No matter what the critics say, I love this album. For me it is a continuation of Sgt. Pepper's and quite successful. Okay, the movie wasn´t a milestone, but the music is the more important thing anyway.
"Okay, the movie wasn´t a milestone" That's an understatement. The movie is utter shit. The Monkees' "Head" is what MMT was trying to be and it succeeds on almost every level while MMT has 2 good bits, the "I am the Walrus" sequence and that bit that leads into "Flying" where the coach driver speaks. " I love this album. For me it is a continuation of Sgt. Pepper's " I agree 100%. Every song on the album would be indispensable to me if I was stranded on a desert island {I love "Your Mother should know"}. As far as I'm concerned, it is the only example {perhaps along with "Hey Jude"} where the American version of a Beatles album shines brighter than anything that was coming out of, or equivalent to what was outputted, from the UK. Musically, along with 'Pepper', it encapsulates 1967 as no other band could {with the exceptions of Pink Floyd and Blossom Toes}. The Stones had a go and came close at times, but not consistently. I think it is possibly the Beatles' most underrated outing. It may even have been super-stronger had it been combined with "Yellow Submarine"'s 1967 recordings.
@@saml302 I'm the same way. Pepper suffers from zealot and critic fatigue whereas for me every song on MMT is like listening to The Beatles for the first time. Hello Goodbye even takes you back to their earlier stuff. Fool On The Hill is massively underrated and Blue Jay Way is George's most interesting song and it holds "conceptually" with Paul and John's tunes better than Within You Without You and IMO is a much better song than that one. I also think MMT is the best "title track" tune and oh yeah it's got Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on it too. Easily one of my favorite Beatles albums, if not my favorite. I consider Flying the "Ringo tune" as well because it's clear he's the vocalist.
@@saml302 I agree. But part of that strength is the addition of Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane which were recorded for Pepper. As it all came down though. I prefer Magical Mystery Tour also.
@@grimtraveller7923 omg...hail me! I was a child god, though. I am the walrus spun me out. In those days they would play a beatles song on the pop station radio, like walrus, which wasn't an 'A' side, but because it was the beatles. They capitulated and played the full 7 minutes of hey jude, and even left a moment of silence after the fadeout...for respect. Those beatle days were fairy tale-ish. As other styles of music stole the scene, some people claimed the beatles were passe' and yesterday's news. Then the next single or album came out at number one again. They were NEVER "passe'"
Magical Mystery Tour was the beginning of my Beatles experience. I was ten. My older siblings and cousins were talking about Sgt Pepper and I found it interesting. So when MMT came out, it was one of the first albums I'd bought. I had already gotten the All You Need is Love/ Baby You're a Rich Man single, the B side of which I preferred. I was all in. I didn't know any of the back stories. I took the whole album in and really liked it. From then on I would get the latest Beatles album every Christmas, all the way into George's All Things album. I guess I got in on the tail end of the Beatles. All my friends at school were into newer bands and music. But I did experience the Beatles in real time.
Always loved the album. Loads of hits. Loved "I am The Walrus", so much so I learnt the lyrics and tried to figure what they were about through the 1970's. What 'kicked' off this with me were the two Walrus lines, "Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe". I had learnt a little of Edgar Allen Poe at school and was bemused by Poe's photo on the Sgt. Pepper album, at the very top in line with the first letter E in Pepper. Great album!
" What 'kicked' off this with me were the two Walrus lines, "Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe"." When I first heard it back in '76, I thought it said: "Man, you should have seen them kicking every Mama's toe" !
I absolutely love the album. The vibe is trippy and of its time. I love Paul's contributions. There's not a bad track on it. Even as an EP, it hits hard. I recently ranked the Beatles albums, and it sits in a high spot. Great video, as always. 👍
This album was a birthday present for my 12th birthday... My Grandparents got it for me! That's pretty cool huh? The record was fantastic in so many ways for me and the world. I was already a HUGE Beatles fan, and this only made it stronger! Every song is a master- piece in my opinion? "The film, not so much." But this album is among one of their finest!
For some reason, I decided to get into The Beatles when I was 50. I listened to everything with an open mind and I think Magical Mystery Tour is a stellar album. I think I had to emotionally be more mature as I really thought that bands like The Beatles or The Beach Boys were just bandwagon pop. I didn't think they were so powerful culturally. So many bands now got inspiration from The Beatles. I would give MMT a 9.5/10.
I agree with so many comment here, this was their best album, also the US version with all the '67 singles on side 2 just made it all killer, no filler. This was their peak to me, even better than pepper in terms of amount of great tracks. I wish Giles Martin would remix this, i'm surprised it got looked over. Thanks for making the video, I never get tired of The Beatle story, especially this era.
" I wish Giles Martin would remix this" No, no, no ! I hope Giles leaves it alone. I don't even agree with his remixing the other Beatles albums. The beauty of them, as someone that discovered them at 13 back in '76, is that their recordings are what they are. Many of them are unique in the sense that their engineers' way of mixing was innovative for the time, but retrospectively primitive. They should stay that way. It would be like someone saying, "Oh, we need to put one or two more spikes on the statue of Liberty." Just leave it as it was. Stop trying to modernize ancient stuff. Stop trying to retouch your old wedding photos because there was no colour in those days !
