I don’t have a problem with a lot of the Beatles’ catalogue, but I never saw the fascination with this musically dreary, lyrically opaque piece.
At the time, I imagine the experimentation with unusual sounds in records coincided with extreme forms of modern art and nihilist/existential theatre. Most of it has not aged well.
> Most of it has not aged well.
Heh heh. A lot of people just as smart as us might disagree.
Put me in the camp of “not aged well” for later Beatles music.
The earlier Beatles is timeless.
You can say that again! LOL! I liked anything Beatles back in the day. Now I see so much of it was just garbage and only popular because it was the Beatles that produced and performed it. Fortunately they put out far more good stuff than bad stuff.
I understand that John Lennon wrote these lyrics in response to someone who claimed he had uncovered the "hidden" meaning in an earlier piece. Supposedly, John Lennon wrote in the style of Lewis Carroll a lots of meaningless lines and laughed to his bandmates "let him figure these out."
Was listening to a 1964 Beatle album today, it sounded so very teeny boper
“At the time, I imagine the experimentation with unusual sounds in records coincided with extreme forms of modern art and nihilist/existential theatre.”
Yeah, that’s what it was. They had moved to London, and were hanging out with the avant garde art scene, and so they want to dip their toes in that pool. Paul actually was the first one hanging out with that crowd, but he seems to have tired of it pretty quickly, where John got snared by Yoko and stuck with it pretty doggedly.