The Beatles "Ticket To Ride"

[SisterRay]

Is the Beatles "Ticket To Ride" really the start of the Beatles psychedelic period or transition into their new sound?

The Beatles could have gone psychedelic as early as "Ticket To Ride”. Not so much the riff, but the prominent 'lop-sided' drums and the unusually (in 1965) long bars of droning really do sound like an anemic cousin of Tomorrow Never Knows in retrospect

[hiimSMAP]

I like to think The Beatles had 4 eras:
1. Please Please Me-Beatles For Sale
2. Help!-Revolver
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-Yellow Submarine
4. Abbey Road-Let It Be


I'd actually agree Ticket to Ride started their semi-psychedelic era.

[Rockbandfan23467]

I like to think The Beatles had 4 eras:
1. Please Please Me-Beatles For Sale
2. Help!-Revolver
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-Yellow Submarine
4. Abbey Road-Let It Be


I'd actually agree Ticket to Ride started their semi-psychedelic era.

Add The White Album to the fourth era and I'll agree.

[HotMangoChutney]

I'd say it's more like this:

1. The Novice Era: "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You" through "From Me to You"/"Thank You Girl"
2. The Beatlemania Era: "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You" through Beatles for Sale
2.5. The Transitional Period: "Ticket to Ride"/"Yes It Is" through Rubber Soul
3. The Psychedelic/Experimental Era: "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" through Magical Mystery Tour (plus "Only a Northern Song," "All Together Now," and "It's All Too Much," which weren't released until after this era had ended)
4. The Post-Psychedelic Era: "Lady Madonna"/"The Inner Light" though to their break-up

[bridog7]

I would go with this.
63-64 PPM,WTB,AHDN,BFS/I want to hold your hand, She Loves You (Beatlemania)
1965 Help and Rubber Soul/Day Tripper, We Can't Work It Out (Transition, still Beatlemania)
66-67 Revolver, SPLHCB, MMT/Strawberry Fields Forever, Tomorrow Never Knows (Physcadelic era)
68-70 White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let it Be/Come Together, Get Back (Post Physcadelic and break up era)- More rock songs

[RockStarr]

Not only do I think Ticket to Ride was their first psychedelic song, but I think it's one of the most important songs they ever wrote because I feel that, after writing that song, The Beatles understood that they could write music for themselves and their own curiosity and not just the fans. As mentioned before, the unusual drum beat and overall nature of the song made it difficult to perform live and probably not everyone liked it because it was not the straight rock that their fans were used to. It was the beginning of an era in which they would explore all types of music

[Backbeat60-62]

I think it's more like this: Everything up to their first album is Phase 1. The Beatlemania Era starts just before release of their second album - Phase 2. Psychedelic era starts with Rubber Soul and goes up to when Yellow Submarine(the album) was recorded (up to winter 1967) - Phase 3. Then the attempted return to Phase 1 begins with the White Album and ends with their last album - Phase 4.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Rubber Soul is more folk than psychedelic.

[hiimSMAP]

I don't know guys, The White Album was pretty psychedelic. Sure, not in the same style as the others, but comparing it to Abbey Road and Let it Be feels weird.

[bridog7]

I don't know guys, The White Album was pretty psychedelic. Sure, not in the same style as the others, but comparing it to Abbey Road and Let it Be feels weird.

I'd Say White Album was more Rock than physhedelic.