The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (w/ lyrics)

[Trevor5069]

favorite song to trip out to hands down

[bosmicbomb]

King Of Limbs anyone?

[AnthonyDavid94]

@bosmicbomb At least inspired by this yeah. Maybe even sampled...

[manderinorange99]

soooo retro B-)

[TheSweetjonny]

PSYCHEDELIC BABY.

[jlopezv98]

come on please, why not?

[raul8565]

wow sounds like a chemical brothers song

[nesfan8]

my third favorite song.

[TheSweetjonny]

@nesfan8 What are your first and second? :)

[nesfan8]

@TheSweetjonny Innuendo from Queen and stairway to heaven

[TheSweetjonny]

@nesfan8 Niiice :)

[Fractal8359]

Ah god they totally ripped off the Suckerpunch soundtrack! Lame!

[zb9206]

@Fractal8359 I hate you for that comment. You should never compare The Beatles to that awful movie even in jest. Ass.

[Fractal8359]

@zb9206 Yeah I'm sorry, I thought that comment would get me some rage! Of course I know the Beatles was the original, though I do love the other version.

[xlrious1]

@Fractal8359 this is from 1966.

[YourMomBakesPies]

Play this song plus

youtube(dot)com/watch?v=yEgqy8­sCnoM in fullscreen

sweet jesus

[Julesnshane]

john sang this sitting upside down. fun fact of the day

[mojohelmet]

The BEATLES said more about zen in this one song then Jack Kerouac and all the other BEAT writers said in a decade of (run on verse) writing!

[Beatlesdrummer94]

great song :)

[Beatlesdrummer94]

great song :)



[thejordanb96]

Enter psychedilia !

[TheRhinehart86]

Apparently this song was one of the most technologically advanced songs in existence when it first came out. Not many can claim that particular achievement. Of course it helps when you lived on the cusp of the digital revolution. We've reached the limits of our technology, we need a new revolution comparable with the invention of computers or electricity, 'genetic music'!!!!

[SoyUnPerdedorKillMe]

Definitely :)

[superjules]

I want to hear Deerhoof do a version of this song.

[Ihatemyusernamemore]

this track is seminal, I kid you not. In 300 years this track will still be a flag bearer of a generation, its the beatles no.8. Seriously good ish.

[rifkyhardian]

65 people are soothsayer :D

[cannedkitty]

i remember first hearing this song on the radio when i was 8 and thinking it was modern electronic remix of an old beatles song when really it was recorded in 1966

[Happysundaze]

A serious candidate for my favourite Beatles tune, along with a couple of dozen others!!

[IAmAlexSilver]

Geoff Emerick did an awesome job along with the band musical creativity. Wish I could work there at that time...

[hj7397]

The Beatles WERE the 1960s. From setting fashion trends to inventing music videos, The Beatles' cultural impact was just as apparent as their huge impact on music. Seriously, it doesn't get any better than The Beatles, and with The Beatles, it doesn't get any better than Revolver.

[ToxicTurquoise454]

@hj7397 Rubber Soul is better than Revolver. It's more consistent, less padding

[aRiceCrispieSquare]

@ToxicTurquoise454 from an innovational standpoint revolver is better though

[thejordanb96]

@hj7397 And with Revolver, it doesnt get better than Tommorow never knows.

[hj7397]

@thejordanb96 True, but "I'm Only Sleeping" is a masterpiece, easily my favorite Beatles song.

[xardua1]

@hj7397 sgt.pepper's lonely hearts club band imo <3

[SK8musicfeeling]

@hj7397 It DOES get better, and it's called Rubber Soul.

[myrtlebox]

@SK8musicfeeling Very good 2nd pick. I agree with what George Harrison said on Anthology:

"Revolver and Rubber Soul could have been a double album."

Frankly, Revolver & Rubber Soul are tied at #1 with PPM, AHDN, HELP, Pepper, MMT, AR tied for 2nd. White is 3rd followed by Beatles for Sale & LIB.

