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    The Beatles I am the Walrus reaction music video.One of their most iconic songs that has been covered by so many rock bands including Oasis.
    It features the classic line,i am the eggman.
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Комментарии • 445

  • @markthomas2577
    @markthomas2577 3 года назад +49

    I think John was having a go at 'intellectuals' analysing Beatles lyrics for deep meaning ..... and chucked this one in as a 'there you go, analyse that'!

    • @wwekane2468
      @wwekane2468 2 года назад +1

      @David Bradley it was also said he also wanted to stump college professors who were dissecting his lyrics in classes

  • @betsyab121
    @betsyab121 3 года назад +17

    This is one of my favorite John Lennon songs! John is actually singing through a Leslie speaker so his voice sounds fuzzy and otherworldly. Even though the lyrics make no sense, the song creates a strange world, just like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. But you gotta admit that John Lennon is the Original Troll! Props to him!

    • @tombeyerlein3813
      @tombeyerlein3813 2 года назад +1

      I believe John sang through a Leslie on Tomorrow Never Knows, not I Am the Walrus.

    • @betsyab121
      @betsyab121 2 года назад +2

      @@tombeyerlein3813 OK. So, it looks like Lennon did distort his voice on the vocals but not with a Leslie Speaker. Instead, he sang through a low fidelity talk-back microphone used by engineers when they 'talk back' to musicians in the recording studio. I knew that Lennon had distorted his voice somehow, just not the exact manner in which he did it.

  • @Fool3SufferingFools
    @Fool3SufferingFools 3 года назад +48

    Two geniuses, one great late-blooming talent, one ace drummer. What a group they were.

    • @alanarakelian5021
      @alanarakelian5021 3 года назад +13

      And all grew up within five miles of one another in Liverpool -- but needed to meet, too. The stars truly were aligned.

    • @dalegallacher7074
      @dalegallacher7074 3 года назад +10

      Imagine the odds of two of the worlds greatest songwriters living 10 mins apart and finding eachother

    • @scottandrewbrass1931
      @scottandrewbrass1931 2 года назад +1

      That's all very well but they certainly didn't start off as songwriting geniuses. They all developed together over the years.

    • @GabrielSoares-lj9rv
      @GabrielSoares-lj9rv Год назад +2

      Someone said: "The Beatles were not a band, they were a miracle!"
      I couldn´t agree more!!!... It was as if God decided we needed a boost of sheer joy in our lives... And gave us an enormous one...

  • @paulhanson5164
    @paulhanson5164 3 года назад +40

    All you need is a friend like Dr Robert and you to can see semolina pilchards climbing up the Eiffel tower !

    • @nthdegree1269
      @nthdegree1269 3 года назад +5

      By chance the next year detective Pilcher arrested John and Yoko for marijuana possession. John always claimed it was planted. Detective Pilcher was making a lot of drug busts during the time of famous celebs, before the song came out as well. Some have theorized that's what John was getting at. Curiously that detective later was put into prison for being corrupt! I don't think the line means that but it sure is a coincidence...

    • @Kairon111161
      @Kairon111161 3 года назад +3

      GOOD ONE!! Hahaha!! Remember, we all thought at the end, that they were saying, “Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smokes pot - smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smokes pot - Everybody smoke pot - everybody smoke pot - everybody smoke pot - everybody smoke pot”. Still sounds like that to me.

    • @jackdshellback3819
      @jackdshellback3819 3 года назад +1

      @@Kairon111161 It does sound a bit like that, but in fact it's " everybody's got one"

    • @jackdshellback3819
      @jackdshellback3819 3 года назад

      Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper!

    • @donaldcarpenter5328
      @donaldcarpenter5328 11 дней назад

      yup, and John WAS Dr. Robert....

  • @despinakollas
    @despinakollas 3 года назад +15

    John Lennon was big on “word play” and he was damn good at it. “Pornographic priestess “ “semolina pilchard”” man was killing it.

  • @debbiechang5781
    @debbiechang5781 3 года назад +40

    I am the 18th. Hahaha! I love how different people react to the lyrics of this song. Just know that John Lennon absolutely loved it when people said, “It doesn’t make any sense!” That’s the whole point. Lennon’s messin’ with ya’!!

  • @dt9344
    @dt9344 3 года назад +34

    Isn't it amazing these guys were doing She Loves You (a great song too!) four years ago and come up with this? That's one of their biggest appeals, they always changed their musical style.

