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Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Manufacturer: Capitol
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
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Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
The album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie soundtrack) than Help! or A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every song sounds like it could have been a hit single--with the natural exception of the goofy/weird instrumental "Flying." Even George's "Blue Jay Way" paints a vivid sound-portrait in fascinating detail. (I consider Joni Mitchell's "Car on the Hill" from Court and Spark to be a companion piece about sitting in the Hollywood Hills, waiting for somebody to show up.) And although the goofy TV movie may have been mostly Paul's baby, this album features the two 45 rpm masterpieces that sum up the quintessential best of Lennon and McCartney at this stage of their development: Paul's "Penny Lane" and John's "I Am the Walrus." --Jim Emerson

2) Album Description
1987 digitally remastered Japanese pressing of 1967 album packaged in a standard jewel case. Parlophone/Apple.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) The best beatle work!!!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Great album, great songs! I highly recommend it to any, and i mean any person who enjoys music, no matter if he likes soul, pop, classic, country, etc. It is worth having it!!! STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER is propably the best of all the good songs in this album. It is really catchy and is considered one of the best songs ever written!

2) Magical Mystery Tour   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Quality of service is excellent as usual and has become a mark of Amazon. The product is brand new and in excellent condition.

3) For Beatles fans and old hippies   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
I had to have this because, well, it's the Beatles! Surely not their best, but part of their whole saga.

4) My personal favorite of The Beatles vast work   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
While the movie, "Magical Mystery Tour," was a huge flop (nothing happened!), the appurtenant music is simply brilliant. I like every cut on this album.Most fans gravitate either to "Sgt Pepper," "Revolver," "The Beatles" (The White Album), or even to "Rubber Soul" as their top pick but "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967) really hit a grand slam with me. I bought a copy when it first hit the music stores and I've played it frequently ever since. Along with "Revolver" (1966), the music represents the outset of The Beatles' psychedelic "middle period". And it's probably significant that "Magical Mystery Tour" came out just after the greatest Summer in the history of all mankind, 1967... "The Summer of Love". The rock music composed and played during this historically significant window of time generated huge enduring impacts upon American society."I Am the Walrus" and "Strawberry Fields Forever," my two favorite cuts, were incredibly innovative compositions which nothing of the like had been done before, and very little since. "I Am the Walrus" was a clear slam at "The Man" from the drug counterculture element's paradigm. The lyrics appear to have been conceived by a madman and I'm sure that many of these unique phrases exuded from an actual LSD experience. A new word was even invented and conveyed in this song: SNIED. LyricsFreak.com has it thus:I AM THE WALRUSby The BeatlesI am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.I'm crying.Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.Mister city policeman sittingPretty little policemen in a row.See how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run.I'm crying, i'm crying.I'm crying, i'm crying.Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.If the sun don't come, you get a tanFrom standing in the english rain.I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.Expert textpert choking smokers,Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?See how they smile like pigs in a sty,See how they snied.I'm crying.Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.Elementary penguin singing hari krishna.Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.With that, I'll bow out!

5) A Capitol US Beatles release that got the job done RIGHT FINALLY!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour was released as an EP in the UK and album in the US in time for Christmas in 1967. For years, Capitol Records (EMI's US affiliate) had a reputation of chopping songs off UK albums to create more US albums (Yesterday and Today, Beatles '65 and so forth) but with Magical Mystery Tour, the label added the group's 1967 singles to the second side of the album creating a treat for the US Beatles fans that Christmas. Magical Mystery Tour was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name that left a lot to be desired, but the soundtrack is actually one of The Beatles' better albums and was yet another huge success that hit #1 here in the States (all but one or two of their studio albums hit #1 Stateside and sold well). I did not hear this album until the spring of 1995 and loved it immediately. The first six tracks (or side one) are basically from the movie Magical Mystery Tour. The songs continue in the vein of its predecessor Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, perhaps with more psychedelia thrown in. We open with the psychedelic rocker the title cut which is a great album opener penned from bass player Paul McCartney. We follow with another McCartney number, the ballad "The Fool On the Hill" which is a great number. Next is the instrumental "Flying" which is a rare Beatles instrumental. Next is guitarist George Harrison's "Blue Jay Way" which was inspired from his trip to Los Angeles. Next is the McCartney pop ditty "Your Mother Should Know" which is a great finger-snapping tune. We end this half with guitarist John Lennon's classic "I Am the Walrus" which is one of his best songs EVER! The album's second half starts with Paul's single "Hello Goodbye" which was released before the US version of the album. "Strawberry Fields Forever" follows and is one of Lennon's best tracks (in fact, my second favorite Beatles track). Paul's "Penny Lane" is next and is a nice pop song. John's underrated B-side "Baby You're a Rich Man" is next and is a great song. The closing "All You Need is Love" is a classic Lennon tune which was a #1 hit in the summer of 1967 and a great song. All you need to do is buy this album!