Listening to HELP! for the first time...Music is magical 

😁 IKR?! I put a comment “hell yes! You just wait” as an answer to that

Stay Tuned

LMFAO

The opening song was instrumental in the movie and other parts (like the tiger scene) too bad they took all that out of the newer CD’s WTF anyway Amazon

Me too and so true

And he also recorded I’m Down and I’ve Just Seen a Face on the same day

Yes Paul is an amazing treasure- he and John wrote many of their songs in less than an hour( one of them being a hard days night) all four guys were awesome geniuses and so funny and charming to us 17 year olds when they came over in February 1964- ringo was on mtv(storytellers) explaining his songs he wrote and sang it was adorable- have you seen the movie yesterday- it’s great

One of the best. The most popular band in the world might not be a thing without him. Doubt me.

Most drummers play the drums. Ringo always played the song.

You sound like you're open-ended about so much. You might be interested in music theory.

This seems true in a way, because Paul actually dreamed the chords and melody and woke up with the song in his head. After playing it for many people to see if they knew what it was, he concluded that his subconscious must have written it.

As a mathematician, I absolutely love that comparison.😍

Saw a recent interview with McCartney about the song and how he could of written a song like yesterday so young. He came to realize he subconsciously wrote the song about his mother dying when he was 15.

@@Fool3SufferingFools Scrambled eggs ...

Me: Reads your name Also Me: Had us in the first half not gonna lie

@ Paul Mcaffrey is right. You are in for a treat. I can’t wait until you get to Sgt. Pepper. This is when they stopped touring and you will definitely hear a change. I love watching you enjoy this music.

@@patrickgalvin1403 Sgt Pepper is my FAVORITE.

@@loosilu you have good taste. It is really good. This was the first album when I got into the Beatles. I love their early stuff also. Great harmonies.

@@loosilu I liked Pepper best at one time - these days I lean toward Revolver as my pick.

Both are quietly really, really good songs. “You’ve got to hide your love away” as well.

Yes! And “Another Girl”, “ I Need You” and “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away.” All crazy catchy. These less famous songs are in my early Beatles mix. Carolyn is great too.

@@georgeorr1042 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away is VERY famous

@@TAJMofficial Perhaps your right. Its reputation has increased in recent years. I prefer it over the more famous 3/4 song “Norwegian Wood.”

Thought that was I've just seen a face

Two of the greatest voices in rock n roll history combining for one of their greatest songs.

Wait until you hear the next one! Rubber Soul may be their best and a real turning point in their development. Wildly inventive and I’m anxious to hear your opinion on it!

@@dennislasley6516 Preach on brother!

She seemed a little put off by the unusual rhythm. I hope she listens again to discover what an amazing song it is. The choices they made with the vocal harmony, where Paul's voice comes in and where it drops away, fantastic.

You mentioned bass lines. There are a couple of guys on you tube who offer the lines striped from the rest of the music. I have listened for 55 years and there were songs that I knew cold and couldn't Identify the bass line without the rest of the music. McCartney oftened played harmony and/or melody withthe bass. Really cool stuff on its own.

Same here. Caroline is AMAZING with picking certain elements out of the songs.

That's really kind of you to say, thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!

I feel the same ..fresh ears bring out details that I have taken for granted

@@CallMeCaroline Love your reaction to the Beatles. I highly suggest you react to Angelina Jordan, a music prodigy but the only one I know who specializes in vocals. She won Norway's Got Talent at age 8 singing Billie Holiday and Angelina was seemingly born a jazz vocalist. Now at age 15 and signed with Republic Records, her family requested Republic to allow her as normal a childhood as possible (thank goodness). Angelina's latest video is her cover of the Beatles Yesterday and that would be an awesome introduction to the greatest vocalist most people have yet to learn about.

Same for me. I know all The Beatles songs so well, but not quite as well as I thought.

I almost spat my coffee out thinking you’d actually had the Beatles play live in your house! Then I realised you meant the records… 😅

Yes, just the way "Help!" CRASHES in from nothing vocally - to launch this album, and this song (and, of course, the film) is quite something! And yes, so many great tracks...

