Never understood the lyrics. I though maybe John was painting some musical psychedelic vision or something. Anyway I would give it a five for innovative sound and strange lyrics but for the relative ugliness of the lyrics. Definately caused a lot of fans to wonder what they were up to. That whole Magical Mystery Tour was just a vain attempt to recreate the Merry Pranksters' Electric Kool-Aid acid trip cross-country journey in a old school bus.

Coo coo ca crap

By far the most complex of all the Beatles songs. You have to remember that when this was recorded, they didn't have all the digital tricks they do today. This was created by sheer genious, and even though it was (admittedly)a drug induced song, it demonstrates just how much further above John was in musical genious than anyone at that time and beyond. This is a song you can listen to over and over and still hear something different and new. And it's got a strong gutsy beat that you can't help getting into. This song proves why the Beatles were the best.

brilliantly sinister!

This is my favourite Beatle's song, ever since my English teacher made it an assignment to analyze and write an essay on it. Very interesting lesson, probably one of the few I can remember to this day!

It's songs like this that make me call the Beatles over-rated.

Never cared much for this. Really started to dislike it when the Paul is Dead hoax took legs.

I'm with Stan, not an entertaining song, except in the context of Flick's comment, which is great! sasha, the walrus (a symbol for death) was Paul, as the Beatles said in the lyrics of the song Green Onion, yet another clue, and I think that the literal lyrics are Goo goo ga joob but I don't remember why I think that.

Well, Goo-goo cechu.

Yet another Lennon drug inspired tune.

According to Peter Shotton, a childhood friend of John's, in his book The Beatles, Lennon, and Me there is an amusing story behind the lyrics of I Am The Walrus. For those who may not know who Peter Shotton was or his signifigance in Beatle history, Shotton played the washboard in John's first band, The Black Jacks who shortly thereafter became the Quarrymen. It was also Shotton who arranged for the Quarrymen to play at St. Peter's Parish church in Woolton on July 6, 1957 which is where John met Paul McCartney for the first time. John and Peter remained friends for many years. Once the Beatles became a world wide success Lennon could no longer go out in public so Shotton was often invited over. One night Peter and John were sitting around reading fan mail when Shotton opened a letter written by a student who was attending the same art school that Lennon had attended around 1958. It seems that there was a teacher who had failed Lennon in his class and now, nine years later, was telling his students what the Beatles really mean in their lyrics. This angered Lennon at first but his anger turned into amusement because an idea had come to him. He asked Shotton What was that dead dog's eye song we used to sing at Quarreybank? Shotton remembered Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye, slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick. That's it! Fantastic! said Lennon who then grabbed a pen and began writing the words to I Am The Walrus Inspired by the thought of a Quarreybank teacher trying to explain the meaning of Lennon / McCartney, John put in the most absurd images he could create. Semolina (a nasty tasting pudding John had been forced to eat as a child) pilchard (a sardine sometimes fed to cats) climbing up the Eiffel tower..... he said the words to Shotton and then began writing them down with obvious glee. As he did so he said to Shotton, Let's see what the bastard makes out of this, Pete! (a later version of Shotton's book has Lennon using a stronger expletive) When read in that context, the lyrics make perfect sense. For sheer creativity driven by a spark of revenge, I rate this song five stars.

Paul was the Walrus

One more of John's best!

The title says it all....

Noisy but great.

This is more Grateful Dead than Beatles, but it has incredible lyrics.

Okay, I have to bring this tune down a notch. I will admit that it certainly was revolutionary and fresh at one time, with all the sound effects and complete nonsense lyrics that John wrote while tripping on drugs. However, it does not deserve to be in the upper echelons of the Beatles' repertoire. It's actually one of their worst tunes, from several standpoints. Fun to listen to but not a great song. 3 out of 5.

One of the best songs of all time.

HO-ho-ho, Hee-hee-hee, Ha-ha-ha! With headphones and a bong! THIS was the best part of the Magical Mystery trip, uh, Tour!

koo koo a choo!