This is not the official version. This uses an early take of the song and matches it with alt/rare scenes from the film. The finished song adds violins, cellos, recorded scenes from Shakespear, etc... and is a work of art. The official version syncs the song and the video much better.
@@Y-two-K Just now looking into it but the video reacted to here is label "Official video". But I know it is not the right one right away when Paul does not point to Ringo to play the drum intro.
@@rosebud6661 Well it certainly isn't the finished track. It could be an alternate mix with the sound effects mixed out. Well, if you have the info, what are you saying it is.
You don't need to be a genius to understand that it's a smart guy who made a cover of this song by just putting the vocals on it and putting the video on top of everything. It works, he has plenty of views and likes and the people even ended up believing it, to the point of making reaction videos, which is a shame. I've been listening to their songs for over 30 years and as a fan, the "in progress" beta versions are known, this instrumental cover has nothing to do with them. Do your own research and you will quickly understand that this version was never recorded by the Beatles.
"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 were constantly trying to make serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics.
John wrote this song and it’s not supposed to make sense. He wrote it that way because people were trying to figure out what their songs mean. Don’t think really hard about it, it’s supposed to be nonsensical
😂😂😂 you gotta love the madness of the Beatles. So creative and insane at the same time.😂😂😂 That's Scousers for you. Thanks for the vid bro. Made me laugh a lot.👍
The men dressed in white in the background are the eggman. The video is taken from the movie Magical Mystery Tour-which was a psychedlic movie about a journey to nowhere in reality but a trip far away in the mind.
In the middle 60s some colleges were giving courses on the meaning of Beatles songs, so John wrote “I am the walrus” and said let them figure this one out!
The lyrics are very British, very "tongue-in-cheek", so it really comes as no wonder if people from other countries (like me) have a hard time understanding all the innuendoes. A part of it is inspired by "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" (the walrus and the Eggman, i.e. Humpty Dumpty), and children nursery rhymes (the Yellow-matter custard stuff). Other parts are probably sayings or proverbs turned inside out by John Lennon. "Semolina Pilchard" is probably a reference to policeman Norman Pilchard, who had made a point of going after pop stars and get them for drugs possession. I've always found this song absolutely brilliant, in its own,psychedelic, absolutely quirky way.
i don't know where this video came from but its about a minute short and re-edited from the original. there's 2 official versions of the "i am the walrus" video. one taken from the original source "magical mystery tour" film and the other taken from the "anthology" videos. both versions are better than that one. thanks for the reaction.
:D For a "full explanation" of this particular song, it's style and their costumes, etc. may I suggest reacting to the Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"? ;)
John lLennon wrote the lyrics and he was told by some musicians that they would always study his lyrics so, he wrote a song that didn’t make any sense just to mess with them,that they would never figure the songs meaning.
I have a kinda funny story about this song. I worked for a big company that supplied all media to stores like Walmart back in the day. I got a call one day from a lady at a Walmart in the middle of nowhere with a customer who had a special request. She had gotten a letter from her son, who was in Operation Desert Storm, about his funeral if he was killed there. He wanted "I Am the Warrior" by The Beatles played. I sat there forever, trying to think of that song, but nothing. Suddenly, it dawned on me that the kid has been hearing the warrior instead of the walrus his entire life. I had to tell this woman that I could have it sent to the store, but she might want to check with her son, telling him the correct lyrics. I never heard back from anyone, so I assume the kid made it back in one piece. And that's my story....lol.
Yes trippy, that was the era, probably more easily understandable when under the influence, might be a form of meditation, ku ku ka chu, just kidding, I didn't know then ,still don't, it's deep though
"yellow matter custard / dripping from a dead dog's eye..." "Coo-coo a chew" like "crazy crazy and so on..." The thing is, these lyrics are John's poetry. They mean what they suggest to each of us. This song is full of suggestions. At one point he runs under the music quotes from Shakespeare's "King Lear" e.g. "I knew him well. A serviceable villain. As duteous to his mistress as badness would desire"...."What is he dead?" ..."Sit you down, father. Rest you."
First you have to remember that this took place during the 1960s during the famed Summer of Love in Frisco and psychedelics were everywhere hence all of the bright colors. The lyrics were found in the mind of John Lennon who was just in one of his moods and decided to write kind of a nonsenses song just to mess with the people who were writing treatises on the deeper meaning of his lyrics. He kept them going for quite a while until he was found out.
