@@mikaelzakrisson5514 Sounds like somebody playing it on cassette through a megaphone picked up by a cheap mic in their basement. Terrible. I wish people would stop butchering these songs
This is the movie version of the song. The Beatles added more insane goodies to the song after the simpler version got locked into the soundtrack. The version on the MMT album and the single release contain the crazy background vocals from the 'Mike Sams Singers' (arranged by George Martin) and it is this version that you need to hear... don't miss out! The Shakespear dialog on the fade out was recorded live off the radio at the time of mixing and could not be duplicated with a second take! Shows you how magical & lucky The Beatles were. Also, you mentioned you have heard 'Goo Goo Ga Joob' somewhere before. You actually heard it last week without knowing the original source; "Goo Goo Ga Joob, Mrs. Robinson'. Paul Simon included the phrase as a nod to The Beatles as 'Walrus' was in the charts when Paul Simon was writing his song! Small world, eh?
Wrong track. People fall for it all the time. This is a take of the song in combination with the scenes from the film. But it's not the official version of the song. The original is longer and contains more song gimmicks.
And sounds much better. Then there's the recent remix of the song which adds some new stuff but subtracts some as well. It's a musical minefield trying to get the right one to listen to it for the first time.
yeah I feel you there I'm 21 and don't know anyone else who loves the beatles like me. I'm British as well! also thought you'd find it funny that my name is Jude.
@@ezclappoggers Hey, Jude! I grew up in the 60's so I got to hear The Beatles when they were new and have never stopped loving their music. I say often to my music friends that there are only two bands in all the years I have listened to different genres of music that I like all their songs, they are The Beatles and Band-Maid, although I might have to add The Warning to that list as their catalog gets bigger!
I can totally understand why they don't ~ ~ they weren't there, like we were, to Live in it. I'm thrilled that some of the younger generation is open to listening to them and learning about their music and the history of the 1960's. Thank goodness for reactors, like Lee, that provide the path for younger people to travel down ~
Where did you get this version...re listen to an album version from the pre 2024 remix..although it is good earlier mixes are better ..in my opinion..especially the latter half of the song..listen closely..you hear a radio play of king lear...
It sounds mainstream to "today's ears" because of the Beatles's lasting influence on so much of the mainstream music that came after. What's familiar in the present was groundbreaking when originally made.
This definitely wouldn’t be considered mainstream in today’s landscape. MGMT made a song in this vein called “Alien Days”, yet most critics trashed it, because it sounded nothing like their hits. That was 2013, and nothing much has changed since then in terms of acceptance. The Beatles get a pass for their reputation, because they can do no wrong in most people’s eyes. (Which they’re right, The Beatles essentially have a perfect catalogue.) But I’ve also noticed a lot of those same people recoil when you point them to experimental psychedelic music from other artists.
If I had to pick ONLY FOUR Beatles' songs: "I AM THE WALRUS" "TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS," "STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER," and "A DAY IN THE LIFE".... They're all Lennon compositions (which tells you which way I lean)... but I also adore McCartney and Harrison songs, too. ...and yeah... Ringo, was a fantastic drummer and PERFECT for them. What an incredible band that actually lived up to the hype.
Wow! One of my favourite Beatles songs from my favourite Beatles albums! When it first came out, London was a place of technicolor wonders. Hippies were everywhere, dressed like ceremonial tribesmen in crushed velvet pants, tie-dyed or Indian shirts, beads, the works. We shopped at Kensington Market - a huge department store which had been taken over by dozens of small Hippie businesses. We had the International Times and Ink, our own newspapers, and Oz magazine. British psychedelia was in full swing, and the music told us we were changing the world! This song, and the whole Magical Mystery Tour album, takes me right back to those amazing days! I'm looking forward to your reaction!
@@heartoftheroseI agree. Mind you, I'm prejudiced. I just love British psychedelia - so different from American. The only records of that genre to come close to it are Odgen's Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces, and S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things. But they are both concept albums and need to be taken as a whole, whereas MMT is a collection of brilliant stand-alone songs.
@@barryderby”The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is #1 to me. Syd Barrett was a phenomenon. “Piper” smack dab captured the British psych pop music of the time, along with the sound of heavier bands like Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Yardbirds, together with the freak-out nature of Soft Machine and AMM. A smorgasbord of every corner of psychedelic music at the time. I wasn’t there, I’m a millennial, but I’m certainly obsessed with the music for the past 15 years now.
@@psychedelicpiper999I agree with you about Piper, but Floyd created their own genre! Their two successful singles from that era - Arnold Layne and See Emily Play were much more typical. Generally British psychedelia was playful, childlike and wistfully nostalgic. Probably Odgen's Nut Gone Flake album by the Small Faces was the best example of this. Even fashions looked back. I remember wearing a Victorian frock coat, and we bought Victorian jewellery from Portobello Market. It was an amazing time to be young and carefree, living in London!
Paul Simon added ‘Coo Coo Cachoo’ to Mrs. Robinson. You may have heard it there. That track was missing some things or mixed weird. I thought it was just me. But others noticed it also.
