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They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai guru deva
Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
Jai guru deva
Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my opened ears
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on across the universe
Jai guru deva
Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
only two beatles left.... who will go next?
Thank gawd you're not around anymore.
This is the fellow who was warbling Slow Down or I Wanna Hold Your Hand only 6 - 7 years earlier? How to account for such a change in perspective?
Growing and evolving as a person, and musical brilliance.
Nothing's gonna change my grade
Nothing's gonna change my grade
...
A wonderful piece of writing. I miss Cynaera too.
I was just watching the Get Out movie, this morning
Generally like Beatles but this is kinda caterwaully.
fwiw, it's actually Lennon alone.
Yep, the worst of the Beatles. PSD.
Slow Down, JoJo, or no one's gonna hold your hand.
only two beatles left.... who will go next?
And no one really gives a shit!
Was that really necessary? Do you feel better now?
And no one really gives a shit!
*ducks*
It doesn't appear that any of their names are on the back of the album. Nice shout out to Billy Preston, though. Very Jagger/Richards of them.
Not necessarily, though I guess it could help.
*ducks*
This is a great song.
The Beatles material circa 64 to 70 has survived extremely well IMO.
Being there was terrific. It was.
A neighbour gave me my first LP in circa 66: Long Tall Sally. I would have been 10 or 11. I suspect that she did not like, no matter. I was thrilled.
I love this song - it's ethereal, simple and complex, and just good for the ears (hi, romeotuma!) I have rainbows dancing around my room from a prism hanging in my window, and it's beautiful and inspiring. I think I feel my muse coming back from points French. Meanwhile, thank you, RP. Always, you provide music that makes us react, whether positively or negatively. What a wonderful place to call "home"!
We all miss you so much, Cynaera... miss John and George, just like you... love this beautiful song, which is from a magnificent album... Radio Paradise is soooo good for the ears...
Kripa kerahu guru deva kinai
Simply stated and totally agree .... great song!
Easy 10+
That's basically true for all music we used to love as teens.
Don't cross the Beatles of I Feel Fine with the expanded consciousness or subject range of their last songs. A Hard Day's Night is not the same band (or solo artist) as Let it Be.
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Well said! and it is their loss by not getting it!
Isn't Ob-la-da a million times worse?
I agree. probably the ONLY song by them I really dont like at all.
And yet.... I'm sure many people love this song... just goes to show what makes the world go round I guess... heh
The Beatles definitely had a few clunkers on the early albums, but this?
I don't think so.
Agreed.... and I'm a lifelong Fab 4 FANatic (saw 'em on Ed Sullivan, blah, blah, blah).
hmmm but this is a song composed and played and sung by George #justsayin
anyway, there's some weirdos listening to RP for this song not to have a rating of perfect 10.
Umm, no. John all the way.
Well said! and it is their loss by not getting it!
hmmm but this is a song composed and played and sung by George #justsayin
anyway, there's some weirdos listening to RP for this song not to have a rating of perfect 10.
Also it was 1980 and also he got the killer's name wrong, but that's just as well.
There are other takes of this (the single version and "Naked" version) that are better. Phil Spector didn't bury every song on the album in treacle, but this one is up there. Still, the song itself is just amazing, obviously.
Not sure where you got that idea.
Written and sung by John.
hmmm but this is a song composed and played and sung by George #justsayin
anyway, there's some weirdos listening to RP for this song not to have a rating of perfect 10.
I'm one of those unfortunate ones :) I can see that there is something different in what they did but to me it's certainly not "timeless", rather stuck in that past. Their music is not that easy to feel / access, to me, it's way too idealistic and doesn't apply to the world today, I don't feel connected to their message. It's weird in itself since they sing about peace and love, but their world is simply not mine and I feel like telling them to open their eyes and see reality. When I listen to them, I have a weird idea that indeed, maybe it was better before. It seems more difficult to be optimistic and dreaming nowadays...
Sounds like the innocence of life is lost at a younger age these days. Us baby boomers have remembrance of innocence at a more mature stage of life (except the victims of abuse of one form or another....so sorry). Every once in a while, our minds need an "enema." Music and meditation are good for the soul.
I'm one of those unfortunate ones :) I can see that there is something different in what they did but to me it's certainly not "timeless", rather stuck in that past. Their music is not that easy to feel / access, to me, it's way too idealistic and doesn't apply to the world today, I don't feel connected to their message. It's weird in itself since they sing about peace and love, but their world is simply not mine and I feel like telling them to open their eyes and see reality. When I listen to them, I have a weird idea that indeed, maybe it was better before. It seems more difficult to be optimistic and dreaming nowadays...
That's a great view. I wish more people had that too.
I'm sure you'll get stronger in time.
You should seek medical attention for the ear-bleeding and psychiatric attention for thinking this is a very, very, very bad song.
No sense in insulting your fellow listener.
I agree that it is a bad song. If it weren't Lennon, folks would agree more quickly.
That's Phil Spector's 'magic' touch. I think it's a couple of the groupies who hung around Apple Studios back then doing those backing vocals.
