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Happy New Year! (Patreon)

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We’ve worked hard to have this ready for you today, and here it is: our gift for the wonderful community here, on Patreon!

We wish you a Merry New Year (as Vlad insists to say :), a new year to fill your hearts with happiness, joy, color, and Music!

As for “A Day in the Life” … well, you already know what I had to say, right? “‘Hey You?’ ‘Eleanor Rigby?’ Beethoven? The S.P.L.H.C. band? No! THE BEATLES unveiled.”

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kevin coleman

Can't wait to dig in with Amy! Now that Sgt Pepper's is complete, I suggest that Pet Sounds get the full album treatment as well! You've done one of the greatest albums of the 60s,now you just have to do the other ;)

Rafa Tintoré

On my 40 years ago vinyl , when the track ends in the microgroove area it goes to the non-recordable area and the tone arm is lifted. In my case it didn't work and there's a sound effect that says Paul is dead that repeats itself if you don't pick it up. There's a funny legend there because some people believe it

Lee Kennison

Only a short way in, but just wanted to say to Amy: I really like how you have been giving these 2nd reactions multiple listens to better evaluate these songs, including doing some of your own research. It works well in this format, where you have already had your first listen. This is similar to how you approached songs back when you used to follow with an In-Depth. Which is great since we get all the benefits of that, without you having to take all the additional time it takes you to prepare an In-Depth.

TangoEliott

Thanks for the gift. I am settled now and ready to listen WOO HOO

Daniel Adano

♪ I saw your reaction today, Oh girl !! ♫ ♫ , about this great song ♪ .. and it was great!! Congratulations, have a very good year 2025 with all my heart. You are like part of my family .. Thank you very much. Greetings from Montréal .Canada ..

Rebecca Walsh

One of my favorite Beatles songs and you made it come to life once again for me. Your analysis of the Beatles catalogue has left me appreciating the musical masterpieces in a much fuller way than I have ever been able to. Now I can explain why each of these pieces have made me feel certain ways when I listened to them before. This has been a New Year's blessing for me and I really appreciate you reviewing this song and making this one available to Beatles fans rather than "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" (which is also a good song). I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you...all I can do is keep supporting your channel and being a part of all these new discoveries....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! & THANK YOU!!!

Lee Kennison

Only a little over 15 minutes in, but I was just struck by one of those interesting coincidences that happen sometimes in life: I just happened to be watching a YT video this morning shortly before on Zen philosophy, and it shared an almost identical thought that you had early into it when speaking of the piano going from being prominent and then it's gone (and here with Amy particularly in the context of this song's theme). This Zen video was speaking on how music is an analogy to the passing moments in one's life . You may or may not be deep in the experience, but whether you experienced it deeply or superficially, it is but a brief moment (in the now) that quickly passes by. But in reflecting on these brief moments, perhaps we learn something about life itself. BTW, since this is a long video, and I have other things going on this morning it will take a while to get through. So please this piecemeal commentary as I go.😉

Rea Lavi

John's lyrics and vocal delivery are introspective and contemplative, like in SFF. He places you inside his mental world very well.

Lee Kennison

Well as an amateur bass player myself, and a great admirer of Paul McCartney's melodic bass playing, particularly on this album; I of course loved your commentary on the opening bass lines, as Lennon is delivering his incredibly powerful vocal and lyrical story telling, which seems to transcend to a deeper (hard to explain) level than your typical song. I think Paul's bass likely plays a key role in this transcendent sense in supporting Lennon's voice I get in this part of the song. And because Paul's bass playing really does stand out to me on this entire album, I am so glad Amy that you have noticed it too Amy.

Ron

I have a question for Amy (and for those many others who have, like me, savored her musician's take on The Beatles and other rock artists). I am a reasonably musical person (piano, voice) who was in a late 60s rock band and even composed and recorded several songs. Like many others, I consider The Beatles to be the most talented, creative, and influential group in rock's history. As for my tastes in Beatles music, I think they are quite typical and ordinary (for example, Eleanor Rigby is my favorite Paul song and Strawberry Fields Forever is probably my favorite John song). So my question is: WHY DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE, FREQUENTLY CONSIDERED TO BE THE GROUP'S BEST SONG, LEAVE ME COLD?? I thought maybe Amy's analysis would get me to see the light, but, alas, I still don't even rank the song in my top 50 Beatles songs! Is there anyone else out there who agrees with me? Can anyone explain my inability to enjoy the song?

idreamofdouche

Fantastic just as expected! I was really shocked when you said that it feels like the song wasn't created but rather like it almost always existed because that's always how I've felt about the song. I think Lennon is the greatest songwriter in modern music and this is such a great example. Sometimes it's like he just finds something magical that no one else could create. And his otherworldly singing really helps to emphasize this part. Great to hear Ringo getting props for this as well.

George Brady

This is a triumph, Amy. So much commentary exists about this song, and separately, its place on this album. I've always felt the distinction between the Sgt Pepper concept, and this seemingly out-of-place magnum opus. You have beautifully expressed what I have not been able to, and I will forever describe my feelings in the simple manner you provided. I'm so happy this caught your fancy. I can only assure you that The Beatles have more in store for you, and as always, it won't be like this at all.

Rebecca Walsh
>>159865385

MY TOP 20 BEATLES SONGS: 1) Something 2) Let It Be 3) Here Comes the Sun 4) Hey Jude 5) I Want You 6) A Day In the Life 7) Yesterday 8) I am the Walrus 9) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 10) For No One 11) The Fool on the Hill 12) Golden Slumbers 13) Strawberry Fields 14) Michelle 15) Mother Nature's Son 16) Dear Prudence 17) In My Life 18) Julia 19) Get Back 20) All You Need is Love

Virgin Rock
>>159868766

It’s okay to feel that way. There are even some great classical masterpieces that just don’t do it for me, though I certainly appreciate their greatness. I’ve always simply explained it as being due to the fact that we each have our own unique set of preferences and emotional triggers, and just because something is great doesn’t mean we’ll connect with it.

RAD1

OMG your Harp crescendo adds even more, now I wish it was also in there.

Lee Kennison

About 35 minutes in: And since I am also an amateur drummer, I also of course loved your insightful commentary on Ringo's drums, describing them perfectly as being hardly present, and yet omnipresent. With the way they add emotional complexity to this through his very minimal and tasteful insertions at just the right moment. And while you might not typically think of drums as being emotionally complex, as humans they are one of our earliest means of expressing ourselves musically, with the voice likely being the first and primary means. But the early (and more contemporary) tribal drum patterns have always been a part of human expression and states of mind, particularly in some of the more primitive spiritual ceremonies (often substance enhanced) to appease and commune with the gods, as experienced by the entire tribe. You can get a little bit of a sense of this if you have ever watched or participated in a drum circle.

