3/16/2024 0 Comments Ticket to ride best beatles songs![]() ![]() The sparkling I Feel Fine marks a transition between the carefree excitement of the early Beatles singles and the drug-fuelled experimentation to come: the former represented by the song’s mood and basic pop lyrics, the latter by the (possibly Who-inspired) buzz of feedback that opens it and the intricate guitar figure that runs throughout the verse. There is still something breathlessly exciting about the song’s call-and-response of “come on, come on”: it sounds like it is willing a new pop landscape into being. Please Please Me (1963)įar more dynamic and electrifying than its predecessor Love Me Do, the Everly Brothers-inspired Please Please Me saw the Beatles harness the raucous power of their live performances in the studio. While McCartney’s song certainly doesn’t have the venomous energy or experimental edge of Lennon’s, it has got a power of its own as a masterclass in supremely catchy songwriting, it works perfectly. ![]() Lennon was reportedly furious that I Am the Walrus was demoted to the B-side of Hello, Goodbye. ![]() McCartney’s Fats Domino homage – later recorded by Domino himself – fitted cheerily with the shift, although the fuzzed-out guitars of George Harrison and Lennon suggested something slightly more tumultuous, in keeping with the increasingly troubled mood of 1968. Pop’s post-psychedelic mood was set by the earthiness of the Band’s hugely influential debut Music from Big Pink. Photograph: Sharok Hatami/Rex/Shutterstock 16. View image in fullscreen McCartney, Lennon and Harrison in concert in 1963. Less dramatic and combustible than She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can’t Buy Me Love was key to establishing the Beatles’ cross-generational appeal: on the one hand it had a raw energy that recalled skiffle, on the other, its rhythm vaguely suggested swing, provoking a number of parent-friendly jazz covers, not least by Ella Fitzgerald. That they broke their rule for Revolver’s lovable but slight children’s song Yellow Submarine – rather than Taxman, Here There and Everywhere or Eleanor Rigby, which was relegated to the B-side – seems faintly mind-boggling. In the UK, at least, the Beatles tended not to issue singles from albums. But does a hint of Lennon sarcasm slip through the net in the way he delivers the words “it’s easy”? 18. There is a sense in which All You Need Is Love is less interesting as a song than as an artefact: the Summer of Love zenith of the hippy dream captured, just before it curdled into disillusionment. Photograph: David Magnus/Rex/Shutterstock 19. “Ticket to Ride” bears much more of a pop melodic structure compared to those band’s works, but Ringo’s drums and the song’s frantic ending certainly sound different than the Beatles’ earlier material.Ĭould these distinctive characteristics in “Ticket to Ride” have influenced the burgeoning heavy metal scene? With the Beatles, anything is possible.View image in fullscreen Psychedelic explorers: the Beatles at the recording of the All You Need Is Love film in June 1967. The heavy metal genre was only in its gestation at the time of the single’s release, as bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple didn't arrive until later in the decade. It would later be featured in the Beatles film Help! and also appeared on its soundtrack.Īs for Lennon’s “heavy metal” assertion, it’s a hard claim to prove – but also can’t be fully dismissed. Released on April 9, 1965, “Ticket to Ride” spent three weeks at No. It was something specially written for the fade-out, which was very effective but it was quite cheeky and we did a fast ending. “We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song. We picked up one of the lines, ‘My baby don’t care,’ but completely altered the melody,” McCartney explained in the 1998 authorized biography Many Years From Now. “I think the interesting thing is the crazy ending instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. McCartney recalled that he and Lennon wrote “Ticket to Ride” during a marathon songwriting session, pointing to a change of pace at the song’s ending as its most “radical” part. ![]()
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