WAS HE RAPPING??! | I Am The Walrus - The Beatles (Reaction)

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[@JMBOYTV]

Thanks for watching everyone! Unfortunately, I reacted to the wrong version but it was still great, and I have since heard the original. Thanks to all who brought it to my attention!

[@taradalik1405]

I was about to tell you that. 😂

[@daveabsolution5246]

I noticed that, but at least you now know the majestic beauty of the tune

[@RicoCosta317]

This was the video for the film, Magical Mystery Tour, the name of the, well, magical album this was from. No need to apologize, bro, this was a way cool experience.

[@konradv7]

John Lennon hated that people were always looking for secret meanings in the songs, so sometimes he'd write one like this and say "let them figure this one out". Same with Come Together.

[@Azoria4]

Come Together does have a meaning though, each verse is about the Beatles - First is Ringo, second is George, 3rd is John and 4th is Paul

[@daniellittle830]

Come together was written 4 Timothy Leary presidential run. That doesn't mean it says what you think he means it doesn't mean he thinks what you think it means. Research John Lennon and understand you'll never know what he's thinking. He wants to make you think

[@jadebel7006]

Oh shut up ppl in the reply section come together just about s*x chill out lol

[@jadebel7006]

He doesn't want to me you think , he's trolling you and laughing at your expense, John was weird in the sense he was very peaceful n down to earth n loving, while also a narcissistic ego man*ac and assh*le ...just like Paul..still love them both though

[@jadebel7006]

George too really, they were all except Ringo, loving n kind yet kinda a holes lol I mean on the same George wrote a song crying over how ppl are loving enuf n then went on to make a song a few tracks down called piggies ,which is just mocking ppl that are greedy aka like nice things (as did he living in blue Jay way) n over weight ppl so .... lol but I still think they were mostly nice , j think, ringonwas clearly the nicest lol

[@sandi8362]

The lyrics in the song are amazing. "Sitting on a corn flake waiting for the van to come .... " "

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

I am English and "the van" was a real thing. Psychiatric patients were often collected in vans with men in white coats. It was a joke in the 60s/70s among us kids about "the van" coming for you with the "men in little white coats". We had 2 large old fashioned psychiatric hospitals locally so maybe it's a colloquial thing , although I don't think so. We were just outside London and that's what we thought it meant but hey, it's "I am the Walrus" so, y'know...😁

[@haranbanjo8024]

Lewis Carrol's school

[@keef7224]

John channeling his inner Dylan with brilliantly surreal lyrics and a stream-of-consciousness rap delivery. It’s a short distance from Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream, and Maggie’s Farm to this, with a healthy dose of LSD sprinkled in along the way.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

EXACTLY!

[@pizzarellayt]

Just a heads up, if the "The Beatles" KZbin channel didn't upload the video, it's probably not official. As somebody who's heard the final version of this song, I can tell that this is a different take or an edit. The final version doesn't go out of sync, and is a lot wilder than this. Anyways, this song is great, and was one of my dad's favorite Beatles songs next to "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (though I think he preferred the versions from the film "Across The Universe"). I'd love to see a reaction to "I'm Only Sleeping", that's one of my personal favorite Beatles songs! Genuinely amazing, and very relatable (for me, at least.) Glad you enjoyed this!

[@jamespenny9482]

Yeah this is definitely not the original recording as released on Magical Mystery Tour.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

no, he wasn't rapping. and where'd that video come from? it put all the footage out of sequence and added footage. there's an actual music video taken stright from the movie. that's the one you should've watched. but youtube's so full of fraud and click-bate we don't know what the hell we're watching anymore. people expose themselves to the crappiest versions of songs without even knowing it. that's why EXPERTS should be involved in ALL youtube channels. because "uploaders" don't knnow what the hell they're doing.

[@tonydelapa1911]

There wasn’t any rap (aswe know it today) when this came out but I strongly agree with your description of Lennon’s delivery here sounding almost like rap. This is a terrific song I never get tired of hearing.

[@richardwalmsley2594]

From a person who grew up in the 70's and if you are having a challenging time in deciphering this song, good luck. This song was written during their LSD days.

[@kenf6437]

Oops!! This is not the finished version as it appeared on the Magical Mystery Tour album. It’s an inferior version and is missing loads of good stuff and is even out of sync towards the end. Chuck this one in the bin and find the right version. I think if you just find a version showing the album cover and no video you will get the right one. Sorry!

