The Beatles - Helter Skelter REACTION THIS CAN'T BE THEM! 

“The Beatles did not just do this!! They did not just do this..” That is correct they did that 53 years ago.

The Beatles ARE the best band EVER, influenced so many, changed music, changed culture, the BEST

Some critics back in the day were saying..."yeah, The Beatles can write great melodies and catchy lyrics but did they know how to really rock. Paul McCartney: Hold my beer.

They went from I Want To Hold Your Hand to this in just 5 years

No band deserves the label "The Best" more than The Beatles; the only reason people say otherwise is because they're too familiar. What genre of music do The Beatles play? They don't play genres, they bend music to their will and make new sounds. Listening to this in 1968 was like watching a UFO landing on your front lawn.

If Rock and Roll is the universe, then The Beatles are the Big Bang. - Bono

When “The White Album” was released I think it was the New York Times said this album proves that there is nothing The Beatles can’t do! Thank you for sharing can’t wait for more.

“I’ve got blisters on my fingers” - Ringo

Please do "I Want You (She's so Heavy)", another heavy song by them that will blow your mind

The Beatles were metal before there was metal.

Like John said in the movie "Imagine", talking about how everybody was comparing other bands to them, "We were the best f**kin rock n roll band in the world, and all the other bands knew it"

"Revolution" single version...another slab of Beatles' hard rock.

Just a bit of context: This song came out in 1968. Fellow British bands Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath (who are considered to be pioneers of the hard rock/heavy metal sub-genre) put out their first albums at 1969 and 1970 respectively. I'm not sure if this is the first heavy metal song but it shows you how much of a music visionary Paul McCartney was.

Everybody's Got Something to Hide but me and my Monkey is another great heavy Beatles song

You must listen to Revolution - it’s also “hard” like shelter Skelter

The thing about the Beatles is that they went through so many musical phases (sugary pop, emo pop, psychedelic, crunchy rock, folk rock, etc.), it's hard to say what their style even is. They were the first band that was so monumentally successful, people would buy their albums no matter what they did, which gave them enormous freedom to experiment and evolve rather than turning out album after album of basically the same thing.

Helter Skelter has a special place in my heart

My favorite Beatles song. I was a baby headbanger at heart! Keep in mind that when this song was made, there was no punk, there was no metal. No such thing. This song is extremely innovative in the sense of hard rock. Yes the Beatles are extremely diverse. Go check out Rocky Racoon to see how much. 😂

Man oh man your reaction was just like mine but over 50 years ago. Some other heavies “I want you” and “Hey Bulldog”

You should listen to Tomorrow Never Knows off of their Revolver album

For another real banger from the Beatles consider checking out 'I Want You (She's So Heavy). More bluesy but sonically a killer, or maybe 'Hey Bulldog', one of their deep hidden rockers!

Paul McCartney who sang this song read something about a band called The Who saying that they I just made the most outrageous album ever. Paul McCartney said no no no and he wrote this song. It is the birth of heavy metal music. I'm glad you like it. You only have about a hundred 190 songs to go.. can't wait to see them.

What really flips me out is they follow this on the album with one of the quietest, most lovely songs from George to close out the side on the LP. A single band going from smashingly heavy to shyly pretty in under 8 minutes is kind of a lost art.

I love to watch people discovering the Beatles. I discovered them more then 40 years ago and they are staying at my side until today. They are part of my family.

Other “heavy” , hard rock songs on this album: Yer Blues, Everybody’s got something to hide...., Birthday, Back in the USSR, Why don’t we do it in the road? , to a lesser degree: Happiness is a warm Gun.

Tomorrow Never Knows is another groundbreaking Beatle song that will make you swallow your tongue.

Diversity and the Beatles. If you listen to them at their beginning and how they grew and became something way more amazing and experimental. I truly think this had a lot to do with "mind expansion ". 😉

If it's possible for the Beatles to have an underrated song "Hey Bulldog" would have to be it. Love to see you react to that.

Ringo screaming “I got blisters on my fingers” Paul playing lead, John on bass, George on rhythm. They knew how to mix it up

McCartney: the best, most versatile rock voice of and for all time.