  • @davidwhite8220
    @davidwhite8220 3 года назад +14

    The ultimate psychedelic song. Both the first and the best. That's the Beatles for you.

  • @Stinkdog9
    @Stinkdog9 3 года назад +32

    Harri's videos are must watch as soon as they become available.

  • @LeChaunce
    @LeChaunce 3 года назад +32

    In his autobiography, Pete Shotton, John's childhood friend who remained friends with the Beatles throughout their career, tells the story of John wanting to write a song based around a police siren that had kept him up the night before, and then they came across a letter from a student in their old grammar school who told them about one of their former teachers -- one who had hated John and Pete -- who was making them analyze Beatles lyrics and their meanings. John and Pete basically brainstormed the lyrics of this tune to mess with that teacher. John was partially inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem The Walrus and the Carpenter from Alice Through The Looking Glass and got the title from that.

    • @tomcartwright7134
      @tomcartwright7134 3 года назад +3

      Thank you Applesauce! I never heard this story before.

  • @rbking9296
    @rbking9296 3 года назад +23

    Only the Beatles could write and do a song like this and make it work to perfection , pure genius, just another example of them forever changing music

  • @davidglass4227
    @davidglass4227 3 года назад +61

    A teacher at John's old school would give assignments to analyze Beatles lyrics.
    When John heard of this, this song became a project to really set that teacher off.

  • @YN97WA
    @YN97WA 3 года назад +64

    This is just a brilliant piece of music. John's lyrics were meant to confuse those who tried to analyze every Beatles song. Great reaction, Harri the Eggman👍👍

  • @Jaseph2
    @Jaseph2 3 года назад +43

    All I can say is John sure is singing passionately about this purposely no sense song. A masterpiece.

    • @marascusbomm
      @marascusbomm 3 года назад +3

      Agreed. Love that slight distortion they put on to dirty up his vocals (Along with the obligatory ADT, invented by Ken Townsend at John's request)

    • @bowtangey6830
      @bowtangey6830 Год назад +1

      @@marascusbomm But like the best Dylan lyrics, they SEEM like they mean something.

  • @yohannbiimu
    @yohannbiimu 3 года назад +31

    Ahhhh...you've entered the full-Lennon twilight zone. It's a fascinating place, In't it?

  • @edwardthorne9875
    @edwardthorne9875 3 года назад +32

    My college roomate pointed out that some buried lines 'A servicable villian...", "Oh, untimely death...", "Sit you down father, bless you", are from Shakespeare. Brilliant and timeless.

    • @yohannbiimu
      @yohannbiimu 3 года назад +7

      It's said that they recorded it directly from a radio performance. I wonder if they got grief from the BBC for doing that...?

    • @danduntz9112
      @danduntz9112 3 года назад +9

      It was a performance of King Lear

    • @edwardthorne9875
      @edwardthorne9875 3 года назад +3

      Can you imagine being one of those actors - on one of the most famous songs in the world? Closing line, even. I doubt if they could sue. Thank you for identifying King Lear -- I was wondering.

    • @wpollock1
      @wpollock1 3 года назад

      Of course, they used that as another clue in the "Paul is dead" theory. "Is he dead?" and "Bury my body" were cited.

    • @ollietsb1704
      @ollietsb1704 3 года назад

      I can only hope the Beatles responded "Then please don't play ANY of our records" and let that get into the OTHER press.

  • @dannygriffith6185
    @dannygriffith6185 3 года назад +32

    Your observations are spot on! Lennon was amazed& annoyed that Beatles lyrics were being dissected & analyzed....so he took bits of Thurber, Lewis Carroll & his own whimsy & came up with this.Kudos to George Martin once again for a brilliant string & choral arrangements.

    • @HarriBestReactions
      @HarriBestReactions  3 года назад +4

      Hahahah great stuff!

    • @j.woodbury412
      @j.woodbury412 2 года назад +3

      I wonder if after he finished writing this, John Lennon sat back and thought to himself, "Let's see you try to analyze THIS, sons of b******!"

    • @thatcanadianwhitetrashguy
      @thatcanadianwhitetrashguy Год назад +1

      @@HarriBestReactions Their Fan Club Friend was Reading Fan Letters, and a Student wrote that His Teacher was making the Students Analyze Beatle songs to look for Hidden Messages. So John wrote Walrus, with a Goose Step March to Scare the Military Nuts, Backwards Talking, and Nothing made Sense, BUT Sounded Fishy. Then He ended the Set with, " Now let Them Figure that One Out"

  • @robertsaul234
    @robertsaul234 3 года назад +43

    I know you love ELO, they drew much of their inspiration from this period of The Beatles. Jeff Lynn got to pay them back by producing their '90's reunion songs where Paul, George and Ringo completed John's unfinished songs: Free as a Bird and Real Love.