[@dianecourtney2724]

One of my top 5 favorite Beatle songs !! They wrote so many so it is difficult to choose 5 but I have my little list 😂✌🏼

[@JMBOYTV]

I still have many to react to but this is definitely one of my favorites! Thanks for all the positive energy you exude!

[@B.R.0101]

If you think he was rapping just wait to hear how he sang The Beatles song 'Come Together'!!

[@JMBOYTV]

I reacted to come together, check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGjOhWepjN5mprc

[@gracemichelli.2am124]

John Lennon said it was "a nonsense song." He was tired of people trying to decipher his lyrics...🤣😅🤣

[@gracieb.3054]

And yet he could not write a bad song. This is one of my favorites of theirs. I have a degree in music and it just made me appreciate this even more!

[@joshuadeshaies7266]

Ah yes, this is the Beatles after they discovered what America had to offer, drugs and partying!!! Luv it bro thx man!!

[@AliasMark69]

John Lennon…. Most Important Person In Modern Music History. “The Beatles…. Greatest Musical Group In History. Nobody else even comes close.

[@rubbersole79]

One of this old dudes fav Beatle songs. Something majestic about this to me. I can't explain it.

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

Happy for you to be newly experiencing the Beatles.

[@raenellefisher8514]

About 20 years ago, I was in Louisville. One of the radio stations was going off the air after the weekend was done. For the entire weekend, 24 hours a day, they played this song. Just this song, over and over. It was surprisingly fun. And, if it got boring at all, I can't remember.

[@johnandrews3151]

This version of I Am The Walrus is from the movie Magical Mystery Tour. It is incomplete and a rough version compared to the album soundtrack version.

[@jamesmanon3000]

I think this was considered slam poetry back in the day.Jon and Paul love putting words together that sounded good.Infuenced by Lewis Carrol.

[@mr.beepers2119]

My favorite thing about this song is when they finished recording lennon said "let's see if those f**kers can figure that one out"

[@gazt8926]

You should listen to John Lennon ‘give peace a chance’ he’s pretty much rapping on that

[@jvs333]

“Corporation T-shirts” the prediction of wearing “logo” brands as identities (Nike, Harley Davidson, LV, Channel, etc).

[@Stacy55ish]

The Beatles didn't shy away from experimental music and whimsical lyrics.

[@jacqueline4514]

My favorite Beatles song!! Was a very young kid when my parents had this album; the "yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" line would give me creepy visuals, lol, but I absolutely loved the song and still do.

[@MsAppassionata]

That part is based on an English schoolyard rhyme.

[@jacqueline4514]

@@MsAppassionata Thank you! I didn’t know that

[@MsAppassionata]

@@jacqueline4514 The rhyme was as follows: Yellow matter custard (egg yolks or bile) green slop pie (something old), all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. Slap it on a butty (a sandwich), ten foot thick, then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick (vomit). Isn’t that charming? 😂😂😂

[@jacqueline4514]

@@MsAppassionata Goodness; charming indeed!!! 🤣Thank you for telling me the whole rhyme; I can see it being fun for kids to say/sing, and I love hearing the historical cultural aspect! Sounds like something my Mother would have sung; seriously 😊😊

[@whispjohn]

You must get the mono version, this is a remix from recently, there is a lot missed out on this one.

[@daniellittle830]

This is 1967 the experimental value dead before their time experimental value and the freaking vocals are killer. They did it by hand. That's talent not programming machine to do it for you and then autotune your vocals period. Real deal, groundbreakers

[@AliasMark69]

Now you are at the Top of Music Royalty with The Beatles. Soon you will want to watch John Lennon - "Working Class Hero" Trust me.

[@ellenmyers971]

One of my favorites of the beetle's I love the whole white Album 👍

[@gracieb.3054]

*Beatles.

[@lorilxn1597]

The Beatles will always be number one to me

[@MsLogjam]

John wrote a lot of things under the influence of any number of substances during this time period and he loved to fuck with people. Although the majority of his and Paul's songs were published as Lennon/McCartney, it's usually easy to tell which one of them wrote it. Paul wrote most of the love songs and John wrote the bizarre ones.

[@raymondmanderville505]

The talking at the end is actually a radio broadcast of “ King Lear “ . Which was coming over the radio the night of the recording of “ I am the Walrus “ . It was distorted & included into the song .