David Taylor
>>159868766

Well, I've always considered it a masterpiece. Mainly for It's innovation. but, it is a sad and rather bleak song with its frank image of death and, that last chord always makes me think of nuclear annihilation.

Lee Kennison

Did Amy just reveal that Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is on the way? With her interesting thoughts on the "minor falls" that occur in this song, which relates to the "minor falls, the major lifts" line in Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." So it sounds like it is on the way, yay! I have really enjoyed Amy's Leonard Cohen reactions and how much she has taken to his music and poetry.

Rea Lavi

"I'd love to turn you on" to another reality, another way of perceiving the world - there was more to do it than just "taking drugs" but the (psychedelic) drugs were instrumental to that sensibility.

Lynn Poole

Amy in the Sgt Pepper book George Martin is quoted. "John's voice sends shivers down your spine".

Rea Lavi

Thank you Amy for highlighting Ringo's prominent role in this composition. Great insights

George Brady
>>159876860

Yes. Conversationally, it could mean "let me show you something", or "here's something I bet you haven't seen/heard" etc.

Rea Lavi

Brilliant interpretation! The planned program isn't the printed program!

Matsu

As much as I think that Sergeant Pepper, more than any other Beatles LP, is stuck in its time, I still have to admit that at its best it packs in more depth than, say, Revolver. Partly because of the recording techniques that were developed (drums!), but mostly because of the songs themselves, especially the current song. Thank for this analysis. Happy new year, everyone!

George Brady

Thank you, Amy and Vlad, for "jumping" to this sublime moment, Happy New Year to you both!

Lee Kennison

One Hour in: Great and insightful commentary on the glissando section, in how avant-garde it was in providing the musicians a lot of freedom to do what they wanted, within the parameters of where to start and finish, while continually ascending within. Leading to this wild chaotic and terrifying crescendo. To me it feels like the gears of life or the universe moving us through time and space to another experience within life. Reminds me a bit of the narrator in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" novel, who is continually being bounced around both forward and backward through time and space (literally) within his own life's experiences.

RAD1

George Martin said he made a huge mistake by not including Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on this record. When I listen to it I listen to both of those before A Day In The Life, then it's complete for me.

Pedro Macedo

Thank you for opening this reaction to me. I like your analysis so much, Amy. When I first heard this song in 1967 (I was 13 y.o.) it was a bit strange the orchestral crescendo. After some other hearings, I came to like it more and more. I think this song requires some maturity to absorb it more deeply.

Lynn Poole

The "simple" piano chords start the song and the sustained piano chord ends the song. But if you have a chance to listen to the isolated piano, Paul goes crazy in the orchestral sections.

Lynn Poole
>>159868286

I think Paul's melodic approach to the bass is especially prominent on this album. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has a separately singable bassline.

Lynn Poole

When they toured, Paul would come out before they sang the next to last song and announce that the show was almost over. I have always thought they were duplicating that. Sgt Pepper came out and did the Reprise which notes that the show is almost over. But there is no question that this song stands alone in the past, present and future of their discography.

Lee Kennison

I wonder if the repeating "It could never be any other way" line at the end is just a commentary on all this simply being fate playing out. And we are just getting small glimpses into this dramatic, sometimes tragic, sometimes trivial, absurd and humorous "show" we call life playing out in front of us.

Lynn Poole
>>159882691

I don't recall them doing encores when they toured. But there may have been instances of that.

Bobkovachik

In either rubber soul or Revolver you said you wanted an encore. Well here it is.

David Taylor
>>159868766

I didn't mean to imply that I don't love the song, only that I see how the subject matter may not appeal to all. Same goes for the Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter".

Andy G

Thank you Amy and Vlad! I greatly appreciate you both!

Paul D. Hoffmaster III

The final short track could only be played on Turntables that did not have autoreply so the grove next to the label could be played.

Scott Findley

Great commentary! I sometimes imagine John Lennons’ portion of this song as being like a grief stricken Johnny Carson monologue, commenting on the days news, with Ringo’s drumming acting as variations of rim shots to John’s’ sad joking. Just a thought.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma

That was just wonderful, as I expected. Like your reaction to Sgt. Pepper as a whole, and considering the importance of this song in my personal life, I've taken copious notes as I watched you, which is detailed below:

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

@3:30 "Is this where Pink Floyd got their ideas?" Amy, after SGT. PEPPER came out, this is where nearly EVERYONE who makes this kind of music germinated their ideas - including myself. @6:32 I've always hated that weirdness of the end-groove. It just blows the end-of-the-album bliss one would have kept feeling had this not happened. @10:10 "deep note" this was new info for me ;) @11:53 you say "Sgt. Pepper's." Believe me when I tell you that I have no idea why I feel so strongly as to say: "no apostrophe S!" @12:52 You speak of John Lennon's voice at this point. Great call! Seriously, Amy, the quality and timber of John's voice in this recording is unmatched anywhere, although Strawberry Fields Forever is a contender. In my mind, one simply cannot underestimate the impact of John's voice in this song. It's key. @16:53 "All this ordinary, mundane stuff." Amy, perhaps you didn't realize this, but the very essence of Zen (aka "the truth of Buddhism") is that: the EXTRAORDINARY IS FOUND IN THE ORDINARY. This is why, when a Zen acolyte asks a master, "What is the meaning of life?" The master tells his disciple to go wash the dishes.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

@20:00 You mention the beautiful melodical quality that Paul's bass brings to this piece… and in passing, you mentioned the common use of the "walking bass," which, I must say, Amy, I have to freely admit (with some attendant shame) that I've not always paid great attention to the bassline in a song. (Chris Squire of YES and Geddy Lee of Rush… and, of course, Sir Paul McCartney himself notwithstanding). You remind me, Amy (as if I really needed it) to pay much more attention to the basslines of a song as wonderful as this one. @21:57 "I want to point out how much more tuneful the bassline melody is, rather than the melody that is being sung." A perfect example of something that I missed completely. @22:24 "And I started thinking: why is it… what makes this something that just really sticks… why is it SO STICKY?" Please, Amy… if you can answer that and put into a bottle, you'd be rich beyond your wildest dreams! @24:44 "..about a lucky man who made the grade." That man was Beeatle friend and heir to the Guinness family fortune, Tara Browne, who sacrificed himself when a truck came at him, and he spun his car out in order to save his passenger, the beautiful Nico/Anita Pallenberg-type called Suki Portier… who, ironically, would die many years later… in a car crash. Suki was featured with actress Jane Birkin in the 1968 movie Wonderwall, with music provided by none other than George Harrison. @26:14 "I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph." That's an actual photo, printed in the newspaper, of the crumpled LOTUS ELAN sports car that Tara Browne was driving, who swerved to save his passenger, Suki Portier. @28:30 "Okay… now let's talk about Ringo's drums!" Ringo is a left-handed player who performs on a right-handed kit, making his drum fills a little different from most drummers. Ringo said that he could not do a rolling drum fill across multiple drums perfectly, and that's why you hear his heavily syncopated beats. It's a case of "necessity is the mother of invention."

