Comments on: Yes It Is

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 21:25:18 +0000

I agree!

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 21:24:29 +0000

My interpretation is that his ex has been unfaithful..red = scarlet woman? And his new love wearing red reminds him of the woman he loved who he can’t forget?

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:54:54 +0000

I thought that same thing after I read someone else up-post say it was about a woman who died.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:42:02 +0000

From about 1970 on, John thought that every song that didn’t “say something” was a throw away.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:52:35 +0000

Personally, I prefer “Because” and “This Boy” because, while the harmonies easily match or surpass this one, they are better songs.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:50:10 +0000

That is precisely what they are- guitar swells via a volume pedal.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:47:07 +0000

No, it’s not anywhere on the same level as Yesterday. It’s pleasant, great harmonies, but lyrically weak.

By: Craig M.

Craig M. — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:09:05 +0000

George said in a later interview that he didn’t use a volume pedal because he couldn’t coordinate it. The volume swells were made by George playing his guitar and John kneeling in front of him and turning the volume control up and down. I believe George’s interview was with Guitar Player magazine around 1986

By: 2much4mymirror

2much4mymirror — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:13:14 +0000

Interesting how many people here raise the possibility that the girl in the song might have died. I’ve always heard this as one of John’s most psychologically subtle “bruised ego” break-up songs. “If I could forget her/but that’s my PRIDE…” “Scarlet were the clothes she wore/everybody knows, I’m sure” also suggests the girl has wounded his pride and it’s become fodder for gossip. Also, “scarlet letter” associations?

By: joe pikky

joe pikky — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 20:35:14 +0000

i read somewhere the last time John saw his mother she was wearing a red dress.
and that this song was about her.

as for mikey59 comment above about john’s voice not sounding as good in later years
he didn’t want to double track it anymore, so they used Adt (auto double tracking)
instead which didn’t do the job at all of lennon double tracking if you ask me.

By: Robert B

Robert B — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 13:20:38 +0000

yes it never ceases to amaze me how John would think of songs like this as “throw-aways”. The harmonies are outstandind. This has always been one of my favorite songs.

By: Andrew Ibrahim

Andrew Ibrahim — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 22:40:52 +0000

What happend to her?

By: Mikey59

Mikey59 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:27:14 +0000

Great recording and song.
Just a bit out tune on the vocals on the first verse, then near perfect after that; but the mistakes and intonation errors have always been part of the charm, for me. You know the music was done by real people–one of the things missing today in our time-corrected, auto tuned music. But I think a lot of young bands are realizing now that perfection doesn’t always make a great record. One could moreso forgive the tuning on these harmonies as these are quite a bit more difficult compared to This Boy.
The guitar swells are great, as is the reverb itself, from Abbey Rd’s great echo/reverb chamber–not an electronic effect! A large part of the sound of these records is from the gear(all tube) & the great rooms at Abbey Rd. I think Abbey Rd particularly enhanced John’s voice the most; his voice never sounded as good to me, on post-Beatles recordings, and I think for this reason. It was the combination of the gear & the room.
I always assumed this song was recorded in ’63 or 4, probably due to the similarity to TB. Interesting that they did this at the same time as Ticket to Ride, which is such a break from their earlier sound and was ahead of it’s time.

By: davidckendall

davidckendall — Sat, 07 May 2016 11:02:35 +0000

Ditto everything you said… ’roundhouse kick to the heart’… I’m nicking this description to repost the song.. very appropriate.

By: davidckendall

davidckendall — Sat, 07 May 2016 10:57:06 +0000

D’oah!… I’d never thought about a death….only a break-up…. silly me… although ‘but that’s my pride’ seems to suggest a failed relationship to me.

By: Johan cavalli

Johan cavalli — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:26:34 +0000

To Lennon-Harrison
Yes, absolutely. You stroke the nail on the head!

By: Sergioq

Sergioq — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:37:19 +0000

So wait…from a layman’ sears…there’s no organ here? Those sounds are guitar pedal variations? Seriously?

By: John W

John W — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:08:05 +0000

I like that its not played that often. It makes the hearing that much more special. As far as John’s opinion of it I get the feeling that John was a moving forward as opposed to a reflective artist, more of less. I put it in my top ten Beatles songs.

By: 2much4mymirror

2much4mymirror — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:05:17 +0000

While trying to get over a breakup I made a mixtape of songs that captured the loss I was feeling. It included The Beach Boys’ “Caroline No,” Tracy Nelson’s “I Can’t Go On Loving You,” Ray Charles’ “Lonely Avenue” and Elmore James” “Cry for me Baby.” But this song surpassed them all in wringing the heart and bringing out the
cathartic tears.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 23:15:49 +0000

This has always been one of my favourites,why do we never hear it played on the radio.