  • @ThePittsburghToddy
    @ThePittsburghToddy 3 года назад +5

    Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot! That’s what my friends and I thought they’re chanting and the end!!!💭😳

    • @chasleask8533
      @chasleask8533 3 года назад

      Oompah oompah stick it up your jumper.

  • @home2039
    @home2039 3 года назад +6

    Man, you nailed this one! This is EXACTLY what he did with the lyrics!! He even said " Let them try to figure THIS ONE out" LOL!!

  • @GrouchyMarx
    @GrouchyMarx 3 года назад +5

    Harri @ 2:10, the phrase, "...like Lucy in the Sky..." is reference to a very interesting Lennon song off the previous Sgt. Peppers album called "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". A Beatles song you should do next. For another song that does this try "Glass Onion" that also has a couple of throwbacks to earlier songs. In fact, you'll hear a reference to I Am the Walrus! Beatles were probably the first band (and perhaps only) to include in lyrics that references earlier hit songs. Listening to their albums as they came out, we immediately got those references. I just heard you say "abstract" describing this song. That is so spot-on! That's exactly how I describe it, either as abstract or surreal forms of music like the visual art forms. So many people today are used to songs with a story, understandable situations, a lost love, a new love. Well the Beatles, particularly John, created abstract music forms too as you see (hear) here. 😁 It's the early experimentation in the so-called emerging psychedelic rock, that others like Pink Floyd and Yes flourished in. Also keep in mind the social/political unrest going on at the time, and the scores of interpretations coming from the public in that regard. Anyway, another awesome reaction. BTW, I (we) first heard this when it came out in late '67, and we are STILL trying to figure it out! LOL! Doesn't matter if we do or not. The song just grooves, man! ✌️😎

    • @yohannbiimu
      @yohannbiimu 3 года назад +1

      ...Glass Onion and Savoy Truffle come to mind when references to other Beatles' songs.

    • @GrouchyMarx
      @GrouchyMarx 3 года назад

      @@yohannbiimu Thank you for pointing that out, and I fixed the comment. It was Glass Onion I meant. Harri, if your read all this recommend you do "Fool on the Hill" and "Lady Madonna", before doing "Glass Onion", to get the references. I think you've covered the other song references for Glass Onion and Savory Truffle. Enjoy! ✌️😎

    • @erikahlander3489
      @erikahlander3489 3 года назад +1

      You have that kind of references back and forth also in Frank Zappa's texts. It is slightly later (and Zappa was well aware of Beatles' music and text) but I think it is quite independent anyway. It is the way of internal jokes between friends - but made public!

    • @HarriBestReactions
      @HarriBestReactions  3 года назад +1

      Thanx M...You always have great analysis

    • @GrouchyMarx
      @GrouchyMarx 3 года назад

      @@HarriBestReactions Thank you. You always have great reactions, AND in depth analysis too. Keep it up my friend! ✌️😎

  • @buddyneher9359
    @buddyneher9359 3 года назад +15

    Okay Harri, I think you are now ready to listen to "Tomorrow Never Knows." It was the precursor to "I Am the Walrus" and all their psychedelic period. I predict you will love it and stand in awe. You're right, the Beatles used the power that their fame gave them, to push artistic boundaries, do whatever the hell they wanted in the studio, and have it played on the radio. Never content to rest on their laurels!

    • @HarriBestReactions
      @HarriBestReactions  3 года назад +4

      Spot on Buddy!

    • @marascusbomm
      @marascusbomm 3 года назад

      Or in this case case have it banned on the radio by the BBC thanks to the "Let your knickers down" line :)

    • @betsyab121
      @betsyab121 3 года назад +2

      A Day in the Life was also banned because of the line I'd Love to Turn You On...

    • @marascusbomm
      @marascusbomm 3 года назад +2

      @@betsyab121 Right On. Add Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds & you have the trilogy of Beatle songs banned by the Beeb

  • @artiewithers6980
    @artiewithers6980 3 года назад +4

    I don’t think John had any idea what he was talking about either. I believe he stated, let them figure this one out, referring to some school children who were studying Beatle songs in class. He refers to the Walrus in his song “Glass Onion” from the White Album. Great and fun reaction, as usual. Thanks...

