John's answer to people who analyze every Beatles song for hidden, deep meanings.
@richardeast3328
3 жыл бұрын
@Zoey The Savannah I was twelve years old when this song came out, a little young to search for hidden meanings. But man, the images that song conjured up in a young adolescent boy's mind was fantastic.
@BronyDanProductions
3 жыл бұрын
In his own words, ‘Let the fuckers work that one out’.
@futurereflections4097
3 жыл бұрын
Abstract art doesn’t have a meaning except simply existing and that’s this song. Not for everyone.
@DaveMcIroy
2 жыл бұрын
Don't spoil it! Let them try to analyse!
@maryannc6313
2 жыл бұрын
@@DaveMcIroy 😊
@MusicLover-dt7ic
3 жыл бұрын
I Am The Walrus is a all time worldwide classic masterpiece, musical and lyrically. John showing and writing his sense of humor and smile to those who analyze his lyrics. Love this song. Thanks.
@kickflipperland12
3 жыл бұрын
the album version is so much more clear than this version. React to album versions when you do the beatles, they sound amazing
@davidjones8647
3 жыл бұрын
This isn't the original version and does not do it justice :(
@keithjones6023
3 жыл бұрын
Beatles knew how to turn the weirdest lyrics into a beautiful song. Goo goo g'joob
@moefeaux1442
3 жыл бұрын
This version leaves a lot to be desired. Most of the background sounds were drowned out and cut short. This is in their top 2 for me by the Beatles with "A Day in the Life". We can't always agree and that is ok.
@gemini2012100
3 жыл бұрын
Plus they left out the ending!
@wpollock1
3 жыл бұрын
It sounds like a earlier version of the song....it got out of synch toward the end, also.
@MrDiddyDee
3 жыл бұрын
@@wpollock1 Yeah I noticed that too, it just sounded off and drifted out of synch towards the end. This era had hard panning left and right for the mix, and some elements were completely missing or very faint, like when it was uploaded half the mix had some latency.
@GrouchyMarx
3 жыл бұрын
This is the version done for the TV movie "Magical Mystery Tour" and not awesome version off the album of the same name.
@debjorgo
3 жыл бұрын
@@GrouchyMarx Magical Mystery used the fully produced version. This is a boot version.
@GmannyIsBack
3 жыл бұрын
The song was supposed to make you feel lost in the sauce. It did its job.
@TheMrcrazy711
3 жыл бұрын
@Stabis Hop Psychedelic Pop is usually pretentious. When the ideal is that drugs can help understand all of experience it’s bound to be ego driven no matter what band you point me to. I’d argue Syd Barret era pink Floyd was for more pretentious then this but that’s a matter of subjective taste. Anyway, good music is good music no need to talk down to people in the comment section to let them know your tastes are superior. If you do reply I’d rather just have you list bands you’d recommend and refrain from personal attacks. Have a great day!
@kerryn6714
2 жыл бұрын
It takes a new Beatles listener quite a while to get into this track.
@ronalddobis6782
3 жыл бұрын
This version sounded like it was missing a track and it cut off the ending. There were a lot of interesting bits left out.
@gmgroucho77
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Lyrics out of synch with the music.
@montag4516
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, an odd, inferior remix or something.
@GrouchyMarx
3 жыл бұрын
This from the movie 'Magical Mystery Tour', and not the original version from the album of the same name.
@pattyg8464
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an alternate take from the one that was finally released. Worth seeking out and listening to the official track.
@martyslazenger935
3 жыл бұрын
@@pattyg8464 Still sort of interesting. A little heavier on the synth.
@j.jennings1722
3 жыл бұрын
Oops! Wrong title. It's "I Am "The" Walrus," not "A" Walrus. Anyway, great song and I love your reactions.
@shyshift
3 жыл бұрын
This version was cut short. It’s a Psychedelic anthem from 1967. You should listen to the whole album of Magical Mystery Tour because the first side is from the bbc television special and I Am The Walrus is the climax. It’s my favorite Beatles song but I love weird. You missed the amazing ending too. Horrible synchronization issues between the audio and video didn’t help either.
