Please note that music videos hadn't even been invented at this time. This was a promotional film. Nobody was using backwards tambourine, very few bands even had facial hair. Not very many were using string backgrounds in this manner. Distorted vocals were very rare, too. Try some of their earlier music if you want to rock, but even then their harmonies and pop love songs were unlike anything else on the radio. As for the name, Strawberry Field was an orphanage where John played as a boy. Don't think you are quite ready for the dreamscape of A Day in the Life.
To put it into context The Beatles went from releasing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in 1963 to releasing "Strawberry Fields" in 1967, with all the touring and promotional work in the interim it is mesmerising that such development could be achieved in such a short span of time.
This song is considered one of their best, and is my favorite. You’d have to listen again to this masterpiece. I appreciate you two reacting to this song, but please let her speak for herself. Dude keep wanting to convince her she’ll hate the song and she’s trying to say she doesn’t. Anyway, excellent song choice by the brother
Hearing this masterpiece discussed like it’s some guilty pleasure like “I’m too sexy” fairly excruciating, not gonna lie. Can I quit this generation and try the next one? :D
I know. I was annoyed that the guy kept telling the girl that she’ll hate this song and he, of course, doesn’t really care for it much. I think the video is great, but they might’ve been to fixated on that
When this song was released 54 years ago it caused division. Those with a conservative mind that liked traditional music hated it. Those who had a more imaginative approach to art loved it. It was a ground breaking recording.
Please choose from here all of them are from beatles: Here there and everywhere Here comes the sun I want you(shes so heavy) Oh darling Hey bulldog Mother nature’s son You never give me your money Got to get you into my life Hello goodbye
there wasn't just Elvis back then, there was also Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Bill Haley and the Comets, all who the Beatles admired when they were teenagers and were influenced BY them. They covered some songs by Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly and others on their early albums and also during their sets when they were the local Liverpool band (before they were famous)
"Penny Lane" is about Paul's childhood. "Strawberry Fields Forever" is about John's childhood. They are not psychedelic. The impact of drugs is greatly exaggerated. John was writing like this as a child. "Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of the greatest recordings in history.
Second this. Don’t do drugs guys but let’s be honest. With acid or mushrooms you actually understand how good the beatles are. They put you into a dream. Sgt Peppers all the way through 😱
I love The Beatles, I’m 66 years old now so I was a really young kid when they appeared in the USA.. love the entire Beatles library of music but this song and this video always reminds me of one day, watching this video and realizing for the first time, one day my mother and my father will pass away my brother my sister and myself will also someday pass away. Dad passed away and 1977 @ 57 years old and mom passed away 2010 in her early 80’s and me and my siblings are still alive but we are in our middle late 60s. Live for the day because time passes by so fast. God bless Strawberry Fields forever.
There was Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis before Elvis. But Elvis was like freak of nature with his looks, (unmatched)charisma, "un-White" moves, and genuine vocal instincts and skills for rock, country, & gospel. Then came Buddy Holly, Motown, Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan.. and then the equivalent of a four-headed alien invasion from Liverpool
Elvis was the embodiment of culture appropriation at the start of his career, most of it driven by his label and management, still a great entertainer though.
@@Whosrightwhoswrong Elvis was the first Rock Idol. But it didn't start with Elvis. Look up Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, and many others. Elvis was just the first as far as reaching mega-fame. But he wasn't the first. Southern Blacks invented Rock And Roll. Not Elvis.
The lady wins because she likes this greatest of songs, and the gentleman does not, and yet preemptively accuses the beautiful lady of disliking it. It is quite entertaining. I would say that the brother needs to have more selection power, and the lady more equality of opinion.
before Elvis you had nobody? I understand where the quotes coming from but: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, and the list goes on. not intending to be a dick, Just meal for thought!
@@Whosrightwhoswrong Elvis was NOT before them and Chuck Berry and Little Richard also had a profound effect on rock n roll. Plus they wrote their own material, unlike Elvis.
i think whats good to note is understanding what strawberry fields is or was idk if it exists anymore but it was a place in liverpool for like memorial stuff for veterans
The song is about the terror of being alive. John Lennon attempting to describe what his life feels like. Every lyric is full of conflict, doubt and tension. It is actually a pretty heavy song. Ignore the video.
I mean ignore the Beatles video. Not who’s right who’s wrong. I like what you do. Back to Lennon, a big theme in his later work is his effort to come to terms with existence - in Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields, Julia, God, Mother, and finally Watching the Wheels, where he finally seemed at peace with life.
