What Do You Think The Crowd Is Chanting At The End Of I Am The Walrus?

[Hello Goodbye]

What do you hear starting at 3:31?


https://youtu.be/t1Jm5epJr10

[Moogmodule]

I thought it was a mix of "oompah oompah stick it up your jumper" and "Everybody's got one".

That's what I've consistently read is being chanted. But it's all a muddle and hard to really hear.

[Hello Goodbye]

Yes, Moog, it's a muddle alright!  Sometimes I hear what David Peel & the lower east side heard...







https://youtu.be/Xx4QkxBzUjI
1:23

[nimrod]

I thought it was a mix of "oompah oompah stick it up your jumper" and "Everybody's got one".

That's what I've consistently read is being chanted. But it's all a muddle and hard to really hear.

Sounds like that to me as well

[blmeanie]

muffled "smoke pot, smoke pot"?

[Bulldog]

Has anyone heard The Rutles 'Piggie in the middle'? A send up of Walrus but a good one.

Their song 'Joe Public' is also a good Revolver era song.

[Hello Goodbye]

Has anyone heard The Rutles 'Piggie in the middle'? A send up of Walrus but a good one.

https://youtu.be/EN-mWY5MxUA
There's a backwards clue at 1:11



Playing Piggy In The Middle backwards reveals the clue at 1:45...


https://youtu.be/XHa0EViuIEg

[Hello Goodbye]

Sounds like that to me as well

You're not wearing your Bose QC35 headphones, Kev. 

[nimrod]

You're not wearing your Bose QC35 headphones, Kev. 

True  ha2ha

[Moogmodule]

Maybe the MMT special edition remix will give use the isolated chanting tracks.

[Hello Goodbye]

Maybe the MMT special edition remix will give use the isolated chanting tracks.

I'd buy it just for that!!   

[Loco Mo]

No matter a remix or a new pair of headphones, we're never gonna clearly hear those vocals.  I've listened multiple times and IMO they were deliberately distorted.  Unless you can find a way to un-distort them, forget it.  Well, maybe someday as technology evolves, it'll be possible.

Anyway, listening to the chanting over and over was making my ears hurt even with the volume turned down.

[nimrod]

It's just a cacophony of sound I suppose you could persuade yourself that they're saying anything really.... I think in its day walrus was a complete Revolution of a recording, I can't think of anyone who did anything like this before.