Comments on: Hold Me Tight https://www.beatlesbible.com Not quite as popular as Jesus... Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 By: MikeP https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-453671 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:43:57 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-453671 Obviously, no one took it seriously.

]]> By: MikeP https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-453669 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:40:10 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-453669 Perhaps because the song and the recording of it ARE nothin’ ….
John was right about this one.

]]> By: Doc https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-453359 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:39:22 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-453359 Just put up the bass in your car and it turns into one of the best pure rockers for the Beatles

]]> By: Rand https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-452464 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 08:49:13 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-452464 I love Hold Me Tight ever since I heard it on Meet The Beatles after Christmas 1964. I was 12 and this was my first record. I got the music later than most but I did get it. This song stands out differently than any other song they have done. I feel George Martin decided to do a Phil Spector type “Wall Of Sound” here. It’s very heavy for it’s time. Everyone is playing the same riff through the whole song. Black Sabbath made a career out of that. Not even John is strumming away on his Rickenbacker. He is playing the bass line too. So it sounds huge and may explain why nobody seems to hear any bass. Not until Helter Skelter 4 years into the future would they get heavier than this. I didn’t know it was sped up to be in F though that was a cool bit of Beatles intel. I own 4 versions of this song. 1.from Meet The Beatles(stereo) 2.MTB(Mono) 3. With The Beatels(stereo) 4. With The Beatles(Mono) One of these days I will do some comparing.

]]> By: Joe https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-452427 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:07:24 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-452427 LOVE this song. Great beat – raw vocals by Paul (flawed to perfection). One of the very best of the early Beatles songs.

]]> By: Damon https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-452196 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:54:58 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-452196 The 10 April ’64 US release date given above for Hold Me Tight is the release date for Capitol’s “Beatles Second Album”, but Hold Me Tight was on Meet the Beatles, which was released on 20 January 1964.

]]> By: Grant Porter https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-449478 Sun, 02 Oct 2016 23:31:00 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-449478 Well I think it’s a great song with a cool bassline and excellent harmonies. It is always disappointing to hear John trashing Paul’s songs but more surprising that neither George Martin or Paul himself was very impressed with it. I think it sounds exciting and inspired. Great bridge with an interesting turn for the bass at the “Don’t know – what it means to hold you tight” part that makes this song unusual from a basic boogie-woogie bass line and leads to an ecstatic return to the verse on the “feels so right to” (or “now”) part. Makes a great girl group song or solo for a young female with a ukulele, as can be seen on YouTube.

]]> By: BeatleKen https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-448292 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:43:41 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-448292 Paul wrote so he can sing however he wants, He can change lyrics if he wants.

]]> By: Graham Paterson https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-448288 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 10:14:55 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-448288 I love this Paul McCartney composition. Sure it was left over from the”Please Please Me” sessions, but it fits in perfectly to”With the Beatles”. If this had of been released as a single I have no doubt it would have been a big hit.

]]> By: jp https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-447683 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:29:21 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-447683 The Beatles were well known for releasing songs in a raw format, in fact there are sites dedicated to detailing every instance of a background noises, poor editing etc. Even the now and again “out-of-tune” vocals can be heard on other records. A friend of mine once said that it’s exactly this which gave them their “sound”.

Also, the Beatles were well versed in Rock & Roll boogie riffs from Hamburg days. McCartney being a bassist would have known thousands of variations. From a musical point of view, it is very cleverly contructed i.e. replacing the diatonic Gm (In the key of F) with a G7 gives the song the Major sound that drives. The 7th add a dark or urgent feel and McCartney make good use of the b7 by leading into chords from this interval. Sorry for some technical jargon, but the muso’s will know 🙂

Anyway, great song!!!!!

]]> By: Michael cain https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-446518 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:40:14 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-446518 Geez, what a bunch of nit picking techo phobes. ‘Hold Me Tight’ is a terrific early Beatles recording, flaws and all. Picture them playing this as released on Meet The Beatles in the early 60s. Pure magic.

]]> By: Biased Lennon-Harrison fan https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-444723 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:41:04 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-444723 Hold Me Tight is a poorly produced song, no way around that. Add that to the fact that McCartney managed to get the lyrics wrong EVERY TIME on the transitional
“It feels so right SO hold me tight”, McCartney sings “NOW hold me tight”,
Which makes it seem unprofessional.
Definitely She Loves You, I’ll Get You,
I Want To Hold Your Hand or This Boy would have fared better here

]]> By: foreverOK https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-441866 Sun, 09 Nov 2014 08:42:31 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-441866 I’m amused too. HMT has a great back beat; if the Beatles played this live with Paul’s bass, it rates with the top straight rock songs.

]]> By: Baggio https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-439422 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 05:55:52 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-439422 It’s a fine song, but the recording is really bad. Is it just me or Paul sings out of tune here?

]]> By: Marlin Vrbas https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-438720 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:55:55 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-438720 Whoever wrote it usually sang it. So it was probably Paul.

]]> By: rick https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-433736 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:48:59 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-433736 I liked it, most of you are complaining ’bout nothin’

]]> By: metzgermeister77 https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-430177 Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:41:44 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-430177 Mostly a bad recording of a bog-standard early Beatles rocker. There are some good bits here and there (I particularly like the call and answer “Hold/me tight/tonight/tonight” section and the kind of in medias res beginning), but they really, really didn’t care about this one at all and it shows.

]]> By: Joseph Brush https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-426634 Wed, 15 May 2013 16:04:40 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-426634 Oh you are so brave to beat up on a dead man. And to act like you or anyone else would know all of the reasons why John Lennon “was saying things”.
You talk as if John didn’t have the right to comment about any song the Beatles wrote unless of course his opinion matched your opinion.

]]> By: Joseph Brush https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-426569 Thu, 09 May 2013 19:56:12 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-426569 Some people are easily amused.

]]> By: Mikey from Mason Summers https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-426561 Thu, 09 May 2013 14:29:52 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/hold-me-tight/#comment-426561 Funny how almost all the songs that Lennon dismisses as “poor” are usually my favorites.

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