Comments on: Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey

By: GT

GT — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:11:42 +0000

Townsend is an ass. I love his music but he’s still a jerk.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:34:46 +0000

Easy. It’s noisy, un-melodic, and just some more of Lennon’s often-lazy songwriting in this period.

By: Big___Al

Big___Al — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:55:27 +0000

“Paul… did not have much to do with this recording…”???

The best part of the song is the bass lick at the end. What chu be talkin’ bout?!

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:29:19 +0000

More like the other way round,stones copied this riff a year later for brown sugar

By: Kalle

Kalle — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 22:34:27 +0000

Oh dear, that “balanced” word again. Lennon was pretty capable of doing fruity and McCartney wrote just as many rockers as Lennon, perhaps more. Ever thought that Grandma might prefer the rockers?

By: Big___Al

Big___Al — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 04:07:14 +0000

Exactly! Glad someone else has seconded what I’ve always thought. I was a big Monkees fan back in the day, too. Still am, truth be told.

By: Adimari

Adimari — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:05:44 +0000

This are Maharishi`s quotes, no doubt
even Harrison says it.
Talks all about meditation

By: stan

stan — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:53:14 +0000

No Yoko was Johns Lover who became his wife. You wouldn’t want people talking bad about your wife or girlfriend. Leave this alone. It happened but now its over….for now.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:34:59 +0000

kristin hersh does a phenomenal hardcore version of this one

By: bill scruggs

bill scruggs — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:48:09 +0000

hell’s bells….why doesn’t someone go and ask Yoko what John meant…!!

By: chris j

chris j — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:05:50 +0000

At last some people talking about that amazing intro !
Came here just to see if someone had some more infos, who (a Beatle or producer ?) had this idea of editing this in (you can hear that after the intro it cuts into the band already well into the groove) ? When was it recorded ?
As Von Bonte pointed out a similar trick happened on “She’s a Woman”, where the guitar alone was on beat 2, making you think it was on the 1. This one’s more complex to adjust, the drum pattern used on the intro is not heard afterwards. It’s in fact a typical Ringo beat, (or Mersey Beat ?) you can hear all over “With The Beatles”, as in “It Won’t Be Long” (but played without the hihats and the 4th beat snare) or even closer : the verses of “All I’ve got To Do” (playing the hh instead of the snare). Also on Little Child, Mr Postman, Not A Second time.
Fantastic track on a fantastic album.

By: Todd A

Todd A — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:04:54 +0000

Yes
That how the song really works for me…
About the joy transparency transcendence
That comes from taming channelizing
The monkey mind

By: Tony_M_1956

Tony_M_1956 — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:03:44 +0000

There was a cartoon which depicted Lennon with a crazed looking monkey on his back (with the face of Yoko Ono) and the monkey’s talons were digging deep into Lennon, draining him of his (talent) blood.

By: Jim Ferrell

Jim Ferrell — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:36:16 +0000

John’s third song using “Come on, come on, come on…” as a lyrical hook (after Please Please Me and Little Child).

By: Brandon Nelson

Brandon Nelson — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:17:44 +0000

Maharishi sometimes quoted a traditional Vedic metaphor about the mind naturally wandering like a monkey. You get i the monkey to calm down by putting some food out, something the monkey enjoys, which keeps it from wandering without having to use force. In the same way the wandering mind will be calmed by giving it a taste of silence and bliss in mediation, which then calms the mind without having to force it.

He also described the process of transcending as, “the deeper you get, the higher you fly.”

And in reference to the flying technique, “the higher you fly (hop), the deeper (in pure consciousness) you go.”

By: heywood

heywood — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:59:53 +0000

Actually i belive it was a reply to “I can see for Miles and MIles”.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:51:51 +0000

Actually, I have never thought of the White Album cover as being an artistic reference to heroin but you know what ? I think there may be something in that. Represents a move from Peppers colourful psychedelic cover to the stark (china) white of ‘The Beatles’ album cover. Interesting.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:45:18 +0000

You are having a laugh, this is one of the best tracks on the White Album.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:49:52 +0000

Yoko was a Kardashian before there were Kardashians…

By: jan edvinsson

jan edvinsson — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:47:08 +0000

According to Geoff Emerick, in his book ” Here, There and Everywhere ” it was Paul playing a huge fireman bell; John and George were playing so loud on the guitars so he couldn´t hear his bass playing. Geoff are giving praises to Harrison´s good guitar playing in this song, this was a bit unusual guitar playing for being Harrison he said.