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

@32:20 "He blew his mind out in a car." This has nothing to do with Tara Browne… it's a poetic invention. @35:39 "The piano… is it a percussive instrument?" Amy… take it from me, an EXPERT whose opinion simply cannot be questioned: The piano IS a percussive instrument! (I'm happy to have settled this controversy for you ;) @38:10 "Lets talk about the contribution to the harmonic scheme…" YAY! Amy, please do more of this type analysis in the future for those songs that deserve it. It is these types of comments that really sets you apart from even other musically-savvy commentators. @44:09 "Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords…" Your comment that the lyrics were all leading up to this point was a fascinating observation for me. "Where did that come from?" you asked. Well, John has already answered you, in another context, when he said, "from the spirit." I.E., it's inspirational (which he says informs his best songs) rather than intentional (for example, A HARD DAYS NIGHT.) @48:00 "I saw a film today, oh boy!" is from HOW I WON THE WAR, a film by director Dick Lester (A HARD DAY'S NIGHT) and featured John as a soldier. He wrote Strawberry Fields Forever while filming in Spain that year, 1966. @49:00 "Here I find myself using a phrase that I don't know that I have ever used for drums before: tonal coloring." Well, Amy, please pay particular attention to Nick Mason's use of Roto-Tom (tuneable) drums in the song TIME from The Dark Side Of The Moon. @50:10 "I guess this is the most impressive bit of drumming I've ever heard come out of Ringo…" Amy, please remember that this performance occurred because Ringo could NOT do well what most drummer would have done here… so.. it's not intentional. Does that change your opinion any?

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

@1:06:06 "It's like he woke up with his favorite two notes in his [McCartney's] head…" Boy, Amy, did I laugh at that comment. @1:08:26 "I guess you can turn this into a drug song if you want." Okay, Amy, here's where I say that you are being a bit of a reductionist regarding psychedelic drug use (and I don't blame you… you've and most other have been propagandized since the 60s on this issue). But… no worries… there is still much time for you to learn about the subject, if it should interest you, at least in how it relates to so much music of this era. @1:08:41 "Because it doesn't have to be a drug song… um… and even in their account… it just accidentally got to sound like a drug song, because… they weren't really thinking about that when they were creating it." Well, Amy, yes and no. I speak only as someone who is very well versed, through the decades, in this… and I will say, at this time, only this: what you said is based only upon a simplified (and misleading, imho) perception of artists and their use of drugs. I won't elaborate here, as it would be inappropriate, but I would counsel you to withhold your conclusions on this topic until you learn a lot more, assuming you are interested in the subject. And, seriously, I you do, because it's these ideas and experiences that lie at the very core of this particular music that you are reacting to. @1:10:00 "The AHHHHHs were the most melodic part of this song." Yo! I didn't notice this before! @1:14:45 "It goes on longer than a 9 foot grand piano!" Amy, my piano teacher in college had our class perform our final recitals in her home, with TWO (count 'em: 2) 9' grand pianos, opposing each other, in her living room. Can you imagine? @1:14:55 "Never could be any other way…" What? What? What! No… freaking… way… that this snippet should have been included, imho. I can't stand it! I just wanted to drift off to sleep after that final chord… but, NO… "never could be any other way, never could be any other way, never could be any other way…[repeat ad nauseum.] @1:18:36 "This song strikes me as being, kind of, fatalistic." A comment, Amy, that cuts close to the bone with my personal history. Was I affected by John's song, or, were we both reacting to a similar stimulus… as, I was taught, correlation does not prove causation.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

@1:20:15 "I mean, it's really kind of weird to say that it's really just an encore." Amy, although formally it might be considered an encore, it clearly is the FINALE. Actually, it was pretty common for rock band to perform one of their most iconic numbers as a first or second (or third) encore… Led Zep did this a lot, in fact. @1:22:30 "Is [A DAY IN THE LIFE] a single?" No, Amy, this song would not have hit as a single in those day (imho, but who am I to say?). MARK'S FINAL COMMENTS: One of the primary messages of SGT. PEPPER is not so different from that of Zen Buddhism: The extraordinary is in fact… the ordinary!" Do any of you people out there believe that this album could have been made without the advent of LSD in popular consciousness beginning in 1965? Finally: many have agreed with me in this (and many do not): SGT. PEPPER was the very apogee of The Beatles recorded career. At one point in an interview, John says something to the effect of: "We were really trying to go somewhere with Pepper, weren't we?"

Lee Kennison

Well, as should be obvious from all my ongoing commentary as I watched this, I absolutely loved this with all your wonderfully insightful and profound commentary and observations Amy. Your best reaction yet. I hope the length of this doesn't scare people off, since it really is remarkable and valuable. Because I have already made most of my comments as I was progressing through this, I will just add a couple of final observations and miscellaneous thoughts (Okay, another long one; but hey it's a Day in the Life with all of Amy's wonderful commentary, so I can't resist😉): I loved how you were able to make the tie-in to Pink Floyd, now that you have progressed further into the later Beatles songs. Great historical link that Vlad made about Pink Floyd recording their first album in the same studio and time as Sgt. Pepper's. Great association of Lennon's "ahh" melody after McCartney's "I went into a dream" with the "All the lonely people" line in Eleanor Rigby. And I loved all your harp and piano play-alongs and illustrations throughout. I agree Amy, there are some strong links between this song and "Good Morning Good Morning." I would have never thought that before, because I never previously thought that much about "Good Morning" since it was previously my least favorite song on this album. That is until I recently paid more attention to the lyrics when you did your first listen to it on the album. So I was having this same linking thought here while listening to your commentary, and then you confirmed that you made that connection too, which was very cool.😉 I enjoyed your initial conclusion that this, rather than being an encore, could serve as the framework for a new concert experience. My take was that I thought it was a summation of the entire artistic and philosophical/spiritual ideas behind this entire album, with its commentary on everything from the profound to the ordinary. Which you ended up more eloquently and profoundly expressing, in saying the prior parts of this album were just a charade, and now they have taken off their costumes and egos, and they come back on stage to say, "This is really us, and this is the message of the entire program. And this is really the grand climax. It is the unveiling of the entire album." As you said, it is too weighty and substantial to be viewed as just an encore. It kind of reminds me how Ren broke the fourth wall in "Money Game 3" when he grabbed the camera and addressed the audience directly. As you aptly said and as Vlad has said before, this album truly is a work of art. And I would add "at the highest level." In part because it is timeless, including in a lot of the ideas that are explored here. Great creative and apt outro Vlad!

