10 Weirdest Rock Songs That Became Hits

When you look back on every style of music that the Beatles touched on, John Lennon was always the resident weirdo of the Fabs. Before he had even gone down the rabbit hole of experimental music with Yoko Ono, he was already looking for new sounds to mess with his audience, whether that be through feedback on Eight Days a Week or pretty much everything about Tomorrow Never Knows. We're sticking to hits today, and the B-side of Hello Goodbye was one of the biggest trolls he could have pulled.

Being inspired by a school teacher that was trying to dissect what the band's songs meant, John wrote the entirety of I Am the Walrus to be complete nonsense, from lines about sitting on a cornflake or elementary penguins singing Hare Krishna. Beyond just the lyrics, the sound of the song is weird on its own, never really settling down throughout the whole song and bringing in orchestral instruments and a choir to give it a controlled kind of chaos.

John loved things to be spur of the moment as well, and towards the end of the recording you can hear bits and pieces from a radio performance of Shakespeare's King Lear, which just happened to be playing on the radio while the band were recording. You can make a playlist of everything the Summer of Love gave us, but for the most part, the sound of this one song practically sums up the entire '60s. It's catchy, it's forward thinking, but it's also one of the oddest things that has ever graced the charts.