It was a person who said on a social media about how John Lennon wrote the most beautiful words for all the songs that he ever wrote, and she was just so enthralled with him. But we also know John Lennon wrote “yellow matter custard dripping, from a dead dog’s eye ‘ … So there’s that.😂 I love these guys so much since I was a teeny bopper, watching them on Ed Sullivan, and listening to their music on the radio, and getting records when I could. I lived in the barrio, so we didn’t get much. At that time I had as many 45s as I could get, many of those singles were not even on albums. I have not enjoyed a reactor as much as I have enjoyed you. Thank you so much.
This is not the official audio. Somehow you have a link to a much inferior version… produced very sloppily… not at all the same experience as their original recording. In fact, whoever tried to “reproduce” this ruined it enough to make it crap in my opinion.
The Beatles needs to upload the music video because people see this one (the uploader even put "official video" ugh) and every reaction channel reacts to this version of the song. So annoying.
@@RobertERensch Yeah. This isn't the alt version that's been around for a while. This is Giles version. I wanted the first good mix for this song from Giles but it's the one song he decided to get daring on.
NOT the original version (sounds close but it's off) --- do yourself a favor and listen to the official version off of the Magical Mystery Tour album. It is a strange and wondrous song --- this is not the studio version.
This isn't the sound I remember from the LP/single in the '60s. Check out original. Also worth a listen is Oasis version from Live @ Kenworth. Incredible live arrangement, didn't think k it'd be possible but they kill it
There's so much in this song that you couldn't hear because of the mix. It was panned to one side and the Beatles were known for separating elements strictly to the left or right channel. Go back sometime and listen to the correct version and I'm sure you'll love it.
@@ptolemyauletesxii8642 Of course I did: as soon as I joined the premiere/live chat and watched it. What point are you trying to make? That comment went up before the reaction was even shown.
Hmmm yes this isn’t the version I know and love… where are all the “Whoooooo!”s in the chorus? Anyway nice words as usual Lee, so sad to hear about Mike Pinder. X
'The Magical Mystery Tour' is a 52 minute long film about a surreal bus tour featuring the music of the Beatles and was first shown on national British television late in the afternoon on Boxing Day (26th December)1967. My family all watched it together on the black and white telly (all there was then). As a 13 year old lad who loved the Beatles I was quite captivated. The adults less so, my father muttering 'load of rubbish' at regular intervals! Newspaper critics were fairly cruel too.
Yes! You are absolutely right without directly saying they were ahed of their time. Thus, their influence into rock music and pop culture. Hearing John sing brings me sadness once again.
Thank you for reacting to this song. I really enjoyed your take on this masterwork. And I do love seeing a reaction that gives kudos to Ringo Starr and his unique style that is integral to what makes the Beatles sound like the Beatles... it just cannot be overstated. Also, you were very perceptive in describing his style as being structured 'backwards'. Ringo is a left hander playing a right handed kit set up, giving him his signature rolls across the toms. It's interesting to consider that also means that half the Fab Four were left handed (Paul and Ringo) and that also means that all the living Beatles are left handed. thanks again for the react
@@ezclappoggersTotally forgot about that. I could hear "Bury my body" a bit more clearly in this video version. (Or maybe it’s the much better earphones than I had in the day :-)
As Everyone is saying this is not the original album Track ...... This version is second rate, compared to The Original. Even if you don't react to the original .... You do need have a listen ..... .... I really dig your reactions Cheers mate 😎
That line"Yellow Matter Custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" was a playground chant in Liverpool at the time. Though our version was yella belly custard green snot pie. The "Egg Man was an actual person they met.
Reminds me of reading it in Raymond Briggs' "Fungus the Bogeyman": Scab and matter custard, Snot and bogey pie, Dead dog's giblets, Green cat's eye. Spread it on bread, Spread it on thick, Wash it all down. With a cup of cold sick. Got in trouble for reading this out in school as a young man in a lesson we were meant to bring in and read a poem for.
@@Jimi-DV thanks for that. I hadn't known that. It's great. the playground rhyme went on as follows...all mixed together in a dead dog's eye. Kids chants were sometimes shocking to adults!
One of my favourites this! Well Lee John read that teachers were analysing with their school students Beatles songs so John wickedly came up with this. A perverse whimsy, nice one Winston! 🤡🥕😹
I believe he'd read about a specific teacher who had been one of his teachers before was doing this; a teacher who John was in trouble with more often than not that put him over the top!
Never know what you read is true or not, but remembering more now, it seems that a current student wrote to John and told him about it lol!@@johnbyrnes7912
Version matters here, although perhaps less to first-time listener (or would it be more?). Anyway, this is my most listened-to Beatles song - I never tire of it.
6:07 It's been quoted a few times by people, and if you're thinking of a song tou've heard it in, you might be thinking of the similar sounding 'coo coo ca choo' from Simon and Garfunkle's Mrs Robinson.
There are 3 versions of the 'Hello Goodbye' video; #1 in the Sgt. Pepper outfits, #2 in street clothes and #3 where they are dancing wildly around the stage. #3 is the best by far and the portions used in the 'Now and Then' video (especially of John) are from this third video. It's available on the extended 'Beatles 1' collection on DVD.
