Brilliant reaction, Miss Jayy! You're right on...you've just got to go with it! You had me laughing with "the deep meaning..." You always pick up on things. You're a smart young woman! Back in the day, I remember when this was first released (showing my age!), we all pretty much had the same reaction with the lyrics....but LOVED the song nonetheless!😂 The Beatles certainly pushed the envelope at every turn! Thank you!
Deliberate Lyrical Nonsense by John Lennon! He Got Sick of The Media, & Every one reading GOOFY 💩 into there Music! The Last Straw was When they Claimed that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Was Glorifying LSD Use!
That's the stupidest thing I ever head in my life. This era is when people STARTED analyzing his lyrics and reading into them. "Glass Onion" you could say that about, not this one.
Thank you Jayy, i got it when i was just a little kid , say 7 or 8, its just a lyrical exercise, go with it! Need more reactors like you, great work as always.
I know, I know, this song was Johns snub at everyone analyzing his lyrics, but the first line, "I am he, as you are he, as you are me, and we are all together" can totally be represented in a Venn diagram, and, using symbolic logic, you can prove this is a valid argument. That being said, this is my favourite Beatles song.
This is my second favorite Beatles song. It's not supposed to pan back and forth like that - you're listneing to one of the remastered versions. Best heard on vinyl.
John caught wind of a certain teacher that was making students listen to Beatles music and trying to interpret their songs supposed deep meanings. So John wrote this saying "let them try and figure this one out." Classic John Lennon.
That's completely, idiotically wrong, I don't know where you heard that, but it's complete bullshit. He wrote the first few lines on acid trips and was well into his psychedelic phase, basically going down the path Dylan was doing at the same time, word play, not saying something but giving the IMPRESSION of giving something. What you you're babbling about is GLASS ONION, if anything.
"I Am the Walrus" was written by John Lennon & is from their 1967 TV musical film "Magical Mystery Tour". It is one of their more quirky songs. John wrote the song to confuse listeners who who were constantly trying to make serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics.
Have you heard Tomorrow Never Knows, or even wilder, Revolution #9 BACKWARDS? Yeah, don't listen to it before bed when you're 16 years old. "Turn me on, Dead Man." It gets even scarier. I had nightmares for a week in the late 90s. Glass Onion is a song from the White album that mocks people who thought he was intentionally hiding messages in songs, but I think once that got started, he just threw stuff in when he was high to mess with people.
@@christhornycroft3686 We did that when I was in college. Disengaged the rubber band from the platter and pushed the record around backwards with a pencil eraser. Freaky as all hell.
@@christhornycroft3686 I got into The Beatles around 2017, and more seriously in 2020, but I remember as a kid in like 2008 seeing videos about Revolution 9 backwards and it freaked me out, long before I ever knew The Beatles.
Especially because up until when this came out, the Beatles hadn't strayed far from their formulaic pop rock origins. So when this came out, there had never been anything that sounded like this before, from any rock group, so it hit us like a ton of bricks out of nowhere. I had never paid much attention to the Beatles music until then, it was just too pop for me, I liked the harder guitar rock or music with an edge. This song in particular made me notice the Beatles. It's just so well constructed, and truly original, unlike anything before it... and it sounds amazing, especially in the context of the time. The stereo sound effects sound primitive now but they still hold up. And the intentionally cryptic lyrics are excellent, they fit the song perfectly.
I was a kid when this song and Strawberry Fields Forever showed up as B sides on 45's. Not sure which one creeped me out the most; probably the end of Strawberry Fields. Both are great psychedelic classics, not at all common songs for the time, though 1967 did start a big psychedelic boom.
Agree Bill although the mushrooms are more natural 😉 on a side note Bill I grew up in the south end of Liverpool and we got our mushrooms close to the Strawberry field orphanage from Lennons famous song.