@richardpatterson302
3 жыл бұрын
Worth listening to the full instrumentation and vocal version. This wasn't the released issue on Magical Mystery Tour
@davidfisher8821
3 жыл бұрын
Definitely listen to the studio version, this was out of sync, and missing quite a bit of tracking. It’s still weird, it’s just better. Lennon purposely wrote it to confuse, so he succeeded!
@seerofallthatisobvious1316
3 жыл бұрын
Was this an alternate take? this is not the real version.
@kylebakke594
3 жыл бұрын
This video was someone’s montage they created with Beatles imagery and portions of the song. It is NOT the actual song.
@timanderson5417
3 жыл бұрын
this song and Strawberry Fields are special to me (I love strange music, back then this was strange.)
@xoxxobob61
3 жыл бұрын
It's still strange! In a Good way though.
@stephenmccormack5750
3 жыл бұрын
Well, I still don't know what the words are about after all these years of listening to it. But that never stopped me from liking the song.
@joebersik9846
3 жыл бұрын
ver bad recording!....listen to one with just audio......it cuts off 2/3 of the way thru!!
@redgreen82
3 жыл бұрын
This definitely sounds like a cover with John's vocal track layered over it. There's no way you could have known that though.
@brianparker663
3 жыл бұрын
You are absolutely, positively, 100% correct. There are a few of these about - such a shame that people get duped.
@johngeer4557
2 жыл бұрын
However, he did leave in some things for understanding. He talks of a Pilcher in the song. (norman pilcher)
@longfordflyer3672
3 жыл бұрын
The Eggman is supposed to be the nickname of the exceptional singer Eric Burdon of The Animals who is said to have had a penchant for eating eggs from the bodies of naked groupies. The Animals are further referenced in the song with "I'm crying"which itself was a song of theirs written by Burdon and the hugely talented Alan Price who played keyboards in The Animals
@mr.plantman1332
3 жыл бұрын
THE walrus! happy 420
@monicamad1285
3 жыл бұрын
Happy 4/20 🎉
@davidgale7384
3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry.... This was deep in a very high moment ...we didn't get it either. .
@jayarr961
3 жыл бұрын
This song was inspired by the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll from Alice Through The Looking Glass. John said that he later found out after that the Carpenter was the good guy and the Walrus was the bad guy. Perhaps the title should have been called "I Am The Carpemter"
@timbillings6884
3 жыл бұрын
🎯👍👍
@jodyparrish637
3 жыл бұрын
This is a great track and you probably should have listened to the og version.
@sean---the-other-one
3 жыл бұрын
As others have said, it was designed to do what it did to you. That being said, there was something odd about this version. At the end the lyrics started to go out of sync with the music. I’ve never heard that happen on any other version of this that I’ve heard. Also, the ‘wooo’ at the end of every line of the chorus was way back in the mix. I think this audio has been doctored.
@sr1285
3 жыл бұрын
This is a song of a song of its a time, back then we just knew where they were coming from and loved it, they were just blasting out random lines for the critics to pull apart or try to analyse as with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, fab from the fab four.
@supasoulproductions
3 жыл бұрын
This is true psychedelic rock. And the lyrics are deliberately created to confuse those who have never been experienced, Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have.
@noracola5285
3 жыл бұрын
Also check out Devo's cover!
@dimwit7474
3 жыл бұрын
John shoulda titled this: "Analyse This!" He had a lot of us scratchin' our nOOdles ... until it dawned on us.
@neillenet291
3 жыл бұрын
This is definitely NOT the most accessible Beatles song, but there is genius contained within it.
@jeffmurray1681
3 жыл бұрын
I've never heard this version. Sounds like a version that was left on the cutting room floor.
@Dankpuffin
2 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece, just an awesome song about everything, everywhere, all at once.
@jasonrichardson1208
3 жыл бұрын
The Beatles during their psychedelic phase! THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR album is fire!!
@stephanieo2509
3 жыл бұрын
This is different than the album version. Never noticed that before.
@kevinbuchholz3496
3 жыл бұрын
I think if you found a different video to watch you might like it better. The sound on that video was missing one channel. It sure didn't sound right.
