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I always am surprised by their choice of chords. The mouth horn section, that's so fun.
Isaac Brown explores overlooked Beatles songs, sharing insights on their music, harmonica use, and early song themes with humor and detailed listening.
Key Takeaways
- The Beatles' early songs often featured harmonica, which Isaac finds funny but not always musically effective.
- Many Beatles songs have unique chord progressions that avoid sounding generic.
- B-sides and double singles were a creative way to release music in the early 60s.
- John Lennon's vocal style evolved significantly, with mid-60s grit being a favorite era for Isaac.
- Some Beatles songs have darker or unusual lyrical themes, contrasting with their pop love songs.
Summary
- Isaac Brown listens to every Beatles album and singles, discovering songs he previously missed.
- He comments on the Beatles' unique chord choices and early use of harmonica, which he finds amusing but not always appealing.
- The video includes sponsored segments promoting high-end headphones and a quitting aid called Fume.
- Isaac discusses the concept of double singles and B-sides, highlighting songs like 'Me to You,' 'Thank You Girl,' 'She Loves You,' and 'I'll Get You.'
- He notes the Beatles' early lyrical themes focused on love and their evolving musical style.
- Isaac appreciates John Lennon's vocal grit in the mid-60s and critiques some of Lennon's 'weird' or 'creepy' songs.
- The video captures Isaac’s humorous reactions to the harmonica and early Beatles sound compared to their later psychedelic era.
- He reflects on the Beatles' impact during Beatlemania and their innovative musical harmonies.
- Isaac shares personal listening experiences and engages with his channel members for song suggestions.
- The video blends music analysis with personal anecdotes and product endorsements.
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It's so interesting. It's great, though. All right, ladies and gentlemen. So, I've been listening to every Beatles album ever, and I wanted to make a point to actually listen to pretty much every Beatles song as well, not just the
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albums. And there's a couple of singles that I've missed. Also, I've kind of, I think I've missed a couple of the songs literally on the albums. I don't know how I skipped over those, but my bad.
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songs that I have missed and so we are going to tackle those right now. Okay, so the first single that I missed was there's a double single from "Me to You" and "Thank You Girl" from 1963.
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LA. If there's anything that you want, if there's anything I can do, I've missed like OG Beatles.
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Oh, that's so funny. I got everything that you want. Like a heart. I feel like they didn't really take themselves very seriously back in the day.
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Things got a little heated later. I got lips that long to kiss you and keep you satisfied.
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If there's anything that you want, if there's anything I can do, just call on me and I'll send it along with me to you.
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Monica. Oh my gosh. Freaking John Lennon in his harmonica. Wow. Not a fan. I'm glad the harmonica ended four albums in.
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This song cracks me up so much. Oh, it's so funny. Absolutely no. No. No. No. No, no, no.
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Harmonica is not the way to go. It's just so bad. But I appreciate the song.
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Thank you Fume for sponsoring this video. Let's get back to the Beatles. Thank you Girl. This is the B-side to that single. The concept of B-sides is kind of cool because like back in the day a single would have when you sent out a
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single it was like on a little, like I think it's called a 45 or something like that which is a little disc. So you had one side with the main single and then you had all the extra real estate on the
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other side. You might as well just throw another song on there. We don't have that today. I think people should release more double singles. I think that's kind of a cool idea.
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More harmonica. What was that lyric? Ow. You've been good to Okay. I'll be in love with you.
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Why does this sound so folky country like the harmonicas? It's so like I don't even know what genre that counts as. It's like honky tonk almost.
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Only you would tell our love. And all I got to do is thank you, girl. Thank you, girl. Thank you, girl, for loving me the way that you do.
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Stop with harmonica, guys. It's not good. So freaking funny. Thank you, girl. Okay, there's like a little blues riff for a second there.
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How many songs have the word blue in it from the Beatles? Like in the context of feeling sad?
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I feel like I hear that a lot. Also, John Lennon's grit. There's something about it in the early songs that I actually really like.
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The reverb, that's kind of cool. It's like a kind of like has a delay when it before it comes in.
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I like that. Oh my gosh, the harmonica kills me. I forgot that that was a thing that they did because like I'm, I'm like right before about to listen to Abbey Road and I haven't listened to it yet. And so
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like we've had four or five albums that have zero harmonica and it's like a psychedelic era of the Beatles. And so like listening to these early songs is cracking me up. Oh my gosh. Okay, up next is the double release of "She Loves
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You." And then the B side to that is "I'll Get You." Back in the day when all the Beatles songs were about just love.