A while back I was talking to someone about the greatest Beatle albums (the usual suspects, Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road, Revolver, etc) and I said "Help!" is a sleeper pick. He looked at me like I was crazy. But it has Ticket to Ride, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, Help, and Yesterday on it for crying out loud. Guy had to admit that while it's not the best Beatles album and gets overshadowed by their other albums if it was almost any other band it would be considered their masterpiece.

@@carnacthemagnificent2498 I totally agree. The lesser known songs are also excellent. The Night Before, You’re Gonna LTG, I’ve Just SaF, I could go on. Love this album.

@@lancep4164 I think in the states the album suffered because they limited it to just the songs from the film plus a lot of instrumental stuff from the movie score. So it's missing 'Yesterday' and 'I've Just Seen a Face' for example to make room for the score. Now that we have the UK release we see it's an album that has an incredible song selection but those who grew up with the US version dismiss it as having a lot of orchestral time filler and haven't listened to it in with the original UK track listing.

I can't wait for Revolver specifically, her reaction will be priceless!

Cant wait for the rubber soul!

And with sgt pepper's and the white album we will see her reaction to The Beatles at their full potencial. Well, I think every album after Rubber soul is a masterpiece

Yesterday, You've got to hide your love away and Ticket to ride are another level!

Yeah, can't wait for Revolver.

Up to this album John was the main writer in the Beatles, but "Help" was when Lennon&McCartney became equals.

Are you listening to all this for the very first time? Why did it take you so long? I'm happy you liked it so much. Never heard of Beatles before?

@@yellyman5483 not by much. John only had a couple songs more than Paul on each

@@ewest14 Paul had only three songs on the "A hard day`s night " album. The rest was John`s. John wrote most of the singles too. "A hard days night" "I feel fine" "Ticket to ride" "Help" "Day tripper" etc were all mainly John Lennon songs. Paul had one or two in between there. John dominated the first part of the Beatles. Paul dominated the last part.

@@yellyman5483 Spot on. It wasn't until about 1966 that Paul became the dominant writer of the hit singles (plus the tunes which got the most radio plays and cover versions, even if they weren't A-sides. For example, "Yesterday" wasn't a single in the UK but it was constantly played on the radio, performed by other musicians). Sadly, John stopped competing at around that time instead of raising his game as he had done before. It is reported that he even admitted to Paul that he thought Paul's songs on "Revolver" were better than his own! At least John n was honest enough to recognise that "Here, There And Everywhere" (which John actually loved!), "Eleanor Rigby", "Got To Get You Into My Life" and "Good Day Sunshine"" were extremely substantial pieces of work. Personally, I love John's work at this period. Apart from the Revolver tracks such as "She Said, She Said", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", I also strongly feel that "Rain" is one of the very finest tracks which Our Heroes ever recorded and - as an aside - I think it is absolutely inexcusable that it has been excluded from the 2023expanded re-issue of the Red Album. Nonetheless. from Yellow Submarine (b/w Eleanor Rigby) onwards only two of the subsequent Beatles A-sides were John songs. ("All You Need Is Love" and "The Ballad Of John And Y*k*). Look at what Paul was doing in that time period! Beatles classics such as "Penny Lane", "Hello Goodbye", Lady Madonna", Hey Jude", "Get Back", "Let It Be", "The Long And Winding Road" as well as giving away massive hits for Badfinger ("Come And Get It"), Mary Hopkin ("Goodbye). the Marmalade (Oh-La-Di") and at the same time John wasn't interested in working on songs such as "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Junk", Teddy Boy", "Every Night" as well as some of George's subsequently immortal recordings such as "All Things Must Pass", "Isn't It A Pity", "Wah Wah" and even "Not Guilty" and "Woman, Don't You Cry For Me". Up until around late 1965 into 1966, John Lennon WAS The Beatles! At least, he was the indisputable leader of the greatest band on the planet and he could sing like no other mortal. Sadly, he lost his way and fell into an ego collapse which left him bereft of self-confidence and extremely vulnerable to any psychopathic predator* into whose path he might fall. * Hi there, Y*k* (just in case your corporate people are monitoring this thread.) Happy Christmas. Enjoy your money while you can. You won't be able to take it with you. On another note, those great artists, Jem Finer and the late Shane MacGowan of The Pogues once intoned, "Merry Christmas, your arse! I pray God it's your last". I think I feel where they were coming from. To everybody else who reads this, Happy Christmas and may you enjoy many more.

