The Beatles Invented The Modern Techno Song

[ValiantPaul]

Guess you've never heard Paul's "Temporary Secretary"...

[mjlambert1]

Tomorrow Never Knows sounds very techno.

Way ahead of its time.

My thoughts exactly!

[Gigli78]

You say it as if it's a good thing

It is good. I wasn't a fan of Dance music until I was old enough to get into a club where I could see fine ladies dancing to it Now, I'm kindof partial to it (especially when there are fine ladies in the vacinity dancing to it).

[Pectoralz]

Actually, It's All Too Much is more like Jimi Hendrix than it is Techno.

[SisterRay]

It's All Too Much is THE first ever techno song - dispute that!

Wrong song it's 'Tomorrow Never Knows" who some people think is the first ever techno song but I wouldn't go that far but to say it was a influence on many musicians mixing electronic music with rock. Like the electric guitar existed before Chuck Berry there were things like loops or electronic music before the Beatles but the Beatles combined loops with a style for example the drum and bass lines on "Tomorrow Never Knows that were unlike Joe Meek or avant musicians before them.

There a lot things on with "Tomorrow Never Knows" the track is based on one chord harmonically from Indian music, the form is a straight verse seven times I think, musical backdrop is based on a sound collage of loops, the drums and bass are right up front and repetitive, and there is backward guitar solos and vocals recorded through a leslie speaker. In another words pop music had not heard anything like it.

The Beatles "It's All Too Much" starts with guitar feedback a trick they did before on "I Feel Fine" back in 1964 but the feedback intro here sounds like it's Hendrix influenced but George Harrison denies it. It's basically seven minutes of electric guitar drone, feedback and distorted organ parts with odd sounding brass parts. The concepts except odd sounding brass parts would not be out of place in a Velvet Underground song in which I think they were aware of at the time.