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It's all too much
It's all too much
When I look into your eyes
Your love is there for me
And the more I go inside
The more there is to see
It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around you
Everywhere it's what you make for us to take
It's all too much
Floating down the stream of time
From life to life with me
Makes no difference where you are
Or where you'd like to be
It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around here
All the world is birthday cake
So take a piece but not too much
Sell me on a silver sun
Where I know that I'm free
Show me that I'm everywhere
And get me home for tea
It's all too much for me to take
There's plenty there for everybody
The more you give, the more you get
The more it is and it's too much
Nice to have the time to take
This opportunity
Time for me to look at you
And you to look at me
It's all too much for me to see
The love that's shining all around here
The more I learn, the less I know
And what I do is all too much
It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around you
Everywhere it's what you make for us to take
It's all too much
It's too much
It's too much
With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
You're too much
We are getting better
Too much, too much
Too much, too much...
It aged so well....
Thank you RP.
Journey on their second album did an awesome cover of this song!!! Journey
Bill, I wish you would tap into early Journey before Steve Perry joined, 3 of the best rock records ever!!!!
I love the earlier Journey as well. Not a fan of the cover but hey, vive le difference!
Think about it for a minute!
Bill, I wish you would tap into early Journey before Steve Perry joined, 3 of the best rock records ever!!!!
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Godlike.
Ummmmmmm....so what? Other artistes did many things before the Beatles. But the Beatles, when they did it, did it better!
over and over and over….
Just remember: Buffalo Springfield was doing trippy music, two years before this album!
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CHEESE AND ONIONS
Love this...
or do mean 'Marmite' and I love Marmite!!
Thanks George!
Love this...
Not talking about this song in particular, but when I hear the Fab Four I stop for a minute and think about how
it all happened in less than a single decade - 1962-1970
Mind blowing...
Now it takes humans 35 years to move out of the family household... . ;-)
Ahh yes. Those 4 delightful lads from Liverpool.
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True, but The Beatles, Yardbirds, Birds, and Beach Boys were also doing psychedelic/trippy stuff by 1966.
And two years before this album we had Sgt Pepper.
FWIW, Blue Jay Way is about band mates from Buffalo Springfield going up to visit the Beatles at the home they were staying in during their visit to L A.
Billboard horizons as black as they seem..."
now he is 22 and self-taught on guitar, base, keyboards, and drums and he's REALLY good!
Blue meanie above !
No - not junk - just proves HOW inovative they were - this is 1969 without protools and the other stuff that enables one musician to create music like Moby - Thnaks Bill playing this/
Is it just a cosmic coincidence that this song follows Porcupine Tree's Disappear?
Nope. Just excellent programming by a true pro.
Blue meanie above !
True, but The Beatles, Yardbirds, Birds, and Beach Boys were also doing psychedelic/trippy stuff by 1966.
...as well as the Rolling Stones (see: Between The Buttons - Something Happened To Me Yesterday)
So, as a die-hard Beatle fanatic, I like it!
BUT, it didn't need this remix.
Ummmmmmm....so what? Other artistes did many things before the Beatles. But the Beatles, when they did it, did it better!
Oh, there are plenty of blue ones too.
It's all too much!
There's something funny about this remix that I don't like. Not sure what it is. For one thing, it doesn't start with that incomprehensible exclamation (which is "To your mother!" if you believe the lyrics posted here.)
True, but The Beatles, Yardbirds, Birds, and Beach Boys were also doing psychedelic/trippy stuff by 1966.
Oh, there are plenty of blue ones too.
"It's just half a hole."
I don't know why the TV Station showed this every Thanksgiving in the 70s, but all us kids would sit in front of the TV and watch it every year.
No indeed. This sounds more like the reincarnation Tame Impala than original Beatles.
Just did the same thing before I saw yours. It took me back to a mescaline trip and just how much I heard and FELT when this came on. This triggers some strong endorphins every time...
"It's just half a hole."
Not sure I agree with you. Seems like a lot of McCartney tunes (and Lennon/McCartney tunes) have become staples of elevator and lobby music. Not saying lobby music is a celebration of greatness, just that is a measurement of "music that is here to stay".
No, there was no such thing as remixes back then.
That's all too little.
Can a Rembrandt painting be improved by anyone other than... Rembrandt?
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of elevators loves this song... we be dancing like happy hippies... this whole album is marvelous... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... hope you have a spring in your step these days, WonderLizard... time flies when we're having fun...
My mind is warping in place.
Take us to Warp Speed Mr. Sulu~
Viva George!
