An uneven classic

Magical Mystery Tour is certainly not high on anyone's list of the Beatles' best albums - but I'm yet to see a list that doesn't include at least one song from it. Magical Mystery Tour captures the Beatles in their creative peak, and it really does contain some of their best, most innovative and groundbreaking work. Unfortunately, it lacks in one important aspect that Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and Rubber Soul all excelled in: structure and balance. That same problem will recur one year later with the white album; but while the white album is rich and varied enough to be satisfying despite its structural flaws, Magical Mystery Tour feels incomplete: it feels, more than an album, like a soundtrack that had a few singles tacked on to it so it wouldn't be too short - which is, of course, exactly what it is.

PEPPERS TOO.. GOO GOO KA CHOO

MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Beatles song has got to be I AM THE WALRUS, from this strange Beatles album of 1967. This album was in a small way part of the whole PEPPER experiments of that year. MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR was actually released as an EP in the UK, and contained the songs that fill the first half of the US version (Capitol was always cashing in by making their own versions of the records on our side of the sea). Today this US version is the exclusive version both here and in the UK, the only Beatles album to stick with it's US tracklist, over the original UK tracklist. ANYWAY... the first handful of songs are great, some of my faves no doubt come from the bizarre movie from which this album gets it's name. BLUE JAY WAY is another exceptional Beatles track.. the instrumental FLYING is cool.. The songs that were eventually added that were eventually added come like this... STRAWBERRY FIELDS/PENNY LANE was the first of the Beatles "Pepper" stuff. This single was released a few months before the SGT PEPPER album, but the songs were not included,.. so a few more months down the road they ended up on here. Though these are some of the best rated BEATLE tunes, I'm not really fond of PENNY LANE.. I find that song makes me cringe... but everything else is worth the price of the album. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE was recorded live for a world television broadcast in 1967, and ends with a huge sing along of stars, and children, and people and whatnot. Its good stuff. HELLO GOODBYE is a cool tune Basically, this is just another good Beatles album, sort of like SGT. PEPPERS volume II, as it contains all of the OTHER stuff The Beatles did in the psychedelic sixty seven.

Fed Up a/k/a Cranky Gringo is wrong about The Beatles

Toro: Say Pancho, who does that loco one-star reviewer think he is. Pancho: He is a dirty gringo for trashing The Beatles. Toro: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour is a great disc. Pancho: Songs like Strwawsberry Field, Penny Lane, All You Need is Love, the title cut and I Am the Walrus are timeless gems. Toro: Oasis were ripoffs of the 1967-68 era recording of The Beatles much to loco last one-star reviewer's dismay. We say VAMINOS from here and buy now or you will be called stupido!