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Well, I saw her yesterday. It's you. She's thinking and she's the only one to say yes. She says she loves you and you know that she loves you and you know you should be glad.
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Glad is another word that they use a lot. I really She almost lost her mind.
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Now she says, "You know, you're not." I always am surprised by their choice of chords.
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Not one song that I've heard sounds generic and four pop song. You know it's up to you.
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I think it's only fair. I couldn't hurt you. Apologize to her because she loves you and you know that can't be bad.
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She loves you and you know you should be losad. It's kind of cool. This sounds like peak Beatlemania though. Like I can just imagine people just going nuts.
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What the heck was that outro chord? That was a weird harmony. I love it. All right, the B-side for that is "I'll Get You." Is this one of their weird songs?
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Please make it stop. Imagine in love with you. It's easy 'cause I know I've imagined I'm in love with you many, many, many times before.
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It's not like me to pretend, but I'll
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I think about you night and day. I need you and it's true. When I think it's another word they use a lot, never never blue.
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There's blue again. I'll get you. I'll get you in the end. Yes, I will.
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This is This is one of their weirder songs where Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll get you.
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Well, there's going to be a time when I'm going to change your mind. So, you might as well resign yourself to me.
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Oh yeah. This is insane. Imagine I'm in love with you. It's easy cuz I know I've imagined I'm in love with you many many many times before.
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It's not likely to This is actually a little creepy. It's like this guy's imagining that they're in love with this person for so many like for so long they're just like saying I'm going to get you. It's a
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little out there. It's a little out there. Oh yeah, it sounds like Is this one of It sounds like one of Lennon's weird creepy songs. He has some whack songs.
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Oh my gosh. Speaking of John Lennin wack songs, Bad Boy, which is a rock. I think it has a cover.
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A bad little kid moved into my neighborhood. He won't do nothing right just until that look so good.
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He don't want to go to school and let it read and right and great. Yeah, this sounds like a Okay, Larry. It's a Larry Williams cover.
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This is my favorite era of Lennon mid60s where he like put a lot of grit into his vocal.
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I love this era of like his later era where he got kind of nasely.
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There's something about that he did to his vocal tone that I just don't love.
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But this was great. Hey sing rock and roll. Junior's head is hot as now. Junior, behave yourself.
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Dang. Wa. Going to tell your mama you better do what she said. Wow. Get to the barber shop and get the heck off your head to deliver and you better neighbor Junior's head is hot as rock. Now Junior
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behave yourself. That's probably That is a really aggressive song from a production and just a performance standpoint. Super aggressive. My favorite thing about Lennin from the early years is how he would just like fully commit to just wrecking his vocal.
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It was so fun. This is the song I miss from Rubber Soul. I must have hit like it probably started playing and then I accidentally skipped to the next song.
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Uh so yeah, let's do this. Oo, I love rubber soul. You'll be free to be like me. Say the word.
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Have you heard the word love? I love that. In the beginning, I misunderstood, but now I could I really like this song. It's got a groove to it.
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I'm thinking of you love. I love the harmony, too. I love this song. Oh my god.
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I'm thinking of you love so now that I know I feel right. I love this pre chorus.
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This is an interesting song. It's got a It's got really short verses and choruses.
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This song has 1 2 3 4 five choruses and the verses are like really short.
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And the song is only 2 minutes and 40 seconds. So like they don't have a ton of time to have Oh, I think four maybe five choruses. Yeah. Back to the chorus.
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That's so cool. Such a great idea. Actually, this is a good song for people with short attention spans. Hello Oh, I wanted that to go longer. Faded it out for dang radio stations. All right, jumping forward a couple of years. A
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couple singles I missed. Lady Madonna from 1968. Oh yeah, big jump in. Just audio fidelity and mixing stuff happening.
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Oh my goodness. Drastic change. It's definitely Paul McCartney because I have no idea. I've never heard that vocal sound before.
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Paul McCartney has a way of just completely morphing his voice into something else. It's fascinating.
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Friday night arrives without a suitcase. Sunday morning creeping like a nun. Monday's child's learn to tie his boots.
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See how they That was amazing. This song is great. is how you manage to feed the way the mouth like the mouth horn section.
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That's so fun. See how they are. That harmony is amazing. Super Queen sounding. Obviously Queen came after this. But Tuesday afternoon is never ending.