Remember the backing vocals in Birthday? Yoko Ono, Jane Asher, Patti Harrison & Maureen Starkey.
Hahahaha...! My last wish on the death-bed - I guess - will be to get an invitation for a buck ass naked dance in your multitude. But you must promise to stay away from my nipples, if you don't mind!
You are welcome to dance buck ass naked in my mushrooming multitude of churches anytime, hotnut, and we will stay away from your nipples! Hope you be having a marvelous moment right now...
love this marvelous song... love this whole marvelous album...
very, very, very bad song.
edit: please, stop it. :( Iam bleeding from ears.
Then please go away!
You should seek medical attention for the ear-bleeding and psychiatric attention for thinking this is a very, very, very bad song.
Well I can't disagree with that, but it did work both ways.
If you've listened to "Teddy Boy" on the Anthology 3 CD for instance, you'll hear John mocking the song mercilessly as they record a demo. One could say that it was "good natured ribbing" but at that point the rot had set in, and every "joke" was thinly veiled spite.
He's paranoid. We're supposed to believe that George Martin or whoever the producer was, and everyone else involved, would go along with this "sabotage" and intentionally make John's songs sound bad and Paul's sound good? Don't think so.
I've never noticed any difference in the recording quality of Paul's and John's songs.
I think that John is just saying that Paul didn't take John's songs as seriously as his own. That seems plausible to me, and I can imagine that Paul's attitude could have a lot of influence on others in the studio.
Personally, I do think that John's songs have a rougher sound than Paul's in general. I originally thought this was a deliberate preference on John's part, but perhaps he just got frustrated at Paul's lack of interest.
We weren't there, of course, so we'll never know for sure.
The Beatles didn't make a good record of it. I think subconsciously sometimes we - I say 'we,' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us; Paul would... sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song.He subconsciously tried to destroy songs, meaning that we'd play experimental games with my great pieces, like Strawberry Fields - which I always felt was badly recorded. That song got away with it and it worked. But usually we'd spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul's songs; when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like Strawberry Fields or Across The Universe, somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in. Subconscious sabotage. He'll deny it, 'cause he's got a bland face and he'll say the sabotage doesn't exist. But this is the kind of thing I'm talking about, where I was always seeing what was going on... I began to think, Well maybe I'm paranoid. But it's not paranoid; it's absolute truth.
He's paranoid. We're supposed to believe that George Martin or whoever the producer was, and everyone else involved, would go along with this "sabotage" and intentionally make John's songs sound bad and Paul's sound good? Don't think so.
I've never noticed any difference in the recording quality of Paul's and John's songs.
The Beatles didn't make a good record of it. I think subconsciously sometimes we - I say 'we,' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us; Paul would... sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song.
He subconsciously tried to destroy songs, meaning that we'd play experimental games with my great pieces, like Strawberry Fields - which I always felt was badly recorded. That song got away with it and it worked. But usually we'd spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul's songs; when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like Strawberry Fields or Across The Universe, somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in. Subconscious sabotage. He'll deny it, 'cause he's got a bland face and he'll say the sabotage doesn't exist. But this is the kind of thing I'm talking about, where I was always seeing what was going on... I began to think, Well maybe I'm paranoid. But it's not paranoid; it's absolute truth.
Stingray wrote:
So it really exists: A BAD BEATLES SONG!
TERRRRRRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So it really exists: A BAD BEATLES SONG!
TERRRRRRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure...if you don't get it...I could see your point. But I don't...and nothings going to change my mind ;)
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... we love this song... it tweaks our nipples... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
hope you are having a marvelous Friday, treatment_bound...
Hahahaha...! My last wish on the death-bed - I guess - will be to get an invitation for a buck ass naked dance in your multitude. But you must promise to stay away from my nipples, if you don't mind!
So it really exists: A BAD BEATLES SONG!
TERRRRRRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very, very, very bad song.
edit: please, stop it. :( Iam bleeding from ears.
Clearly there is something wrong with your ears.
very, very, very bad song.
edit: please, stop it. :( Iam bleeding from ears.
Agreed!!! Bill - you need to put an "HC" rating i here somewhere - but only for Beatle songs!!
A special Beatles ratting? How about 0?
Enough with the Beatles allready!!!
Agreed!!! Bill - you need to put an "HC" rating i here somewhere - but only for Beatle songs!!
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... we love this song... it tweaks our nipples... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
hope you are having a marvelous Friday, treatment_bound...
so true
also interesting:-)
I've always been one to think that Sgt. Pepper was the big deal. It is a great album, but over time, I've come to the opinion that the turning point in the Beatles career were the Rubber Soul and Revolver albums. Sgt. Pepper was the icing. In addition, nothing has ever come close to the second side of Abbey Road in its polish, flow and beauty. Fitting that McCartney's chose to close off the album and their career with "The End" and the last recorded Beatles line "and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." That line sums up the Beatles soul over the years and life in general.