From "She Loves You" to this in just under 4 years, talk about progression, not to mention music like that didn't even exist untill it was created out of nowhere, or maybe a lot of drugs lol
Ostensibly… John-who was never a fan of “intellectuals” attempting to try and analyze Beatle lyrics for some higher meaning-was rumored to say, “let them analyze THIS.” So that’s John in a nutshell. Vaguely a snot.
If you react to The Beatles Medley, you need to listen to it all without pausing or one pause in middle , because it's all unfinished songs put together on one side of Abbey Rd that blend into each other. You'll love it , I think lol
You totally get it!!!!John Lennon loved playing with words and making people sit up and take notice. I love it and I love the fact that you receive it exactly as he intended. Add his gorgeous voice to the strange lyrics and we have another winner! You are way ahead of so many other people who are trying to do what you do with so much insight. You’re the best. 🌺✌️
Love your commend " Just go with it " You hit it right. It's one of those Beatles song that you have to hear several times to get the full impact . This Beatle song has been covered over 70 times . Every one of the Beatles songs have been covered.They are by far, the most covered artist ever , So you're right to say ,there is no bad Beatles song .
One of my most favorite song of theirs! Imho, arguably, (along with Tomorrow Never Knows) their greatest “artistic” achievement in sound, music and recording genius
This one is a personal favorite. Surrealism all over it. It's astounding this is the same band who barely three years previously were singing Please Please Me. John loved Alice in Wonderland and by 1967 was playing around with words in his lyrics, inspired by Lewis Carroll. He also had at least one book of his utterly unique style published. "In His Own Write." It's a hilarious, bizarre work of art.
If you think this is wild, listen to Tomorrow Never Knows from their Revolver album. That whole album is kind of trippy, but that song especially caused quite a stir. The lyrics are lifted almost directly from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It's a trip, literally. It really set the tone for the next 2 singles, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, and the Beach Boys-inspired Sgt. Pepper album the following year in 1967 - though I don't think they ever did another song that was quite as "out there" as Tomorrow Never Knows. I remember when I was about 16 putting on the Revolver album before bed that I had on CD. I never did that again. Lesson learned. 1966 and 1967 were very experimental years for the Beatles. The late 60s in general were. After I Am The Walrus was released, people started the whole "Paul is dead" theory and John Lennon to some extent played along, by continuing what he started with the song Rain from 1966 by back masking or recording certain sections of songs backwards and leaving silly messages to mess with conspiracy theorists. On the White Album, there was a song called "Glass Onion," and in it John actually sings, "The walrus was Paul." He almost made a game of it because in the beginning, the Beatles WEREN'T hiding messages in their songs. The Rain had a back masked ending, but that was almost an accident. They just thought it sounded trippy. But when people accused them of hiding satanic messages in their songs, John kind of threw in goofy messages, probably because he was high half of the time. Revolution #9 was the most notorious of those kids of songs. Playing it backwards is probably just as scary as Tomorrow Never Knows. The gibberish in that song you could make sound like almost anything.
@@andrewkorbel9883 Or Revolution #9. In reverse. Care for a nightmare when you’re 16 years old and figure you’re putting the White Album on before bed? 😂
Your reaction was adorable! It's so much fun for me to live my youth again, watching you react just as we did in our youth with each new Beatle's song that came out. It is a metaphor regarding magic, Satan, his demons, etc. This album opened the way for other groups such as The Rolling Stones and their delving into the dark side with "Their Satanic Majestie's Request" album.
Lennon grew tired of all the people ascribing "what they think he means" to songs he writes. He decided to write a song with fake words (Koo Koo ka Joob) and phrases that have no meaning whatsoever, just to confuse everyone to a great melody and passion.