Beatles/I Want You (She's So Heavy) studio version

You should listen to Tomorrow Never Knows, another "don't look like Beatles" Beatles song

Another song that show’s Paul’s vocal range is Oh! Darling!!😊

One of the greatest albums of all time, by the absolute greatest band of all time, for my money! This double album would be a great career for any other band! It has it all, from straight rockers, like "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" "Back in the USSR" "Savoy Truffle" "Revolution 1" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", to quirky fun stuff like "Happiness is a Warm Gun" "Rocky Racoon" "Piggies" "Birthday" and "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" to reflective, beautifully melodic ballads, like "I Will" "Blackbird" and "Julia" which makes me want to cry! I am so glad to see you young folks discovering the absolute soundtrack of my youth, which I still enjoy just as much today! The White Album is in my CD player in the car right now! I would urge y'all to go back to the very beginning and listen to every bit of it! There is one helluva lot of greatness between "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "Helter Skelter"!!!! Things will make much more sense too!

That was Ringo at the end. "I've got blisters on my fingers" ! The Beatles completely transformed themselves into a completely different band than the one in 1962.

They did like 21 takes of this song, which was why Ringo called out, "I've got blisters on me fingers!" He literally had blisters on his fingers from drumming so hard! The Beatles were always experimenting with new sounds and instrumentation. They have so many styles of music that it's hard to put them in any one musical category. They did ballads, children's songs, hard rockers, psychedelic weirdness, sweet and sentimental, strange and weird...I could go on but I think you are starting to figure it out for yourself.

Same album... heck out “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide, Except For Me And My Monkey”, “Savoy Truffle” and “Revolution”

"The Beatles...they're fire!" I love it! Your channel is great!

They were having fun with this, certainly! If you ever listened to all their music - a big task - you'd see all kinds of strange things they did with their music. It's why they were one of a kind.

They faded out and faded in because they went on thrashing for 15 minutes...thus Ringo's comment at the end.

This is the group that reset the entire record industry, every band in the world wants to be like them.

Happiness is a Warm Gun, Yer Blues, I Want You (She's So Heavy), I Got a Feeling,

The Beatles didn't just make music-- they MADE Rock-n-roll. Glad you're finding this out. I knew this 55 years ago....

If there is a Beatles song that's heavier than Helter Skelter, it's I Want You (She's so Heavy). That one bounces around blues, a bit of Calypso and the last half could be considered drone metal.

The Beatles songs made other bands realise "You can do that with pop songs?". This lead to a mind opening expansion for other bands to get innovative. The Beatles never repeated themselves.

Consider this ...... Paul Macartney was the lead vocal on this and his song yesterday

The Beatles were trail blazers of music for the WORLD OVER! Pretty sure I will never see anything close to this in my life time ...............and prbly much longer thereafter.

Your reaction made this old man's morning! I was 13 when this came out. You just can't imagine what feelings this song brought to the world, which was going to hell in a handbasket at the time! The Beatles are the soundtrack of my childhood!!

Listen to the Beatles - ‘I want you’ could be considered the first doom metal tune

I was 5 years old when this album came out and my mother said she thought i might be a problem because I loved this song and would go nuts when she played it but didn't give a shit about any of the other songs. She was right. But I did learn to appreciate the other songs on the album (for the most part).

You can spend a lifetime discovering the Beatles, and another discovering all the stuff these guys did on their own.

An inferior group would have taken this as their "sound" and made numerous variations on this theme, and no doubt would have gained a number of dedicated followers who only wanted to hear this type of music. But the Beatles were so eclectic, they could do anything. It's one of the reasons why some people are indifferent to them, because they could never be pinned down into one genre.

Other songs that display their amazing versatility: 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Girl', 'Yer Blues', 'It's All Too Much', 'Revolution 9', 'Love You To', 'She's Leaving Home', 'Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite', 'Ob-la-Di Ob-la-Da', 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', and 'Because'. These songs exhibit The Beatles performing genres like classical, psychedelia, experimental, euro-waltz, hard blues, acid rock, avant-garde, Indian, circus, ska, doo-wop, and harmony-based.

Check out Yer Blues!

Nah, it's the best band ever.

Oh darling is sneaky good. Paul's vocals take a simple song and blows it up into a masterpiece.

Love your reactions! I agree on 'I Want You (She's so Heavy)', you have to check that one out from the Abbey Road album in 1969. A little long but heavy, great guitar work, incredible song and once again different. The Beatles are the Kings of having different styles of music. Also very much agree on 'Hey Bulldog' from the Yellow Submarine album, once again 1969 (they released almost 2 albums per year in their 7 year reign from 1963 to 1970), that has to be on your list too if you can. Many thanks!

I got blisters on my fingers!!!!