Lee Kennison
>>159890325

Great observations DJ Marq. Best of all, now I don't have to feel as guilty about my many lengthy comments on this one, since once again you out did me in this regard.😉

Peter Buwen

I completely agree with you that this song is the transition to Beatles reality after the Pepper's album was a play. In addition, I always had the feeling that A day in the Lifa points to the future. Specifically, for me the song points to the White Album, which the Beatles themselves could not have predicted. But the song is stylistically a precursor to the songs on the White Album. By the way: as I said before, I think you, Amy, will love the White Album. For me, the White Album has become the most important Beatles album in recent years and I am happy to break away from the panel of experts with my opinion.

Misty Bastian

Oh, Amy. Thank you for this. I have way too many thoughts to share, so I’ll leave it at two. First, when I hear John sing the “Ah, ah,ah…” part, I hear the future, not the past, in his vocals. Not that I knew I was listening to his future style when I first listened to this record. I was pretty sure I was listening to ours, instead. Second, don’t sleep on how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. We (the audience) were friends at the start, but we have dissolved into absences (holes) here at the end, just before the infinitely sustained chord carries the musicians and their listeners away, down that hole. (Actually, the first time somebody explained black holes to me in college, this song started playing in my head.) Anyway, beautiful “read” of the song. Happy New Year, everybody.

RAD1
>>159868766

KEL of the Kel 'N' Rich show music reactions also never listened to rock or popular music as she was a serious classical pianist. Like Vlad her husband turned her onto Rock music much of which she now loves, But A Day In The Life she did NOT like. A stark contrast between Amy and Kel. You can pull up their reaction channel on youtube.

Jazz C.

I’m going to say this before I watch the video but one of my absolute favorite bits from the lyrics podcast is when Paul Mccartney is talking about the holes in the song and he says they become a synonym for people and the other Paul (the interview) starts to create some poetic meaning for that but Paul McCartney cuts him off quickly by saying “No, Assholes!!” … that to me is the funniest thing… really makes me laugh

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

Lee... let me tell you... it's been my BURNING DESIRE to outwrite you here on this forum (in terms of number of words... not number of ideas)... So... thank you for congratulating me on my amazing victorious verbage in this case... not, I should say, to elucidate my wonderful thoughts for Amy... no, no, no... all I really wanted to do was OUTSHINE you! AND I HAVE! Ha ha ha ha ha ha - I laugh in the face of adversity who cloaks himself with a name... Lee... (oh... what the heck... I can't keep this up anymore... actually, Lee, I really like you... just don't tell anyone... anyway... I shall continue...) I AM THE WINNER. I RULE. I'M THE GREATEST.... (cough...)... umm, I'm the... hey... is this all there is? Is this all that I get? Ohhhh man, what a rip-off! I'm outta here!

TangoEliott

I really am enjoying your review of the song and how you are dissecting it. The only problem I have is I do not get the Eleanor Rigby reference that clearly you see very clearly. The short "ahh look at all the lonely people" vs the long "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhh" doesn't work for me. Considering you are a musical genius and I am unable to carry a tune I really wanted to hear what you heard. I will have to concentrate more. Meanwhile, I am enjoying your enjoyment of the song. You see I had a bit of a concern that you would not like it. But instead, as you list all the things you like, those were the things I thought you might not like. So how do you like that? Anyway, thank you for your dedication to this project. For people like me it is very insightful even if I do not understand all the words.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159873226

Lee... many people do not realize that Ringo was a left-handed drummer playing on a right-handed oriented drumset... which subtly changes his drum fill style. Did you notice this? Also, so many don't realize that Ringo said that he couldn't do a drum roll across many drums heads well... which is why we have such syncopated beats in this song... it was due to RIngo's INABILITY to play like a standard drummer... and that MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD for this song... wouldn't you agree? (BTW - I really DO recommend that you say that you agree with me... even if you really don't ;)

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159868766

Hmmmm. Don't know what to make of some these comments. A DAY IN THE LIFE (the finest Beatles song, ever, imho)... GIMME SHELTER (the finest Stones song, ever, imho)... Perhaps it's just that what is garbage to one person is treasure to another?????

George Brady
>>159892743

Peter, I ignored the White Album for years, in favor of a CD mix I burned for myself 20-odd years ago, of the 6 or 7 favorites I had made a mix-tape of in the 80's. Every other album (except for Let it Be, which is it's own long story) I play in its entirety, owning them all on vinyl. Because of the Virgin Rock Beatles series, I've been playing them all again, one cut a week not being enough. So after 40 years the White Album is back on my turntable, and wow! What a mistake I've been making - you are so right, it's just outstanding.

Dd

Excellent, fresh analysis of a piece which has been analyzed so many times by others. It had to be intimidating to tackle this one. Really enjoyed your in-depth review. Happy New Year.

David

Great reaction! I always experienced this song as a foreshadowing of an explosion of creativity by The Beatles. I think they knew they were entering a musical zone where nobody had gone before. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was a massive John Lennon fan (as was Freddie Mercury, by the way) and Pink Floyd built a whole career on the foundation of late period Beatles music. Tomorrow Never Knows, A Day in the Life, I am the Walrus and Across The Universe were the signposts to the future of music.

George Brady
>>159901386

I can't quite see that small relationship, either. It has no effect on my overall appreciation of Amy's breakdown, though.

Lee Kennison
>>159873226

The more important question is does Ringo agree with you? And second does Gregg Bissonette agree with you? And third, do you even agree with yourself from one day to the next? And fourth, aren't my questions incredibly profound? In case you are one of the unenlightened ones, Gregg Bissonette is a great and respected drummer (Beato has a great interview with this crazy man (and crazy is good)), who I have taken several online drumming lessons from over on Drumeo. And Gregg also happens to be in Ringo's All Starr Band, and he is an avid defender of Ringo as being his favorite drummer of all-time. So you better hope Gregg agrees with you, otherwise you will suffer his wrath. And remember, I have a direct connection with Ringo, since I have taken online drum lessons with Gregg and I have watched his Beato interview, in addition to listening to Ringo play on Beatles albums.

Lee Kennison
>>159890325

It is both all there is and all there is not. Meditate on that for awhile Grasshopper.

Paul D. Hoffmaster III

Happy New Year everyone and to Amy, Vlad and Liesel "the real family boss". Thanks for the great review again Amy.

George Brady
>>159876860

I agree, Marc, but I promise you, conversationally, NO ONE ever spoke those words aloud as either a drug or sexual reference, and I was very familiar with both.

