Ringo's strength was his ability to " play to the song." His drumming was structured to enhance the entire experience of the piece. He didnt need to" show off".
The only people that say Ringo is not a good drummer are those who do not play drums. Some of todays greatest drummers have said Ringo was a huge influence.
Beatles produced ART! On Vinyl! This was truly an art piece. The Beatles spent 55 hours producing this song! Layer upon layers of music and sound. You will hear different elements to it, the more you listen to it. Your brain cannot really hear it all just one time. So many Beatles songs are like that. They would just keep perfecting it until it was more than a song…it was musical ART! Beatles fans love this about them. You can choose what to focus on each time you listen and have a different experience, sometimes.
Correction…THE best group of all time. They were the pioneers, they influenced all the other groups. They were innovators, inventors and smashed boundaries…but not only that they influenced fashion, lifestyle, thinking….and were loved by people of all ages. They were the G.O.A.T and the fact that they are still held in awe 50 years+ later says something about their talent!!!!
Sorry 1967 PONTIACGTO…..just re read your post. Thought you said ‘one of the best of all time’….then I understood what you said. I agree entirely…I a, a die hard Beatles fan and have been since 1962. What a great time in music to be a teenager and grow up through the 60s and 70s
John Lennon was not happy with any of the recordings of Strawberry Fields so it was a composite of two different recordings in different keys...George Martin slowed one down and speed the other up and joined the two.
@@Y-two-K indeed... as if his unique creativity on the drums is secondary to the technique that other drummers overplay. Imagine comparing Hendrix's guitar technique to Lennon's - that would also be just as daft ...
I listened again to listen to just his drumming and IT IS epic. Seriously. I've listened to this song for decades and never JUST listened to Ringo. I'm going to do that more on all their music.
Like I always say, in order to really appreciate The Beatles you should listen to them in chronological order. It’s the only way you will be able to comprehend how quickly they developed over a relatively short period of time (8 years, to be exact).
Now listen to McCartney's "Penny Lane". It's like an answer song to "Strawberry Fields". Lennon sang about "Strawberry Fields" and then McCartney sang about "Penny Lane" which is also a place in Liverpool near where they grew up.
Yes, a mellotron. There were only four in the world and they had one. This was experimental, the Beatles had achieved such a stature that they could do anything they wanted. John singing, a very ominous and fatalistic vibe. It summarized the spirit of the age. At the very end many people insisted he was saying "I buried Paul" and that started the "Paul is dead" cult. Strange days indeed
I have always loved this song for many years. It is such a catchy memorable tune, and yet there is such mysticism behind it. One thing I noticed, listening to it with you, is how different each of the "orchestral/brass" arrangements are in each verse. Wonderful stuff, really! 😎😎
Yo bro! If you listened very clearly, John says ""Cranberry Sauce!"" twice. 26 takes were made for this amazing masterpiece. Keep up doing excellent reactions!
I was 17 when I first heard this song and I was sitting with a friend in my kitchen in my parents house and I recall saying “ hey you know what ? I think these guys ( the Beatles ) will be around forever. 56 years late ….
I think it was a Mellotron intro. First time I ever thought about it, but I too thought as much. And yes, John sang it, and probably wrote it. This was smack dab in the middle of psychedelic music era, and one of the prime examples. When the music came back in at the end, it was trippy. And backward, I think. Very satisfying. In NYC across from The Dakota, where the Lennons lived, in Central Park, there is a section called "Strawberry Fields" where there always seems to be people playing music. I once heard someone explain their greatness this way: It was both surface and deep. You can love it immediately, but repeated listenings will also bear fruit. And so people re-listen even through today.
You should start listening to their early work to appreciate their growth over the (few) years in their history. She Loves You, A Hard Day's Night, Day Tripper, I've Just Seen A Face and Rain are all touchstones.
I believe this was released as a single. with the flip side being. Penny Lane. Strawberry Fields was amazing. listened with headsets. mind blown again, try Tomorrow never knows off Revolver, in fact all of Revolver will knock you out. Amazing work.
Enjoyed your reaction. I was born in '53 so I first heard this on my way to school. My father,not a Beatles fan , two sisters + 2 neighbors. It was off-putting but we all could sing along 2nd time you heard it. The B Side of the single is Penny Lane, pure McCartney whereas Strawberry Fields Forever is pure Lennon ( to most listeners). Both songs referenced locations in Liverpool which had impacted John + Paul. You mentioned a Progressive edge in Strawberry Fields + I'd recommend the song I Want You (She's So Heavy) off Abbey Road. It's their longest cut and unique is an understatement. I'll have to check your playlists.
The intro is indeed a mellotron, on the "flute" setting. Then as the second refrain begins, it changes to a completely different recording at "going to...", with trumpets and cellos.
It's hard to realize now how radical some of their music was, their influence affected multiple generations of music makers. This song had a long genesis, there's a bootleg album filled with different takes of it. The finished track was formed by splicing 2 different versions, one was a rock (heavy) version and the other more orchestral. Since they were in different times one had to be slowed up and the other slowed down.
As a teenager in 1967, I remember seeing the look of shocked bemusement on my mum's face when she first heard Strawberry Fields Forever. It was like aliens were speaking to her through the radio. It just shows how far out in front of the rest the Beatles were in terms of pushing musical boundaries. This was progressive rock before the term had been coined.
