This version leaves a lot to be desired. Most of the background sounds were drowned out and cut short. This is in their top 2 for me by the Beatles with "A Day in the Life". We can't always agree and that is ok.
@@wpollock1 Yeah I noticed that too, it just sounded off and drifted out of synch towards the end. This era had hard panning left and right for the mix, and some elements were completely missing or very faint, like when it was uploaded half the mix had some latency.
I Am The Walrus is a all time worldwide classic masterpiece, musical and lyrically. John showing and writing his sense of humor and smile to those who analyze his lyrics. Love this song. Thanks.
@Zoey The Savannah I was twelve years old when this song came out, a little young to search for hidden meanings. But man, the images that song conjured up in a young adolescent boy's mind was fantastic.
The Eggman is supposed to be the nickname of the exceptional singer Eric Burdon of The Animals who is said to have had a penchant for eating eggs from the bodies of naked groupies. The Animals are further referenced in the song with "I'm crying"which itself was a song of theirs written by Burdon and the hugely talented Alan Price who played keyboards in The Animals
This is true psychedelic rock. And the lyrics are deliberately created to confuse those who have never been experienced, Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have.
This song was inspired by the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll from Alice Through The Looking Glass. John said that he later found out after that the Carpenter was the good guy and the Walrus was the bad guy. Perhaps the title should have been called "I Am The Carpemter"
Not familiar with this version of the song. Listen to the album version. Just an added note, you say that you don't get it. That's the point, there is nothing to "get". It's just a interesting composition.
People are still confused by this song. Some say John wrote it to screw with a former teacher whom he heard was savagely critiquing his Beatles lyrics in class. It's a bizarre song but it grows on you.
I am the Walrus is not a one listen song, it's a song that grows on you after a number of listens and for that reason was put on the B side of Hello Goodbye which was the super commercial A side. The unorthodox melodies and chords make it unforgettable once it's inside your head. The song was written in August 1967, at the peak of the Summer of Love and shortly after the release of Sgt Pepper. Lennon later claimed to have written the opening lines under the influence of LSD.
John took disparate thoughts, ideas, and words that struck him and lumped them into this song haphazardly to confound the listener - in response to hearing that teachers were asking students to analyze Beatles’ lyrics (mine included). The basis is Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter (from Alice Through the Looking Glass), a favorite author of John’s and inspiration for many lyrics in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The two characters in the story are always crying as they lure young oysters to their doom as their dinner; I can hear them chugging along the beach in the music. John also took “eggman” from a carton of eggs, the yellow matter line from a childhood rhyme, the name Pilchard from the police figure who was after high profile celebrities for drug use, etc. I urge watching the whole of the Magical Mystery Tour movie for the history (as precursor to Monty Python) and for the visuals and other amazing music. Their colorful outfits and large to minute movements (especially John’s and Paul’s) in this piece are amazing! 😊
This is a song of a song of its a time, back then we just knew where they were coming from and loved it, they were just blasting out random lines for the critics to pull apart or try to analyse as with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, fab from the fab four.
It was funny how I happened to be looking up Eric Burdon’s Wikipedia profile shortly after hearing this and found out he was “ The Eggman” ! I can’t say much more about how John nicknamed him that since it involved a kinky use of an egg so you would have to check it yourself to read the weird story behind it.
I don't know if the sound was off so it wouldn't get blocked, but the sound was horrible. It is a weird song today, so you can imagine what it sounded like back in the 60's. It was just John having fun with words. No deep meaning, just a great song. I have loved it since I first heard it as a kid in the late 60's.
its john just stringing together words and rhymes because fans were always trying to read into the lyrics, so he just put all this crayz stuff together.....it was 1967......
John found out schools were analyzing lyrics to find meaning. He wrote this purposefully to say "Try and figure this one out". John was all about imagery. Painting word pictures. There was rarely a message or hidden meaning. If there was it was usually about hookers, transvestites, or drugs, to get around censors. Paul was the song crafter, and John was the song painter.
Just a note to the host,who wasn't aware that their songs were constanting being analized.John Lennon was tired of everything they wrote was under a microscope.so, John wrote a killer song where the lyrics meant absolutely nothing. That was John's way of saying analize this.sometimes nothing can so much.Get it?
