In todays episode I give you my reaction and breakdown of the new Beatles song called “Now And Then”.
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My first thought was Jeff Lynne. It reminds me of the work Harrison did with Lynne.
Its predictably awful – over produced as is the way these days.
Fantastic video Rick, I’m new to the channel and really enjoy it. The breakdown of all the music you cover is amazing
I see this song as an early Xmas present from the four Beatles comprising all their talent over seven decades and it just rounds out their extensive songbook……
Why did McCartney redo John’s piano?
The one sad thing missing from the new version is the unresolved notes as John sings “because of youOUou” he actually wavers between two notes whereas on the Beatles version it resolves up melodically. The unresolved was way more powerful and can be heard on the original demo
The bridge was written by Paul McCartney, Lennons original bridge on the demo is like a key change, where John sings “I don’t want to lose you…” I wish they’d also retained that somehow in the released song.
I'm sad.
Great video😊. What website are you using to seperate the stems?
Wait a moment… So, they finally took Rick Beato's voice (1:27) to make this Beatles song???
Well for me this is an outstanding song….so haunting and moving. Really an emotional tribute and so very thankful it is out there.
Love that Paul is still going & embracing everything NOW / a legend that lives and was and is!!!
"I miss you" gets me right in the feels
I never realised how much Rick's singing voice resembles Neil Young!
What an excellent point. Perhaps it could be remixed to have an "Abbey Road" era sound to it…? Now THAT I would LOVE to hear! 😃👍🏻
That tech is something else, I would have loved that 30 years ago.
The sentiment in that track was so fitting, and it was done in only the way the Beatles can do.
Forget the AI technology, that's just a very useful new tool without which we wouldn't be discussing this, it's the resulting overall sound Rick is talking about, and it's not the Beatles we knew, how could it be? But compare it to the new Stones album made by all the living members in 2023 – does that sound like the Brown Sugar Stones? No, they used modern technology to achieve the sound they wanted, it's different but it's not vintage, and I guess if you were new to the Stones you could well really like it, but for the rest of us it's never going to top the old sound. So Rick is right to say the Beatles stopped at the right time, perhaps the Sones should have too?
AI technology just amazes me. In 1994 the combined might of George Martin, Jeff Lynne, Paul, George and Ringo and the best and most advanced technology money could buy could not separate the vocals from piano on that demo. And if they couldn't do it, no-one on Earth could for love nor money.
Today you just upload this to a website, klick a button and, Hey Presto!, vocals and piano separated to absolute perfection in seconds.
Having dome some very simple and primitive audo recording stuff, I am simply dumbfounded as to how that works. I remember separating stereo channels, inverting one and hoping that you could somehow separate something out of the resulting mess. Results were mixed and mostly terrible. This is amazing.
Will someone please call this song for what it is? A feeble melody with lyrics that sound like something a love struck 12 year old would scrawl to his valentine.