Lee...I'm enjoying your reactions. I appreciate your honesty and insight. You get it, and are getting in. You've still got a lot of learning ahead of you, especially in regard to psychedelia and "the game." ✌️😉 I'm a 54 year old English teacher who still feels 17 in his soul....my trip started with The Beatles "all those years ago." I look forward to watching you take the journey.
Don't try to make sense of the vid,it was the 60’s and they were tripping,but it made perfect sense to us who were youngsters on this release. What an era.
Yep, not the official audio nor is it very good. It is John's vocals but backing vocals are missing. It's either an earlier take or someone's mash up. There is a 2023 Remaster of it also.
About 10 years ago I bought the I Am The Walrus CD single. I would play it every day in my car and try to hear something new in it each time.Only then did I fully appreciate what a genius drummer Ringo Starr was. The other Beatles said to him, we have no guidelines to tell you how to drum on this track, do what you think fits the song the best. And he did just that. Every man you mentioned who worked on this song, including the 2 Moody Blues members, were musical geniuses in one way or another.
This is my all-time favourite Beatles song. There was nothing like it before and there's been nothing like it since. It stands alone and defies description. That middle eight transition (Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun...) is just brilliant. A complete tangent from the rest of the song, but it works beautifully. The most surreal song I've ever heard. I was 11 years old when the MMT album came out, and was immediately entranced by Walrus, and have been ever since. I want it played at my funeral (not kidding, it's written into my will). Because everyone who has ever known me knows I love this song.
You are correct about the 'you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down' line. As you probably know, with George Martin being the elder gentleman in the studio and being more conservative, the group regarded him as the schoolmaster. I've read that when Lennon played a demo of the song, Martin turned to one of his assistants and asked, "did he just say what I think he said?"
The great thing about the Rutles was that they had several high level musicians. Neil Innes, of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band doing the writing, guitar and vox, Ollie Halsall of Patto,Timebox and Boxer on guitar, solos and vox ( he's singing not Eric Idle), John Halsey from Patto and many sessions on drums as Barry Wom and Rikki Fataar a session guitarist who played Stig O Tracy.
When I was around ten years old, I heard the song for the first time and it was the first song that totally blew me away. It was my favorite song for a long time ("Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin replaced it). Nobody, absolutely NO ONE around me could understand my love for this song. But what other band of the Beatles' fame at the time could afford to record such a freaky song without losing their status? No one!
In before the block, although this might be safe because it's not the official mix. Paul has recently been quoted saying this was his favorite songs of John's. Rick Beato also has a cool breakdown of it. It's a wild song, and the video matches it (again, not sure this is frame for frame the same thing from MMT). Paul was the director for most of the Magical Mystery Tour film, although John might have given him a dream sequence he had for this individual segment, like he did for the restaurant scene.
I've always heard the part that includes "...pretty little policemen sitting in a row" was from George Harrison and the part "Yellow-mattered custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" was suggested by Donovan.
And yes, you are absolutely having the correct reaction to the song, lyrics and video, even though they're not the original versions. It was meant to elicit WTF reactions. John Lennon really got off on doing that to people. Of course being based on a Lewis Carroll work, it was bound to be weird yet delightful. In an era where music takes itself so seriously, we need more of these kinds of songs.
i consider the beatles "foundational" music. everyone should know them to make sense of what comes after. my 27 yr old daughter is into the beatles, thank you very much... and, she loves gardening. naturally she calls it her "octopus garden". she grows strawberry (fields), (glass) onion, (sgt.) pepper, etc... some "kids" are gettin' it.
This was a re-do for their unsuccessful movie, Magical Mystery Tour. Please check out the studio version. All the best background sounds have been left out of this version. ☺
My favorite color is auburn... I recommend off the white album... Everybody got Something to Hide and off Let It Be- Across the Universe - The latter tune has arguably Lennon's best poetry and the first one Rocks...
Oh yeah, they were actually sitting in an English garden when the sun came up most were tripping on acid. Yeah, John wrote a lot of stuff when he was high. George actually wanted to write music and do music well without drugs and that’s why he went to India to study transcendental meditation. Oh my God, I still love these guys so much after 60 years
You heard "Coo Coo Cachoo:" (or at least published it_) 4 days ago in Mrs. Robinson. I left you a comment about it, It's all connected. Nice reaction. PS "The walrus was Paul" (Glass Onion).
@JB-Deadskins I knew that but had forgotten. No excuse for a Scouser who still owns the original 3 books of Beatles songs that I bought in Liverpool. I'm getting old! Thanks for the correction JB.
JB, Perhaps you can help me with the song lyrics on YOU WON'T SEE ME. Is it "I can't turn away" as written in books and on the internet, or is it "I get turned away" which makes more sense? It sounds more like the latter.
@@cliff481 I get turned away is what I hear. Doesn't sound anything like I can't turn away. But people on the Internet just cut and paste, so there's a lot of propagation of incorrect lyrics on songs out there. For instance, in the second verse of City of New Orleans, the Steve Goodman song that Arlo Guthrie made famous, the lyric is "pass the paper bag that holds the bottle," but some idiot posted it as "pass the paper bag but hold the bottle," so now you see that as the lyric on most sites. 🙄
@JB-Deadskins Yes, the #2 of the 3 books I have clearly reads "I can turn away* published by Northern Songs, probably written by staff after listening to it. Good conversation. Thanks for the info.
