Josh REACTS to The Beatles - Revolver (1966) Album
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I'm glad Josh is reacting to The Beatles and Pink Floyd side-by-side to hear how different music was just a few years later...
There was no "reverse delay" in the 60s. They played tape recordings backwards.
Would love to hear reactions to Pink Floyd's "Animals" or " Meddle" - two of the best albums of the 1970s and part of a multi-year run where Floyd released 5 S-Tier albums including Dark Side which you say you've already heard...David Gilmour's guitar work on the 20-minute plus song "Dogs" along with the social commentary of that song's lyrics by Roger Waters will blow your mind.... This 1 hour 1972 Pink Floyd live performance at Pompeii is epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUDtRBwa2cI I was born in 1966 so was too young to be a Beatles fan- love Paul McCartney and Wings but am a Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Blood Sweat and Tears, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Rolling Stones, Boston, Deep Purple, Rainbow fan getting into music in the mid-70s at age 10....if you have any interest in 1970s rock please ask!
I mostly listened to Beatles compilation albums. I've been a fan since my teens, but I have never sat through Revolver, or many of the Beatles albums. If you did not know, Sergeant Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band is the greatest rock album of all time, take my word for it.
Taxman was about Britain, where the top income tax bracket at the time was 95% (“one for you, nineteen for me”).
The US top tax rate was 70% in the 1960s Its after countries all over the world let the Mega Rich Wall St and Tech Bro Types pay less than WE all do that things started to go down hill.... End of political rant...
The Beatles diversity and experimentality of sound is why I enjoy them.
For an interesting experience in terms of where The Beatles were at the height of Beatlemania, definitely check out (or react with Alex) their movies: A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965); both directed by future Superman 2 & 3 Director, Richard Lester
The reason that the piano part of "I Want To Tell You" stuck out is something called "dissonance." It involves notes next to each other being played together at, or near enough to, the same time which creates a disconcerting effect. It can be quite jarring when the Beatles use it, as they are often so harmonious.
Yeah, I think it was an F played over an E chord. Naturally dissonant.
You and Alex should react to the movie Nowhere Boy (2009). It shows how the Beatles formed and is a great movie.