Magical Mystery Tour isn't crap after all!

[Rum]

I recently copied all the Beatles albums onto my Ipod. I haven't really listened to them for years except for the occasional song, but after a recent documentary about them on TV, which was the first original take on them I have seen in 20 years or more (don't ask me what it was cos I can't remember!) I decided to revisit them.

I listened to them all over a period of about three days, walking the dogs and while typing crap at work and so on and I was reminded how brilliant, original and massively influential they were and how they accelerated the development of pop music as if it had suddenly been turbocharged. It was them wot did that! They put the rest of us on!

From Please Please me to Yesterday was two years! From Help to Sgt Pepper TWO years!

BUT..I have always felt that they had one duff album - Magical Mystery tour. It seemed to get lost between the 'Summer of Love' and the realisation that love and peace were not really practical for earning the rent..

But I listened to it again the other day and you know something? It is superb. I had not quite registered that on that one low profile album are Fool on the Hill, I am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, not to mention All You Need is Love (a biggy but blechh).

Neither McCArtney or Lennon were individual 'geniuses' in my view. But the two of them combined made some sort of super-genius hybrid. Fucking fantastic!

I am really glad I revisited all that stuff!

(with apologies to the whipper-snappers who probably have no idea what I am on about).

[Bella Fortuna]

I recently listened to Sgt. Pepper through after not doing so since I was a teenager. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it, and still appreciated the music.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

That is the US album release. The original release in the UK only had 6 tracks and didn't include Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, or All You Need Is Love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_My ... EP_release

[Rum]

That is the US album release. The original release in the UK only had 6 tracks and didn't include Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, or All You Need Is Love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_My ... EP_release

Damn - you are right and I am dumb for forgetting that - cos I used to know it!

No wonder I always thought it was the duff one.

Oh well, one so so one amongst the rest isn't too shoddy!

[Animavore]

Well at least it has 2 of all of the 7 or so Beatles songs I like.

EDIT: Oops. 3.

[Flora]

I gave all my Beatles singles, EPs and albums to my Godson when he was born (he's 18 now). I can't remember if I had that one but I love those songs you mention.

The thing that always strikes me about much of the Beatles' music is that I appreciate it better now than I did when I heard it the 1st time.

[klr]

I recently copied all the Beatles albums onto my Ipod. I haven't really listened to them for years except for the occasional song, but after a recent documentary about them on TV, which was the first original take on them I have seen in 20 years or more (don't ask me what it was cos I can't remember!) I decided to revisit them.

I listened to them all over a period of about three days, walking the dogs and while typing crap at work and so on and I was reminded how brilliant, original and massively influential they were and how they accelerated the development of pop music as if it had suddenly been turbocharged. It was them wot did that! They put the rest of us on!

From Please Please me to Yesterday was two years! From Help to Sgt Pepper TWO years!

BUT..I have always felt that they had one duff album - Magical Mystery tour. It seemed to get lost between the 'Summer of Love' and the realisation that love and peace were not really practical for earning the rent..

But I listened to it again the other day and you know something? It is superb. I had not quite registered that on that one low profile album are Fool on the Hill, I am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, not to mention All You Need is Love (a biggy but blechh).

Neither McCArtney or Lennon were individual 'geniuses' in my view. But the two of them combined made some sort of super-genius hybrid. Fucking fantastic!

I am really glad I revisited all that stuff!

(with apologies to the whipper-snappers who probably have no idea what I am on about).

I've thought about buying the newly remastered version of this album, but since I already have the best 7 of the 11 tracks (from the "Blue" 1967-1970 compilation) ...