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

this song is like an almost-nighmare-ish drug trip that is on the verge of getting out of control but never does... disturbing undercurrents that never quite fall off the edge into a bad trip.. one of my favourite Beatles songs

[@Joestudly]

My fave Beatles song

[@timgann5889]

According to john lennon, the song was based on his opinion of the book, alice in wonderland. And how he misunderstood the Walrus Character in the book.

[@lauracherry6521]

I was singing along to this in my car yesterday (it’s my favorite Beatles song), and suddenly realized I was…rapping? And whoa. I figured I couldn’t be the only person to hear that. I’m even surprised no one has run with that idea and done a rap cover.

[@SalManila1]

My most favorite song!

[@davisworth5114]

This is after the lads took LSD, appears to be a number crafted with stream-of-consciousness lyrics, hope you dig the music I grew up with, do "Don't Let Me Down", live, good reactions!!!

[@Joe-cq2xd]

John's voice sounds like it was processed through a computer decades before there were computers. Endless creativity and the most important band in pop/rock history. No debate

[@gregw1973]

Man.. music and singing was well out of sinc at the end.... Unless someone slipped me some acid or summink! 😂 Good stuff mate. 🇬🇧✌🇺🇸

[@2GunRock]

In HS we used to smoke a blunt at lunchtime, then get into deep discussions about who was the Walrus? 🤣

[@timbaker6540]

Great song

[@EnterHacker]

Ya. Some of John Lennon's songs had kind of raps. Like Come Together. Best example.

[@doubleDD274]

This video is from their avant garde film MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. John wrote it in his apartment after hearing the wail of a police car going by. That's what the driving beat is, John's interpretation of the police car wail.

[@jameskennedy721]

" Man you shoulda seen them kicking Edger Allen Poe " OMG why ? What did he do ?

[@jayvanslayer2787]

I say this is the best of the beatles songs. Great meaning, but everyone has their own idea what the song means, "I am, he as" figure it out.

[@BengtLofqvist]

It is and was a trippy song, but very catchy.

[@charmcrackermusic4250]

It’s kinda a singing rap song like we have today This coming be slightly ahead of it’s time before rap evolved, rap can almost go into any music styles I can here it in my head like instead of a guitar lead a rap solo yes as an instrumental in its self also. It’s almost like a bonus alternative

[@aprilstewart5929]

Next up: Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. :)

[@60sbaby456]

They did everything every kind of style ❤

[@geoffgentry]

I agree about rapping

[@deanhovey8348]

The end of the track isn't supposed to be out of sync like that - crazy sounding

[@polycarphunter2257]

you didn't get to the controversial spot where you could hear in the background singing "smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot"

[@waschosen-]

It's kind of interesting and also makes me feel old to see young people listening to those familiar songs as if they were new.

[@DSanto-bk6oq]

If this song is rapping, it's pretty trippy rapping. Maybe instead of hip-hop, it's trip-rap. 🙂

[@JMBOYTV]

Let’s go with that! Lol

[@donaldhaight5127]

They were TheBeatles--Cased closeed!!

[@kenfasano8105]

He wrote this after the Summer of Love, when things were heating up (Vietnam, US and UK racial tensions), and especially after the death of the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein. I think this song is John mourning Brian’s death and slamming British homophobia (Brian was gay).

[@51page]

Tomorrow Never Knows

[@N2264J]

I am the Walrus could be a hat tip to Alice in Wonderland or something as mundane as John wearing the walrus suit on the album cover. Or maybe each. If you put too much thought into it, you're doing it wrong. It's one of my favorite Lennon compositions.

[@AliasMark69]

Who are the Greatest Lyric Writers?… My Top 10 Favorites are: John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Don Henley, Roger Waters, Ian Anderson, Neil Peart, Billy Gibbons, Rick Davies,/Roger Hodgeson

[@timbaker6540]

One of my favorites

[@user-vu8jp8kr1n]

This chap really getting kife on this song Respact😂

[@smilerpink]

Always thought this was John Lennon on acid with free associated lyrics set to classically flavored late 60’s pop/rock.

[@bobosborne8695]

I agree he's spitting bars.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

BTW - pretty sure this is an alternate take/mix?