    • @sourisvoleur4854
      @sourisvoleur4854 3 года назад +1

      And he refers to Lucy in the Sky in this one! a chain!

  • @jamesswindle5253
    @jamesswindle5253 Год назад +3

    The Beatles could have made music out of a telephone directory and made it a classic. Their brilliance had no boundaries

    • @richardsteiner8992
      @richardsteiner8992 Год назад

      Manfred Mann has a song where they sing the text of a product warranty ,😂

  • @kirpalite
    @kirpalite 3 года назад +12

    "Within You, Without You" is one of the Beatles deepest songs. It's a Harrison song with sitar. Appreciate if you could react to it.

  • @yohannbiimu
    @yohannbiimu 3 года назад +15

    The Walrus is theorized to be the same one in Lewis Carrol's "The Walrus and the Carpenter". John was apparently a big fan of his work.

    • @JStarStar00
      @JStarStar00 3 года назад +2

      Lennon said later after he read the Lewis Carroll poem he realized the walrus was really the villain. He said, "dammit, I wrote the song about the wrong guy, I probably should have gone back and made it, "I Am The Carpenter."

  • @pushpak
    @pushpak 3 года назад +13

    A sound masterpiece.

  • @bowtangey6830
    @bowtangey6830 Год назад +1

    This and Revolution #9 were my favorites in those days. ("Block that kick! Block that kick!") 🎵🎶🎵🤯😳

  • @geraldharkness8830
    @geraldharkness8830 Год назад

    i was11 years in secondary school when this was playing on the radio i am 70 years old! and the song is still marvelous!

  • @barbarjinx3802
    @barbarjinx3802 3 года назад +5

    When you said forget about the lyrics you really hit the nail on the head. That was John’s intention. The most gibberish song with a cool groove.

  • @rubbersole79
    @rubbersole79 2 года назад

    I've been a Beatle fan for over 50 years and a musician for over 40. This is by far my favorite song by anyone. Old men talking, classical strings everywhere, Beatles chanting, Popeye cartoons, gross lyrics, all with that steady 4/4 beat.......whats not to LOVE???

  • @robertsaul234
    @robertsaul234 3 года назад +13

    John said he based the "melody" on a police siren. The lyrics are inspired by Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" John later said he misunderstood the work and he was actually in fact the carpenter. "I Am the Carpenter" just doesn't sound right.

  • @larrydavis8249
    @larrydavis8249 3 года назад +7

    FYI - a lot of radio stations refused to play this one. Mostly due to the line ‘you let your knickers down’; plus ‘yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog’s eye’. There water only a few renegade stations

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 3 года назад

      I only know that the BBC refused to play it. Do you know if that happened too in the U.S.?

    • @larrydavis8249
      @larrydavis8249 3 года назад

      @@Jonni1027 I’m not sure in the US (but, likely - especially in the southern states); I’m referring to Canada when I was a teenager!

    • @HarriBestReactions
      @HarriBestReactions  3 года назад +1

      That was my favourite line alonh with i am the eggman 😀😀

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 3 года назад

      @@larrydavis8249 Oh! Canada! And that makes sense if the BBC banned it. Sheesh. So I guess THAT’S how I got corrupted way back when🤪. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area that had “free-form” radio stations that played it with no problem.

    • @larrydavis8249
      @larrydavis8249 3 года назад +1

      @@Jonni1027 I envy you; always admired San Fran!

  • @thomascanfield9165
    @thomascanfield9165 3 года назад +9

    Recently I found out who “The Eggman” was by chance. Reading Eric Burdon’s Wikipedia page it said that John had nicknamed him that because of something involving an egg.I can’t go into it here, so curious minds can go there to read for yourselves .......

    • @buddyneher9359
      @buddyneher9359 3 года назад +1

      @Thomas Dodd Let's add another layer to this and speculate that Constable Ventriss of the Aidensfield police was often seen snacking on boiled eggs in the office... which was set in the mid-60's time period. Clearly a shout-out to Beatle fans who could identify him as the eggman! :-) [reference to 1990's British TV show "Heartbeat" for those not in the know]

    • @stevengifford7457
      @stevengifford7457 3 года назад +2

      Eric was messy boy.

