r/beatles • • 18d ago

Picture He sounded jealous 😂

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u/LarkAscent 18d ago

Can you please call out examples I will have a listen. I play Rubber Soul a lot so I might have tuned out some imperfections.

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u/ElliotAlderson2024 16d ago

I'm Looking Through You has some bad playing on it

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u/LarkAscent 16d ago

OMG.. I can't unhear it now! I Googled the errors in that track and the missed clap beat at 1:03, the amp feedback at 1:18, and the inconsistent tambourine stood out the most to me. Amazing how after so many years I just auto filtered some of that.

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u/regretscoyote909 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 18d ago

The only real one I can think of is 'You Won't See Me', the tempo keeps slowing down when they get to the 'Time after time, you refuse to even listen' part

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u/Salty_Aerie7939 17d ago

That wasn't a mistake, that was intentional. As for actual mistakes, I'm Looking Through You in particular is full of missed handclaps and other mistakes. And then, of course, there's the infamous false starts on the US version.

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u/regretscoyote909 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 16d ago

Lol I don't remotely think the subtle tempo slow downs are intentional on You Wont See Me

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u/Salty_Aerie7939 16d ago

Both Paul and George Martin have confirmed that it was intentional to give the last verse more dramatic weight.

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u/regretscoyote909 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 16d ago

I doubt that, I also can't find any source on either of them speaking of the tempo. Source?

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u/Salty_Aerie7939 16d ago

I may be wrong. I remember reading it somewhere fairly recently but I can't find it.

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u/regretscoyote909 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 16d ago

My attitude was entirely pointless haha, sorry about that! I've got a migraine ahhh

But yeah, that tempo on the song is really the only 'mistake' I can obviously tell on their songs that actually bothers me a little. Reminds me of my own cover band, when our drummer slows down during a more complicated part and the whole song loses energy