Can you imagine hearing this when it originally made it on the radio? I do, we just kept getting greater and greater stuff from the Beatles, their evolution was right there for us to see and hear. What a masterful time in rock musical history. Totally off the charts week after week !!
I remember radio dj's breaking this record and refusing to play it, said it wasn't music. Yeah right, this is great music!!! Another Beatle song from that era that never gets play is Baby You're A Rich Man. It's incredible!
Tired of fans thinking every word of every song has a personal meaning to the writer or singer. John heard there were college students trying to decipher the hidden meaning of the songs. John, knowing that all they usually are is a string of rhymes with clever turns of phrase or painting mental imagery for "far out" scenes in your head. He filled this song with nonsensical phrases that have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and Koo koo k'joob is just gibberish. With a smile on his face, John said' Hmmmm. Let them try to figure this one out. Hahahaaha"
Yes that's a famous story and it's part of it but just only looking through that lens to me is ridiculous. He wrote a lot of poetry and prose and he was really exploring the writing idea that would be similar to impressionism in art. Yes they wandered Into The Surreal sometimes but the point is that John really had a knack for evoking feelings and images that matter by indirect means. I Am The Walrus is absolutely filled with Incredible word play and clear references to feelings and memories that we have, it's just kind of jumbled, but it's real and it's playful all at the same time.
The chord progressions in this are some of the greatest in Rock. The lyrics have no meaning which is the intention. It's pure art at the highest level. I just love playing the chords on keyboard.
The Beatles took a break from going on the road in 1966. A temporary break that ended up being permanent, by 1970. They started getting into drugs and sought spiritual enlightenment. This was evident in their flows of many tunes sounding experimental - because they were. And they were the best the band came out with, which considering where they were, already ... there is a reason they are considered by most the best band in the world, ever.
Lennon is a wordsmith. An artist who happens to be a musician. True to himself , he had a wicked sense of humour. I've always been impressed with their attitudes. Their mindset. They bonded Never taking themselves too serious. Each had a healthy dose of common sense. Get Back movie highlights their approach to music, what's important and what's not
The voices chanting are a group called the Mike Sammes Singers. The men say “Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper” while the women say “Everybody’s got one, everybody’s got one.” The dialogue at the end is from a BBC radio performance of Shakespeare’s King Lear that was playing while they were mixing the song. The idea was to include a live radio feed in the mix and that’s what was on.
@@davisworth5114 And Paul is dead and Stu Sutcliffe stood with his back turned to the audience because he couldn't play and John said Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles, right?
@@davisworth5114Absolute nonsense. It’s very clearly “Everybody’s Got One” which can easily be discerned by listening to the tracks in isolation. John Lennon in an interview said that the phrase “Everybody’s Got One” was what his Aunt Mimi used to say to him when he was shy at exposing himself after coming out of the bath.
Ace you have to understand the Beatles were a reflection of the times IMO more than any band. From their early Beatlemania days to their last album they continued to evolve and did a LOT of experimenting along the ways (as the 60's/70's dictated) and you have it right calling it ART.
it definitely ended up that way, plenty of artistic expression. With some of the very early recordings they were kinda just a rock band (and they were good at that too) but you said it "they evolved" and went light years beyond being a rock band. It's sometimes incredibly interesting to watch another generation hear these things for the first time.
Now that I up 'n heard this hear jes then I'm gettin' the impression these Beatles be pretty good now. They have that certain somethin'...keep it comin'!
About the time the Beatles met up with Bob Dylan, they also started hanging out with Donovan. My understanding is that Donovan was basically a big fan of nonsense lyrics that still somehow sound right in the song. So you've got more autobiographical references as an influence coming from Dylan, and a nonsense lyrics influence coming from Donovan. While this song was composed by John, in the end it was Paul who followed the nonsense lyrics credo, and John who mostly followed Dylan's credo of talking about real life. IIRC, Donovan was with the band for the recording of "Yellow Submarine." Classics by Donovan include "Mellow Yellow," "Season of the Witch," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," "Sunshine Superman," "Atlantis," and "Barabajagal."
@@davisworth5114 From wiki: "Lennon wrote the song to confound listeners who had been affording serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics. He was partly inspired by two LSD trips and Lewis Carroll's 1871 poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
You know you're old when you come across I am the walrus from someone who heard the Oasis version first , incredible song , hope you check out Strawberry fields forever and Helter skelter, so many Beatles songs will blow your mind. I am the walrus came out in 67 can you imagine hearing this at the time.
