The Beatles - I Am The Walrus REACTION THIS IS THE ONE! 

My 12 year old daughter made me so proud the first time I saw her rocking a Beatles shirt that I didn't give her. As a young child she mimicked what I like as most children do, but it was more than just copying dad because well into puberty she continues to like them, spend her money on apparel and is the hippest 6th grader I know

me too!!!

Yeah it restores my faith in humanity, their music transcends race, politics and time.

my 16 y-o nephew is into nirvana and bought a powder blue guitar to be like kurt - the kids are gonna be okay! lol

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Well, to be fair, he _did_ have a little help from Shakespeare! ;)

Syd Barrett wants a word!

Supposedly he had all the orchestral parts planned out, he hummed them to George Martin. The ending, "smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot", was, according to JL, "everybody's got one". The radio was Ringo spinning the dial he hit on a Shakespeare play

@@stevemd6488 Indeed it WAS "Everybody's got one", as no one should know BETTER than JL!

Indeed, he's the only one who did.

Revolver and Rubber Soul helped break them of the earlier rock standard they cultivated, phenomenal albums

Yep, that is why they were both the most popular and the most innovative at the same time. They really ruled the 60s and they are still hailed as the best band ever up to the present.

It’s about Mia Farrow’s sister who spent most of her time in her cabin during a religious retreat.

And if we’re talking Lennon, also Across the Universe and I’m Only Sleeping... unless he hasn’t already done A Day In a Life yet.

@@SpotWorksLNC, oh yes, (Im Only Sleeping) is a very good slept on song.

Yes, might be my favorite.

It's okay, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone new. It's tame.

Waiting for the van to come

Lennon was obviously dropping lots of acid at this point.

@@martyslazenger935 He said, that with so many people dissecting the lyrics of his songs and putting constructions on them that were wrong, he was gonna write a song with such obtuse lyrics, and then watch people trying to make sense of them. Hence 'I am the walrus'.

@@Pokafalva still doesn't change the fact the guy was tripping unbeatable levels of balls during that time.

@@bigbubba7753 Yeah, deffo.

Nor will you ever want to get out!

I know these youngsters of today don't even know the walus was paul.

agreed

Agreed 👍🏻

Amen! My 21 yr old just discovered it and loves it. He even likes Flying!

It is under-rated. You can tell they just had a lot of fun recording that one.

@@bobmarket8056 well then the Grammys should take back the awards from Saturday Night Fever and the Bodyguard soundtracks since they are not really albums.

Agreed, nobody progressed like that. And, 2 albums per year! prolific!

I agree. At first they were playing the same stuff as everyone else only much better. Then they found inspiration somewhere and changed everything.

@@cliffhodge6167 They started writing their own songs so they could do songs nobody else was doing.

I'd start with Live At The Star Club . Double LP until it was withdrawn , easy to find on RU-vid now. They're the best garage band ever in Hamburg .

100%

Expert texpert choking smokers.

Electric version

Opposite of this song in a way- structured and clear. Just as good too.

Just make sure it's the "White Album" version and not one of those other ones going around.

The true masterpiece of the White Album, IMHO.

Spooky Tooth does a great version of this on their "The Last Puff" album (1970).

Its close to 70 years since the Beatles made it big in 1963.

@@shawnk7832 Yes, in ten years it will be rather close

Yep , and Savoy Truffle

Im a professional musician… I first heard the Beatles at age 7 … The drum set came at 8…. But I spun that vinyl over and over… every harmony… every instrument! Over and over and over

@@yougotgroove I envy (but I am happy) your musical gift.

La primera.vez.que.la.escuche.me.volo la cabeza música increíble..

Another psychedelic masterpiece of John

it's the first track they recorded for the album and in a way it inspired all the others

Kinda sorta, it goes thru a cycle of chords at the end thats based solely on the alphabet backwards rather than any musical theory, he's literally playing ( all major chords) G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G etc etc . It might sound 'so what' but nobody else had done it and to make it sound melodious is amazing.

Lsd bruh. Normies think these lyrics made no sense, they are still called genius because if you’re trippin balls they make more sense than anything.

You don't put The Beatles in a box. They are the box

Only one box: the Beatles

This one along with She Said She Said and Tomorrow Never Knows

Goo goo ga joob, but yesssss

The first four albums were kinda derivative, with some standout songs. But from Rubber Soul onwards, their music got very eclectic.

Me too! Tomorrow never Knows is another great song and one of my faves as well! Great suggestion 👌👍

Same with me first or second grade 1964 living on tapanga Beach California. In the 60s my parents didn’t have much money but we had the ocean, the beach and the Beatles

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.

I saw them at the Balboa Stadium in San Diego - after they left we ran down to the field and picked the grass they walked on - I still have that grass.

