Why Is This Beatles Song So Messy?
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Published 2018-09-09
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Note: In order to hear some of these anomalies and mistakes, I recommend listening with a pair of headphones and setting your YouTube player to full HD quality. If you still can't hear them, use the time codes from the video and listen to the tracks on the streaming service of your choice in maximum quality.
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All Comments (21)
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The tapping disappears when they say “love has a nasty habit of DISAPPEARING”
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But then there's no mistakes, just happy accidents.
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I love this song. I've heard it "a million" times, and never noticed anything wrong with it.
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I think every "mistake" just really adds to the charm of the song.
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Messiest song the Beatles ever recorded Revolution 9: Am I a joke to you?
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When you're listening late at night, you may think that the band are not quite right. But they are, as it's only a northern song
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i love it when you hear a sound only once at a random point in a song. it makes every second of the song unique, especially when it's in pop form.
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I honestly think that this adds to the character of the song. This song has a very classic rock “hashing out your emotions in the garage” feel to it and the mistakes make it feel like your just listening in on a Beatles jam session, mistakes and all.
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John Lennon said in his 1980 Playboy interview, "There's not a single one of our songs that I wouldn't redo." Nothing is ever perfect in art. Everything only approximates perfection.
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Funnily enough, I'm Looking Through You is one of my favourite Beatles songs.
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As Paul and John explained.. they introduced their new songs at the beginning of the recording sessions giving both George and Ringo barely any time to come up with their parts. Considering how brilliant and varied their parts are, I think the mistakes are part of the magic.
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I've recognized several of these sounds over the years listening to this song and always found them to be points of interest and never considered them mistakes or messy. Especially the sound of the tambourine, I wait to hear it and find it comforting.
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George Martin: "C'mon lads, we can't put this take on the album." John Lennon: "Ah George, don't get your knickers in a twist. They'll never have record players good enough to even hear it."
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“Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight” ingenious song
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Personally, I love the "imperfections".
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As a long-time guitar player with acoustic being my mainstay, my best guess on those off-beat taps is actually the sleeve button of the shirt of the player hitting the body as he strummed. It can be off-beat because it flops around a bit randomly, and it can be LOUD and un-editable because it's on the guitar mic track. Also could be a watch or piece of jewelry....but that is unlikely as most people take those off before playing. But that sleeve button...we often forget it and curse it.
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That people are dissecting the Beatles' music to this degree ==generations later== is testimony to their importance and greatness.
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and this is why recordings from the 60's are so much more exciting than the exacting decades of "perfection" that followed.
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The clicking: Ringo revealed that he was tapping on a box of matches.
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My daughter generalized all Beatles albums in this way: All killer, no filler. Thanks Steffy
