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
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
At the end of the song the Beatles are saying 'Smoke Pot! Smoke Pot! Everybody Smoke Pot!', but because it was 1967 and weed was still very illegal, they had to dirty it up a bit so it wasn't so obvious to the notorious 'THEM'! I love the Beatles!
Many people who are just casual about The Beatles think only of the lovable "mop tops" on Ed Sullivan singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." But this band went in so many different musical directions, you can't pin them down. That's part of their genius. What ties all their different styles together, though, is their incredibly high quality of musicianship. Everything they did was amazing.
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.
@@bobmarket8056 well then the Grammys should take back the awards from Saturday Night Fever and the Bodyguard soundtracks since they are not really albums.
You will NEVER stop loving the Beatles. Each song better than the last. You should listen to them chronologically, because you ACTUALLY SEE their musical progression boo. Much love and thank you. 🙏🏼
@@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'.
100% What they started...has yet to stop. Perpetual sound waves. One of the most valuable spawns off invention by man in human history. They're credited with westernizing communist Russia, the Soviet Union, East Germany. Correct ? Not sure. But, i believe so. The thing about them, the one theme that was consistent with them; they wrote about peace & love. Love prevails always ! This year 2024 in the U.S. Love slays Hate. Kamala Harris beats the hell out of a really Bad Actor in DJT.
John Lennon wrote this after he heard that his old school was using so e of his lyrics as a study text - he despised his school so wrote the most random nonsense to see if they would try to make sense of them, it worked
John actually sang this song through a Leslie speaker! It really changed the way his voice sounded. This is definitely in my top five songs by The Beatles! Also, the lyrics are John Lennon trolling before trolling was cool! George added sampling from Shakespeare's King Lear at the end, too! The choir singing "Everybody's got one!" also begs the question, "One What?" Psychedelic to the max!
This is a song from the soundtrack of a made for TV movie. The movie was crazy as hell. John played the Walrus in the movie. The British press ripped it to death, but looking back it was totally Beatles and probably ahead of its time
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
I think that this entire album is as close to tripping as you can get. You feel every little emotion, sight, sound, love, pain and anger. It seems to change throughout the songs, sometimes very quickly and sometimes slowly. If you close your eyes you can even feel the colors. The complexity and simplicity of each song is magic!
I have three daughters, 17, 15, 12, who have been well-indoctrinated in the Beatles. They are passing the genius of the Fab 4 on to their friends. I love seeing kids turned on to the music I grew up with. With the Beatles it's the more you know, the more there is to know. Keep up the good work.
The Beatles never settled on a "sound." Other bands found what works for them, and stuck with it to produce hits. From the start, the Beatles never repeated ideas. Every album, every song was a progression, an evolution, never sticking to a "formula," yet you always knew it was them, and it always worked perfectly. It's really something else to listen to them in order. You can really hear how much they changed over time.
You said it Every Song by the Beatles is So Magnificent! I have got to agree...Been a fan since the Ed Sullivan Show. This music has stood the test of time. Great to see the younger people enjoying what I have for over 56 years. BEATLES!
John Lennon was heavy into the word imagery of Lewis Carroll at the time and got much of the inspiration for this song from the poem 'The Walrus and The Carpenter'. Check out 'All You Need Is Love' also from this era!
I was obsessed with the Beatles since the first time I heard them in 2nd grade. They have been the soundtrack of my life and it’s great to see another generation appreciate musical genius at its best. My favorite is Tomorrow Never Knows.
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
Walrus goes thru EIGHT key changes. A single key change/back to the original key is considered “advanced” melodic song structure-this song does that EIGHT times.
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.
The Beatles set the stage for ALL MUSIC in America! When they came to America, they set the bar and just open the doors to the world of Rock and Roll and really all types of music influences. The Beatles were just EVOLUTION to music. 💕
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.