My father was given a lot of early Beatles singles at the end of the 60s and this was the most satisfying musically. In their top 3 or 4. I pay little attemtion t lyrics.
Funny, I have never heard McCartney referred to as “underrated” - multi-instrumental musician. Check out his first solo album whereon he plays ALL the instruments!
It was the beginnings of Psychedelic Rock, The Summer of Love in 1967. They had stopped touring by this time, and concentrated on exploring what they could do in the studio.
Lee there is a video on Hello Goodbye and its very colourful in a Pepperlandish outfits ! You have to make sure you avoid fakes. You are the carpenter! 😹
When I was doing English in high school in the 70's, we were doing Shakespeare and after reading some of King Lear the teacher asked if the passage we'd just read reminded them of anything. "It's the talking bit on I Am The Walrus!", I said. "Yes!" he exclaimed. I was the first student he'd ever had who answered that correctly. This is my favourite song ever.
Another one for you: The harpsichord bridge in "In My Life"...is straight out of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. Check 1:38 of this version: ruclips.net/video/sYNo8F6kl4c/видео.html
The movie was made by the BBC as a series of songs linked together by people on a 'Magical Mystery Tour' in a coach. It was first shown in black and white the day after Xmas 1967 at prime time on the BBC's main channel - yeh The Beatles were REALLY big at the time. It was shown again on the only colour channel available 12 days later. The audio is a remix from the master tapes. I prefer the original mix. Also in 1967 there were enough communications satellites up to do a round the world TV broadcast ('Our World'). The UK contribution to this was The Beatles recording another song from the album, All You Need Is Love.
This isn’t the original recording , this is missing a lot !
Yes, this mix sounds kind of strange.
@@mikaelzakrisson5514 Sounds like somebody playing it on cassette through a megaphone picked
up by a cheap mic in their basement. Terrible. I wish people would stop butchering these songs
Maybe it's from the film's soundtrack?
Spot on... this version is kinda weak ;( Plz do the original if you can sneak it through the youtube censors...
This is the movie version of the song. The Beatles added more insane goodies to the song after the simpler version got locked into the soundtrack. The version on the MMT album and the single release contain the crazy background vocals from the 'Mike Sams Singers' (arranged by George Martin) and it is this version that you need to hear... don't miss out! The Shakespear dialog on the fade out was recorded live off the radio at the time of mixing and could not be duplicated with a second take! Shows you how magical & lucky The Beatles were. Also, you mentioned you have heard 'Goo Goo Ga Joob' somewhere before. You actually heard it last week without knowing the original source; "Goo Goo Ga Joob, Mrs. Robinson'. Paul Simon included the phrase as a nod to The Beatles as 'Walrus' was in the charts when Paul Simon was writing his song! Small world, eh?
This sounds like a demo version. This isn't the version that appears on the Magical Mystery Tour album.
Not even the Beatles.
@@timbriere2325 Check your ears.
Strange sonic version of this song on your video. The real sound is far much rich and deeper
Wrong track. People fall for it all the time. This is a take of the song in combination with the scenes from the film. But it's not the official version of the song. The original is longer and contains more song gimmicks.
And sounds much better.
Then there's the recent remix of the song which adds some new stuff but subtracts some as well. It's a musical minefield trying to get the right one to listen to it for the first time.
Todays music listeners don't really appreciate how impactful The Beatles were in the 60's, sad really.
yeah I feel you there I'm 21 and don't know anyone else who loves the beatles like me. I'm British as well! also thought you'd find it funny that my name is Jude.
@@ezclappoggers Hey, Jude! I grew up in the 60's so I got to hear The Beatles when they were new and have never stopped loving their music. I say often to my music friends that there are only two bands in all the years I have listened to different genres of music that I like all their songs, they are The Beatles and Band-Maid, although I might have to add The Warning to that list as their catalog gets bigger!
I can totally understand why they don't ~ ~ they weren't there, like we were, to Live in it. I'm thrilled that some of the younger generation is open to listening to them and learning about their music and the history of the 1960's. Thank goodness for reactors, like Lee, that provide the path for younger people to travel down ~
Where did you get this version...re listen to an album version from the pre 2024 remix..although it is good earlier mixes are better ..in my opinion..especially the latter half of the song..listen closely..you hear a radio play of king lear...
Hello goodbye does have a video
From ‘she loves you yeah yeah yeah’ to this in 4 or 5 years. They moved at light speed
Drugs are a hell of a drug.
Beatles ahead of their time still the greatest
Unfortunately NOT the original audio of the song
The real version will shock you, after this. Try 2003 or the 2009 remaster (not remixed) from a streaming service.
The first worldwide international TV broadcast was The Beatles and friends singing All You Need Is Love. Amazing historical moment.
IMHO arguably Walrus is their greatest artistic achievement.
Only matched with Tomorrow Never Knows.
A Day in the Life imo
I won't argue, but it's Strawberry Fields for me, if I had to pick one.
“Revolution 9” imho
It's so out there yet so mainstream. It sure as hell wasn't mainstream at the time.
