The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
Posted on November 20, 2009 by admin in English | 25 Comments
My first video ever made. Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles on their 1966 album Revolver. “Tomorrow Never Knows” is the final track of The Beatles’ 1966 studio album Revolver. It is credited as a Lennon/McCartney song, but was written primarily by John Lennon. Although it was the first song that was recorded, it was the last track on the album. The song is significant because it contains the first example of a vocal being put through a Leslie speaker cabinet to obtain a vibrato effect …
Okay, I know what you’re talking about now. Yes, there was an early take of And Your Bird Can Sing where John and Paul start the song off fine and then it just falls appart as they start laughing at each other, but the tape kept rolling so the entire take is just of them laughing. It wasn’t censored or anything, it was just an early practice take.
@1olrocker: No, not the “Never to see any other way” thing. It was apparently a working version of “And Your Bird Can Sing” released on Anthology 2 – see video IGryW-eGirc
The authentic recording is now on the fully remastered versions and available all over the world. But on the original record, only the Brittish pressings on the Parlophone label had it. It was edited off by Capitol for the USA and the rest of the world. If you buy the remastered Sgt. Pepper in any store today, listen to A Day In the LIfe all the way through. And if you have a dog, don’t be surprised if it goes nuts too – the Beatles also hid a 25khz tone after the song only dogs can hear!
I believe you are thinking of the last track on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is A Day In the Life…. On the authentic, Brittish pressings of the record, as Day In the Life is the last track on side 2, there is a hidden laugh track. The Beatles had it added after the turn out groove, and you would never know it was on there if you had an automatic turntable. If you didn’t, after the song faded out and the turnout groove carried the needle to the label, you had a treat!
i remember hearing a version of this song with a laugh track that was supposedly censored off. anyone know more info?
might have been “and your bird can sing” don’t remember
Amazing I like the background affects!
It helps, though. Not gonna lie.
No, silly goober!!!! It does take you places in your mind if you let it, though. I was making the point that you don’t have to be trippin to be trippin when you listen to Tomorrow Never Knows.
really?listening to this song this way gets you high?
@1olrocker Don’t apologize for being clean and sober. I rammed a needle in my arm 3 or 4 times a day for 16 years. I started with pot, been clean for just over 13 years. You’re not missing anything.
This is an addictive song. I’m 32 so I’m too young to have been around when it was originally released, but I have listened to it with the room dark and insense candles lit (no, I don’t smoke weed, sorry)….. this song will take you places if you let it, even if you’re clean and sober.
No, they stole this from Crystal Method 30 years earlier.
This song makes me go on a fucking trip! There are no words to describe it…
It’s amazing to think that the Band was only about 3 years into their recording when they released Rubber Soul and Revolver !!Thank they were allowed the freedom to create ground breaking music and not forced to keep repeating their earlier Beatlemania sound!!!
“This is unquestionably the first ever trip-hop record too! it only took another 30-35 years for everyone else to catch up.”
Very cool observation.
I wonder if anybody has done a mix with this song.
@REVELONRAY,Absolutely agree with everything you’ve said especially McCartney’s bass playing, which is just sublime. This is unquestionably the first ever trip-hop record too! it only took another 30-35 years for everyone else to catch up. I was born the year this was made, I wish I still felt as fresh as this sounds!!
Those seagull-sounds are scary in an exciting way.
U r soo right Beatles are so cool,Revolver is my favorite album ever,It was revolutionary
step to classic rock.
OMG!!!this is beautiful….Love Beatles 4ever!!!
they stole from stone roses also.
Nothing since comes close. Try as you might.
Stunning music.Even today there isn’t a band that could produce such magnificantly original music.The parts in this song,from the drums and violins to the backwards guitar and the filtered voice,just incredible.Still under appreciated is how revolutionary McCartney’s bass playing was.He invented modern bass technique on this record.
The Beatles still tower above all other bands.And nearly 50 years on we are affirmed in what we knew back then.This music will last forever.
sweet song,i love ringo on the drums…….beautiful song
I’ll never forget the first time I listened to “Revolver” in it’s entirety. I was at my grandparents house and had it on their turntable, I was only in the third grade. Everything was going along just fine until THIS came through the speakers! I turned at looked at the stereo like it was playing a trick on me. I had never heard ANYTHING like this in my young life. Loved it! And what’s amazing is this is the FIRST song they started recording for the album in April of 1966.
Compared to The Beatles other bands at this time were like children. It’s amazing they made this in 1966!