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That's a long way to say "I don't know anything about musical composition"

I agree 100%

Did you know that led zeppelin also ripped off most of their songs? To a greater degree than the beatles, they have stolen guitar licks and even entire sections in almost every song.

Fairly novel is really not doing justice to what they did with their music. A lot of it was very novel at the time.

But hey, it doesn't really matter, there are way more important things to discuss than the music of a 60 year old band who may or may not have even written said music. Honestly, the heuristic of antipathy toward anything heavily mainstream is probably the best you can have in this society in terms of efficiency. So that said, this is not even something I necessarily want to debate over, in this case I will just say have a good evening friend!

Nah they were very untalented

It's not really the biggest deal in their catalogue but I chose that one because it's likely to be familiar. To answer your question I just relistened a couple times to it because it's been awhile and I want to try to answer your question.

To begin with in this song the lyrics are open to interpretation but most if not all interpretations will agree on the general "thesis" of the song, that we're going on a journey and that even if this journey become difficult or unnerving there's not much to worry and everything will work out in the end. This is emphasized throughout the song through it's use of cross rhythms which contribute to a laid back sort of quality in the music. This is not an accident or something they stumbled into, based on the lyrics. The time signatures also change throughout the song which help to project this quality of going on an uncertain journey to the listener. The lyrics are intertwined with the technical elements (rhythms, melody), the instrumentation, and performance which all coalesce into a musical piece that serves the thesis. Few songs in pop culture at that time (and I'd argue fewer now) had that kind of harmony which brought every aspect of the music together in a way that was so ambitious and successful.

There are numerous instances of backwards instrumentation in the song but it's not apparent immediately when you hear the music altogether, but this too contributes to the unnerving quality of the music with sounds that are both strange yet familiar at the same time. This contributed greatly to the phenomenon of people listening to records backwards.

Lest it seem like this is some improv piece as I talk about cross rhythms and changing time signatures, before the music meanders too far from structure you will have an instrument come in and reimpose it, such as the cello about midway through the song.

The drums serve the music greatly, not trying to dictate the pace or tempo as a metronome (which was primarily what drums did in popular music at that time) but serving the rest of the music, even adjusting tempo throughout the song in a way that must have been difficult to pull off.

Bringing all of these layers together was almost unheard of at the time partially due to it being very difficult to pull off. We don't think about it now with computers but there wasn't too much "guess and check" work going on back then, so for this to come from someone's head was rare. It became so influential it was a primary catalyst for psychadelic rock such as Pink Floyd and many others.

Is it Chopin? No, but for contemporary music it was a ground breaking composition.

This is by far the most pretentious thing I've ever written and quite honestly I don't find understanding history or technicals makes me enjoy a song more (although I do enjoy this one) so I doubt it will change whether or not you enjoy it. But there's some context which hopefully you didn't hate reading lol

Gay nigger alert!!!

That sucks. I’m right though. Unless all the biographies about him are lying. Are you sure you know anything about this band at all and aren’t just picturing their early years and projecting assumptions onto it?

She was his handler.

"NOOOOOOOOOO WHY DON'T I UNDERSTAND A SINGLE SONG OF THEIRS!?

"Its basically the only song which is actual gibberish, the rest make sense"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD THEYYYYYYYYYYY"

Cope and seethe man.

Love me do is not a good song. Bad company is pretty cheesy too tho

I never knew that, I've only heard the curly fag

Interesting how often that happens, innit? Probably part of the deal with the devil, sacrificing the lead singer. Often just before the band get pushed into the stratosphere of so called popularity.

Happened with the beatles and pseudo paul replacing car accident paul, ac/dc, lynyrd skynyrd, joy division, sublime, grateful dead, and plenty of others.

Then you have other cases where the lead singer "went crazy" like syd barrett of pink floyd. Interesting that the barrett/waters era stuff bears almost no resemblance to the far more popular gilmour/waters albums from the 70s like dark side/wish you were here/the wall.

I like this attitude.

Oh no drunks were stupid oh np0o

i'm drunk right now and beatles are kiddie music for stupids

That's because your opinion is retarded.

Cardi B is the Beatles fault!!!!

You guys should get together and jerk off Michelle Obama or something.

I don’t remember. Nothing notable. Maybe he just deleted it