Where he had to really "throw" his voice, Lennon could be outstanding. Twist and Shout, Money, Rock 'n Roll Music and Slow Down in 63-64 were all good examples of this as well as Dizzy Miss Lizzy.

"Leave My Kitten All Alone" is the one from this period he let's it all hang out... And they didn't even release it...

or eleanor rigby

No spoilers! :)

I listen you, bro!!

Shhhhhh! Don't spoil it! 😊

This is about to get good

You should check out the hip hoop artists listening to this stuff. There's one guy that said "Man if these guys were out today there would be no hip hop" LOL. He loves them.

Actually, the next two could be a double album, but they were a GIANT leap forward from this. Help was just a hint of things to come.

@@larrydrozd2740 yup, George couldn't tell which session was which but I think Revolver is more experimental than Rubber Soul. RS is definitely great but nothing on it is anything like Tomorrow Never Knows.

@@rjpg, yeah, I think people misinterpret what he was trying to say there. George was surely referring to the openness and good atmosphere of how they were produced, it was a good time to be working with the band. Sonically, they were two very different albums. Revolver being far more advanced than Rubber Soul.

@@rjpg Rubber Soul does close with Run For Your Life, which, if you actually listen to the words and think about the story John's telling, it could literally scare the bejebus out of some of the girls not used to that kind of topic out of the Beatles mouths. Combine that song with the Yesterday and Today album cover (which was just taken from a photo shoot that the Beatles themselves wanted to make more of an avant garde artistic event than anything nasty) - you know, THAT album cover - and these ain't your beloved Beatles singing about holding hands and closing your eyes to kiss you.

I grew up with the American Beatles albums where the songs on the second side of Help were scattered across other albums and the Help album had instrumental music from the movie soundtrack. (Same thing with Hard Days Night)

Great point! I'm hopeful she's impresssed by the sheer volume of creativity that's come from these lads in 5 albums over just 2 short years! That quantity of great music in *such* a short time is unparalleled, IMO.

Hit the nail on the head…creativity…and realizing that it seemed like a new band with each album.

Melodies seem discovered rather than crafted...ohhh that's so well put! I think that's the best compliment haha

@@CallMeCaroline Actually "melody discovered" is literally what Yesterday is. Paul woke up one morning wtih the melody in his head and thought surely it must be something old that he picked up, but when nobody could identify it he developed it into music, derived from a dream. That happened multiple times but I won't give away the plot spoiler just now...

With Beatles albums it’s easy to say, “That’s not one of my favorites,” but it’s really hard to say, “That song is crap.” Most albums before, during and after The Beatles were/are comprised of two or three good song padded with seven or eight truly forgettable songs. Even at their worst they were better than 90% of the rest.

Nostalgic? lmao i would say more like from another dimension, thats a way too simple description for a complex groundbreaking song like that

@@billyarnell8173 Yet Lennon disliked it for some reason.

@@jp3813jealousy

He didnt dream it up, he subconsciously remembered Answer Me, My Love by Nat King Cole. McCartney has made a career about of simplistic and catchy melodies. I think youre giving him far too much credit as a songwriter.

@@dj71162 Answer Me My Love was an adaptation by lyricist Carl Sigman of a religious German song called "Mutterlein," by the German composer Gerhard Winkler, not by Nat king Cole. I've heard that theory, originated by Spencer Leigh, but the melody of Yesterday is nothing like Answer Me.

@@dj71162 Definitely he said several times that he dreamt the music, he woke up listening the sound in his head, but any other idea that doesn't belong to Paul McCartney is always ok...

@@dj71162 There's minor similarities in a couple of the words but the melody and rest of the words are very different.

@@ewest14 Yeah, but thats where it got it from originally.

Lennon in particular didn't like performing live, especially after things got really crazy. Neither did George to a lesser extent, and so in 1966 they stopped touring. Watch the excerpt of the movie "Let it Be" in which Paul is trying to convince John to do a live performance.

