How The Beatles Changed Album Covers 

Nope dark side of the moon

​@@-Scrapper-I'd say both covers are pretty close together in that regard

@@PercyPanleo nevermind is closer

@@-Scrapper- xdddddddddd

Technically, they are walking "across" the street, not down it.....😮

so true

Can't believe one song on that album inspired a murderer and laid the foundation of Heavy Metal . . .

StephySon which one?

+pelusrubiusdospuntocero Helter Skelter

BritishBanjoWolf lol i love that one

I click like.

vrafiqa I click like.

Yup

My favorite song ever

Gabriel In another comment thread below a specific video of the song "A Day In The Life", someone stated his opinion that the song was the best song on the best album of the best band in history., Amen to that!

@Jeevan M R Yeah, and the Patreon commercial that followed immediately. Goosebumps.

it made me cry omg

holy shit was bout to say that

Turtle Vision Films PERFECT

got goosebumps and made me want to cry. I'm so glad to know and love what I do on my free time and what I study about

Ahah, see how everything is a cycle - at first all album covers were bland carton, then the industry innovated with artworked covers... Then it was considered innovative to have a bland white carton ahah!

So many symbolisms wow

Yes that would be so cool

you mean a doll's house? forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-beatles-a-dolls-house.200834/page-3

Just wanted to save inks

Pretty common knowledge to a lot of folks...but thanks for sharing anyways

PacificRimNZ - I never knew that! One occasionally thinks one knows everything about something, and every now and then one learns that one doesn't! I will now go back to believing I know everything - until next time. :-)

@@worschtee1 Maybe, maybe not. I didn't know that previously so I appreciate OP pointing that out.

worschtee1 The world’s as big as it is small. I’m glad they posted-it was new to me.

@@worschtee1 Always going to be people discovering The Beatles for the first time, and they certainly wouldn't know these behind-the-scenes facts. No need to gatekeep, the more the world knows about The Beatles, the better!

R.I.P. George Martin

João Augusto Soares dos Reis- and RIP Brian Epstein

Rick Astley my overlord ~ Yeah, Check out the amazing short video Called = “Paul to Faul 1966/1967 interviews more differences” By Sandpit123 R.i.P Paul McCartney

James Guy- really? He ain’t dead lolllll

R.I.P ♥️

Machiel de Groot No need to be pessimistic of course there will. I patiently await the day.

Timothy is right, the Beatles are amazing, but there is high caliber music still being created today.

nah they where far surpassed by multiple bands and artists during the 60s. As pop culture icons I agree, there will never be a band as influential as the beatles. They set the standard for pop music, how to market yourself with album covers and personalities. Music wise is however a different story. In the 60s Frank Zappa, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground and of course Bob Dylan surpassed them with boundary pushing sounds and ideas together with satirical, cryptic and memorable lyricism. When Beatles where producing pop jingles for the masses Zappa was bending genres.

Hannes Samuelsson um, the Beatles are known for their revolutionary techniques in the studio. they weren't just pop jingles.

Hannes Samuelsson Dude, I love Zappa and captain beefheart, as well. Both great and experimental as hell. But you know what they didn't have, what Beatles had ? The idea and sublime talent of songwriting. Zappa did experiments just for the sake of these experiments, when behind all that stuff was just eagerness to be extreme and "edgy". Beefheart was weird and crazy dude. He could come up with these awesome avant gard'ish tunes, like no one else, but he lacked the idea and songwriting skills. Beatles had that idea within their music and they had much more superior skills in songwriting. For instance, Zappa's "freak out" was released less then two months prior to "Revolver". Take the most experimental song from "freak out" and compare it then to tomorrow never knows. Feel the difference? Beatles didn't just do some crazy experimentation. They knew what stands behind these experiments and they REALLY tried to push boundaries. That's why, Tomorrow never knows sounds so fucking ahead of its time and in fact, even nowadays sounds quite fresh. When experiments of Zappa and Beefheart (amazing songs, no doubt) sounds great only for it's time.

ScriptureSketches Thanks, ScriptureSketches.

+Nerdwriter1 Yeah seriously dude, your doing humanity a great service by breaking down art so that the simple man can understand it. Ive learned so much, thank you!

how du you explan gore metal allbum covers!