It sounds mainstream to "today's ears" because of the Beatles's lasting influence on so much of the mainstream music that came after. What's familiar in the present was groundbreaking when originally made.
This definitely wouldn’t be considered mainstream in today’s landscape. MGMT made a song in this vein called “Alien Days”, yet most critics trashed it, because it sounded nothing like their hits.
That was 2013, and nothing much has changed since then in terms of acceptance.
The Beatles get a pass for their reputation, because they can do no wrong in most people’s eyes. (Which they’re right, The Beatles essentially have a perfect catalogue.)
But I’ve also noticed a lot of those same people recoil when you point them to experimental psychedelic music from other artists.
If I had to pick ONLY FOUR Beatles' songs: "I AM THE WALRUS" "TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS," "STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER," and "A DAY IN THE LIFE".... They're all Lennon compositions (which tells you which way I lean)... but I also adore McCartney and Harrison songs, too. ...and yeah... Ringo, was a fantastic drummer and PERFECT for them. What an incredible band that actually lived up to the hype.
Those are good picks! But, I might sneak I'm Only Sleeping and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in there!❤
"Let the fuckers figure that one out." -- John Lennon, on the lyrics for "I Am the Walrus".
Stupid song
Wow! One of my favourite Beatles songs from my favourite Beatles albums! When it first came out, London was a place of technicolor wonders. Hippies were everywhere, dressed like ceremonial tribesmen in crushed velvet pants, tie-dyed or Indian shirts, beads, the works. We shopped at Kensington Market - a huge department store which had been taken over by dozens of small Hippie businesses. We had the International Times and Ink, our own newspapers, and Oz magazine. British psychedelia was in full swing, and the music told us we were changing the world! This song, and the whole Magical Mystery Tour album, takes me right back to those amazing days! I'm looking forward to your reaction!
Andy Edwards just ranked MMT #2 Beatles album yesterday on his channel, behind Abbey Road, but ahead of Sgt. Pepper.
@@heartoftheroseI agree. Mind you, I'm prejudiced. I just love British psychedelia - so different from American. The only records of that genre to come close to it are Odgen's Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces, and S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things. But they are both concept albums and need to be taken as a whole, whereas MMT is a collection of brilliant stand-alone songs.
@@barryderby”The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is #1 to me. Syd Barrett was a phenomenon. “Piper” smack dab captured the British psych pop music of the time, along with the sound of heavier bands like Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Yardbirds, together with the freak-out nature of Soft Machine and AMM. A smorgasbord of every corner of psychedelic music at the time.
I wasn’t there, I’m a millennial, but I’m certainly obsessed with the music for the past 15 years now.
@@psychedelicpiper999I agree with you about Piper, but Floyd created their own genre! Their two successful singles from that era - Arnold Layne and See Emily Play were much more typical. Generally British psychedelia was playful, childlike and wistfully nostalgic. Probably Odgen's Nut Gone Flake album by the Small Faces was the best example of this. Even fashions looked back. I remember wearing a Victorian frock coat, and we bought Victorian jewellery from Portobello Market. It was an amazing time to be young and carefree, living in London!
Paul Simon added ‘Coo Coo Cachoo’ to Mrs. Robinson. You may have heard it there.
That track was missing some things or mixed weird. I thought it was just me. But others noticed it also.
It was a person who said on a social media about how John Lennon wrote the most beautiful words for all the songs that he ever wrote, and she was just so enthralled with him. But we also know John Lennon wrote “yellow matter custard dripping, from a dead dog’s eye ‘ … So there’s that.😂
I love these guys so much since I was a teeny bopper, watching them on Ed Sullivan, and listening to their music on the radio, and getting records when I could. I lived in the barrio, so we didn’t get much. At that time I had as many 45s as I could get, many of those singles were not even on albums. I have not enjoyed a reactor as much as I have enjoyed you. Thank you so much.
This is not the official audio. Somehow you have a link to a much inferior version… produced very sloppily… not at all the same experience as their original recording. In fact, whoever tried to “reproduce” this ruined it enough to make it crap in my opinion.
Maybe just one of the sides? Backing vocals and other instruments are missing.
They cut the outro and the mix is strange. Not your fault. You never know what you're getting anymore.
The Beatles needs to upload the music video because people see this one (the uploader even put "official video" ugh) and every reaction channel reacts to this version of the song. So annoying.
Maybe the poor Giles Martin mess from the new “Blue Album”…
@@RobertERensch Yeah. This isn't the alt version that's been around for a while. This is Giles version. I wanted the first good mix for this song from Giles but it's the one song he decided to get daring on.
NOT the original version (sounds close but it's off) --- do yourself a favor and listen to the official version off of the Magical Mystery Tour album. It is a strange and wondrous song --- this is not the studio version.
This isn't the sound I remember from the LP/single in the '60s. Check out original. Also worth a listen is Oasis version from Live @ Kenworth. Incredible live arrangement, didn't think k it'd be possible but they kill it
Magical Mystery Tour was a real freaky film. Fun song with nutty lyrics.
I'll have to go and watch it. If this is any inclination of the full film, I bet my sanity will be tested lol
@@L33Reacts I will not be liable for nightmares!