Lynn Poole
>>159892743

I love that album. For me, the variety is a natural progression of their individual and collective talents. As Paul said to the critics, George Martin and others. "Shut up, it's an "expletive" Beatles album".

Carl Payne

Thank you Amy, thank you Vlad. A fair-dinkum ripper of a song review!!❤️ My first Virgin Rock listen for 2025…… I loved the notion that ADITL is NOT an encore but a fully realised work by the band, now disrobed, stripped back down to the core, summarising & emphasising the entire album. Yes, ADITL is THAT substantial. THAT impressive. All the best for 2025 from me in Fremantle, Oz…… 🎼🎹🎸🥁🎨🎤🎶

Lynn Poole

Happy New Year everyone. And a special thank you to Vlad and Amy for bringing us together.

Jazz C.

Very cute ending.. I’m glad Amy liked it so much I also have to agree that it’s their best song they made and I huge part of that for me is that it’s a perfect Lennon/Mccartney production. Perfectly mixed and split between them creatively. I think 67 in general was the height of their collaboration, John ended up practically living in Paul’s house for a time (the studio was only minutes away from his front door after all) and I feel like this song epitomizes that period of time well. And I think it also really highlights how huge the jump was for them because just the year before (and technically just a few months before) they’re still playing rubber soul songs on tour (revolver came out just as they decided to end touring) !! I mean that’s insane to think about really. Revolver comes out, they end touring, and in January they’re writing this song! Strawberry fields is also in between and certainly I think if they hadn’t worked on that one in between it wouldn’t be possible to get to this one. But just that all these things are happening so close together it really boggles your mind. The part about I went to see a film today I’ve always interpreted it as being about johns movie how I won the war which he had just finished filming that was based on a book that John had read (where he plays a soldier). Anyway that’s just my little interpretation there, tho the whole song can be interpreted any way you want really.

Mike Clancey

Thank you for this wonderful gift! So much to take in. It's a masterpiece of course. I liked you joining in on the harp. So I'm not the only one who thought they were saying "I want to tell you why". That is what I still hear :) May you and the family have a wonderful New Year!

David Taylor
>>159883129

It was just a little acid head humor, I believe. Also supposed to be high pitched frequency right after the piano chord fade out that only dogs can hear. Said it was a little something for the "doggos".

Lynn Poole
>>159883129

Marc in the book they call it "a loop of garbled speech" preceded by the "police dog whistle". Paul says "we would go to parties and the record would stay on clicking. The kind of parties we'd go to, no one would get up for about three hours! We decided to employ this act and make a little loop-so at least for those three hours we'd have something to listen to instead of clicking, if someone fails to turn it off. Imagine there are people sitting around and they think the album is finished and then suddenly, the dog starts barking and no one will know what the heck happened. It's brilliant".

David Taylor
>>159868766

M. I don't think poorly of either song. I was only saying both songs have bleak subject matter. I guess I should have said the Stones Heartbreaker instead. 🤔 Lol

Lee Kennison
>>159883129

Marc, David, Lynn: Are you all saying this really isn't saying "It could never be any other way" during this part? I went back and listened, and I still hear this clearly every time. I only vaguely remember the stories around this, and now at my age (and years of loud music) I can no longer hear the upper ranges of human hearing, let alone dog hearing. Of course I am listening to the streamed and probably remastered versions. It has been a very long time since I have heard the vinyl of this.

Lynn Poole
>>159883129

I'm not saying that because I hear that too. Maybe describing them as "garbled speech" is to say that there may not be a particular purpose or meaning to what we hear. Other than to prevent the record from clicking. To have us wondering what he meant would not be unusual for John.

Lee Kennison
>>159883129

Lol, well it would be pretty funny if garbled speech without meaning, influenced my interpretation of a possible meaning to this song. But then again, probably fitting to the state of mind(s) that created this, or for the states of mind of many of those who heard it. It might be humorous in an ironic way. Although, I do like the idea that a negative (my hearing loss) might have led to a positive (my enlightenment to the "true" meaning of this song😉).

Gustavo Faveron-Patriau

It seems like the video is no longer available? Or is it just a temporary glitch? (I hope!)

Lynn Poole
>>159883129

For me, the sitting for three hours and listening to the "click" was a possible clue but I like your interpretation better.

paul

Not working

Lee Kennison
>>159920587

This is different than the other Patreon/Vimeo errors we were getting before. The prior times with the other issue we were getting link errors. With the current error it now says: "Sorry - We're having a little trouble" Perhaps this is too long? And it passed some size restriction or bandwidth limit for their current Vimeo plan? Or maybe it exceeded some Patreon bandwidth limit (it is a big one). Does it work on Ko-Fi?

Peter Jochim

Happy New Year everyone! Unfortunately I can't start this video.

Jazz C.
>>159911154

I just want to add as well that yes I think Day in the Life is their technically best song but it’s not my special favorite. I mean I love it very much but just as songs I listen to regularly i wouldn’t even put it in my favorite 10. Abbey Road is also my favorite album so you know… it’s all relative! They have so many astounding songs left to cover

candrv

Happy New Year! Was hoping to see the video, but getting the “Sorry…” message.

Pedro Macedo

Hi Amy, I've just finished your video, and I'd like to say that your reaction was the best analysis of a Beatles song that I ever heard till now. And I heard a lot of them. It was very satisfying for me. Thank you for this.

WayneC
>>159947852

I am as well. Pedro managed to watch it however. Permissions related to tier level?

candrv
>>159947852

I wouldn’t think so as I believe we can see all the other Beatles videos as far as I know. Probably something on Patreon’s side of things.

George Brady
>>159947852

I'm not on the top tier, but I do subscribe to Beatles on day of release. I watched this, then came back for a second watch, and it wasn't working

JC

Hope it gets fixed soon Can’t wait to see it

LL W

Was this only available for one day? That would be sad, if true.

John King

I watched half of the video yesterday and have just come back to watch the rest and I am now getting the "sorry" message. What has happened since yesterday?

shinypixx

The crazy noise at the end of "A Day In The Life" was supposed to go in the groove at the end of the LP side that plays over and over on record players when the needle doesn't automatically lift. So it was supposed to play over and over. I also read that there was an ultrasonic component in it that would make dogs bark.

David Saltz

What a wonderful New Year's present. Thank you guys for making this reaction available early! I was really looking forward to it, and bracing myself for the month-long wait before I could see it. I don't know that I'd call A Day in the Life the best Beatles song, since there are so many incredible ones to come. But it's certainly up there!

Lynn Poole

Amy, on second listen it occurred to me that maybe John's approach to the lyrics (dispassionate) was because the man in the car was their friend. So he had to sing it straight and without emotion. He was with Paul when Paul tried LSD for the first time.