@@grimtraveller7923 Your analogies are incorrect as you suggest that the spikes replace the original statue and the colour photos replace the b&w original. The original Mono Mixes still exist they are not replaced. And also you have the choice not to listen to the remixes if you wish. So nothing in your world has to change. So telling others not to enjoy the remixes makes no sense. Until the remixes arrived I only listened to the Mono and still do mostly but I enjoy the remixes because the drums mostly remain in the centre and I just like them, they sound good and it's another way to hear the songs.
@@thesoundofbailey The analogies aren't incorrect. They may not be great, but incorrect is the wrong word. You slightly contradict yourself when you point out that there are mono and stereo mixes already. That's my point, why remix them ? The only reason is to try and get them to sound like today's mixes. But they weren't made "today." Putting my cards on the table, if it helps, and so as not to get into one of those internet arguments, I'm one of those people that very much believes in leaving art in the condition it first came to us. With something like the bible, I'm fully on board with new translations {although some of them are terrible} because something like the bible is not art and we've learned a lot about language, conditions, nuance and meaning that wasn't available 2000, 1800, 1000, 400 etc years ago. But the music of an era is a completely different thing. There has been a progression, both artistically and technologically {actually, in some instances, the two drove one another} that means that you can't transplant the technology of, say, the 1930s, into 2008. There weren't many people in the 50 years up to Giles' remixing that were always dissatisfied with Beatles records. I feel kind of sorry for those that were. They don't know how to enjoy music. But, this is only my opinion ! It doesn't make Giles' remixes disappear, nor does it stop myriads of people from loving those remixes. But for me, no thank you. You know, I even hated the Yellow Submarine LP remixes that came out at the start of the 21st century. Having had the original mixes insinuated into my consciousness since the 70s, that's where it was at for me.
I love the magical mystery tour album it’s one of the greatest albums ever and I have never heard the EP version of magical mystery tour but it’s great. I love the album and I’m glad that the magical mystery tour album was standardized in 1987 that was the first time I had bought the album and I was absolutely blown away with every track.
Magical Mystery Tour doesn't really work if you're watching it as a narrative story. However, the film as a visual vehicle for the music is quite amazing. As for the music, the songs on the album are surreal, psychedelic masterpieces that are at least as equally innovative as the songs on Revolver & Sgt Pepper.
"Magical Mystery Tour doesn't really work if you're watching it as a narrative story." That's LSD for you, Dennis. As for the rest of your post, I agree entirely. In fact, I agree _more_ than you !!😄 😁
I consider the MMT album to be Sgt Pepper part 2! I think it's great. So many classic Beatles songs on it like Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, I Am The Walrus etc... It's classic psychedelic Beatles!!
Although certainly a bit of a 'hodge-podge', the Magical Mystery Tour album contained enough fantastic songs to have been a most welcome follow up to Sgt. Pepper; even though in no way comparable to the masterpiece that Pepper was. I was 12 years old when 'Mystery' came out, and had been eagerly buying every Beatle album since the beginning. I had already been playing in a band for several years, and the music was a huge part of our lives then. I can't honestly say that I ever felt disappointed with any of their records at the time; the Stones either... It was truly such an exciting time to have grown up; the music was non-stop fantastic right thru the 70s, and even 80s. Hell, the 90s weren't too shabby either come to think of it. ;)
I agree with others here. I love some of the songs on this album. Strawberry Fields, Hello Goodbye and I An The Walrus are some of my favourite Beatles songs tbf
Magical Mystery Tour has The Fool On The Hill, Your Mother Should Know, I Am The Walrus, Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, and All You Need Is Love and it could be argued that it's not even a top 5 Beatles album. Just goes to show how great they were.
I always felt that all of the Beatles finished albums were perfect but if I was the Beatles I would have put a few of the songs on double sided singles to leave room for songs that relate more or correlate along with the album, songs like penny lane and strawberry fields forever should have remained a double sided single same with she's leaving home and a day in the life... what do you think of this statement I made and what is your opinion on how the songs and albums should be in relation to order of the tracks and the way they complement the album? Also... Here is my opinion on the subject: A lot of the time when the Beatles were planning to release an album or we're working on a song or a project it always seems like they were trying to get it done quickly and in a timely manner to release their new projects on a certain date or their new ideas that they had come up with were a result of something the band was dealing with and of course Paul along with the help of the rest of the group would come up with fresh ideas trying to create more content and use the work that they were doing to hold themselves together because it's obvious that after the band stop touring and especially after the death of their manager they knew that the end of The Beatles was imminent and there were struggling with not having a solid direction to what the future had in store for the band and how to continue to move forward while dealing with the struggles and circumstances of the situation so seeing things from this perspective it makes alot of sense why itseems that there are a handful of tracks from all the albums and projects that seem to not fit in with the concept of the album that the seemingly "outofplace" tracks were on which is pretty much worthy idea and what the story of where the ideas of the last few projects the beatles were working on in the final couple years and months of the group, albums like abby road the white album and let it be...