When I was little, my friend and I would jump and dance on the bed (we regularly fell off! 🤪) and laughing our asses off at this song. “Coo coo cachoo” huh? 😂 The brilliance of the incredible John Lennon. May he rest in peace. ☮️
Magical Mystery Tour is definitely underrated, it gets lost between their other albums a lot! The Fool On The Hill, Your Mother Should Know, and Baby, You're A Rich Man are greats. Also still looking forward to you doing And Your Bird Can Sing (for the harmonies) and Tomorrow Never Knows (to blow your mind) :)
If "Oh Darling' is one of your favs then definitely "I'xe Got a Feeling" will become one, sung by both Paul on the heavier part first and John on the mellower (but edgier lyrically) side of the song.
This song is basically John Lennon trolling people who would take his lyrics way too serious .. just a bunch of nonsense from Lennon .. GENIUS!!!! This is ne of my favorite Beatles song
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!"
John Lennon learned that a poetry class at his old school was analyzing the lyrics of Beatles songs. He decided to write crazy lyrics that meant nothing. The end of the song is very hectic, because there is a choir of boys singing "oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper," a choir of girls singing "everybody's got one," and a scene from a Shakespeare play that Lennon taped off BBC radio. (It's the death of Oswald, from King Lear, act IV, near the end of scene 6.)
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 Beatles are fantastic and they possess a hypnotic attraction in their musical style . ..there is no band like them and will never be! I love 🐞🐞🐞🐞=🍏🍎🍏🍎The Beatles lol...I lived Beatlemainia I loved it it was so beautiful to all children...I was 9 in 64'
I think you could be a ready for ‘tomorrow never knows’, I love the Beatles, listened to them for years but I still remember the first time I heard tomorrow never knows.
The ways he’s always shocked by the Beatles diversity of music after listening to so much of their stuff is a testimony to how different the Beatles are.
Thing to keep in mind is how revolutionary having all these sound effects and layering of tracks was for the time. Beatles were the first band to get on a drum set and individually mic up each drum directly....so they could literally control every tone. They reverse looped orchestra noises. Just about anything...and they did it all on "ribbon" tape....like literal reel to reel tapes...you had to cut and physically splice things in and punch up mixes manually as you bounced tracks. This stuff was lightning years ahead of its time.
Since you love this side of them, I highly suggest Tomorrow Never Knows. You will flip out, this song is completely insane! Sounds modern AF, very ahead of its time. Also Happiness Is A Warm Gun and Yer Blues (their heaviest song ever!!!!) will blow your mind!
This is an example of how The Beatles revolutionized rock music. BTW: "Semolina Pilchard" was Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher, head of the Scotland Yard Drugs Unit. He led the arrests of both John Lennon and Brian Jones before being investigated himself for blackmail and bribery in the '70s.
I am the Walrus, Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye, bring back memories, and every other Beatles songs. My mum made us Beatle pillows, Beatle Curtains, and Beatle pyjamas! She’s 95 this year, I must ask her if she liked the Beatles too 🤔😃
I remember exactly the situation when I first listen to this song. I was 14 (back in 1978). One of my aunties gave me the "Blue Album (1967-1970)" as a christmas gift. Early the next morning I started to listen. The first side of the vinyl album made me dizzy. It was a complete new world for me and my ears. The 2nd side started with this song - and I thought, my ears gone wrong. I didn't had any explanation about the way, The Beatles produced this particular song. The effects, the sounds are wonderful - and complete strange. The voices are from outer space. I never heard somthing like this before. I listened it over and over again, some hours. What a wonderful day!! This christmas was the start of loving the Beatles music my whole life and keep my ears open for new experiences.
The best trip I had was listening to this back in HS in 2007 with a few good friends lol that little breakdown in the middle at 3:01 took me to another universe lol
Yes...Lennon songs are generally more 'edgy', you might be more of a John Lennon fan. Maybe you already listened to Strawberry Fields, but that's another great one...keep going!!
@@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
From when I was little this was my favorite Beatles album because every Beatles album every Miles Davis album they were all in the house but for some reason this one was the best to me still is
Worth remembering too that this is the only song in UK chart history to have occupied no.1 and no.2 at the same time (1967) as 'B' side to 'Hello Goodbye' at no.1 and as a track on the Magical Mystery Tour e.p. at no.2. Yet again, a first by the Beatles.