Don't hate me for LIB being in last place - I still love it....somethings gotta be last.

[Intriped23]

Trippiest song in the universe.

[elleboucher]

My grandson passed away at 16 and had this on his Myspace Page...says so much to me. Love you sweet boy, Gamma xoxoxo

[laserboy18]

@elleboucher He would have grown up to be a great man if he enjoyed the Beatles as a teenager.

[TheYaro39]

@elleboucher good taste. sorry for your loss

[franciscojesus6]

@elleboucher very sorry for your loss what idid he die from? sorry for the question but i would like to pay my tributes but i don't know why he died

[elleboucher]

@franciscojesus6 Christian died of neuroblastoma, cancer of the nerve cells. He was 16 years old. His aunt made a video in honor of him and posted it on Youtube. It's under Christian Stehlik. Thank you for your kinds words. Elle

[fortheloveoftunes]

Today the album-cover is kitsch back in 1966 it was art .-)

[Perniciousdeeds]

i have advice for you all, take 2 or 3 hits of LSD, turn on the movie "Yellow Submarine" but mute the TV, & put in the album "Love" by the Beatles, you're in for a wonderful experience.

[Perniciousdeeds]

@Perniciousdeeds Once "Love" ends, pause "Yellow Submarine" & put in Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" & resume the movie

[zeuqzavaj]

@Perniciousdeeds lucha libre? really motherfucker, post & answer yourself? a tag-team of TWO ass-holes

[thedarkmoonman]

@Perniciousdeeds LOL I put Fantasia on the TV while listening to Sergeant Pepper after taking a large dose of Magic Mushrooms, was also a wonderfull experience...

[deniseg812]

It's backwards.



[zeromant80]

This song and song name will fit perfectly for the main theme/movie name for a 007 James Bond film

[fearbob123]

@zeromant80 umm it is theres a james bond movie called "tomorrow never dies" they changed the name but its still kind of the same thing :P

[Perniciousdeeds]

@zeromant80 no it wouldnt.

[zeromant80]

@Perniciousdeeds Why not?

[Perniciousdeeds]

@zeromant80 James Bond = mystery/action movie, whereas Beatles = Psychedelic/genius recordings

[zeromant80]

@Perniciousdeeds Weird, but Tomorrow Never Dies was inspired by Tomorrow Never Knows

[elterrordelosfachos]

SYD BARRETT AND JOHN LENNON ARE THE FATHER´S OF PSYCHEDELIC MOVEMENT

[pinkyluv310]

@elvispresley718 better not hold your breath

[SoccerRockNY]

What an awesome song! I remember when I first heard this, I thought "hey is this an Oasis track I never heard of?" This song broke ground, in my opinion, for every alternative rock band which followed the Fab 4; I can totally hear the strong influence of sound experimentation which many bands utilize now. Thank you for posting!

[chunkybongo]

@SoccerRockNY Now you know why every musician should love the Beatles -1966 they did this.

[elvispresley718]

im waiting for adele and janet jackson to come up with something like this!!

[Solon1]

Great song from a groundbreaking band.

[maybaby52297]

I grew up listening to and loving the Beatles. But this song always scared the shit out of me, with all the strange sounds used in the background. Still gives me the creeps, but as I've grown older I've learned to appreciate the creativeness of it(:

[Perniciousdeeds]

@maybaby52297 oh thats alright, its only because you're a pussy.

[skydiveNY]

I grew up getting the first Beatles album for Christmas, and couldn't wait for the next one to come out. Every year we got the new Beatle album. Then Revolver came out.. it was the prelude to Magical Mystery Tour. They were already gone.

[bailinnumberguy]

@skydiveNY Prelude to Magical Mystery Tour? Revolver is often mentioned as the greatest album of all time. Magical Mystery Tour was more of the inferior follow-up to Revolver.

[Perniciousdeeds]

@bailinnumberguy Magical Mystery Tour was not inferior to Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour defined the Beatles for a certain period of time.