What the heck happened towards the end? It started speeding up and slowing. Weird! Must've been the ku ku ka chu doing it. That things a bastard! Greg, my man, it's simple...you don't understand cuz you're not trippin. Way back in the day, every time I tripped, I forgot to put on this song. So I never found out the meaning either. My acid days are long behind me, I think, so I'm gonna have to count on a youngster like yourself to drop the tab and have another listen so you can let us know what you saw and heard. I'll be waiting anxiously. 😬
It's interesting because the same thing happened to the Moody Blues during that era. People just starting making religious idols out of their favorite musicians then. They were getting high and constantly taking lyrics way to far as to make their life's mantra out of them. The Moody Blues had to release a song called "I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band" to tell their fans to stop digging into the meanings of their music. I guess the same kind of thing was going on with the Beatles and this was their way to respond to it. It's a cool song though. I really like the vibe to it. I'm glad it exists and wonder if they'd have ever written something similar to it with sensible lyrics if nonsense wasn't their mission.
so hilarious watching you trying to make sense of this. hahaha. totally not your bailiwick. cracking me up. earnestly trying to get it. haha... good on ya, dude.
People catch this rehearsel again and again... There's more going on in the official version. The clip says "Official Video" and there are also scenes from the film (Magical Mystery Tour) in which the song is presented, but one can see from the poster "BeatlesBootlegBrazil", that this might not be entirely official after all.
That is not the official final version of the song, it's some kind of alternate take or unfinished mix. You should listen to the official version from the Magical Mystery Tour album, it is much better than this. And I think that is a re-edited fan video, not the official one taken from the Magical Mystery Tour Film.
“On a whole Nother level “. That’s exactly it, darling…. there will never be another Beatles. In New York City, they teach them in college music classes. That says a lot.
As the Beatles popularity grew more and more folks were trying desperately to interpret their music to what they thought the Beatles were trying to convey to their listeners. John decided to write this song to really drive these folks crazy while trying to figure this one out. John meant for it not to make sense knowing that these nuts were going to do what they could to make sense out of something that didn't mean to make sense at all. Trust me these idiots actually tried unsuccessfully mind you and they drove themselves crazy trying to. John and the rest of the band members got a HUGE laugh out of it. You should try listening to their early hits and then listen to how they changed and adapted to how the times and culture started changing in the music world.
Greg, you have to understand that😅 was during John Lennon's LSD days in the 60's. And Cho Cho ACho was telling you everything is okay. Strange but true. If you want to hear a Way Out Song, Check Out Helter Skelter. Late 60's regarding the The Charles Manson Murders. They were at the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time. There's only 2 Beatles Left and Alive, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star. John Lennon and George Harrison were both killed by Sick Fans. Sad, but true.
“And Cho Cho ACho was telling you everything was okay”? I NEVER heard that that phrase meant anything, other than it was fun for us to sing when we were kids.
This is not the official version. Unfortunately it has some very poor mixing and editing. I wish it would be removed from UA-cam so people listening to it won’t get the impression that this is how the Beatles released this classic song.
John wrote this song when a young person told him that the teacher was always trying to find the "deeper meaning" to the Beatles' songs. It's a nonsense song - there's no meaning to it at all. It's John snubbing his nose.
You totally nailed it. Sounds like it is important, but it isn’t. John Lennon wrote this because critics and fans were over analyzing BeaTles albums. Gotta great groove
Aw ... someone should have warned you - it is not supposed to make sense!! Others have explained why John did it. Next time, you can just enjoy the music and the video!! Just silly fun ... no one like the Beatles!!! God bless you
You keep getting it right and then drift back to wrong again. What you said at the beginning, "I don't know what they're saying, but I know what they mean." That says it all! This is called "psychedelic music," from "psychedelic drugs." But like so many rock songs, the meaning is to be interpreted by the listener. When I was a kid listening to this and whatever song, you generally listened to it on the radio with no lyrics attached. Even many albums didn't include the lyrics. The lyrics are there to take you where you need to go with them. Even if, as in many cases, you get the lyrics wrong, you still paint your own picture from the tone of the music and the lyrics you think you're listening to. Your personal imagination comes first. Just sit back and go with the flow of the music and let your imagination add the meaning. This is hard to describe from someone who has always heard lyrics used in the literal sense. Rock music writes its lyrics from poetry. And if you've ever read poetry you know there is a lot left to the imagination and interpretation. The world of rock is a different one from modern music and requires a different frame of mind to appreciate. Rarely having the lyrics at hand and so much of the vocals difficult to make out, it's really remarkable that I was never that curious. And nobody else seemed all that concerned either. We all had our own wonderlands to drop into with our own meanings and visuals emanating from our minds whenever a song was cued up. Really, looking back on it, it was quite amazing that nobody back then even mentioned what I just explained. I had to think about it before writing this. Hope that helps.