Just turned onto your channel. Loving the reactions especially to The Beatles. I grew up with them through my dad so I don’t remember my reactions. Just know my obsession of them is real. I am jealous that you get to now experience it. Love the vids keep it up
This song in particular was ahead of time and helped created jobs .blue prints for bands in the 80 and 90s and beyond.......I know some know what I'm talking about....
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
Great review man. Had to hit the Big Red Sub Button. A lot of people under rate the Beatles just because they only listen to some of the mainstream airplay. Like you are doing, you really have to get into their deep tracks inside the albums. They really changed the way songs and sounds were being used in production of the albums. Some of their later music really show all the members creativity.
I grew up on the Beatles my parents were Mods in the 60s I'm 41 now and remember watching the magical mystery tour when i was 8 years old and help and a hard day's night all great movies and songs.
That was the ride called called the 60s! I started out a 10yr old kid in 1960 and ended up a 20yr old draftee on a tank named Momma Cass on New Years Eve 1969/ 1970 in Viet Nam Beatles got me thru it!
Magical Mystery Tour Album was the sound track for a movie they made in 1967. The Sound Track came out about 9 months after Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band came out. 67 was a great year for music. I think this album is one of their best. Listen to the entire album yu wouldn't be sorry.
hvnt heard vis song 4 many yrs, sounded so gd n fresh, whn i go bck 2 v beatles after a break im reminded of how gd vey wre. so progresive n amazing.plsed 2 c ur on v journey of discovery, it will take a few yrs 2 get through ver huge backcatologue.
The Beatles are being discovered by kids today make me FULL OF JOY!!
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
Replies! 😎👍!
John Lennon is the only person in the world who could have come up with this song.
Well, to be fair, he _did_ have a little help from Shakespeare! ;)
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.
@Penderyn Lewsyn that's a good point syd Barrett wrote songs like this for fun, shame he died :(
At the end of the song the Beatles are saying 'Smoke Pot! Smoke Pot! Everybody Smoke Pot!', but because it was 1967 and weed was still very illegal, they had to dirty it up a bit so it wasn't so obvious to the notorious 'THEM'! I love the Beatles!
"Dear Prudence" is another great beatles song.
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.
Many people who are just casual about The Beatles think only of the lovable "mop tops" on Ed Sullivan singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." But this band went in so many different musical directions, you can't pin them down. That's part of their genius. What ties all their different styles together, though, is their incredibly high quality of musicianship. Everything they did was amazing.
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.
@@Cowntsikin 100%. Often imitated (Not even) never duplicated...because....Not possible. A one off.
Magical Mystery Tour is one of the best albums ever. It's actually underrated in my opinion.
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.
You will NEVER stop loving the Beatles. Each song better than the last. You should listen to them chronologically, because you ACTUALLY SEE their musical progression boo. Much love and thank you. 🙏🏼
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 UA-cam now. They're the best garage band ever in Hamburg .
100%
"Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the band to come" Ahh, the 60's!
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.
@@nightshade-o7g Yeah, deffo.
It’s so great to watch people’s reaction to the Beatles for the first time
For me they’re badass. The greatest of all time, without any close second
100% What they started...has yet to stop. Perpetual sound waves. One of the most valuable spawns off invention by man in human history. They're credited with westernizing communist Russia, the Soviet Union, East Germany. Correct ? Not sure. But, i believe so. The thing about them, the one theme that was consistent with them; they wrote about peace & love. Love prevails always ! This year 2024 in the U.S. Love slays Hate. Kamala Harris beats the hell out of a really Bad Actor in DJT.
Literally smoke a blunt and then listen to The Beatles - you take a quantum leap, not just levels 💖
John Lennon wrote this after he heard that his old school was using so e of his lyrics as a study text - he despised his school so wrote the most random nonsense to see if they would try to make sense of them, it worked
John actually sang this song through a Leslie speaker! It really changed the way his voice sounded. This is definitely in my top five songs by The Beatles! Also, the lyrics are John Lennon trolling before trolling was cool! George added sampling from Shakespeare's King Lear at the end, too! The choir singing "Everybody's got one!" also begs the question, "One What?" Psychedelic to the max!
Beatles just can not be beaten as far as overall sound and lyrics. They were great and is still being listened to after 59 + years.
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
“While my guitar gently weeps” is 👌if you haven’t listened to it already!
