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The Beatles — I Am The Walrus
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: May 02, 2013 - 15:14
 
  Because you're sweet and lovely girl, I love you..   ScottN wrote:
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
You let your knickers down
I am the Eggman

 





Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: May 02, 2013 - 15:03
 
Previously, on Hawaii Five-O:

Danno: So, what, you're not going to tell me about "Operation Strawberry Fields"?

McGarrett: No.

Danno: No, no. Of course, you'd have to kill me.... I'm just curious, though: Was there an "Operation Abbey Road"? Were you the walrus? (Joe White gives him a disapproving look) Time to shut up?

Joe White: Roger that. Are you people ready for the magical mystery tour?

scrubbrush
(All lost in the supermarket)
Posted: May 02, 2013 - 14:58
 
This is an interesting song. these guys seem like they were pretty creative... i wonder if their music will catch on...

ScottN
(Condo in Gaza needs remodeling. Still, I Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.)
Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 22:44
 
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
You let your knickers down
I am the Eggman

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 15:21
 
Go Johnny Go                           

coccyx
Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 15:21
 
The emperor's NUDE, folks

theking2
Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 15:19
 
sitting on a corn-flake
Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 12:34
 

Everybody in my church loves this dazzling song...
 

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 11:40
 
Kind of a useless tune to me. Bring it on. If this were by anyone else...it would have an average score of "5".

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 11:40
 
Kind of a useless tune to me. Bring it on. If this were by anyone else...it would have an average score of "5".

twcarlin
(too far, and not far enough)
Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 11:40
 
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying. Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, coo coo ca-choo Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying. Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, coo coo ca-choo. Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, coo coo ca-choo coo coo ca-choo. Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you think the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying. Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, coo coo ca-choo c-coo coo ca-choo coo coo
ca-choo coo coo ca-choo...

silby
Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 11:37
 
 gigikent wrote:
cucucachu?! what a stroke of genius!{#Eek}
 
The phrase is "goo goo g'joob"   Check the liner notes!

Stingray
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 04:22
 

10, of course!

 

PS

do not forget GEORGE MARTIN (Genius++)



Pitjes
(North Germany)
Posted: Mar 01, 2013 - 00:46
 
Curiosity kills the cat- I love them all my life!

gigikent
Posted: Mar 01, 2013 - 00:46
 
cucucachu?! what a stroke of genius!{#Eek}

sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 17:55
 
"Where is my mind" followed by this... Bill you have my mind!? Or perhaps I left it in my other jacket and this is all just a giant coincidence? 

ambrebalte
(Beijing most of the time - Wolxheim in France now)
Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 11:37
 
Sure, I miss their lack of mind
Zeuslike

max_p
Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 09:30
 
semolina pilchard my fav food
 

Paul_the_wonk
(Ithaca, NY)
Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 09:30
 
I love this Beatles, but I can only rate this song a 6.

DanO-1
(Over a mile high, New Mexico)
Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 09:29
 
9. What was I thinking. 10 for sure.

joelbb
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 00:36
 
" I am the Egg Man.  They are the Egg Men.  I am the Walrus, koo-koo-ka-joo."  Don't tell ME they couldn't write lyrics back in the day!

mostling
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 12:16
 
Look into a glass onion -  the Walrus was Paul

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 12:15
 
 GawgaBoy wrote:

Inglés es un idioma muy difícil. la ortografía correcta de "psicodélico" es "psychedelic"
 
Yeah, sockadelic, dude.

GawgaBoy
(State of Confusion)
Posted: Nov 11, 2012 - 17:41
 
 orquidea wrote:
Totally psicodelic.... {#Clap}
 
Inglés es un idioma muy difícil. la ortografía correcta de "psicodélico" es "psychedelic"

carolinetapley
(Drops of Jupiter)
Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 09:01
 
See how the fly like lucy in the sky! ✨

orquidea
(Baquería)
Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 04:12
 
Totally psicodelic.... {#Clap}

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 17:28
 
 BCarn wrote:
Beatles. All 10's. Negative comments ignored.
 