I made the move to CD in 1987, and MMT was one of the first five CD titles I got that Christmas (Molly Hatchet’s 1983 album, “No Guts…No Glory”, a Motown sampler and two others were also part of my CD conversion, and Ratt’s “Dancing Undercover” was a non Christmas gift purchase.)
The reason that MMT was released as an LP in America had to do with the EP format. Capitol Records tried on two separate occasions to release EP's in America, but they didn't sell well, and charted poorly on Billboard. With MMT appearing as an EP in England, Capitol didn't want to do another EP, so they created the MMT album with the singles from 1967, that would end up being imported into England during the late 1970's.
I saw McCartney in concert in Detroit for his Flowers in the Dirt tour. Oddly enough, he introduced Fool On The Hill saying, "This song is about a guy I used to be in a band with."
No real Beatles fan says this unless they are trying to be "forward thinking and cool." The Beatles themselves said it was The White Album where they began to individualize from their unity.
Let's cut the crap : Magical Mystery Tour is a classic album. All great songs on it. The only problem with it was that in Europe it has never been considered as an album but merely an EP. Later it was released as an album and quite rightly so. That the film is not up to scratch is the least of my worries. The songs on it were great and with all those great singles added to it it is really up there with PEPPER !
How did Magical mystery end psychedelic 'pop' music? Hendrix and Cream still had a wild 1968; Woodstock was 1969; Hendrix especially was in 1969 and 1970 wayyy out there man. I trip when I hear it now, sober 15+ years.
A few years ago I had bought the magical mystery tour movie on DVD I absolutely love the film I think that the film should’ve been successful and that film should not have been panned I think it’s a really great movie all the way through. I never heard the mono mixes of magical mystery tour until I bought the Beatles in mono box set that was a great revelation for me especially hearing the Thesing effect on your mother should know which was great I love the backwards music that we used in an out of blue Jay Way in the stereo mix it’s too bad it was not used in the mono mix that would’ve been great with a little bit of seasoning effect in the mix and all the songs are great especially all you need is love Strawberry Fields forever Penny Lane baby you’re a Rich Man blue Jay Way hello goodbye flying the album is fantastic I love both the stereo mix and the mono mix of the album.
Even though I always skip Hello and Mother, it is still better than Revolver. My second most played Beatles album behind Pepper, though I usually play them together.
I consider Magical Mystery Tour as the first video album as every song has an accompanying film (except Baby You're a Rich Man). A pioneering concept. In hindsight the UK should have added the new Yellow Submarine songs and original Across the Universe and made a full complete album.
Even through it's a Capitol album, I think it might be in my top 3 all time favorite Beatles albums. Your Mother Should Know, I Am The Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby You're A Rich Man, All You Need Is Love!!! Every time I listen to this album it takes me back to my high school days, Smoking joints and learning all the words and all of the guitar and bass parts by ear. Good times.
@kingdomAndAriel Okay? Lol. Considering the video isn't discussing other versions, it is kind of vague. If the other versions you're referring to are the EP, i'm well aware of it.
Brian is quite possibly the most important and vital non-Beatle of the Beatles. as much as they owed to George Martin (and they knew it) they depended on Brian for so much. wild to think he thought he had to find a way to make himself "useful" in the new studio only setting. the Beatles loved Brian and felt absolutely lost without him.
I think this is their strongest album. It doesn’t have A Day in the Life but can you imagine if they had released this and Sgt. Pepper together as a double album? The two are stronger than the White Album, which is actually my favorite.
"It doesn’t have A Day in the Life" No. But it has "I am the Walrus", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane." "can you imagine if they had released this and Sgt. Pepper together as a double album? " There would have been an implosion of the universe ! '66 was extremely strong. '68 was really strong. '69 was maybe not as strong as '68 but it was nevertheless very strong. '67 was insane. There was so much invention that it took decades to assimilate it all and make sense of it.
I liked this album and felt it was an amazing accomplishment in light of the death of Brian Epstein. which no doubt took a huge toll on them emotionally. And I feel his death and the entrance of Allen Klein was just one of the many factors that led to their eventual breakup 2 years later.
How do you figure, "Your Mother Should Know" is a waltz? They were still doing psych on the white album and `67 was far from the death of the 1st psych era! A LOT of bands were just STARTING to get psychedelic in late `67 through `69 and there were still quite a few great psych tracks being made well into the early `70's!
Forget Yoko Ono. After watching all of these, I believe the death of Brian Epstein ultimately broke up the Beatles. It's touching to me that through their meteoric rise and tremendous musical growth, a few people like Epstein and George Martin were a steady, consistent presence that helped define the core of the Beatles.
Whoever signed off on releasing Penny Lane etc. in fake stereo, needs a special accommodation in purgatory. The best thing about the film is Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Death Cab For Cutie. I wish the Beatles followed their own successful pattern with British AHDN and Help albums: one side - songs from the film, the other side - some other songs. Not a double EP (useless format). Not raiding (and mangling) past singles for the LP. I guess they didn't have enough material.