  • @johnsheppard2248
    @johnsheppard2248 3 года назад +8

    Your love of E.L.O. is well founded, Jeff Lynne stated that the bands inspiration was to carry on from where I Am The Walrus ended. This was a perfect stating point for them

  • @kylebakke594
    @kylebakke594 3 года назад +11

    I love that you described the song with the word “abstract.” It’s the perfect word to describe this. As usual, I love watching you react to hearing this song for the first time. You’re coming at it after watching the band mature professionally, just as we did back in the day. Love you, Harri!

  • @RicoBurghFan
    @RicoBurghFan 3 года назад +102

    From my understanding Lennon based this on the works of Lewis Carroll, who often wrote in madeup nonsense words, and whose output includes the Walrus and the Carpenter and Alice in Wonderland, which included Humpty Dumpty, the Eggman. To me, his influence is obvious here. Cheers, brother Harri, you have literally gone down the rabbit hole with this one!

    • @noracola5285
      @noracola5285 3 года назад +8

      Why don't you enlighten us then, @@dylanbyrum?

    • @personalcheeses8073
      @personalcheeses8073 3 года назад +1

      @b phillip I think you will find John’s book was called A Spaniard In The Works. What did you do, just google this info and misread it?

    • @lhpl
      @lhpl 3 года назад +2

      Maybe not _quite_ literally, but certainly literarily. :-) And probably the most famous literary rabbit hole. Do you (or anybody else for that matter) happen to know if the phrase "going down the rabbit hole" is derived from the story, or if Carroll took the phrase/metaphor and made Alice turn it into a literal rabbit hole (in the story anyway)?

    • @cuebj
      @cuebj 2 года назад

      @@lhpl Love that play on 'lit...'

    • @rubusroo68
      @rubusroo68 2 года назад

      '’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.. Carroll was something else indeed. Words like syrup slipping into our minds.

  • @LaStarza61
    @LaStarza61 Год назад

    This may not be The Beatles greatest song... but it is definitely my favorite Beatles song!

  • @davidlee6720
    @davidlee6720 2 года назад

    John was really fond of working class rhymes like 'oompah oompah stick it up your jumper' we used at school, Lucy in there too and so many other hidden meanings when you know what to listen out for. George Martin brought it all to fruition. we played it over and over again in our local pub when it first came out, I think Paul was the Eggman. John himself obviously the Walrus.

  • @MrTCHOSS
    @MrTCHOSS 3 года назад +9

    I am the first one here.... Goo goo g'joob

    • @lisarainbow9703
      @lisarainbow9703 3 года назад

      Gezundheit! 😁

    • @fidge54
      @fidge54 3 года назад

      Wow. What a major accomplisment. Does the babysitter know you're playing on Mommy's computer again?

    • @grendog02
      @grendog02 3 года назад

      In my top 5 Beatles tunes

    • @MrTCHOSS
      @MrTCHOSS 3 года назад +1

      @@fidge54 No. And don't tell her

    • @buddyneher9359
      @buddyneher9359 3 года назад +1

      @@MrTCHOSS hahaha, hehehe, HAHAHA!

  • @juanita6479
    @juanita6479 Год назад

    The brilliance of John, he wrote this song as a reply for those who insisted to explain to school students the supposedly meaning of each one of the Beatles' songs.

  • @mikeross14
    @mikeross14 2 месяца назад

    No one mentions the ending background vocals calling Smoke pot ,smoke pot, everybody smoke pot, followed by Get F'd,get f'd everybody get f'ed! What a chorus!

  • @willblood7082
    @willblood7082 Год назад +1

    This came out in 1967, can you imagine listening to this for the first time in stereo either with or without headphones. It had to be absolutely mind blowing at the time!!

  • @MojoHandle
    @MojoHandle 6 месяцев назад

    Those haunting voices come from a Shakespeare play on the radio. They do something to me.

  • @bullwinkle276
    @bullwinkle276 2 года назад

    Harry, I Am The Walrus was released in 1967 and was featured on their art film (short movie) Magical Mystery Tour. What inspired John Lennon to create the amazing lyrics of the song was he loved the author of "Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll who let his imagine run wild while constructing his word play. The Walrus is inspired by the poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter", which is part of Alice's memories in Wonderland. The "Eggman" is derived from Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass" character, Humpty Dumpty who has a section where he exchanges non-sequiturs with Alice. Just another example to prove The Beatles were way ahead of their time.

  • @realemetic1
    @realemetic1 3 года назад +1

    The best part of this song is the chanting at the end "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper" while the alternate chorus sings "Everybody's got one"....not that part, but the high voices that are going "yop! yop!" or something like that....it's HILARIOUS!