This Is NOT the actual song from Magical Mystery Tour, it's an alternate take that is vastly inferior to the finished product, the video seemed to have behind the scenes shots that aren't in the actual video. I would say try seeking out the official video, even if on your own time.
This song was done for a tv special that was only seen in england,the album was appart of the show magical mistory tour,, from what I know they were contractually obligated to do this but were not crazy about it.
You are discovering why The Beatles were so popular and why they are still popular......and why they influence sooooo many other artists. I absolutely love this song.........and Helter Skelter. They are truly the gods of Rock n' Roll along with Yes of course.
Deep Beatles fan here! Hate to lay this on you Chod, but this is not the original version from the album 'Magical Mystery Tour'. This is a lesser version done for the movie of the same name made the same year as the album release. Now, do the much better original studio album version that 99.9% of us know very well, just to compare! You'll hear the difference right away. Been a Beatles fan since '64 at age 9 and know their great music well and I have to say this is only the second, maybe third time I've listened to this particular version.... including now! LOL! The original album version however, I've listened to an uncountable number of times! Best to stay away from music videos like this that are not original studio releases of songs or albums, unless they're using the very same original released song with it. As for the meaning, John sometimes wrote lyrics because the words and sentences sound great to the music, not for any real meaning. There is no real meaning here, just interpretation. Think of this song like viewing a Dali surreal painting at an art gallery. Or an abstract form of art, rather than a familiar landscape or a Rembrandt portrait. Progressive rock is sometimes surreal or abstract which the case for 'I Am the Walrus'. I would really like to see your reaction to their awesome studio version you'll find on the album Magical Mystery Tour. But it may still confuse you! LOL! Don't feel bad, man. When we first heard this back in late '67 we were wondering "What the f*** is this?" LOL! We loved it though, and we were trying to find all these hidden meanings and only years later realize there's no real meaning, just enjoy the song and interesting music and weirdness for what it is. Like a Salvador Dali! ✌️😎
You got it! That was the idea behind it... to confuse. Multitudes worldwide looked to the Beatles and their lyrics to find deep hidden meanings to life's state of affairs. War, peace, love, hate, etc. many felt the Beatles had the answers. Of course they didn't see themselves in that guru status. John Lennon said of this song: "Let the fuckers work that one out". As it turned out for hardcore Beatle freaks they found a treasure trove of even more clues in the jumble of words and phrases
This sounded like the demo cut. The point of this song was John Lennon getting sick and tired of people trying to interpret their songs badly, so in retaliation he wrote this one and basically said, "let them interpret This mess!". It was an abstract art test musically and lyrically as a joke just to get a reaction.... just like this one. Looks like it obviously still works.
John Lennon was a great fan of Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear particularly Lewis Carroll's Jaberwoky. According to the book One Two Three Four John was sent a letter by a 15 year old pupil from his old school Quarrybank, who said their English teacher would play Beatles songs in class, and get the boys to analyse the lyrics before contributing his own interpretation. Trying to think of the daftest rhymes John remembered a song him and his friends used to sing at Quarrybank "Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dogs eye, slap it on a butty ten foot thick, wash it all down with a cup of cold sick" . He then added things he remembered from childhood like semolina pudding, delighting in the teacher trying to analyse the nonsense lyrics he was writing. In Revolution in the Head the late Ian Macdonald thought "it gradually became an anti institutional rant blasting education, art, culture, law, order, class, religion and even sense itself. The hurt teenager's revenge on the expert textpert schoolmasters broadens into a surreal onslaught on straight society in general an anti litany of smiling pigs in a sty, city policemen in a row, corporation Van's, and the guardians of conventional morality beating up a fellow psychedelic rebel (the opium addicted surrealist Edgar Allen Poe)". The studio version is better, including samples from a production of King Lear recorded from a BBC Third Programme production on the radio, which adds to the atmosphere. It is widely thought this song inspired Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne to later form The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) to perform their own songs in this style. Don't worry about any annoyance you may cause Mr Wilburn, you are there to give your honest opinion, but I would encourage you to listen to the original studio version, in your own time.
