Worst Beatles song on Magical Mystery Tour

I'm expecting Your Mother Should Know to win/lose this poll; it seems like the most lightweight and pointless of Paul's attempts at writing "songs my mum and dad would like" (which peaks with Martha My Dear and troughs with Honey Pie, in my mind).

This was probably the first Beatles album that I loved, and, as I mentioned elsewhere recently, probably formed my music taste more than anything else; the codas, the brass, the basslines, the odd sounds in Baby You're A Rich Man, the big choruses, the Kraut-ish instrumental, the trippiness of Blue Jay Way, the nostalgia-cum-psychedelia of Strawberry Fields Forever.

As an almost aside, the other day it struck me that the title track, which I kind of expect to get a hammering, even though I love it, is basically Radiator by Super Furry Animals squeezed into 2 and a half minutes.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 06:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

all you need is love

― Girls, meet team; team, meet girls (hmmmm), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

PRobably will get the fewest votes of any album.

― Mark G, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

Why do you think that, Mark? Because of its status as "not a proper Beatles album"?

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

Or because it's got the fewest songs?

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

Here I'm more interested to see if anyone's going to vote for "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Penny Lane." Or "I Am The Walrus." And reasons why, of course.

I'm going with "Your Mother Should Know" although "The Fool on the Hill" is no prize either, esp. in the lyrics dept.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

all you need is love

― Girls, meet team; team, meet girls (hmmmm), Friday, 25 September 2009 08:02 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

I really like 'Your Mother Should Know'. It's quite understated and I find the structure interesting - the melodic phrase is unusually lengthy, so that the whole thing is effectively one really long opening line repeated with a couple of breaks.

I don't think much of 'All You Need Is Love'. Even thought I love 'La Marseillaise' I've never found it anything but horrible here, and same goes for all the stuff on the fade-out. I do like the lazy shifting around in the verses, but not enough to stop me voting for it. (I don't really remember 'Baby You're A Rich Man' but suspect it might be worse).

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Flying" is the only acceptable answer on this one. Complete throwaway crap that was only recorded since Paul thought they needed background music for the film.

― Darin, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm mean really... All You Need is Love? Really? That's REALLY the worst song in this collection????

― Darin, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

Magical Mystery Tour. Too many horns, and I hate the "Here's an invitation/make a reservation" & "Everything you need/Satisfaction guaranteed" rhymes. These are some of Paul's (and John's) worst songs on this album and one of his (and two of John's) very best. The bad ones sound like exactly what they are - rejects.

― nate woolls, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah. I just hate that saccarine hippie bullshit. The Beatles are best when they are cynical and bitter, or alternatively just weird (Walrus).

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm mean really... All You Need is Love? Really? That's REALLY the worst song in this collection????

― Darin, Friday, September 25, 2009 12:30 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

I guess I picked a song that's catchy and memorable but makes me want to stab when it's stuck in my head over the forgettable throwayays. I feel the same about obladi-oblada and bungalow bill on the white album. They're not the worst as songs, but they are the most irritating.

― Girls, meet team; team, meet girls (hmmmm), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

Firstly: this album sounds great on the remasters.

But to the point: "Magical Mystery Tour" is a horrible song, probably my least favorite Beatles song on any of their albums. I hate the way they sing "roll up", so nasal and without color or texture. In fact I find all the backing vocals on the song horrible. And Paul's shouts about invitations and reservations are garbage, ham that I wish the remasters had just covered up entirely.

"All You Need Is Love" is also horrible.

Yes, " Your Mother Should Know" is not great, though the melody on the verses is terrific. Your mother should know...what? A song long before she was born? Or something else? And you can hear it as stressing either that it should be familiar to your mother, or that your mother is abnormal if she doesn't know it. And it's unsettling as a prelude to "I Am the Walrus" (which is how I hear it). The song takes us out of time, briefly, gently disorienting us before the imminent descent.

― Euler, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

The second half of 1967 was a pretty shitty time for the Beatles creatively IMHO. Lot of junk on MMT and YS. Only Lennon performs during this dark period.