I get tired of people saying how tired John was of people analysing his lyrics....sorry you're just the umpteenth post on this tired theme I've seen....ahhh, I'm so tired
Since his early teens, John always loved to play around with words and their meanings, making up surreal cartoons and stories in magazines he distributed to schoolmates. If you read his two published books "John Lennon: In His Own Write" and "A Spaniard In The Works" you'll get the picture. He often used familiar everyday phrases and words like mosaic pieces to be taken apart and put together again in other more interesting, strange, funny or disturbing ways. He read and was inspired by classic children's literature like the original 'Alice' books by Lewis Carroll - the Walrus figures in a long and strange poem in one of them, called the Walrus and the Carpenter, about befriending little oysters on the beach and then eating them... Other phrases come from children's songs and games he'd have heard growing up in Liverpool, like "oompah, oompah, stick it up yer jumper!", and so on...
All you have to do is go to Lennon's last big interview for the December issue of Playboy magazine which hit newsstands on 12/1/80 just a week before his death and he stated that what they were saying was "Got one, got one, everybody's got one" and went on to say "Like one penis, one vagina, everybody's got one" which is so John and hilarious. Peace ❤
@@janetcarlson9960 Yes he was. He certainly was no angel but at least he grew into a man that was man enough to admit his transgressions about the way he treated women in his younger days and how he totally bailed on his first son and had no relationship with him growing up when a child needs his father. He owed up to all that and went public with it and many in his position of privilege and power don't do that. He certainly wasn't an angel but in some ways he was and even saintly in some manner. He was honest and brought joy to countless millions of people. The big three for me in history are Jesus and not because I believe that he was the son of God but because like John, he was a rebel, a radical who was very charismatic with a great message which was basically love and take care of each other. I recently watched a four part history on the life of historical Jesus, not magical, fantasy Jesus portrayed in the Bible on the Smithsonian channel and it was amazing. The conclusion was that he probably wasn't the son of God. My other two all time favorites are Abe Lincoln and of course John.
Fun fact! The Beatles actually recording snippets of live broadcasts on the radio at the time they were recording the song and spliced it in and throughout the song! So that’s what all those ambient and random dialogue is lol. Sooo cool!!
Boy, you nailed it! It's meant to be a nonsense song. During the time when The Beatles recorded it, people were reading things into their records. Trying to find hidden meanings that aren't there .....Secret messages and such. So John decided, "Okay, I'll give 'em something to try to figure out." And he was just messing with those people's minds. They went crazy.
Lucky you... listening to 'I Am The Walrus' for the first time in your life! 😉 I was 13 or 14 when I first heard it, and I thought it was very scary, but I immediately wanted to hear it again. And again. And again. Until today. It's a vibe.
It took me quite a while to "get" the Beatles songs which appear to make no sense. As I've grown older, I find the best way to look at them is the way you'd look at a surrealist painting by someone like Salvador Dali. The images aren't meant to be interpreted as symbolism or allegory. They just are what they are, like images in a dream.
With American DJs and college kids looking to find hidden meanings in John's lyrics, he first went back through his songs to see if he could find any. After hearing many of the zany interpretations that were being spread around, Lennon wrote "I Am The Walrus" and said - "Let the f*ckers figure this one out."
I Am The Walrus was the first song the Beatles recorded after the passing of their long time manager Brian Epstein. Those present at the session said there was a negative vibe in the air throughout the session. The Eggman was Eric Burden of the Animals. Eric told John that he had a proclivity for breaking raw eggs on his sexual partners during love making. The two sets of vocals on the outro coda are "Oompah oompah stick it up your jumper" and "Got one got one everybody got one". RNB
In the 1950's and 60's there was a group of popular holiday camps in England called Butlins. To keep the kids amused and give the parents a break they hosted the Butlins Beaver Club for kids. As one of those Butlin Beaver Club kids we used to march around the camp shoutng...'Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper' while pulling our jumpers out and sticking our fist up there
It's hard for people today to understand the impact this song had on fans of the group when it was released. This was out there beyond Pluto! Released on the flip side of the single " Hello, Goodbye, " it proved how experimental the Beatles were becoming in the studio.