They had discovered lsd w/ the Stones' at a party. The for front of the drug revolution. It's on Sgt. Peppers & is a continuation of "Strawberry Fields". Listen & have fun, especially while high.
John showed a friend a letter from a school saying they were studying the lyrics to his songs in their English class... John laughed saying; Let them try and sort this one out..... IMO it's in the tradition of nonsense poems, The Walrus and the Carpenter... Lewis Carol and other such English writers .....
Great song but I definitely like the original from Magical Mystery Tour much better. Its unfortunate The Beatles have so many different versions of their songs out there and often the original album versions don't come up first.
"She's Leaving Home" is a song about a teenage runaway called Melanie Coe who was an only child. Paul McCartney read the story in a newspaper. A classic Beatles song with great lyrics.
I grew up on the Beatles..It has always been my belief that they have to be experienced chronologically..From their beginnings, right to their end, as a group to truly appreciated them...I realize it probably wouldn't be practical here, and that's a shame, because their progression as a group was something they took us all on a ride with through the 60's..Jumping from song to song from different albums is cool, but not the best way, unfortunately..I think someone my age group could attest to what I'm saying.
30 years before Beck wrote "Loser," John Lennon was playing the 'gibberish lyrics' game. :) This is a different version tho, Chod. You should find the original--the mix (for the instruments in particular) is much better and thicker. This sounds almost like a cover or an Anthology outtake to me.
They had to be tripping on LSD to write something so "out there." The Album "Magical Mystery Tour" is a great album, but man, they had to be pretty High to compose this stuff. I'll bet they had a good time making this album. I think this came out in 1966 or 67. Then came the "Sgt. Pepper album."
John Lennon, being John Lennon, wrote this nonsensical song as a joke, just to see how the critics would interpret it. In those days, every song they put out there, single or in albums, were always heavily analyzed and critiqued, all the way from famous musical journalists to your neighborhood mechanic. But, somehow, for some strange reason, I loved this song, from the first time our local DJ broke out the album and played it on the air. Made me want rush out and by when I finally saved enough money to buy it. But, you definately have to listen to the studio version...you missed out on too much of their original sound. 🙌👌
Listen to the whole album ,Magical Mystery Tour. With the context of the whole album you will have a different take on the song. It is one that grows on you quickly. Don't try to make sense of every line, in stead let them paint visual images and your imagination fills in the blanks.
Colleges were studying Beatles songs in college courses for mean. John Lennon pitched this one as a reaction. He said in this song. OK, find meaning in this. Loved it even as the six-year-old who heard it on the radio.
When he says coo coo cha chu, he’s wanting you to remember the first time when he said you could be too. This is a 007 song. He’s sending the message that everyone needs to rise up and be themselves. Hard for someone your age given the language. Consider it any song you know at your age that has an underlying message meant to confuse the powers that be
Whoa. This is some different mix than the one from the album. For a bit there, John's voice is totally off the beat. Certainly not the version I've heard.
John's intent was to mess with people who over anylized their lyrics. 40+ years after his death he's still messing with people's heads. Hohoho, Hehehe, Hahaha!
This version leaves a lot to be desired. Most of the background sounds were drowned out and cut short. This is in their top 2 for me by the Beatles with "A Day in the Life". We can't always agree and that is ok.
Plus they left out the ending!
It sounds like a earlier version of the song....it got out of synch toward the end, also.
@@wpollock1 Yeah I noticed that too, it just sounded off and drifted out of synch towards the end. This era had hard panning left and right for the mix, and some elements were completely missing or very faint, like when it was uploaded half the mix had some latency.
This is the version done for the TV movie "Magical Mystery Tour" and not awesome version off the album of the same name.
@@GrouchyMarx Magical Mystery used the fully produced version. This is a boot version.
This isn't the original version and does not do it justice :(
the album version is so much more clear than this version. React to album versions when you do the beatles, they sound amazing
I Am The Walrus is a all time worldwide classic masterpiece, musical and lyrically. John showing and writing his sense of humor and smile to those who analyze his lyrics. Love this song. Thanks.
Oops! Wrong title. It's "I Am "The" Walrus," not "A" Walrus. Anyway, great song and I love your reactions.