John King

Thanks for letting me know Lynn.

Lynn Poole

About the drums. I don't know anything about drum tonal quality but here is what Paul said. "We persuaded Ringo to play tom-toms. It's sensational. We said, Come on, you're fantastic, this will really be beautiful and indeed it was". My question. Do Toms provide tonal quality?

Peter Buwen
>>159892743

In fact, I believe that the White Album was so far ahead of its time in parts that you only now really learn to appreciate it in its entirety.

Stefan Martelius

Oh boy, I can't state enough how much I enjoy the Beatles series. It's such a gift to us Beatles lovers. And your reactions just keep getting better and better. My favourite Beatles album was always Abbey Road, so for me the best is yet to come :)

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159993480

Yes, as an amateur drummer, I believe they do... particularly Roto-Tom drums, which are tune-able. Nick Mason used them excellently at the opening of TIME, from The Dark Side of the Moon.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159992629

I personally believe that when John did the vocal for this track, although he probably gave it some forethought, I think he sung from an intuition. For me, the lyrics are not "dispassionate." The lyrics are completely keyed to his vocal technique here, which I've always described as "plaintive..." with the connotations that brings to the lyrics.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159990891

Yes. Before I got a stereo with an automatic record changer, which would lift the needle at the end of the record... I had just a cheapo record player... and that groove would play ad-infinitum if you would let it.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159892743

Here's something about a song on The White Album that might interest you: I started a YouTube music appreciation channel a couple of years ago, featuring 50+ Beatles isolated tracks recordings (as well as another 150 videos of isolated tracks from other artists - the most popular being THE WHO. STEVIE WONDER, LED ZEP, others - and various medleys centered upon some theme), edited for your listening pleasure. One of my most popular views: REVOLUTION 9!!! And it's a 30min video! How does one explain this? Here is my very top video, a bootleg recording of The Beatles BLACK DOG BLUES... which was hard to find, and I have almost 20,000 views. https://youtu.be/JY4JshdoVb4 But REVOLUTION 9 is the 34th most popular video (20th of all of my Beatles videos), at nearly 1,400 views: https://youtu.be/afb0392xFr8

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159890325

David - I'm going to use all of my powers of imagination to come with some idea that explains your remark about your ex-wife. Working hypothesis: I saw a pretty funny foreign movie once where a man and his girlfriend were living on a raised house on a beach (they all looked kind of like expensive life guard units). The man walks out of his house, and over to his friend at the next house, and they both look back: the girlfriend is inside, CLEANING OUT all of the guys belongs... THROUGH THE WINDOWS... flying, crashings things all over the sand. The friend looks at the man and says... "Your place will be very Zen now."

Bruce Snyder

I think you're beginning to be a Beatles fan... Happy new year Amy & Vlad!

Frank Hoebert
>>159901386

I can clearly hear it in the first part of the "ahhhhhh..." ... it does move away as the "ahhhhh .. " extends out. Just focus on the lead into and the first half of the "ahhhhh .. " Then you might say "aha!" :-)

Fordy7169

What a great video and analysis. Don't know what you've got lined up next with The Beatles but the 'Magical Mystery Tour' album is next chronologically, you've heard a couple of tracks already I think, but the album is a good listen. The anamoly with this LP is that it was a Capitol Records USA, not UK Parlophone, compilation of the songs from the TV movie plus all the other 1967 singles and b-sides not on Sgt. Pepper.

Fordy7169
>>160021365

Yes, although they did create some fake stereo mixes from their own copy tapes, but most punters bought the mono at the time anyway.

gwool

What a Wonderful Journey - Amy, This was a really special New Year Surprise - Thanks !

Clay Beat-E-O

Bravo! Well worth the wait. BTW, the bouncy, desending bass line in McCartney's middle section of the song was borrowed from another song the Beatles performed on stage in 1962 in Hamburg. You can hear it on 'The Beatles at the Star Club' album from the 1970's. Now can't wait for the 'White Album'.

Eric Williams

A beautiful, haunting piece. From John's voice to Ringo's perfectly placed drums. And that orchestral crescendo originally scared me as a child.

Allen Leong

I agree that A Day In The Life is not an encore, but I think it is the core of the album. It reminds me of the ending of the film Mulholland Drive which shows that the rest of the movie was a dream pointing to aspects of the reality of the ending.

LL W

Thank you for working hard on this to get it out for New Year's!

TONY SURRATT

Enjoyed that. And belated Happy New Years (technical difficulty, and holiday routine) and this pass year has been fun. Thank you

Kelly McNamara

Hard to believe just 3 years earlier, they were singing about holding hands and how she loves you. Crazy fast musical advancement.

Christopher Schaub

One really important thing to notice in all of these tracks is you can hear the Beatles keeping time throughout. And that's because they always lay down alive rhythm track for even the weirdest tunes. So you can hear Ringo and Paul keeping the beat. They didn't really have the ability to do anything other than crude splicing so they would lay down a complete rhythm track and when they needed space they would just count measures to give room for say the orchestra or other things that they knew were going to come in later. That's pretty impressive that they laid down the core track live in the studio for almost every take that they did. So they didn't really have the luxury of things like pro tools where they can move things around so they had to resort to these kind of measures. Also most of Pink Floyd stuff was done on 16 tracks or better. This is definitely four tracks bounced.

Julian Ortiz

Happy New Year, indeed! A few days ago when Vlad was teasing this particular video I commented that I knew it would be epic. Immediately after I posted that comment I nearly regretted it worrying that I may have set expectations too high. I’m pleased to say the actual video exceeded my already high expectations. Bravo, Amy! I absolutely concur with everything you said about the song. The instrumentation leading into the song, the entrance of John’s haunting vocal delivery, Paul’s bass being one of the propelling pieces of the song, and Ringo’s very unique enhancing and coloring with his jazzy drums. They way it all sets up that middle part that seems to come out of nowhere after that symphonic cacophony still thrills and amazes me to this very day. I just can’t ever get enough of it. The part you said at the end was huge. I also have always had a difficult time thinking of A Day In The Life as an encore for the album. I agree that it’s far heftier than some of the other weighty songs on the album. The other songs feel like vignettes in a storybook and the last song is reflecting real life events, which gives it that finality and fatalistic feeling. I really liked what you said about the reprise being the end of the program, but that this was more like a surprise that shows the real band apart from the fictional band of Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I’d never considered that as I always thought of this as just another Beatles album, but that makes a lot more sense considering what I already know of the remainder of The Beatles catalog. This album did mark an even starker shift in direction and style than the previous two Beatles albums, Rubber Soul and Revolver, which I’ve always considered to be the albums where their experimentalism really started to set them apart from other Rock groups of the time. I hope with your first listens of the next Beatles album songs you’ll get what I mean because just like you said about that final sustained chord, there’s no reversing it after this. I loved this so much! Blessings to you, Vlad, and Liesel for the New Year! 🎉🙏🏼🎶

George Brady
>>160017859

Thanks for not making me do the calculation this time. As an obsessive, you knew some of us would have to, Marc!