― Darin, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

Also, I think All You Need is Love might be the worst mixed song of the Beatles entire catalog. The version on Love makes me wish they'd remix everything between Revolver & Magical Mystery Tour.

― Darin, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

I mean did they even plug in Paul's bass during that radio broadcast????

― Darin, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's all good except All You Need and Your Mother.

― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 25 September 2009 08:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ian MacDonald reckons Baby You're A Rich man is a step away from sophisticated pop and towards sensualist rock, and as such he hates it. He also reckons it's a step towards the mindlessness of dance music. He's not wrong there in some ways (in the latter part of the equation), but he's still an enormous prick.

For me, it's one of my favourite Beatles songs: an awesome, rubbery, accelerating / decelerating bassline; some mad hooks coming off guitar and clavioline and painted right out into the stereo margins for added headfuckery; a chorus that's awesome fun to shout along with ("YOU KEEP ALL YOUR MONEY IN A BIG BROWN BAG / INSIDE A ZOO / WHAT A THING TO DO"); a contrastingly subdued and, I feel, quite sinister verse - I love it to bits.

I also really like Magical Mystery Tour and Hello Goodbye; maybe they're not the best in terms of songwriting or lyric, but I think the arrangements are wicked. Ringo's drums on Hello Goodbye are astonishing.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 08:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

I really really like Hello Goodbye too - it's one of the very earliest Beatles songs I can remember hearing and I can remember being really excited by the outro.

― nate woolls, Friday, 25 September 2009 08:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^ Great post on BYARM Nick, I get that sinister feeling from the whole album, there's even something malevolent about Your Mother Would Know. To my ears, anyway. Maybe I'm just projecting something - my earliest musical memories are of this record...

(... & it's still my favourite Beatles LP)

― tomofthenest, Friday, 25 September 2009 08:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

Hello Goodbye is a weak song hidden by excellent arrangement. I've seen it used as short-hand for when describing what is the essence of the Beatles characteristic sound.

Never cared much for: Blue Jay Way, All You Need is Love, Baby You're a Rich Man. Difficult to choose between them.

― Bob Six, Friday, 25 September 2009 08:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

Cards on the table time; I've never cared for I Am The Walrus much.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 08:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

What do you think about the version of "I Am The Walrus" on Anthology 2, the version without all the bells and whistles? As much I love the MMT version, I love the Anthology version far more. Ringo's drums in particular are so excellent there.

― Euler, Friday, 25 September 2009 08:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

Keep in mind that this was their first project without any contributions from Paul, who had died in a horrible car accident during the recording of Pepper. All things considered, the remaining three + Billy do an excellent job of keeping up appearances.

― dlp9001, Friday, 25 September 2009 08:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

love this album, flying rocks, Your Mother Should Know sucks a dog

― jesus mighty lord chewy (stevie), Friday, 25 September 2009 08:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

I love Your Mother Should Know, the 'aahhhhhh' backing vocals esp. The lyrics don't really make sense to me, but that's no problem. I like the melancholy in it.

Am voting for All You Need is Love. I like the outro, but all in all I find it to be a boring song that always feels like it's dragging on for hours...

― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 25 September 2009 08:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

Keep in mind that this was their first project without any contributions from Paul, who had died in a horrible car accident during the recording of Pepper.

No no he died in 1966. There are clues all over Sgt. Pepper's - he's the only band member turned on; he's pointing to something on the lyric sheet (or is that George?); etc.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 25 September 2009 09:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

I thought at first it must be something from side 1, but then it strikes me they are all really good too. So I almost ended up voting for "Baby You're a Rich Man" although "Flying" just makes it ahead of it. There are no bad tracks on this one either though.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

The Beatles are best when they are cynical and bitter

No, they are at worst when they are bitter.

John Lennon might as well have left The Beatles after this album, which is the last album he contributed constantly good songs to. From 1968 onwards, there was only the odd exception ("Because", "Across The Universe"), but most of John's contributions on the last three albums (not continue "Yellow Submarine" as a proper album here) were crap.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

Could someone explain me about the formats this was released on? Obviously I know it was a double EP (but what does that mean?) was it two 7"s or what? And were Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane not on it originally?