Sgt Pepper was Paul’s and George Martin’s project. George barely showed up for the sessions at all, and you’ll notice there’s not a ton of guitar on it. Day in the Life May be there best song, but that album as a whole is a bit overrated. I’d take Help over Pepper any day
The movie is pretty shit but the US album is extraordinarily good. Personally listen to it more than peppers, side 2 (the singles) as good as anything they ever put out.
I was always a fan of their early material vs the psychedelic era! That said, I pick and choose what songs I like from each album. I also prefer Paul's music to John's in the latter half of their career. WhatvJohn calls granny music, I find fun and entertaining! George and his Indian music fetish is just pure trash!!! This all being said, I am SHOCKED at the poor critical review of Magical Mystery Tour. Nearly every single song is a hit! Who cares if some songs were leftovers from earlier albums! A very STUPID argument for criticism of an album track list! I am very glad that they were ending their psychedelic phase, but with only 2 albums to go in their career, too little too late!!! The bad feelings over Hello Goodbye and I Am the Walrus is just John being his usual asshole self!! Walrus is truly a useless song with nothing to say.....something JOHN always says about their early material and Paul's songs in general! Why should it matter A or B side as no matter which song you prefer they're both on the same record!!! John always touted how his songs were significant and had a statement. The lyrics were like a poem put to music so ge claims! He always made fun of Paul's lyrics as syrupy, granny like, bubble gum etc. Well, with disgusting phrases like yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye; toe jam football, spinal cracker......he should be 1 to talk !!! He tooted his horn yet again on Abbey Road stating his music was the better on A side, with the B side medley being " garbage"!! I own the " red" album and the " blue" album. They are not official studio releases but sort of greatest hits from the early Beatles music to the psychedelic era. I listen to both but the blue album material IMHO couldve been written by anyone, not exclusively the Beatles. There is no mistaking the red album material as exclusively The Beatles!! I don't own the White album, as I personally never cared for it. I do like Dear Prudence, and got used to Helter Skelter as a McCartney song! Just was way too not BEATLES sounding for my taste! Ironically, if you did buy the 3 albums, you'd have red, white,and blue!! Was this intentional as the colors in the British and American flag??
I think Magical Mystery Tour was great. I think better than Sgt. Peppers. Abbey Road and Let It Be were better than Peppers...But Magical Mystery Tour had SO MANY great songs 💯✌️😎
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No matter what the critics say, I love this album. For me it is a continuation of Sgt. Pepper's and quite successful.
Okay, the movie wasn´t a milestone, but the music is the more important thing anyway.
Absolutely agree! 💯
"Okay, the movie wasn´t a milestone"
That's an understatement. The movie is utter shit. The Monkees' "Head" is what MMT was trying to be and it succeeds on almost every level while MMT has 2 good bits, the "I am the Walrus" sequence and that bit that leads into "Flying" where the coach driver speaks.
" I love this album. For me it is a continuation of Sgt. Pepper's "
I agree 100%. Every song on the album would be indispensable to me if I was stranded on a desert island {I love "Your Mother should know"}. As far as I'm concerned, it is the only example {perhaps along with "Hey Jude"} where the American version of a Beatles album shines brighter than anything that was coming out of, or equivalent to what was outputted, from the UK. Musically, along with 'Pepper', it encapsulates 1967 as no other band could {with the exceptions of Pink Floyd and Blossom Toes}. The Stones had a go and came close at times, but not consistently.
I think it is possibly the Beatles' most underrated outing. It may even have been super-stronger had it been combined with "Yellow Submarine"'s 1967 recordings.
Peppers was more important in 1967, but MMT is 100% the stronger listening experience in 2023. call me a fool if you want I will die on this hill
@@saml302 I'm the same way. Pepper suffers from zealot and critic fatigue whereas for me every song on MMT is like listening to The Beatles for the first time. Hello Goodbye even takes you back to their earlier stuff. Fool On The Hill is massively underrated and Blue Jay Way is George's most interesting song and it holds "conceptually" with Paul and John's tunes better than Within You Without You and IMO is a much better song than that one. I also think MMT is the best "title track" tune and oh yeah it's got Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on it too. Easily one of my favorite Beatles albums, if not my favorite. I consider Flying the "Ringo tune" as well because it's clear he's the vocalist.
@@saml302 I agree. But part of that strength is the addition of Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane which were recorded for Pepper. As it all came down though. I prefer Magical Mystery Tour also.
One of their best. Always one of my favorites. Since it was released.
I can only respect you for having been into such a great album for so long.
Hail Doug !