Same here

great comment.

another thing: the teens really loved hearing the cute beatle sing a heartfelt ballad. just swoons all around

Ever heard of the American folk singer who influenced The Beatles? He was very popular, .Bob Dylan. In England during the 60s there was also a huge folk music revival.

Actually, John and Paul may disagree with you on George Martin's contributions. Here is some quotes from Lennon's Letters. "In one of the angrier missives included in The John Lennon Letters, the then-bitter ex-Beatle lays into Martin for supposedly taking too much credit for the group's sound. He also smacks the producer down for giving McCartney too much credit for some of the songwriting. "When people ask me questions about 'What did George Martin really do for you?,' I have only one answer, 'What does he do now?' I noticed you had no answer for that! It's not a putdown, it's the truth," wrote Lennon, who had brought in Phil Spector to redo Martin's work on Let It Be and then continued to work with Spector as a solo artist. "I think Paul and I are the best judges of our partners," Lennon wrote, less than politely. "Just look at the world charts and, by the way, I hope Seatrain is a good substitute for the Beatles." Can you say "snap, squared"? Seatrain, as very few people will recall, was the unremarkable California roots-rock band Martin was assigned to produce by Capitol Records immediately after the Beatles' breakup. What angered Lennon so? In the larger sense, armchair psychologists might suppose that a would-be "working class hero" like Lennon possibly harbored some resentment over having his musical revolution seen as reliant on a stiff-upper-lip establishmentarian like Martin. But in the immediate sense, Lennon was reacting to a Melody Maker interview in which Martin made some seemingly innocent remarks that got the rocker's considerable gander up. "Now on to 'Revolution No. 9,' which I recorded with Yoko plus the help of Ringo, George and George Martin. It was my concept, fully," Lennon wrote in a letter co-addressed to the Melody Maker interviewer. "For Martin to state that he was 'painting a sound picture' is pure hallucination. Ask any of the other people involved. The final editing Yoko and I did alone (which took four hours)..." I am not saying he had no influence at all, and since none of them could write music, he had to write everything down for them. They just created it. He could only make suggestions and they made the decisions as to use them or not. Some they used, some they did not. At times, there were even arguments where George Martin told them that you can't use Classical music that way, and John or Paul would tell him, to bad, we are going to anyway because, that is what we want. The group was always in control of the music regardless of what George Martin wanted.

@@garyr8739 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lrRl065BR2w.html as john says, george still did a great deal in advancing their art

I think its also that he sings it kind of deadpan

I think it works so well because it’s John and Paul

It's also about their homosexual manager.

I've Just Seen a Face .... a top-5 Beatles song for me. Spritely, fun, energetic .... great strumming by Paul.

Ringo has always been a fan of American country music, as were the other Beatles. Act Naturally is an old Buck Owens song. The Beatles were big fans of Buck and the Bakersfield Sound. They even requested that Buck's management send them a copy of any new albums that Buck Owens put out to see if there were any of his songs that they could cover.

@@kenttheaker7904 and would remain so for the remainder of Brian's life. Think on that.

oooh, yeah, that "ay way" is very dylan

I want to say I read (maybe in Geoff Emerick's book?) that Paul actually came up with that drum part and taught Ringo how he wanted him to play it.

The unique drumbeat on Ticket To Ride was Pauls idea

I've heard several cover bands get it wrong--they tend to place the last heavy drum hit of the riff right on a semiquaver rather than slightly late.

@@stevewest4994 Ringo is left handed so any delay is built in just because of the location of the drums.

@@tomservojr I would guarantee Ringo played it better even if he's copying Paul.

Oh I'm glad the videos have brought you joy, thank you so much for watching!

@@CallMeCaroline Me too! I binge watch and wait for the next!

Ditto, Caroline. I've been checking the channel every day and finally today was HELP day! Yay. And now I'm reading every comment.

Thanks Jim!

Lennon also said it was one of his favorite songs hw wrote, possibly because it was so personal. Interesting he wanted it to be slower, more of a ballad. The other 3 wanted it faster

@@darrinstinson2890 And they were right, just like they were right on "Please Please Me" and "Revolution," both of which John wanted slow

@@dcaccavo1 I happen to like the slower version of Revolution, on the White Album. I like both versions. If John had lived, we may have heard slower versions of his other rockers too. And, an alternative take on his Strawberry Fields. All great songs, as is, but John wanted to re-record some of them. I would've loved to have heard what he came up with. Oh well...