That you even know and can say with conviction and without hesitation “This has to be John Lennon” tells me you have arrived in terms of the journey you have been on.
Right on but I would probably have to throw in "Abbey Road" also. "Come Together" "Something" "Oh Darling" "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Here Comes The Sun" makes worthy in my book. By the way "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" just may be my favorite two favorite Beatles album's. The remix of "Revolver" released last September sounds exceptional and the bonus of the single "Paperback Writer"/ "Rain sound incredible and "Rain" is probably the most underappreciated Beatles track ever. This song was the first LSD inspired song, not "Strawberry Fields Forever". Sonically, there's a lot of first time recording techniques that were firsts by anybody. Such a cool song and probably Ringo's best drumming ever on a Beatles record. John felt it should have been the A-side and I agree. He ended saying that it was the greatest B-side ever on a single by anyone. He said "I claim it for The Beatles" Right on John ! Peace ❤
You're hearing this in stereo (stereo means there's different information in the left ear from the right). But you have to remember, when we were first introduced to the Beatles music, we were listening to it on AM radio (low-fidelity MONO), since that's where music radio could be found. I wish all you reactors had gone through and discovered the Beatles music in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, the way we discovered them. You'd have a better appreciation of how they evolved and grew. You can Google "Beatles discography" and bring up a chronology of their singles and their albums. Every single they released was a hit (most were #1 hits). And what set the Beatles apart from just about every other band in history is that even all the songs on their albums (including the ones that were never released as singles) were (and are) widely known to most everyone who was alive back then. Their music just became the soundtrack of our lives. For many, it still is. You're in about the 1967 time. Have you listened to "All You Need Is Love?" Maybe the greatest Beatles song of all time.
Jayy, not a lot of people get "I am the Walrus" on the first listen, Great Reaction! Everybody who commented on your reaction is right. John with his tongue in cheek had to of said, "This oughta keep them up at night"
yellow belly custard , green snot pie , all mixed up with a dead dogs eye , slap it on a butty , nice and thick , and drink it down with a cold cup of sick. An old schoolyard rhyme John and his friend remembered while writing this song, so he threw the yellow matter custard and dead dog's eye into the mix because why not? 😂
Seriously? You totally nailed it. The song was meant to not make sense. Some of the lyrics were written during LSD trips. The music...the sounds...it's trippy, but you're right. It's a vibe. But, as weird and senseless as it is, it's a great work, with the strings, the background vocals and voices. I was a kid when this came out, and I thought it was very cool. The imagination that was used to create this with the technology that was available was pretty much as good as it could get. In a way, the limitations OF the technology helped propel it forward. I've always loved this song, and it never gets old for me. I've heard it so very many times and I still love it.
Lenon, tired of people looking for the hidden meaning of the lyrics of his songs (as in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, LSD), set out to compose a song that no one could decipher, in his words "not even in 100 years." He added lines randomly from the experiences he was living and that's how he wrote this song.
An amazing production! And a groove! By the way, that talking towards the end is a radio play(that was playing on the radio when they recorded the song)of Shakespeare's King Lear. If you read King Lear, you can actually follow along(...Oh, Untimely death...Is he dead? Sit you down, Father...rest you"). Great job, Jayy!
Don't try to analyze; he purposely wrote a song that did not have any meaning....Pls. react to THAT BOY,, look for a live version, amazing 2 part harmony
Carl Jung “On the Psychogenesis of Schizophrenia” [1939] Collected Works Vol 3 “Bleuler [Jung studied under Bleuler at the Burghölzli institute] himself points out the remarkable similarity between schizophrenic associations and the association phenomena in dreams and half-waking states.( page 506 ) … “To say that insanity is a dream that has become real is no metaphor. The phenomenology of the dream and of schizophrenia are almost identical, with a certain difference, of course, for the one occurs under the condition of sleep while the other upsets the waking or conscious state.” ( page 522)”
