<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">They were just trying to be trippy, and imo, it didn't work. I think that was more the heads in the studio influencing the track than the Beatles themselves. You'll find that a lot of the Beatles' later trippy stuff was moreso the work of guys like George Martin and Billy Preston in the studio than the four Beatles themselves. I'm not so sure the Beatles could have replicated that stuff live, even if they wanted to, and that's one of the main reasons they stopped touring towards the end there.
At the end of the day though, I think it's just esoteric garbage. They wanted people to read into it or think, "Wow, psychedelic drugs really make you produce some strange things," but all it does for me is make me skip to the next track.
You actually think some very deep, intelligent thoughts on LSD though, probably moreso than in reality. At least, from my own experience that's true. Your mind's going a million miles an hour thinking of deep things your brain wouldn't have noticed or thought of otherwise. It's not like you go insane and start repeating random nonsense like "number nine, number nine, etc."</div>
I read the wikipedia article (in an attempt to make sense of the song) and said that it was moreso the work of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. McCartney didn't contribute at all and apparently both him and Martin tried to keep it off the album. Not sure how true that is though, since I'm still new to the Beatles. (
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btw, you were completely right about "Abbey Road." The last half of that album was very enjoyable. It flowed so perfectly.
