Worst Beatles song on Magical Mystery Tour

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Their best album cover too imo.

billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Voted "Hello Goodbye" cos the lyrics are beyond stupid. At least "All You Need is Love" is trying for acid-fried philosophy.

Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 27 September 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

just echoing everyone who said this album is their best, most solid, most creepy. it is my favourite post-rubber soul album, mostly just because it sounds like it was a lot of fun to make. whether it's their "creative apex" or whatever is unimportant, they're having a blast digging out weirdo jams from the folds of their imaginations and it sounds great.

samosa gibreel, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link

i think a lot of the hate for "flying" is just a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that it is a gentle and breezy jam. it might be the greatest gentle and breezy jam ever written, but since it's on a beatles album people just automatically write it off as filler.

samosa gibreel, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm changing my vote. "Flying" shits on "All You Need is Love."

Alex in NYC, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

... and tomorrow night, all the Beatles' worst will be over.

Apart from the final, presumably.

Mark G, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link

...and "Worst Beatles" vs. "Worst Beach Boys"

Mark, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link

title track is the worst thing here, everything else is exceptional

akm, Monday, 28 September 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Their best album cover too imo.

Eh, I like the EP cover more:
http://195.224.149.148/SB/Beatles_magical_mystery_tour.jpg

I like violently clashing colours too, but that American cover looks like it was slapped together by some art director at Capitol. (Looks pretty stupefying while tripping tho)

I Love Beatles Polls New Answers (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 September 2009 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 28 September 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

FIVE VOTES FOR PENNY LANE?!

young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 28 September 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Fool on the Hill 'heavy' Anth 2 version totally rules.

Adam Bruneau, Monday, 28 September 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Shame it wasn't on this album.

EZ Snappin, Monday, 28 September 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link

16 VOTES FOR YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW? Shame on you, ILM.

Turangalila, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link

3 people are morons.

Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link

i'm surprised at 0 votes for Walrus. I love it, but I thought it was the epitome of "silly Beatles" that a lot of people don't like. Mind you it's a John song, so that probably cancels it out.

dog latin, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Read this, dude:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Revolution_in_the_Head.jpg

Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link

"Flying" or "Baby You're a Rich Man" should have won. They are just good while the others are all great.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahahahaha "silly" Beatles? doglatin do you actually listen to his voice when he sings it? It's as angry and sad as anything he ever did

Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link

xxxxxxpost:

TRIVIA: Flying is the only Beatles song which features all 4 Beatles sharing writing credits.

― Moka, Saturday, 26 September 2009 07:24 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Trivia fact is not correct, according to wikipedia. Other songs credited to all 4 include:

"12-Bar Original" (Anthology 2)
"Dig It"
"Christmas Time (Is Here Again)", the B-side to the 1995 single "Free As A Bird".

― Bob Six, Saturday, 26 September 2009 07:29 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Of course, it was a true trivia fact at the time of MMT - and I think I remember reading it in the Hunter Davies book ... [I feel bad for making a nerd-ish correction]

― Bob Six, Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:06 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Arguably, trivia fact is not correct anyway as Jessie's Dream from MMT film soundtrack was copyrighted to all 4 Beatles, even though it wasn't released on record.

Guilty_Boksen, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link

and I don't feel bad for making a nerdish correction!

Guilty_Boksen, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link

PRobably will get the fewest votes of any album.

― Mark G, Friday, 25 September 2009 07:02 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Guess I was wrong.

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link

I love "Flying."

govt just cut all ties with acorn squash (Pillbox), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link

"All You Need Is Love" is probably the third best song on the entire CD. Behind that fantastic early 1967 twoofer, but IMO ahead of "I Am The Walrus".

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link

strings on blue jay way directly quoted on scandinavian skies, off billy joel's beatlesque nylon curtain album. mono version of walrus is HEAVY. i think this could be my favourite beatles album, but your mother should know feels a clunker to these years. i grew up with my mum's old skool cassettes of the beatles albums which her sister sent her while posted with her husband in china (he was a naval sailor), and the tape of revolver had ymsk instead of yellow submarine, so i got to hear it across two albums, not just one.

butchered in the spooky twilight (stevie), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I think the spookiness of this album comes from the threat of children being kidnapped; this seems to be an album a lot of us here got into as kids / young teens, and the whole "magical mystery tour is coming to take you away" thing is a bit spooky nursery rhyme / child catcher. Couple that with the nostalgia pair (PL and SFF), the lines about hiding money in a bag in the zoo (a ransom?), the weird aura of Blue Jay Way, the outright oddness of a Beatles song without words...

Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link

It's also tapping into that sixties psychedelic fear of never being able to come back from whatever trip you're on. It's the aural equivalent of the island in The Prisoner - idyllic yet sinister. A more recent example is the "other world" in Coraline.

dog latin, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Also the contradiction within the title of "Baby You're A Rich Man" - is this being sung to a man or woman?

dog latin, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link

^^^if you're asking this question, you're not really getting the fundamental circus-dizzy socio-clusterfuck absurdity of it all

should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link

It's being sung at Epstein, allegedly, so calling him both baby and a man from Lennon's POV is totally apt.

Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link

and calling him a "rich fag jew" etc...

Mark G, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link

i'm surprised at 0 votes for Walrus. I love it, but I thought it was the epitome of "silly Beatles" that a lot of people don't like.

it's also fucking creepy and weird and disturbing as hell

mark cl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link

i've only got the mono versh but i'm really not hearing "rich fag jew".

history mayne, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link

xp also can we settle once and for all that they are in fact chanting "everybody smoke pot everybody smoke pot"

mark cl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link

aren't they singing "everybody's got one" ?

AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link

i've only got the mono versh but i'm really not hearing "rich fag jew".

You need the stereo one then. (srsly)

Mark G, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link

.. it's 'just' the one time...

Mark G, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link

I've never "definitely" heard it.

Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought it was a "scrambled eggs" type song genesis that got changed, didn't realise it was actually (allegedly?) in the recording!

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link

this is so wrong

Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link

I'll have to do yer a 'time'

Mark G, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link

The 'rich fag jew' part I remember was from Revolution in the Head and as much as I've listened to that song I never heard it.

The bus does crash in the opening track, tho! Listen closely!
http://wgo.signal11.org.uk/wgo.htm

Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought they were singing the old kid's party magicians' phrase "Oompah-oompah-stick-it-up-yer-jum-per" on I Am The Walrus

dog latin, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

can we just say it's "everybody smoke pot" b/c that's what i've believed all these years

mark cl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I've come around to thinking this is their best sequenced album. Funny, when you consider that it isn't a proper Beatles album at all, but everything just fits and flows together so perfectly.

Someone, please make a 12 inch, 10 minute re-mix of "Baby Your A Rich Man." I con't stop playing it because of the bass and drums. Baleric Beatles!!!

leavethecapital, Saturday, 3 October 2009 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Didn't PM Dawn kind of do that...

dlp9001, Saturday, 3 October 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought it was "BITCH fag jew." Yeah, Lennon... what a great guy.

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 3 October 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, he said that one thing once, therefore he was terrible.

a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link

x-post. Yeah, I guess PM Dawn did. I was thinking more along the lines of Apple allowing someone like Weatherall or the dudes from The Studio to run wild on the Beatles' back catalog.

leavethecapital, Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link


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