John's answer to people who analyze every Beatles song for hidden, deep meanings.
@Zoey The Savannah I was twelve years old when this song came out, a little young to search for hidden meanings. But man, the images that song conjured up in a young adolescent boy's mind was fantastic.
In his own words, ‘Let the fuckers work that one out’.
Abstract art doesn’t have a meaning except simply existing and that’s this song. Not for everyone.
Don't spoil it! Let them try to analyse!
@@DaveMcIroy 😊
Beatles knew how to turn the weirdest lyrics into a beautiful song. Goo goo g'joob
This video was someone’s montage they created with Beatles imagery and portions of the song. It is NOT the actual song.
Was this an alternate take? this is not the real version.
This version sounded like it was missing a track and it cut off the ending. There were a lot of interesting bits left out.
Yes. Lyrics out of synch with the music.
Yes, an odd, inferior remix or something.
This from the movie 'Magical Mystery Tour', and not the original version from the album of the same name.
Sounds like an alternate take from the one that was finally released. Worth seeking out and listening to the official track.
@@pattyg8464 Still sort of interesting. A little heavier on the synth.
The Eggman is supposed to be the nickname of the exceptional singer Eric Burdon of The Animals who is said to have had a penchant for eating eggs from the bodies of naked groupies. The Animals are further referenced in the song with "I'm crying"which itself was a song of theirs written by Burdon and the hugely talented Alan Price who played keyboards in The Animals
"Sitting on a corn flake, waiting for the van to come." You can't beat Lennon's lyrics.
This is true psychedelic rock. And the lyrics are deliberately created to confuse those who have never been experienced, Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have.
Also check out Devo's cover!
Don't worry.... This was deep in a very high moment ...we didn't get it either.
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This is a great track and you probably should have listened to the og version.
Worth listening to the full instrumentation and
vocal version. This wasn't the released issue on Magical Mystery Tour
This song was inspired by the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll from Alice Through The Looking Glass. John said that he later found out after that the Carpenter was the good guy and the Walrus was the bad guy. Perhaps the title should have been called "I Am The Carpemter"
🎯👍👍
This definitely sounds like a cover with John's vocal track layered over it. There's no way you could have known that though.
You are absolutely, positively, 100% correct. There are a few of these about - such a shame that people get duped.
However, he did leave in some things for understanding. He talks of a Pilcher in the song. (norman pilcher)
"I am "the" Walrus, I am the egg man, Coo-coo-ka-choo!
this song and Strawberry Fields are special to me (I love strange music, back then this was strange.)
It's still strange! In a Good way though.
Not familiar with this version of the song. Listen to the album version.
Just an added note, you say that you don't get it. That's the point, there is nothing to "get".
It's just a interesting composition.
John shoulda titled this: "Analyse This!" He had a lot of us scratchin' our nOOdles ... until it dawned on us.
This is definitely NOT the most accessible Beatles song, but there is genius contained within it.
I think if you found a different video to watch you might like it better. The sound on that video was missing one channel. It sure didn't sound right.
Masterpiece, just an awesome song about everything, everywhere, all at once.
This version is like listening to it with only one speaker. The video is different too.
People are still confused by this song. Some say John wrote it to screw with a former teacher whom he heard was savagely critiquing his Beatles lyrics in class. It's a bizarre song but it grows on you.
I don’t believe he was “savagely” critiquing their lyrics, just over analyzing them to the point of being ridiculous.
"The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus" may be the first cousin to "Come Together" for sheer weirdness and obscure lyrics.
When I heard to this song for the first I totally loved it, this is my favorite beatles song
It was in the 60's the B-side from the single of the great hit "Hello Goodbye".
I am the Walrus is not a one listen song, it's a song that grows on you after a number of listens and for that reason was put on the B side of Hello Goodbye which was the super commercial A side. The unorthodox melodies and chords make it unforgettable once it's inside your head.
The song was written in August 1967, at the peak of the Summer of Love and shortly after the release of Sgt Pepper. Lennon later claimed to have written the opening lines under the influence of LSD.