It's less interesting, really. Shock value, a particular niche aesthetic and the like. I highly doubt there is any intended intellectual material in, say, Cannibal Corpse covers.

Theroadtoawe The simple man can in fact "understand" art.. even though it's more of interpreting then understanding..

+maketimmycry I agree with you wholly on the idea that The Beatles is the perfection of the idea that "all music is invisible". The Beatles is a great album but, in my opinion, it ranks below Rubber Soul and Let It Be. Also, did you mean 'their' when you wrote 'there'?

I heard that the White album was pretty much their follow up to the mastery that was Sgt. Pepper. And instead of trying to come with another concept for an album that would top the preceding album, they literally just threw together whatever they could write and had literally no concept at all. That's why I love the White Album.

@@MattteusLet it Be lol wasn’t even released. That’s Mid tier Beatles. Revolver, Abbey Road and White Album for me

yeah i laughed at that reference :D brilliant

Couple of those moments in here.

Lol samee

Same

Shut the fuck up dude. That shit is getting old.

Ok kiddo

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Gay

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Instablaster

Daniel Henry Silver Thanks Daniel. That means a lot.

Couldn't agree more!

No, thank you.

+Maha Bilal 120k now :-)

check lemino out, he makes quality content too!

Jr Andrade What were you even doing watching this at work hours!?

watching it for Inspirational purposes

Jr Andrade Well, that's good enough for me.

Modest mouse mate.

"the designer" The Sgt. Pepper cover was designed by two pop artists, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, just as the album credit said it was.

Agreed. I think half the things considered groundbreaking by them were created when they were blitzed out of their minds and over time has been assigned cultural value. But it still works bc it's honest.

Larry O Well.... Paul and Ringo did say that "they were on acid when they made everything for Sgt. pepper". This is the actual reason for this album cover

+Pigsrock93 so if someone was tripping when they made the album that's the whole point of it?

Troncoso I did, I'm just saying that they were on acid when they made the cover.

+Troncoso well it does have something to do with drugs, I'm sure they came up with the concept while tripping. But aside from that the concept has nothing to do with drugs. It was just drug inspired

allxtar music Thanks! A lot of poeple say that. I wonder if he would collaborate with me...?

A total dream being able to do this full time.. Sick of the drudgery of corporate work,,,

+Nerdwriter1 I almost thought you were him for a moment - you two have very similar speaking styles.

Show Me That Riff Couldn't agree more.

best comment

Damn

And it's The Band's cover photograph of their album "The Band".... just layering it on, eh!

I feel you there

Well I mean A Day In the Life is already a pretty damn high standard for music lol

Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"

Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"

@John Cavanaugh carry that weight is in my top 5 favourite Beatles songs

@johncavanaugh1911Abbey Road medley is nothing compared to A Day in the Life. Both masterpieces tho, no need to compare

It was on point u_u

Same here mate

Jamie Williamson saammme

skatemetrix I love all the Floyd covers, particularly Wish You Were Here, which I think goes as far toward pure art as an album can go. The first editions were sold in a black plastic wrapping, almost to refute the idea of the record as a commodity.

Nerdwriter1 Wish You Were Here cover is purely surreal. Also you must know your Pink Floyd, you see the band's idea was to issue album covers in pure black but the music corporations thought Pink Floyd were fucking crazy- paraphrasing Storm Thorgerson.

Dark Side of the Moon is one hell of an album!!

Nerdwriter1 whats up with Animals? Or Ummagumma?

the most profitable.

Jfran2013 got the chills when his final words hit "a day in a life"...

My friends say the only good song john wrote was here comes the sun and I'm like are you ok?

@@welsh_Witch oh no.......

What?

Dude a lot of kids are doing the "I was born in the wrong generation" without realising that a lot of kids to listen to these stuff too

@@jccanizal6410 yep, but I think it’s like that because of this quote I heard once “People don’t want to appreciate what they have right now, they just want to live in the past”

Jake Whitton actually you're wrong. The best video on this site is zlad's music video for elektronik supersonik. And that's objective truth.

Ending on "A day in the life" was perfection.