Way to hone those critical faculties. {#Clap}

Sasha2001
(Nowhere near a public restroom...)
Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 19:46
 
So, I completed my Beatles catalog by purchasing whatever albums I still didn't own from iTunes, put all of them in a folder and have been listening to them at random for several days now. Really, not a weak song in the group and when they put their energies into writing songs for a complete album they were brilliant. In 1963 there wasn't a band in the world that could string together the amount of gems that went into Hard Days Night. And then, with Help! on everything is pure genius. I'm constantly struck by how much I still enjoy songs that I've listened to 1,000 times or more. What would we do without them?

BCarn
(Victoria, B.C.)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 16:17
 
Beatles. All 10's. Negative comments ignored.

jbunniii
(San Jose, CA)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 16:13
 
This works very nicely after the Pixies!

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 08:12
 
We have a Beatles tribute band called 'The Eggmen'. I have not seen them but have heard they are very, very good.

srose96
(grandma's house)
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 13:11
 
 romeotuma wrote:


crackerjack jackpot...  love this song...

 
 



it's crackerjackpot, you crackpot

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 06:19
 
Finally, some sanity in my day.

midreaming
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 16:27
 
...reminds me of the close proximity of commercialism to my soul. thin, non-relational drug induced nonsense. you're all hypnotized. coo coo ca-choo
 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 16:24
 


absolutely brilliant...  miss you soooo much, John...

 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 21:46
 


bingo by jingo...  love this song, and this whole incredible album...

 

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 19:19
 
John Lennon wrote songs from an absurdest viewpoint, in that his view was if you make something of something that ordinarily isn't anything then something else will inevitably become!     {#Yes}

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 05:13
 
The walrus was Paul.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 06:17
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:


Well, they stopped touring in late '66 and "sgt peppers"/"magical mystery tour" was released in '67, so....

 

I know right? That Abbey road album sucked too.{#Wink}

Bozo
(Steeler Penguin Pirate land)
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 13:37
 
Imagine George Martin's face when John came in with this one:  George then performed the greatest production job of all time: ON A FOUR TRACK MACHINE!!!

asilbuch
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 13:36
 
 Bluesgrrl wrote:
I got in trouble as a kid running around singing "smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot!"
 
That is hysterical!!!!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 13:34
 


crackerjack jackpot...  love this song...

 

TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 13:34
 
This song annoyed me the first time I heard it and it still annoys me. 

RKeaton
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 13:32
 
 avatar71 wrote:
Not another song like it in the history of music...and if there were, it would only be because they were trying to make a song like it.
 
Fair point.

avatar71
(Oakland, CA)
Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 19:14
 
Not another song like it in the history of music...and if there were, it would only be because they were trying to make a song like it.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 19:14
 
 ereme wrote:
I would like to be in this room for s day, please..
 
You are welcome here anytime as long as you bring a few women in bikinis...

love this groovy classic song...
 

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 08:51
 
 scmerriam wrote:
I would conjecture that it was the metaphorical nature of the lyrics, which allowed individual listeners to read whatever they wanted to read into the meaning of the song, that made it the favorite of many.
 
The lyrics are more absurdist/surreal than metaphorical, as metaphorical would imply that there was an analogue in Lennon's mind to, say, "yellow matter custard". I'm not even sure that they can be labelled surreal, even if the imagery reminds me of a Salvadador Dalí painting, as that also implies intention and meaning. I really think that they're just random mismatched words that Lennon came up with for the sheer hell of it. In that sense, it's like an abstract painting which, as you say, allows listeners to read their own meanings onto. IMO Lennon was taking the piss out of listeners as he'd have known that fans would wrestle with lyric meanings for years, nay decades, and enjoyed the practical joke of producing something meaningless to see what meanings fans would project on to it. Maybe it's a song analogue of a Rorschach painting...

I suspect the walrus might have come from The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll.


KurtfromLaQuinta
(Deep in the heart of South California)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 08:48
 
 ereme wrote:

I would like to be in this room for s day, please..
 
Be careful for what you wish for.


Baketown
(Maryland)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 08:45
 

I never get tired of hearing this song!   The begining is timeless!



djblitz
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 08:44
 
And I knew this was next. :P