I couldn't agree more with you. I always thought so too.

@@ikhsansube82 Cool. I always thought it was just me.

I always thought the first seven songs are the greatest opening seven on any album

Yeah, its kinda underrated

@@ricardo_miguel13 I did used to like Pepper best, but now it's Revolver - and actually Revolver came top in a few more recent polls of best Beatles albums so I'm obviously not the only one whose opinion has shifted.

When I, my oldest brother and his friend went to see The Beatles in person at Suffolk Downs in Boston on August 18, 1966 we played the car radio all the way during the three hour drive from our hometown. The Revolver album had just come out, so the radio stations were over the moon with that. Some of the songs from the album that were getting heavy rotation were Taxman and Eleanor Rigby, as well as Got To Get You Into My Life. Even though I was a budding musician at that point, I didn't understand that The Beatles weren't going to be playing cellos on Eleanor Rigby in person. At any rate, of the eleven songs that they played they didn't play any songs from the Revolver album, and the newest songs that they played during the US '66 tour were Paperback Writer and Nowhere Man. Their studio accomplishments were now out of sync with what they could do in concert.

It wasn’t that simple. George Martin didn’t just go away and score the backing on his own. He sat with McCartney at a piano and they worked it out together, Martin telling McCartney which notes would be cellos and which violins etc. McCartney also insisted that the strings be recorded dry, no vibrato and the high sustained note on violin on the last verse of Yesterday was McCartney’s idea, something George Martin wasn’t sure about but is actually the most moving part of the song.

@@johnp515 That's all true. I was only trying to give the general thrust of the story without overly elaborating.

@@josephhebert6356 Im pretty sure they could have sung "In My life" live but they never did.

There was only ever one 5th Beatle (sorry Pete Best, Billy Preston, Stu Sutcliffe etc etc) The rest can argue over being 6th. Unlikely they would have been 80% as good/innovative without Sir George Martin.

John said the drum pattern was Paul's contribution.

The difference is in "Come Together" Ringo plays it with much more expertise. They all did by then, a mere 4 years after "Help"

@Jim Witt. Yes but if Paul had played it it would have been dreadful.

Ringo is left handed however played right handed on drums, he sound is totally different to other drummers and works well within the band.

I think Ringo is one of the greatest drummers ever because he approached them as a musician. Which added far more than technical skills would to the over all quality of the music.

Paul came up with it

@@monkmchorning Are you having a laugh?

@@MICKEYISLOWD Y'er right. Wrong song. I was thinking of "In My Life."

Yes he was putting on weight and not feeling good about himself. He originally heard the song played slower. Deep Purple did a cover that was slower, it's brilliant.

You might have to take that with a pinch of salt. He only wrote it because he had to for the movie, which is of course the same reason he wrote "A Hard Day's Night"

Paul's powerful raspy voice on that is stunning

Amazon music is a good streaming service to listen to the Beatles seamlessly

@@Beragon yup, that's where I listen to whole albums

That's why you use an adblocker

@@ewest14 Its not the ads. I have YT premium and dont see ads. Digital reproduction cannot duplicate the seamless transition of songs, like vinyl has, because albums are broken up into tracks. There's always a little blip or discontinuity between songs. For example, the segue from polythene pam to bathroom window is always broken, which is super annoying. Unless the album streams without track breaks, which Amazon does.

@@Beragon Vinyl is broken into tracks. How do you think we could endlessly replay a favourite track, or miss one we didn't like?

I would say the Beach Boys are. They made the greatest album, greatest single and greatest song, the greatest vocals and the greatest musician - all of which heavily inspired the Beatles. McCartney himself called God Only Knows the greatest song ever written and directly cited Pet Sounds as the number one inspiration for Sgt Pepper. The Beatles didnt even produce their own music and were very average vocalists by comparison. The Beach Boys were much more groundbreaking and made better music.

@@dj71162 Those are all great points and the Beatles themselves agreed with many of them. What a great and inspiring time for pop music eh?