I guess you could say that but there is no doubt that he made an irreplaceable contribution to what all their amazing albums sounded like. He was extremely creative and the perfect producer for the Beatles. That's what I call magic and it all happened 60 friggin' years ago.
Listen to the very end of this song again they are saying smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot spell you will get it after 2 or 3 times listening to that part over and over😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤🎉🎉
@@BobGR I was too cool for school about Beatles too. Didn't really discover them till 1999 when my 12-year old daughter heard my rarely heard Sgt Pepper. Now she's programming our 6-month old granddaughter to know Beatles, especially early Beatles
@BobGR Garbage list except Pink Floyd, of course. And Beatles Sgt. Peppers, Rubber Soul, Revolver, White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be were all acceptable tripping albums.
That great string background courtesy of their producer George Martin who wrote all the string parts and more...... They didn't call him the "5th Beatle" for nothing.
checkin in... i saw how they wrote songs they threw words out in any order to make something make sense i think in this one they said hey lets keep it as it sounds ,its really weird ,,, i like it
Poe was always thought of as peculiar and critics shrugged his poetry off as rubbish. The words to this song are out there too; but it is art after all🤘❤️
George Martin, the man who produced their music. For his last hoo-rah, got together a collection of different artists and actors, to perform and record Beatles music. Jim Carrey sings I Am The Walrus, a very interesting rendition to say the least. Goldie Hawn: A Hard Day's Night, Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin: Come Together. Too many to list, but the album is definitely worth checking out.
This may not be the Beatles best song, but it may well be their most inventive and progressive, way ahead of its time. Except for, perhaps, Tomorrow Never Knows. And maybe Strawberry Fields. Yeah, Lennon was certainly the envelope pusher in the band, while McCartney wrote pure magic and Harrison was the rocker (or should I say mocker?). Ringo, of course, was the glue who held it all together.
"this may not be the best Beatles song" and similarly when you ask someone who has been listening for fifty or sixty years..... what is your FAVORITE Beatles song? it's almost always impossible to give an answer. And when they DO have an answer, it's fair to wonder, did they actually hear everything : )
Deliberate nonsense after they heard a teacher they didn't liked when they were at school had started his pupils discussing the meaning of Beatles lyrics. In fact, the images do have roots such as Lewis Carroll books (of whom Lennon was a huge fan from his childhood), a children's playground song. There had been a post-war history of radio comedy that used what sounded like nonsense, eg The Goons, Round The Horn, etc leading eventually, to That Was The Week That Was on TV and, from there, to Monty Python, The Goodies, etc.
Hi Ace...why did you stop reacting to Lucy?🤔 ....her last release will melt your soul : unchained melody... We miss your reaction to her videos. Hope you will change your mind
Great song, but how hard is it for the people that overlay the lyrics to get them right? Many errors in the text of the lyrics for this song. The correct lyrics are online - look them up before creating a video with lyric overlay!
The guitar craze in the Sixties turned out a lot of bands in the Seventies and Eighties. Music is selfish these days. They just use drum machines and processed music. The soul has left the music. It's just beat, now.
smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot
@@seerofallthatisobvious1316 My girlfriend from high school would sing that chorus when the song came on and I said oh! that's what they are saying! :)
Ace, The Monkees influenced the Beatles. The Monkees sued the Beatles for ripping off their look and several of their melodies. The Beatles started a smear campaign against The Monkees with the help of Nixon and his henchmen. Richard Nixon was a huge Beatles fan and hoped that the band would help expand the consciousness of the masses and lead to a more enlightened and just nation. The law suits were quickly and mysteriously dismissed and The Monkees never spoke an ill word of the Beatles again. Play Daydream Believer by The Monkees and you'll see how The Beatles totally ripped them off.
Wow, do you have it backwards. The Monkees were created for a TV show in 1966, two years after the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time. The Beatles held twelves positions on the Billboard Hot 100 that year, including the top five. The fan craze for the Monkees on the TV show was obviously representative of Beatlemania. The song you reference as a Monkees song that supposedly is an example of the Beatles ripping off the Monkees was a cover song written and composed by Neil Diamond. The supposed lawsuits and involvement of the Beatles with Nixon in a smear campaign against the Monkees is a ridiculous fiction in your head. The story goes that Elvis met with Nixon and smeared the Beatles as “a real force of anti-American spirit.” Supposedly, Nixon told Elvis to spy on John Lennon. In fact, the Nixon administration tried to deport John Lennon.