John took disparate thoughts, ideas, and words that struck him and lumped them into this song haphazardly to confound the listener - in response to hearing that teachers were asking students to analyze Beatles’ lyrics (mine included). The basis is Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter (from Alice Through the Looking Glass), a favorite author of John’s and inspiration for many lyrics in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The two characters in the story are always crying as they lure young oysters to their doom as their dinner; I can hear them chugging along the beach in the music. John also took “eggman” from a carton of eggs, the yellow matter line from a childhood rhyme, the name Pilchard from the police figure who was after high profile celebrities for drug use, etc. I urge watching the whole of the Magical Mystery Tour movie for the history (as precursor to Monty Python) and for the visuals and other amazing music. Their colorful outfits and large to minute movements (especially John’s and Paul’s) in this piece are amazing! 😊
This is not the final mix thought.
I think you would love "while my guitar gently weeps" from " the white album"
Listen to their song "Glass Onion" . IT tells you who the "walrus" was.
Yes, lots of us know it was Paul
I love it because it is different and it was written to be that way .
By far one of my favorite Beatle songs.
This is a song of a song of its a time, back then we just knew where they were coming from and loved it, they were just blasting out random lines for the critics to pull apart or try to analyse as with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, fab from the fab four.
It was funny how I happened to be looking up Eric Burdon’s Wikipedia profile shortly after hearing this and found out he was “ The Eggman” ! I can’t say much more about how John nicknamed him that since it involved a kinky use of an egg so you would have to check it yourself to read the weird story behind it.
I heard he liked to crack an egg over his sexual partners during the act.
This version is not complete. It s one of the most complex song. Masterpiece
I don't know if the sound was off so it wouldn't get blocked, but the sound was horrible. It is a weird song today, so you can imagine what it sounded like back in the 60's. It was just John having fun with words. No deep meaning, just a great song. I have loved it since I first heard it as a kid in the late 60's.
The album version is one you can Bob your head to a bit more. There's not a Lotta meaning to unpack from this one, that's the way John wrote it
its john just stringing together words and rhymes because fans were always trying to read into the lyrics, so he just put all this crayz stuff together.....it was 1967......
The song was about John poking fun at critics and fans on how they try to dissect the meaning of their songs. All tongue in Cheek!
John found out schools were analyzing lyrics to find meaning. He wrote this purposefully to say "Try and figure this one out". John was all about imagery. Painting word pictures. There was rarely a message or hidden meaning. If there was it was usually about hookers, transvestites, or drugs, to get around censors. Paul was the song crafter, and John was the song painter.
The Beatles - i want you (she's so heavy)
Back in the day, in England they had “the egg man” like we here in the US had “the milk man”.
Just a note to the host,who wasn't aware that their songs were constanting being analized.John Lennon was tired of everything they wrote was under a microscope.so, John wrote a killer song where the lyrics meant absolutely nothing. That was John's way of saying analize this.sometimes nothing can so much.Get it?
This Is NOT the actual song from Magical Mystery Tour, it's an alternate take that is vastly inferior to the finished product, the video seemed to have behind the scenes shots that aren't in the actual video. I would say try seeking out the official video, even if on your own time.
Indeed - it is an out-and-out fake.
This song was done for a tv special that was only seen in england,the album was appart of the show magical mistory tour,, from what I know they were contractually obligated to do this but were not crazy about it.
You are discovering why The Beatles were so popular and why they are still popular......and why they influence sooooo many other artists. I absolutely love this song.........and Helter Skelter. They are truly the gods of Rock n' Roll along with Yes of course.