That was definitely a Mellotron - an earlier version of the device Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues developed by removing the rhythm tapes and substituting stringed instruments, which is why it might sound a bit primitive compared to the Mellotron on Days Of Future Passed. Fun fact: Manfred Mann were the first band to feature a Mellotron on a UK top 10 record, Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James in the autumn of 1966.
Yeh Manfred Mann was a wizard on the keyboards/synths but didn't go over the top, unlike Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson. Manfred Manns Earth Band was a real class act in the 70s
It is ancient history now , but Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane , the single , was John and Paul’s musical take on growing up in Liverpool. It is probably the greatest single record ever released.
I recommend Here Comes the Sun, Lady Madonna, Let It Be, Across the Universe, Twist and Shout, All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's NIght, I Should Have Known Better, And I Love Her, I've Just Seen a Face, Yesterday, Nowhere Man, In My Life, I'm Looking Through You, Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, Good Day Sunshine, All You Need Is Love, I Am the Walrus, The Fool on the Hill, Don't Let Me Down, and Hey Jude. You heard Ringo sing "Don't Pass Me By" and "Goodnight" on the White Album; for more of his, try Yellow Submarine and Octopus's Garden.
The Beatles did a "promotional film" for each album, some consider it the first ideas for music videos which came along around 1980. MTV started in 1981. This song has an artistic colorful trippy 60s theme film for it, but there still were no actual music videos for another 12-13 years.
You must remember that the Beatles developed much of the musical technique the following generations used. There was no auto tune or digital enhancements. There was mixing and looping but it was all analogue. Every sound you hear is organic and actually occurred audibly in the studio. Music of the past 10 years, much of it, is computer created. The Beatles were an actual band. Listen to early recordings and then watch their live performances of the same songs. Live was 98% or more the same as the recording. Even live performances today are processed between the microphone and the speakers. Like the song said. Nothing is real. At least 50% is fake. Put Bruno Mars on a stage singing along with with just a guitar and you will see much of his music is artificial.
Cool dude, heres a little group of 4 Beatles - "I Want You (she's so heavy)" Supertramp - "School" Pink Floyd - "Echoes (Part 1)" live at Pompeii 1972 Led Zeppelin - "Since I've Been Loving You" live at Madison Square Gardens 1973
Strawberry Fields was an actual place in Liverpool. It was a Salvation Army children's home. Near to where both John and Paul grew up. I walked past it myself as a kid many times. It was a sad, rather melancholy place.
@kellywann3794 Honesty, if you want to explore 1960s musique concrete, try Zappa's "Chrome-plated Megaphone of Destiny" or go straight to Stockhausen. "Revolution 9" was derivative.
Hey mate, just a few Beatles suggestions and favourites of mine with a bit of diversity between them Paperback Writer/Rain Tomorrow Never Knows I Am The Walrus Helter Skelter Across The Universe I could go on and on but.. Enjoy
I was 16 yrs. old when this came out and there was nothing even close to this song as far as sounds ,lyrics and composition when it came out. It was a whole different animal. Definitely the first psychedelic record . Penny Lane was the other side of the 45 record ,which also had some psychedelic and surrealist overtones .Penny lane had a few none rock instrument in it including a Piccolo Trumpet solo .
Ringo is the best! "Cranberry Sauce" was "I buried Paul". That line started the "Paul is dead" controversy. For a while some were saying Paul McCartney was a body double. The Beatles started the "Lyric analysis" that so many reactors do today. Back then, we tried to figure out the meanings of Beatles songs. Before the 1967 Beatles, lyrics were pretty much straight forward. Folk songs could need "interpretaion" but everything else was straight.
Hi! Could you delve in to this little know band Crack the Sky. There story is very interesting. The song writer ( John Palumbo ) and music is very under rated rock and avant-garde rock, progressive rock, whatever term you would like. You should enjoy it! Thanks
Recommend you find the newer mixes of Beatles songs whenever you listen. The 2009 remasters are iffy. The 2015 mix of this song is a lot better. The old mixes have a lot of bad stereo panning. 5 of the albums have Super Deluxe versions with new mixes that are more modern sounding, and some of the singles have had remixes on compilations in the past few years. Red And Blue albums had some new remixes in 2023 for select tracks from Magical Mystery Tour and Rubber Soul, as well as some old tracks.
john would tell of the original cut they had to bounce it down to get it onto acetate he said the original was a different track altogether would be great to hear it as it was the songs theme was from the story the walrus and carpenter about the workers and the capitalist system but john put himself as the capitalist by mistake i am the carpenter didn't have the right psyche feel to it lol
That was true of most of their albums, bouncing down was a process that was crucial to the development of their increasingly complex arrangements. A lot of elements had to be mixed and balanced as they went along, to built up a song's multi-track recording and to keep freeing up empty tracks to add further overdubs. Their first two albums were only recorded on two-track machines. By 1963 EMI had four-track tape machines, and the single 'I want to hold your hand' was the first time The Beatles used it. 4-track remained the standard right through until their final album, 'Abbey Road' which utilised 8-track tape machines.
There are various alternate takes of SFF. You should listen to them all in this order for a full of appreciation of this musical masterpiece: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Zwe1C1G2ak.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y5g_DiZF5NI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cPsFJ173-1U.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BlVrnZFi5ZM.html
You identified the last words as “Cranberry Sauce”… the ONLY person in the history of the World that didnt hear “I buried Paul”. Only years later did John come up with the sad excuse that it was “cranberry sauce”… I smell fraudulence. It’s “Do not recommend channel” time for you. Bye, Felicia.