Can you imagine hearing this when it originally made it on the radio? I do, we just kept getting greater and greater stuff from the Beatles, their evolution was right there for us to see and hear. What a masterful time in rock musical history. Totally off the charts week after week !!
the beatles were never predictable
You just experienced one of the great works of art of the 20th century.
I remember radio dj's breaking this record and refusing to play it, said it wasn't music. Yeah right, this is great music!!! Another Beatle song from that era that never gets play is Baby You're A Rich Man. It's incredible!
Tired of fans thinking every word of every song has a personal meaning to the writer or singer. John heard there were college students trying to decipher the hidden meaning of the songs. John, knowing that all they usually are is a string of rhymes with clever turns of phrase or painting mental imagery for "far out" scenes in your head. He filled this song with nonsensical phrases that have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and Koo koo k'joob is just gibberish. With a smile on his face, John said' Hmmmm. Let them try to figure this one out. Hahahaaha"
Similar to stream of consciousness writing in Beat poetry.
Yes that's a famous story and it's part of it but just only looking through that lens to me is ridiculous. He wrote a lot of poetry and prose and he was really exploring the writing idea that would be similar to impressionism in art. Yes they wandered Into The Surreal sometimes but the point is that John really had a knack for evoking feelings and images that matter by indirect means.
I Am The Walrus is absolutely filled with Incredible word play and clear references to feelings and memories that we have, it's just kind of jumbled, but it's real and it's playful all at the same time.
I got over lyric analysis with Sgt Pepper. That was enough for me.
Aww
In addition, John later said the walrus was Paul. Such fun!
Beatles were the best ever. No pigeon hole. You have to loosen up
The chord progressions in this are some of the greatest in Rock. The lyrics have no meaning which is the intention. It's pure art at the highest level. I just love playing the chords on keyboard.
ugh lennon is just so good
A feast for the ears.
Without listening to much of their earlier stuff, it will be common to fail to understand/appreciate/value these later Beatles' songs.
Songs like this are what made them way beyond anyone else.
The Beatles took a break from going on the road in 1966. A temporary break that ended up being permanent, by 1970. They started getting into drugs and sought spiritual enlightenment. This was evident in their flows of many tunes sounding experimental - because they were. And they were the best the band came out with, which considering where they were, already ... there is a reason they are considered by most the best band in the world, ever.
Lennon is a wordsmith. An artist who happens to be a musician. True to himself , he had a wicked sense of humour. I've always been impressed with their attitudes. Their mindset. They bonded Never taking themselves too serious. Each had a healthy dose of common sense. Get Back movie highlights their approach to music, what's important and what's not
John wrote this to confuse people who were studying his lyrics - he liked word play
The voices chanting are a group called the Mike Sammes Singers. The men say “Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper” while the women say “Everybody’s got one, everybody’s got one.”
The dialogue at the end is from a BBC radio performance of Shakespeare’s King Lear that was playing while they were mixing the song. The idea was to include a live radio feed in the mix and that’s what was on.
No, they're saying "smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot clear as a bell.
Yeah, I think I’ll go with what Mark Lewisohn heard when he had access to the original master tapes, thanks.
@davisworth5114 nope. Lennon would have admitted it if they were.
@@davisworth5114 And Paul is dead and Stu Sutcliffe stood with his back turned to the audience because he couldn't play and John said Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles, right?
@@davisworth5114Absolute nonsense. It’s very clearly “Everybody’s Got One” which can easily be discerned by listening to the tracks in isolation. John Lennon in an interview said that the phrase “Everybody’s Got One” was what his Aunt Mimi used to say to him when he was shy at exposing himself after coming out of the bath.
Fascinating Lennon tune.
Excellent reaction !!! One of my all time favorite songs !!!
Magical Mystery Tour is my second favorite Beatles album. What a mind melting epic song!
You are getting into their experimental music period. They got famous with many hits and tried something new. Here is an example.
Ace you have to understand the Beatles were a reflection of the times IMO more than any band. From their early Beatlemania days to their last album they continued to evolve and did a LOT of experimenting along the ways (as the 60's/70's dictated) and you have it right calling it ART.
it definitely ended up that way, plenty of artistic expression. With some of the very early recordings they were kinda just a rock band (and they were good at that too) but you said it "they evolved" and went light years beyond being a rock band. It's sometimes incredibly interesting to watch another generation hear these things for the first time.