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.
This is the kind of music that never gets outdated.
This is a song from the soundtrack of a made for TV movie. The movie was crazy as hell. John played the Walrus in the movie. The British press ripped it to death, but looking back it was totally Beatles and probably ahead of its time
"Back in The USSR" and "Glass Onion" are a couple ones you will definitely dig! They are groovy as hell!
Yep , and Savoy Truffle
One of the greatest diss tracks of all time! Lennon spitting bars!!!
This is why THE BEATLES and BLOTTER ACID go together!!!!😆😆😆😆
I remember the day I heard this. I played it 10 times in a row. I was a teen. It was over my head. And yet I loved it.
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..
I think that this entire album is as close to tripping as you can get. You feel every little emotion, sight, sound, love, pain and anger. It seems to change throughout the songs, sometimes very quickly and sometimes slowly. If you close your eyes you can even feel the colors. The complexity and simplicity of each song is magic!
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is another one is this trippy kind of far out category. Check it out. Off the "Revolver" album.
Another psychedelic masterpiece of John
it's the first track they recorded for the album and in a way it inspired all the others
I have three daughters, 17, 15, 12, who have been well-indoctrinated in the Beatles. They are passing the genius of the Fab 4 on to their friends. I love seeing kids turned on to the music I grew up with. With the Beatles it's the more you know, the more there is to know. Keep up the good work.
The Beatles never settled on a "sound." Other bands found what works for them, and stuck with it to produce hits. From the start, the Beatles never repeated ideas. Every album, every song was a progression, an evolution, never sticking to a "formula," yet you always knew it was them, and it always worked perfectly. It's really something else to listen to them in order. You can really hear how much they changed over time.
The first four albums were kinda derivative, with some standout songs. But from Rubber Soul onwards, their music got very eclectic.
"Smoke Pot!
Smoke Pot!
Everybody Smoke Pot!"
gets me every time.
😮
Yes
You've fallen deep into the rabbit hole, and you will never get out.
Nor will you ever want to get out!
I know these youngsters of today don't even know the walus was paul.
They are GOAT's for a reason.
Set the standard for everyone else in the 60's & 70's and STILL having influence today.
You said it Every Song by the Beatles is So Magnificent!
I have got to agree...Been a fan since the Ed Sullivan Show.
This music has stood the test of time. Great to see the younger
people enjoying what I have for over 56 years. BEATLES!
This song is high art. You hear it on the radio occasionally and it sticks out so much from the stuff surrounding it.
ma préférée des BEATLES ! magnifique....
3:40 - Beatles: "Don't you think the joker laughs at you ... hohoho ... hahaha ..."
HazeBruv: "Hihihi ..." :-)
Expert texpert choking smokers.
I love the static-filled AM radio picking up some random performance of Shakespeare's "King Lear" during the long fade-out.
Ringo plays such cool drums....makes the song !
John Lennon was heavy into the word imagery of Lewis Carroll at the time and got much of the inspiration for this song from the poem 'The Walrus and The Carpenter'. Check out 'All You Need Is Love' also from this era!
I was obsessed with the Beatles since the first time I heard them in 2nd grade. They have been the soundtrack of my life and it’s great to see another generation appreciate musical genius at its best. My favorite is Tomorrow Never Knows.
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.
Completely crazy, but completely brilliant!
Walrus goes thru EIGHT key changes. A single key change/back to the original key is considered “advanced” melodic song structure-this song does that EIGHT times.
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.
The Beatles set the stage for ALL MUSIC in America! When they came to America, they set the bar and just open the doors to the world of Rock and Roll and really all types of music influences. The Beatles were just EVOLUTION to music. 💕
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.
When I was little, my friend and I would jump and dance on the bed (we regularly fell off! 🤪) and laughing our asses off at this song. “Coo coo cachoo” huh? 😂 The brilliance of the incredible John Lennon. May he rest in peace. ☮️
Goo goo ga joob, but yesssss
This whole album is a journey through the colorful imagination and creative talent of the Beatles. Definitely a headphones record.
I think Happiness Is A Warm Gun by The Beatles you would really dig. Great reaction!
This is one of their “trippier” songs. It’s hard to put them in a box, isn’t it?
