Comments on: I’m A Loser

By: paul

paul — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:04:15 +0000

Super song no doubt about it

By: Dennis Castleberry

Dennis Castleberry — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:28:52 +0000

I was always impressed how they really cooked as they ramp up to John’s harmonica and George’s solo !!!

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:29:42 +0000

“…I act like a clown” is artsy-fartsy, but “…all you clowns” must be ok since it’s about someone else.

By: Young Fred

Young Fred — Tue, 02 May 2017 01:13:17 +0000

George usted that 12-string while recording the previous Album.

By: 2much4mymirror

2much4mymirror — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 05:18:13 +0000

I’ve always been intrigued by the artistic kinship between The Beatles and Smokey Robinson &’ the Miracles. Aside from obvious things like The Beatles covering “You Really Got a Hold On Me,” there were more subtle things like Paul citing the opening guitar lick of The Miracles’ “The Tracks of my Tears” as an inspiration for the opening lick in “In My Life.” I would not be surprised if “I’m A Loser,” with it’s references to sadness hidden behind a clown’s mask, influenced Smokey to write “Tracks Of My Tears”

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Sun, 01 May 2016 09:42:14 +0000

Obviously John Lennon was being influenced by Bob Dylan. But the words and very personal nature of the words are Lennon’s. This song is another step on from “I’ll Cry Instead” off “A Hard Days Night”. “Although I laugh and act like a clown beneath this mask I am wearing a frown”. As this line epitomizes John Lennon was on his way to “John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band” six years later.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:18:25 +0000

When I got my copy of Beatles For Sale in late 1978, this was instantly one of my favorites. John Lennon at his best, telling people how he really feels. Songs like this underline why Beatles For Sale is such an underrated album. Should always be included in top 100 of all time.

By: James Ferrell

James Ferrell — Sat, 03 May 2014 03:42:14 +0000

I put the old headphones on to see if you were right, and you are–kudos. There’s a first lead guitar stereo left, at the same spot in the mix where the acoustic and drums are, and a second lead guitar stereo right. The stereo right one does the solo, and in the verses the fills generally start with a G note from the left guitar and then move to an A to B bend from the right guitar. The tambourine and faint hand claps are also there, as you say.

Very nice C&W-inflected song from the Beatles’ most C&W-inflected album. And I think it has the lowest melody note of any Beatles song (a low G).

By: metzgermeister77

metzgermeister77 — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:24:57 +0000

I would love to have heard Cash cover this one.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:58:04 +0000

Johnny Cash once mentioned that he thought “I’m A Loser” sounded like a Johnny Cash song.

By: D.B.

D.B. — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:46:10 +0000

There obviously were overdubs on this track. Though Lennon’s vocal is entirely single-tracked (which may be what the statement is based on), there are two guitar tracks (most audible during the solo, but also during the verses), handclaps low in the mix during the guitar solo, and a tambourine, which Ringo could not have been playing while drumming.

By: Tom Hartman

Tom Hartman — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:50:18 +0000

First use of ACOUSTIC 12 string by them…