About This Track
“Tomorrow Never Knows” is the final track of The Beatles’ 1966 studio album Revolver. It is credited as a Lennon/McCartney song, but was written primarily by John Lennon. Although it was the first song that was recorded, it was the last track on the album.
The song is significant because it contains the first example of a vocal being put through a Leslie speaker cabinet to obtain a vibrato effect (which was normally used as a loudspeaker for a Hammond organ) and the use of an ADT system (Automatic double-tracking) to double the vocal image.
“Tomorrow Never Knows” ends the Revolver album in a more experimental fashion than earlier records, which contributed to Revolver’s reputation as one of the group’s most influential and expressive albums
John Lennon wrote the song in January 1966, closely adapted from the book The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, which they based on, and quotes from, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The understanding from the book was that the “ego death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs is essentially similar to the dying process and requires similar guidance.
Peter Brown claimed that Lennon’s only source of inspiration for the song came from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which he says Lennon read whilst consuming LSD. George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary, Alpert, and Metzner’s book.
The song is significant because it contains the first example of a vocal being put through a Leslie speaker cabinet to obtain a vibrato effect (which was normally used as a loudspeaker for a Hammond organ) and the use of an ADT system (Automatic double-tracking) to double the vocal image.
“Tomorrow Never Knows” ends the Revolver album in a more experimental fashion than earlier records, which contributed to Revolver’s reputation as one of the group’s most influential and expressive albums
John Lennon wrote the song in January 1966, closely adapted from the book The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, which they based on, and quotes from, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The understanding from the book was that the “ego death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs is essentially similar to the dying process and requires similar guidance.
Peter Brown claimed that Lennon’s only source of inspiration for the song came from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which he says Lennon read whilst consuming LSD. George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary, Alpert, and Metzner’s book.
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Shouts
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Toyah-Fan81 wrote:
ray davies must have been so jealous.
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mcflyyoubojo wrote:
yeah i agree they are astral plane time travelers but this song sound about 9000 years old.
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LSBumblebee wrote:
TNK!
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LizaTheDreamer wrote:
"Turn off your mind relax and float down stream It is not dying, it is not dying" ... wow
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deftonico wrote:
Brilliant
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hellcatshalala wrote:
the drums. THE DRUMS.
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hellcatshalala wrote:
No fucking way was this recorded in 1966. The Beatles quite clearly were Timelords. (2)
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MilesAboveYou wrote:
what do you mean so ahead of their time? lmao everyone was doing psychedelic shit during that time? you should of phrased it "the beatles were really ahead right here" because they were high as shit.
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theDecapitator wrote:
Obviously Dave and friends from Monster Magnet love this too. This song is like the blueprint for some of their early work.
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bostoncrab wrote:
clearly the beatles traveled forward in time and stole this from the stellar oasis tune titled 'hindu times'.
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innerspeaker wrote:
\/ A lot of people didn't get it. I've seen a track by track review from '66 by Ray Davies from The KInks and he thought it sucked.
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Playpet wrote:
Imagine living back in 1966 and listening to this song for the first time... damn
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matt_white wrote:
amazing, so ahead of it's time it's crazy
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Sandman2527 wrote:
For such an amazing song mostly everything in this shoutbox is shit.
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jimgravy845 wrote:
Only for you in that you clearly can't tell the difference between Motzart and Salieri
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ViniciusStilt wrote:
I love this, and I love Oasis. Problem?
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perpetualSelf wrote:
best album.
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petross85 wrote:
Why listen to Oasis when you can listen to the original and best. Fuck Oasis, they've plundered this song and so much more for their entire careers
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jimgravy845 wrote:
I don't care who you are or where you come from, one day in your life, you will come to realise the genius of Lennon and McCartney
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aldyshekoski wrote:
When the Beatles tell you to turn off your mind, relax and float down stream you best turn off your mind, relax and float down the motherfuckin stream. [3]
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