@@dj71162 The Beach Boys were great and a competitive influence for the Beatles. But people who say The Beach Boys were better than the Beatles have only one album to talk about and that’s Pet Sounds. And yes Pet Sounds is a great album but nobody is going to convince me that Pet Sounds is greater than Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road or Let It Be. And when you take all those albums into account as well as singles like Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Hey Jude and others you realize that the Beatles were far superior in sheer quantity of quality material. The Beach Boys peaked at Pet Sounds. The Beatles were only hitting their stride by Pepper. Literally every album the Beatles put out are classic albums. Not to mention the Beatles movies. By far and away the greatest and most innovative band to ever exist. And most important and influential too.

@@doesnotexist305 Right, but Im talking about the actual music. I will admit that the Beatles were bigger and more influential of course, but Im talking about the music. I will admit the BBs only made one truly great album but thats because all the pressure was on one guy, while the Beatles had Lennon-McCartney-Harrison and Martin producing them, plus incredible marketing. PS is easily better than any of the Beatles works. Easy. Its like if Mozart made rock music and had angels sing it. Its otherworldly. The Beatles to me feel like 4 different people pulling in 4 different directions and none of them were as good vocalists, plus they didnt produce their own sound. Its like Im either listening to a Lennon song, a McCartney song, etc. Therefore I am much more impressed by the BB because nobody created a group sound like that. I could name maybe 20 or 30 songs at least Id say are better than the Beatles best song, but instead Ill just name their 3 greatest - Good Vibrations, God Only Knows and Surf's Up. The Beatles never even got close in my mind.

@@dj71162 The Beach Boys definitely had the number one resident genius…that is true! And Brian Wilson heard it all in his head! And he didn’t always have the support of his band unfortunately. Beach Boys also win for most amazing harmony blend and orchestrated parts. They were fantastic. As were the Beatles! The Beatles were an amazing sponge..they grabbed everything around them and turned it into great pop songs…English dance hall music, Bob Dylan, Indian music, even the strings from Psycho (Eleanor Rigby) And yes…the Beach Boys influenced them in a big way. Penny Lane was directly influenced by Pet Sounds. Pretty amazing! Last thought…yes they had a brilliant producer. George Martin and the engineers were able to translate all of the Beatles crazy ideas into reality. He didn’t tell em what to do..he was the perfect support person. So much cross pollination back then…it made for such great music!

When I first heard "Lost That Girl" in 1965 I immediately thought, "Wow they are doing a take off on the early girl songs, with the backgrounds chiming in like that ("He's so fine" etc)...backgrounds chiming in like that were common. Love that track!

If Caroline could listen to Pet Sounds in this way at some stage it would be great. Wilson was a genius, but where the Beach Boys failed was they only had one genius, The Beatles had 3.

@@adrianhughes7515 The Beatles had four geniuses. Ringo is a genius as well. His drumming is perfection.

Lennon once said that it was a five minute throw away song to fill a track. I have always had it in my top ten.

Love the Beatles but I think you need to give pet sounds another proper listen. It inspired a lot of Rubber Soul for a start.

Interesting and insightful take Rob. It was an incredible experience to hear the Beatles progression from Rock and Roll to Pop ballads to Folk to experimental music with Indian influences to psychedelic to Progressive influences to hard rock to multi layered orchestral compositions all in seven years time. Many younger listeners are introduced to mainly their numbers one or hit records with no context or real understanding of the sheer volume of brilliant music and songs they wrote. Listening to them in chronological order really helps you understand how they developed and how ground breaking and influential their music was and still is.

@@ArniePorter I don't think that listening in chronological order will give you the same experience as a Beatles listener would have had who followed their career, with a new single and a new album months apart and all the contemporary music in between. In 1963 and 1964, their music was head and shoulders above their contemporaries, an absulutely exciting new idiom. In late '64 and the better part of 1965 the Beatles lost momentum and their contemporaries caught up when (first British, but American music soon to follow) recovered from the shock and surprise at the Beatles' appearance. I don't think, for example, that Caroline noticed the dip their music took with Beatles for Sale, something that all fans noticed way back then. The compact Mersey Beat sound suddenly gave way to a thinner, less forceful sound. That certainly obscured any progress they may have made as composers, if any. Teenagers like me were not musicologists. Songs like I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, A Hard Day's Night, Tell Me Why and even quieter ones such as If I Fell swept you away, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party or Every Little Thing just didn't. And Help is their most uneven album. Giant steps into uncharted territory like Yesterday and stopgap ideas like Dizzy Miss Lizzy (the incongruousness of those two side by side!) or Act Naturally made for a very bumpy ride. The Beatles were a bit tired then and uncertain of where they were headed. I understood that in retrospect, but at the time I just found those two albums less than satisfactory. (In the US, that may have been less noticeable because albums were both different in contents and more frequent (in 1964, 65 and 66). It certainly applies for the UK canon which was what fans listened to in most countries.)

