Worst Beatles song on Magical Mystery Tour

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.

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.

It also sounds sort of like "Reading Rainbow"

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Hello Goodbye is a little grating.

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.

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.

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

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.

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".

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?"

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Lennon Remembers

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....

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/06/09/the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour-round-67-nicks-choice/

This definitely has the highest percentage of crap tunes of any Beatles album.

um Let it Be

"The Long and Winding Road" + the stuff that barely qualifies as a "song" ("Dig It", "Maggie May", "One After 909") are all worse than the filler here imo

Haha yeah, my memory always omits Let It Be.

title track is the worst imo

the jazzy outro is cool as hell, though

even the filler/worst Macca excesses here are at least partially redeemed by all the psych production foofara

this whole record is cool.

you guys are cooler

About 16 years ago I saw Counting Crows (I know...) and their introduction music was the Magical Mystery Tour title track blared through the PA. I had never heard that song, or really any Beatles song, at such a high volume. It was glorious and gave me a new-found appreciation for that track.