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
Magical Mystery Tour is definitely underrated, it gets lost between their other albums a lot! The Fool On The Hill, Your Mother Should Know, and Baby, You're A Rich Man are greats. Also still looking forward to you doing And Your Bird Can Sing (for the harmonies) and Tomorrow Never Knows (to blow your mind) :)
If "Oh Darling' is one of your favs then definitely "I'xe Got a Feeling" will become one, sung by both Paul on the heavier part first and John on the mellower (but edgier lyrically) side of the song.
This song is basically John Lennon trolling people who would take his lyrics way too serious .. just a bunch of nonsense from Lennon .. GENIUS!!!! This is ne of my favorite Beatles song
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."
Such a cool song. The Beatles are the best band ever.
Paul spits rails on I've Just Seen A Face. Walrus is one incredible song - 50+ years later and it's still one of my favorites.
John Lennon learned that a poetry class at his old school was analyzing the lyrics of Beatles songs. He decided to write crazy lyrics that meant nothing. The end of the song is very hectic, because there is a choir of boys singing "oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper," a choir of girls singing "everybody's got one," and a scene from a Shakespeare play that Lennon taped off BBC radio. (It's the death of Oswald, from King Lear, act IV, near the end of scene 6.)
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 Beatles are fantastic and they possess a hypnotic attraction in their musical style . ..there is no band like them and will never be! I love 🐞🐞🐞🐞=🍏🍎🍏🍎The Beatles lol...I lived Beatlemainia I loved it it was so beautiful to all children...I was 9 in 64'
I think you could be a ready for ‘tomorrow never knows’, I love the Beatles, listened to them for years but I still remember the first time I heard tomorrow never knows.
they were high as kites when they wrote this album.... and its brilliant
EVERYSONG BY THE BEATLES IS A MINDBLOWING EXPERIENCE
The ways he’s always shocked by the Beatles diversity of music after listening to so much of their stuff is a testimony to how different the Beatles are.
I love your honesty and openness
i was a 7 year old digging this back then.
Thing to keep in mind is how revolutionary having all these sound effects and layering of tracks was for the time.
Beatles were the first band to get on a drum set and individually mic up each drum directly....so they could literally control every tone. They reverse looped orchestra noises. Just about anything...and they did it all on "ribbon" tape....like literal reel to reel tapes...you had to cut and physically splice things in and punch up mixes manually as you bounced tracks.
This stuff was lightning years ahead of its time.
Oh yeah! "Goo Goo Ga Joob"!!
My favorite band EVER!!
They so cool.😎✌❤🎶
Since you love this side of them, I highly suggest Tomorrow Never Knows. You will flip out, this song is completely insane! Sounds modern AF, very ahead of its time. Also Happiness Is A Warm Gun and Yer Blues (their heaviest song ever!!!!) will blow your mind!
Welcome to the world of the Beatles
Yes. Despite being handicapped with all that musicality, the Beatles were so good they could almost rap. Jeeeeez.!
Been a Beatles fan for over 30 yrs. Have you heard Revolver? My all time favorite Beatles Album.
This is an example of how The Beatles revolutionized rock music.
BTW: "Semolina Pilchard" was Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher, head of the Scotland Yard Drugs Unit. He led the arrests of both John Lennon and Brian Jones before being investigated himself for blackmail and bribery in the '70s.
Amazing music. All the music i love the same.
Those were definitely some bars
Anything from "Magical Mystery Tour", "Sgt Pepper", or "Abbey Road" - is pure Beatles' greatness.
The White Album says HELLO???
Revolver and Rubber Soul,hello!!!
Watching someone get into the beatles is as good as it gets
I am the Walrus, Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye, bring back memories, and every other Beatles songs. My mum made us Beatle pillows, Beatle Curtains, and Beatle pyjamas! She’s 95 this year, I must ask her if she liked the Beatles too 🤔😃
I Am The Walrus has been my favorite song since I was a kid and I am 58. It never changed. I'm so glad you liked it my friend!
"Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come"... oooooo! Ok!! LOL
And to think they made this without technology. Could also be the first song to use samples
Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds!! One of my favorites!!
