hey what's going on guys uh i'm syed welcome to the channel i am doing another song review
or reaction uh where usually i sort of break down the music and lyrics and uh offer up my
interpretations of what i'm hearing but before we get to that i just wanted to highlight my favorite
comment from the last video i did on my hero by the foo fighters and it was left by someone called
kylie is over it um she i'm guessing she she or he usually leaves great comments on my videos and
basically broke down the process of recording the first album that growl went through dave went
through and how like i spoke about um how much of anxiety must have been for any drama trying
to replace growl who is uh one of the better drummers of his generation and that taylor hawkins
went through this process of having red light fever as the comment says or studio anxiety where
growl kind of helped him through the process of recording and also people sort of let me know in
the comments um that actually taylor hawkins just recently passed away which i had no clue about
so uh rest in peace to taylor hawkins okay so the track that i'll be covering today is a day in the
life by the beatles um so the beatles happen to be this sort of omnipotent force in music um i've not
really ever sat down to analyze any of their songs or music music but i've always heard their songs
on tv or on adverts or in movies um also there's the fact that on any sort of songwriting list
lennon and mccartney are usually on top of that list in terms of the song a day in the life
it is apparently one of their best songs that they've written and it comes from a
concept album this revolutionary concept album called sergeant pepper sergeant peppers a lonely
hearts club i believe um so let's find out what the hype is about okay here we go
clapping right at the start
so maybe they're on a show
delivery is uh very dreamlike
i saw the photograph
to speak on uh lennon's delivery and the music a little bit
uh like i said it sounds very much like we are in a dream um kind of to describe the way it's
it makes me feel it's like um melancholic but at the same time it's like kind of hopeful
if that makes any sense that it's doing both at the same time um yeah let's keep this going
nobody was really sure well really cool verse um to get into the lyrics a little bit
it looks like this is um a story being told about uh i guess a day in the life of lenin
where he has like sort of come across this photograph of a guy who is a politician and
he's uh he's killed himself at a red light um he didn't notice that the lights had changed so
that's sort of the surface level story that's being told but um you know sort of trying to
read into it or like um kind of giving my interpretation of what i think is happening
um for that line where he says um and the news was rather sad well i just had to laugh
so although this should have been something that made him feel bad he didn't he was laughing at it
um and the fact that it's a guy who is in a position of power you know he's in the house
of lords someone who passes bills and such um perhaps this is uh you know some some kind of um
take on the idea that these people who were in charge you know there was like a siege
sea change at the time a generational shift between lenin's generation and the
uh people who are just their parents who had just gone through a war
um you know you had the sweeping movement of the hippies and and the drug culture that was taken
over the 60s that perhaps that is maybe speaking a little bit into that the idea of that this person
had not seen that the lights had changed that the times were moving forward
and the fact that this dude had died actually made lennon happy that okay yeah i'm uh you
know he's not getting with the times and so good riddance um but yeah let's keep this thing going
the english army had just won the war
a crowd of people turned away
but i just have to
i love that learn doubling up on the vocals sounds so cool
well i'd love to turn you on okay okay so i said very briefly there about the like sort
of drug culture and the hippie culture that was taken over the 60s this line right here
reminds me of the timothy leary quote if anyone's ever heard it timothy leary
uh uh turn on tune and drop out yeah that's the one i'd love to
turn you on i love to turn you on now you know if if this track is at all inspired by
sort of um you know the the drug culture the the hippie movement that was sweeping this generation
it's interesting that he chooses this line i'd love to turn you on
maybe him sort of reaching out to other people and saying you know things aren't as they seem
uh you don't have to follow the rules set by these people here you know these people in
power who see the world one way um but yeah uh really trippy i mean it goes into the
into the idea that this song is sort of like even a psychedelic trip you know uh really dreamy sound
going on but it sounds like something's changing at the moment in the song so let's check this out
whoa
that sounds like a bad trick
this song is crazy man okay um yeah so just just that little sort of crazy musical breakdown
there um yeah and then the alarm clock rings this is this is okay yeah if
anyone's had the experience of a bad trip when things are going bad you know in my experience
what it feels like is sort of this crescendo of noise in your mind that you can't quiet down
and exhibit a is this this sort of crazy musical breakdown that just happened uh it's just like
every instrument was playing together um and then you have this crazy abrupt ending as well
uh which can happen in a trip but you just jolt into some other space
mccartney tried to come across my head found the way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up
somebody spoke and i went into a dream yeah okay so you have what seems to be learning in
the present day a crazy sort of crescendo in like let's call it the trip or just even in the song
and then you have this bridge where mccartney comes in like he judges into the track and it's
like in the perspective of him as a kid who's like late for school
it almost seems like yeah made the boss in seconds flat whoa i mean again speaking from
personal experience allegedly you know a lot of the times you do have these
kind of moments where memories spring up to your mind when you're when you're on a trip
uh and if if we are going with the perspective that this song is is of some kind of trip
then this totally makes sense where like you have this crazy almost uh you know i guess the
words benign memory of you being a kid again um but it looks like lennon's coming back in can i
comes back in
whoa that's [ __ ] cool here comes all the music again this is like sort of climax of the trip
i love his delivery on this man the way he's singing
now they know how many holes it takes
so you have sort of three musical phrases if you want to call them you have this beginning
section of lennon you which is like again him in the present day you have this musical breakdown
and then comes in mccartney in his in a child-like state and then another kind of crazy moment with
all the all the instruments coming back in and then it goes back to mccartney in lenin in the
present day again so this is almost like prague rock you know progressive rock like things like um
i guess pink floyd would fit into that category but this is a a couple years before i guess floyd
was uh around making music on a popular level i think they might have been may have been around
but i guess this is a question to to anyone in the comments you know is this the first kind of track
that's done something like this you know having uh a pro rock like track so early on i think
this was made in 67 um super cool song man all these musical phrases this dreamy like delivery
so
sounds like a nightmare to me oh
wow okay and it ends quite on a quite positive note interesting
i guess the rest of this is like uh just sort of outro
um yeah to speak on let's speak on the perspective of perhaps this song like representing a trip
i felt as if there was some resolution there after lennon came back in um if we have a look
at the bit where he goes um and somebody spoke and i went into a dream and then lenin comes back
in and then you have this kind of harmonizing going on and then the last verse isn't as sort
of melancholic as the first two are so it's as if the child so this is sort of my reading
my reading into it is like that was like the harmony of like um the present day
person and then the child in him like coming together perhaps and then you have some kind of
resolution where you know it's uh it's kind of yeah just not as sort of dark as the first two
verses were um is that generally the style of lennon and mccartney where lenin provides the
darkness and uh mccartney is the light of the track uh i'm not you know again i'm not really
versed in their songwriting skills but that's kind of the dynamic to me um again there's so
much sort of to interpret from this song it's only a five minute track um you know how many how many
things this could be talking about because i guess you could read into this as like also just someone
who's sort of in a really bad place in their life who who doesn't realize you know he blew
his mind out in a car and didn't notice that the lights had changed meaning like you know whatever
way he feels at the moment may eventually come to pass and he doesn't even see that before he
of course takes his own life away um so much to take away from that
and also i guess the main part is that this song was made in 67 and the fact that this still
holds up is still experimental um i i just imagine like some kid in 67 listening to this
and their [ __ ] mind being blown how crazy this song is um yeah brilliant track i would
love love to go over this song again because that first verse was amazing man um but yeah totally
totally understand why i guess this is held up in such high regard especially from the perspective
of like things not sounding like this beforehand and perhaps this kind of stemming a whole new
wave of music but um yeah great song really interesting song