  • @glass2467
    @glass2467 3 года назад +1

    Yeah, there's something about music listeners today - most can't comprehend the use of abstract poetry. They think you have to have a meaning. Maybe John's lyrics here had meaning and maybe they didn't. But it makes you think. It takes you on a stream of consciousness. And it takes to a place that you couldn't go to in a song of today. It generates a mood that would not be achieved otherwise. Maybe someday people will be open to abstract again, and understand the significance.

  • @b0tterman
    @b0tterman Год назад +1

    Lennon's lyrics here are so surreal and amazingly the words just tangle you brain and you feel exactly what he means, whatever that is. Brilliant.

  • @christopherstarr8050
    @christopherstarr8050 Год назад

    You are exactly correct . When John brought this to George Martin , George said or thought " what do you want me to do with this "

  • @charsibaba6960
    @charsibaba6960 Год назад

    At the end. Sokin’ pot ,smokin’ pot ,everybody’s smokin’ pot”. Lol the 1960’s baby !

  • @westfield90
    @westfield90 3 года назад +7

    So love this song.

    • @johnboylan3591
      @johnboylan3591 Год назад +1

      Band by the BBC because of the word knickers welcome to England

  • @sallyshipwreck4315
    @sallyshipwreck4315 2 года назад

    "Ha ha ha ha Everybody's got one"
    Thanks Harri!

  • @MDLOP8
    @MDLOP8 Год назад

    One of the finest examples of psychedelic music ever recorded: like listening to a Salvador Dali painting coming to life.

  • @user-eo2cn5kg6t
    @user-eo2cn5kg6t Год назад

    That particular song always struck me like an auditory, and lyrical, version of a Salvador Dali, or some other, surrealist painting. Very stream of consciousness lyrics, made more to create vivid mental pictures, while allowing the listener to fill in their own blanks. No preconceived story or moral to weigh down your experience. Lennon (and Dylan as well) both had a knack for that.

  • @Wrongald
    @Wrongald 3 года назад

    The egg man is the man that delivers fresh eggs every Wednesday afternoon, round about four o'clock...

  • @joanlorente1974
    @joanlorente1974 Год назад

    The beginning of the song was inspired by the sound of an ambulance John heard while he was sitting at the piano and he tried to reproduced. Amazing

  • @julianbarber4708
    @julianbarber4708 Год назад

    Umpar umpar, stick it up your jumper!........always makes me laugh! So much humour in Beatles songs.

  • @ocheltree1
    @ocheltree1 3 года назад +6

    You ought to watch Jim Carrey singing this, directed by George Martin!!!! It's fantastic! Great reaction as usual! Thx, Harri.

  • @southernwanderer7912
    @southernwanderer7912 2 года назад

    Probably the best lyrics ever written. Poetry in song. When you get the chance, look up the lyrics just to see what they are.

  • @trevorholden7423
    @trevorholden7423 2 года назад

    "I shan't let you down Father, bless you' incredible taped inserts at the end, no doubt by Yoko.. I've come to like her influence on John.

  • @hichambarrak2902
    @hichambarrak2902 3 года назад

    I "recommend you watch that program on YT called "kids react". The reporter explained to the kids after they listened to the full song & trying to understand & deconstruct it that the Beatles wrote this song because they were sick & tired of critics overanalyzing every single song they made, so they chose "I'm the walrus" to give them something to reflect on.

  • @flubblert
    @flubblert 3 года назад +3

    What were they doing you asked? They were literally almost single-handedly changing the course of rock and roll!!

  • @jamesdrynan
    @jamesdrynan 2 года назад

    George Martin's arrangement sounds like he dropped acid before writing it. John at his Carrollesque best! I was just seventeen, ( you know what I mean, )first time hearing it. John's penchant for twisting a phrase. He took the expression, " spanner in the works, " and changed it to his book title. A Spaniard in the Works. Brilliant!

  • @avantprog6902
    @avantprog6902 3 года назад

    Really! Consider starting with Love Me Do and arriving at I Am the Walrus. What an evolution!

  • @DJBilodeau
    @DJBilodeau 10 месяцев назад

    Love the Beatles. Love how you bring fresh eyes and ears to the subject! Love your joy and delight, and I also hear songs now I’ve heard many times before in a fresh new way through your eyes!

  • @charliecochran3035
    @charliecochran3035 3 года назад +2

    It's unusual for someone to get this song on the first listen. Bravo!