Paul D. Hoffmaster III

Here is the problem for me. I bought this album nearly 60 years ago now, and how I exactly felt about it back then and about each the songs is long gone from my memory. Yes, I loved the album, but the times I was living in are so much different for me now. There was the war and the draft that was on my mind and to have something to put that into the back of my mind was often music. I remember laying on the floor next to the stereo with one speaker for the right ear and an external speaker for the left ear and listening to this album so many times like that. I had no headset then. Enjoying the movement of some of the instruments going from side to side and how the music was so different from everything else at the time. Anyway, I can only give a general idea of what it was for me then, but it did mean a lot. Thanks for the review again Amy. P.S. Look at all the comments, the album is big.

Julian Ortiz
>>159992629

Oh wow… I’d never heard Paul was a friend of the Guinness guy who’s referenced in the song. That does give it an even more complex layer. Thanks for the info, Lynn.

Timothy Jones

This song has always struck me as a reflection on the emptiness of life in the modern world, the references being random, not related in any meaningful way, like a collage by a Dada artist. A suicide, a movie, catching the bus to work, and finally potholes. Cold and detached are good ways to describe Lennon's vocal, which adds to the sense of absurdity and numb meaningless. It might be a "drug song", but the escape into drugs is driven by the same emptiness and ennui the lyrics embody.

Rea Lavi

In many of his Beatles songs, Lennon expressed ambiguity and ambivalence, in both lyrics and vocal delivery. Many of his songs offer numerous interpretations. You won't find much of this in Paul's Beatles songs. They're usually much easier to decipher.

George Brady
>>160293564

This song seems to exemplify that notion. My unresearched thought has always been that Paul had tunes come into his head (sometimes through deliberate, extensive effort) to which he later hung lyrics about which he was more easily satisfied, while John more often sought to make some statement or deliver a message, turning up with scribbled poetry, to which he labored to set to a melody. Obviously, this perspective wasn't always the case, and also helps describe their need for each other.

Rea Lavi
>>160293564

@George I've heard Martin say in an interview that John's songwriting was words looking for a music, whereas Paul's was music looking for words. A generalization to be sure, but that doesn't mean it wasn't true.

Rea Lavi
>>160293564

On the inverse of that, note in Lennon's solo work how limited the musical palate tends to be compared with the Beatles' catalog, where Paul's solo work has a lot more variety in terms of styles, arrangements, instruments being used, etc. I'm comparing only the 1970s' output, of course.

George Brady
>>160293564

Thanks for the George Martin reference, Rea. A simpler elegance of expression than mine, although I wager he was more practiced than me. Also, regarding the partnership, I can't think of another split where to some extent it wasn't easy to feel the creativity had perhaps been exhausted. Who else just kept surprising and delighting fans in such a glorious manner?

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160370728

Gustavo, here is what I say: Maybe, maybe not! (Like that? I can have my cake and eat it too, this way!) In fact, I think Paul's lyrics are completely ORDINARY here... and, therein lies its genius. Why? It's all in the CONTEXT of the song. But hey, I only took ONE literature class in college, so what the heck do I know????

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160293564

"Lennon expressed ambiguity and ambivalence, in both lyrics and vocal delivery." - One of the best comments here, by far, imho. And here is where I - at the risk of great metaphoric-bodily harm, will speak (as did Zarathustra) the following: It is that very quality, Rea, that you just expressed about John and his music... that makes JOHN the greater artist in the band. [Okay - I've covered my head as best I can - all right, Paul-lovers... do your best to bury my opinion... [in advance of that:] ouch... oooh... good one! AHHHHH,, I retreat. As the Monty Python crew says in their King Arthur movie (super funny, btw): RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!]

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160283065

Ennui: en·nui /änˈwē/ noun - a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. Nope. Like George above, I have never interpreted the lyrics in such a manner. In fact, your comment illustrates very nicely how the interpretation of one person's lyrics is colored by their own life experiences... and how could it be any other way? In this case, the "drug song" part is not the typical escape mechanism that is so often found in similar situations... but... you MUST, imho, realize that psychedelic drugs are UNLIKE any other drugs. In fact, psychedelics are self-limiting... almost EVERYONE just WANTS to stop using... because most psychedelic experiences are DEMANDING, psychologically speaking... it's like a 10-year psychotherapy treatment in 12 hours [says amazing writer, Anais Nin... look her up]... and who can handle something like that too very often... no one! In double-fact: psychedelics are now used to TREAT addiction. That's because, with proper therapy, the psychedelic experience allows one to see how one's thoughts are often channeled in ways we don't want, and are unhealthy... and offers a GLIMPSE into an alerternative... which, for some, may SAVE their life - if they had previously lost all hope.

Rea Lavi
>>160293564

@DJ Lennon was a deeper/more profound thinker than McCartney, but McCartney was a better musician. So it depends what you mean by "art" and "artist".

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160047869

MULHOLLAND DRIVE - what a weird-ass movie... and (along with MULHOLLAND HWY) - what a weird-ass drive that I used to do to waste a summer afternoon, way back when...

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160042467

Boy, did the members of the Beatles HATE that that Star Club album came out, from what I've read... ...and I can surely understand... as I am a complete control-freak when it comes to presenting my own music (to no-one in particular). The same thing happened to the super-good band HEART, with sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. Their first, super-successful album (DREAMBOAT ANNIE) was released by their first record company, Mushroom Records. For their second album, as they intended, they released LITTLE QUEEN (which has their hit song, Barracuda) on Epic records. But wait! Mushroom Records, in the meantime, and totally AGAINST Ann and Nancy's wishes, released their actual second album, MAGAZINE... which had a lot of unfinished stuff on it, that the Wilson sisters wished had never seen the light of day. But... in fact, I personally am very happy with the release of Magazine. Why? Because, they had a live recording of a blues song called MOTHER EARTH BLUES that I had learned on guitar... ... and one day, in my own home recording studio, along with a musician friend of mine, I improvised a song (that I now really like to listen to, anyway) based on it, called DADDY'S GONNA HELP YA, with lyrics that had to do with a VERY VERY VERY rich girl that my guitarist was then dating... and then was dumped by... (Oh man, good memories!)

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160021365

You are SO right about that! In fact, I am SO mad at Capitol Record, still! Listen to the vinyl record of MMT and the song ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. That must be the VERY WORST recording of a Beatles song EVER! It's a horror! So.. back in the day, I bought the German import of that album... sounded fine!