@827dusty
3 жыл бұрын
"I am "the" Walrus, I am the egg man, Coo-coo-ka-choo!
@anthonyblakely399
3 жыл бұрын
You are discovering why The Beatles were so popular and why they are still popular......and why they influence sooooo many other artists. I absolutely love this song.........and Helter Skelter. They are truly the gods of Rock n' Roll along with Yes of course.
@glennthompson1173
3 жыл бұрын
That's the charm in this song it's goofy. I love this song. Of course I'm goofy so maybe that's why?
@alanarakelian5021
3 жыл бұрын
"The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus" may be the first cousin to "Come Together" for sheer weirdness and obscure lyrics.
@rubbersole79
3 жыл бұрын
By far one of my favorite Beatle songs.
@lonecrow1577
3 жыл бұрын
Not familiar with this version of the song. Listen to the album version. Just an added note, you say that you don't get it. That's the point, there is nothing to "get". It's just a interesting composition.
@debjorgo
3 жыл бұрын
This version is like listening to it with only one speaker. The video is different too.
@HydraulicAquarium
Жыл бұрын
When I heard to this song for the first I totally loved it, this is my favorite beatles song
@brasco96wired67
2 жыл бұрын
This is 1 of the best Beatle songs. John found out that teaches in schools were analyzing their lyrics and made this song just to show that he could put any lyrics in a song.
@southernwanderer7912
Жыл бұрын
"Sitting on a corn flake, waiting for the van to come." You can't beat Lennon's lyrics.
@j.jennings1722
3 жыл бұрын
People are still confused by this song. Some say John wrote it to screw with a former teacher whom he heard was savagely critiquing his Beatles lyrics in class. It's a bizarre song but it grows on you.
@MsAppassionata
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t believe he was “savagely” critiquing their lyrics, just over analyzing them to the point of being ridiculous.
@rkardos4220
2 күн бұрын
One of my many favorite Beatle songs. Seinfeld was a show about nothing as this was a song about nothing. Both excellent
@iche50
3 жыл бұрын
It was in the 60's the B-side from the single of the great hit "Hello Goodbye".
@mikeg.7248
2 жыл бұрын
I was a child when I first heard this and I loved it. I loved it bc I enjoyed that it messed w ppl always trying to make sense of things. Ppl needed to know that sometimes you just gotta have fun and stop trying to make sense of things. The Beatles were the first to do this.
@trevorholden7423
3 жыл бұрын
I am the Walrus is not a one listen song, it's a song that grows on you after a number of listens and for that reason was put on the B side of Hello Goodbye which was the super commercial A side. The unorthodox melodies and chords make it unforgettable once it's inside your head. The song was written in August 1967, at the peak of the Summer of Love and shortly after the release of Sgt Pepper. Lennon later claimed to have written the opening lines under the influence of LSD.
@dino0228
Жыл бұрын
John took disparate thoughts, ideas, and words that struck him and lumped them into this song haphazardly to confound the listener - in response to hearing that teachers were asking students to analyze Beatles’ lyrics (mine included). The basis is Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter (from Alice Through the Looking Glass), a favorite author of John’s and inspiration for many lyrics in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The two characters in the story are always crying as they lure young oysters to their doom as their dinner; I can hear them chugging along the beach in the music. John also took “eggman” from a carton of eggs, the yellow matter line from a childhood rhyme, the name Pilchard from the police figure who was after high profile celebrities for drug use, etc. I urge watching the whole of the Magical Mystery Tour movie for the history (as precursor to Monty Python) and for the visuals and other amazing music. Their colorful outfits and large to minute movements (especially John’s and Paul’s) in this piece are amazing! 😊
@tcanfield
3 жыл бұрын
It was funny how I happened to be looking up Eric Burdon’s Wikipedia profile shortly after hearing this and found out he was “ The Eggman” ! I can’t say much more about how John nicknamed him that since it involved a kinky use of an egg so you would have to check it yourself to read the weird story behind it.
@MsAppassionata
2 жыл бұрын
I heard he liked to crack an egg over his sexual partners during the act.