Here are some Beatles reactions you should do: 1. Oh! Darling, Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, Helter Skelter, Got to Get You Into My Life - Paul 2. Come Together, Tomorrow Never Knows, Dear Prudence, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Don't Let Me Down - John 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes the Sun, Something - George 4. Rain (for Ringo's drumming), Octopus' Garden, Yellow Submarine - Ringo
I love this reaction guys very funny and charming. Please react to the best beatle song which is A Day In The Life, one the best and most complex recordings in the history of music, their masterpiece by far. :)
for a joke, you should do the monkees "a little bit me". there is a line in the song that goes "girl, i don't want to fight, but I'm a little bit wrong, and you're a little bit right". I like to change the words a bit to "girl, i don't want to fight, but you're a little bit wrong, and I'm a little bit right". I think this would be perfect for your channel, haha.
PS before Elvis, there was Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, and before them, I guess you were getting close to obscure original blues artists that other people could probably name.
Before this song The Beatles were not Twist and Shout, but Tomorrow Never Knows, Rain, Paperback Writer, Eleonor Rigby, She Said She Said, Got to get you into my life, Nowhere Man, Girl, Michelle and many more... So often this is a very missing part of them that nobody tell...
AC/DC would be interesting to introduce her to (unless she’s already familiar with their stuff) As for The Beatles, anything off of Sgt Pepper would be good. Maybe ‘A Day in the Life’?
Strawberry Fields was a park in Liverpool where (I think) they would go to escape from everything. One of the hardest tracks to listen to as an intro, but most of their music is so familiar it's hard to find something unfamiliar (for me anyway) 'Here comes the sun' isn't bad - not Beatles 'Pop' and not indulgent psychodelia either. You'll probably find that you know Beatles songs, but didn't know they were Beatles songs. I like the honesty" UK
The "video" ruins it. There were two+ generations who only knew this song from the album/radio. The video came out in what, about 2010?, and kinda ruins the experience of the song. To be honest, there were about 30% of people who didn't get this song when it first came out in 1967, and the other 70% thought it was genius.
Wow, "Before Elvis there was nothing". Wow, so no Memphis Slim. No Muddy Waters. No Little Richard. No Chubby Checker.. Should I go on? because I can. Wow. But your white messiah invented rock and roll.
before Elvis, there was Fats Domino and Hank Williams... if you liked this, you should listen next to Penny Lane which was the flip side of the single... other songs you might like... Eleanor Rigby, All My Loving, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Here Comes the Sun, Something, I've Got To Get You Into My Life... and dude, you've got to stop interrupting her and trying to finish her sentences...
It’s a bit intellectual....it perplexed a lot of people at the time....it’s a bit like art, they, and Dylan, were trying “to put fine art on a jukebox”, that’s a bit what the 60’s were about.....it’s a little like picasso and Braque inventing collage in painting in 1907, 1908, and 1909, it’s a bit of a “sound collage”, that stuff was way, way new back then, in the mid-sixties.....drugs are super dangerous these days, with psychos putting fentanyl even in marijuana, but this song on weed, or ,god for bid, on LSD is, um , quite a thing/experience (drugs are horrible, I’m just saying).....but, yeah, -- they were just innovators, to sound like someone else, at this point in their career, for them, just didn’t hold any interest for them.....Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys heard this, and pretty much, kinda quit for a while, or quit trying, Brian, being a genius himself , was definitely a revolutionary, and an innovator in the studio...this song, was quite revolutionary, it either inspired people, or broke their creative will, because, it’s just insanely creative, insanely original, and just way, way out there...artists like the Beatles changed how people made records for decades....there’s backward tape here, cymbals recorded backwards (that reverse sucking sound), there’s a key and tempo change in which their producer had to slow down one of the verses to make it fit, time-wise, and also be in key, and pitch, with the other verses, the list goes on, it’s absolutely nuts; all done on a 4-track tape recorder also, insane........anyway, glad she ended up liking it, good reaction.
Stop interrupting to tell us what she thinks, because you cant know, even if you are married to her for 40 years, let her stop it if she wants to tell us something, you are manipulating her to take a position before hearing the whole song. I find it annoying to the extreme, and if it was the first time I saw a video of you guys I would never come back because of your attitude. This is The Beatles, the best of the best and no one will dislike strawberry fields forever in the long run, no one. Like many other beatles songs, it can't be disliked because it is flawless.
This is not one of my faves by the Beatles either but it is a part of a group whose music will around to the end of the world. Whatever music you are listening to stems somehow from this era.