Something was wrong with the timing of the vocals during the last minute or two. It was rushed & made no sense musically. It makes even crazier but not in a good way.
Lennon is screwing with people trying to find meaning in the words. I am sorry to tell you that this is a terrible mix of this song-have heard it before, and I really don't like it. The original track has much more going on sonically, and doesn't go so terribly out of time like this one does. I'm sorry you ruined your first time reaction to this song, but this track should be thrown in the trash in favor of the "real" version of this song that the Beatles actually released.
Not the official version (original is different and much better) - happens too many time with reactors on this song. Sorry dude, shut it off at .38 sec.
This is not the official version. This uses an early take of the song and matches it with alt/rare scenes from the film. The finished song adds violins, cellos, recorded scenes from Shakespear, etc... and is a work of art. The official version syncs the song and the video much better.
Why does every reaction channel seem to use this version of the song? I miss the 'woo's.
@@Y-two-K Just now looking into it but the video reacted to here is label "Official video". But I know it is not the right one right away when Paul does not point to Ringo to play the drum intro.
It's also not an early take...
@@rosebud6661 Well it certainly isn't the finished track. It could be an alternate mix with the sound effects mixed out. Well, if you have the info, what are you saying it is.
You don't need to be a genius to understand that it's a smart guy who made a cover of this song by just putting the vocals on it and putting the video on top of everything. It works, he has plenty of views and likes and the people even ended up believing it, to the point of making reaction videos, which is a shame. I've been listening to their songs for over 30 years and as a fan, the "in progress" beta versions are known, this instrumental cover has nothing to do with them.
Do your own research and you will quickly understand that this version was never recorded by the Beatles.
"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 were constantly trying to make serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics.
John wrote this song and it’s not supposed to make sense. He wrote it that way because people were trying to figure out what their songs mean. Don’t think really hard about it, it’s supposed to be nonsensical
😂😂😂 you gotta love the madness of the Beatles.
So creative and insane at the same time.😂😂😂
That's Scousers for you.
Thanks for the vid bro.
Made me laugh a lot.👍
I think the message - if there actually is one - is just to set your mind free and stop looking for answers. Just enjoy. Hope you enjoyed it, Greg. :)
The men dressed in white in the background are the eggman. The video is taken from the movie Magical Mystery Tour-which was a psychedlic movie about a journey to nowhere in reality but a trip far away in the mind.
How does every reactor manage to react to the wrong version of this song?
In the middle 60s some colleges were giving courses on the meaning of Beatles songs, so John wrote “I am the walrus” and said let them figure this one out!
The lyrics are very British, very "tongue-in-cheek", so it really comes as no wonder if people from other countries (like me) have a hard time understanding all the innuendoes. A part of it is inspired by "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" (the walrus and the Eggman, i.e. Humpty Dumpty), and children nursery rhymes (the Yellow-matter custard stuff). Other parts are probably sayings or proverbs turned inside out by John Lennon. "Semolina Pilchard" is probably a reference to policeman Norman Pilchard, who had made a point of going after pop stars and get them for drugs possession. I've always found this song absolutely brilliant, in its own,psychedelic, absolutely quirky way.
It used to be a bit of a joke in England that we didn't get tanned, we just got rusty from all the rain.
i don't know where this video came from but its about a minute short and re-edited from the original. there's 2 official versions of the "i am the walrus" video. one taken from the original source "magical mystery tour" film and the other taken from the "anthology" videos. both versions are better than that one. thanks for the reaction.
:D For a "full explanation" of this particular song, it's style and their costumes, etc. may I suggest reacting to the Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"? ;)
Greg you are so cute! when your eyes kind of rolled around and you said"man there's a lot going on"😊 It just totally made me smile
The poetry is on another level
The Beatles were way before their time. That song is 60 years old. Amazing
John lLennon wrote the lyrics and he was told by some musicians that they would always study his lyrics so, he wrote a song that didn’t make any sense just to mess with them,that they would never figure the songs meaning.
I have a kinda funny story about this song. I worked for a big company that supplied all media to stores like Walmart back in the day. I got a call one day from a lady at a Walmart in the middle of nowhere with a customer who had a special request. She had gotten a letter from her son, who was in Operation Desert Storm, about his funeral if he was killed there. He wanted "I Am the Warrior" by The Beatles played. I sat there forever, trying to think of that song, but nothing. Suddenly, it dawned on me that the kid has been hearing the warrior instead of the walrus his entire life. I had to tell this woman that I could have it sent to the store, but she might want to check with her son, telling him the correct lyrics. I never heard back from anyone, so I assume the kid made it back in one piece. And that's my story....lol.
