Dear Prudence (track) by The Beatles

Notas orientalizantes para una balada lisérgica y cautivadora. Una de las piezas más logradas de la colección.

From AAL2014 03/12/2023 18:42

One of my favorite songs on any Beatles record and what a brilliant track 2!!

In merely a few minutes, the band begins with a whisper and builds to an epic and riotous conclusion. The guitar tones are glassy and so delicately arranged and performed. The drums provide a uniquely formidable feel to drive the track’s different emotions.

This is easily one of my favorite John Lennon works.

I think this is probably the most underrated Beatles song. This is the most solid and well put together tracks on the white album. I can see through this song that this is the direction the white album was going in before it turned to chaos.

The Beatles weren't the only famous people who went to India to meditate with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Others who were there around the same time were musicians Donovan and Mike Love and actress Mia Farrow and her younger sisters, Prudence. This girl, only twenty years old at the time, was assigned two "buddies" on the meditation sessions, John and George. Over the course of time, Prudence became obsessed with meditating and refused to leave her bungalow. As her buddies, John and George decided to do what they could to get Prudence out of her seclusion, and John wrote one of his most beautiful songs ever as a result.

Killer bass in this song!

One of my favorite Beatles songs!

A beautiful song. Dear Prudence was written during the Beatles stay in India during the early part of 1968. Apparently it's written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence who was not having the best of times during the stay at Rishikesh. John Lennon was now writing some of his songs in a new finger picking style that he had learnt from Donovan, and Dear Prudence is one of his most beautiful creations using this newly found skill, especially on the lovely intro. Dear Prudence is another excellent contribution to the White album from Lennon.

It's hard to say favorite song but this is on a list in a drawer somewhere. I just love absolutely everything about it. The chord progression is nice, especially during the verse to chorus transitions and back. It works very well with John's picking style. Paul out does himself on the bass, his runs are spectacular throughout. Just a wicked nasty groove over John's soft ballad.

The structure of this song is simply gorgeous, each section building upon itself until it climaxes. Almost like the tide rolling in, the song crashes and recedes with each verse and chorus. The last verse fills your ears with layered vocals, hand claps, George on guitar and quite a few impressive drum fills by Paul. Finally the song erupts in perfect harmony before breaking down to a single acoustic guitar, ending the way it began, with a fade.

From GandalfORiley345 05/17/2014 13:37

Good song, even when it´s some slow it takes the lyrics to be a great song

From Jasonconfused 01/27/2013 04:37

A beautiful song with great guitar work.