No and I dont regard it as a proper album anyway. The fact that Strawberry fields is on it shouldnt take away from the fact that it is merely a compliation of odds and ends, typically released by Capital Records for the American market.
Now if they had built an album around SFF, PL and ADITL instead of Sht Pepper that would have been something.
Enough with the Beatles threads already!
Magical Mystery tour is not really worth adding to your music collection, IMO (most of the tracks are already present on other, better albums) _________________ "I'm so ugly but that's OK cause so are you"
-It misses track 10 'Baby You're a Rich Man' here at Best Ever Album.
-I am unsure if we display the original album cover here because mine looks different.
-Originally, 'Magical Mystery Tour' is not an album but a double EP.
-Listening to the tracks, I feel the missing guidance of Brian Epstein.
-maxxy, the songs were not published on another album before.
-The first six songs, side one of the album, are from the infamous, unprofessionally made TV film Magical Mystery Tour. The songs flopped as double EP containing only those songs. Therefore, for the album release 5 singles, A and B side releases of 1967, were added for the embellishment of the album making it rather a juke box, a hit collection on the B side.
Nevertheless, four of the B-side hits are great, "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "All You Need Is Love" and "Hello Goodbye" as well as "The Fool on the Hill" and "Your Mother Should Know" from the original double EP. _________________ Credits: Edison for first recording, 1877 Mary had a little Lamb.
Mark Hamburg (Royal Albert Hall Orchestra) for first album, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite 1909.
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No and I dont regard it as a proper album anyway. The fact that Strawberry fields is on it shouldnt take away from the fact that it is merely a compliation of odds and ends, typically released by Capital Records for the American market.
Now if they had built an album around SFF, PL and ADITL instead of Sht Pepper that would have been something.
I think you're confusing it somehow with Abbey Road, which really was a collection of odds and ends. Side 2 was nothing more than a continuous medley of fractional songs.
But to call The Fool On the Hill, Blue Jay Way, and Your Mother Should Know odds and ends? TFotH is one of their classics, and I've always liked Blue Jay Way myself.
Side 2 of MMT was obviously stronger, with the aforementioned songs, but side 1 shouldn't be overlooked or cast aside as "leftovers". _________________ <(: @ :)>
If you think of it as a B-sides collection, then it is a DAMN good one, but it doesn't really hold up as an album, even though it contains some of their best material.
I like this better than "Sgt Pepper" but "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were recorded in late 1966 during the Sgt Pepper sessions. "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" are two of their four great examples of mixing avant music influences with a strong pop structure.
"Penny Lane" has a great melody and a great chord progression with an innovative use of feedback from either a piano or harmonuim at the end of the song. To me the most underrated track is "Blue Jay Way" which continues with Harrison use of experimental tape techniques with microtonal Indian melodies.
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