  • @daniellittle830
    @daniellittle830 Год назад

    Should not could not will not think about the Beatles without George Martin the fifth Beatle. An absolute Legend, that before the Beatles produced comedy records oh, so I think it was the symbiotic. But she couldn't have one without the other

  • @Stacy55ish
    @Stacy55ish 3 года назад +2

    The Beatles didn't shy away from experimentation and surreal lyrics.

  • @johnsullivan5260
    @johnsullivan5260 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful interpretation of this song

  • @avantprog6902
    @avantprog6902 3 года назад

    This is a clear example of their pioneering spirit. I'd call this progressive. 👍

  • @paulcarroll7061
    @paulcarroll7061 2 года назад

    John's avant-garde stream of consciousness orchestral noodling. Genius

  • @jvs333
    @jvs333 2 года назад +1

    What the Beatles did was not just change music but change the world, change the thinking and conscience of humanity. They were a turning point of how to look and think of life

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 2 года назад

    John is not afraid to allow the sound and musicality of words to manifest in his writing. Intuitively he is a genius of wordage. Read "In His Own Write" and "A Spaniard in the Works", written and illustrated by Mister Lennon.

  • @vietnamcatfish
    @vietnamcatfish Год назад

    I'm crying- Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager had just died from a drug overdose.Tbe ending- everybody got one and everybody smoke pot! My favorite Beatles song!When The Anthology version was released in the 90s it was like getting a new Beatles record. I wore it out naturally

  • @TheScavenger71
    @TheScavenger71 3 года назад

    The "yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" was taken from a song that Lennon and his classmates sang when they were in grade school. The full limerick is
    _Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye. Slap it on a butty ten foot thick, then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick._

  • @waschosen-
    @waschosen- Год назад

    It's kind of interesting and also makes me feel old to see young people listening to those familiar songs as if they were new.

  • @StarVoyager9
    @StarVoyager9 2 года назад

    John was a prankster. Smarmy. And whimsical. A fan of Lewis Carroll, he was inspired this time by Alice innWonderland and... I'm trying to remember... The character in a poem by LC, the Walrus and Crocodile? Anyway, trippy song in 66/67... And still a trippy song in 2021.

  • @jayleeper1512
    @jayleeper1512 Год назад

    A sign of the times. Especially at the very end when everyone is chanting “ Every body’s smoking pot!!!”

  • @dixgun
    @dixgun 3 года назад +1

    Great analysis as always. I think we can't ignore Semolina Pelchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower and Sgt. Norman Pilcher of the Metropolitan Police Department, who in the ‘60s was climbing the ranks, and who quite recently published a book called 'Crooked Coppers,' who planted contraband on members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. There is 'The Walrus And The Carpenter' and then there’s Humpty Dumpty who sat on the wall and had a great fall, as a possible source for the egg man.

  • @tonyhemphill5366
    @tonyhemphill5366 3 года назад

    love ringo singing "ompa opmpa skick up yir jumper"

  • @mgman6000
    @mgman6000 2 года назад +2

    "oh an untimely death" at the end was eerily prophetic

  • @jackdshellback3819
    @jackdshellback3819 3 года назад

    In an interview John himself said that it didn't mean anything, "it could have been I am the pudding basin for all I cared" and then proceeded to sing " I am he as you are he and we are all a great big bunch of bananas".

  • @donaldcarpenter5328
    @donaldcarpenter5328 11 дней назад

    Headphones is the BEST way to listen to RECORDS!

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 2 года назад

    Your joy in Beatles is a delight. I'm a Beatlemaniac since 1964. In 1963 our president hero was murdered and the Beatles came to our rescue and broke the grief spell and joy came back to radio (yes Beach Boys of course, as well). Goo goo ga joob. They say that they were chanting "smoke pot smoke pot everybody's smokin' pot" at the end of the song. That's how I sing it.

  • @yohannbiimu
    @yohannbiimu 3 года назад +2

    Eggmen: Did people deliver eggs back in the day? There were certainly "Milkmen."

    • @personalcheeses8073
      @personalcheeses8073 3 года назад

      People delivered eggs then. They deliver them now. But Lennon wasn’t singing about a delivery man

  • @stephenqualtrough7322
    @stephenqualtrough7322 3 года назад +3

    John said on Glass Onion I think " The walrus was Paul : and that is all we need to know. I am sure that clarins things lol Harri

  • @calebclunie4001
    @calebclunie4001 3 года назад +1

    This song is one of my favorites, because John has a great sense of humo(u)r, and whimsey, plus he toys with language devices such as alliteration, and the orchestration is amazing.