@@L33ReactsThis might be helpful in giving some context to those crazy lyrics.
ruclips.net/video/FmyuiRmJhT0/видео.htmlsi=6lbPXfroM2shk9CP
There's so much in this song that you couldn't hear because of the mix. It was panned to one side and the Beatles were known for separating elements strictly to the left or right channel. Go back sometime and listen to the correct version and I'm sure you'll love it.
I already listened to it this morning after yall so graciously recommended and yes it is almost totally different lol
This is actually one of the alternate versions released in the 80's. Check out the original studio recording.
I love these guys so much❤ so much fun ❤😊
My obsession with this track began at age 13 when I first heard it. A massive song and one of my absolute favorites of all time ❤
So... you're obsessed with this song...but somehow didn't notice that this isn't the original version?
@@ptolemyauletesxii8642 Of course I did: as soon as I joined the premiere/live chat and watched it. What point are you trying to make? That comment went up before the reaction was even shown.
The evolution of the music of the Beatles is an astonishing thing.
That was from the movie, Magical Mystery Tour. I like the chant, smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot.
My second favourite Beatles song, it’s so trippy and random but somehow coherent in composition it’s completely bizarre
Hmmm yes this isn’t the version I know and love… where are all the “Whoooooo!”s in the chorus? Anyway nice words as usual Lee, so sad to hear about Mike Pinder. X
The sound mix sounds a little off on this, unless it's my speakers. You can't hear a lot of the orchestration or background vocals.
'The Magical Mystery Tour' is a 52 minute long film about a surreal bus tour featuring the music of the Beatles and was first shown on national British television late in the afternoon on Boxing Day (26th December)1967. My family all watched it together on the black and white telly (all there was then). As a 13 year old lad who loved the Beatles I was quite captivated. The adults less so, my father muttering 'load of rubbish' at regular intervals! Newspaper critics were fairly cruel too.
Yes! You are absolutely right without directly saying they were ahed of their time. Thus, their influence into rock music and pop culture. Hearing John sing brings me sadness once again.
Thank you for reacting to this song. I really enjoyed your take on this masterwork. And I do love seeing a reaction that gives kudos to Ringo Starr and his unique style that is integral to what makes the Beatles sound like the Beatles... it just cannot be overstated. Also, you were very perceptive in describing his style as being structured 'backwards'. Ringo is a left hander playing a right handed kit set up, giving him his signature rolls across the toms. It's interesting to consider that also means that half the Fab Four were left handed (Paul and Ringo) and that also means that all the living Beatles are left handed. thanks again for the react
It's definitely not the original album release, but any version of a Beatles' song is worthy! ☮
Awright! Magical Mystery Tour! My favorite Beatle album. Every song is a classic. Listen to the whole album man... you will not be disappointed.
Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder were both in The Moody Blues.
No one but the Beatles could have done this!
Totally!!!
John's fuck you to those that overanalyzed their songs.
Love it. I love the fuck you energy lol
@@L33Reacts people still overanalysed this song later on. led to people thinking Paul died and was replaced.
@@L33Reacts a video about how and why he wrote it ruclips.net/video/FmyuiRmJhT0/видео.htmlsi=xfRDyPyIs30zxoCz
@@ezclappoggersTotally forgot about that. I could hear "Bury my body" a bit more clearly in this video version. (Or maybe it’s the much better earphones than I had in the day :-)
Koo-Koo-Ka-Chooo. the key to the meaning of all things
I love your “WTF!”s … hilarious!
As Everyone is saying this is not the original album Track ...... This version is second rate, compared to The Original. Even if you don't react to the original .... You do need have a listen ..... .... I really dig your reactions
Cheers mate 😎
You’ve got to do this one again with the right track.
The Beatles are everything 😊
That line"Yellow Matter Custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" was a playground chant in Liverpool at the time. Though our version was yella belly custard green snot pie.
The "Egg Man was an actual person they met.
I used to hear Yellow Mustard Custard and that sounded gross
Reminds me of reading it in Raymond Briggs' "Fungus the Bogeyman":
Scab and matter custard,
Snot and bogey pie,
Dead dog's giblets,
Green cat's eye.
Spread it on bread,
Spread it on thick,
Wash it all down. With a cup of cold sick.
Got in trouble for reading this out in school as a young man in a lesson we were meant to bring in and read a poem for.
@@Jimi-DV thanks for that. I hadn't known that. It's great.
the playground rhyme went on as follows...all mixed together in a dead dog's eye. Kids chants were sometimes shocking to adults!
One of my favourites this! Well Lee John read that teachers were analysing with their school students Beatles songs so John wickedly came up with this. A perverse whimsy, nice one Winston! 🤡🥕😹
I believe he'd read about a specific teacher who had been one of his teachers before was doing this; a teacher who John was in trouble with more often than not that put him over the top!
@@lauraallen55thanks Laura I did not know that ! 😹
Never know what you read is true or not, but remembering more now, it seems that a current student wrote to John and told him about it lol!@@johnbyrnes7912
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This is not the original song. It's dubbed or messed with but John's voice is messed as well as all the music. Sorry this happened to you.