How many RU-vid videos have you watched? This is pleasant, but not a favorite.

ted mills good point

+ted mills Or the 'Carnival of Light' - or even that half an hour long take of 'Helter Skelter'.

or even Brian Wilson's original concept of SMiLE. That is surely something that has been lost over time.

SMiLE, it can be argued, is the Holy Grail of all music humans have ever made.

"The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and messages from beyond the mind."-an excerpt from "the Present" on the truth contest site. What do you guys think?

Are your serious?! I mean I'm only a minute into the video so I wouldn't understand but did it really make you cry?? If so then damn this must be one good video.

YOU'RE SO HOT it's not that I like the Beatles or something it just made me cry at the end

Agreed

you should like The Beatles! Give them a proper listen if you haven't yet (:

+larryinc64 I don't, please explain it to me.

Joop Hooijmans The photo used there is of the band 'The Band' from their self titled album 'The Band' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band_(album)

Oh wow. Ohhh wow.

I laughed so hard that I had to find another person in the comments section who got the joke as well

Dr_Boom Thanks again, Dr_Boom.

Canadian Studmuffin funny seeing you here...

THEY did... he just told you

+Javier Prieto Science is Art that you understand the rules to

Grant Foster Cheers, Grant!

same here

me too!

A day in the life does that

+meatlog I was thinking something similar haha.

Don't fear being any sexuality. Sex is only ones expression of love and passion for another. If you love another male, then love him with the entirety of your heart. Some people don't get the joy of falling in love at all.

+Deshanles Did you have to take a joke and turn it into a tumblr post.

+meatlog gay is ok bro XDDDD

Nousseir Bahlous Did you have to take a comment and post it 3 times.

Well I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph...

GabzitoHD hello

Yeah they actually never even played the same note more than twice per album

@@finnhaney7432 idk if your joking but that sounds highly unlikely

Ben chambers kid a especially

Ben chambers Moon Shaped Pool artwork is beautiful

Pablo Honey, honestly

I really love the artwork on ok computer-handy that it's one of my favourite albums ever too lol

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS THREAD

Missed it. What was the reference?

Hosam Sherif He slyly name dropped The Band.

IndyDefense Thanks, pissed that I missed that. :)

the student has become the teacher

I don't get it what did you mean.

Okik E. Mainly the world

Yes the world

No, the 60's changed a lot of things. They were just popular enough to get the credit.

Juan Inchauspe lol you dont know nothing about music

@@LPChipi nooooooob idiot

Onde podemos escutar a sua música? 😊❤🙈😜

@@agustinamansur5665 aqui no RU-vid mesmo, ou no Spotify!

@@agustinamansur5665 só buscar "music is invisible"! 😉

@@carbono12videos obrigado ❤😜 mais tarde eu vou te escutar 🙈

@@carbono12videos não encontrei nada kkkkkk pode me enviar o link se quiser?🙈🙈❤

Crashoverall I go for the dark side of the moon but st peppers it a masterpiece

i hear ya....

Pretty sure that's Velvet Underground and Nico you're thinking of.

pretty amazing album that one

That album truly challenged popular culture, 10 fold of that of the Beatles.

That was the U.K.'s version. Hard to believe because E.M.I. stifled it along with B.B.C.!

The Beatles history

thought this was a joke lmao

Beautiful cover, beautiful album

+Luiz Antonio It is a work by Andy Warhol, in case you didn't know. He's an interesting character.

+Ian Henderson Could you give me your opinions on why that cover is good ? I don't know that much about Andy Warhol.

I think the cover of TVU&N is more iconic than Sgt. Peppers

+Luiz Antonio And it came out first, Beatle's album came out later that year.

Omg really? Cool!

r/thathappened

My grandfather invented the COBB salad

@@Skokapus Can you please stop linking to subreddits outside of Reddit? They don't quite work outside there, you see. And it's not even that unbelievable.

@@Aurora-oe2qpyeah i've learned that since this comment is old

Dark Side is the most iconic Album Cover

@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj it's definitely up there, but I think Abbey road, Sgt pepper, and mj's 'bad' album are too.

@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj also nevermind is pretty noteworthy.

ASENBAISEN Will do.

OMG I have seen it thousands of times in the vinyl but never noticed it

Totally done on purpose I'm sure ;-)

Did you find it?