Now that I up 'n heard this hear jes then I'm gettin' the impression these Beatles be pretty good now. They have that certain somethin'...keep it comin'!
About the time the Beatles met up with Bob Dylan, they also started hanging out with Donovan. My understanding is that Donovan was basically a big fan of nonsense lyrics that still somehow sound right in the song. So you've got more autobiographical references as an influence coming from Dylan, and a nonsense lyrics influence coming from Donovan. While this song was composed by John, in the end it was Paul who followed the nonsense lyrics credo, and John who mostly followed Dylan's credo of talking about real life. IIRC, Donovan was with the band for the recording of "Yellow Submarine." Classics by Donovan include "Mellow Yellow," "Season of the Witch," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," "Sunshine Superman," "Atlantis," and "Barabajagal."
Donovan did not write nonsense lyrics, this is stream of consciousness a la Dylan.
Don't hear any Dylan or Donovan influence here. Donovan showed fingerpicking to Lennon for Dear Prudence.
@@jcb640 Nonetheless, Donovan met the Beatles in '65, and "Walrus" was recorded in '67.
@@davisworth5114 From wiki: "Lennon wrote the song to confound listeners who had been affording serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics. He was partly inspired by two LSD trips and Lewis Carroll's 1871 poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
One of the most original compositions of the rock era…
Everybody's got one!
You know you're old when you come across I am the walrus from someone who heard the Oasis version first , incredible song , hope you check out Strawberry fields forever and Helter skelter, so many Beatles songs will blow your mind. I am the walrus came out in 67 can you imagine hearing this at the time.
His soul is too pure for this song☺
Glad you are listening with real headphones.
When this was released, I remember a Rock critic saying this song was Lennon at his surrealistic zenith
This song was heavily attributed to referencing and supporting the “Paul Is Dead” rumor back in the day (Paul = the Walrus).
That rumor persists to today.
"choking smokers" not "joking smokers". Great song!
Imagine what it was like back in the day?
Btw, not enough can be said about George Martin. He was and still is, since his passing, the greatest producer, ever.
I guess you could say that but there is no doubt that he made an irreplaceable contribution to what all their amazing albums sounded like. He was extremely creative and the perfect producer for the Beatles. That's what I call magic and it all happened 60 friggin' years ago.
this is the beatles!
The strings...and horns. 👊
When this song first came out I wondered what knickers were, ha ha!
Oh - you don’t wear them !?
Listen to the very end of this song again they are saying smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot spell you will get it after 2 or 3 times listening to that part over and over😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤🎉🎉
Let’s not forget the references to satan 😉💪🏼
This is the good stuff ❤❤
From love me do and she loves you to this in just a few years
LSD DAYS. This shit was top shelf specially stoned or tripping. Cutting edge for the time.
Beatles was never on the listening list while tripping in my crowd, we had Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Rush, Budgie, Black Sabbath, Rainbow etc
@@BobGR Me too. King Crimson, Best cover ever, and Jethro Tull "" Stand up and Thick as a Brick.
@@BobGR I was too cool for school about Beatles too. Didn't really discover them till 1999 when my 12-year old daughter heard my rarely heard Sgt Pepper. Now she's programming our 6-month old granddaughter to know Beatles, especially early Beatles
@BobGR
Garbage list except Pink Floyd, of course.
And Beatles Sgt. Peppers, Rubber Soul, Revolver, White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be were all acceptable tripping albums.
@@FrankWirth-ij4rq You know another one I really liked while tripping was Aerosmith. They were so good in the '70s
That great string background courtesy of their producer George Martin who wrote all the string parts and more......
They didn't call him the "5th Beatle" for nothing.
checkin in... i saw how they wrote songs they threw words out in any order to make something make sense i think in this one they said hey lets keep it as it sounds ,its really weird ,,, i like it
If anybody ever asks you what genre The Beatles are they are all genres
Ahead of their time still the best always will be
You should watch the one with the video. It's a trip.
Poe was always thought of as peculiar and critics shrugged his poetry off as rubbish. The words to this song are out there too; but it is art after all🤘❤️
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Have I mentioned we did a lot of drugs back then? hahahaha
An Ass load of drugs, to be exact.