This is one of my very favourite Beatles records though - I get a lot of enjoyment from this kind of psychedelica and the Beatles did it really well. A lot of what I would normally say about MMT's been said already on this thread. I had "Your Mother Should Know" stuck in my head yesterday and found myself singing it out loud while I was doing the cooking. I really like "Flying", throwaway as it is, it's kind of essential to the whole ordeal as a piece of fun psychedelic mood music. I guess the only track I would leave off, as mentioned upthread, is the title track which epitomises that annoying, brash, alarm clock sound that I had a bit of a moan about on the Sgt Peppers thread.

I think this will be the next reissue I buy. It's my favourite era of the Beatles but the fact it's not quite as much of a "statement" as say Peppers or the White Album stops it counting as my favourite album in my head. There's also the cloying factor of some tracks - I do like the tunes on "All You Need" and "Hello Goodbye", but they do sum up everything that pisses me off about Lennon and McCartney's individual characters.

― dog latin, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

I thought Paul was supposed to have died just before Rubber Soul, the photo on the front of the album depicting the Beatles looking down into a GRAVE!!! :-O

― dog latin, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

Didn't the Rutles practically rip off the whole of "Baby You're A Rich Man" for their biggest "hit" "Shangri La"?

― dog latin, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

It was a 6-song, double 7" EP with the first 'side' of the album on it, and the second side of ther album was additional non-album singles & their b-sides from the same era (SFF & Penny Lane, plus AYNIL & BYARM).

It was released in the US in this format in 68 I think, and then everywhere on vinyl in 76 I believe, and then obviously on the CDs in 87 and now.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm a little surprised there isn't more hate for "Fool On The Hill". It's easily my least favorite McCartney tune before 1969.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Flying. In fact, I love this whole album. It's like the most... weird and thrown together and therefore totally psychedelic of the Beatles albums. I totally rate this over Sgt. Pepper.

I already put the kabosh on All You Need Is Love on the Yellow Submarine poll, so HELLO GOODBYE HELLO HELL is gonna get the kicking from me.

Which is odd, coz otherwise the Paul songs on this album don't bother me so much as normal. I like Fool On The Hill and can even put up with Your Mother Should Know because it's engrained into my skull from enough acid trips to the movie.

― I Like Daydreams, I've Had Enough Reality (Masonic Boom), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

I've just figured out that the albums I tend to like the best are the ones I've tripped to the most.

eeeep. :-/

― I Like Daydreams, I've Had Enough Reality (Masonic Boom), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

best beatles album!!

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

not a real album. picking the title track.

― history mayne, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

genuinely don't know what to vote for but this is just fucking joyous from start to finish, hello goodbye is probably all-time beatles top 3 for me, and i *love* the title track so ha

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

"hello goodbye is probably all-time beatles top 3 for me, and i *love* the title track so ha"

u mad

― history mayne, Friday, 25 September 2009 11:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

I like it, but we could lost "Flying."

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 25 September 2009 11:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

lose

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 25 September 2009 11:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

C'mon, people! "Blue Jay Way" is the loser!

― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2009 11:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

But "Blue Jay Way" is prime George! One of his best psychedelic songs, actually.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 25 September 2009 11:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

Blue Jay Way is fantastic! A Beatles fiend in LA actually took me driving up to Blue Jay Way, and we got totally lost and confused, and had to just imagine poor George sitting up there among the trees tripping his face off, wondering where his friends had got to...

As you know, I am utterly Against Drugs and all that, but so much of this music doesn't *truly* make sense until you hear it in that context.

OK, I have become everything I hate and I'm going to STFU now.

― I Like Daydreams, I've Had Enough Reality (Masonic Boom), Friday, 25 September 2009 11:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

I find Hello Goodbye really irritating.

― chap, Friday, 25 September 2009 11:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

But the coda!

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 11:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

flying, eleavator music

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 25 September 2009 12:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

no way he'd have let them arse about on a bus for a week in the countryside stoned as fuck without a script

Well, he would, but he wouldn't let them film it.

