I remember this song from my childhood :D I was sitting on our big sofa, listenig to this song the wohle afternoon... in the evening, my daddy was coming home from work. He buyed sweets for me and so we were sitting there, listening to this song, eating those sweets... and before I was going to sleep I said to my daddy: " I'm gonna marry the man who wrote this song" :')
Not only is it great, it's groundbreaking within the Beatles' own opus. I mean, the verse really prefigures Tomorrow Never Knows, in that it's a mixolydian melody over a drone, which drops psychedelically onto the borrowed chord. This is one of the most exciting aspects of Lennon's song, but Harrison gets there first here.
@CultureJudge How's the peyote? Mixolydian? Borrowed chord? It's a good song in old fashioned meter, verse, and rhyme. I play it out, people like it. It's standard stuff. What are you talking about? It has ZERO relation to TNK. Have another.
@bigmarty56 The melody has a mixolydian feel because it's made out of a single major scale which omits the major 7th for a minor 7th (on the harmonies in 'friend' and 'someone' in this song, and 'knowing', 'shining', 'being', 'dying' etc. in Tomorrow Never Knows). The borrowed chord occurs at the same point. It's borrowed because the bass in both songs sticks with the main chord, while the chord a tone lower is superimposed over it. Less sarcasm in future.
@CultureJudge The only "mix" word I know is "mixologist". There, I've substituted self-deprecation for sarcasm---and I agree I was a tad sarcastic. Just me being bored. I will say this---I've been playing for a long time, taken lessons, music courses in college, etc, and I've never heard the term "borrowed chord" before. Oh well, time to find the nearest mixologist.
@CultureJudge just superimpose the opening of Tomorrow Never Knows with the opening of Ticket to Ride and I think you'll begin to understand beyond your current narrow mysogynisticologistness. lol
The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and hidden messages. To learn how to perceive these hidden meanings, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read through the section about The Beatles.
@Huskerfan826 so true,i think like this don,t get enough credit and by like this i mean ,cry baby cry,here there evrywhere,you know where you t one solo singer sort of telling a story
When Beatles Recorded Last time in 1969 Harrison was Only 26 years old ,So its explain His Late Blooming ,
Also Being Youngest & Silent Beatle he had to literally fight to get his songs in Lennon/McCartney Dominance, He is Quite Underrated . His later Tracks While My Guitar; Something ; Here Comes the Sun were far Better than Lennon/McCartney song of the respective Albums.
I am a huge fan of the Beatles and George Harrison, but as far as songwriting goes, I believe both were superior to him. WIth that said, they'd diddle around and come out with throwaways, while Harrison, who had far less in his output, really didn't write throwaways (at least from Rubber Soul onward). But yes, he started the Beatles as a musician, and ended as a songwriter.
@clockworkfiction3 his songs were up there with john and paul while my guitar gently weeps here comes the sun something are up there with hey jude and strawberryfields and it was also rumored george wrote most of paul's songs with john lennon
So it's rumored that George Harrison wrote Paul's songs with John lennon? I've never heard this before. And don't get me wrong, I love Harrison's songs, but as a songwriter, especially in the Beatles, he never had the sophistication that John or Paul did. And while Something and Here Comes the Sun are great songs, they are more simplistic melodically and musically than say A Day in the Life or Hey Jude. imo, If I Needed Someone was a gem off of Rubber Soul. One of the best!
@GuitarPhi1 You're talking nonsense, man, so stop spreading it. 1, McCartney wrote his own songs alone in the Beatles and later became the most successful musician of all time 2, George had four great songs and some better than average songs in the Beatles. Lennon (my personal favourite) had like 20 gems in the Beatles and many good songs and so did McCartney. I understand that George is your favourite out of the four but comparing him to Lennon and McCartney is simply narrow-mindedness.
Happy Birthday George <3
otbix1997 1 week ago
I always thought this song said "if i'm needin' someone"...silly me :3
Amz2014 1 week ago
Compare this to the fucking garbage we have on the hit list now. Crapola.
Westwerld 2 weeks ago
yeah. this is a good song.
lopezpfx 2 weeks ago
I would love to sing this song to a girl
cozycrunchez1 1 month ago 4
I think the girl I like would love to sing this song.
kurt05051987 1 month ago
@kurt05051987 i think so too
cozycrunchez1 1 month ago
STILL AS FRESH TODAY AS IT WAS THEN WHAT A GROUP HARD TO BELIEVE THIS IS 1965
MegaJohncoffey 1 month ago 2
This song reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel for some reason.....