@anthonylovavto3228
3 жыл бұрын
Crazy images from a crazy time the 60s! Lyrics are reflecting the chaotic times......
@louisaklimentos7583
Жыл бұрын
I love it because it is different and it was written to be that way .
@nahoj234
3 жыл бұрын
This is not the final mix thought. I think you would love "while my guitar gently weeps" from " the white album"
@benjaminjohnson8010
3 жыл бұрын
This song was done for a tv special that was only seen in england,the album was appart of the show magical mistory tour,, from what I know they were contractually obligated to do this but were not crazy about it.
@twanadenson1293
3 жыл бұрын
Listen to their song "Glass Onion" . IT tells you who the "walrus" was.
@p.millard557
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, lots of us know it was Paul
@wbmstr24
2 жыл бұрын
its john just stringing together words and rhymes because fans were always trying to read into the lyrics, so he just put all this crayz stuff together.....it was 1967......
@mikeshea8077
2 жыл бұрын
Just a note to the host,who wasn't aware that their songs were constanting being analized.John Lennon was tired of everything they wrote was under a microscope.so, John wrote a killer song where the lyrics meant absolutely nothing. That was John's way of saying analize this.sometimes nothing can so much.Get it?
@alanr4447a
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, not just _any_ walrus, *THE* walrus!!
@patrickgattiker9765
3 жыл бұрын
The album version is one you can Bob your head to a bit more. There's not a Lotta meaning to unpack from this one, that's the way John wrote it
@mikefetterman6782
2 жыл бұрын
John found out schools were analyzing lyrics to find meaning. He wrote this purposefully to say "Try and figure this one out". John was all about imagery. Painting word pictures. There was rarely a message or hidden meaning. If there was it was usually about hookers, transvestites, or drugs, to get around censors. Paul was the song crafter, and John was the song painter.
@marcosc11000
6 ай бұрын
This version is not complete. It s one of the most complex song. Masterpiece
@mgonzales56
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know if the sound was off so it wouldn't get blocked, but the sound was horrible. It is a weird song today, so you can imagine what it sounded like back in the 60's. It was just John having fun with words. No deep meaning, just a great song. I have loved it since I first heard it as a kid in the late 60's.
@ameliacharles7119
3 жыл бұрын
Never have and never will understand why this band grabbed the zeitgeist and were elevated to such a high level by so many. I have the utmost respect for there influence and importance, but other than Tomorrow Never Knows, which I think is a great song, they do little for me personally.
@MsAppassionata
2 жыл бұрын
You don’t have to like them (which I don’t understand but…). However you should realize how innovative they were by being the first band to experiment with tape loops, backward tracking, feedback, doing most of their own songwriting themselves, their use of early synthesizers (Mellotron and Moog), etc. They also made it more possible for those who followed them to experiment creatively in the recording studio. Like them or not, these were things that set them apart from most bands at the time. Plus, the amount of hit songs they wrote is astounding.
@dalebaker9109
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant Beatles! So different to anyone else, this is not the best version, which is out of this planet. Please try to get a best version. It is outstanding flipping great.
@kevinmcconnell9426
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day, in England they had “the egg man” like we here in the US had “the milk man”.
@ronaldcrawford9310
2 жыл бұрын
Hey man...it ain't fer everbody...."Koo kooo Kachoooo" LOL
@lynnehatton2013
3 жыл бұрын
"She's Leaving Home" is a song about a teenage runaway called Melanie Coe who was an only child. Paul McCartney read the story in a newspaper. A classic Beatles song with great lyrics.
@IllumeEltanin
3 жыл бұрын
It's been awhile since I listened to this, but was this severely truncated?
@iamstevec1656
3 жыл бұрын
definitely not a good version of this song.
@LaStarza61
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, a lot was cut off the end of the song.
@srbaran
3 жыл бұрын
Some parts feel sped up.
@magicbrownie1357
3 жыл бұрын
Probably the trippiest song every written and recorded. Full on "acid" rock.
@joelliebler5690
3 жыл бұрын
The song was about John poking fun at critics and fans on how they try to dissect the meaning of their songs. All tongue in Cheek!