Yes trippy, that was the era, probably more easily understandable when under the influence, might be a form of meditation, ku ku ka chu, just kidding, I didn't know then ,still don't, it's deep though
"yellow matter custard / dripping from a dead dog's eye..."
"Coo-coo a chew" like "crazy crazy and so on..."
The thing is, these lyrics are John's poetry. They mean what they suggest to each of us.
This song is full of suggestions. At one point he runs under the music quotes from Shakespeare's "King Lear" e.g. "I knew him well. A serviceable villain. As duteous to his mistress as badness would desire"...."What is he dead?" ..."Sit you down, father. Rest you."
The album version is what you need to hear.
Imma 50s child..love these great tunes!
Damn u ancient
Damn you rude
First you have to remember that this took place during the 1960s during the famed Summer of Love in Frisco and psychedelics were everywhere hence all of the bright colors. The lyrics were found in the mind of John Lennon who was just in one of his moods and decided to write kind of a nonsenses song just to mess with the people who were writing treatises on the deeper meaning of his lyrics. He kept them going for quite a while until he was found out.
That's just John fucking with your mind, Greg. lol.
What the heck happened towards the end? It started speeding up and slowing. Weird! Must've been the ku ku ka chu doing it. That things a bastard!
Greg, my man, it's simple...you don't understand cuz you're not trippin. Way back in the day, every time I tripped, I forgot to put on this song. So I never found out the meaning either. My acid days are long behind me, I think, so I'm gonna have to count on a youngster like yourself to drop the tab and have another listen so you can let us know what you saw and heard. I'll be waiting anxiously. 😬
It’s not the finished officially released version!!!!
I always felt this would make a great rap song.
He’s spitting bars
It's interesting because the same thing happened to the Moody Blues during that era. People just starting making religious idols out of their favorite musicians then. They were getting high and constantly taking lyrics way to far as to make their life's mantra out of them. The Moody Blues had to release a song called "I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band" to tell their fans to stop digging into the meanings of their music. I guess the same kind of thing was going on with the Beatles and this was their way to respond to it. It's a cool song though. I really like the vibe to it. I'm glad it exists and wonder if they'd have ever written something similar to it with sensible lyrics if nonsense wasn't their mission.
The meanings of the words are unimportant. The sounds of the words are.
Makes as much sense as our lives… basically none… that’s my interpretation! Don’t overthink it lol
so hilarious watching you trying to make sense of this. hahaha. totally not your bailiwick. cracking me up. earnestly trying to get it. haha... good on ya, dude.
The off-beat thing you said it's kust the mix of the video. The audio version of the song got this end right
People catch this rehearsel again and again... There's more going on in the official version.
The clip says "Official Video" and there are also scenes from the film (Magical Mystery Tour) in which the song is presented, but one can see from the poster "BeatlesBootlegBrazil", that this might not be entirely official after all.
That is not the official final version of the song, it's some kind of alternate take or unfinished mix. You should listen to the official version from the Magical Mystery Tour album, it is much better than this. And I think that is a re-edited fan video, not the official one taken from the Magical Mystery Tour Film.
There a lot of specific cultural references here that no one should expect you to get.
It's supposed to be a nonsense song. They be trippin'
It means something special….the meaning of life is…..
“On a whole Nother level “. That’s exactly it, darling…. there will never be another Beatles. In New York City, they teach them in college music classes. That says a lot.
As the Beatles popularity grew more and more folks were trying desperately to interpret their music to what they thought the Beatles were trying to convey to their listeners. John decided to write this song to really drive these folks crazy while trying to figure this one out. John meant for it not to make sense knowing that these nuts were going to do what they could to make sense out of something that didn't mean to make sense at all. Trust me these idiots actually tried unsuccessfully mind you and they drove themselves crazy trying to. John and the rest of the band members got a HUGE laugh out of it. You should try listening to their early hits and then listen to how they changed and adapted to how the times and culture started changing in the music world.
I wish people would review a real Beatles song and not someone else's cover. I know this song very well and this is NOT the Beatles music.
England was so cool.
Psychodelic
Doesn’t mean anything
Trippy as fuck
All about the groove
Greg, you have to understand that😅 was during John Lennon's LSD days in the 60's. And Cho Cho ACho was telling you everything is okay. Strange but true. If you want to hear a Way Out Song, Check Out Helter Skelter. Late 60's regarding the The Charles Manson Murders. They were at the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time. There's only 2 Beatles Left and Alive, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star. John Lennon and George Harrison were both killed by Sick Fans. Sad, but true.