  • @joesimonis3432
    @joesimonis3432 3 года назад

    Magical Mystery Tour was a TV special in England and the walrus and the egg man were two of the Beatles in costume. It was made as a way to compliment the album . It was not the best thing they ever did but it was still unique and fun. Hope this helps you understand a little better. Also they were doing a little drugs at the time too expand their creativity .

  • @avlisk
    @avlisk Год назад

    I do remember The Eggman from old time radio. It was a character on either The Great Gildersleeve or maybe Fibber McGee and Molly. It was so long ago, I don't recall which.The show was from the 1940's, an impressionable time for young Mr. Lennon. Whether that influenced John in the lyrics, I have no idea, as I don't know if these shows played in England.

  • @bemused9522
    @bemused9522 3 года назад +1

    One of my fave top 3 of the Beatles! So glad you did a reaction video to it. When I was married and raising my stepson.... when things got really crazy in the house I would just pop out "Coo coo Cachoo".... letting everyone know we were headed or in a nonsense situation and to just go with the crazy. Peace and love ❤️

  • @user-ry4xb6sj3w
    @user-ry4xb6sj3w 8 месяцев назад

    John would hear a comment he liked and would write it down to maybe use in a song, like Everybody's got one,stuff like that.

  • @anthonys.2365
    @anthonys.2365 3 года назад

    If memory serves me correctly, a friend informed John of a University class that was analysing his lyrics. So, John being John wrote the song knowing very well it made no sense! I can only imagine the laugh he had when the song was analysed!
    John’s vocal sound was achieved by recording his vocal through a guitar amp.

  • @clevellbarney8917
    @clevellbarney8917 3 года назад

    Good reaction. You get it. The lyrics do mean something to me, but I won't say unless I'm asked. But it's really about the sound and the groove. Why this is my number one Beatles song. I'm sad I sold this album this year with a few others for a decent sum. It's okay though, because I KNOW the songs forever.

  • @jamesswindle5253
    @jamesswindle5253 2 года назад

    Think how we felt when this first came out. The Beatles great tune and beat, they might have gone mad. Everyone was soon talking about this song. Most put it down to drugs, The Beatles could do anything and make it sound great. Sad day for music when they dis banded

  • @jeffmartin1026
    @jeffmartin1026 3 года назад +6

    A classic Lennon song - John saying "figure this one out". The spoken words at the end are from King Lear that John had recorded off the radio. "Oh what an untimely death" was one of the "Big Clues" in the Paul Is Dead rumors at the time. You need to watch the Magical Mystery Tour film to see how this was presented.
    ps - The walrus was Paul.

    • @nthdegree1269
      @nthdegree1269 3 года назад +2

      I posted this in the comments but here is the direct link to those voices it's a radio play in 1967 of Shakespeare
      ruclips.net/video/Q-1-6_WiUxY/видео.html

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 3 года назад

      Well I’ll be... at the time I totally missed that King Lear line being a clue related to Paul being dead. Thanks. This kind of Beatle trivia is VERY important haha

    • @nthdegree1269
      @nthdegree1269 3 года назад

      @@Jonni1027 I thought, when I was younger.... that Paul was the voice quoting those lines.

  • @jingyao429
    @jingyao429 3 года назад

    Yellow mattered custard drippin from a dead dogs eye...this was definitely a journey to take on an incredible, edible acid trip!!! Pass the sugar cubes please, better yet ... the purple Owsley's or the Sandoz "White lightning!"

  • @michaelparks6120
    @michaelparks6120 5 месяцев назад

    The Beatles were brilliant.

  • @yohannbiimu
    @yohannbiimu 3 года назад

    "Just putting words together..."
    If you ever get around to listening to Talking Heads, David Byrne did that a lot, and he had to have been a huge Lennon fan. Good examples of this from Talking Heads are "Once In A Lifetime" and "Burning Down The House."

  • @waynerkb
    @waynerkb 3 года назад

    Harri it’s great to enjoy the impossibility of it all , and since you also enjoy ELO try listening to “ last train to London “ and “Midnight Blue “ and you’re welcome 😊

  • @chrisgrey9616
    @chrisgrey9616 7 месяцев назад

    It's an Acid song, Harri....and I'm pretty sure that the Walrus is from Alice in Wonderland..." The time has come the Walrus said, to speak of other things." This was late 1967....suddenly, there was so much more to consider...peak Acid time...." If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain" pure LSD....Thanks, Harri