[@blakehanvey4143]

You had to listen to this song before cause what it sounds like isn’t what he said but we all heard it

[@gkbrown2443]

Yes,John is spitting bars!

[@chefg_murder1191]

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[@user-lt5ge7gv5b]

I never of this as a rap song, however maybe it is.

[@chrisscott6211]

It became what is now rapping

[@VIDSTORAGE]

This is the weird film version mix ..You need to find the regular version

[@larryl1427]

Wild Lyrics : "Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the bombs to come". Probably a reference to WW2 when Hitler bombed London.

[@debjorgo]

Waiting for the "van to come".

[@AcidicSceptic]

It was John's deliberate intent to write a song that's complete nonsense. The incoherent lyrics were meant to troll the fans. Most of it are just John's favourite things. E.g. "Sitting on a corn flake waiting for the van to come" was likely a combination of his favourite breakfast cereal (Corn Flakes) & a memory in early days waiting for a van to deliver their instruments or something.

[@loristimpfle3700]

They also discovered LSD, lol

[@Xavier-Denis]

You have more likes on this one than on K-Pop-Sicles It was the time when everyone went on a pilgrimage to India, including Led Zeppelin, they all came back transformed and high. Led Zeppelin had written Kashmir while returning from India and it was a HIT

[@lynnieiapichino1121]

☮️💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@jnagarya519]

Try "Strawberry Fields Forever".

[@jamespenny9482]

This is not the original version of the song. Check it out on their Magical Mystery Tour album.

[@bobsam55]

I think he was rapping and that was the 1960’s

[@romeosyne]

This is a very interesting mix but on your own time you need to listen to the original mix that was on the magical mystery tour album. This song might even get better for you, my brother !

[@neilmartin99]

LOL It means whatever you want it too.

[@fringelilyfringelily391]

Cutting short one of The Beatles' best track s is just cruel ... It goes longer and weirder and even ends with a scene from King Lear ... how epic is that?

[@NondescriptMammal]

Not the original version, unfortunately

[@Prosper85]

Short answer is yes he was rapping , turns out hip hops originality wasn't so original.. they built their foundation on what other artists had been doing way before mainstream rap was a thing surprise surprise. Sad thing about it is they say white people are "guests" in our own fricken language and form of expression.

[@voodoom5880]

John was tripping balls when he wrote this it doesn't mean anything

[@daveabsolution5246]

I think that the Beatles were talking heroic quantities of LSD at time of this recording. Let's face it, they were so high they let Ringo sing a song about his yellow Submarine. I would suggest that was largely responsible for the beautiful mental pictures in the lyrics. Just a thought 😲

[@HMS1955-hs6zi]

The origal version of Magical Mystery Tour was better with strings much more powerful.

[@danmore7587]

Not the original song recorded No backing vocals

[@noriemeha]

I'm suspicious that this is a remastered version. It lacks some of the charm of the original release.

[@6teezkid]

Don’t know what went wrong there at the end. When re-mastered, it certainly wasn’t done like that. A problem with how someone uploaded it. All the beats got off, lyrics and music not in sync. Hmm…

[@thomasbramer8330]

Why do owe you guys screen this song? You need to play it all

[@speedyreedy4878]

Please Try The Eagles Lying eyes thanks

[@gerryh61]

This is not the proper version- give the finished version a go- it is even better!

[@ofrabjousday1]

Who was allowed to butcher this incredible masterpiece?! The digital overdubs are an embarrassment, the drowning out of George Martin's orchestral work is a sin against music and the ending going out of synch shouldn't be allowed to exist in the world. Great reaction, but man, you still haven't heard this song if you go by this tattered video.

[@franklopez2803]

Everybody smoke pot

[@boblabinne]

What?! This is not the real sound or the 'official' Beatles song.

[@jameshealy8402]

This is the worst version, not a patch on album remastered

[@jtj909]

This is the mix without the orchestra... interesting but not as a good as the final master version.

[@j.j.upright4010]

CRAP....THE "C" IS SILENT! 💩

[@agitatedmongoose]

What's going on here with this. You couldn't hear the best part of the song throughout. None of their woos were in it. Different take?

[@bartstarr100]

This song has no deep meaning. it has no meaning at all. Just John Lennon proving people will buy anything and try to interpret his lyrics.

[@spreet65]

Yep, doesn't sound quite right unfortunately... doesn't do the song justice.