@@aureliande2659 You've just changed my mind a bit. I actually think the way you experienced it was worse. The fact that you think that Beatles for Sale and Help! were worse than the first two albums shows me that you were seeing them from inside the mania. They first came out and they were new and thrilling and as the mania died down a bit you were going to the new albums for that same rush that you got from the earlier ones, and they couldn't possibly, because it was no longer new and thrilling. But listening objectively, the first two albums clearly had some pretty weak songs and poorly chosen covers, along with some great ones. BfS and H! had weak and strong as well, but come on, Help!, Ticket to Ride, Yesterday, I've Just Seen a Face, You're Going to Lose That Girl, these are not the work of a band in a slump, at all. Those are the work of a band that is firing on all cylinders and only getting better. I left out Hard Day's Night because yeah, that album is great, start to finish. Probably their best up to Rubber Soul.

@@recordrob3887 I see what you mean but I believe it's not quite as easy as this: 'They first came out and they were new and thrilling and as the mania died down a bit you were going to the new albums for that same rush that you got from the earlier ones, and they couldn't possibly, because it was no longer new and thrilling' -- I don't quite agree. The sound changed. It's not the time and place to discuss this in detail, but think of it as diversification. The early sound was very compact and homogenous because there were basically 4 instruments plus maybe a piano and they all shared a sound and frequency range. Also, the first two albums were virtually recorded live, that is with voices and instruments sharing the same dynamics (adrenalin!). With BFS, they not only fell back on some of the weaker covers, they also used more diverse instrumentation (acoustic guitars together with electric, more different percussion, a process that really started with HDN but became more obvious later) and vocal overdubs. That took some of the energy out of the songs, at least until they mastered that method later on. At the same time their songs deviated more from a common denominator. For the first two and even three LPs you could describe what an 'average' Beatles song was like, with very few outliers (Till There Was You comes to mind). Rock'n'roll songs such as Money or Long Tall Sally were part of the picture. With BFS you get Mr. Moonlight plus rockabilly plus rock'n'roll plus Buddy Holly plus a bit of country and western plus whatnot and the 'average' virtually disappears. Quite different from Rubber Soul which has a new 'average' but a much wider span than the earliest records, but let's keep that for later. I agree that some of the compositions on those two albums are great, but that was not the point. I also agree that there were a couple of fairly weak songs on the first two albums, composition-wise or as choices for covers were concerned. And you're right that in thne middle of Beatlemania, fans even liked those!

@Richard Russell "The reason for even-numbered phrases essentially comes down to having two feet.)" That, sir, is the most blindingly obvious thing I have never thought for myself. I aspire to such observations.

@@flamencoprof Next, we will explain why we count in base 10.

@@allenswanson2423 Touché

Wow, I've been listening to (and adoring) this song for more than half a century, but until now I'd never recognized the 7 bar phrases. Fantastic insight!

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100% - Abbey Road after Let It Be.

YES! I was going to comment the same thing. Abbey Road IS the last album, never mind the release dates.

She'd be better off listening to Let It Be Naked (or a bootleg of Get Back), rather than the original Let It Be if she wants to get a true sense of what they were trying to create. Ditch the Spectorization.

Yes yes yes

Listen to what the man said. Abbey Road has to be last listen

I recommend check the Anthology 2 version if you haven't already. I prefer it.

Sadly, as was his wont, John was extremely dismissive of this song. It's actually quite cleverly constructed.

@@martifingers he didn't like the lyrics, not so much the song. The "very bright" thing bugged him...

Gorgeous vocals. " Haven't I the right to make it up girl "

In “Help” you can see them playing around with the sound that comes later. It’s criminally underrated because the following albums are so great. But it starts here.