Such tunnel-vision comments are all too much. One of their best tunes, out of several dozen very memorable sonic memorabilia
My mind is warping in place.
Get a hold of some shrooms....it'll sound much "newer"
Agreed, the origin was probably the Merseys, not the McCoys.
Get a hold of some shrooms....it'll sound much "newer"
it all happened in less than a single decade - 1962-1970
Mind blowing...
Thank you, WonderLizard... hope life is grand for you these days...
everybody in my alien space craft loves this song...
You, too, Laz—one of RP's rays of eternal sunshine.
give me their original mix anyday.
this is just to clipped on so many levels. Does not reach as high.
Agreed. It's probably my favorite "new" song from that album/soundtrack, but this remix cleans it up and makes it sound ridiculous. All the atmospheric noise is one of the things I've always loved about the original track.
Thank you, WonderLizard... hope life is grand for you these days...
everybody in my alien space craft loves this song...
They were under contract to United Artists for the music for a third film. This was their way to honor that without having to endure another Help! So yeah, most of the material are things that wouldn't have otherwise seen the light of the day given other circumstances.
That said, this track and Hey, Bulldog are faves. The rest of it is pretty much fodder. The other exception: All You Need Is Love, which was part of a first-ever worldwide satellite broadcast that preceded this LP by only a short while.
Just goes to show how massively influential The Beatles still are!
Atoms For Peace — Before Your Very Eyes...
The Beatles — It's All Too Much (remix)
Radiohead — These Are My Twisted Words
If you try to explain that this one and that one were created decades after the one in the middle ... where is the progress?
Someone should invent a hearing aid for the heart. It's not too much to ask.
9 >11.
we be dancing... love it...
Y'really think a 'bot wrote this? Just askin'...
As for the teacher discussing their evolution from She Loves You to this and beyond, well, I just said today to my wife that the great thing about the Beatles was that even in the less profound songs, they were just really a huge level above a lot of the other songs at the time. For example, Help is not really deep but it is excellent. And, If I Fell was a musically complex song that changed keys: something unheard of then in Rock. Jazz and Classical yes but not Rock. I really appreciate them even more now (back then I really didn't think about key changes much).
Yes indeedy. I appreciate your willingness to buck the tide of disparagement that seems to have been elicited by this song. At some point it is worth recognizing that not everything that is good is supremely excellent. Good is pretty good sometimes.
Really this is one of their worst pieces.
Too much!
(Recording engineer) Geoff Emerick's account, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles is a far better account of this aspect of the Fabs' career.
Yes.
If one doesn't mind reading the bitter account of an engineer who can't work out why he is the only man on the planet who credits himself with essentially turning an otherwise ordinary band into The Fab Four.
...and who the hell does that Martin guy think he was anyway?
The Mark Lewisham book was my go-to.
a lot too much.. like at the end, when that's all they can think to say... at least they got the title right.
hey maybe this should be the title track of the next remixed anniversary lets-make-a-buck reissue. or better yet - a box set that includes every time each one of them ever belched in to a microphone. they could sequence them to make it sound like one long burp to the melody of love me do. and so many people would buy it, glorify and praise it. and on the seventh day the creators could rest, and look upon their work and say "it is right and (looking in their wallets) it is sooo good".
I agree... absolutely awesome song...
Apparently, this is appreciated in an "impaired" state (and that is up for debate as to what is "impaired"). Anyway, several of us were there-sorry the rest missed the experience. You'll find your own, hopefully....
His book, All You Need Is Ears is worth the trouble and cost of finding it if you are interested in the technical details of their recordings.
(Recording engineer) Geoff Emerick's account, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles is a far better account of this aspect of the Fabs' career.
I also recommend:
And I recently purchased Recording the Beatles, although I haven't dug into it yet.
"With your long blond hair and your eyes of blue...." - from Sorrow by the Merseybeats or the Merseys version of that group, quoted here by the greatest band in RnR history and covered by arguably the greatest British solo artist in RnR history, Mr. Bowie on his Pinups album.
His book, All You Need Is Ears is worth the trouble and cost of finding it if you are interested in the technical details of their recordings.
Was he sober during this time period? I know he is now.
As for the teacher discussing their evolution from She Loves You to this and beyond, well, I just said today to my wife that the great thing about the Beatles was that even in the less profound songs, they were just really a huge level above a lot of the other songs at the time. For example, Help is not really deep but it is excellent. And, If I Fell was a musically complex song that changed keys: something unheard of then in Rock. Jazz and Classical yes but not Rock. I really appreciate them even more now (back then I really didn't think about key changes much).