One of my favorite song's from this great album love it classic
I remember exactly the situation when I first listen to this song. I was 14 (back in 1978). One of my aunties gave me the "Blue Album (1967-1970)" as a christmas gift. Early the next morning I started to listen. The first side of the vinyl album made me dizzy. It was a complete new world for me and my ears. The 2nd side started with this song - and I thought, my ears gone wrong. I didn't had any explanation about the way, The Beatles produced this particular song. The effects, the sounds are wonderful - and complete strange. The voices are from outer space. I never heard somthing like this before. I listened it over and over again, some hours. What a wonderful day!!
This christmas was the start of loving the Beatles music my whole life and keep my ears open for new experiences.
The best trip I had was listening to this back in HS in 2007 with a few good friends lol that little breakdown in the middle at 3:01 took me to another universe lol
I'm sure it's been mentioned (or even reacted to) but Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Cracks me up every time.
"I've got a feeling" would definitely be up your alley
You make me feel ancient since I heard this beautifully original music then! Everyone must be known of the Beatles!
The greatest musical group of all time.
Bruh, I been of fan of the Beatles for fifty years, thank you for giving me a new appreciation for this great song!
Yes...Lennon songs are generally more 'edgy', you might be more of a John Lennon fan. Maybe you already listened to Strawberry Fields, but that's another great one...keep going!!
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
If everyone listened to The Beatles the world would be a better place...and The Beach Boys... and Joni Mitchell...and the list goes on.
From when I was little this was my favorite Beatles album because every Beatles album every Miles Davis album they were all in the house but for some reason this one was the best to me still is
Worth remembering too that this is the only song in UK chart history to have occupied no.1 and no.2 at the same time (1967) as 'B' side to 'Hello Goodbye' at no.1 and as a track on the Magical Mystery Tour e.p. at no.2. Yet again, a first by the Beatles.
Just turned onto your channel. Loving the reactions especially to The Beatles. I grew up with them through my dad so I don’t remember my reactions. Just know my obsession of them is real. I am jealous that you get to now experience it. Love the vids keep it up
They ARE the greatest ever....
Welcome to the Beatles! They are a good trip to explore. especially with a little help from our friends!
One of my fav Beatles song....Lennon of course.
"OOH OOH Ooh, Smoke Pot Smoke Pot Everybody Smokes Pot, Smoke Pot Smoke Pot everybody Smokes Pot"!!!
John was the master at painting a picture, and then leave you hangin. Gotta love it
This song in particular was ahead of time and helped created jobs .blue prints for bands in the 80 and 90s and beyond.......I know some know what I'm talking about....
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
Great review man. Had to hit the Big Red Sub Button. A lot of people under rate the Beatles just because they only listen to some of the mainstream airplay. Like you are doing, you really have to get into their deep tracks inside the albums. They really changed the way songs and sounds were being used in production of the albums. Some of their later music really show all the members creativity.
I grew up on the Beatles my parents were Mods in the 60s I'm 41 now and remember watching the magical mystery tour when i was 8 years old and help and a hard day's night all great movies and songs.
One of the great Beatles song. Keep diving Haze 👍🏾
Yep, remember when this album came out, had this and Strawberry Fields, two of my favorites. Like that younger people are discovering the Beatles!
This and Help, and Girl were the songs he always named as his favorites with the Beatles.
I'm only sleeping is a great one. Just love that song.
Yes! That’s one of my Top 5 favorite Beatle songs❤️
Have fun our friend. Have fun. 50 years going & I still get excited !
That was the ride called called the 60s! I started out a 10yr old kid in 1960 and ended up a 20yr old draftee on a tank named Momma Cass on New Years Eve 1969/ 1970 in Viet Nam Beatles got me thru it!
Magical Mystery Tour Album was the sound track for a movie they made in 1967. The Sound Track came out about 9 months after Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band came out. 67 was a great year for music. I think this album is one of their best. Listen to the entire album yu wouldn't be sorry.
hvnt heard vis song 4 many yrs, sounded so gd n fresh, whn i go bck 2 v beatles after a break im reminded of how gd vey wre. so progresive n amazing.plsed 2 c ur on v journey of discovery, it will take a few yrs 2 get through ver huge backcatologue.