[bailinnumberguy]

@Perniciousdeeds I'll disagree. It's your opinion and we're all entitled to one.

[MartianMarvin007]

DO THE LYRICS HOLD A HIDDEN MEANING? You decide! (by you I mean the mad 60+ year olds who still believe paul is dead and elvis is living on the moon, and reverse songs so you can prove these facts)

[tricksypixie153]

@MartianMarvin007 Im 12 and i believe paul is dead, you are an ignorent person and obviously did not look within...there are hundreds of clues and i can assure you that, i have been studying the paul is dead theory for about 5 years now and i believe it...

[jaydenakasha]

@tricksypixie153 you've been studying paul mccartney's supposed death in 1966 since you were 7 years old? Get a life kid

[Perniciousdeeds]

@tricksypixie153 Well, thats because you are young & naive, it is easy to believe conspiracy theories if they are presented to you in the right way. Paul is alive & well, the "Paul is dead" conspiracy was one of the more asinine ones i've ever heard.

[858Marissa]

the psychedelic experience. the beatles. lsd. the 60's. yeah <3

[andreas802]

@858Marissa wish i had lived in those times

[JerichoDitch2]

@andreas802  In 1964, The Beatles walked right past me at the Pittsburgh airport ( my dad had a security pass) I was 6 years old and its my earliest memory.

[one1950smovie]

@858Marissa songs draws on Tibetian book of the dead, idk if LSD was involved

[MrWhyteAvenue]

@858Marissa you're probably like 15... how do you remember the 60's

[mddeadfan]

this song was and is so amazing. it really got the whole trippn scene rolling with rock n roll. the grateful dead covered this @ r.f.k. stadium, wash,d.c. in the 1990s, they did great at covering a tune that was all studio! thank you john lennon and thank you garcia!

[purplegreenredyellow]

This song is amazing.

[SHW97]

theres like a whimpering puppy in this song. it creeps me out.

[Naninaa1]

Epic. I LOVE IT.

[trumpetzarebeast]

No one now would dare try this for fear of sticking out and the fans hating it, but the Beatles never cared. They dared to be different and challenge others' musical views. I love them. :)

[peacemind1234]

the most wonderful song ever heard <3

[laserboy18]

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[MartianMarvin007]

@laserboy18 sorry what?

[BrandonDaBeatle]

how on earth do they do this song??? mann.. got to see paul and ringo tomorrow...hahaha

[loyer258]

This song somehow reminds me of the movie Akira ...

[Zebred2001]

How amusing. What in south Asia came before modern Western civilization? Gee I dunno...maybe oh perhaps ... Alexander the Great. And more importantly before that (wait for it) the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans who basically defined the culture of the region from Kurdistan to the Ganges. They probably looked a lot more like me than they did you. Socialist/anarchist revisionism certainly feels good as long as you don't look too closely at the facts. Now let's agree to disagree and leave it at that.

[quidseeker]

If John hadn't created 'Tommorow', they'd still be singing 'Yesterday'.

[AghastLotus1]

@quidseeker GOOD ONE !!!!

[AudioAstronaut5000]

sounds like radiohead mixed with the vines

[panniize]

Your views manifest a wider pathology among patriots once identified by Orwell: ‘the instinct to bow down before the conqueror of the moment, to accept the existing trend as irreversible’.

[OsuAustralia]

getting high listening to this

[jamiescoollife]

awesome song

[bio49410]

thumb up if you're not stoned.

If you are stoned do it anyway.

[jtowfigh]

EVERYTHING in this song sounds backwards, including ringo's drums. Essentially, it's john singing over a backwards loop. I love it.

[zeuqzavaj]

this slips innocuously into "Sucker Punch".

rather than hackneyed Henderix or the Doors

above generic jungle in a Bell "Huey" gunship

She fly us long time; in a WWII

european theater bomber

Charlies Ángels' ás the Time Bandits

WTF still good to hear it revived

[Perniciousdeeds]

@zeuqzavaj dude, just shutup, nobody likes you.