@@grimtraveller7923 omg...hail me! I was a child god, though. I am the walrus spun me out. In those days they would play a beatles song on the pop station radio, like walrus, which wasn't an 'A' side, but because it was the beatles. They capitulated and played the full 7 minutes of hey jude, and even left a moment of silence after the fadeout...for respect. Those beatle days were fairy tale-ish. As other styles of music stole the scene, some people claimed the beatles were passe' and yesterday's news. Then the next single or album came out at number one again. They were NEVER "passe'"
Magical Mystery Tour was the beginning of my Beatles experience. I was ten. My older siblings and cousins were talking about Sgt Pepper and I found it interesting. So when MMT came out, it was one of the first albums I'd bought. I had already gotten the All You Need is Love/ Baby You're a Rich Man single, the B side of which I preferred.
I was all in. I didn't know any of the back stories. I took the whole album in and really liked it. From then on I would get the latest Beatles album every Christmas, all the way into George's All Things album. I guess I got in on the tail end of the Beatles. All my friends at school were into newer bands and music. But I did experience the Beatles in real time.
U got thay right about thay cliff 😊
Always loved the album. Loads of hits. Loved "I am The Walrus", so much so I learnt the lyrics and tried to figure what they were about through the 1970's. What 'kicked' off this with me were the two Walrus lines,
"Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe".
I had learnt a little of Edgar Allen Poe at school and was bemused by Poe's photo on the Sgt. Pepper album, at the very top in line with the first letter E in Pepper.
Great album!
" What 'kicked' off this with me were the two Walrus lines,
"Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe"."
When I first heard it back in '76, I thought it said:
"Man, you should have seen them kicking every Mama's toe" !
I absolutely love the album. The vibe is trippy and of its time. I love Paul's contributions. There's not a bad track on it. Even as an EP, it hits hard. I recently ranked the Beatles albums, and it sits in a high spot. Great video, as always. 👍
It's perhaps the most powerful EP in existence.
This was always my favorite Beatles album. I grew up listening to my mom's vinyl copy, which had all the inner sleeve notes, photos, comics etc.
This album was a birthday present for my 12th birthday... My Grandparents got it for me!
That's pretty cool huh? The record was fantastic in so many ways for me and the world.
I was already a HUGE Beatles fan, and this only made it stronger! Every song is a master-
piece in my opinion? "The film, not so much." But this album is among one of their finest!
best Beatles album! Epic songs!
For some reason, I decided to get into The Beatles when I was 50. I listened to everything with an open mind and I think Magical Mystery Tour is a stellar album. I think I had to emotionally be more mature as I really thought that bands like The Beatles or The Beach Boys were just bandwagon pop. I didn't think they were so powerful culturally. So many bands now got inspiration from The Beatles. I would give MMT a 9.5/10.
good bless The Beach Boys
Brilliant album
I agree with so many comment here, this was their best album, also the US version with all the '67 singles on side 2 just made it all killer, no filler. This was their peak to me, even better than pepper in terms of amount of great tracks. I wish Giles Martin would remix this, i'm surprised it got looked over. Thanks for making the video, I never get tired of The Beatle story, especially this era.
" I wish Giles Martin would remix this"
No, no, no !
I hope Giles leaves it alone. I don't even agree with his remixing the other Beatles albums. The beauty of them, as someone that discovered them at 13 back in '76, is that their recordings are what they are. Many of them are unique in the sense that their engineers' way of mixing was innovative for the time, but retrospectively primitive. They should stay that way. It would be like someone saying, "Oh, we need to put one or two more spikes on the statue of Liberty."
Just leave it as it was. Stop trying to modernize ancient stuff. Stop trying to retouch your old wedding photos because there was no colour in those days !
@@grimtraveller7923 Your analogies are incorrect as you suggest that the spikes replace the original statue and the colour photos replace the b&w original. The original Mono Mixes still exist they are not replaced. And also you have the choice not to listen to the remixes if you wish. So nothing in your world has to change. So telling others not to enjoy the remixes makes no sense. Until the remixes arrived I only listened to the Mono and still do mostly but I enjoy the remixes because the drums mostly remain in the centre and I just like them, they sound good and it's another way to hear the songs.
@@thesoundofbailey The analogies aren't incorrect. They may not be great, but incorrect is the wrong word.
You slightly contradict yourself when you point out that there are mono and stereo mixes already. That's my point, why remix them ? The only reason is to try and get them to sound like today's mixes. But they weren't made "today."
Putting my cards on the table, if it helps, and so as not to get into one of those internet arguments, I'm one of those people that very much believes in leaving art in the condition it first came to us. With something like the bible, I'm fully on board with new translations {although some of them are terrible} because something like the bible is not art and we've learned a lot about language, conditions, nuance and meaning that wasn't available 2000, 1800, 1000, 400 etc years ago.
But the music of an era is a completely different thing. There has been a progression, both artistically and technologically {actually, in some instances, the two drove one another} that means that you can't transplant the technology of, say, the 1930s, into 2008.
There weren't many people in the 50 years up to Giles' remixing that were always dissatisfied with Beatles records. I feel kind of sorry for those that were. They don't know how to enjoy music.
But, this is only my opinion ! It doesn't make Giles' remixes disappear, nor does it stop myriads of people from loving those remixes.
But for me, no thank you.