The next Beatles song you hear will never sound like the last one you heard. That’s all you need to know 🌺✌️

Think about this. The Beatles came to America in 1964. They started recording albums in something like 1962. By 1970 they had broken up. In that time they recorded something like 12 albums, had 20 number 1 songs and 34 top 10 songs, and arguably launched at least 4 and as many as 7 new genres of music. That's why they are considered the best ever. That's quite a legacy for a band that was together recording albums for 8 years

Another cool edgy one is Taxman by George Harrison. It's punchy, groovy, and has some great jangly dissonance. One of my faves. For a really mellow, trippy groove, check out Tomorrow Never Knows, both of those tracks are from the album Revolver.

Is that not fun as hell? The funny thing about Paul is that, if he chose, he could generate songs like this in his sleep. He was always reaching for something different. I don't like the avant-garde stuff or the Honey Pie type nonsense. I'll take a hard rocker every time though. Also, She's So Heavy and the single version of Revolution (b side of Hey Jude) are hard rockers too.

You like this? Try Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey. Another badass rocker. Helter Skelter was Paul's song. Monkey is John's. Same White album

Try listening to; "It's all too much", "Yer Blues", "Revolution" B-Side of the Hey Jude single. "Birthday", "I've Got a feeling", "Hey Bulldog", "I want You (She's so heavy)", "Why don't we do it in the road", "Don't let me Down". They are the most diverse band ever!

Hello man I really enjoy with your Beatles reaction You have a lot of magnificent songs to discover, really masterpieces Powerfull songs that: I saw her standing there All my loving She loves you A hard day's night Help I feel fine Day tripper (from the earliest years of Beatlemania 1963/1966) and more sofisticaded songs in 1966/70 like It's all too much Magical Mystery Tour Back in the USSR Revolution Birthday and all the B-side from Abbey Road album specialy the last meddley "Golden slumbers / Carry that weight / The end"

lol.....that famous line at the end in this song ..'I got blisters on me fingers'...haha. This album alone has many different styles. "Glass Onion', I'm So Tired', 'Back in the USSR', 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'Birthday'. etc, etc, etc. Their White album is filled with classics. All their albums are right from the beginning.

Since I haven't seen anybody comment this yet, when Ringo shouted "I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!" at the end there, he wasn't making a joke for the song, he was actually drumming so hard that he was bleeding by the end of the song.

Here I am watching your stuff 3 years later just because of the appreciation you show for the genius of these four lads.

Must say I love your reactions to the Beatles. The Beatles are the most diverse and amazing recording artists ever. Even after all this time there songs still sound good and can see why they have such a massive fan base. There are many other good bands but the Beatles they are miles ahead of everyone.. I want you from Abbey Road is another heavy track you must listen and react to when you can !!! A great song to..

Beatles - Genius! B_E_A_T_L_E_S Beatles Make The Very Best Music!

Haze, You made my morning watching you get Helter Skelter and feel what The Beatles gave us to have for always. My daddy was a professional musician and moved our struggling family of seven from Rochester, NY, to LA burbs in '64. The AM radio went from a Beatle song to the Supremes, to The Kinks, to the Beach Boys, to The Temps, to Dylan, every genre all rotating and us kids back then had a beautiful mix of everything, and most of it was the naz! I've played bass and written and recorded music most of my life. McCartney and James Jamison, the genius bassist at Motown made me want to play bass and be in a band. Music is our gift from God, Haze, and we are bound to share it with joy, just like you're doing here. No two ways about it. Just listen to McCartney digging into his 4001 Rickenbacher bass with fulll compression through his Fender Bassman that was there in Abbey Road Studio. You can hear the guts. Helter Skelter is ocnsidered by many to be the first "punk rock" song. Like, The Beatles just decided, let's do this and then move on. McCartney had heard some people running their mouths about how Pete Townshend and The Who had such a baddass, hard sound. McCartney was as competitive as they come and wrote Helter Skelter to quiet down the peasants. My son, Louis, knows everything, right? He goes all the time east coast vs west coast rap and the 90's ruled. Okay, I hear a golden age, but that's just my take. He kids me about my story about how I heard The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight on the radio and went straight to the record store and got the single because I had never hear anyting like it and had to try and learn that bass line (and it wasn't easy). All I knew was I was hearing something amazing that I hadn't heard before. that's where it's at. God gave us music to help us through this tough life. Gave us dogs, too. I have two Akitas that never leave my side. Check out Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey and Hey Bulldog for some more driving Beatle tunes, if you haven't already. God bless you and your's, Haze.

ob la di ob la da is a catchy song, you should react to it, its pretty good

The Beatles could do any style. Country, Blues, Psychadelia, Motown, Bubblegum Pop, Classical Fusion, World Music (Harrison loved Indian music, McCartney played with Caribbean influences in "Obladi, Obladah," etc.)... Their versatility is mind-blowing.

other heavy Beatle songs... Revolution, And Your Bird Can Sing, Paperback Writer, Rain, A Hard Day's Night, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, I'm Down... if you listen to Revolution, listen to the version that was released as a single, which is better than the version on the White Album.