[MattHatter]

It was a impossible task for any other band to record a song like this in 1966. I mean, you just listen to this and think, "How did they think this up?!" For the tape loops you can thank Paul, and for anything backwards you can thank John. It was amazing in 1966, it was amazing when I first heard it in 1985, and it's amazing on into 2012.

[bballer894]

@MattHatter oh yea and you can thank ringo for the drums :P

[MattHatter]

@bballer894 Yes, very true. No rock band had miked the drums that closely before.  Or created THAT hypnotic of a drum beat.

[theworldacording2jmc]

@MattHatter Impossible how exactly? Frank Zappa was recording funky songs like this in 1966.

[MattHatter]

@theworldacording2jmc Zappa's approach wasn't the same as The Beatles. Zappa's tape montage stuff on "Freak Out!" was more like that of a producer compiling sound effects for a movie or something. 

[mkjh]

@theworldacording2jmc sooo true!

[silverstinger1]

@MattHatter hi Matt, I totally agree with what you're saying about this song, I felt the same way when I first heard it in 1966. I also had a band back then and we were playing a lot of Beatle songs back then. I really like the sgt peppers album with the song " A Day in the Life".

[MattHatter]

@silverstinger1 Thank you. I remember when this song first came through the speakers of my stereo back in 1985, I was listening to "Revolver" for the first time and I was only 8 years old. Suddenly THIS bizarre thing came assaulting my young senses and I walked over to the record player thinking I might "see something." Like the record spinning out of control or something, LOL. I'm sure in '66 you guys were all looking at each other asking, "What are those weird noises?"

[lcjj7]

@MattHatter I just realised how desensitised I've recently become to the efforts into music artists put. Thank you.

[mikemoos]

@lcjj7

T'is because music now requires 5 minutes on you're PC.

[vlacerda93]

@MattHatter

Yes, because Zappa didn't reshape the face of pop music in 1966 with his album Freak Out! that had even stranger studio tricks.

Just sayin'

[MattHatter]

@vlacerda93 Stranger how? I own "Freak Out!" and all I hear is tons of overdubs, band members moaning and making sex noises, tapes being sped up and slowed down, basically the same thing The Beatles were getting into at this point. "Tomorrow Never Knows" isn't quite the same as anything on "Freak Out!" Sonically "Tomorrow Never Knows" pretty much blows EVERYTHING out of the water in '66. It's that "balance" The Beatles could somehow achieve, soaring but still grounded.

[mahavishnuxc]

@MattHatter

Question: "How did they come up with this?"

Answer: "LSD... lots, and lots of LSD."

[kafkod]

@mahavishnuxc LSD and The Tibetan Book Of The Dead! Tibetan lamas believe in reincarnation. In yogic trance, they remember their past lives and what it feels like to die. That's what the book is about. It's a kind of manual telling you how to die without fear, so you can go straight to nirvana, or a good rebirth. Lennon read it and thought it was like an LSD trip. "Lay down all thought surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining."

[Alpinex105]

Who knew packaging Indian culture was so profitable?

[Zebred2001]

@Alpinex105 Well, Bollywood for one. It's just that the Beatles made it cool, not corny!

[Alpinex105]

@Zebred2001 Bollywood do the opposite.. it packages western cultures.. Bollywood can be corny, but the classics are awesome. Yeah the they did.. but then Yoga and buddism (although regionally different0 recently packaged it again.

[panniize]

@Alpinex105 Oh yeah, lets bloviate with the facile knowledge we have of Indian cinema. Fuck off.

[Alpinex105]

@panniize Very pissy. Why discuss anything for that matter?

[panniize]

@Zebred2001 You're an idiot if you think the Beatles gave an helping hand to Indian culture. And the word 'Bollywood' itself is a misnomer. It refers only to the mainstream Hindi cinema, not the other 15 cinema industries around the country. Bollywood began in the 1930's, and it didn't need the benevolence of the white man to make it 'cool'.