Version matters here, although perhaps less to first-time listener (or would it be more?). Anyway, this is my most listened-to Beatles song - I never tire of it.
Great reaction . JL was a genius
6:07 It's been quoted a few times by people, and if you're thinking of a song tou've heard it in, you might be thinking of the similar sounding 'coo coo ca choo' from Simon and Garfunkle's Mrs Robinson.
I'm surprised that you couldn't find the Hello Goodbye music video.
yeah its strange how reactors find the bad fan made videos of other people but not the officials that pop up at first when I google it
Hello Goodbye has a video. A good one!
Now and Then took a lot from that video.
There are 3 versions of the 'Hello Goodbye' video; #1 in the Sgt. Pepper outfits, #2 in street clothes and #3 where they are dancing wildly around the stage. #3 is the best by far and the portions used in the 'Now and Then' video (especially of John) are from this third video. It's available on the extended 'Beatles 1' collection on DVD.
Amazing video lee❤ you really get them
Lee...I'm enjoying your reactions. I appreciate your honesty and insight. You get it, and are getting in. You've still got a lot of learning ahead of you, especially in regard to psychedelia and "the game." ✌️😉 I'm a 54 year old English teacher who still feels 17 in his soul....my trip started with The Beatles "all those years ago." I look forward to watching you take the journey.
I highly recommend the US Mono 45!!!!
To me, it’s my go to version because it has the extra bar after “I’m Crying “!!!
It kept them up at night, lol. This was the "Promo Video" for the Magical Mystery Tour movie and is missing multiple layers of the final recording.
Yeah I went and listened to the real version this morning and this is a cheap imitation of it lol but the video was fun to see.
its not even the official video for it, some parts are cut out
Not the original recording
Don't try to make sense of the vid,it was the 60’s and they were tripping,but it made perfect sense to us who were youngsters on this release.
What an era.
Yep, not the official audio nor is it very good. It is John's vocals but backing vocals are missing. It's either an earlier take or someone's mash up. There is a 2023 Remaster of it also.
u got it man, about being so out there and yet so mainstream. dead on
They are an anomaly amongst anomalies! Such a special group that reached so many
Ringo has such an unusual drumming style
When John wrote this, he told his friend, Pete Shotton, "Let the f***ers work that one out, Pete!"
Good old Lotton and Shennon.
It’s great no matter what the nitpickers say. It’s the Beatles!
There is a video for Hello Goodbye
About 10 years ago I bought the I Am The Walrus CD single. I would play it every day in my car and try to hear something new in it each time.Only then did I fully appreciate what a genius drummer Ringo Starr was. The other Beatles said to him, we have no guidelines to tell you how to drum on this track, do what you think fits the song the best. And he did just that. Every man you mentioned who worked on this song, including the 2 Moody Blues members, were musical geniuses in one way or another.
This isn't a music video. It's clips from their "Magical Mystery Tour" made for British TV movie.
yes but not the official one, because a random guy posted it he had to put some outtakes in for copyright reasons.
This is my all-time favourite Beatles song. There was nothing like it before and there's been nothing like it since. It stands alone and defies description. That middle eight transition (Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun...) is just brilliant. A complete tangent from the rest of the song, but it works beautifully.
The most surreal song I've ever heard. I was 11 years old when the MMT album came out, and was immediately entranced by Walrus, and have been ever since. I want it played at my funeral (not kidding, it's written into my will). Because everyone who has ever known me knows I love this song.
L33, you really gotta explore the Rutles too! 😆😆😆
Cheese and Onions
Note the Rickenbacker bass Paul was using instead of his trademark Hofner.
You are correct about the 'you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down' line. As you probably know, with George Martin being the elder gentleman in the studio and being more conservative, the group regarded him as the schoolmaster. I've read that when Lennon played a demo of the song, Martin turned to one of his assistants and asked, "did he just say what I think he said?"
Check out “Piggy in the Middle” by The Rutles. Should also check out The Rutles film - brilliant fake documentary about an alternate universe Beatles
Yes, basically Monty Python meets the Beatles.
The great thing about the Rutles was that they had several high level musicians. Neil Innes, of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
doing the writing, guitar and vox, Ollie Halsall of Patto,Timebox and Boxer on guitar, solos and vox ( he's singing not Eric Idle), John Halsey from Patto and many sessions on drums as Barry Wom and Rikki Fataar a session guitarist who played Stig O Tracy.
I heard that when someone asked him about the Rutles, John started singing Cheese and Onions.😂
When I was around ten years old, I heard the song for the first time and it was the first song that totally blew me away. It was my favorite song for a long time ("Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin replaced it). Nobody, absolutely NO ONE around me could understand my love for this song. But what other band of the Beatles' fame at the time could afford to record such a freaky song without losing their status? No one!
Lee , you know more about this band more than your letting on , give !!
There is DEFINITELY a video of Hello Goodbye, from the same movie.
Ringo has a drum kit left-hand set-up and he is right-handed, hence the unorthadox drumming.
Spooky Tooth did an outstanding version of this on their 1970 album The Last Puff.