Vulnerability... looking back... This is mature songwriting. A new level.

@@daveman_50 “Vulnerability “, great description!

But Help is a transitional album and has so many great songs on it.Probably not a complete album like Rubber Soul and Revolver but has some great moments.

every album was moving forward.... as if bored with what happened before..... a big bonus for the world.

Yep, that's it in a nutshell. Paul has said a number of times that he actually dreamed that melody, and afterwards went around asking everyone what that song was ... it HAD to be something that was already out there, right? Nope, purely original, and yeah, magical.

Exactly! Only I was nine when I first discovered them. It only took one song and I was hooked ever since.

Ed Sullivan show got me hooked, and I was seven. I am 65 now and still love The Beatles.

And I was 12 years old for Ed Sullivan and here I am almost 70 and waiting with bated breath for an adorable twenty-something to discover The Beatles for the first time. Sigh, talk about magic.

@@mgonzales56 My cousin played me She Loves You on her stereo in 1975 but first she made me listen to Donny Osmond’s Puppy Love. Ack! Just think, if I didn’t have the fortitude to make it all the way through Puppy Love I may have missed out on the best music of all time.

@@angelatheriault8855 Lol! That is funny. My younger sister was in love with Donny Osmond, and she loved that song. But The Beatles were and are her true love.

Rubber soul is Goat Album.

“I’ve Just Seen A Face” a hidden gem. When you have over 200 Beatle songs to still listen to, some how I missed this one. Gonna go back to the days when I listened to my Beatles’ Albums 3 hours every night after school 😁

I actually think it is my favourite behind yesterday from this album.

@@CallMeCaroline It will be very interesting, at the end of this journey, to tot up how many "Paul songs" and how many "John songs" make it into your top favourites. So far I think you have a slight inclination toward Paul songs....

@@CallMeCaroline I love that you love Paul's songs the most every time!

@@buddyneher9359 interesting I thought she was liking John more, HOWEVER I noted earlier she always seems to especially like the vocals when Paul would back John (and she didn't realise it was Paul's voice!)

George was a very underated guitarist. That is true. Eric Clapton said George was better than him.

@@john1gun George could play fast, intricate licks when he wanted to. His genius was in his phrasing to fit all the unconventional chord progressions and key changes of a typical Beatles song.

George was tasteful. He preferred fewer chords to more chords. He allowed the melodies of the voices and the bass to fill in. He had a very definite and individual sound. He was heavily influenced by Carl Perkins, so he had a bit of that country picking style sometimes.

Paul plays the Bass, I notice you notice the Bass. He is by far the best bass player of all....He only took it up when the others would not and he made it his own.He plays it so naturally,it is a joy to listen to and watch.Keep up the great work, I enjoy watching you get excited over the greatest band of all time

Yeah.... and the first lyrics he came up with was "Scambled Eggs" ..ha, glad he spent a little more time on that!😁

His working lyrics were "Scrambled Eggs".

Scrambled eggs. How I love my baby's lovely legs.

That, and the syncopation makes it a very dynamic track.

Sure, "Yesterday" is a great song, but I have always thought that "I'll Follow the Sun" was a better example of that type of Paul song. Maybe it is because "Yesterday" was everywhere and overplayed while I was growing up, but also because of the arrangement. I could do without the string quartet, and prefer the simpler folk-rock style of the other song. We all have our own taste, right. "You Like Me Too Much" was my favorite song when I was nine years old...

The introductory guitar is unique.

Lmao I see you on every Beatles video.

@@BackToBackJames I used to get that a lot before they took comments away from songs... 😂

@@IsaacWale2004 Love watching your videos. Found your channel through the comments of one of Ringo's songs. I was quite disappointed that RU-vid turned off comments on auto-generated tracks considering you could get a ton of information off a band/musician from those.

"Harrison" "McCartney" "Lennon"

@@BackToBackJames Yeah, I was disappointed too...

Nice analogy of Yesterday!

Do you mean Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas"?

The guitar riff in "Ticket to Ride" was iconic. I remember hearing versions of it in TV commercials and other songs of the period.

I have to add You're Gonna Lose that Girl