Yes! I first read about that in the 1970s when I read a book by Lennon's childhood friend Peter Shotton. Lennon and Shotton were sitting around Lennon's house reading fan mail and they came across a letter from a kid who said that a teacher who had failed Lennon was now telling his class what the Beatles _really_ meant in their lyrics. Lennon asked Shotton if he could recall the "yellow matter custard" song they used to sing in grade school and that was the beginning of the lyrics. I no longer have the book but I recall reading that Lennon said something to the effect of "Let's see what the fu*ker says about this!"

The first trolling?

john lennon on LSD, actually.

@@oki_music along it works

I believe his quote was "Let's see what the fuckers get out of this one."

It's kinda funny because instead of just getting random people to chant those words they got the Mike Sammes Singers, who were a pretty well-known group, and had them do this stuff instead of actually singing.

The White Album says HELLO???

Revolver and Rubber Soul,hello!!!

Uh, he mentioned Helter Skelter and Oh Darling in that quote too. Paul songs. The Beatles were great because there were four of them.

@@debjorgo true, but it is accurate to say that John songs were generally the more edgy songs in the Beatles catalog, even though he could also do tender love songs with the best of them like “All You Need is Love”, “In My Life”, etc... but true, they could all be everything, specially together

@@hw343434 A lot of what we think of as John being edgy, was post production work done by George Martin. John was angry that his songs were always the songs being experimented with. He thought his songs were being sabotaged. He wanted to re-record may of his songs. George Martin asked "Even Strawberry Fields?" John said especially Strawberry Fields.

@@debjorgo Yep, this is true in many examples like “Strawberry Fields”, and I agree with John in that as amazing as that recording was, perhaps it didn’t do justice to what an incredible song that is in its pure songwriting essence. But as far as edgy, John was just a much more edgy songwriter than any of the Beatles, and songs like “I want You (She so Heavy) he took post-production edginess into his own hands by playing the White Noise Moog Synth sounds that rise at the end and then ordering Engineer Geoff Emerick to “Cut the Tape!” against the studio’s wishes. That song is about as edgy as The Beatles ever got, unless we’re talking “Revolution 9” which was produced by John mostly with some help from George and Yoko.

@@hw343434 No that's not true. It is a common misconception among current day fans and media which comes primarily from Lennon's interviews and off the back of Plastic Ono Band the album. It also mainly stems from two instances in the public consciousness, We Can Work It Out and Getting Better. One Lennon provided a downbeat middle 8 (life is very short...) and the other a rejoinder in the chorus (it's getting better all the time - can't get much worse). As well, in the time pre-1980ish, most fans had no knowledge which composer was the main writer of which song. It was assumed that Lennon was the rocker and McCartney the balladeer, especially in America where similar types of song writing partnerships had existed during the earlier years of the 20th century. A good example of this is the contrast between Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. The assumption is that Penny Lane is a straight ahead song while Strawberry Fields is the trippy one. Yet, if you look at the lyrics to Penny Lane you'll see it's quite psychedelic. For example, it's simultaneously summer and November (the pretty nurse selling poppies from a tray near Remembrance Day) and sunny and raining (there beneath the blue suburban skies and fireman rushes in from the pouring rain....very strange). Additionally, people like to point to Revolution #9 but this was recorded a year after the McCartney led Carnival of Light, which is still unreleased thanks to Harrison who thought it was, "shit"). McCartney, being single and living downtown London from 65-67, was involved in the Avant Garde scene and was the first Beatle to know about Yoko Ono, having gone to her exhibit before Lennon. They were very complimentary and often wrote songs about the same subject matter differently. McCartney, being much more melodic in his writing, tends to get the "cute" or "upbeat" label. But compare two songs about depression; Lennon's Help! v McCartney's I'm Down. Lennon was quite upset that they didn't stick to his vision of the song, which had originally been a slowed down piano ballad. Contrasting that, I'm Down is a rocking song whose melody covers the darker theme (you tell lies thinking I can't see, you can't cry 'cause you're laughing at me, I'm down, I'm really down) In relation to the stark, stripped down Lennon songs of 69 (Don't Let Me Down and I Want You(She's So Heavy) respectively) come months after McCartney did the same thing on Why Don't We Do It In the Road. A song he recorded alone, which irritated Lennon, as according to Lennon it was a great track he wanted to play on. For McCartney, he indicated it was tit for tat at having been excluded from the creation of Revolution #9. And all of this does not include many of the examples of Lennon's softer side (which a large number of people assume were McCartney tracks) ie Julia, Cry, Baby, Cry, If I Fell, etc etc

How about "Tomorrow never knows"?

Listen to them all :)

Fantastic track.

Yes

Oasis...? I would say Liam Gallagher pretty much copied Lennon's singing style and vocal delibery in this particular song and employed it for his entire career

Yes! That’s one of my Top 5 favorite Beatle songs❤️

I read a story years ago about one of their many BBC live broadcasts . There was some sort of holdup , while they waited they just played every song on the current UK Top 10 .

@@stuartharrison165 Those BBC recordings sound great too.

@@crspwl1950 Absolutely !

It’s “Everybody’s got one”