George was stabbed by an intruder, however he survived that and died of cancer a couple of years later!👌👍✌️
@brianfisher6165 Yes, Brian. George was stabbed 40 times by an intruder, and yes, he died of cancer. God bless you, George. 🙏😇
“And Cho Cho ACho was telling you everything was okay”? I NEVER heard that that phrase meant anything, other than it was fun for us to sing when we were kids.
Yes, they were tripping
The song wasn’t over… ?
Remember the video is not necessary
This is not the official version. Unfortunately it has some very poor mixing and editing. I wish it would be removed from UA-cam so people listening to it won’t get the impression that this is how the Beatles released this classic song.
John wrote this song when a young person told him that the teacher was always trying to find the "deeper meaning" to the Beatles' songs. It's a nonsense song - there's no meaning to it at all. It's John snubbing his nose.
You totally nailed it.
Sounds like it is important, but it isn’t.
John Lennon wrote this because critics and fans were over analyzing BeaTles albums.
Gotta great groove
Coo coo ca choo means
He is the walrus
Thanks Greg. It's an unusual song that somehow works. Spaghetti thrown against the wall with a coherent form.
The music is Known as psychadelic.
Aw ... someone should have warned you - it is not supposed to make sense!! Others have explained why John did it. Next time, you can just enjoy the music and the video!! Just silly fun ... no one like the Beatles!!! God bless you
Song was cut short.
You keep getting it right and then drift back to wrong again. What you said at the beginning, "I don't know what they're saying, but I know what they mean." That says it all! This is called "psychedelic music," from "psychedelic drugs." But like so many rock songs, the meaning is to be interpreted by the listener. When I was a kid listening to this and whatever song, you generally listened to it on the radio with no lyrics attached. Even many albums didn't include the lyrics. The lyrics are there to take you where you need to go with them. Even if, as in many cases, you get the lyrics wrong, you still paint your own picture from the tone of the music and the lyrics you think you're listening to. Your personal imagination comes first. Just sit back and go with the flow of the music and let your imagination add the meaning. This is hard to describe from someone who has always heard lyrics used in the literal sense. Rock music writes its lyrics from poetry. And if you've ever read poetry you know there is a lot left to the imagination and interpretation. The world of rock is a different one from modern music and requires a different frame of mind to appreciate. Rarely having the lyrics at hand and so much of the vocals difficult to make out, it's really remarkable that I was never that curious. And nobody else seemed all that concerned either. We all had our own wonderlands to drop into with our own meanings and visuals emanating from our minds whenever a song was cued up. Really, looking back on it, it was quite amazing that nobody back then even mentioned what I just explained. I had to think about it before writing this. Hope that helps.
From a Beatles movie...drugy Beatles...on psychedelic drugs...it doesn't mean anything because they were high... good music though.
Something was wrong with the timing of the vocals during the last minute or two. It was rushed & made no sense musically. It makes even crazier but not in a good way.
It’s not the finished commercially released version
Othink sometimes thy just wantrd it to Run
I grew up with the Beatles. That song is never going to make sense. I love it.
Check out the lyrics😂😂😂😂
Oh no. Another reactor chooses the wrong version! This is a crap version. Look for the version with the Magical Mystery Tour album cover, ie no video
John liked to fuck with peoples mind, especially the upper crust big wigs. John loved word play and nonsensical rhymes. Please men/police men
i qm the eggman hmm hmm they are the eggman hmm hmm i am the walrus gugchoob
This isn't the right version
🤘🏽⚜️🤘🏽
Only makes sense on drugs
They kind of… changed.
It is pure nonsense. On purpose. Thanks John Lennon.
--- - - Weird drug song. Beatles were bad influence. Psychadelic = Drug Tripping
I guess that this was when they were into drugs. At least for their sake I hope so.
Better off with the original album cut, this video is useless and mangles the song a bit
this is NOT the actual song. why do people keep reacting to this??? automatic punch out.
isn't it just another great version ? (some cool beatles footage!)
Lennon is screwing with people trying to find meaning in the words. I am sorry to tell you that this is a terrible mix of this song-have heard it before, and I really don't like it. The original track has much more going on sonically, and doesn't go so terribly out of time like this one does. I'm sorry you ruined your first time reaction to this song, but this track should be thrown in the trash in favor of the "real" version of this song that the Beatles actually released.
Not the official version (original is different and much better) - happens too many time with reactors on this song. Sorry dude, shut it off at .38 sec.