@ScottDeBerg
3 жыл бұрын
The walrus was Paul ... according to John Lennon, "Glass Onion" off the White Album.
@rebelxxx3382
3 жыл бұрын
The Beatles - i want you (she's so heavy)
@munizdaniel7
3 жыл бұрын
This song did its job... That was the whole point of it!
@robertJ14
3 жыл бұрын
Listen to what they were doing in the studio (for 1967!) Lyrics aren't everything in a song , weird doesn't just mean bad it means different
@Wungolioth
3 жыл бұрын
This Is NOT the actual song from Magical Mystery Tour, it's an alternate take that is vastly inferior to the finished product, the video seemed to have behind the scenes shots that aren't in the actual video. I would say try seeking out the official video, even if on your own time.
@brianparker663
3 жыл бұрын
Indeed - it is an out-and-out fake.
@marknovak6498
3 жыл бұрын
Colleges were studying Beatles songs in college courses for mean. John Lennon pitched this one as a reaction. He said in this song. OK, find meaning in this. Loved it even as the six-year-old who heard it on the radio.
@zebjohnson5118
3 жыл бұрын
"I was the walrus, but now I'm just John " ✌️♥️
@p.millard557
3 жыл бұрын
But according to Glass Onion, the walrus was Paul. 😀
@zebjohnson5118
3 жыл бұрын
@@p.millard557 in John's song "God" he clearly states that he was the walrus 🤔
@charliecochran3035
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting version. It's a little stripped down, which is great for John's vocals, but the background effects are missed.
@lynnsmith3976
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my Chod, don't even try to make sense of it. John was tired of every Beatles' song being taken apart to find the earth shaking meaning. He figured let them try to do something with this song. LOL Once you get past this, you can enjoy the music of it. Thanks for this.
@sdeea8621
3 жыл бұрын
ME AND MY DADDY'S FAVORITE SONG👨👧💙💯✊🏾
@MrYendor65
3 жыл бұрын
This isn't the finished release version. Missing alot of elements that was later added.
@roberttreborable
3 жыл бұрын
John showed a friend a letter from a school saying they were studying the lyrics to his songs in their English class... John laughed saying; Let them try and sort this one out..... IMO it's in the tradition of nonsense poems, The Walrus and the Carpenter... Lewis Carol and other such English writers .....
@MsAppassionata
2 жыл бұрын
Plus British schoolyard rhymes.
@nicolasjorgesorabilla6413
3 жыл бұрын
Not the final version of i am the warlus my friend!!!
@artsilva
3 жыл бұрын
This sounded like the demo cut. The point of this song was John Lennon getting sick and tired of people trying to interpret their songs badly, so in retaliation he wrote this one and basically said, "let them interpret This mess!". It was an abstract art test musically and lyrically as a joke just to get a reaction.... just like this one. Looks like it obviously still works.
@timbillings6884
3 жыл бұрын
That's I'm the Walrus!!! Your not expected to get it!!! 🤷🏻♂️ If you were tripping you would still not! 😂😂😂😂😂
@andreaknapp2394
3 жыл бұрын
Great song!! Can't go wrong with The Beatles!!
@robc.8269
3 жыл бұрын
They had discovered lsd w/ the Stones' at a party. The for front of the drug revolution. It's on Sgt. Peppers & is a continuation of "Strawberry Fields". Listen & have fun, especially while high.
@martyslazenger935
3 жыл бұрын
Those outfits! lol.
@josephely6873
3 жыл бұрын
It was meant to mess with the people who try to make sense of the lyrics and the story .John was on LSD when he wrote this.
@southernwanderer7912
Жыл бұрын
The song title is "I Am the Walrus."
