[DallasBiff]

Well this video has the chorus of "everybody is effed up" at the end of the song.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[old-ager]

I probably still have the 45 I bought when it came out.

I was a Beatle nut.

I didn’t know what the actual chant at the end was until much later. Probably a good thing.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Nice remix.

[Steely Tom]

I was really drunk at the time.

[blackdog]

I always thought it said, "smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot"

But I was always pretty clueless, particularly about 1970's lyrics. I finally began to really hear them around age 40.

[frogjerk]

No video of them actually dressed up?

[Obadiah]

“I killed Paul.”

[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry...no sale.Not everything they did was great,or even close to great.This is one of the “not even close” ones.

[dfwgator]

[Eccl 10:2]

Perhaps my favorite Beatle song, certainly top 5.

[rfp1234]

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

“I am the Walrus.”
“Shut the F up Donnie!”

[Vaquero]

Cachoo

[lee martell]

I always enjoyed the cello in this one. The cello acts as a unifying force, a dark though guiding light among purposeful disharmony. A dirge surronded by confetti.

[robowombat]

What is this weird song about? Or are they just stoned on acid?

[God luvs America]

Not a Beatles fan but always liked this song- Goo goo g’joob

[muir_redwoods]

Toward the end of that don’t there’s an audio salad in the background. Included is a snippet of Olivier’s ( I think) King Lear, something like “Take the documents which thou shalt find about me to Edmund Earl of Glouster. O Death, untimely death”

I’m sure I have the quote wrong but in high school I was reading that exact part of Lear for homework as that played on my stereo. Weird.

[End Times Sentinel]

“In the time of chimpanzees, I was a chimpan-A.”

[LS]

Watch the Styx liver version of this with the Youth Orchestra of Cleveland. Awesome.

It is so heartwarming to see these kids enjoying the music that we all loved in the 60s and 70s. You’ll love it.

[Kenny500c]

Paul is dead, miss him.