You know, I even hated the Yellow Submarine LP remixes that came out at the start of the 21st century. Having had the original mixes insinuated into my consciousness since the 70s, that's where it was at for me.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, 'It's so good, they put the tracklist on the front cover!'
I love the magical mystery tour album it’s one of the greatest albums ever and I have never heard the EP version of magical mystery tour but it’s great. I love the album and I’m glad that the magical mystery tour album was standardized in 1987 that was the first time I had bought the album and I was absolutely blown away with every track.
me been waiting for this one
thank you
This was my favorite Beatles album ❤️
Magical Mystery Tour doesn't really work if you're watching it as a narrative story. However, the film as a visual vehicle for the music is quite amazing. As for the music, the songs on the album are surreal, psychedelic masterpieces that are at least as equally innovative as the songs on Revolver & Sgt Pepper.
"Magical Mystery Tour doesn't really work if you're watching it as a narrative story."
That's LSD for you, Dennis.
As for the rest of your post, I agree entirely. In fact, I agree _more_ than you !!😄 😁
The 'tour' itself is an LSD trip, that was the whole point of the film that couldn't be spoken aloud.
Clearly their best release.
I consider the MMT album to be Sgt Pepper part 2!
I think it's great.
So many classic Beatles songs on it like Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, I Am The Walrus etc...
It's classic psychedelic Beatles!!
I'm tempted to think of both as one double album, some of the songs were even from the Sgt. sessions.
My fav Beatles album 🌺🎸🥁✌🏻🌀🤯🌈⭐️
Although certainly a bit of a 'hodge-podge', the Magical Mystery Tour album contained enough fantastic songs to have been a most welcome follow up to Sgt. Pepper; even though in no way comparable to the masterpiece that Pepper was. I was 12 years old when 'Mystery' came out, and had been eagerly buying every Beatle album since the beginning. I had already been playing in a band for several years, and the music was a huge part of our lives then. I can't honestly say that I ever felt disappointed with any of their records at the time; the Stones either...
It was truly such an exciting time to have grown up; the music was non-stop fantastic right thru the 70s, and even 80s. Hell, the 90s weren't too shabby either come to think of it. ;)
" I can't honestly say that I ever felt disappointed with any of their records at the time"
This is such a great point. I feel the same.
The Beatles Are The Best 💯 Period,I Have The Beatles Number 1s Album & My 2 Favorite Beatles Albums Are Magical Mystery Tour & Abbey Road Classics
My second favorite Beatles album after Rubber Soul
I agree with others here. I love some of the songs on this album. Strawberry Fields, Hello Goodbye and I An The Walrus are some of my favourite Beatles songs tbf
Very nice work!
The get back (let it be) sessions were sooo chaotic that you HAVE to do a video on it!
Best album they did
That's a stretch
Not really it’s packed with bangers
Seriously
YOU'RE RIGHT ITS THE BEST OF BEATS
One of the best. Actually prefer this one than sgt peppers.
Not even close
The opening trumpets are a great start to a fantastic album.
This is my favorite Beatles album along with sgt pepper’s
I think magical mystery tour was their artistic peak
Magical Mystery Tour has The Fool On The Hill, Your Mother Should Know, I Am The Walrus, Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, and All You Need Is Love and it could be argued that it's not even a top 5 Beatles album. Just goes to show how great they were.
I always felt that all of the Beatles finished albums were perfect but if I was the Beatles I would have put a few of the songs on double sided singles to leave room for songs that relate more or correlate along with the album, songs like penny lane and strawberry fields forever should have remained a double sided single same with she's leaving home and a day in the life... what do you think of this statement I made and what is your opinion on how the songs and albums should be in relation to order of the tracks and the way they complement the album?
Also...
Here is my opinion on the subject:
A lot of the time when the Beatles were planning to release an album or we're working on a song or a project it always seems like they were trying to get it done quickly and in a timely manner to release their new projects on a certain date or their new ideas that they had come up with were a result of something the band was dealing with and of course Paul along with the help of the rest of the group would come up with fresh ideas trying to create more content and use the work that they were doing to hold themselves together because it's obvious that after the band stop touring and especially after the death of their manager they knew that the end of The Beatles was imminent and there were struggling with not having a solid direction to what the future had in store for the band and how to continue to move forward while dealing with the struggles and circumstances of the situation so seeing things from this perspective it makes alot of sense why itseems that there are a handful of tracks from all the albums and projects that seem to not fit in with the concept of the album that the seemingly "outofplace" tracks were on which is pretty much worthy idea and what the story of where the ideas of the last few projects the beatles were working on in the final couple years and months of the group, albums like abby road the white album and let it be...
it’s honestly probably my favorite album by then
Baby your a rich man????
@@stephenquinn106 The fact that I left that out shows how good that album is
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been waiting for this one
thank you
I made the move to CD in 1987, and MMT was one of the first five CD titles I got that Christmas (Molly Hatchet’s 1983 album, “No Guts…No Glory”, a Motown sampler and two others were also part of my CD conversion, and Ratt’s “Dancing Undercover” was a non Christmas gift purchase.)