This is a testament to how quickly the Beatles helped morph rock music. I mean they were only together for like six years before coming out with this. I think of Marty McFly "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are going to love it"

The Beatles: unique, original, diverse, fabulous, irreplaceable, genius X 4 , never surpassed, will never be surpassed. Best band ever, I've been listening them since 1963, age 8. Their music is the soundtrack of my life, and of the life of millions. About 75 of their songs are my favorites. What did I say? All their songs are my favorites, some are more favorite than others. Even the most insignifiant ones are now classics i.e. Yellow Submarine, Her Majesty, etc. Has someone surpassed Beethoven.....or Mozart....? No, they are unique, so are The Beatles. Number 9 Beatles fan from Montreal.

A helter skelter is an amusement ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower. Users climb up inside the tower and slide down the outside, usually on a mat or hessian (burlap) sack. Typically, the ride will be of wooden construction and, in the case of fairground versions, designed to be disassembled to facilitate transportation between sites. The term is primarily used in the United Kingdom.

Dude, I love watching you turn on to these songs! I Am The Walrus is another great song to check out!

Welcome to the fan club. Good reaction. The Beatle had a formula to their success. Their first 4 albums were just love songs. They knew that if they captured the girls, that the boys would follow. Once they had the fans, they explored different musical styles. It was sad to see, when they broke up. But, at least their not out there doing "Depends and Poly-Grip" tours like the Stones.

“You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer” one of my favorite lines ever!

Try I want you (she's so heavy) another intense heavy song

If you want to see how Freaky diverse The Beatles were try Revolution #9 on the same album as Helter Skelter. It took me a long time and many times listening to it to realize how Great that song and future oriented that song is!

They proved that they could play any popular genre that existed at the time and create new ones. They're one of the few bands that are their own genre.

I think this is almost a metal song, very close to what Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or Deep Purple were doing in the late 60s and early early 70s. The Beatles were very diverse, they could do Twist & Shout and Let It Be, Hey Jude! and Help!, Yellow Submarine and Helter Skelter...anything and everything.

Diverse. yes. one of the key elements for being considered GOAT in my book....

That was considered the very first Punk Song

"It's coming back?!?" It never went away......

Birthday, Revolution, Hey bulldog, Twist and Shout, Long Tall Sally, I’m Down -if you want to hear the Beatles tear the roof off the house!

So from the same now you have to listen to I Will and Honey Pie. Totally displays McCartney’s vocal ability!!! Amazing!!! Love your reaction!!!

Some would say that Lennon and McCartney wrote the songs to the soundtracks of Our Lives!

The Beatles did an amazing transformation in sound and songwriting in just four years. That's pretty amazing when you consider that some bands haven't changed their sound for decades. But, that was the 60s! I would love for every reaction youtuber to listen to music in sequence starting from the mid-50s.

HazeBruv, They could play anything.

if you have ANY doubts about the Beatles, check out A Day in the Life for a mind blowing experience !!!!!!

Some more great songs to react to (although I can't quite remember which ones you've done so far)... Help!, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, It's All Too Much, A Day In the Life, Something, Nowhere Man, I Want You (She's So Heavy), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (make sure it's the White Album version, the official music video is different version. Or react to both and compare) and SOOO many more. Like you mentioned, the Beatles did so many different styles and genres across their career... it's crazy. You really can't go wrong listening to anything. Have you reacted to Strawberry Fields Forever yet?

It is like MJ in basketball, WG in Ice Hokey, Pele in football, Mozart in classic music, Mercedes in automotive, etc. There are others top , but only one is the best !

Hard to believe that’s the same guy who sang “Yesterday” and “I Will”. Paul McCartney is just unreal. Sometimes I think he might be an alien.

I suggest “It’s All Too Much”, it’s a psychedelic rock song that is very underrated and a song by George Harrison.

Eric Clapton played on that album as well. That's why it has so much fire.

"It's coming BACK??!!" Haha just knew he was gonna say that 🤣

Paul's cue to the others after writing the song was " Play it filthy".