Worst Beatles song on Magical Mystery Tour

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.

If I remember, all the 'winning' worst tracks were put into one final poll, and it was still 'better' than most bands 'best of's'

Worst Beatles song ever

idk that's pretty fucking grim, not an album I would listen to tbh

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

best thing about cirque du soleil's "love" is hearing all those songs through a really good arena sound system.

agreed, I think George Martin and son also did a fantastic remix job for the Love soundtrack

Yeah, I just saw Love last weekend and the sound was indeed great. Teared up a little towards the end during All You Need Is Love, tbh. Hearing all that great music jammed together was just.. My cup overfloweth with joy, even though I've heard it a million times before

No, neither would I, erm, ... Dude.

I like this album a bunch

Fantastic:
Flying
Rich Man
Strawberry
Walrus

Good:
Penny Lane

OK:
Hello Goodbye
Magical Mystery
Fool

A bit crap:
All You Need
Your Mother
Blue Jay Way

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

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:18 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To be fair to Scorsese it was a very influential movie,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kzpHzUJCd4

blue jay way getting this many votes is a crime

The title track should have won this really.

'Blue Jay Way' is one of my favourite things on here, real "bad trip" music. Overall, I prefer this album to Sgt. Pepper's, although 'A Day in the Life' is better than almost everything on here.

in defense of "hello goodbye"'s lyrics which i've always loved: feel like the cheerful dialectic there is more successfully cosmic than "all you need is love" or for that matter my old nemesis "across the universe". also the part where paul says "you say yes" and either john or george says "but i may mean no" is underrated imo compared to "couldn't get no worse" (or "count me out... in")

having said that, this is still very funny:

Hello, Goodbye was one of my songs. There are Geminian influences here I think: the twins. It's such a deep theme in the universe, duality - man woman, black white, ebony ivory, high low, right wrong, up down, hello goodbye - that it was a very easy song to write.

no kidding

Hahahaha... yeah, no shit!

haha

I always thought it was a horribly self-righteous song, like "Oh why don't you just say YES HELLO like me", come on Paul, surely we all say No and Goodbye at times

find this poll offensive though, 3 votes for Strawberry Fields, really? And Fool on the Hill rules.

Yeah, I really don't understand the view that 'Strawberry Fields Forever' is the worst thing here at all. It's a masterpiece.

HG is a 'join in' song.

Paul wants you to say/sing "Hello hello" after him,but its too tempting to annoy him and say "Goodbye goodbye" and Paul gets mildly exasperated and explains why.

Then John pops in to suggest "I say yes, but I may mean no" and he's right.

Then again, I used to think that "We can work it out" was about an arbitration service that The Beatles were offering.

pretty much agree with all Turrican's posts since the revive

I like this album a lot too, in many ways more than Sgt Peppers. Fool On The Hill is so melancholy, I like it a lot.

Flying you can hear and imagine them smoking blunts
Blue Jay Way just a lark

> flying

"we are the beatles
there are four of us..."

can't hear it singing frank sidebottom's lyrics along with it

^ without

I think it's amazing how well this album hangs together, given that it wasn't conceived as such. It's a really strong listen end-to-end and it feels like all of the tracks belong together, even the stuff that wasn't done specifically for the EP. They wouldn't make another album that works as well end-to-end and is as impeccably produced until Abbey Road.

Awful results h8 ilm so much

none of these are really that bad, great record

yeah, overall, a better record than Sgt Pepper, except for "A day in the life", of course.
That said, it's a bit cheating since "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" should have been on Pepper.
In that case, it would have been a monster with these 3 tracks !
As for this thread's subject, there's no song I dislike on this but if I really had to pick one, it would be "Blue Jay Way".
Never been too fond of George's songs in the Beatles.

Actually, the remixed version of Pepper that was released recently does include these two songs which makes it the "one of the best albums ever made" statement finally true !

it does not include them.

Well, the LP version doesn't, I mean.

And neither does the 1CD version. So, ner.

Aw I don't know about the various versions but the one on Spotify does include them !

I prefer Sgt Pepper overall and do think that the sequencing of MMT lets it down slightly - it's mainly that it suffers from having so many 'big' songs near the end. Like 'All You Need Is Love' is my least favourite track by far and having it follow the similarly anthemic but much better 'Baby You're a Rich Man' doesn't help.

Ah, Spotify.

As you were.

lg>

The sequencing just means that the album starts off great and gets better as it goes along - 'All You Need Is Love' isn't a huge favourite of mine, but it works great as a closer.

a silly face-off for numerous reasons but for the fun and fwiw :

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Magical Mystery Tour : two tracks I don't particularly like but MMT is better and more interesting (especially the slow break) - Pepper 0/MMT 1
2. With a Little Help from My Friends / Baby, You're a Rich Man : WALHFMF is great but BYARM is cooler and groovier - Pepper 0 / MMT 2
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds / I Am the Walrus : I like LSD a lot but easily Walrus - Pepper 0 / MMT 3
4. Getting Better / Penny Lane : two Macca tracks against Penny Lane and it's obviously still no match - Pepper 0 / MMT 4
5. Fixing a Hole / Penny Lane
6. She's Leaving Home / The Fool on the Hill : for a long time I didn't like SLH. I enjoy it now but I have always been fond of TFOTH - Pepper 0 / MMT 5
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! / Flying : I didn't know which track to put Flying against ! - Pepper 1 / MMT 5
8. Within You Without You / Blue Jay Way : Never liked much George's indian stuff (and his songs in general)but BJW has a cool production - Pepper 1 / MMT 6
9. When I'm Sixty-Four / Your Mother Should Know : I have nothing against "Paul's granny shit" and YMSK has something beautiful and sad that most others don't - Pepper 1 / MMT 7
10. Lovely Rita / Hello, Goodbye : two okay tracks but the production is better on HG - Pepper 1 / MMT8
11. Good Morning Good Morning / All You Need Is Love : many people hate AYNIL. Not me. and I have never understood the point of GMGM (except it sounds HUGE on the remixed version of the album) - Pepper 1 / MMT 9
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) : not counting it since it's a reprise and there are not enough tracks on MMT.
13. A Day in the Life / Strawberry Fields Forever : impossible choice. two of the greatest recorded songs ever. it's a tie, once point each - Pepper 2 / MMT 10

MMT wins this easily ! (again, I know this is silly)

Aw I don't know about the various versions but the one on Spotify does include them !

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:21 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it does not! i mean takes of strawberry fields and penny lane are on there but they're not in sequence with the actual record/remix

AIXTC, this might be a whole vs. sum of its parts situation. Even if on their own you might like the tracks on MMT better (I don't, but still), Sgt. Pepper is such a great, complete package while MMT is just an ace compilation.

Oh yeah, of course I agree, MMT isn't really an album (and again, two of its best tracks SHOULD have been on Pepper instead).
That was just for fun.
As for the version on Spotify, yeah, they are not included as if they belonged to the album but still they are on the "thing" (and not just "takes" but also the "final" remixed versions, just like all the rest of the album).