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

You kidding? He'd have been right there on the bus!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Your Mother Should Know" seems like a great combination of reassuring voice x lyrics & music a little elusive, not so reassuring (the music is maybe in a minor key, and gliding like dancers in and out of the lamplight). Really the feeling of childhood, a moment of interest and knowing you're not quite getting it. "Hello Goodbye" the jangling round of relationships---"Pattern recognition gets us all in the end," Jane Dark once said of rock writing, but may apply to all things observational, especially if you're a Beatle, tripping on the masses and vise versa (agree about the coda's coolness, though always thought it was "get fucked get fucked everybody GET fucked", in a good bad hello goodbye way, opposites being equal and attracting) "Penny Lane". "Straberry Fields", "I Am The Walrus" are great, "Baby" jangling on a wire like a kebab of baby toys, the rest suggest the Rutles, only not as good.

― dow, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

Scorsese really reminding me of Eugene Levy in this. Hadn't seen him in a while...guess I'm not the only person struck by the resemblance. Anyway, this album was a great mystery when I was little, looking through the photos in our lp and trying to figure out what the movie might be like. Documentary was surprisingly interesting. The bits of Blue Jay Way in the doc seem extremely eerie and very ahead-of-their-time in relation to the rest of this. Harrison almost seems like John Cale or something: a member of a completely different band.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

xpost. I also wondered about the Rutles. Have been playing Piggy In The Middle and Cheese & Onions (originals and Highway Revisited versions) and very seriously trying to decide if they're better than the MMT soundtrack...

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

RIP Victor Spinetti :(

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Blue Jay Way" is the best part of the film imo.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

I've always loved Your Mother Should Know. The elliptical lyrics and overall spookiness make me think its the Beatles' equivalent of Rubber Ring by the Smiths. Sort of, ha ha, here is the kind of music that old people like, pretty fun... but, damn, our music will become old-time music too, vanity of vanities etc. No doubt I read too much into it.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

MMT is the most underrated Beatles album

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:25 (7 months ago) Permalink

8. Strawberry Fields Forever 3

huh?

― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

Scorsese helpfully points out it was made without the use of CGI.

So wait a minute, Clark. You tellin' me that was a real walrus?

― pplains, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

It was Paul, no?

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

My only problem with Flying is that it sounds like Kiss The Girl from the Little Mermaid, and once I heard that I can't unhear it. Now every time I listen to that song my brain automatically adds in a little singing crab.

― wk, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

Crab was Ringo, according to Lewisohn.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

Octopus surely?

― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

Though he is pretty crabby these days.

― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

The Little Mermaid would have been improved immensely if Ringo had voiced Sebastien the crab.

― wk, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

I dunno, if he were already an octopus, it'd be pretty odd for him to be clamoring for admission to the octopuses' garden. Sorta makes sense if he's a lower-order sea creature. Or maybe I'm just projecting my bias against Sebastian here.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:25 (7 months ago) Permalink

Woah, woah, "lower order?" Uh, number of zodiac signs with crabs: 1 , number with octupuses: 0.

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

Also I now would like an "Octopus's Garden"/"Under THe Sea" mashup.

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

The Little Mermaid would have been improved immensely if Ringo had voiced Sebastien the crab.

Yeah, you say that like one would say, "Oh Thomas the Tank Engine would be so much better if it had a little tiny Ringo to narrate everything," but then you see it really happen.

― pplains, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

Weird, i don't see the Flying/Kiss the Girl connection.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

The mellotron line in Flying sounds vaguely like the verse melody of Kiss The Girl, plus they're both a simple I - IV - V progression so you can sing the KTG verse over Flying. Nothing major, just a stupid thing I can't unhear now.

― wk, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

It also sounds sort of like "Reading Rainbow"

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:29 (7 months ago) Permalink

Also I now would like an "Octopus's Garden"/"Under THe Sea" mashup.

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:30 PM Bookmark

I'd like to be / Under the seeeeeea

seems workable, maybe not in sampling form but any good glee club should be able to work up a medley that does this, i can hear it in my head!

