Album of the day (#4765): Magical Mystery Tour

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Today's album of the day

Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1967.
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Overall rank: 84
Average rating: 85/100 (from 2469 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Fool On The Hill
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am The Walrus
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're A Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love

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[HoldenM]

The one U.S. release from The Beatles that is recognized alongside their U.K. studio canon, and for good reason. Arguably their most consistent collection of songs.

Track picks
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
6. I Am The Walrus
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
10. Baby You're A Rich Man
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[craola]

i haven't listened to this in quite some time, but i'm scanning the tracklist, and that's a damn fine album.
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[DommeDamian]

prefer this to Sgt Pepper, just has more bangers and is more colorful.
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[CharlieBarley]

It has a good few of my favourite Beatles songs on it (Strawberry Fields, Fool On The Hill, Baby You're A Rich Man).
Fair to say I like it a lot.

[MadhattanJack]

The main thing I remember about Magical Mystery Tour is that it was the first album I bought with my own money. This is probably why it's my favorite Beatles album (currently #49 on my all-time Top 100 chart), but that also begs the question of where I got the money to buy it. My personal tendency to self-mythologize makes me want to believe I mowed lawns to earn the money in a respectable fashion, but I would have only been about 6 or 7 years old at the time, and in retrospect that seems a bit young for a kid to be mowing lawns for album money. Then again, lawn mowers were a lot less sophisticated back in those days, and people were also less particular and less demanding about how nice their lawns had to look.

So it's not out of the question, but it's also possible that I simply asked my parents for the money and they gave it to me, or maybe they had me on some sort of weekly allowance, though I don't remember that ever being the case. Sometimes I would skip lunch at school, but back in those days, school lunches only cost what, 40¢? And an album would have cost $1.99, give or take, so I would have had to miss 5 lunches — also not out of the question, since school-cafeteria food back then was even worse than it is now. But it's just as likely that I stole the money from a bank, since this would have been several years before they started putting bulletproof barriers between bank customers and bank tellers, at least where I lived... and since I lived in the United States, I always carried plenty of firepower.

I still have the album, by the way. It's scratchy, but playable... I didn't start taking proper care of my album collection until the mid-70s, when Ramones albums started appearing in record stores and I realized that having good records could sometimes be a handy way to meet girls.

[Brigand99]

I always liked the Paul McCartney songs better on this album compared to Sgt.Pepper. And thus my favorite tracks are:

Penny Lane
Hello Goodbye
Fool On the Hill
Your Mother Should Know

[melisandre]

I like it but it does bug me a bit how this one has been elevated to classic status alongside the others. It’s a compilation and doesn’t flow as well as their best albums. The cover is garish and the overall effect of the music is kind of garish too. The subtlety and balance of Pepper and Revolver is not there. It’s the Beatles album that is actually less than the sum of its parts. Some classic tunes and low key gems on here though, of course. It’s still pretty much essential, but I just don’t love it like their other albums.

[Romanelli]

The Paul songs here (aside from "Penny Lane") are actually the reason why this is a frustrating album for me. "Your Mother Should Know" is McCartney at his worst. It's a 25 second song basically repeated over and over to fill 2 and a half minutes. The title track is almost the same thing. The beginning of his use of snippets instead of writing full songs. "Hello Goodbye" is lyrically weak, and "The Fool On The Hill" is overdone. But Lennon's tracks make up for most of that for me. His songs here are much stronger (even though he only got 3 on the album), and George's "Blue Jay Way" is a winner.
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