@Xcris_crosX
3 жыл бұрын
You got it! That was the idea behind it... to confuse. Multitudes worldwide looked to the Beatles and their lyrics to find deep hidden meanings to life's state of affairs. War, peace, love, hate, etc. many felt the Beatles had the answers. Of course they didn't see themselves in that guru status. John Lennon said of this song: "Let the fuckers work that one out". As it turned out for hardcore Beatle freaks they found a treasure trove of even more clues in the jumble of words and phrases
@PaulWilliams-ko5fu
3 жыл бұрын
John Lennon was a great fan of Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear particularly Lewis Carroll's Jaberwoky. According to the book One Two Three Four John was sent a letter by a 15 year old pupil from his old school Quarrybank, who said their English teacher would play Beatles songs in class, and get the boys to analyse the lyrics before contributing his own interpretation. Trying to think of the daftest rhymes John remembered a song him and his friends used to sing at Quarrybank "Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dogs eye, slap it on a butty ten foot thick, wash it all down with a cup of cold sick" . He then added things he remembered from childhood like semolina pudding, delighting in the teacher trying to analyse the nonsense lyrics he was writing. In Revolution in the Head the late Ian Macdonald thought "it gradually became an anti institutional rant blasting education, art, culture, law, order, class, religion and even sense itself. The hurt teenager's revenge on the expert textpert schoolmasters broadens into a surreal onslaught on straight society in general an anti litany of smiling pigs in a sty, city policemen in a row, corporation Van's, and the guardians of conventional morality beating up a fellow psychedelic rebel (the opium addicted surrealist Edgar Allen Poe)". The studio version is better, including samples from a production of King Lear recorded from a BBC Third Programme production on the radio, which adds to the atmosphere. It is widely thought this song inspired Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne to later form The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) to perform their own songs in this style. Don't worry about any annoyance you may cause Mr Wilburn, you are there to give your honest opinion, but I would encourage you to listen to the original studio version, in your own time.
@paulharbron361
3 жыл бұрын
When he says coo coo cha chu, he’s wanting you to remember the first time when he said you could be too. This is a 007 song. He’s sending the message that everyone needs to rise up and be themselves. Hard for someone your age given the language. Consider it any song you know at your age that has an underlying message meant to confuse the powers that be
@elainemarsh5170
3 жыл бұрын
An oddity. No one's favorite Beatles song.
@GrouchyMarx
3 жыл бұрын
Deep Beatles fan here! Hate to lay this on you Chod, but this is not the original version from the album 'Magical Mystery Tour'. This is a lesser version done for the movie of the same name made the same year as the album release. Now, do the much better original studio album version that 99.9% of us know very well, just to compare! You'll hear the difference right away. Been a Beatles fan since '64 at age 9 and know their great music well and I have to say this is only the second, maybe third time I've listened to this particular version.... including now! LOL! The original album version however, I've listened to an uncountable number of times! Best to stay away from music videos like this that are not original studio releases of songs or albums, unless they're using the very same original released song with it. As for the meaning, John sometimes wrote lyrics because the words and sentences sound great to the music, not for any real meaning. There is no real meaning here, just interpretation. Think of this song like viewing a Dali surreal painting at an art gallery. Or an abstract form of art, rather than a familiar landscape or a Rembrandt portrait. Progressive rock is sometimes surreal or abstract which the case for 'I Am the Walrus'. I would really like to see your reaction to their awesome studio version you'll find on the album Magical Mystery Tour. But it may still confuse you! LOL! Don't feel bad, man. When we first heard this back in late '67 we were wondering "What the f*** is this?" LOL! We loved it though, and we were trying to find all these hidden meanings and only years later realize there's no real meaning, just enjoy the song and interesting music and weirdness for what it is. Like a Salvador Dali! ✌️😎
@paulhansberry8168
3 жыл бұрын
Try the studio version, this is from their magical mystery Tour album.
@jazzminb
2 жыл бұрын
I never really understood the lyrics but I don't have to understand the message to enjoy the song. Its a fun, trippy video - just sit back and enjoy
@troymartin9443
3 жыл бұрын
i believe this is an outtake version of the song
@alonsoquirosgranados7568
2 жыл бұрын
I loved this reaction a lot man thank you so much for doing it. Please react to A Day In The Life by The Beatles, their masterpiece by far.
@patrick1muldoon
3 жыл бұрын
Great song but I definitely like the original from Magical Mystery Tour much better. Its unfortunate The Beatles have so many different versions of their songs out there and often the original album versions don't come up first.
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