425mandilynn 1 month ago
Rubber Soul is one of my favorite Beatles albums. The Fab Four had their collective shit together, no doubt about it!!!!
glorybra 2 months ago
@glorybra depends, I suppose, on one's definition of 'having one's fecal matter coelesced'.
JonBenait06 1 month ago
@glorybra Rubber Soul, Revolver and With the Beatles... Best three albums IMO
JoshhLyons 1 month ago
So sweet...<3 this song made my day ^__^
XZeldaTheZealotX 2 months ago
I love love this song !! (It sounds a little bit like Styx... here and there...)
webcyborg 2 months ago
I remember this song from my childhood :D I was sitting on our big sofa, listenig to this song the wohle afternoon... in the evening, my daddy was coming home from work. He buyed sweets for me and so we were sitting there, listening to this song, eating those sweets... and before I was going to sleep I said to my daddy: " I'm gonna marry the man who wrote this song" :')
joymum5 3 months ago 16
@joymum5 You go, girl!
gwenis5 1 week ago
i feel like this is the birth child of here comes the sun hahah(:
Salliee3 4 months ago in playlist Salliee3's favorites
Oh, George... Such a great song! :)
JohnnyNny94 4 months ago 6
pssht i dont need to carve.. ill just go on facebook and type it..
MrMuirzy 4 months ago
Thanks for the history in the description!
8crazy88 5 months ago
My dad: What u listening to smalls? *sips water*
Me:The Beatles. * starts singing aaaahhhh aaaaahhh aaahhhhh*
My Dad: *spits water all over the screen*
Me: still singing *aaahhh to AAAWWWWW!*
monetdeldo 5 months ago 9
@monetdeldo True story?
dogarian 4 months ago
@dogarian hell yeah!
monetdeldo 4 months ago
@dogarian our computer got fixed like a week before i wrote that! Believe it..
monetdeldo 4 months ago
Fun to sing to!
Stewbone 5 months ago
A great song from the Beatles I had forgotten
George and the Beatles were friends of the Byrds. George got the lick from The Bells of Ryhmney
and made a song of it
ballisticsports 5 months ago
85,100th viewer!
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Not only is it great, it's groundbreaking within the Beatles' own opus. I mean, the verse really prefigures Tomorrow Never Knows, in that it's a mixolydian melody over a drone, which drops psychedelically onto the borrowed chord. This is one of the most exciting aspects of Lennon's song, but Harrison gets there first here.
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@CultureJudge How's the peyote? Mixolydian? Borrowed chord? It's a good song in old fashioned meter, verse, and rhyme. I play it out, people like it. It's standard stuff. What are you talking about? It has ZERO relation to TNK. Have another.
bigmarty56 3 months ago
@bigmarty56 The melody has a mixolydian feel because it's made out of a single major scale which omits the major 7th for a minor 7th (on the harmonies in 'friend' and 'someone' in this song, and 'knowing', 'shining', 'being', 'dying' etc. in Tomorrow Never Knows). The borrowed chord occurs at the same point. It's borrowed because the bass in both songs sticks with the main chord, while the chord a tone lower is superimposed over it. Less sarcasm in future.
CultureJudge 3 months ago
@CultureJudge The only "mix" word I know is "mixologist". There, I've substituted self-deprecation for sarcasm---and I agree I was a tad sarcastic. Just me being bored. I will say this---I've been playing for a long time, taken lessons, music courses in college, etc, and I've never heard the term "borrowed chord" before. Oh well, time to find the nearest mixologist.
bigmarty56 3 months ago
@CultureJudge just superimpose the opening of Tomorrow Never Knows with the opening of Ticket to Ride and I think you'll begin to understand beyond your current narrow mysogynisticologistness. lol
JonBenait06 1 month ago
2 people need someone
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GolliwoggMusic 5 months ago
Great song- too bad it was never one of their more famous ones.
sykiatree 6 months ago
@sykiatree why does this matter? we're both fortunate to know and love it at least :)
69keithmoon 6 months ago
only song more underated than this would be lose the girl
airdragon325 6 months ago
Put your number in my wall??? The Beatles had Facebook!!!!
soporia 6 months ago 9
@soporia you made my day XD
PaulMcCartneyNP 6 months ago in playlist Beatles Fave songs
@soporia Dude, your comment should be no. 1
Tinosmash86 6 months ago
no dislikes, that is the nature of this song
PaulMcCartneyNP 7 months ago in playlist Beatles Fave songs 3
I love you George!
