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31 March 2008
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7.52pm
1 May 2010
Offline Found this video on youtube and I thought I'd share it. It has commentary by George Martin about basically how he did it. The Beatles were quite a little band, and this video really shows how brilliant they really were.
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I was the walrusI sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
7.59pm
21 August 2009
Offline Wow, this is some good stuff- thanks for sharing!
I love how George attempts to sing the chorus and first verse at the beginning of the video! (Nice try, Georgie 
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Tongue, lose thy light. Moon, take thy flight… see ya, George!
8.04pm
1 May 2010
Offline Alissa said:
Wow, this is some good stuff- thanks for sharing!
I love how George attempts to sing the chorus and first verse at the beginning of the video! (Nice try, Georgie
)
I just love the “and I thought, you devil!” part. What a funny group of guys.
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
8.07pm
21 August 2009
Offline GniknuS said:
Alissa said:
Wow, this is some good stuff- thanks for sharing!
I love how George attempts to sing the chorus and first verse at the beginning of the video! (Nice try, Georgie
I just love the “and I thought, you devil!” part. What a funny group of guys.
You can see how George would be a good fit for the boys- he had a sense of humour. Any other producer would have gotten murdered. 
Tongue, lose thy light. Moon, take thy flight… see ya, George!
8.20pm
1 May 2010
Offline Alissa said:
GniknuS said:
Alissa said:
Wow, this is some good stuff- thanks for sharing!
I love how George attempts to sing the chorus and first verse at the beginning of the video! (Nice try, Georgie
I just love the “and I thought, you devil!” part. What a funny group of guys.
You can see how George would be a good fit for the boys- he had a sense of humour. Any other producer would have gotten murdered.
Yeah he had to be a little bit “off” to even take some of their ideas, specifically John's, seriously. But that's why they were so brilliant, they actually tried stuff! They were innovators and music was never the same again.
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
8.24pm
4 September 2009
Offline I never get tired of that song. 
Look Up The Number
9.52pm
27 March 2010
Offline That's so cool! I didn't know they slowed it down like that; George Martin is my herooo 
I hope I (he) live(s) long enough to meet him… he's a legend!
Is there a more famous music producer in the world? I think NOT!
What's this audio from? The interview thing. I'd love to hear more!
I'm in love, but I'm lazy.
9.58pm
1 May 2010
Offline A Fiendish Thingy said:
That's so cool! I didn't know they slowed it down like that; George Martin is my herooo
Is there a more famous music producer in the world? I think NOT!
What's this audio from? The interview thing. I'd love to hear more!
I think I saw somewhere that the BBC did this. But it is interesting to hear George Martin talk about the track, I would love it if there was just an interview with him talking about every song they ever did. We deserve that, right George?
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
4.57am
1 May 2010
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Mhh interesting. Ok I'm going to say something stupid… but I think George Martin doesn't get credit enough. So many people can believe the Beatles did everything by themselves.
Maybe I'm seeing it in black and white, but that's my feeling.
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
6.49am
27 February 2010
Offline mithveaen said:
Mhh interesting. Ok I'm going to say something stupid… but I think George Martin doesn't get credit enough. So many people can believe the Beatles did everything by themselves.
Maybe I'm seeing it in black and white, but that's my feeling.
I can agree with your statement.
By the way, great stuff!
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
10.09pm
9 June 2010
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OK. I love this song. It makes me go “Aaah John” like a fangirl.
This is what I like about it:
Both versions: The lyrics, the melody, and the way he sings “Nothing is real.”
Album/single version: George Martin’s mad skills, the fadeout/fadein/fadeout, and the cellos!
Anthology/LOVE version: John’s voice, placement of verses, and (LOVE only) bits of songs at the end.
What do you think?
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11.58pm
5 July 2010
Offline It is probably one of my favorite John songs. The lyric “Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see” will probably end up tattooed on me someday. I feel the lyric is incredibly relevant today with all the people of my/younger generations being sucked into the media and thinking everything is supposed to be that way. i.e. it is normal to act the way people do on MTV
Funny story, for Johns birthday, I played John Lennons solo and Beatles songs at work. And I was at the register, where the stereo happens to be when Strawberry Fields Forever came on. When the trick ending came some guy in line was like “What it going on in this song!” I simply said “The Beatles is going on.”
12.02am
19 September 2010
Offline RedLennon said:
Funny story, for Johns birthday, I played John Lennons solo and Beatles songs at work. And I was at the register, where the stereo happens to be when Strawberry Fields Forever came on. When the trick ending came some guy in line was like “What it going on in this song!” I simply said “The Beatles is going on.”
That's awesome!
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
1.54am
10 December 2010
Offline I love this song, especially the message it portrays. I personally like, “No one I think is in my tree / I mean I must be high or low” which I read somewhere was John talking about how he was different, especially as a child. That no one was really on the same page as him and that he was never really at the same level as everyone else, either too high or too low (part of this is my interpretation). Pretty much everything RedLennon was saying – everyone is supposed to be a certain way and anyone who isn't is weird. For me, my biggest struggle is actually one of my favorite hobbies, writing, which I'm constantly ridiculed for. 
Blackbird singing in the dead of night...
_¸.·´¯¯`·-» take these broken wings and learn to fly
2.07am
1 May 2010
Offline I suppose it's an alright song. 
But you're right M3, all of the versions are excellent but my favorite would have to be the beginning of the Love one, I love John's voice like that. It's so haunting and impossible to replicate, like on A Day In The Life and Oh My Love.
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
5.21am
27 February 2010
Offline One of my favourites songs, indeed. What versions? there's only one that counts for me (of any beatle song, by the way), the 1967 single, the other ones are… well, I don't care.
Miss Winters said:
For me, my biggest struggle is actually one of my favorite hobbies, writing, which I'm constantly ridiculed for.
What? Why are you ridiculed? Who do that?
I write too.
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
2.49pm
Reviewers
14 April 2010
Offline Nice thread M3… For once, it will be me who actually re-rails one.
I like all of the versions I’ve heard (I do not own Love) but especially enjoy hearing the metamorphosis of the song on Anthology. John’s demo sends shivers up my spine.
As for the false ending – that’s one of my favorite parts.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
5.25pm
4 September 2010
Offline My favourite Beatles song. 
You all will have read that Dave Dee is no longer with us. But Mickey and Titch and I would like to carry on the good work that's always gone down in number two.
6.13pm
14 December 2009
Offline MeanMrs.Mustard said:
It's not an insult, and he may come back (again). I'm just including this as a warning.
mr. Sun king coming together said:
It was, but as Von said about “Her Majesty ,” “But really, unfortunately, the surprise factor obviously only works the first time you play the album.”
That's why you induce amnesia/don't listen to the song for a while and allow yourself to forget the surprise!
Thanks for the invocation, Mr. Sun king! Just for the record, the fade in “Strawberry Fields Forever ” (and “Helter Skelter ” for that matter) doesn't bother me in the least because I hear it as part of the song itself, not as a full 16-second gap between two different songs. By comparison, it only goes truly silent for a second or less.
I love how “SFF” just keeps building in every way, one verse at a time- instruments get added, instrumental parts grow more dissonant and menacing, John's vocals grow more unearthly, the words themselves get more obscure and inarticulate, until the song ends. And then grows really weird.
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