Why not just say your parents bought it for you? They were very price back then you know...
The reason that MMT was released as an LP in America had to do with the EP format. Capitol Records tried on two separate occasions to release EP's in America, but they didn't sell well, and charted poorly on Billboard. With MMT appearing as an EP in England, Capitol didn't want to do another EP, so they created the MMT album with the singles from 1967, that would end up being imported into England during the late 1970's.
I saw McCartney in concert in Detroit for his Flowers in the Dirt tour. Oddly enough, he introduced Fool On The Hill saying, "This song is about a guy I used to be in a band with."
I Am The Walrus was a signpost for a future never quite reached (Greil Marcus).
The only reason MMT is called the beginning of the end for the Beatles is because of wisdom's hindsight.
No one was saying this at the time !
No real Beatles fan says this unless they are trying to be "forward thinking and cool." The Beatles themselves said it was The White Album where they began to individualize from their unity.
Kids in the US never got to see it cause of the bad reviews in the UK all we had was the storybook inside the album
I see this as the turnaround of The Beatles existence to their eventual breakup
Let's cut the crap : Magical Mystery Tour is a classic album. All great songs on it. The only problem with it was that in Europe it has never been considered as an album but merely an EP. Later it was released as an album and quite rightly so. That the film is not up to scratch is the least of my worries. The songs on it were great and with all those great singles added to it it is really up there with PEPPER !
How did Magical mystery end psychedelic 'pop' music? Hendrix and Cream still had a wild 1968; Woodstock was 1969; Hendrix especially was in 1969 and 1970 wayyy out there man. I trip when I hear it now, sober 15+ years.
Yeah, I'm a Pink Floyd fan and they had only gotten past the starting gate in 1967...
A few years ago I had bought the magical mystery tour movie on DVD I absolutely love the film I think that the film should’ve been successful and that film should not have been panned I think it’s a really great movie all the way through. I never heard the mono mixes of magical mystery tour until I bought the Beatles in mono box set that was a great revelation for me especially hearing the Thesing effect on your mother should know which was great I love the backwards music that we used in an out of blue Jay Way in the stereo mix it’s too bad it was not used in the mono mix that would’ve been great with a little bit of seasoning effect in the mix and all the songs are great especially all you need is love Strawberry Fields forever Penny Lane baby you’re a Rich Man blue Jay Way hello goodbye flying the album is fantastic I love both the stereo mix and the mono mix of the album.
Even though I always skip Hello and Mother, it is still better than Revolver. My second most played Beatles album behind Pepper, though I usually play them together.
I consider Magical Mystery Tour as the first video album as every song has an accompanying film (except Baby You're a Rich Man). A pioneering concept. In hindsight the UK should have added the new Yellow Submarine songs and original Across the Universe and made a full complete album.
It was one of their biggest selling albums ever. 'Nuff said. Even John loved the US album "because it was so weird".
Even through it's a Capitol album, I think it might be in my top 3 all time favorite Beatles albums. Your Mother Should Know, I Am The Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby You're A Rich Man, All You Need Is Love!!! Every time I listen to this album it takes me back to my high school days, Smoking joints and learning all the words and all of the guitar and bass parts by ear. Good times.
@kingdomAndAriel What isn't? It isn't a capitol album? That's a very vague response to what I initially said.
@kingdomAndAriel Well, the album they're discussing in this video is the widely known capitol LP version. Hence, my comment...
@kingdomAndAriel Okay? Lol. Considering the video isn't discussing other versions, it is kind of vague. If the other versions you're referring to are the EP, i'm well aware of it.
Brian is quite possibly the most important and vital non-Beatle of the Beatles. as much as they owed to George Martin (and they knew it) they depended on Brian for so much. wild to think he thought he had to find a way to make himself "useful" in the new studio only setting. the Beatles loved Brian and felt absolutely lost without him.
Quite right, especially since Billy was not a good leader, although he tried
MMT is my favorite Beatles album.
people were just insane at that time, MMT is the BEST Beatles album
13:05 Glad to see 2001 credited as the source for the “Flying” visuals, as Paul’s commentary track misidentifies the source as DR. STRANGELOVE.
AS ALWAYS EXCELLENT VIDEO DOKU
I think this is their strongest album. It doesn’t have A Day in the Life but can you imagine if they had released this and Sgt. Pepper together as a double album? The two are stronger than the White Album, which is actually my favorite.
"It doesn’t have A Day in the Life"
No. But it has "I am the Walrus", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane."
"can you imagine if they had released this and Sgt. Pepper together as a double album? "
There would have been an implosion of the universe !
'66 was extremely strong.
'68 was really strong.
'69 was maybe not as strong as '68 but it was nevertheless very strong.
'67 was insane. There was so much invention that it took decades to assimilate it all and make sense of it.
I liked this album and felt it was an amazing accomplishment in light of the death of Brian Epstein. which no doubt took a huge toll on them emotionally. And I feel his death and the entrance of Allen Klein was just one of the many factors that led to their eventual breakup 2 years later.