[Zebred2001]

@panniize I obviously said nothing of the sort (who's the idiot!). However, (since you bring it up) Bollywood and south Asia generally, certainly required the benevolence (not to mention the technological, industrial and political genius), of the White man to even exist in anything like its modern form. I guess you can't expect gratitude from sullen third-worlders.

[panniize]

@Zebred2001 Ha ha looking at your avatar, seems like you're the sort of person who reads Niall Ferguson as if its gospel, and votes for Churchill as the greatest Briton of all time. The Euro-centric crap you're fed in your schools make you bloviate on the rest of the world even though your knowledge is facile and one-dimensional. And who said what exists in the modern form is perfect ? The mess u guys created in your hasty shameful exit has from the subcon. has left its scars till date cowards.

[Zebred2001]

@panniize Feel free anytime to forget the English language, give up western technologies, education, etc and go back to slaughtering each other in endemic warfare. Live in some poverty and disease-stricken village with your fly-blown goats. Go ahead purify yourself of all western influences (including computers and the internet). Rid yourself of hypocracy - you'll feel better.

[panniize]

@Zebred2001 Ha ha. Oh yes, there was nothing before Western civilization right ? Aww. The union jack looks so cute on you. Your views reek of so much ignorance its unbelievable. If its equality of contribution you want to talk about, lets talk about something simple like 'zero' without which there WOULD BE NO TECHNOLOGY. But I won't, because I know that argument is idiotic, but you dont seem to realize the logical fallacies in yours. Cont. in next comment.

[paulmccartneyloverrr]

does anybody know why they play the guitar solo of taxman backwards in this song?

[steelersfan7238]

Great song!!

[bagcierenesk]

This Sound likes( especially drum) t.A.T.u. - Not gonna get us(2003?). I was listening "not gonna get us" and suddenly I noticed it. And I see, "tomorrow never knows" was years ahead of it's time. If it made on today, it be hit. (If my English is bad, sorry for it.)

[sombrereroloco15]

SUCKER PUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrMikeSense]

In 60's, every good musician was a drug addicted. Fortunately who wrote this song wasn't qn addicted, unfortunately for who supported this opinion. Likely sophisticated in sounds or the uses of instruments, #Tomorrow Never Knows# perhaps seemed to many like pro drugs.

[FrankoKush]

First didnt really like the song but then it grew on me. Im 16 years old and been listening to rap since forever but now im starting to like this kind of psychedelic music.

[MattHatter]

@FrankoKush Well in rap you have tape loops and sampling. What you hear in this song are the first tape loops ever used in a rock/pop song. Compare this to other songs that came out in 1966 and there is NOTHING that comes close.

[pandamanRx]

...ผมชอบเพลงนี้...

[MartianMarvin007]

Not once does this song have the lyrics "tomorrow never knows" in it. THATS HOW EPIC THE BEATLES WERE!

[WutDfuzz]

@MartianMarvin007 They actually were one of the first pop acts to release songs with titles that weren't lyrics in the song.

[avictimoftheinsane]

@MartianMarvin007 "Tomorrow never knows" is actually a phrase Ringo used to frequently say.

[Cromag99]

Ringo's halting style on the drum kit is genius!

[ShineOnCrazyDiamond1]

In my opinion the most important song ever written.

[therunningtap]

@ShineOnCrazyDiamond1 Strawberry Fields in my opinion :)

[janicerosemiller]

boom bum! boom-boom ba-dum! drum riff!

[tablababa]

the lyrics for tomorrow never knows is an extract from tibetan book of the dead.....so why is it credited to lennon mccartney legally?........because the piece of music is termed a"dub" montag" colag"......fly or what mr beatles?..........