"I was the walrus, but now I'm just John " ✌️♥️
But according to Glass Onion, the walrus was Paul. 😀
@@p.millard557 in John's song "God" he clearly states that he was the walrus 🤔
Deep Beatles fan here! Hate to lay this on you Chod, but this is not the original version from the album 'Magical Mystery Tour'. This is a lesser version done for the movie of the same name made the same year as the album release. Now, do the much better original studio album version that 99.9% of us know very well, just to compare! You'll hear the difference right away. Been a Beatles fan since '64 at age 9 and know their great music well and I have to say this is only the second, maybe third time I've listened to this particular version.... including now! LOL! The original album version however, I've listened to an uncountable number of times! Best to stay away from music videos like this that are not original studio releases of songs or albums, unless they're using the very same original released song with it. As for the meaning, John sometimes wrote lyrics because the words and sentences sound great to the music, not for any real meaning. There is no real meaning here, just interpretation. Think of this song like viewing a Dali surreal painting at an art gallery. Or an abstract form of art, rather than a familiar landscape or a Rembrandt portrait. Progressive rock is sometimes surreal or abstract which the case for 'I Am the Walrus'. I would really like to see your reaction to their awesome studio version you'll find on the album Magical Mystery Tour. But it may still confuse you! LOL! Don't feel bad, man. When we first heard this back in late '67 we were wondering "What the f*** is this?" LOL! We loved it though, and we were trying to find all these hidden meanings and only years later realize there's no real meaning, just enjoy the song and interesting music and weirdness for what it is. Like a Salvador Dali! ✌️😎
Listen to what they were doing in the studio (for 1967!) Lyrics aren't everything in a song , weird doesn't just mean bad it means different
The song title is "I Am the Walrus."
The Beatles - Yer Blues
You got it! That was the idea behind it... to confuse. Multitudes worldwide looked to the Beatles and their lyrics to find deep hidden meanings to life's state of affairs. War, peace, love, hate, etc. many felt the Beatles had the answers. Of course they didn't see themselves in that guru status. John Lennon said of this song: "Let the fuckers work that one out". As it turned out for hardcore Beatle freaks they found a treasure trove of even more clues in the jumble of words and phrases
The walrus is a character from Alice in Wonderland. It is an homage to Alice.
Those outfits! lol.
Me too about the rap I don't know
It's sound the same never changes ...
This sounded like the demo cut.
The point of this song was John Lennon getting sick and tired of people trying to interpret their songs badly, so in retaliation he wrote this one and basically said, "let them interpret This mess!".
It was an abstract art test musically and lyrically as a joke just to get a reaction.... just like this one.
Looks like it obviously still works.
John Lennon was a great fan of Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear particularly Lewis Carroll's Jaberwoky. According to the book One Two Three Four John was sent a letter by a 15 year old pupil from his old school Quarrybank, who said their English teacher would play Beatles songs in class, and get the boys to analyse the lyrics before contributing his own interpretation. Trying to think of the daftest rhymes John remembered a song him and his friends used to sing at Quarrybank "Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dogs eye, slap it on a butty ten foot thick, wash it all down with a cup of cold sick" . He then added things he remembered from childhood like semolina pudding, delighting in the teacher trying to analyse the nonsense lyrics he was writing.
In Revolution in the Head the late Ian Macdonald thought "it gradually became an anti institutional rant blasting education, art, culture, law, order, class, religion and even sense itself. The hurt teenager's revenge on the expert textpert schoolmasters broadens into a surreal onslaught on straight society in general an anti litany of smiling pigs in a sty, city policemen in a row, corporation Van's, and the guardians of conventional morality beating up a fellow psychedelic rebel (the opium addicted surrealist Edgar Allen Poe)".
The studio version is better, including samples from a production of King Lear recorded from a BBC Third Programme production on the radio, which adds to the atmosphere.
It is widely thought this song inspired Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne to later form The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) to perform their own songs in this style.
Don't worry about any annoyance you may cause Mr Wilburn, you are there to give your honest opinion, but I would encourage you to listen to the original studio version, in your own time.
They had discovered lsd w/ the Stones' at a party. The for front of the drug revolution. It's on Sgt. Peppers & is a continuation of "Strawberry Fields". Listen & have fun, especially while high.
John showed a friend a letter from a school saying they were studying the lyrics to his songs in their English class... John laughed saying; Let them try and sort this one out..... IMO it's in the tradition of nonsense poems, The Walrus and the Carpenter... Lewis Carol and other such English writers .....
Plus British schoolyard rhymes.
I've been a Beatles since 8 yrs old. But, this is just Lennon's giberish....Please don't get mad at me Beatles fans. I love them.
i believe this is an outtake version of the song
Great song but I definitely like the original from Magical Mystery Tour much better. Its unfortunate The Beatles have so many different versions of their songs out there and often the original album versions don't come up first.
Probably the trippiest song every written and recorded. Full on "acid" rock.
