The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
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Free Music Review: Not as good as Sgt Pepper
Hit: 4 Stars
Magical Mystrey Tour is a good album.
It is not as good as Sgt. Pepper, or some other albums of that time.
It does have some of the most innovative and original songs the Beatles had ever done.
What was unique was the way it was recorded. With the technology of the time they had to hire musicians from the London Symphony instead of simply programming keyboards as they do now.
You hear Cellos and violins along with trumpets and French horns.
There was no limit to the experimenting and the genuius of Lennon and McCartney. Tis is a prime example of the experimentation they had.
I remember hearing I am the walrus for the first time in 1967. It was so far from anything else I had ever heard it was not even funny.
Instead of Rock and Roll you get a lot of classical orchestration. Actually it is quite appealing to me.
The title song Magical Mystrey Tour was used to open Paul McCartney's World Tour, I have to admit it was a great way to open the concert.
All you need is Love is included and one of Lennons best.
Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields is included as well.
This is not the best album the Beatles have ever done, but it is worthy of a few listens and any Beatles collection....................
Free Music Review: Another collection of masterpieces
Hit: 5 Stars
I forget sometimes how amazing this album is. It's not usually mentioned along with the Beatles' greatest albums ("Sgt. Pepper's", "Revolver", "Abbey Road" and the White Album), but if you look at the number of masterpieces on "Magical Mystery Tour", I think it has to be in the conversation. (Maybe it's the ghastly cover that keeps it from getting its due?).
Aside from a few lesser songs ("Flying", "Blue Jay Way" and "Baby You're A Rich Man"), every song is a timeless classic, with both John and Paul contributing some of their finest work. Eight out of eleven is a pretty hard to beat. Even by the Beatles.
Free Music Review: A GOOD OUTING
Hit: 4 Stars
THIS lp has it's moments. Not the beatles best work but good all and all.Free Music Review: Not as good
Hit: 5 Stars
Not as good as Hard Day's Night but I still don't get tired of watching it.Free Music Review: Magical Mystery Tour
Hit: 4 Stars
With Sgt. Pepper's completed & released the Beatles were able to rest & take time to contemplate their next project. Paul McCartney had really stepped out in front of the group with Sgt' Pepper's, he had almost always been the musical director of the group but now he was becoming the lead creative artist within the group. Magical Mystery Tour was even more a project of his own than had been Sgt. Pepper's.
At this time McCartney decided what the Beatles needed to do next was a tv program for the BBC. Paul had always leaned toward the spontaneous, at least behind the scenes. The Beatles would go on a countryside tour on an adventure. The show itself would essentially be scriptless though the songs wouldn't be. The tv special would be a flop &, in many ways, some thought the album the same way. In reality, Magical Mystery Tour isn't an album. The first six songs are from that tv special (though there were others but not performed by the Beatles). In fact, Magical Mystery Tour was only available in Great Britain as an EP. The British didn't get the American version for many years. This American version included five more songs that were hits & had been previously released as singles.
The album opens with "Magical Mystery Tour", one of McCartney's best songs, somewhat reminiscent of "Sgt. Pepper's". "Fool on the Hill" follows, many consider this to be one of McCartney's best ballads. The next song is "Flying". This is the only Beatles instrumental ever released, it's also the only song that all four members of the band co-wrote together. George Harrison's "Blue Jay Way" is next. It's an odd little song. The next song is McCartney's "Your Mother Should Know" which hearkens back to the big band era that he grew up in. Paul seemed to come up with at least one song similar to this on almost every album the Beatles released. Lennon's only contribution to the album was the final song of the Magical Mystery Tour, "I Am the Walrus". This is one of his best songs. He wrote the lyrics when a friend had told him that a university was offering a class on finding the true meanings within the Beatles lyrics. What Lennon offered here was gobbledygook. He pieced together words that held no special meanings, yet they were loaded with imagery that would inspire some searching. Lennon would later explain he only wrote the lyrics to make someone think that there was a hidden meaning. This is an example of just how good a lyricist Lennon could be; he would dream up a complete line of drivel & make it seem extremely intelligent & thoughtful.
Magical Mystery Tour, the album is fleshed out with five hits that had been previously released. Four of them had been major hits. The only one that wasn't a major hit was "Baby You're a Rich Man", a song that was really two different ones that Lennon & McCartney had pieced together. "Hello Goodbye" is here, one of McCartney's best songs. Both sides of a single are next: "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Lennon) & "Penny Lane" (McCartney). Both songs come from childhood memories of each writer. At this time they were considering releasing an album of songs based on their childhood memories but this was as far as it got. Strawberry Fields was actually a Salvation Army homeless shelter in Liverpool. The final song of the album is Lennon's "All You Need Is Love", one of his most famous & loved songs.
Overall, Magical Mystery Tour is a great album; it misses the mark only because of a couple of songs from the tv special.