❤️👍💯
Do the same thing to In My Life…..amazing lyrical song
George Martin, the man who produced their music. For his last hoo-rah, got together a collection of different artists and actors, to perform and record Beatles music. Jim Carrey sings I Am The Walrus, a very interesting rendition to say the least. Goldie Hawn: A Hard Day's Night, Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin: Come Together. Too many to list, but the album is definitely worth checking out.
This song inspired ELO
A tune from their drug influenced days.
This lyrics video is wrong
They have 'experts experts" but it's "experts texptperts"
Aaggghh, you played the shorter version. You missed the famous line, “I buried Paul”
What ELSE would you say after announcing that you're the walrus? "Goo goo g'joob" is the OBVIOUS choice!!
Psychodelic Goodness
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smoke pot smoke pot, everybody smoke pot. everybody smoke pot, everybody smoke pot ...... 😂😂😂
if someone makes a lyric video, they could at least go to the effort to get them right
it's "expert, textpert, choking smokers"
This may not be the Beatles best song, but it may well be their most inventive and progressive, way ahead of its time. Except for, perhaps, Tomorrow Never Knows. And maybe Strawberry Fields.
Yeah, Lennon was certainly the envelope pusher in the band, while McCartney wrote pure magic and Harrison was the rocker (or should I say mocker?). Ringo, of course, was the glue who held it all together.
"this may not be the best Beatles song" and similarly when you ask someone who has been listening for fifty or sixty years..... what is your FAVORITE Beatles song? it's almost always impossible to give an answer. And when they DO have an answer, it's fair to wonder, did they actually hear everything : )
The only band where 500 people will give you a completely different answer when you ask “what’s your favourite Beatles song”
Everybody smoke pot
Deliberate nonsense after they heard a teacher they didn't liked when they were at school had started his pupils discussing the meaning of Beatles lyrics. In fact, the images do have roots such as Lewis Carroll books (of whom Lennon was a huge fan from his childhood), a children's playground song. There had been a post-war history of radio comedy that used what sounded like nonsense, eg The Goons, Round The Horn, etc leading eventually, to That Was The Week That Was on TV and, from there, to Monty Python, The Goodies, etc.
Hi Ace...why did you stop reacting to Lucy?🤔 ....her last release will melt your soul : unchained melody...
We miss your reaction to her videos.
Hope you will change your mind
Great song, but how hard is it for the people that overlay the lyrics to get them right? Many errors in the text of the lyrics for this song. The correct lyrics are online - look them up before creating a video with lyric overlay!
"Paul is really dead."
The guitar craze in the Sixties turned out a lot of bands in the Seventies and Eighties. Music is selfish these days. They just use drum machines and processed music. The soul has left the music. It's just beat, now.
Lsd
smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot
Everybodys got one, everybodys got one, everybodys got one......
@@seerofallthatisobvious1316 My girlfriend from high school would sing that chorus when the song came on and I said oh! that's what they are saying! :)
You need to eat some shrooms before doing this
Shame they got the lyrics wrong.
I love watching black reactors try to figure out meaningless song lyrics.
Ace, The Monkees influenced the Beatles. The Monkees sued the Beatles for ripping off their look and several of their melodies. The Beatles started a smear campaign against The Monkees with the help of Nixon and his henchmen. Richard Nixon was a huge Beatles fan and hoped that the band would help expand the consciousness of the masses and lead to a more enlightened and just nation. The law suits were quickly and mysteriously dismissed and The Monkees never spoke an ill word of the Beatles again. Play Daydream Believer by The Monkees and you'll see how The Beatles totally ripped them off.
Don't forget Nixon put John Lennon on the FBI Watch list.
You're backwards. Monkees came after the Beatles. The Beatles influenced the Monkees. Read up on it.
@@rebeccasimmers3107 Brent obviously is being ridiculous. He's just goofing.
@@debjorgo I hope so
Wow, do you have it backwards. The Monkees were created for a TV show in 1966, two years after the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time. The Beatles held twelves positions on the Billboard Hot 100 that year, including the top five. The fan craze for the Monkees on the TV show was obviously representative of Beatlemania. The song you reference as a Monkees song that supposedly is an example of the Beatles ripping off the Monkees was a cover song written and composed by Neil Diamond. The supposed lawsuits and involvement of the Beatles with Nixon in a smear campaign against the Monkees is a ridiculous fiction in your head. The story goes that Elvis met with Nixon and smeared the Beatles as “a real force of anti-American spirit.” Supposedly, Nixon told Elvis to spy on John Lennon. In fact, the Nixon administration tried to deport John Lennon.
Check out the official video for the song