[KosmoAntoninus]

@tablababa John Lennon wrote the song in January 1966, with lyrics adapted from the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, which in turn was adapted from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Lennon read whilst consuming LSD Lennon had found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience that contained the lines: "When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream"

[KALBARN]

I prefer the chemical brothers intro version

[stelley08]

Revolver is such an awesome album! Can you imagine what music would be like if these boys hadn't dabbled in drugs? ROCK ON BEATLE FANS!

[mcmickle1967]

Being a Beatles fan in 1966 and THAT'S the last song on the album until.......

[BaronNinjaflix]

Last video I watched: George says "The good thing about that is, after (Strawberry Fields), we started to get a lot more surreal."

This video: I say "WTF my playlist is on shuffle!!!"

[DanielBowden1975]

🇬🇧 Gear ✌

[SufferInJuly]

JERRY SPRINGER'S SISTER [Stick glue, stick! Or I killed my horse for nothing!]

[haidisemirychan]

the song that changed everything!

[revbd]

This Them at thier Best!

[getdowndou]

@madflavor morning song suggestion

[Permafry42]

*insert "Then I took an arrow to the knee" joke here*

[ToxicTurquoise454]

@Permafry42 Best joke ever! I've seen it like 500 times in a space of two days! ZOMG it's never gonna get old!

No seriously... MAKE IT STOP

[xavierpaquin]

@Permafry42 is that a skyrim joke?

[zamo3255]

the chemical brothers let forever be

[ChihiroMucin]

Ssh. Just listen to the colour of your dreams.

[thisguyiscool69]

best psychedelic song ever!!!....im floating....im floating....

[mjthegreatest123]

@thisguyiscool69 what is psychedelic song?

[gino066]

over 1M views.. not bad for your first video ever.. u picked a good tune...

[HullCityTiger101]

So where is the music video??? You need to try harder sonshine, this is just an image of the Revolver album cover - you twat! A Single Image is not a moving Image production, for fucks sake! Great Song - Killed by You!

P.S If You are under the age of seven, I'll let you off, if you are older, seek help - you need it!

[TheKratnoff]

@HullCityTiger101 Please chill sir. just relax and enjoy the music. no need to take everything so seriously

[mjsmcd]

PLEASE do not try LSD or any hallucinogens Your playing russian roulette and there are lots of people who lose at that game Its not just another social drug

[croydawg24]

@mjsmcd while I do agree it can be dangerous for a small range of people, it can be a wonderful eye opening experience for the rest. take it from me, it was the most amazing experience of my life.

[Shelly1Rox1Music]

I'm so going to be listening to all their songs when they're 100 years old. Talk about classic rock.

[HammerFist1970]

Ringo answers his critics...

[goliksam]

thumbs up if you stoned!

[ryandeakin5878]

@goliksam lol i thumbsed up

[Inzo42]

Read Geoff Emerick's book 'Here There and Everywhere'. I only read the first few pages so far but he goes right into Tomorrow Never Knows and how he came up with putting John's vocals through a Leslie speaker and micing the drums closer than was allowed by the studio. He was responsible for making the band's crazy ideas a reality.

[thebrentboys]

WOW I love the Beatles but next to i am a walrus they are extremely high in this song!!!!!!

[ShineOnCrazyDiamond1]

This is the most important song in the history of music.

[carebearnmbr46]

ThisMyUsernayme, no most people would probably pick apart a song that called itself by Tomorrow Never Knows, and tried to imitate this. TNK is original and spontaneous. And sadly, I've read enough to know many Beatles fans would listen to a new "version" of the song, but that they'd ultimately reject it's having any basis on a Beatles' song. It'd be rejected.

[carebearnmbr46]

They say this is the one Beatles song that can never be replicated. There was so much going on at once, and in such a random fashion that it'd be impossible to get the exact same sound again. Supposedly they were tripping on acid, may I say heavily, when this song was produced.

[hubbaman9885]

I like the tape looping in this, it is classic.

[xxSTRIKER087xx]

@BnHwrd yo do have a point there