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160017859

Yeah... I hated math in school, too! [So... as an aside, how did I become a MATH/SCIENCE major in the teaching credential program at UC Santa Barbara? Got no clue... and it was, in my case, a waste of my time.]

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159883129

"Garbled speech" - HAH!!! Have you heard of the so-called "mumble-rap?" It's basically the opposite of what Eminem does. BTW - how in the HELL does Eminem enunciate so cleanly while rapping at a million miles per hour? SERIOUSLY!!! Just check out this lyric ('cause you're gonna need it!) video of Eminem's recent song, GNAT... about the Covid virus. My favorite line: "They come at me with machine guns... trying to fight off a gnat...." Freaking brilliant (even if you don't know that Eminem has a beef with rapper Machine Gun Kelly - those rappers seem to ALWAYS have a beef goin - if for no other reason than to boost sales). https://youtu.be/sxDCMMswpCE

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159879923

Love your literary references, Lee. I really do. I sure do wish younger people would want to read as much as they (like my nephew) want to play first-person shooter games. Lee, let me ask you: my nephew loves those shooter video games as well as paint-ball. Am I nuts? It seems to me these kids are being trained as guerilla fighters... and... maybe that's not a bad thing... considering what is likely our near future. It's like Amy said of John's songs, A DAY IN THE LIFE, I.e., she thought John sounded fatalistic. Well, so am I... and pretty much have been since high school... (Don't cry for me, Argentina... I WILL survive!)

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159873226

1) Does Ringo agree with me? Well, Lee, Ringo is YOUR friend... why don't YOU ask him for me? 2) Gregg Bissonette? Gregg? (with two "g"'s? what up with that, huh?) What kind of professional drummer is he, with a name spelled that way? He's in Ringo's All Star Band??? Well, Lee, so AM I!!! (Nah, actually not... I've only listened, as you have, Lee, to Ringo a whole lot... so if that doesn't confer musico-repectability upon my person, I surely don't know what does... do you???) "Gregg's Wrath??" Lee, do you realize that I, on my own, confronted a BALROG???? Do you REALLY think I'm worried about Gregg, who can't even spell his name correctly? HARLDY!! Say, Lee... you are intimating that you know RIck Beato personally... is this true... DON'T YOU LIE TO ME!!! I'm very like a Bene Gesserit Truth Sayer... so... watch out, man!

Rea Lavi

Martin talking about how he wanted the Beatles to learn more about composition and use forms in their music etc. after Sgt Peppers. He says Paul was on board but John wasn't, which was how Abbey Road turned out to be as it was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCtJ_Hg5L9k

Rick Lubbock

It might be interesting to play that last little bit reversed, since they used that technique in another album, the White Album, where "Number NIne" repeated sounds like, when reversed: "Turn me on dead man."

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>160293564

I WILL answer you, Rea, to my great risk: I see ART as different from CRAFT. ART is inspired from THE SPIRIT... it is inspirational... it is NOT intentional... many great artist will tell you that they took "themselves" out of the picture... and more or less used intuition (not logic) to come up with the initial idea for a song (or painting, or sculpture, or a great food dish, or. or. or.). The CRAFT takes that inspiration, and DEVELOPS it (logico) using learned techniques... I once asked Amy this question: WHICH IS SADDER? One who has a great inspiration but has NO craft in which to express it... OR... a master craftsman who doesn't have an original idea in their head... but desperately wishes otherwise, wanting to be a writer and not "just" a master musician. My answer: there's no answer. Both are tragedies, and how does one compare the level of tragedy on an objective basis? So... to bring it to the Beatles... John was the greater ARTIST, and Paul was the greater CRAFTSMAN. BUT... OF COURSE... BOTH are so far into the stratosphere in both cases... it's really hard to use Lennon/McCarntney as example... but... I truly believe this principle. To repeat, at the risk of being bludgeoned (metaphorically) by a reader here: JOHN IS THE GREATER ARIST.

Johnny Voodoo
>>159990891

Yes, or indeed it would never be heard at all by people who had a turntable with automatic lift-off of the stylus.

Allan Middleton

on the original vinyl album, the "never could be any other way" was cut as an endless "loop" so that it played repeatedly until the stylus was removed from the disc!

Margaret Posner

Just a fantastic listen. You truly deepened my appreciation for this song and I specially Ringo’s contribution which I think gets often overlooked. I wonder if there’s a way to send this video to Ringo’s people because I’m sure he would appreciate youre taking notice.

Rea Lavi
>>160293564

@DJ I put it as John had a higher bar for what to bring into the studio (the concept) whereas Paul had a higher bar for what to take out of the studio (the final recording). Or in other words, John cared more about originality than Paul did, whereas Paul cared more about refinement than John did.

Rea Lavi

I see that Vlad has dad humor now :D

Johnny Voodoo

A Day in the Life and Jimi Hendrix’s Hey Joe - not two songs you always think of together. But notice the chord sequence in the second crescendo (after ‘ and I went into a dream’) is the same repeated C G D A E that forms the whole of Hey Joe. ADITL was being written when Hey Joe was fresh in people’s minds. Coincidence? A nod from the Beatles to Jimi? Who knows….?

Sterj

I’ve always interpreted the lyrics of this song as Lennon’s verses portraying an outward look into the world around us and McCartney’s section as being preoccupied with one’s own life. John’s lyrics obviously paint the absurdity in the world, but I’ve always loved the flip side that Paul offers as he’s rushed out of the house in hurry to get somewhere. When he gets to this place he so urgently has to get, though, he escapes into a dream as if it were absurd, in a way, to have been in such a rush to go there anyway. I found your recalling of the Eleanor Rigby line so compelling and will never not hear that from now on. It fits so perfectly with the way I’ve always received the song, taking in all of the crazy things around us while also sometimes drowning in the mundane nature of every day life. Surrounded by lonely people.

Alan

A wonderful review Amy. One important little percussion instrument, present all the way through, I think, didn't get a mention. The maracas. It provides the beat that the other instruments sit upon. As present as it is, it's easy to miss. Hoorah for one of the unsung heroes of musical instruments!

Rea Lavi

My 4th watchthrough - this is music appreciation crack lol. I am glad Amy was so clearly impressed by this song, especially because she's never been reverential towards the Beatles like so many are - I'm sometimes guilty of that myself. It makes it that much more enjoyable when a song clearly knocks Amy out (artistically speaking), like this one did. So many things I've never noticed or thought about here! This is their best song and one that I distinctly remember "blowing my mind out" the first few times I heard it

William Ader

The late poet Charles Bukowski wrote a book entitled "Play the Piano Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."