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Wednesday morning papers didn't come. Thursday night your stockings needed men. See how they run children at your feet. Wonder how you manage to make it.
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Oh, the drums. Is that only my left? I love that. I love the drums in that.
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That was They kind of spanked. Heck yeah. That was fantastic. I'm tempted to add that to my like playlist. I really liked a lot of the stuff there. That sounded way ahead of its time. So cool.
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All right. The Bside to that single was the inner light. What? It's like a mix between like Indian music and Celtic music without going out of my door.
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I can know all the things on earth. This is a wacky single to put after Lady Mor.
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I can know the ways of heaven. The father one travels. The less one knows.
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less know what is that? At first I thought that was a vocal, but that like sounds more like a um Oh, that is a um it's like a read type of it's a read instrument. I can't remember what it's called.
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Without going out of your door, you can know all things on earth without looking a shi travels.
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This is the most like George Harrison. Like if George Harrison had his way, this would be the Beatles.
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It's so interesting. Wow. See all without looking. Do all without doing. Can you imagine like listening to the Beatles from like the early 60s and it's like they do their rock stuff, they do their pop stuff, some singer
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songwriting, maybe a little folk, and all of a sudden they go to India and they come back with that sound. I can't imagine what that was like. like anybody who was there at the time, what was it like to experience that shift? Cuz that
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is that would be like if my favorite band like went to some other country and came back with some super different music like that, I would kind of be thrown through a loop. I don't know if I'd like it or hate it or both. I don't
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know. I just don't know. Anyway, up next we have the Hey Jude and the Revolution Bside of Hey Jude. I've already listened to Hey Jude on this channel before, so we're not going to do that. I think I've
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actually listened to it a couple times now. I feel like it's not a technically it's not part of the main series of me going through every Beatles album, but I have listened to it on the channel, so it's one of my first Beatles videos, so
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that counts, I think. Uh, but I have not listened to Reolution by the Beatles yet. So, let's do Whoa.
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You say you want a reduc those guitars are smashed. Tell me that it's evil.
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Well, you know, we all want to change the world, but when you talk about destruction, don't that kick drum sounds like an actual basketball.
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All right. All right. You say you got a real solution. Well, you know, we don't love to see the plan.
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Those guitars are insane. I had to have been fairly ahead of his time. I feel like I haven't heard a lot of electric guitars that are that distorted.
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This kind of feels like a a little bit more of like a modern rock song.
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All right. All right. All right. Wow. Talk about overload. It's interesting how dry the song is.
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There's no like effects and reverbs and delays and stuff. It's just raw. Well, you know, you better free your mind instead.
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But if you go carrying pictures of German M, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
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This is nuts. It's a longer song, too. 3 minutes 20 seconds. All right. Well done.
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Very well done. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.
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Oh, wait. What? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? That definitely goes into a different song.
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Revolution. What does that song go into? It's part of a single, right? Did I miss something? Was that like the wrong ver?
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I'm so confused. Oh, I listened to some random one that was supposed to be from the past masters which I was supposed to listen to. Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Fine. Fine. That makes more sense. All right. Up next is Don't Let Me Down. I feel like I've heard this. It's the Don't Let Me Down.
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I don't know where I heard this from. It's probably on the radio. Don't let me down.
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Wow. I love I love the contrast between the music, which is actually really flowy and soft and smooth, but then Lennin's vocal IS JUST LIKE, WOW. And it's cool.
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It's a good contrast. Don't let me down. Don't let me down. Nobody ever love me like she does.
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Oh, she does. Yes, she does. So smooth. I feel like I've heard a cover of this.
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I don't know if I've heard this specific version. That note, that bass note was completely out of tune.
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Don't let me down. Don't let me down. Love the production on this song. Let me down.
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Was this a single? What was the context for this song? For the first time, don't you know it's going to last.
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It's a love forever. It's a love that has no aside. to get back. Don't let me down.
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Don't let me down. Don't let me down. Don't let me down. And from the first time that she really done me, that's a really interesting.
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It's like a measure and then an extra half and then it's the rhythm comes.
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That's cool. I guess nobody ever really done me. She Yeah, that's so cool. Super creative.
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Don't let me down. I like how the It's not a It's like a set tempo. It kind of es and flows.
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Don't let me down. Wow, that's a unique song. That's a really unique song. Really cool.