John said it was his greatest work
It was meant to mess with the people who try to make sense of the lyrics and the story .John was on LSD when he wrote this.
"She's Leaving Home" is a song about a teenage runaway called Melanie Coe who was an only child. Paul McCartney read the story in a newspaper. A classic Beatles song with great lyrics.
I never really understood the lyrics but I don't have to understand the message to enjoy the song. Its a fun, trippy video - just sit back and enjoy
I grew up on the Beatles..It has always been my belief that they have to be experienced chronologically..From their beginnings, right to their end, as a group to truly appreciated them...I realize it probably wouldn't be practical here, and that's a shame, because their progression as a group was something they took us all on a ride with through the 60's..Jumping from song to song from different albums is cool, but not the best way, unfortunately..I think someone my age group could attest to what I'm saying.
John was tired of people trying to break down their songs. So he wrote this to let people try to figure out nothing.
the interpretation that Styx does with CYO...you'll get it and enjoy
Add a little weed and this song made perfect sense 🤣😂🤣
I am the Walrus
This is not the original recording. Sounds very off.
Also it was banded 2 play on radio
Imho, this is their greatest single artistic achievement. 🤷🏻♂️
This song is one of the rock band oasis favourite songs and oasis have covered this song
30 years before Beck wrote "Loser," John Lennon was playing the 'gibberish lyrics' game. :)
This is a different version tho, Chod. You should find the original--the mix (for the instruments in particular) is much better and thicker. This sounds almost like a cover or an Anthology outtake to me.
Yeah--even the lyrics get out of sync towards the end--you might wanna re-do this song; the original is a stunner in a class all its own!
John Lennon’s abstract poetry.
They had to be tripping on LSD to write something so "out there." The Album "Magical Mystery Tour" is a great album, but man, they had to be pretty High to compose this stuff. I'll bet they had a good time making this album. I think this came out in 1966 or 67. Then came the "Sgt. Pepper album."
John Lennon, being John Lennon, wrote this nonsensical song as a joke, just to see how the critics would interpret it. In those days, every song they put out there, single or in albums, were always heavily analyzed and critiqued, all the way from famous musical journalists to your neighborhood mechanic. But, somehow, for some strange reason, I loved this song, from the first time our local DJ broke out the album and played it on the air. Made me want rush out and by when I finally saved enough money to buy it. But, you definately have to listen to the studio version...you missed out on too much of their original sound. 🙌👌
Listen to the whole album ,Magical Mystery Tour. With the context of the whole album you will have a different take on the song. It is one that grows on you quickly. Don't try to make sense of every line, in stead let them paint visual images and your imagination fills in the blanks.
You did a very goo goo g’joob with the editing.
I Am the Walrus
Hmm? Song was cut short.
Just the Beatles trying to blow minds.
You've been " Walrused ".
Una mezcla diferente. No le hace justicia.
There is so much missing on this recording, it sounds like only one channel of the stereo version played in mono.
Listen to the official version.
I happen like the song, but I'm glad to hear an honest reaction!
Great song!! Can't go wrong with The Beatles!!
Colleges were studying Beatles songs in college courses for mean. John Lennon pitched this one as a reaction. He said in this song. OK, find meaning in this. Loved it even as the six-year-old who heard it on the radio.
This is not the finished version...check it from Magical Mystery Tour album.
weird mix of this song... is a channel missing?
Yeah. All of the background chants and stuff are gone and a few of the sounds that go with them.
When he says coo coo cha chu, he’s wanting you to remember the first time when he said you could be too. This is a 007 song. He’s sending the message that everyone needs to rise up and be themselves. Hard for someone your age given the language. Consider it any song you know at your age that has an underlying message meant to confuse the powers that be
Whoa. This is some different mix than the one from the album. For a bit there, John's voice is totally off the beat. Certainly not the version I've heard.
Correct Title is I Am THE Walrus...and this is the correct version.
Noooooo. This is one of the rehearsals of the song and is very different from the original. Or do you mean the songtitel?
The MAIN purpose of this song is to confuse. But hey, people LOVE this song!
John's intent was to mess with people who over anylized their lyrics. 40+ years after his death he's still messing with people's heads. Hohoho, Hehehe, Hahaha!