It's All Too Much
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daddytoddMy favorite Beatles song.
No, really!
Including "lost" verse not included on the released version (but featured in the film "Yellow Submarine")
It's All Too Much
By George Harrison
(Too Much! Ah... Ah... Ah)
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
Sail 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 only 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
But 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 takei it's all too much
It's too much... Ah!
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... Ah!
We are dead
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much... Etc.
No, really!
Including "lost" verse not included on the released version (but featured in the film "Yellow Submarine")
It's All Too Much
By George Harrison
(Too Much! Ah... Ah... Ah)
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
Sail 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 only 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
But 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 takei it's all too much
It's too much... Ah!
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... Ah!
We are dead
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much... Etc.
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Date: 2005-04-02 04:55 am (UTC)Too Much
Date: 2005-04-02 02:53 pm (UTC)Apparently neither the band nor the song's composer thought very much of it. It was handed over to the producers of "Yellow Submarine" for inclusion in the film, along with three other compositions deemed inconsequential ("It's Only a Northern Song", "All Together Now" and "Baby You're a Rich Man") in the late spring / early summer of 1967 ("Hey Bulldog" was not added to the film until very late; that song was not even recorded until February, 1968)
I've always wished that "It's All Too Much" had been included as the lead track on side 2 of "Sgt. Pepper's", instead of the dreary "Within You Without You," a song I dislike. "It's All Too Much" captures the 1967 zeitgeist far better than George's raga rock throwaway.
Re: Too Much
Date: 2005-04-02 07:09 pm (UTC)"Only a Northern Song" was actually written as a throwaway, a jab at the Northern Songs Ltd. execs who demanded several more tracks to fill a quota and were perceived by the band as prizing quantity and not caring about quality.
"All Together Now" is a fun ditty with a smashing
orangeynaughty bit in the lyrics, and works very well to set the stage for the dark and angry "Hey, Bulldog" immediately following it on the MMT soundtrack."Baby You're A Rich Man" was pointed at Eppie—Brian Epstein—which prompted Lennon to sing "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew!" on a few of the refrains (the published lyric is "Baby, you're a rich man, too!".)
There was a period of years during which I listened to literally nothing but The Beatles. Wanna hear 36 different versions of Strawberry Fields Forever? I've got 'em...
Re: Too Much
Date: 2005-04-03 05:23 am (UTC)damn, seems like a dream...a wonderful dream!!!
SMiLE
Date: 2005-04-03 06:35 pm (UTC)The anticipation was almost as good as actually getting to hear the music. Almost.
no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 07:23 am (UTC)To be this woofy and know music too (I mean, other than the Pet Shop Boys and the Phantom of the Opera) is just... well, very groovy.
My parents bought me my first "stereo" when I was 15. It was a cheap piece of crap that played everything too fast. For years, anytime I heard a song on the radio that I had the record for, it just seemed SOOOO slow to me. Anway, the first album I got for my new stereo was "Yellow Submarine." I had never used headphones at that point, and my stereo didn't even have a jack for them. But I used to lie down on the floor and put one speaker on each side of my head and listen to this album. My favorite song was "Hey, Bulldog!" The funny thing is, somehow I had the balance knob turned so that there were NO lead vocals. Just a sort of mumbling now and then. I listened to the song for weeks thinking it was an instrumental. One day I turned the knob just for fun, and went "wow! There's words to this too!" I still love the song. The solo is one of the first things I learned on guitar.
"It's All Too Much" was a favorite too. The intro is one of the heaviest things the Beatles ever did. I LOVE the way the whole song is ONE chord. And the lyrics are very cool. I've had a bootleg album since I was in high school that has the extra verse on it.
Thanks!
Date: 2005-04-13 11:17 pm (UTC)Thanks for adding me to your friends list. I did the same to you. I think we have similar taste in music. Big Beatles fan here. I have always thought this song was all too much but it has grown on me over the years. Plus it's a George song! Not to mention the Smile boot you are listening to. Great!
Hope to see you at Thaw.
Have a safe flight!
Gary
Bearapalooza
Date: 2005-04-13 11:29 pm (UTC)Re: Bearapalooza
Date: 2005-04-13 11:59 pm (UTC)Re: Bearapalooza
Date: 2005-04-14 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-19 02:07 pm (UTC)I still remember how I was introduced to their more psychedelic output. During "Spirit Week" at high school when I was in the 10th grade, one of the themed days of the week was "Hippie Day." My cross-eyed, bearish World History teacher, a baby-boomer, rented the library's record player and brought in his Beatles White Album and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow LPs for us to hear and learn about those days gone by.
Eventually in college a friend of mine happened to be a major Beatles fan and so I was able to hear all that stuff and to see the wonderful Yellow Submarine movie. I love the sound was remixed into 5.1 surround for its DVD release: when Glove fires up and blasts across the screen, the sound blasts from side to side. Majorly cool! :)
Yellow Submarine
Date: 2005-04-20 12:26 am (UTC)[soapbox]
I'm stupefied by the decision to shave off the top and bottom of the image and pretend it was made in a "widescreen" ratio... It was created in the "full screen" ratio common to TV sets of the era; to reformat it and pretend otherwise does a severe disservice to the film.
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Re: Yellow Submarine
Date: 2005-04-20 02:10 am (UTC)Are you absolutely sure? According to IMDB.com, it was both filmed and released on DVD in the aspect ratio of 1.66.
Yellow Submarine Aspect Ratio
Date: 2005-04-20 02:47 am (UTC)Re: Yellow Submarine Aspect Ratio
Date: 2005-04-20 09:22 am (UTC)