Yesterday always makes me cry.

I can't listen to that song anymore. It's boring. I know it's good and all, but I've just heard it one too many times over the years!

I have gotten a beer at a Macca concert during this song.

Quoted from tkitna, posted October 1, 2004, 6:22am at here

I have gotten a beer at a Macca concert during this song.

LOL!

That track never did much for me either, I used to skip to Dizzy Miss Lizzy - but I really enjoy playing it on the piano for some reason! Weird huh!

yesterday is classic....still gives me the sad feeling after decades of hearing it, it' s like saying i'm tired of the Beatles, because i've heard it too much.    i love this song

This song is just amazing. I love it. Used to be my favorite Beatles song, until I started listening to other ones...

But, God, I love this song. It's so sad and so brilliantly made.

Actually, Yesterday is the only song in the world that can make me cry. I don't cry at at sad movies, or songs, anything like that... but Yesterday has a really powerful effect over me. Interesting huh?

that's such a pretty song, it does have a sad effect on me too

It simply amazes me how a young man with everything...money, youth, wealth, fame...at the peak of his powers writes such a melonchaly and perfectly phrased 'older' person's mindset.  It was no accident this song turned millions of adults on to him.  Not because of the violins but because of the maturity and basic simplicity of what he is singing.

A masterpiece if he had written it now, even more stunning that he wrote it then.

Charlie, you have such a way of putting things that makes me see them in a new light!! I have a new appreciation for that song now!

Quoted from Maccalvr, posted October 2, 2004, 6:14am at here

Charlie, you have such a way of putting things that makes me see them in a new light!! I have a new appreciation for that song now!

Thank you, it's just what I think of (other than the obvious sadness and brilliance of the song itself).

If I ever learned to spell melancholy I might actually make it to be a writer someday.

This songs a little dull but every once in a while it really gets to me.  Sometimes it feels like the most powerful song I've ever heard, others it feels like backround noise.  I think it's hard for me to fully appreciate it fully because I wasn't there when this young superstar prtoduced this mesmerizing ballad, it just gets grouped with his others when looked back on 40 years later.  A terrific song though.

it has  perfect songwriting and perfect voice and perfect guitar, it is a perfect soft song,

It actually sounds like a "folk" song. I believe Paul wrote it with an old girlfriend in mind and told her to watch the Telly that he was going to sing her something the night the Beatles were on one of the British music shows!

Quoted from misterchaz, posted October 2, 2004, 2:41am at here

It simply amazes me how a young man with everything...money, youth, wealth, fame...at the peak of his powers writes such a melonchaly and perfectly phrased 'older' person's mindset.  It was no accident this song turned millions of adults on to him.  Not because of the violins but because of the maturity and basic simplicity of what he is singing.

A masterpiece if he had written it now, even more stunning that he wrote it then.

So very, very well said. Superb observation. I must add that the strings evoke so much too. Very Beatle. Am I right in thinking it was the first track they used strings on?

Quoted from An_Apple_Beatle, posted October 22, 2004, 3:17am at here

So very, very well said. Superb observation. I must add that the strings evoke so much too. Very Beatle. Am I right in thinking it was the first track they used strings on?

Yep, your right!! It was also the first song that they used other musicians on, other than the boys and George Martin!

and Paul's first Solo Song

I am glad to find I am not the only one who finds it boring, and here I was thinking I must not be a real Beatles fan!  In terms of music appreciation, yes, it is wonderfullly written, has a beautiful melody and is sung very well by Paul. I just can't enjoy all that!  Maybe because I have been listening to it since I was five and for a five year old it is ruddy boring!

As a senior in high school, there have been times that I have said something wrong and longed for the yesterday! Once word gets out about anything in high school, it travels at lightning speed.  So I guess even at my age, this song is very great to have around and to listen to if you're feeling down.

On a brighter note, a good portion of my marching band loves this song.  If we're singing songs on a bus on the way to or from a competition/game, the minute they see me they'll sing Yesterday and Let It Be. 

Quoted from sange, posted October 24, 2004, 1:03pm at here

I am glad to find I am not the only one who finds it boring, and here I was thinking I must not be a real Beatles fan!  In terms of music appreciation, yes, it is wonderfullly written, has a beautiful melody and is sung very well by Paul. I just can't enjoy all that!  Maybe because I have been listening to it since I was five and for a five year old it is ruddy boring!

I totaly agree.
I think Yesterday in terms of pushing the boundaries, is a huge breakthrough, and the arrangement etc is monumental in the timeline of 20th Century Popular Music (Mouthful)  .. But it does stale after time, which is understandable...seen as though Yesterday gets played and plugged at an almost constant rate.
Its a great song, but I always feel it dictates the Beatles when been talked about in general terms, meaning to say that it often gets too much credit, and masks other songs etc This is not detracting from the pure originality of the piece, but the aura that surrounds such a composistion.
It has a very defined mood about it, and its obviously for certain times, but for me, personally, it doesnt always match its hype, in the context of ears

I heard it yesterday for the first time in awhile.  It is Paul's masterpiece, without a doubt.

Lots of things make me cry. I'm one of those people.

But the only beatles songs to make me cry are Yesterday and For No One

Classic! I love Paul's voice on that song. I'm listening to it right now.

I like the song,but I think it's both too repetitive and too short. He should have come up with more verses. It repeats itself too much-and yet it's over almost before it's begun. Whenever I hear it,I'm like it's over already? If I'm in a certain mood I love it. I think he should have kept the scrambled egg verses and added them on to the end to fill out the song a little more and stop it from being too serious.

Of course,I could be wrong. He's the multibillion dollar seller,not me.

Fed up !



That's it

Huh? What do you mean, rita?

I prefer Daytripper over Yesterday.  Daytripper was on the flip side if I recall.  Yesterday is okay but overrated.  I generally pick John over Paul.

Were the lyrics Paul wrote inspired by John's lyrics for Help! written a year earlier I think.  John said at the end of his life he'd wished he would have been able to re-record Help.  Perhaps slow it down.  Did Paul realize the deepness in the lyrics of Help and use it for inspiration in writing Yesterday?

I don't know. It's always hailed as a monumental breakthrough, some kind of maturing thing, but did the world really need rock and roll bands singing ballads set to strings? I for one hate the fact that the greatest R'n'R band in the world could well be remembered for this granny pleaser, and cue a hundred otherwise good hard rocking bands hitting the charts with totally out of character power ballads.

I think Yesterday is a bit of Pauls Frankenstein, and the monsters gonna get him in the end.

Quoted from Jim_Colyer

I prefer Daytripper over Yesterday.  Daytripper was on the flip side if I recall.  Yesterday is okay but overrated.  I generally pick John over Paul.

Daytripper was on the single with We Can Work It out. Personally I love yesterday. One of my favourite Beatles songs.