This story is true ! 😊
The film simply paled in comparison to Tragical History Tour, a fascinating trip around tea rooms in the Rutland area.
All You Need is Love is probably my favourite Beatle song...wonderful album too!!!
I mean George said it best "it haven't been the same when mr. Epstein passed away"
Really pleased they’re doing this, but it’s not really an album, right?
How do you figure, "Your Mother Should Know" is a waltz?
They were still doing psych on the white album and `67 was far from the death of the 1st psych era! A LOT of bands were just STARTING to get psychedelic in late `67 through `69 and there were still quite a few great psych tracks being made well into the early `70's!
funny but no critic thought to themselves then knowing how majestic they were what a document to look back with posterity.
6:45 what about 12-bar original from the rubber soul sessions?
Eventually issued on the Anthology albums.
"what about 12-bar original from the rubber soul sessions?"
What about it ?
it's also an instrumental, but the guy narrating said t here was only one before Flying. @@grimtraveller7923
Forget Yoko Ono. After watching all of these, I believe the death of Brian Epstein ultimately broke up the Beatles. It's touching to me that through their meteoric rise and tremendous musical growth, a few people like Epstein and George Martin were a steady, consistent presence that helped define the core of the Beatles.
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Recorded at Olympic Sound 10.00, don't you mean Olympic Studios?
Magical Mystery Tour is actually a better theme album than Pepper. Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields are two more stops on the tour.
I actually prefer this one than sgt peppers.
Not at all the beginning of the end. Rather, the last great triumph before they started coming apart. And way better than Sgt Pepper.
Whoever signed off on releasing Penny Lane etc. in fake stereo, needs a special accommodation in purgatory. The best thing about the film is Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Death Cab For Cutie. I wish the Beatles followed their own successful pattern with British AHDN and Help albums: one side - songs from the film, the other side - some other songs. Not a double EP (useless format). Not raiding (and mangling) past singles for the LP. I guess they didn't have enough material.
Great music, though.
I'd say I like it probably a little better than Sgt Pepper, but not as much as the White Album.
10:08 i thought it's Dig A Pony.
When you're referring to the 1967 album, it's Sergeant PEPPER not Peppers! It's been spelt like that for 56 years!
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band numb nuts, natural that it’s contracted to Sgt Pepper’s.
@@ben-ow3ow You mentioned Sgt Pepper, the individual. If you mentioned the band, you would have added the apostrophe, numb nuts.
@@anthonyworgan56 Not the individual, the album. Use the head.
@@ben-ow3ow so it's Pepper's not Peppers.
Sgt Pepper was Paul’s and George Martin’s project. George barely showed up for the sessions at all, and you’ll notice there’s not a ton of guitar on it. Day in the Life May be there best song, but that album as a whole is a bit overrated. I’d take Help over Pepper any day
The movie is pretty shit but the US album is extraordinarily good. Personally listen to it more than peppers, side 2 (the singles) as good as anything they ever put out.
I was always a fan of their early material vs the psychedelic era! That said, I pick and choose what songs I like from each album. I also prefer Paul's music to John's in the latter half of their career. WhatvJohn calls granny music, I find fun and entertaining! George and his Indian music fetish is just pure trash!!! This all being said, I am SHOCKED at the poor critical review of Magical Mystery Tour. Nearly every single song is a hit! Who cares if some songs were leftovers from earlier albums! A very STUPID argument for criticism of an album track list! I am very glad that they were ending their psychedelic phase, but with only 2 albums to go in their career, too little too late!!! The bad feelings over Hello Goodbye and I Am the Walrus is just John being his usual asshole self!! Walrus is truly a useless song with nothing to say.....something JOHN always says about their early material and Paul's songs in general! Why should it matter A or B side as no matter which song you prefer they're both on the same record!!! John always touted how his songs were significant and had a statement. The lyrics were like a poem put to music so ge claims! He always made fun of Paul's lyrics as syrupy, granny like, bubble gum etc. Well, with disgusting phrases like yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye; toe jam football, spinal cracker......he should be 1 to talk !!! He tooted his horn yet again on Abbey Road stating his music was the better on A side, with the B side medley being " garbage"!! I own the " red" album and the " blue" album. They are not official studio releases but sort of greatest hits from the early Beatles music to the psychedelic era. I listen to both but the blue album material IMHO couldve been written by anyone, not exclusively the Beatles. There is no mistaking the red album material as exclusively The Beatles!! I don't own the White album, as I personally never cared for it. I do like Dear Prudence, and got used to Helter Skelter as a McCartney song! Just was way too not BEATLES sounding for my taste! Ironically, if you did buy the 3 albums, you'd have red, white,and blue!! Was this intentional as the colors in the British and American flag??
I think Magical Mystery Tour was great. I think better than Sgt. Peppers. Abbey Road and Let It Be were better than Peppers...But Magical Mystery Tour had SO MANY great songs 💯✌️😎
Blue Jay Way was one of the worst Beatle songs ever next to Revolution #9.
both were needed for the PID clues
Worst album cover of all time
Who didn’t know this???