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

oh man "reading rainbow" mashup i can TOTALLY hear though

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

There's definitely an album from around 1990 that was called something like "Sebastian live in concert" where the guy who did the voice sings "Octopus's Garden" (and "Day-O" and "Hot Hot Hot" and "Under The Sea" among other songs). It was really bad IIRC.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:11 (7 months ago) Permalink

For a minute there I forgot this is the worst, not the best songs on the record and I couldn't understand why so many people loved that 'all you need is love' crap carnival. I kind of like eveything else about this album and I consider it better than sgt. pepper's.

If I could play god single-only: 'Lady Madonna' would take its place leaving AYNIL as the a-side of 'the inner light'. That sounds like the worst single of all time.

― Moka, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 06:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

i love almost all of this album, mainly because it's one of the albums i've listened to least often since my big beatles phase as a pre-teen so hearing it instantly takes me back to being a 14-year-old sitting under the christmas tree listening to this on my new discman. 'i am the walrus' felt like the most thrilling, magical, scary song in the world.

'all you need is love' isn't a good song or anything but i kind of enjoy it as sort of a performance piece, like just a record of the beatles getting together and making noise and shouting a lot.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 06:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

Uh, All You Need is Love is a great song. I can't understand the objections to that and Hello Goodbye other than assuming it's down to weirdos who only listen to lyrics.

― wk, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 07:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i don't hate "all you need is love" really. it's fairly iconic in my mind. why do people hate it so?

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

Because it's a plodding bore, as droopy as their moustaches when they recorded it.

― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

Hello Goodbye is a little grating.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

All You Need and Hello Goodbye are a bit chirpy, but not half as boring as the s/t track which has little going for it.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

It serves fine as an album intro. Though I've always thought MMM into FOTH mirrored Sgt Peppers into Little Help a bit too strongly.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

My two favourite things about the title track are that little bit where it goes into half-time and the piano coda.

― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yes. Kinda wish they'd turned that piano bit into a whole song. But they have so many great intros and endings that could've been songs in themselves.

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

otm.

Title track is awesome as hell. Pretty rad that after Pepper L.S.D. "I'd love to turn you on" and Paul admitting he took acid they went ahead and released an album whose first track tells listeners to "Roll up!" As in, roll up a joint, hell, it's 1967 man.

I like how on many songs of this era you can tell they laid down the basic track and then had a track where everybody grabbed random percussion instruments and just started banging on them along to the song. "MMT" has some really cool percussion on it, also "Baby Your a Rich Man".

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:31 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, the half-time/accelerando bit in MMT is so great, and it's a one-of-a-kind thing in their catalogue. Unless you want to count the weirdly off-tempo bits of "What's The New Mary Jane?"

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

the worst thing about AYNIL is that it sounds so terrible, it's probably the worst sounding officially recorded beatles song. the remaster fixed it a bit; the remix on the yellow sub soundtrack is better, but still not great.

― akm, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, that's a lot of it for me - just muddy and dreary as hell. Part of that is also just the tempo and the arrangement I guess.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:21 (7 months ago) Permalink

Ha I have totally missed the significance of "Roll up!" until now. Top-notch trolling of the BBC there.

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

I always thought "Hey Jude" a pretty bad recording.. (xpost akm)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

If only that "fucking hell!" was more audible!

― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

what, it'd have been banned off all radio?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

Wasn't All You Need Is Love recorded live as part of the first global satellite broadcast? I think it may sound muddy because it didn't get the same meticulous recording as their regular studio tracks.

― Moodles, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

Wenner: In "I Am The Walrus"...
Lennon: That was the B side of "Hello, Goodbye," can you believe it?

Lennon Remembers

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

So does anyone have the new MMT DVD? It sounds pretty skimpy on the extras front. A 'making of' documentary and then Paul commentary on the main movie....is that it? Since the movie is under an hour long I was hoping at least they could include remastered SFF and Penny Lane music videos, but it doesn't seem to be the case....

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:38 (7 months ago) Permalink