BeatlesLuver441 7 months ago
It sounds a bit like The Byrds style.
copilunio 7 months ago
DeutschMatheLehrer you are amazing
NotoriousBMF 7 months ago in playlist Beatles
The way this song puts my mind into Dreamland it would NOT be safe to drive. : ) I've carved some walls too! Very reliable way to save.
emdeth 7 months ago
If music needed someone,it was the BEATLES!
aayjayrocks 7 months ago 6
I love them!!!
FredFan123100 8 months ago
dat bass
IanEduardoMeneses 8 months ago 2
I LOVE DIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheInsaneBrains 8 months ago 4
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vividDC 9 months ago
HA! Absolutely no dislikes! (:
emilyish013 9 months ago 8
if i needed george harrison........
16SandyD 10 months ago 6
I wish I could respond to this video but the sound keeps going off...Help..
cjdmiracle 10 months ago
almost 40,000 views, 84 likes, and not one dislike. . . that made me smile :)
aLittleMoreJess 10 months ago 8
love the lead guitar on this song
oldermusiclover 10 months ago
I love this song!
It's a very good one, and underrated.
George <33
96Beatlesfan 11 months ago
cosa asy
kaylanne17 1 year ago
cosa asy
kaylanne17 1 year ago
cosa asy
kaylanne17 1 year ago
love this song
SuperTinyG 1 year ago 53
@SuperTinyG me 2
walle672 11 months ago
@walle672 cool
SuperTinyG 11 months ago
@walle672 Cooll
SuperTinyG 11 months ago
uhhhhhh¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sickpoola 1 year ago
One of the more underrated songs of the beatles
Huskerfan826 1 year ago 137
@Huskerfan826 i'm big fan of Husker Du....zen arcade,new day rising, and other kool albums!!!!
sickpoola 1 year ago
@Huskerfan826 so true,i think like this don,t get enough credit and by like this i mean ,cry baby cry,here there evrywhere,you know where you t one solo singer sort of telling a story
MrMGD92 7 months ago
@Huskerfan826
When Beatles Recorded Last time in 1969 Harrison was Only 26 years old ,So its explain His Late Blooming ,
Also Being Youngest & Silent Beatle he had to literally fight to get his songs in Lennon/McCartney Dominance, He is Quite Underrated . His later Tracks While My Guitar; Something ; Here Comes the Sun were far Better than Lennon/McCartney song of the respective Albums.
aniqwertyani 7 months ago
@aniqwertyani
I am a huge fan of the Beatles and George Harrison, but as far as songwriting goes, I believe both were superior to him. WIth that said, they'd diddle around and come out with throwaways, while Harrison, who had far less in his output, really didn't write throwaways (at least from Rubber Soul onward). But yes, he started the Beatles as a musician, and ended as a songwriter.
clockworkfiction3 7 months ago
@clockworkfiction3 his songs were up there with john and paul while my guitar gently weeps here comes the sun something are up there with hey jude and strawberryfields and it was also rumored george wrote most of paul's songs with john lennon
GuitarPhi1 7 months ago
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So it's rumored that George Harrison wrote Paul's songs with John lennon? I've never heard this before. And don't get me wrong, I love Harrison's songs, but as a songwriter, especially in the Beatles, he never had the sophistication that John or Paul did. And while Something and Here Comes the Sun are great songs, they are more simplistic melodically and musically than say A Day in the Life or Hey Jude. imo, If I Needed Someone was a gem off of Rubber Soul. One of the best!
clockworkfiction3 7 months ago
@clockworkfiction3 you know who was the best songwriter out of the group....RINGO! XD
scarface12347 7 months ago
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fitless 6 months ago
@GuitarPhi1 You're talking nonsense, man, so stop spreading it. 1, McCartney wrote his own songs alone in the Beatles and later became the most successful musician of all time 2, George had four great songs and some better than average songs in the Beatles. Lennon (my personal favourite) had like 20 gems in the Beatles and many good songs and so did McCartney. I understand that George is your favourite out of the four but comparing him to Lennon and McCartney is simply narrow-mindedness.
fitless 6 months ago
@Huskerfan826 There is no such thing as over or underrated beatles songs, They're all just awesome...
jkinz1234 5 months ago
@jkinz1234 , you are so right! You SHOULD be no.1!
Stewbone 5 months ago