In before the block, although this might be safe because it's not the official mix. Paul has recently been quoted saying this was his favorite songs of John's. Rick Beato also has a cool breakdown of it. It's a wild song, and the video matches it (again, not sure this is frame for frame the same thing from MMT). Paul was the director for most of the Magical Mystery Tour film, although John might have given him a dream sequence he had for this individual segment, like he did for the restaurant scene.
I've always heard the part that includes "...pretty little policemen sitting in a row" was from George Harrison and the part "Yellow-mattered custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" was suggested by Donovan.
And yes, you are absolutely having the correct reaction to the song, lyrics and video, even though they're not the original versions. It was meant to elicit WTF reactions. John Lennon really got off on doing that to people. Of course being based on a Lewis Carroll work, it was bound to be weird yet delightful. In an era where music takes itself so seriously, we need more of these kinds of songs.
There is a video of Hello Goodbye, it’s a bit of fun and another fab song…
John definitely was tripping when he thought this one up. The lyrics are mad lol
i consider the beatles "foundational" music. everyone should know them to make sense of what comes after. my 27 yr old daughter is into the beatles, thank you very much... and, she loves gardening. naturally she calls it her "octopus garden". she grows strawberry (fields), (glass) onion, (sgt.) pepper, etc... some "kids" are gettin' it.
Yes!!! RIP Pinder say HEY to Jim W.
Orange is great, but I like purple better. Orange used to be my favorite color when I was a kid.
This song always took me on a trip when I was lit...
This was a re-do for their unsuccessful movie, Magical Mystery Tour. Please check out the studio version. All the best background sounds have been left out of this version. ☺
My favorite color is auburn... I recommend off the white album... Everybody got Something to Hide and off Let It Be- Across the Universe - The latter tune has arguably Lennon's best poetry and the first one Rocks...
In the 60s they didn't have writers and directors for music videos. They just had the band and a camera crew show up and do goofy things.
Oh yeah, they were actually sitting in an English garden when the sun came up most were tripping on acid. Yeah, John wrote a lot of stuff when he was high. George actually wanted to write music and do music well without drugs and that’s why he went to India to study transcendental meditation. Oh my God, I still love these guys so much after 60 years
You heard "Coo Coo Cachoo:" (or at least published it_) 4 days ago in Mrs. Robinson. I left you a comment about it, It's all connected. Nice reaction. PS "The walrus was Paul" (Glass Onion).
It's Goo goo gajoob. Often misheard as coo coo cachoo. Even by Lee here.
@JB-Deadskins I knew that but had forgotten. No excuse for a Scouser who still owns the original 3 books of Beatles songs that I bought in Liverpool. I'm getting old! Thanks for the correction JB.
JB, Perhaps you can help me with the song lyrics on YOU WON'T SEE ME. Is it "I can't turn away" as written in books and on the internet, or is it "I get turned away" which makes more sense? It sounds more like the latter.
@@cliff481 I get turned away is what I hear. Doesn't sound anything like I can't turn away. But people on the Internet just cut and paste, so there's a lot of propagation of incorrect lyrics on songs out there. For instance, in the second verse of City of New Orleans, the Steve Goodman song that Arlo Guthrie made famous, the lyric is "pass the paper bag that holds the bottle," but some idiot posted it as "pass the paper bag but hold the bottle," so now you see that as the lyric on most sites. 🙄
@JB-Deadskins Yes, the #2 of the 3 books I have clearly reads "I can turn away* published by Northern Songs, probably written by staff after listening to it. Good conversation. Thanks for the info.
There is a video for hello/goodbye
My father was given a lot of early Beatles singles at the end of the 60s and this was the most satisfying musically. In their top 3 or 4. I pay little attemtion t lyrics.
Funny, I have never heard McCartney referred to as “underrated” - multi-instrumental musician. Check out his first solo album whereon he plays ALL the instruments!
It was the beginnings of Psychedelic Rock, The Summer of Love in 1967. They had stopped touring by this time, and concentrated on exploring what they could do in the studio.
On its release, everyone said, "Wow," then "WTF?, then "Wow."
Lee there is a video on Hello Goodbye and its very colourful in a Pepperlandish outfits ! You have to make sure you avoid fakes. You are the carpenter! 😹
When I was doing English in high school in the 70's, we were doing Shakespeare and after reading some of King Lear the teacher asked if the passage we'd just read reminded them of anything. "It's the talking bit on I Am The Walrus!", I said. "Yes!" he exclaimed. I was the first student he'd ever had who answered that correctly. This is my favourite song ever.
Another one for you:
The harpsichord bridge in "In My Life"...is straight out of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
Check 1:38 of this version: ruclips.net/video/sYNo8F6kl4c/видео.html
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come........yeah, we've all done that ...
Ringo is left hander playing a right hand kit.
The movie was made by the BBC as a series of songs linked together by people on a 'Magical Mystery Tour' in a coach. It was first shown in black and white the day after Xmas 1967 at prime time on the BBC's main channel - yeh The Beatles were REALLY big at the time. It was shown again on the only colour channel available 12 days later. The audio is a remix from the master tapes. I prefer the original mix.
Also in 1967 there were enough communications satellites up to do a round the world TV broadcast ('Our World'). The UK contribution to this was The Beatles recording another song from the album, All You Need Is Love.
There IS a video to Hello Goodbye