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Can you dig it? I love that. With modern music production, we work within a digital workstation called a DAW. And the majority of music produced in a DAW, we try and line it up with a tempo. So, we have a click track and we
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produce music on a grid. And that allows for what's called quantizing, which is literally snapping everything you play to the grid perfectly. Let's say I play a guitar part.
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Well, what if that's not exactly on rhythm? What you can literally do is hit Q for quantize on your keyboard and it snaps your playing to the rhythm. And so it creates for a professional, clean, perfectly timed guitar part. But what
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you miss is the es and flows of music like from this era. That song had so many slowdowns, speed ups, different like rhythms within the song which really makes for a more natural sounding and frankly more interesting sounding
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thing. I'm definitely inspired to probably try and create more. That's one big thing I've taken away from listening to music from this era is to create more outside of the confines of a digital workstation aka the beat metronome. Metronome metronome
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metronome. It's really interesting. I absolutely love it. Okay, the next single is the ballad of John and Yoko.
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Yoko like John's wife from 1969. All right, let's do this. Great baseline trying to get to Holland.
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The man in the M said, "You've got to go back. You know they didn't even give us a chance. Christ, you know it ain't easy.
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You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.
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This is a story song. It's a story song. I love this. You can make it okay. You can get married.
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You know it ain't easy. Okay. So, it's a story about John and Yoko's like marriage relationship or whatever.
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You find me drove from Paris to the Amsterdam hill talking in our bed for a week.
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The news people said it say what you doing in bed. I said we're only trying to get us some peace. You know it ain't easy.
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That's funny. You know how hard it can be the way things are going. You're going to crucify me.
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Saving up your money for a rainy day. Giving all your clothes. Last night the wife said, "Oh boy, when you're dead, you don't take nothing with you but your soul." You don't take nothing with you.
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To the end. Chocolate cake. Oh, that sounds so good right now. They look just like gurus.
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Sorry. They look like two gurus in drag. They're going to crucify me. 50 acorns. What is he doing with 50 acorns?
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It's good to have both of you. You know, you know, they're going to lose it.
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I like how it literally is just like the story of their honeymoon. That's really fun. I love that. Uh this Bside to that song was Old Brown Shoe.
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Oo, I like the baseline. is only interesting. Sometimes it twice as long. What's up with the vocals on this?
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Now I'm stepping out this old shoe man. I'm in love with you. So glad you came here.
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Now I'm telling you sounds like he's recording from the other side of the room.
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You know you pick me up from words that drag me down. See your smile replacing every thoughtless friend.
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Don't escape from this. I'm in love with you. So you came the same now you grow up.
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Dang play on Super. That's an interesting drum groove. Cool. What do you call that? I don't actually think I've really ever heard that specific beat in a song before.
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It's like a two two four song. Heard that. It's interesting. It's different. together. There it is again.
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It's like almost poker swung. Heat. Heat. Interesting. I like that. I like it. Not my favorite song in the world, but it's fun and it's unique, which is great. All right, the last song on this list of songs that I have missed
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and/or singles that I need to tackle. You know my name, look up the number.
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Okay, from 1970. Interesting. All right. Ooh, wait. What? Another one of those like hiphopish grooves.
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You know my name. You know my name. You You know you know my name.
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You You know you know my name. Good evening and welcome to slagers fear. You know my name.
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Look up my number. This is just like a I assume this is a joke for the fun of it.
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Sometimes you just got to have fun in the studio. You know my name. That's right. Look up.
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Oh, you know you know you know my name as heck. You know you know my name.
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You know my name. You know my name. You know you know my name baby. You know you know my name.
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You know you know my name. for you know my name. What? You know you know you know my name you know my name.
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Oh my god my name. You know you know my name. Look at the number.
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This song number four missed opportunity to have this one on the uh comedy stream the other couple weeks months ago.
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That's right. Yeah. Wow. Oh, they're still going. Okay. What the heck? Who is that singing this?
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Who sang? Look up my number. Who's who sang it? I cannot tell who's singing this.
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Okay, so John and Paul. Okay, that's funny. Wow. Is that it? Okay, that is funny. I love when bands can like not take themselves super seriously and like throw out something like that.
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So funny. By the way, we're about to tackle Abbey Road. So, if you want to be a part of that, hit that subscribe button and I would love to see you over there. Only 37% of the people who watch
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Anyway, I'll see you guys at Abby Road. Bye. I think about you night and day. I need you and it's true. When I think about you, I can say I'm never never never never
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