A highly recommended book I read last summer is: Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, by Jonathan Gould, on Amazon.
Long Live Radio Paradise and your so huge eclectic mix of music.
Cheers.
couldn't have said it better myself.....how they started (yeah yeah yeah) to songs like this.......i've yet to see a band match their output from help to abbey road. rubber soul and revolver were nothing short of just pure brilliance. my only detraction is sgt. pepper. with the exception of "day in the life" some of the cuts seem like they were just pushing themselves in a direction (read: concept album) that they didn't want to go in. when they got back to just plain and simple writing and playing music - they blossomed. people will always argue that the white album should have only been a single lp - but i digress. even as they disintegrated during the "let it be" sessions (see the movie, it's just too painful) they produced wonders such as this, let it be and long and winding road. and they put all of their shit aside to leave the world with Abbey Road - rock-n-roll's epic masterpiece.
as george harrison said in an interview many many years ago "everybody's been stealing our shit for the last thirty years"
'nuf ced george.
Even just the first few strokes sends shivers down me spine... What a launch into a full-texture song. Simply amazing.
a breeze on your cheek
an image caught from the corner of your eye but never seen
sensations felt but never put into words
life
Everybody in my church loves this song...
I've always been one to think that Sgt. Pepper was the big deal. It is a great album, but over time, I've come to the opinion that the turning point in the Beatles career were the Rubber Soul and Revolver albums. Sgt. Pepper was the icing. In addition, nothing has ever come close to the second side of Abbey Road in its polish, flow and beauty. Fitting that McCartney's chose to close off the album and their career with "The End" and the last recorded Beatles line "and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." That line sums up the Beatles soul over the years and life in general.
A highly recommended book I read last summer is: Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, by Jonathan Gould, on Amazon.
Long Live Radio Paradise and your so huge eclectic mix of music.
Cheers.
I was going to make my own comment but I couldn't have said it better than this. I totally agree with all your points. I went through Beatlemania in 62-64 living in Germany (service brat) as a young boy just as they broke out of Hamburg. Then moved back to the states a few months after the Ed Sullivan show and all that. So major Beatlemania for several years as an impressionable kid who was really into music.
I felt the same about Sgt. Peppers but when I got older it became apparent that Rubber Soul & Revolver were the real turning points in what they became after. Revolver remains my favorite album and Tomorrow Never Knows my favorite from that album. 100 years from now The Beatles will still be out there.
Thanks for the book recommendation!
Across the universe is a particularly pointless. Ask Paul.
Time to move on.
I've always been one to think that Sgt. Pepper was the big deal. It is a great album, but over time, I've come to the opinion that the turning point in the Beatles career were the Rubber Soul and Revolver albums. Sgt. Pepper was the icing. In addition, nothing has ever come close to the second side of Abbey Road in its polish, flow and beauty. Fitting that McCartney's chose to close off the album and their career with "The End" and the last recorded Beatles line "and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." That line sums up the Beatles soul over the years and life in general.
A highly recommended book I read last summer is: Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, by Jonathan Gould, on Amazon.
Long Live Radio Paradise and your so huge eclectic mix of music.
Cheers.
I do too.
Yeah, man... hope you are having a great day...
love this song...
I miss you so much, Cynaera...
I do too.
I find myself in a position of agreeing with you about the tastes of the "unwashed" being terrible and an unfortunate feeling of superiority that comes with it. However I disagree with the rest of your argument.
While the Beatles do have a certain universal appeal, a big part of it in my opinion is the fact that they pioneered so many types of music and methods of playing. 75% of the music that has come out since (or more) can have a direct link drawn to the Beatles. There's a reason that so many artists list the Beatles as a major influence, and it isn't because they don't want to offend the great unwashed.
No, it is because they were really good which is the main point of my entire argument.
soooo beautiful...
incredible... this album will last forever...
I love this song - it's ethereal, simple and complex, and just good for the ears (hi, romeotuma!) I have rainbows dancing around my room from a prism hanging in my window, and it's beautiful and inspiring. I think I feel my muse coming back from points French. Meanwhile, thank you, RP. Always, you provide music that makes us react, whether positively or negatively. What a wonderful place to call "home"!
I miss you so much, Cynaera...
profound and beautiful song... from a GREAT album... love it...
Agreed. The Let it Be Naked version is actually a much better production.
yeah that producer guy they had...he needed to chill some, huh?
Good catch.
I never noticed this.
Hey Rog, John's on the phone...you're in trouuuu....ble.
I love this song - it's ethereal, simple and complex, and just good for the ears (hi, romeotuma!) I have rainbows dancing around my room from a prism hanging in my window, and it's beautiful and inspiring. I think I feel my muse coming back from points French. Meanwhile, thank you, RP. Always, you provide music that makes us react, whether positively or negatively. What a wonderful place to call "home"!
This comment totally deserves a bump and an amen. Namaste, Cynaera.
I never understood how words can flow like rain into a paper cup. I mean, at a certain point in time the papercup will flow over. What will happen to those words?
If I had to guess, I would say that they would slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.