the early singles - pay attention to the single version of Love Me Do - it's not the same as the album version, there are minor differences. The biggest one is that on the single version which is recorded a week earlier, you can hear Ringo Starr. On the album, however, you can hear a session musician Andy White play while Ringo plays the tambourine. Of these three albums, I also like AHDN best, and then Please Please Me and then With The Beatles. The next album - Beatles for Sale - is the ONLY TIME in the Beatles catalogue when I feel they're kinda taking a step back.. but all evens out with the album Help! and onwards. Can we PLEEEEAAASSSE get these Beatles reaction videos each other week, plleease?

Thank you so much for doing this. Each album, each song, is like a dear friend to those of us who grew up with their music -- hearing each song for the first time on the radio, then rushing down to the store to buy the next vinyl treasure. You have great insights and it's fun to walk through each song with you.

One of the things about the Beatles that fans forget is that they were a bunch of kids just having fun and loved to joke around, they definitely didn’t take themselves as seriously as the fans did

Favorite song: I was 9 when the movie came out. Luckily I had a 13-year-old sister, so I already knew about and loved the Beatles. She took me to see the movie and of course she had the record album. In those days many households (ours included) had only one record player; ours was in the family room. For some reason I got totally hooked on "I'll Cry Instead" and played it over and over and over so many times my mom finally yelled at me, and banned me from playing it! So that was my first "favorite" song from this album.

Lyrics... Wait til ya get to "Run For Your Life".

I’m really looking forward to you’re getting into later Beatles. Listening to the early Beatles gives me a renewed appreciation of just how much the boys morphed over a very short time. Bringing back my youth and it’s so enjoyable seeing you discover the magic for the very first time.

Another Great Review, Caroline! And you’re an Aussie! Luv the Aussies. Great People and Country! You have an amazing ability to understand and describe music. Most people just listen, but don’t understand what’s going on with the music. I feel my Generation was blessed to Grow up with such Great Music in the 60’s and 70’s. The Beatles were the best. In my top 5 I have to include Simon&Garfunkel, Beach Boys, Tom Petty and The Eagles. The other night, Eagles gave a Great 4 Hour Concert at Madison Square Garden. Brian Wilson and Paul Simon, along with The Beatles, wrote some of the Best Lyrics Ever! That’s what I still listen to. It was the Best. I’ve listened to some of the Music Guests on SNL, the last 25 years and you can’t even understand all the words. You are an amazing young woman! Smart and Great Sense of Humor and Smile! You give me hope for the future. Please keep up the Great Beatle Reviews! I look forward to your next ones, including the Singles! My favs include I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Thank You Girl, I Feel Fine and She’s a Woman. I hope you can meet Paul or Ringo, someday! They would luv your work!

Loving the series of the Beatles! as a Beatle fan has made me fall in love again with the songs and hear them in another way! many thanks to take the time! hope you go all the way!

An interesting fact about the song If I fell, it's a direct call back to their earlier song "I want to hold your hand" shows that their maturing

This young lady’s videos have proven we can never get sick of listening to the Beatles. I was blessed with being 11-18 during these formative years. And I just learned something new….Beatles were definitely a new musical phenomenon…There was no leader, lead singer. They all shared the mike and talents equally. For the life of me, I can’t think of any other bands who did that. Here I am gushing all over again 58 years later.

Brava! You have a musical soul. This is really rare and it’s is very obvious. In my career I taught young musicians at the university level, and I know a musical soul when I see one. The element that you consistently react to emotionally is the harmony. I don’’t mean the vocal harmony, I mean the harmonic progressions and the expressive changes of sonority, mode and key. You get it instinctively. For instance, you know when a sudden minor chord or dissonance corresponds to “pain,” when major and minor shift repeatedly to suggest a sense of instability (as in “I’ll be Back”). As enjoyable as your comments are, it is even more enjoyable to watch you react to the emotional course of the music of this marvelous ensemble of musical souls. Keep going!

Love the "oh?" exclamation when you hear something unexpected!

These are good. This combination of fresh perspective, knowledge of music, being the Beatles' original demographic and having a bubbly, down-to-earth personality is unbeatable.

I was impressed in "Things We Said Today" when Carolin said "I'm not one who can tell you, oh this is an A flat minor chord with a seventh augmented..." when at that moment she was listening to an A minor chord. Love that song.

Did you know that there’s a Beatles movie of the same name as the album? Personally, it’s my favorite of their three movies, and it’s full of wonderful British humor! I definitely recommend it to anyone who loves the Beatles :D