Question for first generation Beatles fans (what did you think of "Tomorrow Never Knows") *

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  1. Psychsound

    Psychsound Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    What exactly went through your mind the.very first time you heard Tomorrow Never Knows in summer/fall 1966?
     
  2. rkt88

    rkt88 The unknown soldier

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    i hope this stuff wears off.
     
  3. MGSeveral

    MGSeveral Augm

    Noisy!

    I think it might have been my favourite track then. I was five, and I did like “Yell Submarine” but maybe tired of it by the time we got the album.
     
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  4. Bradd

    Bradd Now’s The Time

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    First heard it when it came out. The whole album was so different that you knew this was something different, but you got an inkling that things were changing with Rubber Soul. ​
     
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  5. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident

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    I I first heard it the first time I heard the entire (Capitol version) Revolver album in 1968. I was 10. Not sure what the cutoff age is to be considered first generation.
     
  6. JohnO

    JohnO Senior Member

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    The first time I thought something like "what is this?". After listening 3-4-5 times I got it. Partly, but enough.
     
  7. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

  8. dsdu

    dsdu less serious minor pest

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    I heard it at age 16 when it first came out in 1966. I wondered what they were taking and where can I get some. By later that summer both questions were answered.
     
  9. Taxman

    Taxman Senior Member

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    I had just turned 15 when Revolver was released. Paperback Writer/ Rain had been released 6 months earlier, in May. As my BF and I listened to Revolver, we heard the drums high in the mix, the phasing, the backward vocals, the cryptic lyrics and the “tough” sounding guitars that had all been present on Paperback Writer/ Rain.

    In short, we were used to the idea that their music was changing a lot. And we liked it.
     
  10. Rose River Bear

    Rose River Bear Senior Member

    From what I can remember, I thought it was too repetitious but the effects were interesting. I was familiar with drone music though in some classical and jazz so it was nothing new to me in that sense. I thought it was cool they tried it.
     
  11. Mesozoic Mike

    Mesozoic Mike Forum Resident

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    I was 17 when Revolver was released. The whole album blew me away although I was thinking they would not be as successful with this LP. Then, Tomorrow Never Knows hits and it was like entering a whole new universe of music.
     
  12. John B

    John B Once Blue Gort,<br>now just blue.

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    Interesting! You were young, probably not even a teenager at the time. It is surprising, to me, that you would love that song at such a young age. When I first heard Tomorrow Never Knows, it took me a while to appreciate it.

    I loved the earlier songs and grew to love the more ‘far out’ songs as I got older.

    It sounds like you understood the magic as it was happening. Good for you.
     
  13. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    thanks my friend. ; )
     
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  14. correctodad

    correctodad Forum Resident

    I was 15. I thought it was one of the most fantastic things I had ever heard.
     
  15. MGSeveral

    MGSeveral Augm

    Well, at that age, everything is strange and new
     
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  16. Chazz Avery

    Chazz Avery Music Addict

    I first heard it in 1967. I was ten years old. Although it was obvious they had progressed beyond "She Loves You, yeah yeah yeah", it was just another Beatles song to me.
     
  17. Mister Charlie

    Mister Charlie "Music Is The Doctor Of My Soul " - Doobie Bros.

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    I was 14 in 1966, and I generally recall liking it a lot, but thinking it was pretty weird... but cool.
     
  18. thewonders

    thewonders Someone that I used to know

    I thought it was very interesting and I liked it.
     
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  19. First heard in 1966 I believe although maybe it slipped into 1967, and liked it. I would have been 14 or 15.
     
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  20. ARK

    ARK Forum Miscreant

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    The same as Don Draper’s?

     
  21. willy

    willy hooga hagga hooga

    I first heard it, aged 16 in 1982, it blew my mind.
     
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  22. NumberEight

    NumberEight Came too late and stayed too long

    I didn’t think the chords were terribly interesting. ;)
     
  23. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    LOL
     
  24. Brettlowden

    Brettlowden Forum Resident

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    I loved it
     
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  25. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    Nice to read the responses.
    I only discovered all this stuff in the early eighties... took me a couple of years to appreciate the "weird" stuff. Now it is my preferred stuff
     
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