Worst Beatles song on Magical Mystery Tour

"Alex in NYC" is love.

Alex is The Word.

All you need is Alex.

Alex is all you need.

Lennon being a sarcastic asshole, what a shocker.

deified as the veritable personification of peace n' love

Isn't this mainly a posthumous marketing meme? I mean even on Imagine you have "How Do You Sleep?" which is pretty bitter and hateful. Seems like Lennon-is-Love came about mainly as a good way to sell t-shirts in the early 80s.

Hearing a horrendous remake of "All You Need is Love" playing on a commercial this evening really makes me understand the hate. The commercial is either for a bank or credit card or both.

i've come to the conclusion that blue jay way is my favorite beatles song

Wow, this is off the mark even by ILMs standards. How the hell is the track Flying not easily the worst? It's a forgettable instrumental with neither melody or invention to save it. Fool On The Hill is far superior and Blue Jay Way should be more highly esteemed. End of rant.

I'd have thought "Hello Goodbye" should have walked this. The other higher ones are there purely through overfamiliarity. "I say a positive thing, you say a negative thing" for 3 mins.

I think Flying is pretty cool

8. Strawberry Fields Forever 3
6. I Am The Walrus 0

;_;

Why so? No-one thinks Walrus is the worst song on this?

Buzza OTM. Especially Ringo's performance, the drumming is KILLER

I love flying. Sounds like being stoned.

Flying, also, is a great performance, particularly from Ringo. And how can you hate on that ambient mellotron ending? The tremolo guitar, that silly four-part harmony, and the gentle acoustic guitar solo in the lead-in. It's all so wonderful. Really a beautiful couple of minutes on a rather intense and schizophrenic album.

"Hello Goodbye" is the one song on this album I can't stand.

re: "hello goodbye," i think the appeal of that song is not particularly about the lyrics (which, yes, are nursery-rhyme-ish). the round-like vocal harmonies are very nice. one of the beatles' better straight sunshine-psych tunes IMO.

The CODA for heaven's sake.

^this. Redeems the song.

Flying is an amazing bedroom rocker btw.

Flying is chillwave LOL

wouldve voted Penny Lane and not thought twice...

hello goodbye is among the top 5 worst beatles songs. flying is awesome. the sentiment of AYNIL I appreciate more as I approach the elder stages of life, tho musically it is sometimes a bit much to take

Documentary on the BBC about the making of Magical Mystery Tour. Blu Ray & DVD comes out this week, finally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xiz41xJ5ExQ

It's actually pretty good, plenty of stuff I've never seen before. Funny that this is the first time I've ever seen the stripper's tits, they have always been censored out!

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

interesting doc but a bit too 'crazy days.. groovy man' at times. did make me realise how much of an guiding influence Epstein was; no way he'd have let them arse about on a bus for a week in the countryside stoned as fuck without a script. good to see Macca has made his peace with it all since the Anthology days mind.

(Macca style) thumbs up to Macca for using Albert Ayler as the soundtrack to one of his experimental home movies! MMT still boring tho apart from "Walrus" segment and Johnny's dream sequence.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG7PS2k9J_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jXc3t9JR4&feature=related

RIP Victor Spinetti :(

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

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.

MMT is the most underrated Beatles album

8. Strawberry Fields Forever 3

huh?

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?

It was Paul, no?

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.

Crab was Ringo, according to Lewisohn.

Octopus surely?

Though he is pretty crabby these days.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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